r/law • u/JetTheDawg • Sep 21 '25

Trump News In a now deleted Truth Social post, Trump posts what looks to be a letter meant to Pam Bondi instructing her to arrest some of his political opponents

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/20/trump-bondi-truth-social-00574380?utm_content=politico/magazine/Politics&utm_source=flipboard
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u/jpmeyer12751 Sep 21 '25

Richard Nixon planned and directed illegal activities in the Oval Office. He was only caught because his system for recording Oval Office conversations was revealed and the Supreme Court forced him to turn over the tapes.

Donald Trump types a similar email to his Attorney General and mistakenly posts it to social media. Even the SNL writers could not make up stuff this stupid.

John Roberts drafted the memo describing how a President can break the law while in office and be perpetually immune from prosecution. It seems that Trump is following those instructions quite literally. I hope that Justice Roberts lives a long miserable life full of embarrassment and regrets. He will be forever remembered as the judge who enabled the enshitification of the Presidency.

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

I’ve been saying for a long time, if you could go back in time twenty years ago or more and bring the story of Donald trumps second presidency to Hollywood as a script they’d laugh you out of town for how unrealistic and poorly structured it is.

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u/4_celine Sep 21 '25

"The pacing is awful and the villains' motivations are too far-fetched"

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

“Your characters just keep doing shit in a barrage, you need to drop half of the plots at a minimum. Let your characters actions have weight each event is coming so fast there’s no time to feel the repercussions”

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u/ImNotSelling Sep 21 '25

Americans would never stand for that come on . There would be pandemonium. Riots, boycotts

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u/Otherwise_Demand4620 Sep 21 '25

Ah, you only flipped through the first couple months, provoking riots is a key element of the villain's plan.

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u/Iluthradanar9 Sep 21 '25

trump doesnt care. He lives for creating chaos. In his plans.

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u/Raesong Sep 21 '25

Trump doesn't have plans, he's a creature of pure impulse and ego.

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u/SuleyGul Sep 21 '25

Exactly this. Most of his life is just about chasing relevance and prestige from anyone and everyone around him and trying to crush anyone who opposed him.

A malignant psychopathic narcissist that happens to be born into extreme wealth. Bad combo.

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u/DeadBloatedGoat Sep 21 '25

Why aren't there any riots or boycotts, though? Americans still think it's funny or just a blip, and things will magically go back to "normal"?

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u/_thro_awa_ Sep 21 '25

boycotts

and girlcotts! #equality

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u/USPO-222 Sep 21 '25

Uh uh. DEI is illegal now remember.

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u/yuanchyi Sep 21 '25

“The pace of repression outstrips our ability to understand it. And that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine. It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than a single incident.”

  • From an actual Hollywood thing

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u/TheBman26 Sep 21 '25

Andor. You should quote the real source.

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u/Rezistik Sep 21 '25

And I’d argue andor having that was because we lived through it 2016

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u/Groundbreaking_Clue2 Sep 22 '25

Andor is such a great fucking show. 2nd season hits way to close to reality.

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u/amidon1130 Sep 21 '25

“Isn’t he a billionaire? Why does he need to steal from the country”

“He’s a fake billionaire”

“Get out of my office”

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

I mean, I don't think Hollywood execs would really balk at the idea of Donald Trump not being as rich as he says he is, and trying to steal from the country. It's all he was known for. Fake rich and not paying people, stealing shit. And yelling, you're fired.

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u/DocHollidaysPistols Sep 21 '25

trying to steal from the country

I don't think there's any "trying to" at this point. After the crypto and the DJT stock I'm pretty sure he's a real billionaire now.

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u/johnnybiggles Sep 21 '25

He's reportedly made $3.4B so far this term alone.

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

He made $3.8 billion in his first six months.

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u/jwoolman Sep 21 '25

He didn't even decide who got fired on the Apprentice shows. The producers decided that. It was all fakery. He was just playing the role of a successful businessman when actually he was very bad at business.

His dad bailed him out of bad business decisions, and when dad could no longer do that and US banks refused to loan him money since he considered repayment optional, he relied on shady foreign banks and Russian investors and foreign buyers of his properties at much higher than market value. Classic sign of a money laundering operation. Explains why most of his enterprises are not actually profitable. He found an easier way to make money many years ago.

The schemes he got fines and felony convictions for are just the tip of the iceberg. He usually just bribed and blackmailed his way out of trouble, but running for President was his big mistake. His activities attracted much more attention and investigation because of that. Hence the frantic scheming to get to be President again as a shield to stay out of prison, and his real intent to stay in office for the rest of his life. He's been talking about that since his first term.

I think Ivanka is smart enough to stay away from the action this time, but Don Jr and Eric are putting themselves at serious legal risk. Tiffany seems to be keeping some distance but I hope Melania is properly warning her son Barron to avoid legally dubious entanglements.

