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No single thing is going to fix this. It's going to take a concerted effort of protests and economic boycotts and judges doing their job and elected officials doing their job and the fucking media doing their job and public sentiment souring further on Trump and people refusing to follow unlawful orders and yes maybe even a little direct action. Not all of it is going to work and not all of it has to work. My only point here is we can't just think there's a single silver bullet (pun intended) because that breeds inaction for all other forms of resistance. We each need to find a way to resist and do that instead of waiting for somebody who isn't coming to save the day.

Both. I just think the "oh well we must immediately escalate to bloodshed" people are only serving to worsen the situation because it skips over all the other legitimate ways we have of fighting back, like protest and the courts. Ways that a bigger portion of the populace is willing to participate in (currently). And right now we need everyone who's reasonable resisting in any way they can.

And let me know when you second amendment types actually do something. 👍

Since when is a judge's verbal order not legally binding?

With respect, I don't think you're very well-learned in history if you don't see where this slippery slope leads for all of us.

Then again, maybe you're not arguing here in good faith and you're just a troll.

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What are you on about?

• https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/supreme-court-john-roberts-trump-constitutional-crisis-rcna196940
• https://time.com/7268948/deportation-surgeon-constitutional-crisis/
• https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-latest-deportation-venezuelans-sets-up-potential-constitutional-clash-2025-03-17/
• https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/politics/constitutional-crisis-courts-trump-executive-power-what-matters/index.html
• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-constitutional-crisis.html

EDIT: Oh and just today..

• https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/19/us/politics/trump-deportations-constitutional-crisis-impeachment.html

You guys are maybe being a little hasty... Many other members of the Trump administration can get forcibly hauled into court even if Trump has "immunity."

He can have members of the Trump administration dragged into court by U.S. Marshalls. And then if necessary, held in contempt of court and imprisoned.

The vast majority of Musk's wealth is in the form of Tesla stock.

So you're saying a price-to-earnings ratio of ~90x over the last five years is a reasonable valuation.. when their competitors are historically closer to... 6x?

Isn't that just as bad as Russia doing it?

That's some real victim-blaming shit.. What exactly did you expect Canada to do to counter Russian election interference in another sovereign nation?

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You haven't been paying attention.

This is a really good point. And yet, movements are started in the wings. It's really hard to get people all fired up with some tepid centrism.

Hey welcome! You may proceed to do all the rich eating you like over here.

The implicit demand is to stop supporting fascists.

The Supreme Court also desperately wants to uphold the make-believe idea that they are legitimate. Which means they might occasionally rule against Trump just to support that narrative.

Resist. Be noisy. Throw sand in the gears. There are only so many hours in the day, so even just slowing down the Trump administration's agenda means they break fewer things / grift fewer grifts between now and the midterms.

Maybe from a game theory / trolley problem perspective, sure. But I guess my point is that a "presidential approval rating," as in the current support for the president, is not one to one with how the electorate voted (or didn't vote) four months ago. Especially as we get further from that event over time.