r/politics • u/theindependentonline The Independent • 1d ago

No Paywall Trump’s ballroom construction ‘likely unlawful,’ John Roberts says, but Supreme Court will allow it anyway

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-ballroom-construction-unlawful-john-roberts-b3042329.html
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u/What_a_fat_one 20h ago edited 20h ago

If Democrats have a trifecta they need to kill the filibuster, expand the court to like 60 justices, then let the President go hogwild on a New New Deal.

Shit, have the Attorney General prosecute the Roberts court and the new Supreme define "good behavior" as not being convicted of crimes like bribery. Then kick those fuckers off the court and throw them in prison for life

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u/superxpro12 20h ago

This is the only path out of this. Any centrist bullshit is just running out the clock until the next fascist finishes the job

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u/What_a_fat_one 18h ago edited 18h ago

I liked what a different comment said that was basically, make conservatives so fucking miserable with the power of the president that they'll finally agree to put in checks on the executive, and other amendments to the constitution that would limit a democratic trifecta's power while they were in office. It's obviously possible, the current scaffold allows essentially a dictatorship with a trifecta, that needs to be changed.

I mean go full on "Every republican state is now named "Obama's Alabama" "Hunter Biden's Tennessee" "Hillary Clinton's Texas" with it. Put that shit on every interstate roadsign. Those kinds of policy are not even crazy by current standards, they're the current status quo.

Oklahoma is now called "The State of Trans People Should be Allowed in Women's Sports." Fire anyone in the Federal Government who doesn't agree to use the name on documents.

Print it, mail it, fax it. Fuck em. Two can play at this game.

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u/androidfig 13h ago

This is what Obama should have done in the first place. The reason he didn't get more done is because it's all a fucking illusion. You do what the banks want and they'll let you have your little pet project. They allow Trump to do all this stupid shit because behind the scenes, they have never had more free ranging than they have now. No red tape, no reprecussions, Federal assets on a fire sale, money printer and national dept off the fucking charts. They used to pretend like there were guardrails.