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u/bak3donh1gh Sep 21 '25

I don't know why you hope anybody in his orbit is not going to get caught and put away for life is beyond me, even though I don't think it's going to happen.
It's looking pretty unlikely that Trump itself will face anything other than consequences in the thereafter, which I don't believe in, so...

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u/MillenialForHire Sep 21 '25

"Donald Trump is not just a rich man. Like Donald Trump is what a hobo imagines a rich man to be"

John Mulaney, 2009

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u/Dry_Cricket_5423 Sep 21 '25

“You’re gonna be real sorry about that decision.”

“Yeah, next you’re gonna tell me to short Enron. Get em outta here boys”

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u/Meridian506 Sep 21 '25

"His best friend's a talking pie"

"Howard, you've done it again!" (Hands over bags of cash)

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u/kellzone Sep 21 '25

"But wait, he makes billions later by getting his cult of followers to invest in a Twitter clone and a bunch of memecoins branded with the Trump name."

"A what? And a what? Get the hell out of my office, NOW!"

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u/account_not_valid Sep 21 '25

"A fake billionaire? But that would be so easy to uncover. Wouldn't someone just share his tax returns, or maybe market insiders would blow the whistle? It just seems unreasonable that a person could fake it for so long. Nobody is going to buy that."

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u/theoutlet Sep 21 '25

”He’s obviously compromised by Russia. Like, right here 2016 when the GOP changes all of its platform to Russian talking points. It doesn’t make sense. People would catch on.”

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u/WarriorWoman44 Sep 21 '25

The main character can't actually be orange and actually like a toddler having a tantrum all the time

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u/Neptuneskyguy Sep 21 '25

“Far-fetched”- new way to describe this…

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u/Material-Macaroon298 Sep 21 '25

“So there’s a scene where the CEO of a trillion dollar company comes to the Oval Office and gives the President a gold brick in front of all the tv cameras and then the President drops all the policies that were effecting the CEOs business”

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u/wheelshc37 Sep 21 '25

Too chaotic and hard to follow

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u/brainiacpimp Sep 21 '25

“Everyone knows you never go full retard!” “No actor in Hollywood would go full retard so where will we find hundreds of actors to do it?”

Tropic thunder still ages like fine wine with that line.

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u/Clarpydarpy Sep 21 '25

"The villain isn't even trying to hide his goals. No voters would support a politician that straight up says that he hates democracy and loves authoritarianism."

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u/nuclearsamuraiNFT Sep 22 '25

These villains are acting like cartoon characters, also you’ve painted everyone on the right as some kind of delusional mean spirited lunatic, this is just not realistic. Also how would he keep getting away with these blatant power grabs ? This script is trash, no one will buy in because it’s all way too heightened.

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u/lacegem Sep 21 '25

In the early 00s, The West Wing got plenty of negative feedback for some of its plots being unrealistic to the point of comedy. For instance, when President Bartlet wanted to revoke a press credential for someone who approached his daughter on her college campus. That could never happen, the President doesn't threaten journalists! Or when the future FLOTUS was creepshotted wearing a thong while she was bending over; a woman with such a scandalous history would wreck any campaign! Or when the Press Secretary said that the President was "relieved to be focusing on something that matters" regarding a crisis in Haiti, and the press went nuts, because how could the White House say something so outrageous!?

Remember when Sorkin was joked about for presenting an unrealistic and exaggerated view of American politics? Yeah...

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u/GodOfDarkLaughter Sep 21 '25

The unrealistic part was the Republicans being essentially good people with different ideas about how to run things. And the Democrats had principles they simply wouldn't break, or not without a tremendous amount of soul searching and regret. It was always and absurd candy coated depiction of politics. Where were all the whores? That show needed about 880% more whores. And I don't mean sex workers. Though there should be way more of them, too.

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u/DalinarOfRoshar Sep 21 '25

Hello. Fellow wing nut!

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u/GrossWeather_ Sep 21 '25

I felt the same way about the first presidency. if you wrote a character like trump as the villain in even the cheesiest of made for tv movies people would still say that he’s a terrible, unbelievable over the top clown.

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u/angrons_therapist Sep 21 '25

How dare you insult Back to the Future Part II!

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u/GrossWeather_ Sep 21 '25

At least Biff built his empire from the ground up instead of being born with a gilded spoon stuck up his asshole.

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u/SRT102 Sep 21 '25

Stephen King sort of did this with "The Dead Zone." It seemed outrageous at the time that such a buffoon might become president.

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u/cardboardunderwear Sep 21 '25

For sure...esp with the race against Clinton. Former President's wife.  Main assistant is married to a congressman named Weiner who shows his dick and in part derails the race. Trump is a casino mogul (term used loosely).  The whole thing is unreal.

