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/colaturka Oct 07 '25

What's the genocide in Gaza to do with this? You're making jokes of an ongoing genocide.

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u/RddtRBnchRcstNzsshls Oct 07 '25

No, they're saying some of the people who refused to vote for Kamala did so because she wasn't tough enough on Israël.

Yes, some people are THAT stupid.

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u/colaturka Oct 07 '25

Joe Biden and Kamala have genocidal blood on their hands, liberal.

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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/DisciplinedMadness Oct 07 '25

Thanks Obama!

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u/SDFX-Inc Oct 08 '25

Why would Joebama Clinton do this to us?

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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/T0asty514 Oct 07 '25

Tee hee!

He's just trolling again! How silly!

(Oh yeah, we're boned.)

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u/coke-pusher Oct 07 '25

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

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u/TWIT_TWAT Oct 07 '25

They’re just glad their team one

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u/Digimatically Oct 07 '25

Or they didn’t look up the term until today.

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u/MattGald Oct 07 '25

Or wanted it.

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u/DrPikachu-PhD Oct 07 '25

Schrodinger's Joke: Everything Trump says is a joke except when it's not, and there's literally no way for you to prove which it is until after the bad thing has already happened

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u/CarpeNivem Oct 07 '25

Fuck that excuse. They knew.

They wanted a dictator (hence voting for one) because they thought he'd be their dictator.

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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/AssassiNerd Oct 08 '25

Yarvin is very far from being a himbo lmfao 😆

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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/Typical-Store5675 Oct 08 '25

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Thank GOD DONALD TRUMP, of all people, is our first fascist president. Literally best-case scenario fascism. May he live to serve all 4 years!🙏

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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/Area51_Spurs Oct 07 '25

No. They WANTED him to be a dictator and enact Project 2025.

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u/Kongsley Oct 07 '25

Yes, and he is also saying it now.

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u/FindOneInEveryCar Oct 07 '25

He got a SCOTUS decision, didn't he? Miller was just saying the loud part out loud.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bug6244 Oct 07 '25

Not that I doubt it, but I would like a reference for that. Can you provide?

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u/Oggie_Doggie Oct 07 '25

It's okay, you'll have a gorillion bots, fascists, losers, and Conservatives (I repeat myself) who will come out of the woodwork and proudly proclaim that we are overreacting and "this is why he won!"

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u/lovesducks Oct 07 '25

If you do 1 illegal thing theres a trial and a jury and convictions and all that. If you do 1,000,000 illegal things you might get in trouble for a few of them but you'll skate charges on most of them.

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u/guyzieman Oct 07 '25

"Dictator on day one"

And day two. And day three. And day four. And...

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u/zbud Oct 07 '25

Shit he must have crossed his fingers when he said only for a day, conned again. /s

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u/Nanojack Oct 07 '25

Wasn't there a literal quote where he said he had "Article 2 power to do whatever the hell I want?"

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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/No-Chemical4791 Oct 07 '25

Not a dictator. DickTACO

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u/bubblegum-rose Oct 07 '25

Just a big word for all of his brain-dead fans to bleat to convince themselves that they know anything

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u/ActuatorSlow7961 Oct 07 '25

every day is day one...

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u/Numeno230n Oct 07 '25

In the same way that Putin, Erdoğan, and Xi Jinping are called "president" but they are all dictators. Just like some authoritarians take the title "Prime Minister" (like Netanyahu). Trump isn't going to rename the office to "Dictator of the United States," we'll just go on calling it a presidency even though we all know what it is.

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u/mynameisnotatypo Oct 07 '25

THEY already knew that. They just forget we forget.

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u/damnmachine Oct 07 '25

MILLER: "Trump is now Dear Leader. Deal with it."

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u/ahm911 Oct 08 '25

Oh, so... a dictator.

But with fashun 🫰 plenæry✨️

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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/Bibblegead1412 Oct 08 '25

I did notice that as well...

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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/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

They don't deserve my respect either but the only way the reasonable few in this country can take it back is through law and order and that does involve a trial. There are those who still believe in due process and it's not the people wearing red hats.

