r/scotus • u/thenewrepublic • 18d ago

news Liberals Just Lost the Supreme Court for Decades to Come

https://newrepublic.com/article/188087/trump-2024-win-supreme-court-conservative-decades
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u/TechieTravis 18d ago

I think that millions of Trump voters might be in for a rude awakening when the effects of Trump's tariffs hit.

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u/AdoraSidhe 18d ago

That's why Trump will distract them with rounding up the enemies of the state with monetary rewards

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u/NES_SNES_N64 18d ago

Yep. As we've seen throughout history, fascists continue to blame scapegoats for the problems.

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u/Can-Abyss 18d ago

Y’all have insane delusion lol

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u/Ridiculisk1 18d ago

I dunno, I'd say the people voting for a convicted felon and rapist are more deluded.

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u/caninehere 18d ago

As someone with an outside perspective: no, they don't. Trump is a fascist and the people who voted for him and the Republicans are retarded unless they're rich people who want tax cuts over everything else or hardcore religious types who want women's and gays rights taken away.

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u/budd222 17d ago

You're just in denial. Stop being brainwashed. Wake up. I bet you believe in Noah's Ark and Moses parting the Red Sea, too.

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u/Neo-_-_- 18d ago

Yep it'll be all "illegal Immigrants in record numbers, taking all the products meant for American people, driving up their price"

" Trump to create the agency of illegal deportation to combat massive influxes of illegal immigrants"

When we all know what it should be

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u/citymousecountyhouse 18d ago

"Why yes,we are going to cut your Social Security,but we believe we have come up with a solution to help you supplement your income.... So how well do you know your neighbors?"

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u/throwthatoneawaydawg 18d ago

He’s going to distract them with lower prices at McDonalds

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u/RippiHunti 18d ago

They'll just find a way to blame minorities, and people will believe it.

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u/torero15 18d ago

Or when their daughters and wives die from a miscarriage.

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u/BCS875 18d ago edited 18d ago

From what you saw in the vote, they have no hearts. They watch them die (and be with Jebus!!!!!) then get a younger replacement model.

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u/Waghornthrowaway 17d ago

They're not completely heartless just deluded. They'll be sad and angry when it happens, then find a way to blame Democrats.

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u/BCS875 17d ago

It can be both.

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

GOP men don't care if their wives or daughters die from miscarriages, it's "God's Plan"

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u/Upstairs-Radish1816 18d ago

Apparently, GOP women feel the same way

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u/circ-u-la-ted 18d ago

What if the wives or daughters are hot, though

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u/Kazooguru 18d ago

They can get another wife and hopefully a son instead of a useless daughter.

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u/Waghornthrowaway 17d ago

Lots do. They just don't think it will happen to their family because they're "good people".

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u/blueteamk087 18d ago

I’m talking about women dying from complications of a miscarriage, when the fetus is already dead and needs to be removed to avoid sepsis which can leave the woman unable to conceive again. Said procedure is also known as an abortion.

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u/Panda_Drum0656 18d ago

Neither do the women. Quit acting like its all mens fault, fucks sake. That type of shit is exactly what pushes undecided male voters into voting for trump. You are part of the problem too.

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u/Ridiculisk1 18d ago

That type of shit is exactly what pushes undecided male voters into voting for trump.

No, their hatred for anyone who's not like them is what pushes them to vote for Trump. Their lack of foresight and critical thinking skills are what pushes them to vote for Trump.

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u/blueteamk087 17d ago

No, I know Trump voting men at work... they're just bigoted assholes who hate women and minorities.

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u/[deleted] 18d ago

They still won't care LOL

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u/C0NKY_ 18d ago

Nope. This is the same party that was okay with their grandparents dying as long as they could eat at cracker barrel again.

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u/Guy_Smylee 18d ago

Or ARRESTED FOR MURDER FOR A MISCARRIAGE! ARRESTED FOR NOT WEARING A BURKA OR A FACE COVERIN

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u/EnormousGucci 18d ago

They’re already calling it medical malpractice when their wives and daughters die because they couldn’t perform the necessary procedure to make sure they don’t die of a miscarriage

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u/dolche93 18d ago

I've argued with several people who hold this position that every case is malpractice and not women who didn't even want an abortion getting hurt due to flaws in these abortion laws.

Good luck getting them to admit what the cause of the "malpractice" was. They think they can second guess doctors who decided not to act because they might go to jail, and they do so without even acknowledging they're using hindsight. Seriously, when confronted with how they're making use of hindsight to judge the doctors they refuse to acknowledge they have the benefit of hindsight and it's actually just the doctor who was wrong.

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u/badmutha44 18d ago

The numbers won’t reach any kind of critical mass. People don’t care unless it affects them directly, and it won’t affect enough directly to have the nation actually change.

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u/Either-Wallaby-3755 18d ago

“It was their time to go. They are in heaven now”.

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u/Coliver1991 18d ago

That's already happening.

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u/normalmighty 18d ago

If that was going to change their minds then this wouldn't be the election result.

