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The Resistance to a New Trump Administration Has Already Started
NY Times ^ | 6.16.2024 | Charlie Savage et al

Posted on 06/16/2024 9:52:37 AM PDT by libh8er

Opponents of Donald J. Trump are drafting potential lawsuits in case he is elected in November and carries out mass deportations, as he has vowed. One group has hired a new auditor to withstand any attempt by a second Trump administration to unleash the Internal Revenue Service against them. Democratic-run state governments are even stockpiling abortion medication.

A sprawling network of Democratic officials, progressive activists, watchdog groups and ex-Republicans has been taking extraordinary steps to prepare for a potential second Trump presidency, drawn together by the fear that Mr. Trump’s return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda but to American democracy itself.

“Trump has made clear that he’ll disregard the law and test the limits of our system,” said Joanna Lydgate, the chief executive of States United Democracy Center, a nonpartisan democracy watchdog organization that works with state officials in both parties. “What we’re staring down is extremely dark.”

While the Supreme Court on Thursday rejected an attempt to nullify federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, liberals fear a new Trump administration could rescind the approval or use a 19th-century morality law to criminalize sending it across state lines.

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To: libh8er
.....Mr. Trump’s return to power would pose a grave threat not just to their agenda but to American democracy itself.

Aren't they the same thing? < /s >

61 posted on 06/16/2024 1:47:34 PM PDT by OSHA (At least Trump is competent to stand trial!)
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To: kenmcg

“The best way to fight a Trump resistance, is the presidency, senate and house all GOP.”
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That, and reassigning every single member of the SES (Senior Executive Service) - the actual Deep State - to a new facility that Trump will order the Army Corps of Engineers to build somewhere in between Bettles and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Too bad that it won’t have Internet access, and that the heating units are going to be on back order for a few years.


62 posted on 06/16/2024 1:57:07 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." - The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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To: libh8er
“What we’re staring down is extremely dark.”

You could even say it's where the sun don't shine.

63 posted on 06/16/2024 2:00:46 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: RoseofTexas
"....If he wins, this is well expected they will do everything in their power to bring his presidency down....."

Maybe.

Trump's power will emerge as he slashes key agencies and either eliminates them or cuts off their funding.

I think he learned a lot from his first term; and by the way they know it too....

I'm investing in popcorn futures.

64 posted on 06/16/2024 2:01:21 PM PDT by Victor (If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert." -David Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister)
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To: libh8er

Crazy Loons


65 posted on 06/16/2024 2:05:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Vee Jay Jay looks like an alien lizard from the tv series V.


66 posted on 06/16/2024 2:26:56 PM PDT by bravo whiskey (Annie Savoy : The world is made for people who aren't cursed with self awareness. )
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To: libh8er

Consistently unable to compete effectively with rational argumentation in the field of ideas and sound policy, they resort to their go-to role: destroyers.

They don’t build, let along “build back better.” They destroy!

The Biden Admin has rewarded diversified, reparation-seeking free-loaders, brought in ~10M+ the insane, dregs of society, criminals, killers and replacement voters burdening the rest of us with crushingly heavy loads of debt.

We see Barry’s alternate, well-supplied army of killers he’s built in ANTIFA and BLM, too!

They will have richly earned the full measure of recompense for what they’ve been dishing out to their opposition for so long!


67 posted on 06/16/2024 2:35:04 PM PDT by rx
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To: ClearCase_guy

That is what a gaggle of traitors who are literally enemies of America looks like.


68 posted on 06/16/2024 2:54:18 PM PDT by Boomer (If the Nazi-Rats and Rinos win, everyone loses. The Uniparty can no longer claim they are American.)
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To: Boomer

To all
That’s not mass deportations Trump will do,merely shipping Mass Divisions of Enemy Soldiers,back to their homes.


69 posted on 06/16/2024 3:03:26 PM PDT by skinny old man (Still lurking and posting after all these years(27 yrs ?)(more ?)(seems like more...))
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To: ClearCase_guy

And there’s the Iranian, Valerie Jarrett, Husseins #1 advisor. And we wonder why Hussein was sending Iran pallets of money.


70 posted on 06/16/2024 3:31:14 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The whole lot of them should have been shipped off to Gitmo.


71 posted on 06/16/2024 3:34:43 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: libh8er
Archive of article https://archive.ph/mPEo7

"Authoritarian?"