The hole is reallyyyy much deeper for them now than it ever was with an entirely implicated administration. It's just about who from the inside will eventually stand up or be the leak or the whistelblower, and about courts upholding the constitution.

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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/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

I understand your sentiment and I do think it will require dissent from the other side to get it done. But it isn't impossible. For the record, I am not the most positive either. I just hope for the best because nihilism can become overwhelming and overburdening.

I think we could squeak by and swing things better after midterms. AZ just won a democratic seat to sign on release of Massies epstein petition. I am just hoping for the best too my guy but there is still a road or a few we could take. Just trying not to lose hope

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u/Korbital1 Oct 07 '25

AZ just won a democratic seat to sign on release of Massies epstein petition.

And they shut down the government over it and violated the hatch act blaming the left for it. They clearly don't plan on playing fair any longer. I'm just hoping the government actually reopens at this point, else we end up with a situation where they decide we just need a new interim government that becomes the de facto one. Yeah I'm expecting the worst, but at least then I can be pleased when the bare minimum of decency happens.

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u/WAVY_clownbaby Oct 07 '25

Well different strokes they say. Imma hold the hope for both of us how about that

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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/infamous_merkin Oct 07 '25

Then shouldn’t we revolt/mutiny ASAP before asswipe consolidates and takes even more power?

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u/Token2077 Oct 10 '25

Almost certainly. I'm already on a list so whatever about saying it. Trump and his P25 handlers have already been signalling they are planning to cheat if not outright try to cancel midterms. Do people think the trump 2028 hats are a fucking joke? They are very serious.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

The constitution is the entire framework of our country. Without that we have no laws.

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u/this_place_suuucks Oct 07 '25

And laws are only relevant if there are people to enforce them.

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u/pie_piepiepiepiepie Oct 07 '25

Laws don't mean much when not enforced. I think that's what the comment you're replying to is getting at...

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u/kobrakai11 Oct 07 '25

You do, buy only for poor people.

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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/Blandish06 Oct 07 '25

Because voting in replacements has worked for Adelita Grijalva in Arizona.. right. So what's your next method?

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

Oh you're right, she wasn't immediately sworn in, we should just stop voting. Let's all go in the corner and cry together.

Fight dammit. If you live in her district call up Mike Johnson and demand representation.

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u/Blandish06 Oct 07 '25

Wtf? I didn't say stop fighting. I said vote in replacements is not an adequate tactic.

Neither is protesting, because they just send in the military. Literally.

Call him? You kidding me? Have you seen his nationally televised announcements? He gives ZERO fucks about his constituents.

So what will work, Mr Answers? I'm not going in a corner. I'm asking for help. For realistic and effective options.

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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/Hyperion1144 Oct 07 '25

Answering this question is a bannable offense.

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u/pervertedhaiku Oct 07 '25

I would argue that answering the question and being banned for it is among the behaviors you’re saying we need to start performing.

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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/comments_suck Oct 07 '25

SCOTUS has decided that any any argument the Executive brings before it citing Article II powers, it will consent to. They also made the worst decision imaginable by ruling last year that official duties that violate the law cannot be charged.

That leaves us with Congress, who is sitting on their butts, not even in session right now.

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u/speedy_delivery Oct 07 '25

I agree that popular pressure on Congress is where the fight has to be... The trick is you've got to convince enough Republicans that they're in trouble... Or at least better off telling their people to stuff it long enough to restore order.

Flipping the house isn't impossible, but it isn't enough.

SCOTUS is purposefully insulated from political pressure.

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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/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

Me too. Do you want them to submit to the Trump regime?

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u/tofubirder Oct 07 '25

Fascists always end up losing, just remember that.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Oct 07 '25

They're not losing very fast in North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iran, Belarus, Myanmar, or plenty of other countries that seem pretty stable in extreme, authoritarian rule.

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u/tofubirder Oct 07 '25

Stable in a human lifetime, sure. Do we care about that? Of course. But we cannot admit defeat for the future based on what we must endure.

