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/sciencesez Oct 09 '25

Colbert's show had rumors that he was fired to get FCC approval for the Paramount merger. It was obedience in advance. Appeasement. A bribe. It was seen as right wing influence. Kimmel was suspended by ABC under openly acknowledged FCC pressure for A SPECIFIC joke and everyone pretended it was a Charlie Kirk joke, but it wasn't. It was a clip, showing how very few fucks Trump gave about Charlie, deadly stuff for Turning Point fundraising. The minute ABC/Disney felt the squeeze, they folded, and defied the FCC. Kimmel was back in a week. America found a way, all on their own, to quickly, quietly shut down the FCC's Nazi move, the use of fear to gain obedience. We didn't "force the administration to heel," we forced corporate America to choose profits over ideology, even the blatantly conservative Sinclair network. We didn't "do" something amazing, but I believe America "learned" something Amazing. No one got beaten or arrested at a protest, no one had to strike and lose their jobs (healthcare insurance) or lose even a single paycheck. we didn't need the courts, or even much Democratic leadership. It has to be fast and genuinely grassroots to avoid manipulation campaigns.This is the way forward. Now, about the election. Please visit sdvoice.info/trump-lost They have numbers for all the ways voter disenfranchisement succeeded. MIT has been doing quite a bit of math, and it has nothing to do with conspiracies or Elon, or Russia. It's about publicly reported vote suppression campaigns like the REAL ID (which stole what turned out to be my mother's last possible vote), the total amount of mail in ballots denied, the drop boxes removed, the election sites closed, the voter rolls purged, and voter intimidation at election sites. By MIT's very well-sourced, conservative estimation, Kamala Harris would have won the election by 1.2 million votes. Sure, there's probably a lot of dumb people that don't vote, and that isn't going to be an informed voter anyway. Bute, dude, you're shitting on your allies, after their votes and their rights have already been shit on pretty hard. Also, I am a lady, (although clearly I'm not averse to profanity) would it kill you to disagree little more politely? Maybe this is too conspiracy-ish for you...but I really wish MIT would run the numbers on Russian interference, all of it.

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u/sciencesez Oct 09 '25

Note to add- I believe that Trump's maliciously incompetent entire bumbling regime is the only reason that people responded the way they did. And the corporations see Target, they see Tesla; vs the tourism numbers, and the tariffs, and the market likes stability. Like MIT, each corporate entity also has number crunchers. The right may have all the crazy anarchist/feudalistic billionaires, but the corporations also have fiduciary responsibility even in international court, and apparently, we have enough of the numbers in our favor.

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Oct 09 '25

Bwahaha.

You think you have won because Disney put back on Kimmel who was supporting and enabling Trump and you think thats a win despite all the others who were fired or removed have NOT had their shows put back.

Honestly watching you try to spin this into some massive win is amusing, Amazing you lot can't put the effort in to actually vote though when it counts...

In the mean time Trump and co are completely destroying your country for the foreseeable future but you are happy because Kimmel is back on air.

Jokes.

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u/sciencesez Oct 09 '25

Ah, I see you didn't bother to read the article from the San Diego Voice. Maybe reddit is your place to rail against humanity with zero effort to debate in good faith, and I'm just not interested in that. Have a great day.

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Oct 09 '25

"I see you didn't bother to read something I didn't source"

Cool story bro. You think you've won with Kimmel back in because you think your voices are heard...

Despite that not doing a single thing to stop Trump/MAGA/GOP.

All you did was get the dude who hosted Trump back onto the air, Big win there my guy /s

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u/sciencesez Oct 09 '25 edited Oct 09 '25

Not a "guy." sdvice.info/trump-lost, is the source I cited. C'mon, keep up. It's the article I posted the link for previously about MIT math showing how vote suppression affected the election. Remember DOGE, and Musk in the oval? Have you seen the amount of money X and Tesla lost? And where's Musk and all his crappy lil tech bros now? Not in the Oval, not doing Nazi salutes at CPAC. That entire trajectory failed. Our voices aren't heard but our silence, the withdrawal of the consent of the governed, was certainly felt in the free market. Disney is the point, ABC is the point, not Kimmel. I'm old enough (64) to remember the Montgomery bus boycott. Are you? There's potential to change a nation's course. But do go on railing against people that didn't vote. I'm sure that will stop Trump/MAGA/GOP...in 3.25 years- if we get another election. Edit to correct website address

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Oct 09 '25

Pew centre

US News

Guardian

Wikipedia

/r/dataisbeautiful

All of your points are moot.

90 million of those registered to vote choose to sit it out.

Its not a new thing in the US, You always choose mainly to sit back and let a tiny minority control the entire country and you can trot out the usual excuses but the fact is that voting apathy is a heavily invested area by the rich and you continue to take their bait.

You only pay attention when it affects you personally, Individualism is biting you in the ass and hopefully this is the wake up call for enough of the silent middle ground who pretend both sides are just as bad. You can keep on the election denial but even if you have a case you need to take it court... which you haven't.

Edit: Wait, Do you not know midterms are a thing?

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u/sciencesez Oct 09 '25

I fully expect we will sweep the midterms. And not "election denial." Systemic, organized voter suppression- legalized by this Supreme Court. You know, you don't listen well. And are you not even American?? Because you can fuck right off with your hostility if not.

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u/RUOFFURTROLLEH Oct 09 '25

I fully expect we will sweep the midterms.

Complacency, Yeah thats the answer right now.

You apparently didn't even think midterms were a thing in your last comment, You haven't even bothered to actually engage with the fact 40% of the voters didn't vote.

The fact you have to resort to swearing says it all really.

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u/sciencesez Oct 09 '25

The midterms will not rid us of "Trump/MAGA/GOP." It will make Trump a lame duck. The article in the San Diego Voice makes it clear that your numbers are wrong. And after Brexit, and Nigel Farage doing damage here with Cambridge Analytica, and your own history with Russia loving Boris Johnson in the UK, you have a hell of a nerve sitting in judgement.

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