If a progressive ever wins, they have to do the same to churches
this post was submitted on 02 May 2025
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OH FUCK YES
He says a lot of things he wishes to come true. Won't happen.
This is blind faith.
Many of his wishes have come true in recent months. What makes you think this is impossible?
It has no standing.
It will be challenged and Trump is going to capitulate, just like he did with Maine.
It's all distractions while they buy time to move American taxpayer money overseas.
Soooo, was there "standing" to weaponize ICE and start deporting US citizens? Was there standing to weaponize the DOJ? Was there standing to cut funding for NPR and PBS? Was there standing to pardon all the Jan 6 rioters? Was there standing to cut all government programs via DOGE? I could go on and on.
Taking the stance of "well, Trump won't be able to do this because it is illegal" is naive as hell given what we've seen in the past 100 days.
This utterly blind faith that the liberal institutions will somehow halt Trumpian fascism is exactly the same blunder as was made by liberals in early 30s Germany during Hitler's meteoric rise.
Take a step back and realize the American political experiment is over. Given how it's gone genocidal and incinerated the planet, we have a duty to dismantle it from within.
Just like I can't wait for the tariffs to start showing their full impact, I hope that he gets his way with the colleges.
The people who sat out the election, who said they're both the same, who said their vote didn't matter, who were single issue voters ignoring the true harm this Mango fuckwad is doing need to actually feel the repercussions of their inaction and ineptitude.
I've no doubt his MAGAt followers will be like the guy dying on a ventilator crying about how the vaccine is the real killer, but everyone who's just shy of that level of brainwashing and enabled this can't be spared the pain.
And Mexico will pay for it!
Courts will strike it down
This implies Harvard somehow makes a profit. I'm pretty sure Harvard's accountants can show they have nothing to pay taxes on even with a large endowment, and especially if they are funding research formerly supported by the federal government. Also property taxes are not collected by the feds, so I'm also pretty sure they still won't pay property taxes. They don't really have shareholders to worry about. I think this is just Trump being clueless again.