Summary

Top Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Jim Jordan, are backing Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s attacks on U.S. judges who blocked Trump orders and Musk-led federal agency cuts.

A judiciary subcommittee hearing explored curbing “judicial overreach,” while Musk, who donated $300M to Trump, has called for impeaching judges.

Critics warn these moves undermine judicial independence and risk violence. Judges facing threats include James Boasberg, targeted by Trump for halting deportations.

Legal experts and ex-GOP officials say the attacks serve political and fundraising goals, while endangering constitutional norms.

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      And if real Americans are lucky to get into power again, we need to take advantage of all these new powers and treat them as such.

      • Investigate and arrest the leaders of the Heritage Foundation for sedition, for openly attempting to convert our republic into a dictatorship in a clear attempt to overthrow and betray the constitution.

      • Withhold federal funding from parasitic, thieving red states.

      • Unilaterally declare tax breaks for churches unconstitutional, and issue them bills and indictments for decades of tax evasion.

      • Suspend security clearances for all GOP-aligned law firms.

      • Ignore court orders from the illegitimate, corrupt supreme court. Instead, investigate them for open and blatant corruption.

      • Kick Fox News out of the press corps and investigate and dismantle them for foreign collaboration with enemy Russian propagandists.

      • Denaturalize Elon Musk for lying on his initial visa application and then arrest and imprison him for stealing taxpayer money and deliberately weakening US defense systems in concert with his Russian and Saudi financial backers.

      • Many many other things we can do to destroy the GOP using the powers they’ve given to Trump.

      Only once the treasonous GOP political apparatus has been utterly destroyed, and its leaders are in prison for life, and measures have been taken to prevent its rise again, should we consider restoring congressional and judicial power.

      The only way left to stop this shit now is to use their authoritarian wet dream against them and make it their nightmare.

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        51 month ago

        Trump’s supporters will cry that this is tyranny and call the new government a dictatorship

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              11 month ago

              In fairness, a massive proportion of people didn’t vote at all, so we really only need to convince them to join a movement. Fuck trump supporters, they can change their minds if they want to, but we don’t need them to if they don’t want to.

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              21 month ago

              Thankfully the Republicans are fucking over so many people that democrats have an honest chance at getting the majority. But the odds of them ever actually doing any of the above is likely less than winning the lottery

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          So what? It will be tyranny and we will shut them the fuck up real quick, like they’re trying to do to us.

          Every time we do something to them we’ll do so while quoting the Trump EO giving us the same authority that they celebrated him having.

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    161 month ago

    This is their response to realizing that Trump’s tariffs could cause them to lose the house and the senate for 60 years.

    Their response isn’t to maybe reflect on their behaviour and maybe stand up to the orange twat. But instead their response is to make sure that the Judiciary doesn’t have the power to stop him and therefore prevent them ever getting voted out.

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    101 month ago

    Honestly guys, they’re just scared little babies who really want to do the right thing, but are afwaid of the mean Orange Daddy!

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    381 month ago

    I’m not as worried about the violence against judges, which is a horrific development. I’m more worried about the violence that happens when people realize their political views can bring violence against them because of what’s being done to judges.

    That’s going to be the end of peaceful protest, and the start of a LOT of political violence.

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      151 month ago

      Political views have long been met with state sanctioned violence. The concern for me with the breakdown of the judicial system, we’re going to see an even wider disparity in equal application of the law, and larger backlogs.

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        21 month ago

        The concern for me is that we’re going to stop having protests, and start having explosions of government buildings to send a message.

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            11 month ago

            Not that I’m disagreeing, but I also know where that ends. I should say, the range of endings. Aside from probably neither of us living long enough to see where it ends, the range of endings are almost universally bad for humanity in general, and the US in particular.

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    131 month ago

    I really hope the only broad draining of red in this country is the loss of Republicans in any position of power.

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    181 month ago

    Republicans would prefer to rule over a pile of ashes instead of sharing political power in a thriving country.

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    71 month ago

    The fascism has arrived. America has died. The Untied States is a dictatorship. Maybe if we hurry up and accept it, it’ll be over quicker