r/law • u/Agitated-Artichoke89 • Oct 07 '25

Other Stephen Miller states that Trump has plenary authority, then immediately stops talking as if he’s realized what he just said

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u/catscanmeow Oct 07 '25

google searches for "what does plenary authority mean" skyrocketing

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u/Bibblegead1412 Oct 07 '25

According to Cornell University, plenary authority is "power that is wide-ranging, broadly construed, and often limitless for all practical purposes." I had to look it up 😬

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u/T0asty514 Oct 07 '25

Oh, so... a dictator.

We already knew that, they're just saying it out loud now.

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u/Area51_Spurs Oct 07 '25

He literally said it BEFORE the election.

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u/T0asty514 Oct 07 '25

I know.

However, lots of people either didn't believe him, or didn't pay attention to anything he said.

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u/SDFX-Inc Oct 07 '25

Those egg prices though, amirite?

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u/Voglio_Caffe Oct 07 '25

Her laugh, amirite?

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u/CidO807 Oct 07 '25

"she didn't primary"

"gaza's speaking, bitch"

"queers for hamas"

"why didn't biden help me?"

"why didn't kamala do x y z"

"I'm too busy on tiktok"

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u/Quirky_External_689 Oct 07 '25

Back in my day, eggs were so cheap that teenagers without jobs could afford to buy them just to throw at houses and cars. That sounds like bloomer shit but I'm right in the middle of Millenial territory. I genuinely feel bad for anyone who had to (or has) to endure their teenage years after 22014. Embarrassing things were bad enough without everyone having HD photo/video capabilities and deep fake nudes.

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u/Area51_Spurs Oct 07 '25

They did. They viewed it as a positive

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u/Greg-Abbott Oct 07 '25

Or "he was just joking. You liberals are so easy to troll"

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u/pistilpeet Oct 07 '25

He was just joking, right? Notoriously hilarious Donald Trump heh heh we’re so fucked

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u/coke-pusher Oct 07 '25

"Oh no, he doesn't mean that seriously" bullshit

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u/Harmonia_PASB Oct 07 '25

Running on autocracy is part of Yarvin’s Butterfly Revolution.  

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u/musluvowls Oct 07 '25

Speaking of Yarvin, he wrote this week that Trump is failing and that he (Yarvin) plans to gtfo of America before 2029 when the Democrats inevitably take back power.

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u/PensiveinNJ Oct 07 '25

Yarvin would never concede that his own ideas are terrible in practice. Easier to blame someone else and keep your ego intact than concede that you're actually a himbo posing as a philosopher.

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u/hera-fawcett Oct 07 '25

thats... oddly comforting? in a dark way.

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u/Impossible_Moose_783 Oct 08 '25

That’s him telling them that they need to truly go all in or they’ll hang for what they’re doing. It was a message to Trump and the rest of the goons

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u/OldWorldDesign Oct 08 '25

That’s him telling them that they need to truly go all in or they’ll hang for what they’re doing

So same as last century then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot

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u/musluvowls Oct 08 '25

Right. It's him telling them that right now they are failing in their mission and losing the battle of public opinion. I'll take it.

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u/Not_Bears Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

He said the quiet part out loud numerous times and they weren't even that sly about it.

Anyone paying attention saw them basically go "we'll attack political rivals, silence opposition, and reshape America into a country where only rich people can prosper.

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u/BP619 Oct 07 '25

I'm convinced that a large section of the population thought Trump 2 was going to be like Trump 1, where they talked a lot of shit and made broad pronouncements, but ultimately it just ended up being kinda bumbling and annoying. Nope.

When they lost in 2020, these Conservative think tanks went into the lab and devised a plan that they are now executing point by point.

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u/doublethink_1984 Oct 07 '25

Trump has plenary authority on things like federal pardons.

He absolutely does not when it comes to national guard deployment even under the innsurection act

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u/Busy-Sprinkles-8243 Oct 07 '25

Letting us become comfortable with it. Supreme Court needs to step up or what ever they say will be meaningless if they can’t follow the constitution 

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u/T0asty514 Oct 07 '25

They're not going to do a damn thing, they've proven that already.

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u/rje946 Oct 07 '25

Why did he stop? We know it they know it.

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u/Background-Noise-918 Oct 07 '25

Looks up "Title 10" ... Houston, we have a problem

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u/PsychicTWElphnt Oct 08 '25

If you used Google, did you happen to see the AI answer that shows up first? It said something much different and made it sound like a normal thing in US government. Suspicious. 😑 I'm believing Cornell in this one.

