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moniss

(8,886 posts)
10. Legal basis? We don't need no stinking legal basis!!
Fri Feb 20, 2026, 02:37 PM
16 hrs ago

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