72 posted on 06/16/2024 3:38:31 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: kenmcg

Just praying to God that the people who talk about their love & support for President Trump, those mainly showing interest in the Presidential election & those seemingly more interested in fighting with never Trumpers & establishment centrists than with defeating the Democrat Party & all of their wacko, leftist communists realize how crucial it is to elect not just President Trump, but also a Republican House, Senate, federal judicial appointments, executive officers & appointments, federal departments appointees, Governorships, state legislatures, state judiciary, state officers & agencies, Mayors, local councils & even school boards & trash collectors.

Our very first priority right now has to be winning every office possible in this election, defeating Democrats everywhere we can & establishing a solid force of power & stability. Getting a foothold & building on that strength has to come first. After gaining majorities, winning the election & defeating the opposition, we have a much stronger hand in reforming the party, forcing out establishment types in the primaries of the 2025/2026 Congressional, state & local elections, getting control of the fundraising apparatus & maybe turn a few former fence sitters into full MAGA.

All of those things listed above would just be at the federal level, but if we make sure to get state & local Republicans elected & win those offices in the 2024 state elections, we can start getting rid of vote fraud in the states by passing strict ballot laws; registration processes; mandatory voter ID (reformed to make it impossible to hand out to anyone that doesn’t meet US citizenship, age & criminal record requirements); complete reform of voter registration with verification, oversight & crosschecking; mandated partisan poll watcher oversight of all poll worker activity, vote transfer, vote counting, vote possession, vote integrity & vote signature verification, abolition of vote by mail or complete reform that makes it fraud proof, vote drop boxes, ballot harvesting, etc.; abandonment of electronic voting equipment of most kinds, mandatory preservation & storage of all ballots for review; priority to counting military ballots; mandatory voter signature review; no vote dumps at 4 am; same day vote counting & reporting; rare early voting- only when meeting specific criteria & with the same rigorous voter identification & verification processes; abolition of same-day voter registration; backup voting methods with same verification, identification & anti-fraud protections; limited vote extension only for severe natural disaster; & finally, complete limitation on judicially directed alterations, exceptions or injunctions for an upcoming election.

Also on the national level, we have to reform national voting laws, motor voter, registration, & lax national standards in voting statutes & standards. We could stand to pass term limits for congress, limit campaign funds to individual Americans, ban corporate, organizational & union donations & a complete ban on foreign & international donations. We also need a complete overhaul on immigration law & practice, militarize the border, add razor wire, enact a ban on employing, housing, benefits, schooling, etc. for illegals, deportation of all illegals, limit of census apportionment to US citizens & English as official language & reduced levels of legal immigration 🤔


73 posted on 06/16/2024 3:43:02 PM PDT by redheadedshannon ( )
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To: Billthedrill

“It’s all the rage these days, you know. “

It’s hilarious.

They say it like it’s a bad thing, while some of the smartest people in the world designed a republic...a system of government with the full participation of the public...with multiple safeguards against democracy.

Lest it become what it is today: Ochlocracy.


74 posted on 06/16/2024 4:04:06 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: libh8er

They are BORG. They are a hive mind. Thousands of lawyers are brainstorming ideas to overwhelm Trump with lawsuits. Each liberal group is ready to strike the second Trump make an announcement to take action on any topic.


75 posted on 06/16/2024 4:15:49 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: libh8er

LOL. The best revenge he can have against these bozos is for them to spend all this money, get all psyched up to combat his vengeful vendetta against them. And then just implement promised policies.


76 posted on 06/16/2024 4:24:09 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need of a CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: libh8er

Even if Trump wins, Gavin Newsom will become President 4 years later.


77 posted on 06/16/2024 4:25:29 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: libh8er

Gee… arrest , prosecute, and declare them as “insurrectionists”.

Let’s see how they enjoy a taste of their own medicine.

Day’s coming, ass@les…


78 posted on 06/16/2024 6:16:21 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: lgjhn23
We’re gonna need a bigger gallows.

We're gonna need bigger balls. Maybe check with a handful of GOP women in the House. You can forget the populace.

79 posted on 06/16/2024 7:24:20 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: kenmcg

remind me how that worked for us Actual Americans and Trump in 2016 and 2017.....

it didn’t. don’t expect it to be different this time.


80 posted on 06/16/2024 7:46:13 PM PDT by SPDSHDW (Only peaceful solution is a national divorce. There is no harmony between the statists and the right)
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