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moniss

(8,891 posts)
10. Legal basis? We don't need no stinking legal basis!!
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 02:37 PM
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But realistically when he says all of his tariffs remain intact it basically is flipping the middle finger to the SC ruling. So now what? Obviously this reaction to an adverse SC ruling is a forewarning of how he will react to any other adverse ruling. An out of control POTUS going around the world freely extorting for his own gain and using the US military to secure oil revenue for his slush fund. Along with an out of control DHS, Intelligence and DOJ to go after any critics and to beat and kill protesters in the street.

Even if states pass laws banning ICE-American Gestapo at the polls what happens when he ignores those laws? Local PD isn't going to get into a shootout with the Feds so now what? He has clearly demonstrated, as have the DOJ flunkies, that non-compliance/slow rolling etc. is their SOP with respect to any rulings they don't like. Hundreds of times of clearly violating court orders to not deport a specific person and then they do it anyway. Nobody in jail for contempt, judges issuing words of condemnation and little more and once again I harken back to the warnings I and many others gave back in the Spring of 2025 when we warned those who felt "the courts" would prevent things from getting out of hand.

Here once again today we see that court decisions are words on paper without any enforcement mechanism other than more words. The fascists aren't planning on allowing words to stop them. They also aren't planning on abiding by election results.

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Um... how does that work? The executive branch will have to pay 10% more for supplies it gets via imports? ck4829 Friday #1
Really? UpInArms Friday #2
thats something he legally can do moonshinegnomie Friday #3
He's gone insane, remove Blues Heron Friday #4
Flush... MarcoZandrini Friday #18
Thank you for your attention to this fecal matter! Blues Heron Friday #22
Yup. Well said! Mr. Evil Friday #29
"We have the right to do pretty much what we want to do." Wednesdays Friday #5
Ali Baba and his 40 thieves Justice matters. Friday #19
Ooooh... BadgerKid Friday #6
And there it is Miguelito Loveless Friday #7
I'd say it's a solid F U SCOTUS. flashman13 Friday #21
Of course popsdenver Friday #32
Translation: Ray Bruns Friday #8
The most basic question: what we tariffs supposed to accomplish? Bluetus Friday #31
He's such a spoiled child sakabatou Friday #9
And we're paying for his tantrums. StarryNite Friday #14
Legal basis? We don't need no stinking legal basis!! moniss Friday #10
I read your words, and you laid out a perfect picture of bluestarone Friday #12
We have the right to do what we want to do. choie Friday #11
"We" being "me, myself and I" in the fat asses case! KPN Friday #17
Will the spineless republican shitbirds in congress and the senate FINALLY do something? NoMoreRepugs Friday #13
They'll kneel down and pucker up some more durablend Friday #15
Why doesn't he just fucking die? Orrex Friday #16
CBS showed the babbling fool. Olympics on NBC. Watch people go downhill one at a time rather than the twodogsbarking Friday #20
He's just declared himself king. Next up: God. Grokenstein Friday #23
With no policing entity willing to step up, why would he heed the court's admonition? Magoo48 Friday #24
Does his new tariff include Penguin Island? Hassler Friday #25
Hasn't anyone figured how to make them a tax deduction? /nt bucolic_frolic Friday #26
So now we've reached the point where he is Figarosmom Friday #27
149 days left of this BS also........he does any and everything to circumvent the rule of law and the adjoining turbinetree Friday #28
The legal ground to use this act to impose such broad tariffs like this, is D. Spaulding Friday #30
Thank you for this rational, informative reply. KY_EnviroGuy Friday #33
Why Trump's Section 122 Tariffs Are Illegal LetMyPeopleVote 17 hrs ago #34
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