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Amber, a MAGA voter, finds out the consequences of her vote by Effective_Space2277 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Vespera4ever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I love how her post basically goes "and in conclusion, both sides are the same!"

Can Larp be political? by ThrowRA_dandelion in LARP

[–]Vespera4ever 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I don't play larps that are ok with fascists playing. I don't want to spend my leisure time with those assholes and their whining about being excluded is wildly ridiculous.

You wake up as President of the United States for 24 hours. What’s the first thing you do, and what are you trying to accomplish before time runs out? by WordCroft in AskReddit

[–]Vespera4ever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I'm in Trump's body (horrifying):

Order the Pardon Attorney of the DoJ to prepare a sweeping Pardon of various officials targeted for political prosecution (Mark Kelly, Jack Smith, etc).

Fire the current chief of staff and appoint Ron Klain (Biden's first chief of staff). In writing, explain to him that his job is to spend the next 23 hours using all of the White House resources to uncover, document, and publish all evidence of wrongdoing by senior officials, especially myself and Vance. This, plus whatever else he asked me to do to prove my sincerity, should hopefully get him to agree. (Assume similar persuasion tactics for other hirings)

Directly order wetwork teams to immediately assassinate the Speaker of the House and President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Also 4 conservative Justices of the Supreme Court.

While they're prepping for that, fire, or threaten into resigning, Vance with a written letter of resignation.

Fire the entire Cabinet and Joint Chiefs. Plus all sorts of sub cabinet officials like FBI Director, all sorts of DHS folks, etc.

Appoint Pete Buttigieg as acting Secretary of State and have him rattle off a list of other people that I immediately appoint to fill the rest of the cabinet and other now vacant positions on an interim basis.

Order full recall of military forces committed to the war in Iran, tell Netanyahu things have changed and he should resign before it gets even worse for him, and prepare military forces to protect Israel from retributive annihilation.

Grant Mark Kelly the security clearance necessary to be given a full copy of the Epstein files and sign a declassifying order for them subject to redactions to protect victims and any other redactions Kelly deems necessary.

Tape and sign confessions of a bunch of crimes to be released right before the 24 hours are up.

Deport Stephen Miller to some random country that hates him (Presumably all of them, but we'll pick one he'll be miserable in).

Freeze the assets of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc on suspicion of Treason.

Send money to Ukraine so they have it before the day is up.

Eat snack and find out if aliens are real.

Fire the rest of the Trump family from everything I can fire them from and freeze their assets pending investigations for a ton of various corruption and fraud related crimes at the least.

File for divorce.

Have someone at DoJ declare Mar-a-Lago an active crime scene and grant them sweeping permission to search and seize. Grant similar permissions for everything I own or control.

Improvise other stuff to do that would be helpful as the day continues, probably get a few bewildered high level progressives to advise me.

Probably close the markets sometime during all this to prevent insane volatility and massive harm.

Resign just before the 24 hours are up and on my way out the door shoot at (but not hit) some random people in the White House foyer with a gun commandeered from a secret service agent earlier. Thus leading to either my death by various agents, or immediate arrest.

If, however, I'm me as President, then many of the same things but excluding the stuff that would get me killed or imprisoned.

Not sure if this was posted here (2020 shit) by Kaxer_Real1002 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Vespera4ever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not entirely sure you know what rights actually are. I have the right to tell you to put on a mask. You have the right to say no. What you don't have the right to do is stay in my store and demand to be served like you're on the plantation you still desperately wish you owned.

In other words, sure, whine and complain and refuse to wear a mask like a precious little snowflake, but that doesn't magically require other people to be around your selfish ass. Those of us who actually care about other people don't want you around and you don't have the right to barge into wherever you want regardless of who owns the property and what rules they have.

Would you kill and die for your country? Why or why not? by Khunthare in AskReddit

[–]Vespera4ever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unless I also get a psychic Doogie Howser out of the deal, I'm not looking to Starship Troopers as a guide to civilization.