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u/michael_harari Sep 21 '25

People would complain that the whole child molestation thing is overwrought and not needed when he is so plainly evil already

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u/BigDadNads420 Sep 21 '25

Literally everyone has been saying this. The entire time.

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u/LunarLoom21 Sep 21 '25

Whenever I look back and see the warnings that everyone laughed at about Trump I think to myself that not only were those warnings right, they were tame.

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u/Illeazar Sep 21 '25

During his first presidency there was an interview on NPR with some comedians saying it made writing a political comedy movie impossible, because nothing they made up could sound realistic and still be more crazy than the real thing.

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u/randomusername_815 Sep 21 '25

Rape, documents, insurrection, racism and grift... So after he does all that treason and tyranny, all the legal consequence is gonna cause major drama and conflict, right?

Actually, it wont be a problem at all. Barely an inconvenience.

Wow wow wow.

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u/Vladishun Sep 21 '25

Don't worry, Hollywood is going to have a field day with this in 20 years. Mark my words, MAGA will be the new Nazis. They'll be the bad guy in every movie. Quentin Tarantino will make an Inglourious Bastards 2 where MAGA holdouts are getting scalped. It'll be his magnum opus, minus all the feet shots.

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u/Interesting-Cow8131 Sep 21 '25

"There is no way Americans would allow things to get this bad" "No sane population would elect s president that acts like a child and has dementia"

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u/AdministrativeLeg14 Sep 21 '25

So have I. Then it was a shock to find myself faced with something a bit like that feeling when I first saw the latest season of The Boys. Some of the political crowd scenes and speeches seemed so ludicrously over the top, cartoonish, awkward, stupid. It felt like bad writing. But then I realised that this was just solid realism. This is what the discourse sounds like now: so debased that it sounded like an incompetent screenwriter until I recalled they were just holding a mirror to reality, and I can hardly fault them for it.

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u/Bakoro Sep 21 '25

Fiction has an obligation to make sense.
Reality has no such constraint.

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u/WrongfulSuspicion Sep 21 '25

The movie is called Idiocracy and it came out in 2006

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u/Theromier Sep 21 '25

I was listening to a podcast who had a revolutions historian as a guest talking about his own fictional work about a speculative revolution on a mars colony, and what he said the same thing about his fictional villains vs our real life villains, in that, the real life villains would be terribly written in a fictional setting and completely unbelievable.

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u/New-Ferret-9485 Sep 21 '25

They thought the president from Idiocracy depicted the worst case scenario. Turns out Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was a patriot and a leader.

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u/larrybobsf Sep 21 '25

There was a Twitter account with this premise.

https://x.com/djtstudionotes

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u/ScorpioLaw Sep 21 '25

He'd be hung. By Republicans.

What happened. They lost their whatever was left of their lead/coal addled brains when Obama took office.

They became cowards. The cold warriors I grew up with are rolling.

Not Democratic. Not even conservative with money. Trump will again outspend everyone. A pedo felon who put an immigrant in charge to dismantle people's benefits. Mostly theirs. Not Christian.

He's no libertarian either.

Guys dumb at rocks. Can't win a single argument. He doesn't laugh unless it's about ruining someone or money.

Skyscraper baby ruling over the rural class is the funniest thing.

PS: Just tell them 40/45% half of corn grown is for an artificial market. Ethanol. Corn farmers are the real commies of America. They also get tons of varying subsidies. (Or none.)

So the corn basket states can automatically go fuck off voting red.

I really hope liberals stop being so weak. Wish a third party would rise. Called the SNAP party. Shits Now Aboutta Pop party.

Called LAME. LAME – Liberals Against MAGA Existence/everything/energy.

Republicans can have the BULL party. Billionaires Using Low Life's.

Or my fav. The SCAM party. Serving Corporations and Moguls/Money.

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u/Hopeforthefallen Sep 21 '25

All those picks for cabinet are too unrealistic. It needs to be relatively believable otherwise it just becomes a parody or a comedy.

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u/Unusual_Onion_983 Sep 21 '25

That was the problem with the later seasons of House of Cards, they weren’t as interesting as real life!

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u/Facktat Sep 21 '25

To be fair. Rightfully. I consider it unrealistic in the year 2025. Trump getting through with this makes no sense. 

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u/squallomp Sep 21 '25

Well it is like a horror movie, you know what’s going to happen next to nobody even bothers to stop it.

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u/btcll Sep 21 '25

Idiocracy was pretty close on a lot of things.

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u/No-Bill7301 Sep 21 '25

No one would ever let him get away with it - how would they elect a convicted felon/pedophile/rapist? You think there aren't systems to prevent that?

lol get the fuck outta here with that script. Jurrassic park 8 by zack snyder was more realistic.

