Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 06/06/25

And lest we forget, the SCOTUS is majority RCC. 7-2

1) denial means it is absolutely true

2) would you define "sleazebag" perhaps as someone who lurks around teen models as a grown ass man, or who says if he wasn't related to his daughter he would date her, or when asked what he has most in common with his daughter the answer was "sex", or someone who cheated on all of his wives, or someone who has sex with a pornstar while his 3rd wife was at home with his newborn?

Or how about ALL of them?

I strongly doubt Alito, Thomas, Roberts and Coney Barratt are mainstream in their views, and Kavanaugh's lurching to the right on a regular basis now. Gorsuch is a bit hard to read.

Maybe Soto-Mayor is more mainstream. Most don't realize Thomas is a right-wing Catholic as it gets.

Sitting President nominates someone, then they go through Senate confirmation hearings and a vote. So the President selects, the Senate votes/approves. I assume they at least have to be a judge in an existing court, not just anyone at all.

It's why Mitch McConnell was able to stop Obama in the last few months of his Presidency when a vacancy came up after the death of a SC judge (Scalia I think); Obama nominated a judge but McConnell as Leader of the Senate refused to hold confirmation hearings, saying it was too close to the end of Obama's presidency. But then in the last few months of Trump's first term and even closer to the election, McConnell helped ram through Trump's nominee.

I'm pretty sure the founding fathers would have been appalled if they knew of McConnell's antics around Obama's nomination. Utterly despicable and hypocritical.

It was also one of the earliest signs that the GOP is willing to openly break all norms and conventions if it suits them politically. It was a shocking and controversial move back in 2016, but now 9 years later such norms are being broken on a weekly basis.

In fairness Norms are there for the breaking- especially if they’re not doing society any good - what MAGA are doing is establishing new norms and conventions that suit mainly white Right Wing America- we’ve seen the recently established norm of inclusivity of LGBGT+ somewhat eroded - we’ve also seen the norm of laisse faire to poor working class but non criminal immigrants also eroded - replaced with the norm of intolerance.

It’s a good lesson on how norms can change very quickly in society given just a few set of circumstances. Norms in Ireland took decades to erode and it was a slow journey for tolerance to take hold- but we’re already seen cracks in parts of society and quite a right wing element remerging - sites like boards.ie are very important right now in allowing reasoned debate and discussion.

I was a bit surprised to see that the SCOTUS decision came on the day it shut down it's current law term, bringing any legal motions likely to be presented to SCOTUS to a close. The other obvious effect of the SCOTUS ruling is that it is likely to give Trump the idea that he can use the power to issue E.O's liberally without SCOTUS reining him in.

In line with the latest ruling, there is it's previous ruling on the extent to which the term "Presidential Official Duties" can be stretched by Trump. SCOTUS declined to lay down the parameters outside which Trump [or any other president for that sake] cannot step.

Ref the jurisdictional reach of the rulings and/or orders that the different courts [below SCOTUS], that's something outside my ken so I wont comment on how one court can issue orders that will set aside orders of other courts except to state the obvious; an appeals courts can plainly set aside a bad or malicious order of a different court, as appeals against bad or malicious orders is plainly why the appeals courts were created.

I know the whole concept of people's rights are rapidly disappearing in the US but this is just cruel. I'd imagine even convicted criminals would be entitled to some form of basic humane accommodation at a higher level that this.

https://apnews.com/article/florida-alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detention-trump-desantis-0597dd71a0cfcbc819b82929c03466cd

This does indeed look like a recipe for a disgusting, inhuman disaster, lots of protests going on apparently but the detention centre is being assembled.

It's why pointing out hypocrisy by the GOP is pointless; they dont care.

Just keep calling them nazis. Not even important ones. Not even worthy of the capital N. Not even the 'just following orders' ones.

Those people are just so braindead and bereft of their own minds that they agree with whatever tf is said by 'daddy'

All the whinging is a bit late now. They all knew what they voted for. I'd imagine millions of tradesmen and their families voted for him but just assumed he fcuk someone else over and not them. These guys work alongside undocumented Latinos every day and heard what he said about them and happily voted for him.

To paraphrase full metal jacket, America is a giant shít sandwich and everyone's gonna have to take a bite.

It's just getting so hard to have any sympathy for Americans these days.

Those tradesmen thought as they were working for themselves, maybe a wee small business, that the pro business candidate was ideal for them (ignoring his first term and his 4 bankruptcies). I'm baffled by the excuse trotted out 'it's not what I voted for'…. yeah it's exactly what you voted for! Now is the time to own it!

“I'd imagine millions of tradesmen and their families voted for him but just assumed he fcuk someone else over and not them.”

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly why they voted for him - they dumped the traditional values of respect for fellow man and honest work for chasing the dollar and promised riches from a snake oil salesman .