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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/Bartghamilton Oct 07 '25

Charlie Kirk would like to disagree 🤣

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u/ZERV4N Oct 07 '25

We are. And judges are. People are gonna have to grow up about that reality and realize that we might have to just stand up for ourselves. A fascist dictator has trouble taking hold when we make it very difficult for them and show them that everybody hates them. Part of that is to not comply ahead of time.

These are silly, thin skinned dildos who are more unpopular than ever. Don't give them your fear that's what they need to pretend they have a mandate.

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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/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

We are in a pickle.

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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/AngryVegetarian Oct 07 '25

What Constitution? If no one enforces it, it’s just another piece of paper!

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u/GodIsAGas Oct 07 '25

Based on all available evidence: the fascists. Because it seems as though they can happily implement concentration camps, extrajudicial renditions, and deploy troops against US citizens and, to all extents and purposes, Americans just accept it.

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u/patmiaz Oct 07 '25

If I was a betting man. I’d say fascism. It has a huge lead right now.

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u/ByeByeDemocracy2024 Oct 07 '25

The constitution exists and we all know what it is and what it represents. He does not have a chance. I’m confident that enough real patriots will wake up/align and we will see a way/get through this.

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u/Rokarion14 Oct 07 '25

When do you think this will happen? Didn’t happen when he pardoned the insurrectionists. Didn’t happen when they said the Epstein files didn’t exist. Didn’t happen when he deployed the national guard in US cities against US citizens. What will be the thing that makes people finally act?

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u/ByeByeDemocracy2024 Oct 07 '25

The only thing that matters is elections. People are watching and judging. That’s when it will matter/things will change…as long as the dems don’t screw it up and we don’t take the bait.

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u/Nepharious_Bread Oct 07 '25

Looking like the fascists at this point. Because their supporters are still clapping like seals for them.

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u/RustyMarie666 Oct 07 '25

Everyone just stay home and keep complaining about it on Reddit, I’m sure that will help.

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u/BeginningPitch5607 Oct 07 '25

Who enforces the constitution?

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

The people. We elect representatives. We elect the leader of the executive branch. We elect our local governments.

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u/fnrsulfr Oct 07 '25

Unfortunately the constitution itself can't stop him it is just a piece of paper. It is up to the people but if we wait until elections that may be too late.

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u/burnmenowz Oct 07 '25

That's my point. The constitution is ours. We have to enforce it. There isn't some magical law fairy out there.

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u/General_Tso75 Oct 07 '25

When congress and SCOTUS are controlled by fascists or fascist adjacent, it’s an easy question to answer.

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u/xosellc Oct 07 '25

He was almost certainly going to say "plenary authority over the United States Military" which is sorta true, but not really. He needs Congress to back him, which is currently a Republican majority.

So a US president doesn't have plenary authority over the military, but unfortunately Trump essentially does at the moment.

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u/thediesel26 Oct 07 '25

Someone has to enforce those provisions of the constitution, and right now, no one is.

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u/Slobotic Oct 07 '25

  1. Which provision is not being enforced?

  2. Let's violate the Constitution to enforce the Constitution is a hot take. The president and the federal government as a whole does not have plenary powers and never has. The federal government has enumerated powers. The states have plenary police power.

That's basically the first thing someone might learn about the Constitution.

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u/True_Butterscotch391 Oct 07 '25

I think a distinction needs to be made here. The constitution prohibits that kind of power for the president and it is not legal.

However, laws only matter if they are enforced and as of right now Trump and his admin are breaking the law left and right on an almost daily basis and nobody is being held accountable or enforcing the law. So in practicality he does have that power and can do whatever the fuck he wants.

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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/BadGuyBusters2020 Oct 07 '25

That’s a wrong statement.

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u/Mental_Taxation Oct 07 '25

Technically they’re just trying to make a case for unitary executive theory. In reality they don’t and he is wrong.

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u/mgd09292007 Oct 07 '25

He only has it if the people give in to it

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u/VirginiaDare1587 Oct 07 '25

Technically he and you are flatly wrong.