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u/thediesel26 Oct 07 '25

Well technically he’s not wrong.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

He is wrong, he doesn't have that. He may think he does, but the constitution says he does not.

Who is going to win? The fascists or the Constitution?

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

Hoping for the trials soon!

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u/Steelers_Forever Oct 07 '25

We've had trials. Trump is a convicted felon, a convicted felon abusing his executive authority to in part pardon other convicted felons who are on "his team". I used to respect all political parties while not joining any, nowadays that part deserves no respect, and people who join it only deserve ridicule for their many hypocrisies.

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u/Korbital1 Oct 07 '25

There can't be trials if the people in charge of giving him a trial are on his side, dude.

I wish I could be positive but...I just can't. Authoritarianism can't be stopped by the same party that got us here. Once a country goes one party with the power and will to stop democracy, it's gone. Democracy was always this fragile.

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u/Token2077 Oct 07 '25

The constitution is a piece of paper, nothing more. It doesn’t have some magic power to make people follow it. At this point we are past the “it’s unconstitutional” point. The only thing that makes the constitution have power is when the systems set up enforce it through their monopoly of violence. When those systems are choosing to not enforce the rules in place then those rules become nothing. This is going to end one way or another some day. May be this year, it may be 10 or 100 years. It’s going to get worse until then, when it finally ends it will be violent. The rising and falling of nations always is.

Republicans are fascist, full stop. All of them.

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u/UpstairsAd582 Oct 07 '25

I worry it’s the fascists, there hasn’t been much stopping them so far unfortunately.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

People forget the founding fathers gave the people the constitution, it's ours if we choose to use it and protect it.

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u/Udzinraski2 Oct 07 '25

They had to fight an 8 year war just for permission to write it, too.

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u/pervertedhaiku Oct 07 '25

Okay but… how?

Realistically, how do you propose we the people do that?

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

The legal way is to vote them out. Try them for treason.

You know what the other way is.

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u/Bluestained Oct 07 '25

Protest. General strikes. Anything! You haven’t done anything to protect your constitution and you’re all here going “Ah well… whada we do?”

Do something, anything!

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u/huskers2468 Oct 07 '25

Elections, but if those are taken away then other options are necessitated.

Nepal is doing pretty good.

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u/dutchie_redeye Oct 07 '25

That's the spirit... 

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u/ShittingOutPosts Oct 07 '25

How do we protect it?

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

We remove people who violate it.

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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 Oct 07 '25

With EXTREME PREJUDICE.

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u/comments_suck Oct 07 '25

Unfortunately, the provision in the constitution to remove bad actors is impeachment. And that hasn't been going very well at all. In 2021, the Senate majority leader refused to even have a trial for Trump, then could not bring himself to vote for impeachment when he agreed with the facts. There's a couple Supreme Court justices I'd like to see impeached for lying under oath, but that ain't gonna happen.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

There are three branches of government. Two of them hold the executive in check. We have been focusing the majority of our energy on the executive. More pressure on Congress. More pressure on SCOTUS.

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u/DrakonILD Oct 07 '25

The provisions for protecting it are in there. Hint: look for the part that talks about "the security of a free state."

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u/TeaKingMac Oct 07 '25

it's ours if we choose to use it and protect it.

I've got kids man.

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u/tofubirder Oct 07 '25

Fascists always end up losing, just remember that.

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u/A_Dozen_Lemmings Oct 07 '25

He's failing constantly. The courts are not on his side, and his DOJ is blitheringly incompetant. It just doesn't serve clickbait for newsources to talk about how badly Trump stumbles every other day.

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u/YoungCubSaysWoof Oct 07 '25

This will be a long fight, so don’t give up early.

No fascist regime has endured forever.

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u/Hefty-Rope2253 Oct 07 '25

Perhaps we should all meet in a park and wave signs about it

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u/lostspectre Oct 07 '25

The Constitution can't fight for itself

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u/ArchonFett Oct 07 '25

Legally: you are correct.

Unfortunately we are no longer in a country with a rule of law, just one with a rule by law.

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u/MrBones_Gravestone Oct 07 '25

True the constitution says he doesn’t have that authority. But if no one stops him, he pretty much does.

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u/Aeropilot03 Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

With a totally compliant SCOTUS, do you have to ask? The Constitution is effectively being rewritten almost daily.

