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Should be a wild four years.

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Yup. It's not really very much of a "trick" to apply the Socratic method to insane rants. "What do you mean?" is a great start. They never make it very far before the smoke starts pouring from their ears.
They have a special term for this, created during GamerGate: Sea Lioning, from some overhyped webcomic. Demanding they explain themselves or address a logical inconsistency instead of just shouting their virtuous beliefs and then expecting asspats updoots and social credit points to flow is "harassment."
 
So this is what it's going to be like these next 4 years?

Just dems throwing any and all blackrobes at Trump to block everything he does?
2 years at least, yes. They have nothing else. They CANNOT let him succeed, they CANNOT let him undo their long march through the institutions. If they can kill him they will. If they can kill his cabinet members they will. Until then, they're going to do whatever they can to slow him down until they can get a replacement for the USAID slush fund and grift machine going and pray they can rig 2028.
 
So this is what it's going to be like these next 4 years?

Just dems throwing any and all blackrobes at Trump to block everything he does?
I doubt it. Eventually the SCOTUS will begrudgingly step in and slap this stupid practice down (it's threatened to do so during Obama's and Biden's terms, not just Trump's), and if it doesn't, eventually the executive will just stop paying any attention to the orders and pull an Andrew Jackson ("let them enforce it"), relying on support from the legislature to avoid punishment. There isn't enough support in Congress to impeach Trump at the moment, much less actually convict and remove him, and enough congresscritters are nervous about this judicial overreach that it's unlikely Congress would actually remove Trump from office for ignoring these retarded decisions.

Interesting times ahead for sure, though. The media was agitating for a "constitutional crisis" awhile ago, and it seems these activist judges are eager to trigger one. Of course, Congress is also impeaching a few of these dipshit judges too, so we'll see which flavor of entertainment we'll get when these squealing pigs finally get led to the slaughter.
 
2 years at least, yes. They have nothing else. They CANNOT let him succeed, they CANNOT let him undo their long march through the institutions. If they can kill him they will. If they can kill his cabinet members they will. Until then, they're going to do whatever they can to slow him down until they can get a replacement for the USAID slush fund and grift machine going and pray they can rig 2028.

I highly doubt they'll be able to rig 2028. I know this is just me thinking optimistically, but they've showed their hand way too much, and watching a lot of Democrats break rank and actually get pissed off enough at their own party for being fucking retarded enough to leave. I encourage more and more of them to show their true colors. Yes. Encourage Jasmine Ghetto Crockett to chimp out at bullshit more. You're only doing Republicans even more favors.
 
The Congress doing anything useful on the matter might be easier said then done.

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Gonna be tough to get their bills signed if they don't back him on this one. But yeah, I expect foot dragging all around. There seems to be an eagerness to kick the can down the road rather than actually lock horns and "settle" this nonsense directly. Makes sense they'd want Trump to stop "threatening" courts. If he cranks up the rhetoric they might actually have to deal with it sooner rather than later.
 
The tariff complaint by Democrats just seem weird to me because unions, traditionally their base, are extremely supportive of them. Teamsters and UAC love the tariffs. So, how do they reconcile their belief that tariffs hurt the working class when they seem to support them? Or better yet, how do they reconcile that with the fact Trump justified his Tariffs using Biden's tariffs? Its awkward.
The most amusing timeline: TDS causes them to overplay their hand and "Judicial Review" (which is unconstitutional bullshit) gets removed as a concept in American politics. No more running to the courts to undo the thing that just happened, Mr. Greer. Er, I mean, Democrats.
92% of injunctions against Trump came from Democrat appointed judges.
 
countries only plan until the next election.
Democracies* plan until the next election, it is one of their major downsides. Countries like Russia and China can afford to be a little more forward thinking because their leadership isn't changing every decade or so. Granted being able to plan ahead doesn't mean those plans will be good or fool proof either.
 
The tariff complaint by Democrats just seem weird to me because unions, traditionally their base, are extremely supportive of them. Teamsters and UAC love the tariffs. So, how do they reconcile their belief that tariffs hurt the working class when they seem to support them?
Because they think the working class are retards who need to be saved from themselves with globohomo, and instead of adjusting to the growing nationalist-populist attitudes of union voters they simply need to double down until the plebs finally get it
 
Makes sense they'd want Trump to stop "threatening" courts.
I feel like so many people forgot the fact that Biden embrace court packing, and Supreme Court limits, because he kept getting stomped in the courts. Now they have a problem with Trump attacking the judiciary? It''s funny. Its the same thing with the filibuster too.
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Because they think the working class are retards who need to be saved from themselves with globohomo, and instead of adjusting to the growing nationalist-populist attitudes of union voters they simply need to double down until the plebs finally get it
I just want to see the Democrats tie themselves into a knot by attacking unions for not representing the working class for not going along with their beliefs. The self-inflicted schadenfreude is fascinating to me.
 
They have a special term for this, created during GamerGate: Sea Lioning, from some overhyped webcomic. Demanding they explain themselves or address a logical inconsistency instead of just shouting their virtuous beliefs and then expecting asspats updoots and social credit points to flow is "harassment."
Is that the one where they gravely insult a Sea Lion and one overhears and politely but firmly asks them what their problem is? If it was a bigger they would've just been shot.
 
Is that the one where they gravely insult a Sea Lion and one overhears and politely but firmly asks them what their problem is? If it was a bigger they would've just been shot.
That's the one!
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These people really are allergic to being challenged or questioned, even just a little. It's fucking hilarious, especially in person. "What, you can't answer one question? So you're full of shit then. Cool." The seething is real.
 
Seems as though every day, I see people calling the tariffs proof that “Trump is going to ruin the economy”, given how much other countries are taking measures to adjust accordingly.

Is it really that hard for people to not see things in just the short-term?
Well you have to consider the normie POV: A man you may or may not even like is proposing something none of the presidents in the last 20 years have tried, or even considered. They're skeptical. People don't react well to status quo changes
 
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These people really are allergic to being challenged or questioned, even just a little. It's fucking hilarious, especially in person. "What, you can't answer one question? So you're full of shit then. Cool." The seething is real.
what is this? An image for ants!?!?!

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