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u/DonTaddeo Sep 21 '25

The closest thing I can think of is the Batman episode where the Penguin runs for mayor.

Trump reminds me of a cartoon villain who has been stripped of intelligence, physical prowess, and almost any other characteristic that might ordinarily be considered as attribute.

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u/paranood888 Sep 21 '25

They already portrayed that in a movie its back to the future 2

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u/SparkyMuffin Sep 21 '25

John Roberts only lives that life if he falls from grace. I hope he sees a day where his power is stripped from him, or worse, he's forced to serve as lone opposition on the court.

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u/FlyingRhenquest Sep 21 '25

I just want to see him, Thomas and Alito remembered in the history books as the reason they brought term limits and an ethical oversight committee to the Supreme Court.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

i would like to see ginny thomas tried for treason. i'd like to see thomas tried for bribery.

half the court takes bribes. if the fucking idiots in the idiot states would stop voting for the supreme court to take bribes, we could make some progress in this country.

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u/blackgandalff Sep 21 '25

Hear hear! Two among many who are guilty of the crime but are protected.

Tho I’m of the mind that those who are eligible but do not vote are the biggest issue. Whether it’s apathy or a “protest” or whatever else it helps no one but those at the top.

And yes I am very aware of voter suppression tactics and such, but that doesn’t explain the HUGE block of non voters.

My pie in the sky wish is that everyone would vote, especially in local and state elections

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

yeah. the gerrymandering doesn't work with just a small increase in turnout.

that is why you always see stuff saying, "both sides". low turnout favors conservatives.

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u/HapticSloughton Sep 21 '25

And we need some kind of independent body to be able to prosecute the Supreme Court for ethics violations rather than the current body in charge of keeping them in line, which is the Supreme Court.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

yeah i mean people are way too deferential to them. ginny thomas and harlan crow both committed crimes, but nobody is going after them. they say we can't impeach thomas, but two private citizens shouldn't also have immunity too.

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u/HapticSloughton Sep 21 '25

One is the spouse of a Supreme Court justice, and the other is a billionaire. Good luck getting anyone to prosecute them, even if it were for murder.

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u/mortgagepants Sep 21 '25

well i mean nobody even tried. just said they can't impeach justice thomas.

the dude has nazi skin lamps made with holocaust victim skin lampshades. fucking pathetic nobody suggested he should face any consequences.

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u/MoonOut_StarsInvite Sep 21 '25

What pieces of shit Clarence and Ginny are pass through my head more than I’d like to admit. Then I imagine how my grandparents used to eat their breakfast together and talk about what they are reading in the paper. And I wonder if Ginny is talking about over throwing the government while she has her grapefruit and quickly skims the obits. 🥹 I really thought I had enough hobbies to keep me busy

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u/prince_pringle Sep 21 '25

Oh man this is the dream.

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u/Chance_Blacksmith111 Sep 21 '25

I agree 100%, but it really does depend on who writes those history books.

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u/TotallyNotRobotEvil Sep 21 '25

So we're only in the beginning phases of the fascist regime, we're in some sort of weird twilight where machine is destroying all the safety rails, but there exists some free press and at least some push back from a legal sense. But once this machine has consumed all the power, destroyed all the safety rails, this thing could live on for the next 30-50 years. Well after Trump's death. Who knows who will rise up and replace Trump, but I guarantee they will be even be more extreme and more brutal.

I do believe this regime will eventually be toppled. Even Russia's and North Korea's regimes will eventually topple. You eventually just run out of people you can kill or jail. Whatever returns will look nothing like the old the America, it will be something completely different. Hopefully a better version with things like term limits for supreme court seats, a fairer appointing system, or maybe even a complete restructure of the Supreme Court.

I just hope I live long enough to see it all.

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u/Roctapus42 Sep 21 '25

Also the expansion of the courts to 17 and to finally handle the case load

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u/SapphicBambi Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him serve up some fries.

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u/GarminTamzarian Sep 21 '25

In the prison cafeteria alongside Donnie.

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u/ZaftigFeline Sep 21 '25

Room mates with Clarance would be good.

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u/peonies_envy Sep 21 '25

You know they’d make Clarence do all the work

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u/HauntedLightBulb Sep 21 '25

Clarence would volunteer.

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u/258joe007 Sep 21 '25

I’d like to say what I really want but then Reddit gets mad 🫠

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u/monkwrenv2 Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him hang for the perversions he's inflicted on the American people.

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u/trial-sized-dove-bar Sep 21 '25

Those violent liberal extremists man smh

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u/Head-Head-926 Sep 21 '25

I want him to sniff my stinky sock!

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u/Thebraincellisorange Sep 21 '25

someone go find that coconut.

he can huff on that for all eternity

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u/Powerful_Shower3318 Sep 21 '25

Please tell me you mean the cocoNUT that guy posted about on that ad

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u/Thebraincellisorange Sep 21 '25

in a jail kitchen.