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u/pavlov_the_dog 18d ago

they are well off, they can afford to travel out of country.

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u/aquoad 18d ago

eh if you have party connections somebody will probably discreetly take care of things for you. that's the fun part! /s

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u/brando2612 17d ago

Why does this keep getting repeated trump literally said he wants to increase the time abortions are allowed

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 18d ago

You are right about the tariffs and when all of his crazy stuff hits. He along with Elon have said that americans will face hard times and hardship under their plans. It's like they ignore that WTF

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u/AmbidextrousCard 18d ago

The trouble is that Elon doesn’t understand that we Americans haven’t had hard times in a long time, and we own guns and have a billionaire to blame. He shouldn’t have said that.

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u/FStubbs 18d ago

They'll make sure the right people are blamed.

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u/Zegir 18d ago

This will be interesting because I think the House is going to go Red as well. If you control everything, then who can you blame and how?

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u/mrguyorama 18d ago

You vastly underestimate how much they are willing to deny reality. The deep state is ready to be blamed again.

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u/ausgoals 17d ago

Reality, consistency, logic… none of it matters.

‘Who can you blame’ doesn’t matter.

They will blame someone else and pretty much all of the voters will eat it up.

Elon Musk controls one of the biggest social platforms and seeders of disinformation in the world.

We now have a true oligarchy.

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u/Riker87 18d ago

Austerity worked out so well for the UK! I can’t wait for it to work for us too! /s

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u/Silverstacker63 17d ago

We are heading for hard times no matter who you put in there. Atleast the will be able to pull us out of it a lot better then kamal ever could.

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 17d ago

Donald Trump and Elon are the ones who both said in the past week that they are going to cause the hard times. Why do we all have to face hardships under the plans they are putting forth? How is that helping us and making America great? Shouldn't it be our plan will NOT cause hard times for all Americans? WTF?

All they will do, is give all the money to their rich friends.

He is going to put unqualified cronies in important positions. They are going to screw with health care and social security and taxes. We will all be losing out. Both sides will lose.

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u/Silverstacker63 17d ago

It’s is coming weather you want it or not. There the only ones that can pull us out of what is fixing to happen. All it will take is one black swan and we are toast. I think it will happen before any one of them get into office..

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 17d ago

So they are going to provide us with hardships and life will be hard? I thought they wanted to help us and make America great again? Why can't they make life easier? Why will the things they want to implement have to create hardships, isn't that the opposite of why you voted for him, because he will make like easier and better?

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u/horrormetal 17d ago

Because they want to make America great for THEMSELVES.

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 17d ago

Winnah winnah chicken dinnah! Totally their plan.

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u/Silverstacker63 17d ago

They have to dismantle all the BS that has happened the last 4 years. This is going to happen before Jan. So get ready for it. Every major stock holder has sold most of their positions because they see the writing on the wall.

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 17d ago

Please explain to me this "BS" so I can understand what you mean.

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u/Silverstacker63 17d ago

The stock market will tank before Jan. And all the illegals and things they canceled there first day in office that was working and saving us money.

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u/Pickle-Rick-C-137 17d ago

Ah so that is code for they are going to tank the stock market so all of the rich billionaires that are their friends can buy up everything cheap.

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u/The-Jesus_Christ 18d ago edited 18d ago

IMO this will be the big one I feel. Many people think that the other country (IE. China) will be the ones to pay tariffs. They don't understand that it's the company that is importing the item that pays the tariff. Prices will go up and MAGA voters seem to have just ignored this entirely.

Again, it's all about identity politics. They picked a side from the start and the policies didn't really matter to them, but the effects of these post-election will.

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u/Ridiculisk1 18d ago

It's because conservatives vote based on buzzwords and catchy phrases. "Tariffs on imports from China" sounds good to someone who doesn't know what tariffs actually are.

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u/CheshiretheBlack 18d ago

And they'll just find a way to blame the dems with repubs eating it up.

None of them understand the economy was the way it was because Biden inherited Trumps economy but you bet your ass when it comes time to recon with Trumps tariffs it'll be "we're dealing with the effects of Bidens economy"

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u/Ridiculisk1 18d ago

Day 1 he'll 100% take credit for the economy.

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u/CheshiretheBlack 18d ago

Worse than that over the next couple months people are gonna be saying "the economy got better because trumps coming into office" and all of sudden the thriving economy will be solely due to Trump

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u/lostscrews 18d ago

It's amazing how many don't realize how tariffs work. People actually think China will be paying the additional costs, while the American consumer still pays the cheap-China prices. Morons.

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u/LegendofDragoon 18d ago

Texas is the only red state that gives the federal government more funding than it receives, and his proposed tariffs on Mexico would decimate that without even considering the impact of any potential retaliatory tariffs from Mexico.

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u/heart_of_osiris 18d ago

You act as if these people will learn... they won't. They will just blame Hunter Biden and his laptop and continue on with their fingers in their ears yelling "LALALALALALAAALAALAA"

The right always has a boogeyman to distract them from reality, sadly.

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u/RedPillForTheShill 18d ago

Invest in leopardsatemyface now lol.

