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Trump Tells Supreme Court It Gave Him 'Unrestricted Power' to Fire People (www.newsweek.com)

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[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 136 points 4 days ago

Biden: EO for student loan forgiveness.

MAGA propagandists: AGHHHHHH!!!! DICTATOR! VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION!!!

Trump: "I've got presidential immunity so that means I can do literally anything I want!"

MAGA propagandists: "Trump is the Greatest President Ever™®© The courts aren't allowed to stop him."

Me: ...fucking kill me already. I want off of this shit ride.

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Me: …fucking kill me already.

Someone thinking a tad more clearly might hope for someone else's demise.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 11 points 4 days ago

I only wish for that on the days that end with the letter "Y"

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

already spent 8+ years wishing for that.

[-] GladiusB@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You can't do their shitty for near to nothing when you're dead

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you for this. I was just thinking about this ridiculous hypocrisy the other day. A President following through trying to help people with debt shot down at every turn.

Then a President only trying to help his shit bag elitist enablers allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants with no guardrails or consequences.

They never cared about the constitution, the rule of law, morality, or what is objectively right. They care only for naked power and want to ram their garbage down our throats till we choke and die.

Meanwhile they laugh all the way to the bank driving over the backs of every hardworking American.

Truly their depravity knows no bounds.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 170 points 4 days ago

Admission that the only thing that would keep him in the bounds of his actual legal authority is the threat of criminal charges for misusing it.

[-] adarza@lemmy.ca 94 points 4 days ago

hasn't stopped him before. won't stop him now.

he's gonna stay on this democracy-destroying rage-fueled vendetta against all things biden/obama/liberal until someone forcibly removes him, one way or another.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

And the only ones that can remove him forcibly (the GOP) are being threatened, bribed, or bullied into submission.

I've never used this insult before, but they are all clearly a bunch of beta cucks.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago

Well, yeah. That's how laws work. He's exploiting how much we've relied on social norms and didn't codify the rules.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 70 points 4 days ago

He and his administration are also ignoring the codified rules.

We relied on reasonable people enforcing the rules, but ignored the fact that they haven't enforced jack shit against Republicans for decades.

[-] FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

The thing with rules is, they only work if they're enforced. That's even one of the balances of power between the branches.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

I think a lot of what he did actually is against the law, it's just that the courts take a long time to catch up. In the last week we've seen dozens of lawsuits start to gain steam and probably many of them will successfully undo a lot of the damage that has been done.

We also have to deal with the problem that the courts have been stacked with MAGA judges who also don't care about the law, but that's something we need to blame on them, and not just on Mr. Orange.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Well yeah. That's why the threat is there. By removing it they made the entire system a suggestion, not a requirement.

[-] pet1t@lemm.ee 50 points 4 days ago

So, he really is a dictator now, huh? He wasn't joking? 'Murica! Land of the free... I guess?

[-] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago

Pseudo-Dictator

He'd be a real dictator when he manages to cancels elections

[-] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

He's got 4 years to "fix" that

[-] MeekerThanBeaker@lemmy.world 80 points 4 days ago

I thought he was only going to be a dictator for one day. That's what he said. Unless... wait... unless he was lying. 😲

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

No, he said he'd start being a dictator on day one.

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

This is not a defense of Trump but he definitely said on just Day One.

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[-] mkhopper@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

If anyone ever pushes him on that statement, he'll just say that he now has complete power to redefine the length of a "day".

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 50 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ummm

He can fire them, break the law in doing it, and be immune.

It does not mean the firing remains valid and the people lose their job because it broke the law. They have legal protections too.

It's like saying I had a meth lab and the cops busted it, but because I couldn't be criminally charged, I also get to keep the meth lab. That's not how it works lol. They take the meth lab, you just don't go to jail.

[-] fediverse_fremont@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago

did you get to keep the meth?

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

The baggy I keep up my butt just in case I get raided and suddenly don't have a supply, yes.

[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Gone boofin

[-] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Boofing? Devils Triangle?

Just farting and a drinking game. Not sure what you're talking about.

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[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 53 points 4 days ago

Hmm how could ANYONE have seen this coming. Oh everyone did?

[-] lupusblackfur@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Evidently not everyone did...

77M ducking idiots either did not see it coming (stupid) or just "outright wanted* it to be so (asshole dicks).

🤷🤷

[-] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

Also the idiots who didn't vote.

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Most of them are cheering this on with thunderous applause. They truly believe he is doing incredible things. It's insane.

[-] VinnyDaCat@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

It'll take time before the damage starts to really, really be felt.

Federal judges across the country have issued injunctions on everything he's been writing up at this point. We're all just waiting for what is left of our legal process to finish, if it's allowed to do so given the current state of things. These judges will hopefully drag their feet on any ruling. If the appeals court does the same then you've got a while before the scotus can do Trump's bidding.

Inevitably when the process either finishes or Trump bullies these people out of their posts it'll take about a month or two. When social services get cut so that people aren't getting their social security, can't access or afford medications and whatever else he's cooked up they'll cry. They probably won't point the finger in the right place though.

[-] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago

What even is a government? Whateveah, I got to go get my nails done. -Ducking Idiot.

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[-] proper@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

hasn’t even been a whole month yet.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I'm surprised it took a whole month

[-] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 26 points 4 days ago

so, with POTUS47 so blatantly (ab)using superpowers granted to him WHY did Biden fail to use even fraction of the same powers to protect the country?

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 22 points 4 days ago

Biden and Harris and many other traditional DNC candidates are pro corporate, and they did what their funders wanted them to do.

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[-] TheFogan@programming.dev 11 points 4 days ago

The guard rails have been ropes with a polite "do not cross" sign for decades. Last 10 years the republicans have been jumping over them scribbling on everything... and the democrats are just going "they can't do that, the sign says don't cross".

[-] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 9 points 4 days ago

Play by the rules, blah blah, not stooping to their level blah blah

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 4 days ago

my dictator ok yours not blah blah blah. Him not "using" it is another reason I liked him.

[-] prole 1 points 3 days ago

Because they're not authoritarians? Which is one reason why I supported them over Trump.

[-] droopy4096@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

They could've stripped president of immunity and most powers on the way out and complicated process of restoring that... which would be very democratic yet they've failed to do that

[-] Shawdow194@fedia.io 22 points 4 days ago

In a February 16 Supreme Court appeal of Berman Jackson's ruling, acting Solicitor General Sarah M. Harris relied heavily on the Supreme Court's July 1 ruling on presidential immunity.

"As this Court observed just last Term, 'Congress cannot act on, and courts cannot examine, the President's actions on subjects within his conclusive and preclusive constitutional authority' —including 'the President's unrestricted power of removal with respect to 'executive officers of the United States whom [the President] has appointed,'" Harris wrote.

Supreme Court wanted a king so they gotta deal with a king now

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Fucken idiots didnt know that kings and courts don't historically get along unless everyone agrees with the king.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 4 days ago

yeah unless they take this opportunity to reign him in but using this appeal to reverse the deision.

[-] YarHarSuperstar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

That would be nice but I'm not holding my breath

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 14 points 4 days ago

I mean yeah, they made him king. It checks out.

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