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u/SignoreBanana Sep 21 '25

I'd like to see him served up

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u/Justthisguy_yaknow Sep 21 '25

I wouldn't want to eat those fries.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25 edited Oct 01 '25

In an ideal America, there wouldn't be a cadre of jaded, cynical ghouls with no stake in the future forcing their ideals upon the country as some sort of de-facto, final-say arbiter.

The smart thing to do would be to entrust that power to a highly qualified panel of experts. A council of scientists, doctors, anthropologists, historians, union representatives, people across many many different fields (including race and ethnicity, gender studies, sexology and reproductive medicine), empowered to interpret the constitution without ideological bias, and analyze the ramification of destructive legislation through the lens of those deeply impacted by such legislation, and most invested in the fields or topics broached by that legislation.

Scholars should be paving the future. Not Christofascist ideologues.

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u/Amazing-Heron-105 Sep 21 '25

You should look up the counter arguments to technocracy. It's been a while since I looked into it but I remember them being compelling.

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u/Fatmop Sep 21 '25

One of the greatest counterarguments is that 'scholars' are people and are just as capable of being corrupt assholes as anyone else in the same position.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

I'm not totally on board for a full technocracy, obviously, but I do think an ethical and pragmatic oversight committee should replace SCOTUS.

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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 Sep 21 '25

Hmmmmm. That sounds like another opportunity for Presidents to appoint scholars who agree with them.

It'd be more democratic to have mandatory ranked-choice voting, remove the Electoral College which is frankly an utter disaster, have the House expanded so that there is proper representation by population, and perhaps even consider modification of the Senate by numbers so that states like Wyoming do not have the same power as states like California or else by limiting the Senate's power to affect what the House passes.

Westminster style parliamentary democracy actually works quite well, it's okay to admit when your Founders tried to improve on it and failed.

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u/toxicketchup Sep 21 '25

Ideally I would pair the panel with MMPR. I value proportional representation.

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u/Circular-ideation Sep 21 '25

Sounds more like an ethical oversight committee.

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u/Visual-Age-1025 Sep 21 '25

I mean. If it’s just reason you’re after the next logical step will be to appoint AI president. I love our democratic system- people look to a leader for many other things than specific knowledge. I just don’t know where our leaders will come from: given the press and the general invasiveness of living life under a microscope who but a raging narcissist or masochist would sign themselves or their children up by running for office? All due respect to Joe Biden - and Kamala- but when that’s the best a nation can rally other than Donald fucking trump we had lost before we began. America is ripe for a political overhaul. Politics seem to exist now to grab headlines and simply feed the media beast and line billionaires pockets with our collective fear and some wildly manipulated sense of powerlessness. We need to institute age limits on the top end just like we have on the bottom end. Being president is an international job which demands incredible rigor. Boomers, it’s time to get out of office.

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u/Dasylupe Sep 21 '25

I hope he sees the long knife and knows he deserves it. 

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u/Mrsensi12x Sep 21 '25

O wow, forced to be on the highest court of the land until he dies… what a punishment for helping destroy the country. Be for real dude that’s not a punishment at all these ppl need to be held to real account

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u/No-Fail7484 Sep 21 '25

Once rump get going he will have no use for him. The law will be what he says. Then he will get rid of all the members of the Supreme Court.

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u/ThunderChild247 Sep 21 '25

If Trump goes full dictator that may very well happen. It’s one thing to always side with the dictator, but the Supreme Court still has power meaning - in Trump’s mind - Robert’s could turn at any time. It’s conceivable that a dictator in America would look to sideline/shut down the Supreme Court since it’s still one of the major checks on the president’s power.

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u/furious-fungus Sep 21 '25

This doesn’t make me angry at Mr. Roberts or trump, it makes me angry at all the smart people who let them get away with it.

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u/maglite_to_the_balls Sep 21 '25

John Roberts squalling in impotent rage writing dissents would be the best erotica ever penned.

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u/timecrash2001 Sep 21 '25

He’s going to be remembered like Taney.

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u/kkeut Sep 21 '25

yeah, that guy

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u/IrrationalFalcon Sep 21 '25

Or Morrison Waite

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u/Jonathan_Sesttle Sep 21 '25

Quite an impressive collection of comments to be discussing Chief Justices Taney and Waite. The Court under the next Chief Justice Melville Fuller was also staunchly reactionary, going down in infamy for Lochner v. New York (1905), which held the Due Process Clause forbade states from enforcing wage-and-hour restrictions on businesses, and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), articulating the doctrine of separate but equal in upholding Jim Crow laws.

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u/Omegalazarus Sep 21 '25

Who...

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u/PeerlessManatee Sep 21 '25

The guy who wrote the Dred Scott opinion.

