Read his rant. It definitely includes both statements.

All the best people are saying it

This is also one reason project 2025 wants to eliminate NOAA. That and the whole bit about NOAA along with NASA providing direct scientific evidence of global warming that goes directly against the interests of the fossil fuel industry. I mean… clearly the latter is the lion’s share, but Trump’s pettiness knows no bounds when they wouldn’t [fully] play ball and affirm lies he told about the storm… https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/11/media/hurricane-dorian-donald-trump-reliable-sources/index.html

Gotta have that cushion for the pushin’!

TIL, that RFK Jr. is still running for President.

What a cuck

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“Please clap”

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Sedition noun : incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority

Also from https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title18/part1/chapter115&edition=prelim

§2385. Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States… Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction

LOCK HIM UP.

Here we go with the “Free Speech Absolutist” --> This is what he’s planned. $50 Mil a month is a pittance compared to the $44 Billy he spent swinging Twitter/X hard toward the Radical Right.

I look forward to more shenanigans from the muskrat.

“undermines the integrity of elections by increasing the opportunity for individuals to register to vote even though they are ineligible to do so.”

The quote is false on it’s face - they already know that ineligible registrants won’t get processed or be on the roll to vote. They want to keep disengaged voters disengaged - nothing else, here except for maybe the dog whistle of “illegal immigrant voters!”

If anything, this gives me hope still in 2024 that the GOP are STILL trying to suppress voter turnout because they know they will lose the popular vote because their policies are fascist garbage and so are their politicians.

only far far worse

The aim in a 2nd term for Trump would be to immediately politicize thousands of government positions that are apolitical and require years of education and experience to be competent. The administration felt hampered by being told “no” and “that’s illegal” and “we can’t do that” by so many of these long-standing staffers that they want to sweep away more than just cabinet and executive positions, but also thousands of jobs that literally keep the government going. It’s a GOP wet dream… say that the government is useless and inefficient to get into office and implement changes that make those claims true. But beyond that, it immediately sets up even more executive power which has been their aim since Nixon.

That’s the neat thing! They don’t.

For those who may just be surfing and want to know… she was fired (allowed to resign) after they started digging into ties with Russian money. Jared Kushner and I believe some of Trump’s kids were also her client (no shock there).

https://www.reuters.com/article/business/trump-s-longtime-banker-at-deutsche-bank-resigns-idUSL4N2J23GE/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/16/deutsche-bank-examined-trump-account-for-russia-links

Also somewhat unsurpisingly Deutsche didn’t find any connection to russian from their own internal investigation, but were prompted to hire external investigators… and I’ll just post this little gem because if that doesn’t sound like “we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong” to you, then this may help seal your opinion

In recent years the disgraced bank has been hit by a series of scandals. Last month the UK and US imposed record fines of $630m. Deutsche failed to prevent money laundering by its Moscow branch involving at least $10bn of Russian cash, regulators found.

What a clownshow of a Senator. This guy is one of 100 people in the country that get to vote on whether bills become law. He held up Military promotions (so much for the GOP for supporting our Military!) for ages because he didn’t want gays or abortion anywhere near the military. I’m honestly certain that if enrollment was better, he’d say no Blacks or Browns either. The man is menace. Yet… keeps getting elected Corrected!

Fuck Oprah. She’s an out of touch Billionaire who’s commitment to junk science set Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil loose on the world and gave Jenny McArthy a platform for her anti-vax autism bullshit. She’s absolutely not who we want running for president.

Apologies if it came off that way. Truly meant that as a generalization and pretty much include myself in the snark if it matters at this point…

not some arm chair IANAL basement dweller

BTW, I never called you this. I was making an arbitrary comparison to any number of us having a conversation about the ruling and saying “not some arm chair IANAL basement dweller” compared to “a sitting SCOTUS jurist who dissented” in terms of “we better pay attention”

I think you were downvoted because your post implies you agree with the majority. You have clarified it by saying:

[you agree with] conclusion that it was the wrong ruling.

Probably should have started with that.

I responded more directly since your ire seems to be pointed at me.

was this ruling incorrect

Yes. The decision is fundamentally flawed and if the US survives this, it will be discussed in law reviews for decades to come.

If so, how do you square that with the majority of justices ruling that way

Are you presuming that a reactionary majority in SCOTUS ruling something squares with “correct”? Setting that aside for a second, I’ll answer it by saying their decision makes it legal for the president to commit crimes in an official capacity, and that decision is wholesale incorrect by virtually any standard other than “Conservative Party go Brrrrr”. Say that out loud a few times: “it’s legal for the President to commit crimes in an official capacity”. This is defacto opening to kingship / authoritarianism. If you go read the entire constitution (it’s pretty short) and you’ll recognize that these same 6 jurists cannot back this decision up with anything remotely resembling what the constitution says. It goes against all of the language holding our government officials accountable to the law. So yes… I square it quite easily by saying that all 6 of the majority decision jurists are wrong and just because it’s a majority doesn’t make them right.

Or do you as a fellow armchair ianal basement dweller get special privileges when it comes to your legal opinions vs that if scotus judges?

This argument doesn’t go as hard as you think. My whole point centered around the fact that you shouldn’t pay attention to me, but that you should pay attention to the dissent WITHIN THE SUPREME COURT itself. My opinion here truly doesn’t matter (which I suppose negates my first to responses above, but you asked…) but Sotomayor’s legal opinion surely matters. That was my point.

All I’m saying is that if I’m POTUS and I’m considering a questionable “official act” i know who I’m going to to clear it first.

The SC put it on the lower courts, which means any challenge to “what’s an official act” will just come back to the SC upon appeal. The conservative majority can choose to hear or not and if they do, hear any challenge, they can rule along party lines in favor. Sotomayor is saying, rightly, that other than a mild delay, this is effectively a rubber stamp for the President to commit any crime while in office. Further, my argument is that if Trump gains office again, he won’t bother clearing anything - he’ll go straight into persecuting anyone he deems disloyal. He’s already saying Kinzinger and Biden and Liz Cheney should meet a military tribunal (though there is absolutely zero jurisdiction). In any authoritarian country, this means at least life imprisonment if it doesn’t mean a firing squad. And he can do it and THEN see what the SC says. He’s not going to clear anything because he knows they are in his pocket, and he can use their own decision to eliminate them if they don’t play ball on ruling what is official or not. The SC may think they have power right now, but take this forward a year from “First day dictator Donny” and tell me the Supreme Court can do shit? They’ve created their own monster.