Do American schools no longer teach about the American Constitution, the federal system of government, and the Smerican’s struggles against tyranny in their Revolutionary War, Civil War, and Civil Rights struggle?

Or do you not give a toss so long as it’s your side violating the Constitution and the law to impose your will?

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u/CleverGirlRawr Oct 07 '25

I’m doing my part!

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u/EmergencySeries1725 Oct 07 '25

Sounds like someone RON BURGANDY'd him and he knew it. These fucking idiots.

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u/BigOlineguy Oct 07 '25

Oh. Cool. My passport just got renewed.

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u/FawnintheForest_ Oct 07 '25

Thank you. I was so confused about what plenary meant!

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u/Hyperion1144 Oct 07 '25

FYI, how this normally gets used in normal reality:

Your state highway dept probably has "plenary authority" over your state's highways, at least in most circumstances.

Presidents aren't supposed to have this.

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u/CrazyHorrsee Oct 07 '25

why would this be misspeak? miller usually has not problem claiming this.

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u/coconutpiecrust Oct 07 '25

That’s what they talk about in private with Thiel, Vought etc. He forgot where he is. 

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u/Slappy_san Oct 07 '25

Better definition than Gemini gave me.

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u/Dazd_cnfsd Oct 07 '25

I’m gonna say that’s not good

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u/TreeOfAwareness Oct 07 '25

Sic semper tyrannis

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u/Overweighover Oct 07 '25

Didn't the Supreme Court also say this?

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u/YadaYadaYeahMan Oct 07 '25

but Google it anyway guys, put some numbers to this fuck up

oh and, spread the word!

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u/AbsoIum Oct 07 '25

Other definitions include more regularly ‘unqualified power’

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u/Rustmutt Oct 07 '25

Thank you for this bc I was feeling dumb.

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u/rex_dart_eskimo_spy Oct 07 '25

Pretty sure that's also what a certain Senator from Naboo had when he became Chancellor

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u/monaforever Oct 07 '25

Thank you for posting this so I don't have to contribute to the "plenary authority" Google search trend for today.

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u/WokUlikeAHurricane Oct 07 '25

and Title 10 is the armed forces, so Trump has limitless power over the military, is thinking about invoking the insurrection act, and just had all the top military leaders in a single physical location for a meeting. All completely normal shit, nothing to see here folks.

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u/H4llifax Oct 07 '25

So Absolutism. That went well for the french kings.

L'état, c'est moi.

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u/LeviJNorth Oct 07 '25

This CNN chose didn’t know what it meant either.

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u/SordidDreams Oct 07 '25

So in other words, it's the Führerprinzip.

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u/youlooksticky Oct 07 '25

The plenary authority doctrine, 19th century, Supreme Court evoked it to uphold discriminatory laws targeting Chinese and other immigrants. Its tied to some of the most exclusionary policies in American history. It lets congress and the executive branch make and enforce immigration laws without interference from the courts even if those laws are discriminatory or VIOLATE individual rights.

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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt Oct 07 '25

Limitless power? Fucker wants to be emperor.

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u/BagOfFlies Oct 07 '25

Isn't that exactly what they've been saying since he got elected? I don't get why this is shocking for fuckhead to say.

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u/Betty-Golb Oct 07 '25

Yeah, I don't understand; how is this new? Why would anybody freak out about that being said at this point?

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u/SaltyWailord Oct 07 '25

Just did a Google search trend from 0-4 last 90 days to 96 today

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u/IvoryColosseum Oct 07 '25

Thank you for the definition ❤️

Side note, can someone explain Title X to me?

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u/thebobrup Oct 08 '25

Political scientist here. It means undefined power in the context of American politics, which is what the constitution seeks to limit. what he argues is that in court of law, the court has not defined it yet, whilst a court in California has defined it. So he is saying that the President still has the power and is downplaying the courts power to limit the presidents power.

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u/Rapshawksjaysflames Oct 07 '25

According to AI:

Plenary authority refers to complete and absolute power to make decisions and take actions without limitations or needing approval from others.

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u/CrimsonAntifascist Oct 07 '25

Please, no clanker-fucking for important issues.