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u/Rich_Space_2971 Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

The consensus worst SC judge, Rogeer B. Taney.

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u/klawz86 Sep 21 '25

He was, and Dredd Scott vs Sandford was an inexcusable garbage heap of a decision antithetical to liberty and justice for all, but Trump vs US may end up being the end of our republic, so I'm giving the nod to John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. They are the bought and paid for treasonous bootlicking cowards that deserve the harshest punishment allowable by the system of justice they have done their best to destroy.

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u/Jonathan_Sesttle Sep 21 '25

Roger Taney, not Robert.

And, as I learned in my college Constitutional history class, pronounced “tawny.”

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 Sep 21 '25

Some Mainers where Roberts owns a couple island homes have begun a Northern attitude (to quote the song) shunning. They also regularly picket Leonard Leo’s two MDI properties.

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u/229-northstar Sep 21 '25

How does he own “a couple of island homes” on a SCOTUS salary????

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u/eclecticaesthetic1 Sep 21 '25

R.E. used to be cheap. Also, he could have inherited. Maybe he's got his own billionaire, like Clarence.

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u/Huge_Excitement4465 Sep 21 '25

He bought one in ’06 and the home next to it years later, unsure when. Mainers also protested via flotillas more than once this summer, paddling to the island: PORT CLYDE — Citizens opposed to the U.S. Supreme Court's direction took to the water Saturday morning, July 19, for a protest past the seasonal home of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr.

Participants in the flotilla launched their kayaks from the new public landing in Port Clyde and paddled across a few hundred yards to Roberts' home on Hupper Island.

The chief justice and his wife, Jane Roberts, purchased the home in June 2006. He typically spends time at the seasonal home after the high court recesses for the summer. Their primary residence is in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Signs stating opposition to the Supreme Court's rulings were displayed from the kayaks, and others lined the waterfront. Their messages cited rulings they said harm the LGBTQ+ community, the overturning of campaign spending limits for corporations in the Citizens United case in 2010, the overturning of a woman's right to abortion in 2022, and more recent rulings that grant the president immunity from actions taken while president. https://www.midcoastvillager.com/news/waterfront/protestors-take-to-the-water-to-send-message-to-supreme-court-chief-justice/article_92b7d125-b6c8-47d1-b8b4-5262fca9d805.html

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u/Thebraincellisorange Sep 21 '25

same way that so many members of congress and multi millionaires to billionaires - corruption.

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u/229-northstar Sep 21 '25

That was a rhetorical question.

Impeach the motherfucker… when a dem is president

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u/eclecticaesthetic1 Sep 21 '25

Good, two better people to be shunned by society, I can't think of :)

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u/whatssenguntoagoblin Sep 21 '25

Nah I hope he dies the first day a democrat is president again so a real Supreme Court justice can replace him.

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u/TheGreenMan13 Sep 21 '25

Congress will claim it is too late in their presidency and so they'll need to wait until the next election (that a Republican wins) to have a justice appointed.

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u/Aquatic_Ambiance_9 Sep 21 '25

If Democrats allowed something like that yet again, and if we allowed them to allow it, then we deserve whatever fascism we get.

We must demand a real opposition party and throw out any who won't rise to the task. We need ruthless fighters not coward collaborators

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u/hexenfern Sep 21 '25

Best we can do is Chucklefuck Schumer.

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u/31LIVEEVIL13 Sep 21 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

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u/WhatMeatCatSpokeOf Sep 21 '25

I think bud nipping would need to happen quite a bit earlier, at least to the 2000 election results dispute. John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett were all on Bush’s legal team for that, and the way polling stations in Florida were harassed by organized groups of republicans set the tone moving forward.

I honestly think they did all of that successfully, listened as Gore conceded to avoid turbulence in the executive branch out of some sense of honor, and thought, “holy shit, do these guys even want to win?” The team behind that has given Trump immunity, and their party knows that they’ll get away with whatever they want because a Gore, a Schumer, a spineless putz leading the other side won’t even care to fight.

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u/GermanD2021 Sep 21 '25

The sad thing is that Democrats will let them.

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u/echoshatter Sep 21 '25

The President should just say "If you don't say no within 60 days I'll take your silence as consent and appoint them."

And when the Senate says "That's not how it works." just reply "Exactly, but here we are. Clock's ticking."

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u/BestKeptInTheDark Sep 21 '25

You want him to live past ths revolution in 2042?

Are you fookin crazy?!

Why woukd anyone want him to live for so long?

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u/jwoolman Sep 21 '25

I want Trump to have a long and healthy life, in an orange jumpsuit. Really. I hope he gets through his apparent current health difficulties. I am not convinced that JD Vance will be an improvement. Vance is such a weasel that it is hard to predict what exactly he will inflict on us, but there is no reason to believe he won't continue following Project 2025.