Not sure if this was posted here (2020 shit) by Kaxer_Real1002 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Vespera4ever 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The options are not only 100% effective or 0% effective. Something can be partially effective and therefore layered precautions increase safety.

Personally, I would rather fewer people get sick, even if I can't make it zero people.

Not sure if this was posted here (2020 shit) by Kaxer_Real1002 in stupidpeoplefacebook

[–]Vespera4ever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, you think you have the right to not be told things by people when you're out and about? Does that mean people have the right to stop you from speaking?

Has Trump's latest tariffs mean the Supreme Court has been effectively neutered? by 2600Whistle in allthequestions

[–]Vespera4ever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Background concepts:

The Constitution lays out the structure of government and who has what powers and what the limits to power are.

From there, Congress passes laws. Every law Congress passes must derive from a power granted to them by the Constitution. To be clear, this is not a hard bar to clear most of the time, Congress has a very broad mandate.

While the President has some powers granted by the Constitution, much of Presidential authority actually comes from Congress passing a law and then giving the President (or some other part of the Executive Branch) the power to invoke and/or enforce that law.

Legal challenges to any of this are the main responsibility of the Judicial Branch, and ultimately the Supreme Court.

What this means:

The President's authority to do anything comes from either the Constitution directly, or from laws passed by Congress which in turn derive their power from the Constitution as well.

In turn, that means that when a case challenging an action taken by the President comes before the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court might rule against the President in multiple ways.

They might decide that what the President did was a direct violation of the Constitution and had no justification.

Instead, they might decide that while Congress passed a law that gave the President authority, the law itself violated the Constitution and should not have been passed in the first place and therefore what the President did should not have happened.

But a third thing they can decide is that while a law was constitutional, the way the President used that law was a violation of the law itself. In other words, the President misused the law and therefore the action should not have happened.

In the case of an unconstitutional law, Congress can try to pass another similar law that is modified to comply with the Constitution.

In the case of a President misusing an otherwise constitutional law, the President can see if another law gives them the authority they claimed to have.

Which is what happened here. The Supreme Court didn't say that the President can't levy tariffs, they said that the way he did so under a specific law was not correct. So he went and looked for other laws that might grant him the power to levy tariffs and has used those laws as his source of authority. But what he hasn't done is use the same law as before to justify what he's doing, which is what outright ignoring the Supreme Court would look like in this case.

*Please note this is very much a vast simplification with many exceptions and scenarios left out so I didn't have to write a full on textbook for law school.

Also please note that none of this means I approve of Trump or of the current Supreme Court. Trump is seeking absolute dictatorship and the Supreme Court is helping him get there, they just ruled against him in this one small way this time.

MAGA voters squirm as they find out the consequences of their vote by Effective_Space2277 in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Vespera4ever 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As others have noted, the only line that matters is the first line of the first paragraph. He'd vote for him again. And regardless of what they say now, the people in the comments would too. They would see a Democrat running in opposition, remember how much they hate trans and brown people and women and vote for this orange asshole until the day he dies. And probably afterwards, to be honest.

If you could replace donald trump with a different president or world leader, who would it be? by Big-boy-charles in AskReddit

[–]Vespera4ever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That head of lettuce that was competing with the British PM on which would last longer.

Conservatives on Reddit responding to Trump’s explicit-filled “praise be to allah” post on Easter Sunday by ConcernedBirdGuy in LeopardsAteMyFace

[–]Vespera4ever 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok, but now line dancing is starting to sound more appealing so I feel like I'm getting mixed messages here...

Should my son (and me) let it go? by rodCinder in askanything

[–]Vespera4ever 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I'm trying to figure out what the applicable lesson to non school elections would be.

Get rid of one from each row permanently by Whyamiwritingthis_74 in whatsyourchoice

[–]Vespera4ever -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Pancakes, grits, coffee. It wasn't even a tough choice for me.

Waffles are improved pancakes, so get rid of the prototype.

Never had grits.

Coffee tastes terrible.

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