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In several instances dating back to the start of his Senate campaign in 2022, the vice president has explicitly said that a second-term Trump should defy the courts — even the U.S. Supreme Court — if they stand in the way of him exercising executive authority in ways he deems fit.

Yet we're only hearing about this interview once he's in power?

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Well, it depends. If everyone does what Trump says instead of what the court says then that's true. If the people who actually do the work do what the court says, then that's not true.

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badatbeing.social

As long as they get a new RV and unlimited trips I think they would make that trade. They aren't actually there to adjudicate the law, they are there to allow King Don and his gutting of our democracy.

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Essentially, I think his offer was a new mega RV and a million a year out of his own pocket every year.

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The echelon of people they think they belong to will eat them alive at the blink of an eye. You don't put alcoholics, insurrectionist and rapists in office without the intended threat of using that information to destroy them the second they are no longer needed.

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That got settled when Andrew Jackson wasn't dragged out of the White House and reinforced when he's not universally seen for the criminal autocrat he was.

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He wants them to have existential fear that keeps them in his pocket

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I'm trying to think of a reason he can't and am coming up empty. Nobody will do anything about it.

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You reached the end