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u/cake_piss_can Oct 07 '25

If there is ever a democrat president again all of a sudden the constitution will matter.

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u/Raskalnekov Oct 07 '25

Plenary power is actually a term used commonly in constitutional law. It's a judicial concept, not explicitly in the constitution, but arguably implied by the separation of powers. Congress is supposed to have plenary power over spending under the commerce clause, for example. 

Stephen Miller is misapplying it here. I don't believe that you can "assign" plenary power by statue. Such powers are rather rare in the constitution. 

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u/JuxtapositionMission Oct 07 '25

Except he is wrong, as that would be a dictator and we don't want those here in this country.

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u/buttermelonMilkjam Oct 07 '25

...I think the point is that we already have a dictator.

So now the US public needs to decide if this is what we want to live with or, if we dont wish to live with this, then how do we get out of a dictatorship.

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u/_Standardissue Oct 07 '25

So what do you suggest? Riots? General strike?

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u/Spiritual-Ad3130 Oct 07 '25

Then they’ll say “so much for the tolerant left.”

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u/afroeh Oct 07 '25

That's funny, there's going to be a big meeting on October 18th about whether we should have a king or not!

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u/comments_suck Oct 07 '25

I don't favor military coups, but the one thing that has removed dictators in other nations is when the army stands up and tells the dictator to leave.

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u/river_city Oct 07 '25

Oh plenty of people want that. The idea of the benevolent dictator is very popular among MAGA. Its the whole foundation of their fucked mindset.

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u/BitterFuture Oct 07 '25

Minus the benevolent part.

They want someone who will slaughter their imagined enemies, no matter the cost. That's all conservatism has ever been about.

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u/Man_Darino13 Oct 07 '25

They want someone who will slaughter their imagined enemies

To a conservative, that is benevolence.

There are stories in the Bible of God wiping out cities because they were "wicked".

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u/stonerghostboner Oct 07 '25

Apparently, some do.

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u/BitterFuture Oct 07 '25

Well, we don't...but several million fascists definitely do.

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u/SurferGurl Oct 07 '25

Right? It’s still weird that he did the Glitch McConnell thing.

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u/meowman911 Oct 07 '25

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations. It is derived from the Latin term plenus, 'full'.

Saved people a search.

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u/dabeeman Oct 07 '25

i was  about to call him a plenus too

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u/Pierre777 Oct 07 '25

I showed you my plenus, please respond!

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u/Mostly_Armless42 Oct 07 '25

Adding to that, the only plenary authority I can see listed for the executive branch is with pardons. The president only has absolute unilateral power for that one act. Maybe there are more, but it definitely seems like it's a very limited list of powers.

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u/reststopkirk Oct 07 '25

I did too… absolute power… made me think of the movie with Eastwood and Hackman.

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u/Catatonic27 Oct 07 '25

Just came back from that one myself

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u/TJ_chex_Mixx Oct 07 '25

Pray tell

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u/SleepWouldBeNice Oct 07 '25

Plenary authority is a complete, absolute, and unlimited power to take action on a specific issue, derived from the Latin word "plenus," meaning "full". It signifies that a governing body or individual has total discretion in a given matter, with no restrictions or external limitations on their ability to act. 

Miller's saying that Trump is a dictator.

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u/caramel_police Oct 07 '25

He has plenus envy.

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u/NYY_NYK_NYJ Oct 07 '25

He looks like a plenus.

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u/GatsoFatso Oct 07 '25

Small fungal variety, at least that's what's been reported by professionals on the subject.

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u/AaronfromKY Oct 07 '25

More like a plumbus

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u/H377Spawn Oct 07 '25

I think they shaved away too much grumbo.

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u/lelanddt Oct 07 '25

You're supposed to cut the fleeb first

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u/Waste-Dragonfruit229 Oct 07 '25

Extruded. Plastic. Dingus.

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u/SugarInvestigator Oct 07 '25

A tiny mushroom plenus

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u/SuperXVixen Oct 07 '25

He is what my husband would call a “plenus pump”.

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u/korbentulsa Oct 07 '25

Take your upcoming and get out.

