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Fuck, lots to unpack here.

Sooooo, that actually is his official portrait? I thought someone posted it as satire. At least he's not hiding that he's the villain.

"America we're back" is his slogan? That and the pic looks after school special.

The loading screen icon is the White House -- was it always? Because as a Canadian all it invokes in me is the memory of us burning it down.

Did the constitution page get remapped? Or is it gone, gone?

The "you are personally responsible for climate change" was always a scam. It is the big corporations that are responsible.

Take off your individualism hat and put on your collective hat. Group actions make a difference.

This exactly. It is COMPLETELY unconstitutional in the very definition of the word.

Probably with “The founders only wanted what I think they wanted, despite their explicit instructions”

SCOTUS: well you see here, I can’t seem to find my reading glasses between these stacks of cash… ah yes here they are, it’s legal because we say so.

Look no further than the dissent to United States v. Wong Kim Ark (when the Supreme Court ruled that the passage you cited grants citizenship by birthright), written by Chief Justice Melville Fuller, the mastermind behind such legal opinions as:

• Racial segregation is completely legal (Plessy v. Ferguson)
• States can't regulate workplace conditions or enact maximum working hours laws (Lochner v. New York)
• Income tax is unconstitutional (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust)

Anyway, he wrote:

the children of Chinese born in this country do not, ipso facto, become citizens of the United States unless the fourteenth amendment overrides both treaty and statute

and

[Birthright citizenship means] the children of foreigners, happening to be born to them while passing through the country, whether of royal parentage or not, or whether of the Mongolian, Malay or other race, were eligible to the presidency, while children of our citizens, born abroad, were not.

So in other words, he was willing to rule that the constitution is optional as long as you are using it against undesirable races in order to get his way.

You just lie about the second part and have a government full of sycophants and a corrupt Supreme Court that declares that everything you do is by definition legal.

next Democrat president

LOL. Fascism is here. There will never be another Democrat president.

that assumes that the Dems will actually do literally anything at all.

Democrat president can just use that to nullify the 2nd Amendment

Can, but won't, because that would be "going low" and "we aren't like them"

You know, like cowardly dipshits

Yeah, if they let him start dictating constitutional amendments by executive order there definitely won't be a next election.

t’s guaranteed to go before the courts and get struck down

If only trump controlled the highest court in all the land. A "supreme" court, if you will.

That said, trump and his allies have been pretty open that the idea is to spam EOs to demoralize people and distract them from what they are really doing. And, in this case, Legal Eagle (and Liz Dye) kind of already explained it:

The idea will be to declare a border crisis (done) to give the potus wider reaching powers. Same with declaring Mexican cartels as terrorists (they kind of are, but not to us). The combination of those mean they can invade sanctuary cities under "national security" excuses and can argue that illegal immigrants are enemy combatants which DO have a carve out.

The "quirk" of Kamala no longer being a citizen because her parents were here under student (?) visas MIGHT get struck down. But the real goal of populating labor camps with brown people is right on track.

it’s guaranteed to go before the courts and get struck down. Doing something like that would require an constitutional amendment.

lolwut?

With this SCOTUS, they will pluck the case out of the line, before it goes down any circuit, and they will issue a ruling declaring it constitutional.

That's what happens when you have a bought-and-paid-for SCOTUS.

Trump might as well sign an executive order that declares himself Emperor of the Moon and Supreme Chancellor of Outer Space, it’ll have about the same amount of impact as this first round of executive orders will.

Look, not to call you out or anything, but the impact of these edicts (however nonsensical) is radically different now that he's in office.

The problem isn't the legitimacy or legality of any such order, it's the veracity and scope to which they are carried out regardless of those facts. He just pardoned the Jan 6th insurrectionists. Now, people that are handed off-the-wall, yet much more clear, orders from the White House can now go on thinking that illegal activity pursued in the name of said order will be washed away. So, stuff like this will cause damage to be done well before any courts can intervene, constitutionality be damned.

As a bonus, this adds culpability to the actions of his subordinates. Step in line or lose your job. Fail me after committing a crime and you go straight to prison. This is an organized crime tactic to keep shady people in line.

There are no longer checks nor balances.

That clause was targeted at, and is still targeted at, foreign diplomats who have diplomatic immunity. If you can't be compelled to to pay your parking tickets because you put the little flag on your car, then your babies also don't get to be Americans. Easy.

If your typical non-little-flag-on-car undocumented immigrants are really "not subject to the jurisdiction," then how can you arrest them for all of the horrible crimes they are allegedly committing?

My ancestors certainly didn't do the proper paperwork before landing here.

I think recent events have shown Democrats are incapable of helping anybody but themselves. And even then they're shit.

Deport Elon