Trump deserves absolutely zero benefit of the doubt about anything at this point. He tried to overthrow Congress because he was butt-hurt about losing an election.
twarr1 on
Trump knows about the ‘secret powers of the President’ and has alluded to them in previous comments.
Blackbyrn on
There’s only one day in a dictatorship that matters, the day he suspends all our rights.
JustAnotherYouMe on
Spread the word
forceblast on
It’s really not something any sane person would “joke” about. Especially someone who was running for elected office. If his followers weren’t in a cult his career would already be over.
> As with the international economic powers legislation, Congress dutifully provided a measure, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that purported to rein in the executive's power to spy on citizens while merely legalizing it.
> The ACLU's chief legislative counsel Jerry Berman protested that the proposed law "Broadly authorizes intrusive investigations of American citizens. It takes away the inherent power of the president to do these things, but then gives him the express power to do them, with all the flexibility that he had before." A simple statistic from the FISA court suggests that Berman's concerns were well-founded: of 33,900 applications for FISA warrants between 1979 and 2012, precisely eleven were rejected.
Great article outlining the history of extraordinary and unenumerated presidential powers. Ancient orange recently mentioned some of secret powers presidents are informed of when they get the nuclear briefcase.
Basically, donOld can declare martial law and go buck wild violating the constitutional rights of political enemies and the public at large.
>These chilling directives have been silently proliferating since the dawn of the Cold War as an integral part of the hugely elaborate and expensive Continuity of Government (COG) program, a mechanism to preserve state authority (complete with well-provisioned underground bunkers for leaders) in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Compiled without any authorization from Congress, the emergency provisions long escaped public discussion—that is, until Donald Trump started to brag about them. “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” he boasted in March, ominously echoing his interpretation of Article II of the Constitution, which, he has claimed, gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president.”
Here is a quote describing the failure of congress to reign in these powers in 1974. The article explores the history of the use of these powers. Long article
>By 1974, the emergencies committee had drafted a bill that ended most existing emergencies and mandated the automatic termination of new ones after six months. Yet the bill’s passage was continually delayed, and its contents were steadily watered down, thanks in large part to what Jerry Brady, a former chief of staff on the committee, recalled as “pretty vigorous pushback from the president and others at the White House.”
>We now know, thanks to declassified archives, that the administration kept tight supervision over the committees’ work, and that Henry Kissinger urged unyielding resistance. As he exclaimed during a meeting with President Gerald Ford and others in May 1975: “It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the president from ordering an assassination.” The White House deputy chief of staff, Dick Cheney, whose most distinguishing feature, according to another senior Ford aide, were his “snake-cold eyes, like a Cheyenne gambler’s,” also attempted to thwart the investigations behind the scenes.
>After reviewing thousands of declassified documents, the National Security Archive reported in 2015 that Cheney ultimately decided which documents requested by Church and his staff should be handed over, and that “CIA accommodation measures were explicitly designed to keep Church Committee investigators away from its most important records.” (Among those assigned to this task in the CIA legislative office was a conservative young lawyer named William Barr.)
love_is_an_action on
US citizens cannot abide a dictator. Hopefully there’s something in the constitution about how to handle tyranny.
BargleMcquargle on
40-something percent of the population are ok with this. There’s your problem.
PunfullyObvious on
His jokes are promises to his base and base-adjacent and plausible deniability to everyone else
thomport on
IMO. He was a Dictator on January 6.
He just wants to continue the show
oakpitt on
No, that’s not a joke. What is a joke is that he said after that he’ll just go back to a regular president. I don’t find it funny. What I really don’t think is funny is that at my age (76) I probably won’t see a great country again in my lifetime if he wins.
ajatjapan on
We know.
Also…it won’t be for one day.
wowzarootie on
>Trump’s threat to be a dictator on Day One is not a joke
Indeed it is not! TAKE TRUMP HIS WORD! HE ***LUSTS*** AFTR BEING A DICTATOR!
econoquist on
The whole article is kind of terrifying, and not even just because of Trump.
Any-Development3348 on
Trump was already President for 4 years and left office.
Trump was making a joke about executive orders on his first day.
alexrothschild23 on
We gotta find a way to bridge beating him and the Palestinian protesters.
Booth_Templeton on
He was already president for four years. If he wins, he’ll be out after another four. This kind of posting and the actual serious responses is what makes people not take reddit seriously, at all.
thanethegreat on
Breaking news, water is wet, and bachelors are single
alexamerling100 on
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
twarr1 on
“explicit public discussion about PEADS in the media did not begin until March 2020 when President Donald Trump said: “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” during a White House press briefing with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland (Referring to Presidential Emergency Action Documents)
Oh no, he wants to make immigration more fair for legal immigrants and wants to start drilling for more heavy crude oil in the gulf to lower gas prices. What a monster!
mtheory007 on
A one day dictatorship isnt one day of being a dictator it’s the first day of setting up a dictatorship and then just becoming a forever dictator.
Yodan on
He has never made a joke or laughed genuinely in his life.
silly-stilly on
Dude’s constantly on his knees for autocrats because he’s so desperate to be one
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Trump deserves absolutely zero benefit of the doubt about anything at this point. He tried to overthrow Congress because he was butt-hurt about losing an election.
