Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Roberts Court is Winning Its War on American Democracy

The United States is less democratic, less self-governing, more dysfunctional, and more corrupt than it was 20 years ago, thanks in large part to the Supreme Court's rulings.

Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 10:33 AM | 50 COMMENTS | permalink

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Let this sink in: A president can now (apparently) not only accept gifts (bribes) from foreign nations, but order lethal strikes on foreign boats in international waters too! trib.al/TM4q2n9

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-- The New Republic (@newrepublic.com) Sep 21, 2025 at 11:33 PM

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The is no "democracy" at the federal level. There is only the Constitutional Republic.

The Supreme Court is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Keep all power OUT of the hands of a central government. The power needs to stay with the states and rightly so. That's the only place the people actually have power. At the local level. This ensures California has no power over Georgia. It ensures the mob in NY has no power over North Dakota.

---- mob democracy. Our founders knew it. They saw progressives coming from a mile away.

And thank God for them.

#1 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-23 11:44 AM

"The is no "democracy" at the federal level."

WTF is wrong with you?

How are federal representatives and senators getting elected if there is no democracy at the federal level?

Since I don't expect you to actually know and understand the answer I will provide AI's answer so there is no further confusion on your part.

AI Overview

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At the federal level, the United States practices a representative democracy, a system where citizens elect officials to represent their interests. A key feature of this structure is the separation of powers, which divides governing responsibilities among three distinct branches.
Legislative branch: U.S. Congress
The U.S. Congress, a bicameral legislature, is one of the clearest examples of representative democracy in action. Citizens vote for representatives who then create and vote on laws on their behalf.

#2 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-23 12:00 PM

best court money can buy

#3 | Posted by 2020Rocks at 2025-09-23 12:05 PM

Shut up Donner..

Take the "L"..

While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic. What does this mean? "Constitutional" refers to the fact that government in the United States is based on a Constitution which is the supreme law of the United States. The Constitution not only provides the framework for how the federal and state governments are structured, but also places significant limits on their powers. "Federal" means that there is both a national government and governments of the 50 states. A "republic" is a form of government in which the people hold power, but elect representatives to exercise that power.

ar.usembassy.gov

#4 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-23 12:30 PM

Who many pounds of cocaine were on the boat that was shot before hitting the US shore line that the left is pissed about getting shot out of the water?

#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-09-23 01:29 PM

Who many pounds of cocaine were on the boat that was shot before hitting the US shore line that the left is pissed about getting shot out of the water?

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

Probably zero, s*&^bag. We have no idea because zero evidence is being offered to support their claims.

Trump is making the US the most belligerent nation in the Western hemisphere.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-23 01:54 PM

Shut up Donner..

F you. Make me.

Take the "L"..

No thanks. But I WILL take the "lol".

It could not be said any clearer or simpler yet you still insist on denying reality.

You can lead a horses arse to water but you can NOT it make it think.

The U.S. Congress, a bicameral legislature, is one of the clearest examples of representative democracy in action. Citizens vote for representatives who then create and vote on laws on their behalf.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-09-23 03:52 PM

Who many pounds of cocaine were on the boat that was shot before hitting the US shore line that the left is pissed about getting shot out of the water?
#5 | POSTED BY FISHPAWN

There was no cocaine on that boat and it wasn't heading to America.

#8 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-23 03:55 PM

We are a democratic republic... but fitting both those things into Major B's head is hard werk.

#9 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-23 04:54 PM

So what does the liberal dem version of what they think a 'democracy' is, and what rights has been taken away from you libbie dems.

#10 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-09-23 06:33 PM

So what does the liberal dem version of what they think a 'democracy' is, and what rights has been taken away from you libbie dems.

#10 | Posted by MSgt

I hope that the leftists on here respond, not a chance in ---- in won't be anything short of hilarious

#11 | Posted by Javelin at 2025-09-23 07:03 PM

So what does the liberal dem version of what they think a 'democracy' is, and what rights has been taken away from you libbie dems.

#10 | Posted by MSgt

You wouldn't understand cause it to too complex to fit on a cartoon

#12 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-23 07:08 PM

You realize that trump is murdering people now, right?

There is literally ZERO legal justification for murdering those Venezuelans

From Hegseth on down to the guy pulling the trigger, they are ALL subject to the law.

If I were them, I would be, at least, somewhat concerned that I will be held accountable in the future. Murder does not have a statute of limitations.

This administration acts like they will be in power forever.

Murder is murder.

I suspect some magat scum don't have the integrity to understand this argument.

#13 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-09-23 07:12 PM

#13 | Posted by truthhurts

LOL!!!

