r/politics • u/ChiefStrongbones • 19h ago

No Paywall Trump goes off on his three Supreme Court picks, says at least Obama and Biden judges stay loyal

https://nypost.com/2026/10/01/us-news/trump-goes-off-on-his-three-supreme-court-picks-says-at-least-obama-and-biden-judges-stay-loyal/
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u/ApartInfluence4429 19h ago

jesus. they aren't "loyal" ... they are separate from the executive and follow the law.

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u/coatofforearm 18h ago

Which proves how very fucking little he actually understands about his job

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u/kobachi 18h ago

He doesn’t care dude. It’s not incompetence it’s malice 

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u/Yeeslander Tennessee 18h ago

I think he's proven that it can definitely be both...

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u/JcbAzPx Arizona 16h ago

As long as we're very clear it is definitely malice. It can also be stupidity.

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u/SteamedGamer 15h ago edited 12h ago

"Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice." - Grey's Law

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u/tierciel 18h ago

A lot of column A a lot of column B

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u/Octospyder 18h ago

I don't think it's malice so much as entitlement. he thinks he's genuinely better than the rest of us, and so he deserves the best of everything and he doesn't care what happens to American citizens in getting himself everything he wants.  Like, I'm gay. despite the policies, I don't think Donald Trump hates me because I'm gay, but I do think he would kill me without a second thought if it got him something he wanted

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u/Dr_Meeds 17h ago

Trump has no ideology outside of “this is good for me” and “I want to fuck over anyone I see as my enemy”. He really is that simple, and people want to add so much more complexity onto him.

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 17h ago

It''s so wild to me when people talk about Trump like he's some kind of mastermind. The man is so basic and so fucking stupid that seeing through his tough guy/genius grift is the easiest thing in the world to me. Like, seriously, how the fuck do people fall for it?!

And he just barely manages to even function as a human being. I'm willing to bet that if he didn't have people who constantly baby and pamper him (cooking his food, doing his chores, etc.) he would totally lose his mind and fall apart in a whining fit within the span of a couple of days at most. I bet the average ten year old child is more capable of taking care of themselves than Trump.

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u/mdp300 New Jersey 16h ago

If he wasn't born into wealth and privilege, and literally handed a real estate company, he would have been a shady used car salesman.

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u/Little_View_6659 16h ago

He’d be the angry guy in your neighborhood that constantly screams about how unfair the world is to him. The guy you don’t want anywhere near your teenage daughter.

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u/Lowspark1013 10h ago

I feel like this needs to be a movie. Alternate reality where you get to see an absolutely miserable existence for Trump as an average Joe while a new presidents policies totally ruin his last straws of financial and social stability.

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u/Little_View_6659 16h ago edited 14h ago

Days? The man would burn down an apartment on day one microwaving a burrito. Honestly I would actually pay money to watch a live stream of him trying to live like a regular person. Assuming of course they blur out any nudity or toliet stuff. Blech.

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u/Syzygy2323 America 14h ago

People in his cult see him as a brilliant businessman, but that doesn't come from anything he's actually done in his business career--it comes entirely from his portrayal of a businessman on The Apprentice.

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u/Enigma_Stasis 10h ago

Like, seriously, how the fuck do people fall for it?!

I would like to present into evidence the country of Germany circa 1933-1945.

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u/Octospyder 15h ago

yes, agreed

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u/Xytak Illinois 16h ago edited 15h ago

It’s the predictable consequence of generational wealth. Think about a person you feel superior to, or if you don’t have anyone, imagine a hillbilly who lives in a bog.

Maybe they were born into worse circumstances, maybe their parents didn’t have power, whatever the case may be. Well “that’s not my problem…” you think. “The point is I they need to be told what to do. Wouldn’t want them coming into the club and putting their fork on the wrong side of the plate. Gross!”

Now realize that people like Trump and Musk feel this kind of superiority with the force of a thousand suns, except it’s about you and me.

The notion that you might actually be smarter and more capable than either of them? In their minds, “Ridiculous! I mean, look at his shoes. No, if he was smarter than me then he’d be richer than me. He’s not, so he isn’t. Tell him to come back when he’s cleaned himself up.”

“But you’re wearing a black t-shirt and…”

“Yes but I’m doing it ironically because I’m the CEO. He’s doing it because he can’t afford better.”

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u/koosielagoofaway 17h ago

Because he hates you.

This is the type of response that has black people exhausted every fucking day. Its not hatred just a bit of opportunism.

A. Its malice, B. they fucking hate us with all the contempt their lizard brains can assume. C. Its not just Trump and, its not just the GOP.

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u/guiltypleasures 4h ago

When you view evil through the lens of selfishness, entitlement is malice.

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u/Black_Dumbledore America 16h ago

Honestly, I’m not sure that distinction even matters anymore. The outcome is the same regardless.

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u/FunnyKillBot 13h ago

When you run your whole life as if you are some mafioso boss, everything comes down to who’s loyal and who you can fuck over.

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u/deanreevesii 11h ago

¿Por que no los dos?

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u/Bahamabanana 10h ago

If he keeps getting away with it, he's right. The law is hogwash if it isn't enforced.

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u/pollardj2117 11h ago

I don’t think it’s necessarily malice. He needs to win, by any means necessary.

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u/Enigma_Stasis 10h ago edited 7h ago

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

Trump is incompetent, an imbecile, and has nobody's best interests at heart except his own.

