The perfect illustration of the moral licensing of the right wing’s awfulness - “I cheated on multiple of my wives because I have such a commitment to family values”
https://x.com/AaronBlake/status/1858160950320255398
Note: The “ultimate wife” mentioned here was in fact also cheated on and has been replaced
I am still trying to grapple that in the eyes of a lot of voters Harris was tied to positions they didnt like that she took in a short campaign in 2020 and seemingly no longer supported, but Trump was allowed to back away from things they dont like that he actually did as president.
There are now several reports of the lack of support among Republican senators for several of Trump’s cabinet picks. But you should not that expect to play out publicly where people have to put their name to these opinions aired in private
Good… let them feel an ounce of what they’ve helped unleash on everyone else.
They were full of love while chanting hang Pence. So why should any GOP member worry?
I voted for Trump because cancel culture has got out of hand and we need to get back to being able to speak our mind
https://x.com/rodimusprime/status/1858522174216376649
Oh no, not about me though. Saying mean things about me, a moron, is elitist and you must be punished for that.
Sending wishes of peace, safety, good health, and belonging to all those who are about to lose families and communities.
I hope we don’t lose all our compassion to hate.
Let’s see what happens when the gardener doesn’t show up, the meals take three hours to deliver and the price of oranges goes through the roof.
I think unless the toadies he has in Congress approve it, it would be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, no?
I don’t know about anyone else, but this smells like the recipe for a civil war to me…
And the red states are very much in dreamland if they think they’re going to win that one.
But Trump didn’t mean what he said when he said he would do that.
Aging well.
The same people who said that before the election are probably still saying the same right now.
Emboldened by you-know-who
The things people tolerate to see their memecoin go up…
It does, but national guard are exempt, which makes sense when you consider the law was created to prevent the Feds coming into the south to obstruct the creation and implementation of Jim Crowe.
But the bigger issue is emergency powers*. We have developed an acceptance of using “emergency powers” to deal with a broad range of issues with ill defined parameters or controls (there was a law signed by Ford that codified this but then those parameters were almost immediately extended), to the point that the main limit of what you can do with these powers is determined by shame and what you and your people are willing to argue to the nation. It was something we saw Trump starting to learn to use towards the end of his first term. Its basically a case of declaring “emergency” to give you cover to do something you otherwise couldnt and having enough people in the chain of command to make sure what you want to do is carried out. And it is this second part that the Unitary Executive branch of the conservative movement spent the last 4 years of Trump’s “exile” writing a play book to make sure they could create that reality should he get back into office.
*Invoking the insurrection act is a variation on that.
None of these things that are being floated are powers people believed 8 years ago, but now Trump is floating them the RW legal movement and pundit class are jumping into place ready to make up arguments for why they pretend to believe it is an appropriate use of emergency powers and the insurrection act.
Wish they’d send the troops instead to arrest the sexual assaulters within their own ranks, including the head honcho of the fascist movement
