Vice President JD Vance is blatantly attacking the Constitution’s separation of powers after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to fully fund the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program.

Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.”

“What we’d like to do is to have the Democrats open up the government, of course, then we can fund SNAP, and we can also do a lot of other good things for the American people,” Vance said. “But in the midst of a shutdown, we can’t have a federal court telling the president how he has to triage the situation.”

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    the democrat shutdown

    Lmfao theyre pushing this so hard, is that the angle here? Do they really think people are going to buy into that?

    I mean of course some will, but you didnt need to lie to those people in the first place. Just tell them trump wants to rape their kids and theyll buy their kids lolita express tickets to mara lago

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    Speaking in the White House Thursday, Vance called the ruling “absurd,” because “you have a federal judge effectively telling us what we have to do in the midst of the Democrat government shutdown.

    It’s called the rule of law you couch fucking dipshit. Just bc you got permaliner and ozempic then started cheating on your wife with the widow of a guy you probably helped assassinate, doesn’t mean everybody has to treat you like a precious little snowflake ❄️

    We all know you made it from West Virginia to Yale. We all know that you know what checks and balances are. Just come out and admit you’re betraying the U.S. as part of the dumbest coup ever attempted.

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    As soon as it looked like we were headed into another shutdown, my guess was that their play would be to argue, “alright, it’s shutdown, I guess we don’t have a government anymore. I have no choice then, but to make a new one.”

    Which you’d think would be a widely unpopular move, until he comes in with “and we’ll just use the original US constitution, no extra stuff like ‘amendments’, just good ol’ 1776 like the founding fathers intended”.

    I think his base would actually get behind it.

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    In other words, they had a program to literally feed the poorest people, and they decided to leave it without funding despite clearly being able to maintain it, now a judge directly orders them to fund it again, and yet they protest and try to avoid it, or they do avoid it, or something.

    Despite all of the above, his voting intentions haven’t dropped to zero. The world is sometimes perplexing.

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    When Trump is gone, we’ll have a huge problem with JD “Just Dance” Vance. He’s even more committed to the cause (aka Yarvin, Thiel/Karp, Andreeson, Dark Enlightenment, Network State, etc.) and is more competent to carry out those actions.

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        Yeah that’s the one thing Trump has that Vance doesn’t. He has some kind of magic charisma that draws people to him, which to this day I don’t understand. But I think with the full Newsmax/OANN/Fox/Tiktok/TPUSA propaganda machine behind Vance I’m sure they could convince MAGA to go along with him.

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          They’re praying Trump will get assassinated so that Vance getting revenge can be the propaganda angle.

          Edit: or Hegseth, I could see him trying to grab power too

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    When Trump is gone, we’ll have a huge problem with JD “Just Dance” Vance. He’s even more committed to the cause (aka Yarvin, Thiel/Karp, Andreeson, Dark Enlightenment, Network State, etc.) and is more competent to carry out those actions.

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      Yeah, this isn’t just about not wanting to fund SNAP, this is about Vance trying to normalize unitary executive theory/directly attack separation of powers.

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    Is he wrong? Courts have done chicken shit judgements and the judgements aren’t enforced.

    Vance is a dunce, but Trump’s admin has thrown wild shit to the wall that sticked and here we are.

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      Why would JD Vance need to go on TV and spread propaganda “facts” about how much executive power Trump really has (again)?

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        Because they love the sound of their voices. The power they have isn’t earned or given, it’s stolen. And regardless of how you want to perceive it, facts or propaganda, the reality is: he’s gonna do whatever he wants and no one is stopping him. Which is basically him being a king… despite all those super useful no kings protests /s

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          People are figuring out how to side step the all powerful king, and using the law to their advantage to outsmart him. Because shockingly, it turns out he’s not always as all powerful as he believes he should be, and he’s also not very smart.

          That’s also why he needs his lap dog to lie and make claims about his power. That way he can claim his political enemies are the ones breaking the law by upholding it.

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            They aren’t sidestepping. How are they? Judges told him to pay SNAP. He said “No” they said “well okay, we will have another meeting.”

            Name a something that is actually a sidestep, resulting in a win that he hasn’t or won’t be able to ever come back around and say “nope.”

            Everything is just another trial or hearing away from leaning in Trump’s favor.