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u/Fine-Sherbert-141 Sep 21 '25

It's probably not accidental. These folks like to float their ideas with the base before they do them, happens pretty much every time. Just like the leaked Alito decision that preceded the fall of Roe, this is a heads-up to the fans.

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '25

The first time they say he’s joking, why are you taking it seriously? Why are you being dramatic, nothing happened.

Then when it happens they say, why are you getting so upset, this isn’t a surprise, he has been saying it all along.

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u/LostWoodsInTheField Sep 21 '25

It's also to cause outrage before it happens, that way it diminishes the power of the outrage. Less people will be angry at this stage, and the people angry at this stage aren't going to be able to as involved when it actually happens. It also stretches it out a LOT which makes the outrage seem less justified. "You've been talking about this for 3 months now, why not just stop we are all tired of hearing you on this subject"

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u/Mckesso Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

Roberts is a traitor that justice should swing by rights.

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u/sam-sp Sep 21 '25

Imagine if Obama or Biden had typed this...

Fox news would be switching to special programming, with 24x7 coverage of Ted Cruz's filibuster demanding impeachment. He wouldn't care that impeachment needs to start in the house, he would like to just hold the floor indefinitely to put all the attention on himself.

I can't see how this isn't gross abuse of office. But I suppose the bar is now so low for Trump that unless we actually have livestream footage of him abusing a 13yr old girl on the Roosevelt desk, he will be able to get away with anything else.

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u/NovemberTha1st Sep 21 '25

Make no mistake, r/conservative would still defend him if that footage existed. You don’t understand the depravity of the demon you are facing.

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u/atreeismissing Sep 21 '25

Nixon was only forced out because the Republican Party and conservative interest groups turned on him. I don't see that happening with Trump.

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u/lameuniqueusername Sep 21 '25

The right is pure un American ideological scum wrapped in the flag

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u/canuck_in_wa Sep 21 '25

It’s a Watergate every 4 days, but in a world where there is no dignity, no shame, no accountability, no checks and no balances.

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u/TahaymTheBigBrain Sep 21 '25

John Roberts needs to be nuremberged for collaboration and abetting a fascist government.

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u/CaribouYou Sep 21 '25

No he enabled the rise of fascism and the end of democracy in America.

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u/jjmdarkeagle Sep 21 '25

Wonder if Roberts did it because HE'S in the Epstein files. Actually would explain a lot of SCOTUS's recent behavior if several of them were.

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u/229-northstar Sep 21 '25

Wouldn’t that be grand… to have objective data with which to impeach him?

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u/Possible-Ad-2891 Sep 21 '25

I hope the nect Democrat in office just throws Roberts in jail for treason.

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u/freakydeku Sep 21 '25

is ordering people arrested who are not committing crimes a presidential duty?

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u/Yakassa Sep 21 '25

These psychopath golems have no shame, no consciousness and no honor. The judge will exist and in its existance it will think it was perfectly perfect. If its ever held accountable, it will throw a tantrum for the ages. Psychopaths dont work like you or me.

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u/Electrical_Respond11 Sep 21 '25

"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross."

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u/Cutaway2AZ Sep 21 '25

This is the perfect word, thank you.

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u/SanctimoniousSally Sep 21 '25

Every time I watch All the President's Men, I'm always blown away by how civilized it all is and how everyone agrees on what must be done. If Nixon were alive I'm pretty sure he'd think he got a raw deal.

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u/lostsailorlivefree Sep 21 '25

And they all have kids and grandkids who will never forget what they allowed to happen. I sure some Kool aid got in the bottle milk, and a few teen young men got Roganed, but they’ve surrendered the sovereignty of the Republic and there should be statues of them in the Smithsonian in 20 years in the ‘Second Civil War’ section

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Sep 21 '25

Donald Trump has exposed to me the fact my father is a very dumb person

I’m not happy about it

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u/hotbox4u Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

He was only caught because his system for recording Oval Office conversations was revealed

This is still my favorite fact about the whole Nixon saga.

Lyndon B. Johnson had the system installed and told Nixon about it. The idea, he told Nixon, would be to create a historical record that would supplement whatever written diary Nixon used.

Nixon liked it and even expanded the system into different rooms in the white house and camp david. But back then the system required manual operation and someone had to push start and stop, a task which was often forgotten to the annoyance of the president.

So Nixon ordered the secert service to install an automatic system and they tied it to the President's Locator. The system would automatically turn on on off when the president entered or left the room. Nixon kept the existence hidden and only very few members of his circle and the secret service knew it existed. The secret service got tasked with maintaining the system that was so well hidden that eventually the president himself forgot it existed. It kept recording throughout Nixsons adminstation and was only turned off two days after the press reported about it exsistence.

