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What is plenary authority, the phrase that caused Stephen Miller to freeze up during CNN interview?

https://lemmy.world/post/37063692

What is plenary authority, the phrase that caused Stephen Miller to freeze up during CNN interview? - Lemmy.World

>What is Plenary Authority? >Plenary authority refers to a single government official having absolute power on a particular matter. >According to Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute, in the U.S., it is recognised as “complete power over a particular area with no limitations”.

Oct 8 at 1:50pmWeb
Show threadgivesomefucksOct 8

Couldn’t find an article with video, but here’s the clip:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFMzhAvSyyg

It’s not just disconcerting that he said the president has full and unmitigated authority…

It’s that after he said it, he realized his best move was to fucking pretend he froze. That’s how real it is, he just isn’t supposed to say it yet

And since CNN refused to press it and went along with an obvious fake freeze, they get an obligatory: Fuck CNN.

Miller states Trump has Plenary Authority

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Show threadcriss_crossOct 8
CNN has done a lot of bootlicking between this and the “text interview“ they did with Trump
Show threadRooskie91Oct 8

CNN is owned by Warner Discovery, which is owned by private equity. They don’t just lick the boot, they are the boot. All major media corporations in America are owned by the corporate elite.

Larry Ellison is trying to buy TikTok and his son runs CBS. Elon owns X. Zuck owns Threads, Facebook, Instagram, and what’s app. Murdoch owns fox, but also News Corp, which runs The Wall Street Journal, The Times (of London), The Sun, The Australian, Herald Sun, The Daily Telegrap, and the New York Post. He also owns Tubi. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Allmost all of the mainstream ways of getting news are owned by billionaires.

Show threadcriss_crossOct 8

That’s a good point.

What a shitty situation to be in.

Show threadAsafumOct 8

Meanwhile in trumpland:

ItS aLl LefTiSt MeDiA!!!

Show threadDoomsiderOct 8

Ah yes, the mythical left leaning news sources.

CNN regularly calls for the dissolution of capitalism.

MSNBC cannot stop talking about that socialist revolution.

Mother Jones making the case for eco terrorism.

All those “lefty” news sources /S

Show threadCorkyskogOct 9
Which is the least worst in the current landscape?
Show threadDoomsiderOct 9

No mainstream news is reporting what is going on. The only major group I know that is even doing decent reporting right now would be the MeidasTouch Network.

Everything else is either directly supporting this administration or indirectly supporting by reporting the facts with no pushback to the insanity.

Show threadCorkyskogOct 9
Like if you had an old person who you were caring for and insisted on watching the news, what station would you pick?
Show threadDoomsiderOct 9

I would not recommend anyone watches mainstream news anymore and I have felt that way for a long time.

If you had to put on some news I think PBS does an okay job presenting more than one side even if it has dropped most of the pushback against this administration.

I would not recommend Fox, OAN, or Newsmax as they are literally pushing white supremacy ideology.

Show threadBrave Little Hitachi WandOct 8
Fuck me, real life supervillains are such goobers. I hate it
Show threadAlternatePersonManOct 8
And apologized to this piece of shit. As if there’s a technical issue that makes his mouth suddenly stop moving while the rest of his body continues to move.
Show threadAlmaccaOct 8
A ‘technical issue’? Are they saying Miller is some sort of android? He might need resetting to factory settings.
Show threadTryenjerOct 8

They have been quite open about it, if only people would listen to them better…

NRx,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Project 25,

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

Dark Enlightenment - Wikipedia

Show threadSlartyBartFastOct 8
Wouldn’t a “Dark Enlightenment” be an “Endarkenment”?
Show threadTryenjerOct 9
Yes, but they ain’t of the smart kind.
Show threadZombie-MantisOct 9
That name does get a good little snicker out of me, it’s just silly. Too bad it’s proponents are serious.
Show threadameancowOct 9

he said the president has full and unmitigated authority

Again. He said it again.

The man has said all of this before, he just had some mental “event” happen this time that got too much light to shine on the nonsense he babbles, so now liberal America is suddenly looking at this weird little freak. I mean, I guess it’s good, but I feel like I’m taking crazy-pills here, when I heard Miller saying YEARS AGO that the president has “total authority” and the “power to do whatever he wants.”

Show threadThePantserOct 8
He’s got a face only a rifle from 200 yards could love.
Show threadfoodandartOct 8

A face so ugly, the dog won’t play with him.

Thing is, it’s not half as ugly as he is on the inside.

Read a bit of history on him, the guy is massively fucked up, and I wonder what secret trauma he’s got that made him like he is. It goes beyond just being a young man that was angry at the world and has grown bitter as he’s aged.

It’s likely something emotionally crippling and so traumatic that he will never face it.

Show threadjordanlundOct 8
My wife showed me a photo last night comparing him to a colon polyp. It was uncanny.
Show threadKbenOct 8
What is it with these nazis being such goofy bastards.
Show threaddual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️Oct 8
Well…
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Show threadgivesomefucksOct 8

Well adjusted people aren’t fascists…

So there’s a selection bias, if they were capable of normal human interaction, they wouldnt be trying to force everyone into the same boxes.

We prevent that, by teaching social interaction to kids in school, the “humanities” that neoliberals and Republicans have spent 30 years stripping from public education

Show threadprettybunnysOct 8

For reference:

youtu.be/wLxq0JGmpjA

‘Not an open rebellion’: Sanchez questions Stephen Miller calling protesters ‘street terrorists

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Show threadZaktorOct 8
Oh damn, they just edited it out like it never happened.
Show threadFormfillerOct 8
He means Trump is the fuhrer
Show threadTRiLLoGOct 8
Someone just a fuckin screamin at him in the ear piece no doubt
Show threadDragomusOct 9
In about a year someone slips the term “King Donald”?
Or will it be a deviation from the norm and they go with “King Trump” to make it stand out from other kings?
Show threadameancowOct 9
They will make up a variation that sounds imposing, like “High Chancellor of the White House” or “Master of America.”
Show threadxyzzyOct 9
For a moment I thought Miller was wearing a red armband in the thumbnail.
Show threadBeardedGingerWonderOct 9
Isn’t he?