I wrote Leftists because they tend to scream about anything related to Trump, and I assume they’d be the ones leading the charge if he tried to get himself a third term.
Sadly, there are plenty of people who back Trump no matter what he does. He could declare himself dictator for life, and there are people who would wildly applaud him. They’re definitely not reasonable. I also view the people who oppose anything he does just because of who he is as unreasonable.
I’d hope that plenty of Republicans would join those opposing it.
Then again, I don’t think it will come to it - I highly doubt he’ll attempt to get a third term.
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This is an important one to me. It amounts to saying “If you print something that I don’t want to see, I will sue you”. I assume that the Register like other traditional newspapers is barely surviving financially. The small pollster has the same issue. Trump will just bury people in lawyers and that will have a “chilling effect” on other news outlets.
The ABC lawsuit is similar, but in that case he is using the power of the federal gov’t as the big stick. ABC needs a broadcast license to operate, and I’m sure Disney Inc has lots of concerns about good government relations.
ABC caved on something that looked winnable to me. I hope the first judge who sees the Selzer lawsuit just throws it out. If not, Trump could get another win just by spending money.
Honestly, I don’t know what to think about the ABC lawsuit. On the one hand, maybe they could have won, and caved to save on the legal fees. On the other hand, maybe they feared what might come out in discovery, and wanted to avoid that.
We’ll never know.
Trump transition team recommends repealing requirement that companies report automated vehicle crash data
Elon Musk’s Tesla opposes the requirement, arguing it has unfairly targeted his company
Unclear if Donald Trump administration will adopt the recommendation to quash reporting requirement
This is not a thing. People oppose the things he does because of the things he does
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This is undoubtedly a thing.
Examples…
Yeah, my MIL always says that, ignoring whether we’re talking about illegal withholding of Congress’ expenditures, sexual assault, illegal use of campaign contributions, breaking the Constitution’s emoluments clause, not returning confidential documents despite repeated requests and eventually a grand jury subpeona, etc, etc. Plus, of course Trump’s repeated lies about each of these.
This is shaping up to be a really nasty four years.
They are following Project 2025 to the letter.
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Might have also bought 4 years worth of media access.
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Scary stuff.
Anton says to Yarvin, “You’re essentially advocating for someone to – age-old move – gain power lawfully through an election, and then exercise it unlawfully”, adding: “What do you think the actual chances of that happening are?”
Yarvin responded: “It wouldn’t be unlawful,” adding: “You’d simply declare a state of emergency in your inaugural address.”
Yarvin continued: “You’d actually have a mandate to do this. Where would that mandate come from? It would come from basically running on it, saying, ‘Hey, this is what we’re going to do.’”
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Also scary that Vance is into this guy’s theories
And that the Anton in that quote is
Michael Anton, a writer and academic whom Trump last week appointed to work in a senior role under secretary of state nominee Marco Rubio.
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In all fairness, the idea of a benevolent dictator / monarch is one that appeals to a lot of people. In 7th grade.
Like in being one, not being subject to one.
Finally evidence of weaponization of the justice department
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The fake.elector thing has always left me thinking that there are lots of people in.the legal system that were involved. That was too brazen.a fraud to commit without getting some.assurances.
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Trump calls his buddy on the Supreme court allegedly just to chat about a job recommendation right before his hearing is scheduled to appear before SCOTUS.
Over 200 executive orders on day 1. By comparison, Biden issued 161. Obama hit 276 over 2 terms, Bush was 291 over 2 terms.