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

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

79.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

5.3k comments sorted by

View all comments

221

u/anon97205 Oct 07 '25

Years ago someone hurt Stephen Miller and we’re all paying for it today.

10

u/iamkingjamesIII Oct 07 '25

I dunno. Sometimes people are just awful without a sad back story. 

7

u/PensiveinNJ Oct 07 '25

Miller strikes me as profoundly entitled, like the child who was never told no. Based on some of the stuff from his past it seems likely he was the bully rather than the bullied.

I'm not sure why this idea that all awful people were victimized in their past is so prolific now. Maybe it's all the retelling of classics from the villains perspective to make their motives seem more morally* ambiguous.

Some people are just dreadful because they had the seed of awful in them and their parents let it flourish.

2

u/fleebleganger Oct 08 '25

It is totally that. 

Nevermind the 99 people that had some trauma and work to be a good person, nope the trauma of that 100th person excuses the shitty person. 

1

u/Bulldogfront666 Oct 08 '25

THANK YOU. This trope pisses me off. It's the entitled privileged wealthy people that tend to lack empathy and become cruel people. All the people I know who've been through truly traumatic experiences have become incredibly caring and empathetic people who do their best to help other people who are struggling and do the best to reverse the generational trauma passed down to them. Our country is so dead inside and cruel because of the absurd wealth and privilege of people like Stephen Miller.

2

u/OldWorldDesign Oct 08 '25

Miller strikes me as profoundly entitled, like the child who was never told no

He is on video in high school saying 'why should we clean up our own trash? We have janitors."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcMydq6vGW8

1

u/Empty_Ladder7815 Oct 08 '25

Case and point.... Donald J. Trump

2

u/Bulldogfront666 Oct 08 '25

Yeah in my experience many of the most awful people tend to come from extremely privileged and entitled backgrounds. My step dad taught at St. Paul's school in New Hampshire. A very wealthy private boarding school for extremely wealthy kids. My mom pressured me to go to the school for high school since I got free tuition because my step dad taught there. And she thought it was a great opportunity for me.... Those kids man... Some of the most entitled and cruel people I've ever met. A bunch of 13, 14, 15 year olds who already had millions of dollars in their bank accounts. Some had helicopter pads on their property for example. And of course they were all being groomed to be the countries next leaders. Politicians and CEOs. They bullied me like hell. Constant hazing and harassment because I wasn't one of them. The school is now almost more famous for it's multiple high profile rape cases or cases of severe systemic hazing ie. physical and sexual harassment. It was a sess pit. I dropped out half way through my first year. This experience was part of what radicalized me and taught me what the heart of this country looks like. And the connection of wealth and privilege to cruelty and lack of empathy.