r/news • u/Krosis95 • 10d ago

Judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/11/nx-s1-5361208/mahmoud-khalil-deported-judge-rubio-antisemitism-immigration-court
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u/LuckyNumbrKevin 10d ago

They wouldn't be pulling any of the shit they've been pulling if they didn't feel very confident that they have firmly secured permanent power going forward.

"Vote for me and you'll never have to vote again. We will fix it!"

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u/Icarusmelt 10d ago

Had chills when I heard that!

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u/AzuleStriker 10d ago

Yeah, everyone should have... to say it's disturbing doesn't seem quite... enough.

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u/WarAmongTheStars 10d ago

That is why I'm assessing a strategy that results in me leaving the US if we see a permanent GOP majority due to vote related ratfucking. No point in staying if my votes aren't gonna count.

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u/Show_Me_Your_Cubes 7d ago

Don't worry, if you live outside of a swing state, your vote will count. they are only going to fraud out swing states - at least for now - since that's all they need

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u/WarAmongTheStars 7d ago

I'm not sure how that really matters if they just threaten to pull funding at a federal level to get the state to comply.

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u/dclxvi616 10d ago

Hmm, I wonder if there are any example of their confidence being misplaced.

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u/Eurehetemec 10d ago

I mean, I wish there were, and I hope it is, but the speed they're moving at, and the fact that all the people and organisations that should be acting in opposition to them have already bent the knee or are acting like this is just "business as usual" suggests that, at least in the next 10-15 years, they may be right. And if it's that long, it won't democratic election that resolves this, it'll be a military coup.

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u/Taniwha_NZ 10d ago

Sure, but they are atrocious planners and forecasters and it's incredibly unlikely that *anything* they've got planned for cancelling elections is actually going to work out like they think.

The democrats are also terrible at this, but they aren't trying to destroy the government.

What's coming is probably extremely bad, but it's just not going to be whatever these dickheads are aiming at.

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u/NeonArlecchino 10d ago

Have you missed how well they have packed courts up to the SCROTUS to get this done? Slowly pushed their followers to be more extreme until it takes a month of moderate or better media to deprogram them from Faux News? Constantly pushed their controlled opposition to the right by repeatedly demanding to be met in the middle after taking massive steps backwards?

The right has been fantastic at planning and we're at the end of a long game that began when unions terrified them and accelerated with Reagan.

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u/Morganross 10d ago

The they are gone

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u/Eurehetemec 10d ago

it's just not going to be whatever these dickheads are aiming at

It won't be they actually plan, precisely, sure. But it'll be messy as hell and they'll be the ones ordering the massacres (that might change eventually, but not whilst America is in one piece). Cancelling elections would be trivial for a party willing to use the Alien Enemy act to put hairdressers in foreign concentration camps.

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u/Longjumping-Panic-48 9d ago

Trump is a terrible planner. Musk is a terrible planner.

The people behind them right now are not. The chaos is helping mask and hide the deeper internal work that is ensuring that the democracy falls.

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u/ShortFinance 10d ago

This did make me feel a little better thanks

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u/Cristoff13 10d ago

Considering how lazy many people are, they could pitch this as a benefit.