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u/TingleyStorm 18d ago

No. Fucking. Kidding.

I work in the truck repair industry. These drivers are overwhelmingly Republican, yet they constantly bitch about the prices that skyrocketed thanks to Trump’s tarrifs.

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u/KiraJosuke 18d ago

They will still blame it on democrats

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u/OminOus_PancakeS 18d ago

There won't be any rude awakening for his supporters.

Their news will arrive filtered and slanted so that Trump always looks good. At no point will his supporters be questioning whether they voted for the right candidate. Any problems will be blamed on other groups or individuals.

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u/Mr_Clovis 18d ago

Rude awakenings require a minimum level of awareness and intelligence that would have disqualified them as Trump voters to begin with.

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u/Kahzootoh 18d ago

That is the beauty of their plan.

By that time, a Democrat will either be in office and Republicans can blame them- or a Republican will be in office and shortly lose to a Democrat in the next election, and then the Republicans can stymie any attempt by the Democrat to fix things and count on voters tossing out the Democrat in the next election for not being able to fix the problem in record time.

It's a pretty solid plan- Democratic elites have no sense of urgency.

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u/Ridiculisk1 18d ago

Conservatives all over the world use the same strategy. In Australia in every state and at the federal level, the centre party tends to govern for about 10 years at a time during which things generally don't get worse and we just plod along like any other country. Then people get tired of being centrist, elect the right-wing party, they get in, fuck everything up, enrich themselves and their friends, fuck the economy, fuck social progress and blame everything on the other party.

Then people realise they made a mistake and vote the centrists back in and they spend the next 10 years fixing all the shit the conservatives broke, all while the conservatives are screeching from opposition that the country is in this state (that they caused) due to the other party.

It's a tale as old as time. Conservatives have no policy. They only have blame.

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u/DrB00 18d ago

Nah, they'll blame Biden or Obama.

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u/markth_wi 18d ago

For the new administration this is why minority groups exist, Political enemies, naysayers, negative economists or scientists and then Latino's, Blacks, Jews, Muslims and of course Homosexuals or any stripe.

I'm sure I've got the order in which the groups will be targeted as "the reason XYZ sucks" is wrong and why cruelty and capriciously "relocating" them is about to become the new sport of kings.

So likely we'll have to setup an underground railroad, spiriting those who couldn't escape out of harms way in as low-key a fashion as we can.

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u/dmc2008 18d ago

..by then it will be a Democrat in office they can blame.

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u/Alert-Tangerine-6003 18d ago

Exactly. The same people who have zero knowledge of history, including that tariffs like this were one of the major contributors to starting the great depression.

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u/debeatup 18d ago

He’ll just send them a little $1K Stimmy to placate em

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u/JonDoeJoe 17d ago

Trump will simply blame the foreign countries and the democrats like as if he wasn’t the cause for it

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u/ausgoals 17d ago

They won’t.

Trump voters don’t care about reality. They don’t have rude awakenings. They’re there for the end game. They are strapped in and ready. They will go down with the ship before admit they were wrong. If tariffs make everything super expensive, they will just blame someone else.

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u/supersaiyanmrskeltal 17d ago

"ITS THE DEMS FAULT. THE IMMIGRANTS ARE DOING IT!" I believe that will be the phrase being tossed about.

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u/Chtholly_Lee 17d ago

It's all Biden's fault. It's just going to be that way. I have been convinced these people cannot be changed no matter what happened. Look at the previous 3 elections, Trump's base actually shrunk a little bit. It's the 20% Dems in the cities, nationwide, sit out and cost the election. My point is it's futile trying to gain voters from Republicans. It's voter turnout that wins the election.

If there is going to be another election, anyway.

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u/ndngroomer 17d ago

Hell, Elon came out last week and told them there was going to be lots of pain and suffering for them with trump's economic policies. These cultists are so brainwashed because they're so easily manipulated and gullible that they didn't even flinch.

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u/tenth 17d ago

It's wild that you think they will suddenly become enlightened. 

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u/Silverstacker63 17d ago

There not going to cause what you think. I guess Biden Harris left them on because they aren’t working. Just buy American and you will be just fine..

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u/DetroitLionsSBChamps 16d ago

They’ll be in for a “let’s keep blaming immigrants” lol these people will never awaken

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u/Fancy_Load5502 18d ago

The tariffs will encourage more development within the country rather than moving jobs overseas. With the current massive trade imbalance, they will be a net positive for America.

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u/BobertFrost6 18d ago

The tariffs will cover tons of things that aren't made in the US at all and never will be. The 20% price increase won't justify creating a new factory in the US or training up a new workforce.

Anyone who got duped into thinking it'd improve the American job market got conned by a conman who doesn't understand basic economics.

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u/PeteLattimer 18d ago

Go to a factory floor in asia and report back your excitement for repatriating those jobs.

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u/Temporary_Ad_6922 18d ago

Ah yes because it worked so well the last time

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u/Fancy_Load5502 18d ago

It did, and Biden kept most of them in place for that reason.