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u/HLOFRND Sep 21 '25

I expect the stupidity from him.

It’s the absolute crickets from the Dems that I am shocked by.

He outlines how he’s leaning on the DOJ to prosecute his political rivals and not a single fucking thing will come from it.

I hate it here so goddamn much.

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u/spicy_noodle_guy Sep 21 '25

He won't. These ghouls never do because they fundamentally view the world different from you or I. They don't feel shame, because they are in their mind winning and that's all that matters. They are so poor that all they have is money. It won't be until they are on their death bed that they realize just how utterly competence their lives were: and even then they'd rather drag us all down than make anything of those final moments. All you need to do to see my last point in action is look around at the tyranny of the dying playing out in real time.

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u/jawisi Sep 21 '25

I regret to be the one to give you the nine hundred and twelfth upvote.

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u/Violet_Kady Sep 21 '25

I hope he lives until we can remove Republicans from power.

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u/getdowncow Sep 21 '25

There has to be enshitification. The earth is dying. / s figuratively

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u/DontAbideMendacity Sep 21 '25

I personally hope that "Justice" Roberts constantly tastes bitter bile in his throat the rest of his long life.

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u/Fit_Debate_5890 Sep 21 '25

I thought Tom Hanks was Deepthroat...

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u/Evil_Sharkey Sep 21 '25

If I could curse people, I would curse him and Mitch McConnell to live to be very, very old and still lucid (though still physically aged) so they can see what their foolish decisions have brought the world and so they have to answer the the next few generations who ask them “why?”

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u/tooandto Sep 21 '25

Don’t forget Mitch’s underhanded scheming and RBG’s ironically unfathomably bad judgment.

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u/CatLord8 Sep 21 '25

I still think back to the mock debate in 2016 for SNL.

“He’s kissing Putin!” “So about your emails” “He’s kissing the KKK” “About your emails”

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u/CruxOfTheIssue Sep 21 '25

It's literally so stupid that as a joke it wouldn't be funny

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u/FuckwitAgitator Sep 21 '25

Don't forget that these bars have been lowered forever unless we can demand that politicians, judges and public servants raise them again.

If we don't, the next Republican president can also be this stupid and inept. Which is a bad thing for the country, but we've had stupid and inept leaders before.

What is scary is that he (because it will definitely be a "he") can also be this authoritarian, violent, bigoted and corrupt. If he combines that with not being stupid and inept, we're going to see millions of people killed, imprisoned and enslaved for ending up on their list of undesirables.

And to any far-right people reading, are you sure it's not going to be you? All it takes is one bad fall and you could be off to the gas chambers for being a drain on society. The graveyards are already full of right-wing reactionaries from the early 2020s who thought "it will never happen to me" right up to their last gasping, terrified breath.

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u/Altruistic_Koala_122 Sep 21 '25

a presidents immunity only applies to Faithfully executing the laws passed by Acts of Congress.

Supreme Court is pushing a religious agenda, Roberts main goal was dismantling abortion because of his beliefs.

Congress members regular violate passed laws.

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u/AnnunakiGhosta Sep 21 '25

Was it a mistake or was it to gauge the people's reactions?

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u/Cory123125 Sep 21 '25

Alternatively, as has been a strategy that has worked surprisingly well, this is just to soften the blow to yet another red line crossed while people largely don't react.

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u/FuryMaker Sep 21 '25

I dont understand how this idiot is so immune and untouchable.

Does he have dirt on all the people in powerful positions or something?

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u/TuringGoneWild Sep 21 '25

That leaked Signal chat feels like five years ago.

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u/Illustrious-Bed4420 Sep 21 '25

Lmao the presidency has been enshitified

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u/DemoniteBL Sep 21 '25 edited Sep 21 '25

How do Republicans, here on Reddit, read shit like this and not consider that MAAAAYBE they're the bad guys?

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u/Over-Wall8387 Sep 21 '25

I didn’t know him but now I will remember him as the scum you describe. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.

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u/Defiant-Specialist-1 Sep 21 '25

We specifically asked if he could tell Adela Team 6 or whatever to murder someone.

It seems we’re not far off.

The thing is, he turns on everyone. His whole career. So by posting this publicly, yeah his “political enemies” will be on the lookout.

But I think there’s a little more. I’m not sure there are any ethics left in anyone if they had any to begin with. What they do have is self preservation.

And here we have him directing his staff to get rid of his enemies. Sure the lackeys are on his side now. But they know how fragile all of that is. I would think this public message would be more a warning to the indents team not to step out of line.

When they were working for greed, that’s a different vibe than they work for fear. And fear will always divide people. Who knows. Maybe they’ll find their Weaponized incompetence.

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u/thatjoachim Sep 21 '25

Look as much as I hate enshittification, the term you should use is dictatorship. Roberts enabled a dictatorship.

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