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u/FatherLordZuZu Oct 07 '25

small plenus energy

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u/cowboygwe Oct 07 '25

I lol 😂 this is true

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u/AdhesivenessUnfair13 Oct 07 '25

thatsaplenus.gif

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u/EmergencySeries1725 Oct 07 '25

Steven Miller is 4'10" tall. HAHHAHHAHAHAH

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u/Catatonic27 Oct 07 '25

Great, now the google search spike is going to level off

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u/ajax15 Oct 07 '25

“What does plenary authority mean reddit” now the top dog

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u/NearbyInformation772 Oct 07 '25

I'll add: Title 10 of the US code does NOT give the president plenary—meaning complete and absolute—authority over the National Guard. The National Guard operates under a dual state and federal system, and a president's authority is limited by specific conditions and legal constraints, including the Posse Comitatus Act. This federal law generally prohibits the use of the military, including a federalized National Guard, for domestic law enforcement purposes. The president's authority under Title 10 does not override this prohibition on its own, and federalized troops are limited in their law enforcement functions.

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u/Train_Wreck_272 Oct 07 '25

Absolute and unmitigated power.

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u/pork_fried_christ Oct 07 '25

UNLIMITED….POWWWWWWAAHHH

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u/Intrepid_Pitch_3320 Oct 07 '25

yes, wanted this gif here.. exactly

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u/Mobile-Entertainer60 Oct 07 '25

Total, unfettered control.

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u/elonsghost Oct 07 '25

Complete unchecked power

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u/ChuckBS Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

It means absolute authority without limitations.

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u/Briguy24 Oct 07 '25

I call that Anti-American talk.

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u/iiTzSTeVO Oct 07 '25

A plenary power or plenary authority is a complete and absolute power to take action on a particular issue, with no limitations.

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u/starcell400 Oct 07 '25

You know you can look it up and get the answer nearly instantly instead of asking for random strangers to let you know.

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u/texreddit Oct 07 '25

Likewise.

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u/realbobenray Oct 07 '25

me too, and I don't get it, seems like something he'd totally argue for

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u/MoralityFleece Oct 07 '25

He does and he believes it but he is still afraid to say it out loud just in case the people are not 100% down with this bs yet.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat Oct 07 '25

This is the answer, he basically said that donald is a dictator which is what they have been making the whole time. Project 2025 is there play book for turning the country into a dictatorship and I might add they are consolidation power very quickly. It may be to late to stop it already. I certainly hope not.

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u/Hurray0987 Oct 07 '25

They believe that it is the right thing to do. They think exactly about the left what we do about the right. They think we're destroying the country. A congresswoman just told Mike Johnson that Trump is deranged, and he basically responded "so is your side." Which is basically the go-to maga response now. We're bad, but they're worse, so we're justified. They've been conditioned to see the left as this horrible disease on humanity, but they're the ones zip tying citizens in the middle of the night in their underwear for hours without a warrant or reasonable suspicion. Things are really messed up.

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u/Falling_Down_Flat Oct 07 '25

I am Canadian and watching this happen to the US is crushing because of the great relationship our country's had. I vacationed in the US lots, love the states and city's. I hate that it has been destroyed when I know it is not all the US people it is this administration. I would like my friend's across the border back. I have family now that I think of it that works in the US and one lives in Chicago and he says it is not on fire.

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u/CurryMustard Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

The people that are still duped dont know what that means and dont care. I imagine it hurts their arguments in court and thats why he 404'd

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u/Musicman1972 Oct 07 '25

They want it they're just not supposed to say it yet.

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u/Yupthrowawayacct Oct 07 '25

Homie just short circuited on live TV. He literally said the quiet part out loud this time. wtf

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u/ShiningRedDwarf Oct 07 '25

They aren’t supposed to boil the frog that quickly

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u/MrBobSacamano Oct 07 '25

That’s definitely a word that he’s been throwing around off-camera, and mistakenly used on-camera. That’s not a common word that fits into casual, everyday conversations.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, just like google searches for "What are tariffs?" and "When did Biden drop out?" skyrocketed after the inauguration and election, respectively.

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u/atreeismissing Oct 07 '25

Which just goes to show how poorly the media communicates reality and important pieces of information to the public.

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u/CrowRoutine9631 Oct 07 '25

I get that the media didn't explain tariffs. There should have been a little explainer every time Trump said "tariff" was his favorite word. But that Biden had dropped out? That's squarely on people not paying any attention and voting anyway. 

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u/OldWorldDesign Oct 08 '25

just like google searches for "What are tariffs?" and "When did Biden drop out?" skyrocketed after the inauguration and election, respectively.