Don't stop, let it all out champ...

Good God you people are funny

#14 | Posted by Javelin at 2025-09-23 07:28 PM

#14 idiots always think stuff they don't understand is funny.

#15 | Posted by jpw at 2025-09-24 11:21 AM

too complex

That's right Truthhurts. It's always "complex" when dealing with progressives like you.

Keep calling the other 75% of the nation stupid.

Keep it up. You will never be in power again.

#16 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 12:42 PM

75% of this nation IS stupid.

Look at where we are.

#17 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-09-24 12:44 PM

That's right Truthhurts. It's always "complex" when dealing with progressives like you.
Keep calling the other 75% of the nation stupid.
Keep it up. You will never be in power again.

Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 12:42 PM | Reply

Nonsense. The political pendulum swings both ways. Always have been always will be. Just sayin

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-09-24 12:55 PM

That's right Truthhurts. It's always "complex" when dealing with progressives like you.

Keep calling the other 75% of the nation stupid.

#16 | Posted by boaz

Yet You keep proving it. What else are we supposed to say? "Good job geniuses! This nation really needed to add trillions to the debt so that billionaires could get massive tax cuts!"

#19 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 01:19 PM

#19,

Things look pretty good from where I'm standing. Getting everything I voted for.

Except the progressive/liberal violence. That needs to stop.

#20 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 01:44 PM

The political pendulum swings both ways. Always have been always will be.

I can agree to a point. I think the country has progressive fatigue. I don't think a left leaning candidate will win national election for a while. Locally, sure. But that's ok.

#21 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 01:49 PM

That "progressive/liberal" hobgoblin that lurks under your bed is a figment of your rather predictably skewed imagination, but fill your hand again pilgrim and fling away! Law of averages says you'll hit something eventually.

#22 | Posted by dutch46 at 2025-09-24 02:03 PM

The white progressive/liberal/feminists/lesbian is certainly a monster. Ask the black community.

Have you ever noticed at most race "protests", the majority are white women?

#23 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 02:16 PM

Things look pretty good from where I'm standing. Getting everything I voted for.

Except the progressive/liberal violence. That needs to stop.

#20 | Posted by boaz

You're getting flashy headlines and dramatic photo ops to make you overlook the ways trump is ripping you off to give tax cuts to the rich.

And you fall for it because you're a moron (who hates being called a moron, though you keep proving what a moron you are)

#24 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 03:19 PM

Have you ever noticed at most race "protests", the majority are white women?

#23 | Posted by boaz

Have you noticed the party that you defend has a lot of confederates and nazis in it? Wonder why that is.

#25 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 03:20 PM

#25,

Actually it doesnt.

But if you want to keep repeating that, maybe it will spontaneously become truth.

#26 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 03:28 PM

Actually it doesnt.

But if you want to keep repeating that, maybe it will spontaneously become truth.

#26 | Posted by boaz

What do you think all the confederate flags are for then?

#27 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 03:40 PM

#27, you have been told 100 times, I'm not going to try and educate you.

#28 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 05:28 PM

#27, you have been told 100 times, I'm not going to try and educate you.

#28 | Posted by boaz

Please I beg you. I need to be educated about how the party that flies the flag of slavery and treason isn't racist.

#29 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 05:41 PM

I dont know. You are pretty stupid.

#30 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 05:51 PM

I dont know. You are pretty stupid.

#30 | Posted by boaz

If I was stupid, I'd vote for a billionaire con man to be my warrior against the "elites"

#31 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 05:56 PM

Nah speak,

I'm just messing with you..

To us southerners, it means more about southern pride and states rights than anything else. As a southern black man who isn't ghettofied, I don't see racism in it at all.

But I do understand how you could.

#32 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 05:57 PM

To us southerners, it means more about southern pride and states rights than anything else. As a southern black man who isn't ghettofied, I don't see racism in it at all.

But I do understand how you could.

#32 | Posted by boaz

Seems like a black man would be proud of the states that beat the slavers instead of the states that fought to keep you in chains til the very end.

#33 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 06:25 PM

Boaz hates Black people.

All Black people, but especially Black people who voted for Democrats.

#34 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-24 06:27 PM

Seems like a black man would be proud of the states that beat the slavers instead of the states that fought to keep you in chains til the very end.

Nope.

I don't have a dog in that fight. I wasn't alive then and those circumstances don't affect me today. They are the past.

What does affect me is the liberal/progressive mindset of those northern states, which everyone is trying to leave and come to the southern states for a quieter pace of life. Problem is, they bring their way of thinking, which isn't compatible with the southern lifestyle.

