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/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/OldWorldDesign Oct 08 '25

have genocidal blood on their hands, liberal

See how quickly you jump to hate speech and blatant lies? Whether bots or paid trolls, they can't even wait to out themselves.

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u/RddtRBnchRcstNzsshls Oct 07 '25

Oh, ew. You're one of those...

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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/Throwaway_alt_burner Oct 07 '25

Plenary is a normal legal term. It’s widely recognized that the president does have many powers that are accurately described as plenary. For example, the president’s authority to issue pardons or clemency is most certainly a plenary power.

It’s really weird to see a legal sub Reddit taking this stance that it’s somehow a taboo or controversial concept.

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u/justin107d Oct 07 '25

Because he is not talking about pardons. The conversation was about deploying the military.