Trump knows about the ‘secret powers of the President’ and has alluded to them in previous comments.
There’s only one day in a dictatorship that matters, the day he suspends all our rights.
Spread the word
It’s really not something any sane person would “joke” about. Especially someone who was running for elected office. If his followers weren’t in a cult his career would already be over.
This is the best tl;dr I could make, [original](https://harpers.org/archive/2020/11/the-enemies-briefcase-secret-powers-of-the-presidency/) reduced by 96%. (I’m a bot)
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> "Many were aware that there had been a delegation of an enormous amount of power, but of how much power no one knew," the committee said.
> As with the international economic powers legislation, Congress dutifully provided a measure, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, that purported to rein in the executive's power to spy on citizens while merely legalizing it.
> The ACLU's chief legislative counsel Jerry Berman protested that the proposed law "Broadly authorizes intrusive investigations of American citizens. It takes away the inherent power of the president to do these things, but then gives him the express power to do them, with all the flexibility that he had before." A simple statistic from the FISA court suggests that Berman's concerns were well-founded: of 33,900 applications for FISA warrants between 1979 and 2012, precisely eleven were rejected.
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Great article outlining the history of extraordinary and unenumerated presidential powers. Ancient orange recently mentioned some of secret powers presidents are informed of when they get the nuclear briefcase.
Basically, donOld can declare martial law and go buck wild violating the constitutional rights of political enemies and the public at large.
>These chilling directives have been silently proliferating since the dawn of the Cold War as an integral part of the hugely elaborate and expensive Continuity of Government (COG) program, a mechanism to preserve state authority (complete with well-provisioned underground bunkers for leaders) in the event of a nuclear holocaust. Compiled without any authorization from Congress, the emergency provisions long escaped public discussion—that is, until Donald Trump started to brag about them. “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” he boasted in March, ominously echoing his interpretation of Article II of the Constitution, which, he has claimed, gives him “the right to do whatever I want as president.”
Here is a quote describing the failure of congress to reign in these powers in 1974. The article explores the history of the use of these powers. Long article
>By 1974, the emergencies committee had drafted a bill that ended most existing emergencies and mandated the automatic termination of new ones after six months. Yet the bill’s passage was continually delayed, and its contents were steadily watered down, thanks in large part to what Jerry Brady, a former chief of staff on the committee, recalled as “pretty vigorous pushback from the president and others at the White House.”
>We now know, thanks to declassified archives, that the administration kept tight supervision over the committees’ work, and that Henry Kissinger urged unyielding resistance. As he exclaimed during a meeting with President Gerald Ford and others in May 1975: “It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the president from ordering an assassination.” The White House deputy chief of staff, Dick Cheney, whose most distinguishing feature, according to another senior Ford aide, were his “snake-cold eyes, like a Cheyenne gambler’s,” also attempted to thwart the investigations behind the scenes.
>After reviewing thousands of declassified documents, the National Security Archive reported in 2015 that Cheney ultimately decided which documents requested by Church and his staff should be handed over, and that “CIA accommodation measures were explicitly designed to keep Church Committee investigators away from its most important records.” (Among those assigned to this task in the CIA legislative office was a conservative young lawyer named William Barr.)
US citizens cannot abide a dictator. Hopefully there’s something in the constitution about how to handle tyranny.
40-something percent of the population are ok with this. There’s your problem.
His jokes are promises to his base and base-adjacent and plausible deniability to everyone else
IMO. He was a Dictator on January 6.
He just wants to continue the show
No, that’s not a joke. What is a joke is that he said after that he’ll just go back to a regular president. I don’t find it funny. What I really don’t think is funny is that at my age (76) I probably won’t see a great country again in my lifetime if he wins.
We know.
Also…it won’t be for one day.
>Trump’s threat to be a dictator on Day One is not a joke
Indeed it is not! TAKE TRUMP HIS WORD! HE ***LUSTS*** AFTR BEING A DICTATOR!
The whole article is kind of terrifying, and not even just because of Trump.
Trump was already President for 4 years and left office.
Trump was making a joke about executive orders on his first day.
We gotta find a way to bridge beating him and the Palestinian protesters.
He was already president for four years. If he wins, he’ll be out after another four. This kind of posting and the actual serious responses is what makes people not take reddit seriously, at all.
Breaking news, water is wet, and bachelors are single
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.
“explicit public discussion about PEADS in the media did not begin until March 2020 when President Donald Trump said: “I have the right to do a lot of things that people don’t even know about,” during a White House press briefing with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of Ireland (Referring to Presidential Emergency Action Documents)
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Action_Documents](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Action_Documents)
Oh no, he wants to make immigration more fair for legal immigrants and wants to start drilling for more heavy crude oil in the gulf to lower gas prices. What a monster!
A one day dictatorship isnt one day of being a dictator it’s the first day of setting up a dictatorship and then just becoming a forever dictator.
He has never made a joke or laughed genuinely in his life.
Dude’s constantly on his knees for autocrats because he’s so desperate to be one
Yeah, us with a fucking brain know that.
Go talk to the cult