#35 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 07:08 PM

You really suck(no pun intended) at trolling Clownshack.

#36 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-24 07:09 PM

-Seems like a black man would be proud of the states that beat the slavers instead of the states that fought to keep you in chains til the very end.

Blacks that live below the Mason-Dixon line are prohibited from pride in their home state?

Sucksoftly gets funnier and funnier.

#37 | Posted by eberly at 2025-09-24 07:11 PM

I don't have a dog in that fight.

That's because braver men and women than you have already fought that battle and won.

So you could take their efforts for granted and spit on them with your ignorance.

#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-24 07:25 PM

I don't have a dog in that fight. I wasn't alive then and those circumstances don't affect me today. They are the past.

What does affect me is the liberal/progressive mindset of those northern states, which everyone is trying to leave and come to the southern states for a quieter pace of life. Problem is, they bring their way of thinking, which isn't compatible with the southern lifestyle.

#35 | Posted by boaz

Depending on how old you are, either you or your parents weren't allowed to drink from white drinking fountains not too long ago. Is that a fact that makes you PROUD?

People don't move to the south because they want a quieter pace, they do it because their old bones can't take the northern winters, or they're out of money and have to move where it's cheap because it sucks there.

The southern lifestyle was separate schools, bathrooms, and water fountains for people like you, hanging you from trees for flirting with a white woman, flags that remind everyone that you fought for slavery, and statues glorifying traitors who fought to keep you in slavery, to remind little black kids who is in charge.

#39 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 07:26 PM

Blacks that live below the Mason-Dixon line are prohibited from pride in their home state?

Sucksoftly gets funnier and funnier.

#37 | Posted by eberly

What kind of pride does the confederate flag signify exactly? The KKK doesn't fly the NC state flag.

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-24 07:27 PM

@#36 ... You really suck(no pun intended) at trolling Clownshack. ...

So, your current alias seems to qualify itself in the methods of trolling?

Why?

#41 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-24 07:37 PM

@#1 ... The is no "democracy" at the federal level. There is only the Constitutional Republic. ...

That's a pretty bold statement.

I do agree that the Constitution states we are a Republic, i.e., voting for Representatives.

... The Supreme Court is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Keep all power OUT of the hands of a central government.

The power needs to stay with the states and rightly so. That's the only place the people actually have power. At the local level. This ensures California has no power over Georgia. It ensures the mob in NY has no power over North Dakota. ...

Yah, but.... (and ya had to known that was coming. :) )

Pres Trump looks to be claiming power.

Does your current alias' comment agree to that power claim?


#42 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-24 07:45 PM

Reminder: President Trump doesn't care about our future, because he's funded by the billionaires and corporations destroying it.
-Greenpeace

#43 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-09-24 08:06 PM

"Problem is, they bring their way of thinking, which isn't compatible with the southern lifestyle."

Are they taxed? If so, then "bringing their way of thinking" is how America works. Otherwise, you're advocating "taxation without representation".

Does that ring a bell?

#44 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-09-24 11:57 PM

Depending on how old you are, either you or your parents weren't allowed to drink from white drinking fountains not too long ago.

That's over and done with. Time to move on.

#45 | Posted by boaz at 2025-09-25 12:26 AM

"umpires don't make the rules, they apply them"

Exactly

So why are courts constantly preventing the law from being enforced and trying to rule that the power of certain positions is limited even though it expressly is not in the case brought to them?

#46 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-09-25 04:50 AM

re: 45 Boaz

You should pass that message to the MAGA people. You did vote for a racist POS Trump (he and his klansman father wouldn't rent to black people, falsely accusing Central Park 5, "low IQ" is the new n-word, etc. etc. etc.)

#47 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-25 05:03 AM

Oh boy, TheBull is here from 4chan to share his Nazi insights

#48 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-09-25 05:04 AM

Seems like a black man would be proud of the states that beat the slavers instead of the states that fought to keep you in chains til the very end.
Nope.
I don't have a dog in that fight. I wasn't alive then and those circumstances don't affect me today. They are the past.

Dylan Roof and Payton Gendron would like a word.

Saying racism and white supremacy is a thing of the past is like saying the stripper really loves you and billionaires care about you.

#49 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-09-25 08:00 AM

Depending on how old you are, either you or your parents weren't allowed to drink from white drinking fountains not too long ago.

That's over and done with. Time to move on.

#45 | Posted by boaz

Yeah that's what dems were doing by removing confederate statues. Trying to move on. Repubs are the ones putting them back up and renaming army bases after traitors and slavers. Gotta remind people like you who is STILL in charge.

#50 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-09-25 12:51 PM

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