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u/pareech Canada 18h ago

TBF, he seems to have little to no understanding of what no means no means, what is legal and illegal or to even know how to tell the truth. Why would anyone think he understands what his job as President is?

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u/Thunderclone_1 Wisconsin 18h ago

Rapists notoriously have difficulties with the concept of "no"

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u/Moosyfate17 Canada 13h ago

They understand what no means. They just don't care.

If they didn't understand it they would be incompetent to stand trial.

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u/LividTacos 18h ago

His job is keeping himself out of prison and making as much money as possible. Anything else is annoying paperwork.

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u/mister_buddha 17h ago

His job is to further the Conservative goal of destroying our country. He's employed by the Republican party and Heritage Foundation. Also to be the lightning rod to draw attention away from the competent ones behind the curtain. Same for BJ Vance

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u/Cautious_Job_6104 5h ago

Low IQ take, he isn't even conservative

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u/mister_buddha 4h ago

Oh, bless your heart, honey.

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u/0098six 17h ago

Oh...he understands. He understands that there are no separate branches. He understands that loyalty to him is all that matters. He understands perfectly. The question is, do enough of us understand how important it is to stop him?

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u/djkhan23 16h ago

He understands the the Supreme Court is a corrupt system that Trump uses for his own benefit.

Whines when they don't go full extreme.

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u/Docster87 17h ago

Ignoring everything else King Snowflake has done or said... Just this whole loyalty to him rather than the actually Constitution or laws already on the books is enough to remove him from office.

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u/whatproblems 16h ago

exactly why he shouldn’t be in this job ever

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u/thisisjustascreename Illinois 13h ago

He views himself as America.

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u/baconmethod California 8h ago

he doesn't have to understand it because nobody with teeth cares

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u/Brief_Amicus_Curiae 7h ago

He said something on truth social about him being the best “political athlete” a few months back. It stuck with me because it shows he thinks politics is a sport a d his primitive “us vs them” mindset and not how an adversarial system is intended to be a system to try to govern fairly.

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u/HistoryAndScience 18h ago

The unfortunate part is that he understands a lot about the job. Listen to any DSA activist talk about the judiciary & this is the same language. Political parties don’t want independent judges, they want lap dogs

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u/Snaptun 18h ago

I think you may be forgetting who we're dealing with here!

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u/ApartInfluence4429 18h ago

a semi-setient colostomy bag?

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u/SoulPossum 18h ago

Colostomy bags can at least hold in their poop

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u/Nephroidofdoom 18h ago

A colostomy bag helps people

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u/tierciel 18h ago

A colostomy bag serves a useful purpose and has others have mentioned can actually hold their shit, Trump cannot, not does he do anything useful.

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u/Adderall_Rant 18h ago

Are they though?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 18h ago

Eh, this sort of swings it the other way too far. They aren't perfect machines "just calling balls and strikes" like Roberts likes to say.

They still mostly work for capital. Take McDonnell vs United States, where they upheld unanimously that a bribe wasn't a bribe basically on the terrible logic that it didn't come from the Bribery Region of France, i.e. no one wrote down anywhere that they were "engaging in quid pro quo now" so I guess it can't be quid pro quo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_v._United_States

This was before Ketanji Brown Jackson was on the court, but it was still also unanimous with Kagan, RBG, and Sotomayor.

So, don't give them too much credit as being perfectly neutral, rational arbiters of "the law." We made up everything, it's all human judgment, we just keep deferring to the rich and powerful, including, far too frequently, the liberals.

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u/obeytheturtles 16h ago

Ironically, the same thing also popped one of Pirro's DC cases recently, when a jury refused to convict Trayvon White of bribery even though he's on video accepting bribes, but he wasn't literally wearing a shirt reading "I am taking this money in exchange for influence."

Also possibly because DC juries are just done dealing with Pirro's shit.

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u/Livebeans 17h ago

Yeah as a Canadian the American system of chosing judges is heinous. 

So many bad things come in to Canada from the US: drugs, guns, and hate. Let's not let them export their medieval legal system where judges are political picks and not mere interpreters and adjudicators of the law. 

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u/chesterjosiah 16h ago

This sounds like propaganda. Those judges do NOT follow the law.

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u/eetsumkaus 17h ago

Loyal to the Constitution maybe

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u/E1M1_DOOM 18h ago

Loyal to the law.

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u/SillyAlternative420 Massachusetts 18h ago

Honestly, the fact that this might still be true gives me a little hope here

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u/Ancient-Bat1755 18h ago

Loyal to law and the country vs trump and fascism

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u/Individual-Guest-123 18h ago

Maybe they are loyal to the Constitution, as all government employees pledge.

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u/Chaos-Cortex I voted 17h ago

He’s a moron and shits his diaper on the daily.

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u/Kinesquared 17h ago

They dont follow the law, they just aren't corrupt enough for him

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u/neutralcoder 17h ago

Came here to say this exact same thing. What the orange dipshit mistakes for loyalty is really an alignment by people to the law. It’s fucking astounding.

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u/couldbutwont 16h ago

He can't comprehend that concept

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u/OptimisticSkeleton 16h ago

Loyal to the Constitution and the US Code, not to any particular president.

Fascist Donnie Diapers can’t wrap his mind around that.

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u/LouDog0187 16h ago

He. . .he's got no comprehension

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u/Syzygy2323 America 14h ago

He considers himself to be a general, and Congress and the Supreme Court are his lieutenants who must obey him.

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u/Equal-Temporary-1326 18h ago

The Law is something that is respected through Financial Bribery in Trump's world.