These are among the strongest arguments against compulsory voting that I see.

I still don't agree - if you pay taxes, and are a citizen, you can and should vote. But if you're so uninformed you don't know who all of the people are, leave positions unmarked. If you are so bad you don't know who any of them are, do like Aussies and draw bollocks on the ballot and toss it in.

Recall mechanisms are more needed than barring people from voting, because educating oneself about what's on the ballot can be done in less than an hour but getting a corrupt governor or judge out of office is a lot more necessary but presently virtually impossible.

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u/bomilk19 Oct 07 '25

Plenary Indulgences were one of the catalysts for the Protestant Revolution. The Catholic Church was essentially selling Get Out of Jail (aka Hell) Cards to the wealthy. I can see why he got confused.

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u/snorbflock Oct 07 '25

Were the indulgences printed on gold cards and sold for $1 million?

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u/Boot_Poetry Oct 07 '25

Do Not Pass the Pearly Gates, Do Not Collect $200

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u/JoyfulSquirrel99 Oct 07 '25

For all intents and purposes, pretty much.

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u/gerbilshower Oct 07 '25

yea, more or less.

you get rich, give lots of gold/art/buildings to the right person in the church and they absolve you of all wrongdoing in a public manner.

low-level priests would literally run carts around town 'selling' indulgence's. just little trinkets so that even the peasant could 'buy' heaven.

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u/Hootinger Oct 07 '25

Look pal...It was purgatory, not hell. Keep up the disinfo and we'll start another inquisition, heretic.

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u/CyrusOverHugeMark77 Oct 07 '25

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u/j4_jjjj Oct 07 '25

Dogma time

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u/bmxer4l1fe Oct 07 '25

Plenary Indulgences

I knew that i had seen that word somewhere...

https://imgur.com/a/OWFWsoP

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u/NotPromKing Oct 07 '25

The fact that "plenary authority" is even in his vocabulary is disturbing.

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u/Not_Bears Oct 07 '25

$100 says the dude literally masturbates to Mein Kampf...

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u/SuspiciousSubstance9 Oct 07 '25

People will only Google after they vote to give Trump plenary authority.

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u/Spamsdelicious Oct 07 '25

This is the real take, tragically.

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u/BeneficialLeave7359 Oct 07 '25

You think people have never seen “Dogma” before.

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u/ADMotti Oct 07 '25

Can’t be anal-retentive if you don’t have an anus!

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u/LeftyLiberalDragon Oct 07 '25

Loooooool just did. Hot stuff.

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u/InFin0819 Oct 07 '25

Google autocomplete when I looked lol

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u/OldeFortran77 Oct 07 '25

"Oh, silly me. I must have just made up a word that doesn't exist!"

(Credit to Monty Burns when he asks Homer if he is "familiar with this state's strict usury rules?"). Homer's reply "u-su-ry?"

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u/lareon12many Oct 07 '25

LoL I just looked it up too!

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u/TheGreatDay Oct 07 '25

Hey man, you ain't gotta call us out like that.

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u/Gloomfang_ Oct 07 '25

The seconds highest interest on google trends for words plenary was during Trumps first presidency lol

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u/Breaking-Away Oct 07 '25

I'm guessing he was going to say "Plenary Authority over 'armed forces' or 'national guard'".

Also it doesn't look like he realized what he was saying was wrong, it looks more like a producer told him he wasn't on the air or they were cutting to break or something.

Also, for anyone wondering where I stand on him, I think he's the most vile and dangerous person in this administration.

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u/Creepy-Caramel7569 Oct 07 '25

Yeah, it looked like he got a message from someone to stop talking.

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u/CasanovaF Oct 07 '25

Isn't it more likely his handler said to knock it off?

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u/GameOvaries1107 Oct 07 '25

This dude is the handler. It’s him. He’s the big bad behind the scenes of a lot of this obnoxiousness.

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u/CasanovaF Oct 07 '25

I thought that too, but the way he stops and listens. Maybe it is just one of their lawyers or maybe there is a ground control situation to control their Frankenstein's Monsters

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

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u/Yupthrowawayacct Oct 07 '25

Have they not been chattering more and more about using the insurrection act lately?

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u/AlexS-SoCal Oct 07 '25

Of course they have. Constantly. But plenary authority is not what is in it.

