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That and Trump made at least three different attempts (that we know of) to remain in office last time. Fake electors, find those Georgia votes, and an actual attack on the Capitol. The GOP and her voters then spent four years squawking about election security and fraud. Their jackass right wing media spent time revamping white replacement theory... so they have to on some level understand democracy and voting.

So what do the big on the rule of law real Americans do? They vote for the only candidate that tried to disenfranchise a whole shit ton of American voters. It is absolutely wild that so many domesticated standard Americans failed this very very basic test.

Just like he has one executive order for energy production and another to pause offshore wind farm leases

The "you are personally responsible for climate change" was always a scam. It is the big corporations that are responsible.

Take off your individualism hat and put on your collective hat. Group actions make a difference.

I'm upset that I'm too ingrained in my ways to become a greedy, racist, sexist, boorish asshole because those guys are gonna have an amazing four years.

Oh shit.
https://usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/21/trump-white-house-website-removes-presidential-webpages/77851785007/

Fuck, lots to unpack here.

Sooooo, that actually is his official portrait? I thought someone posted it as satire. At least he's not hiding that he's the villain.

"America we're back" is his slogan? That and the pic looks after school special.

The loading screen icon is the White House -- was it always? Because as a Canadian all it invokes in me is the memory of us burning it down.

Did the constitution page get remapped? Or is it gone, gone?

There are no longer checks nor balances.

it’s guaranteed to go before the courts and get struck down. Doing something like that would require an constitutional amendment.

lolwut?

With this SCOTUS, they will pluck the case out of the line, before it goes down any circuit, and they will issue a ruling declaring it constitutional.

That's what happens when you have a bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS.

t’s guaranteed to go before the courts and get struck down

If only trump controlled the highest court in all the land. A "supreme" court, if you will.

That said, trump and his allies have been pretty open that the idea is to spam EOs to demoralize people and distract them from what they are really doing. And, in this case, Legal Eagle (and Liz Dye) kind of already explained it:

The idea will be to declare a border crisis (done) to give the potus wider reaching powers. Same with declaring Mexican cartels as terrorists (they kind of are, but not to us). The combination of those mean they can invade sanctuary cities under "national security" excuses and can argue that illegal immigrants are enemy combatants which DO have a carve out.

The "quirk" of Kamala no longer being a citizen because her parents were here under student (?) visas MIGHT get struck down. But the real goal of populating labor camps with brown people is right on track.

Trump might as well sign an executive order that declares himself Emperor of the Moon and Supreme Chancellor of Outer Space, it’ll have about the same amount of impact as this first round of executive orders will.

Look, not to call you out or anything, but the impact of these edicts (however nonsensical) is radically different now that he's in office.

The problem isn't the legitimacy or legality of any such order, it's the veracity and scope to which they are carried out regardless of those facts. He just pardoned the Jan 6th insurrectionists. Now, people that are handed off-the-wall, yet much more clear, orders from the White House can now go on thinking that illegal activity pursued in the name of said order will be washed away. So, stuff like this will cause damage to be done well before any courts can intervene, constitutionality be damned.

As a bonus, this adds culpability to the actions of his subordinates. Step in line or lose your job. Fail me after committing a crime and you go straight to prison. This is an organized crime tactic to keep shady people in line.

that assumes that the Dems will actually do literally anything at all.

next Democrat president

LOL. Fascism is here. There will never be another Democrat president.

Democrat president can just use that to nullify the 2nd Amendment

Can, but won't, because that would be "going low" and "we aren't like them"

You know, like cowardly dipshits

the next Democrat president

lol, cute of you to think there will be a "next election".

Yeah, if they let him start dictating constitutional amendments by executive order there definitely won't be a next election.

This exactly. It is COMPLETELY unconstitutional in the very definition of the word.

My ancestors certainly didn't do the proper paperwork before landing here.

Yes if you aren't Native American, your family probably gained citizenship through birthright.

You can be a natural born citizen either by being here when born or by being born to a US citizen. The order challenges the former.

I saw people accurately predict that they would hang such an order on the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" portion. The argument was predicted to be that a mother on US soil unlawfully is excluded by that clause (though they are clearly subject to the jurisdiction despite being unlawful, this was the guess).

They are trying to push it even further by claiming people here legally also don't get the right, and there's not even a hint of rationalization to claim that somehow people legally here are not "subject to the jurisdiction".

Deport Elon