# The argument that Trump will do whatever he wants and no one can stop him is really fucking boring **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [December 12, 2024, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527 "2024-12-12T02:36:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 15
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/281 "2025-01-29T02:03:48Z")
Yes, the Republican Party. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/282 "2025-01-29T02:10:59Z")
And I am still waiting for _you_ to explain to everyone why me fighting the Supreme Court is the one and only avenue I can possibly take. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/283 "2025-01-29T02:13:48Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Yes, the Republican Party. Isn’t that like expecting the Nazi Party to protect the people from Hitler? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/284 "2025-01-29T02:16:28Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > And I am still waiting for _you_ to explain to everyone why me fighting the Supreme Court is the one and only avenue I can possibly take It was your idea. You tell me. > [@Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/519): > > At what point do you actively fight against their ruling? ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/285 "2025-01-29T02:18:43Z")
> **[Assassination attempts on Adolf Hitler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Adolf_Hitler)** > > This is an incomplete list of documented attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler. > All attempts occurred in the German Reich, except where noted. No fewer than 42 plots have been uncovered by historians. However, the true number cannot be accurately determined due to an unknown number of undocumented cases. > On 21 March 1943, Hitler visited the Zeughaus Berlin, the old armory on Unter den Linden, to inspect captured Soviet weapons. A group of top Nazi and leading military officials – among them Her... ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/286 "2025-01-29T02:27:00Z")
But not from the Party. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/287 "2025-01-29T08:33:10Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Is there anyone who you think is capable of saving us? Because if I were as convinced as you are that there’s nothing anyone can do, I’d be getting the hell out of the country before the blackshirts showed up at my door. **LOST** : Goalposts **LAST SEEN** : Receding into the far distance. We seem to have inexplicably moved from “fascism isn’t happening so stop panicking” to “if fascism is happening, why aren’t you panicking more?”. Meanwhile: ask a trans person if they think fascism is happening. ---
**Author:** ![Zoobi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/13edae/32.png) [@Zoobi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoobi)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/288 "2025-01-30T14:00:12Z")
As I said in another thread, we’re seeing them go through the cycle of: It’s not happening It’s happening, but it’s not that bad It’s happening, but it’s not happening to people who matter It’s happening and it’s good I’m going to help it happen It never happened ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/289 "2025-02-02T04:22:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Is there anyone who you think is capable of saving us? Because if I were as convinced as you are that there’s nothing anyone can do, I’d be getting the hell out of the country before the blackshirts showed up at my door. Elon Musk, clearly inspired by the fourth Die Hard movie, just pulled off a six trillion dollar heist: [https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/musks-team-given-access-us-government-payment-system-new-york-times-says-2025-02-01/](https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/musks-team-given-access-us-government-payment-system-new-york-times-says-2025-02-01/) Since this involves > the personal information of millions of Americans who receive Social Security payments, tax refunds and other monies from the government. I might be looking into luggage if I were a US citizen. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/290 "2025-02-02T04:32:14Z")
> [@DWMarch](#): > > I might be looking into luggage if I were a US citizen. I’m looking into leaving Canada, since Trump is going to arrange an invasion. I need to be prepared get my kid. at least, out of the line of fire. Because no one is trying to stop Trump. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/291 "2025-02-02T04:56:18Z")
There are still accurate media reports. But they do not, to my limited knowledge, specify any Supreme Court member or Republican congressperson or senator who has voiced objections to stopping foreign aid, outrageous tariffs on allies, access to government payments by unelected officials, or discussions violating settled peremptory legal norms (jus cogens) that are disdainful of territorial expansion, torture and refoulement. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/292 "2025-02-02T17:47:01Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Because no one is trying to stop Trump. So true. I also have been looking for someone, anyone, to criticize this man before it’s too late. What a disgrace. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/293 "2025-02-02T17:56:11Z")
It’s probably been posted before, but I’m wondering how boring @Buck_Godot finds it _now_. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/294 "2025-02-02T18:19:59Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Because no one is trying to stop Trump. Other than the judges who struck down his EO on birthright citizenship, or his EO on the budget freeze, or… ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/295 "2025-02-02T18:30:05Z")
Would you mind linking to the goods news that these EOs have been permanently struck down? ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/296 "2025-02-02T19:51:01Z")
Why aren’t more requests for court injunctions being filed, especially against Musk? A judge needs to order him to get the hell away from any government computer. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/297 "2025-02-02T20:01:54Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Would you mind linking to the goods news that these EOs have been permanently struck down? What does that have to do with my post? I was responding to: > [@RickJay](#): > > Because no one is trying to stop Trump. If they haven’t stopped him permanently yet, that means that “no one is trying”? Interesting. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/298 "2025-02-02T20:04:50Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > What does that have to do with my post? So, no cites for any EOs that judges struck down. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/299 "2025-02-02T20:12:43Z")
From over here it looks one could be forgiven to think the whole fucking country is doing little but bending over backwards to accommodate Trump. Is there even one (1) significant protest in the whole of the USA? ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527/300 "2025-02-02T21:58:49Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > So, no cites for any EOs that judges struck down. Don’t you understand that “temporarily paused” is just another way of saying “struck down” and/or “permanently stopped and there’s nothing Trump can do about it”…??? /s Today on ABC (George Stephanopoulos’s “This Week”), Chris Christie described Trump’s enjoyment of the “courts will stop him (hardy-har-har)” game: > [@](#): > > …George, it’s like when I was governor. He called me at the early part of my administration when I had a $10 billion deficit. And he said to me, look, this is what you do, declare bankruptcy. > > And I said, Donald, I can’t. I’m a state. I’m not allowed to declare bankruptcy. > > He goes, do it anyway. It’ll go to the courts. It’ll land there for two years. They’ll forget about all this and you’ll look better. > > That’s the way he approaches those things. That was 2010, George. It’s no different 15 years later. … > **['This Week' Transcript 2-2-25: Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-2-2-25-canadian-ambassador-us/story?id=118344615)** > > Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman was on "This Week" Sunday, February 2. This is a rush transcript and may be updated. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527.md?page=14) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-argument-that-trump-will-do-whatever-he-wants-and-no-one-can-stop-him-is-really-fucking-boring/1011527.md?page=16)