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>There were a few brilliant minds who started to warn that something big was wrong..., but they were dismissed as hysterical, mad, or fools, as is always the wa

by ebfe 10y ago

>There were a few brilliant minds who started to warn that something big was wrong..., but they were dismissed as hysterical, mad, or fools, as is always the way, and as people who worry about Putin, Brexit, and Trump are dismissed now. In what world does this author live?

DefaultUserHN 10y ago
The author lives in a fantasy where the Supreme Court Judges appointed by Obama will somehow side with Trump's total disregard of the Constitution. And where Trump can just ask the military to go and kill all member of Congress and the military will just do it, with no regard for the Constitution, which they pledge to uphold. Where civilian do not have guns to protect themselves. And there is no NRA or well-regulated militias to protect civilians against a tyranny. Where, somehow, Trump is able to assume command over every cops to turn against each cop's own cities and states. A world where the 50 states, backed by their own militias like the National Guards, will just let a federal government become a tyranny without fighting back. The delusion of this author is high. People like this author does not understand the checks and balance built into our government to prevent such a situation from happening. The many arms forces that check each other: The federal government's arm forces (the military), the states' arm forces (National Guards), the cities' arm forces (cops), the people's arm forces (well regulated militia like the the Minute Men), and the armed people themselves. All these different arms forces will never join together under a tyranny President. They are a check a tyrant President, and they are a check on each other. Not only that, the majority of the military will never go against the American citizens and the Constitution, no matter what a tyrant President says. In fact, the military will instead arrest the tyrant President, and put him to trail with Congress to impeach him. Peoples like this author are delusional.
- dragonwriter 10y ago
  > The author lives in a fantasy where the Supreme Court Judges appointed by Obama will somehow side with Trump's total disregard of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has 9 seats, one is currently vacant and the majority leadership in the Senate has indicated that they intend to keep it that way until, at least, the next President is in office. The remaining 8 Justices were appointed by: Ronald Reagan (1), George H. W. Bush (1), Bill Clinton (2), George W. Bush (2), and Barack Obama (2). Assuming Trump is able to fill the vacant seat, any of his actions that were challenged could be upheld by an outright majority of the Court without any Justice appointed by a Democrat (much less any specifically appointed by Barack Obama) siding with it. Even without Trump appointing a justice, his challenged policies could survive Supreme Court review without any Democrat-appointed Justices siding with them, so long as they were upheld by the Circuit Court through which they passed on the way to the Supreme Court, since a 4-4 Supreme Court split leaves the lower court decision as the end of the issue. (Some of the rest of your objections might have some merit, but this one has none.)
  - DefaultUserHN 10y ago
    >Circuit Court And that's assuming that the Circuit Court will somehow support Trump's tyranny. Which is never gonna happen (even Republicans judges don't like Trump). So again, the author is delusional.

by ebfe 10y ago

DefaultUserHN 10y ago

The author lives in a fantasy where the Supreme Court Judges appointed by Obama will somehow side with Trump's total disregard of the Constitution. And where Trump can just ask the military to go and kill all member of Congress and the military will just do it, with no regard for the Constitution, which they pledge to uphold. Where civilian do not have guns to protect themselves. And there is no NRA or well-regulated militias to protect civilians against a tyranny. Where, somehow, Trump is able to assume command over every cops to turn against each cop's own cities and states. A world where the 50 states, backed by their own militias like the National Guards, will just let a federal government become a tyranny without fighting back. The delusion of this author is high. People like this author does not understand the checks and balance built into our government to prevent such a situation from happening. The many arms forces that check each other: The federal government's arm forces (the military), the states' arm forces (National Guards), the cities' arm forces (cops), the people's arm forces (well regulated militia like the the Minute Men), and the armed people themselves. All these different arms forces will never join together under a tyranny President. They are a check a tyrant President, and they are a check on each other. Not only that, the majority of the military will never go against the American citizens and the Constitution, no matter what a tyrant President says. In fact, the military will instead arrest the tyrant President, and put him to trail with Congress to impeach him. Peoples like this author are delusional.

dragonwriter 10y ago
> The author lives in a fantasy where the Supreme Court Judges appointed by Obama will somehow side with Trump's total disregard of the Constitution. The Supreme Court has 9 seats, one is currently vacant and the majority leadership in the Senate has indicated that they intend to keep it that way until, at least, the next President is in office. The remaining 8 Justices were appointed by: Ronald Reagan (1), George H. W. Bush (1), Bill Clinton (2), George W. Bush (2), and Barack Obama (2). Assuming Trump is able to fill the vacant seat, any of his actions that were challenged could be upheld by an outright majority of the Court without any Justice appointed by a Democrat (much less any specifically appointed by Barack Obama) siding with it. Even without Trump appointing a justice, his challenged policies could survive Supreme Court review without any Democrat-appointed Justices siding with them, so long as they were upheld by the Circuit Court through which they passed on the way to the Supreme Court, since a 4-4 Supreme Court split leaves the lower court decision as the end of the issue. (Some of the rest of your objections might have some merit, but this one has none.)
- DefaultUserHN 10y ago
  >Circuit Court And that's assuming that the Circuit Court will somehow support Trump's tyranny. Which is never gonna happen (even Republicans judges don't like Trump). So again, the author is delusional.