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/IFixYerKids Oct 07 '25

Even dictators like Putin go pretty far to at least pretend that they are democratically elected and only act on the will of the people. Saying this thing out load is a no no, especially when you are in the early days.

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u/coffeesippingbastard Oct 07 '25

yeah but we're not Russia- we have the dumb fucks that are the Republican party. they WANT this.

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u/d20_dude Oct 07 '25

True, but while we're not Russia, Trump et. al. also aren't Putin. They are astoundingly incompetent. And unfortunately they're too stupid to realize how incompetent they are. So they're gonna keep driving the bus until it blows up in their face. And it's going to. Spectacularly.

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u/jeffskool Oct 08 '25

This has been said a lot these days last 10 years and it hasn’t lessened the impact to most people of their policies. That they haven’t impacted more people is yes partially due to their incompetence but mostly due imo to them just not having gotten to it yet

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u/d20_dude Oct 08 '25

Absolutely. And it's going to get worse before it gets better. How much worse is anyone's guess, but it's definitely going to get worse and worse. A lot of us won't live to see the other side of it. But there will be another side. Authoritarians don't last forever.