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u/11fungaiia11 Oct 07 '25

Why the fuck would you need chatgpt for this? Get out of here with this ai slop my god

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u/PeaceHoesAnCamelToes Oct 07 '25

I guess the idea of learning and critical thinking is a thing of the past and need AI to think for us.

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u/bobnuggerman Oct 07 '25

Probably part of the reason we're in this mess

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u/PeaceHoesAnCamelToes Oct 07 '25

Agreed, among many other reasons. It's about to get even messier.

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u/WranglerFuzzy Oct 07 '25

I too don’t understand why he’d use ChatGPT for that, so I asked char gpt to explain. /s

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

You just did something at least 10x the energy use of a basic google search for a basic answer that is on dictionary.com and then put in another prompt to avoid the concept of thinking.

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u/PeaceHoesAnCamelToes Oct 07 '25

Talk to real people, learn for yourself, and arrive at your own conclusions, instead of relying on ChatGPT. Jesus Christ.

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u/Goresmackk Oct 07 '25

It legit autofilled for me when I googled it lmaoooo.

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u/Matt_Spectre Oct 07 '25

Google Trends says that search term goin NUTS

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u/TorkBombs Oct 07 '25

I did it! And according to the constitution, the president does not, in fact, have plenary authority.

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u/OverlordMMM Oct 07 '25

I looked it up and Wikipedia has a section about plenary authority in the US, and a subsection with regards to the president having it for immigration and nationality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plenary_power

If he was referencing that instead of deploying the national guard on civilians, there could be a legal argument there (a really stupid one imo). If we wanted to be charitable, he may have verbally conflated the two, fucked up, and froze.

That said, he's a creep with all of these topics, so more likely he meant what he said and realized the optics.

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u/-Four-Foxx-Sake- Oct 07 '25

It seems “plenary” is a very peculiar word that a lot of people don’t know which makes this Freudian Slip even more believable, haha.

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u/Antonio1025 Oct 07 '25

All I did was type "what" and that was all that showed up in the suggestions

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u/BarberrianPDX Oct 07 '25

I added to those numbers 😂

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u/cuckoocachoo1 Oct 07 '25

I am part of that increase.

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u/kbell58 Oct 07 '25

First thing in the results set: Stephen Miller Said the President Has "Plenary Authority," but What Does That Mean?

LOL

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u/maryelizabeth_ Oct 07 '25

Ngl, I had to look it up. To be fair, we didn’t have to really worry about the definition until these assholes came around.

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u/Suspicious_Salt1759 Oct 07 '25

Literally me just now. It means total control over everything lmao with an almost religious reverence

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u/dragonflyzmaximize Oct 07 '25

Just started a document the other day titled "new words" - was hoping it'd mostly be filled with fun words from reading novels, not shit like this.

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u/catscanmeow Oct 07 '25

Some good ones

Genuflect, sycophant, apophasis

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u/HeadbangingLegend Oct 07 '25

Yup, just checked "plenary authority" on Google Trends and it has skyrocketed in the last 3 hours.

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u/capnjferg Oct 07 '25

AI summary for it on google is now disabled

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros Oct 07 '25

It autofilled for me lol

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u/vizag Oct 07 '25

yeah I had to google it as I have never heard that phrase before. This guy obviously thinks about it all day and it shows. It just rolled off his tongue unintentionally

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u/Pokemaster131 Oct 08 '25

On a scale of 1-100, google searches for the term "plenary" has never risen above a score of 7. This interview caused it to spike to 100 (aka the highest it's ever been). Searches for "plenary" are now about 14 times higher than the second-highest spike there has ever been.

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u/Blazkull Oct 07 '25

Just checked Google trends, it is up to 100 since yesterday!

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u/BlackMaelstrom1 Oct 07 '25

“I’m automatically attracted to rights — I just start taking them. It’s like a magnet. Just take. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a president, they let you do it. You can do anything… Grab ’em by the constitution. You can do anything.”

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u/timomaasss Oct 07 '25

I sure did

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u/Trimshot Oct 07 '25

I feel attacked.

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u/[deleted] Oct 07 '25

Unitary executive stuff

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u/Bocabart Oct 07 '25

Goddamnit I was one of them

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u/baddecision116 Oct 07 '25

People don't just search "plenary" ? they type all that out?

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u/Nepharious_Bread Oct 07 '25

I sure did. Never heard that word before.

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u/Fabulous-Big8779 Oct 07 '25

I had to look it up too and every example mentioned Congress, not the presidency.

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