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Democracy’s Sunset: There’s a 70% Chance the Constitution Will Be Suspended Before 2028

May 25, 2025 | FlaglerLive | 48 Comments

The mob's message. (Tyler Merbler)
The message stands. (Tyler Merbler)

The democratic moment is over. 

We haven’t had a Rubicon crossing and we’re not about to. The country is not in the hands of Cesar but Caligula. If I were to game-theorize this nuclear winter of an administration wishful media still refer to as “presidential,” I’d say there’s a 70 percent chance that Emperor Selfie will, before the legal end of his lawless reign, suspend the Constitution across the dominion for the first time in its 237 years. With an exception for the Second Amendment of course. Wouldn’t want to disarm the goons he’ll need to enforce his terror. It can happen here, Mr Lewis. 

pierre tristam column flaglerlive.com flaglerlive Noemic definitions aside, the habeas corpus clause of the Constitution has been suspended in limited areas of the country or the empire four times before, including once in Hawaii before it was a state and once in the Philippines, for those of you who think the Constitution only covers Sherwin Williams-certified white, Christian Americans who can trace 100 percent of their hemoglobin to that vessel of illegal immigrants known as the Mayflower. Not that constitutional scruples prevented Teddy Roosevelt’s occupiers from waterboarding brown skins it didn’t exterminate during our gilded genocide in the Philippines.

A fifth, universal and possibly final suspension of the Constitution would be the inevitable next step for a junta that has declared eight national emergencies in its first eight weeks, 16 counting the ones still in effect from the emperor’s first four seasons before the Biden senescence, and over 140 executive orders in the first 100 days, most in history. 

The junta’s Theodore Bilbo impersonator is openly calling for suspension. The pretexts are the huddled masses and wretched refuse of decades of American support for mass-murdering dictators in Central America. That brown trash is now yearning to breathe free on this side of disillusion and discovering that what freedom it imagined lit this formerly perfectible shore has been obscured by that nuclear winter. 

The chance of a suspension grows to 110 percent if we have an actual emergency, like a 9/11-style attack or something less grave but more frothy for the foxy TV mob, like mass protests that should be shaking this country to its absent core in response to the emperor’s demolition derby. We have no such protests. Regular but limited demonstrations are too partisan and nowhere near critical mass.

For the most part, the American public is as comatose as Congress, and nearly half approve of Caligula with that gleeful drunkenness you feel coming out of a colonoscopy, while the other half act the way Faulkner described it in “Uncle Willy”: “It was like one of those sheep they would sacrifice back in the Bible. It was like it had climbed up onto the altar itself and flopped onto its back with its throat held up and said: ‘All right. Come on and get it over with. Cut my damn throat and go away and let me lay quiet in the fire.’”

The democratic moment died well before January 20. That’s why it was easy to predict the emperor’s return from his luxury Elba in Palm Beach. There is no democratic world where a bigoted, twice-impeached convicted felon and sexual predator who cannot tell a truth, whose Doge-like response to Covid contributed to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans and who cheered an insurrection after leading the most corrupt and reckless administration in history could still be elected by a nation interested in democracy. We simply no longer are. The traditional democratic norms of governance and dignity and accountability are history. 

How else to you explain the country’s surrender to the degradation of the country’s institutions since Jan. 20–the assaults on universities, on media, on law firms, on judges, the contempt for judicial orders and constitutional protections, the war on immigrants, the dehumanization of trans people, the blanching of history, the indifference to governance, the monetized corruption of the presidency on a scale that makes Teapot Dome look like doll-house tea party, and this growing sense that, to borrow a line from Garcia-Marquez’s Autumn of the Patriarch, “there was no other sound in the world, he alone [is] the nation” as he discharges “the delirium of his rancor” on anything in his way?

We want a strongman. We want what Turkey has, what Israel, Hungary, Italy Russia and Venezuela have–authoritarians still lip-servicing democracy but acting as despots. This is the so-called “unitary executive theory” in action. It’s a fancy name for dictatorial power grabs. It means whatever the president says goes. It means the president is not only above the law. He is the law. 

You’ll find the unitary theory in action during the Roman Empire, when emperors “were exempted from the obligation and penalty of many inconvenient laws,” as Edward Gibbon reminds us. Or in papal bulls. You won’t find it in the Constitution. But like intelligent design, like Reaganomics, like the idea that “business buccaneers should have a say in formulating federal policy” (as historian Sean Wilentz put it), a once-ludicrous concept with the validity of a middle school fantasy birthed by Steven Calabresi in a 1992 law review article has gone mainstream thanks to middle school clubs posing as right-wing think tanks like the Heritage Foundation and the Claremont Institute. 

Americans love it, just as they’ve come to embrace those other absurd concepts. It’s only natural since most Americans since the 1980s have regressed to a middle school mindset.

None of that is democratic. None of that is remotely pluralist. But here we are. We can still pretend, as in New York Times editorials, in pleas by Jon Stewart or in those desperate demonstrations, that there’s a way back, that democracy only needs a fresh new message, that Democrats have to “offer new ideas,” as the Times implored. All that misses the point. It suggests that democracy’s dialectic is still functioning, that the competition of ideas and the rule of law still matter. But a majority of Americans aren’t interested in democracy anymore. They want their strongman. He’s delivering. 

Pierre Tristam is the editor of FlaglerLive. A version of this piece airs on WNZF.

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  1. JC says

    May 25, 2025 at 2:06 pm

    Please provide evidence that the Constitution will be suspended before 2028? After reading your article, I just nothing but fear mongering without actual evidence.

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  2. Nina says

    May 25, 2025 at 2:16 pm

    How would you resolve the issues? As americans on both sides, we should just try to work together to find solutions.. two heads are better than one but only to agree. We get nowhere by slinging insults however creativily phrased! Its as if someone, or something is hellbent on keeping this country divided! Theres truth to the statement ‘United we stand… divided we fall’

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  3. Deborah Coffey says

    May 25, 2025 at 2:36 pm

    Spot on, Pierre. I actually think there’s a very good chance that Congress will be suspended even before the courts, before the 2026 election.

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  4. The dude says

    May 25, 2025 at 3:27 pm

    152 published executive orders 153 is in the cue and will be published within the next couple days.

    You can track them in real time here:
    https://eotracking.com/

    This tool collects data from the Federal government’s publicly available API’s (while they still exist) and tracks EO’s in real time as they are published.

    For those keeping track… the orange sh!t stain has issued 153 EO’s in the first 5 months of this administration… (translated to mooches that’s 153 EO’s in 15 mooches)
    That’s 9 shy of President Biden’s 4 year total.

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  5. Snowbird says

    May 25, 2025 at 3:32 pm

    In the next midterms if the democrats win both houses they will impeach him. If there is any chance that could happen maga will block voting or candidates. I will be surprised if we will get the chance to vote against maga.

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  6. Pogo says

    May 25, 2025 at 3:34 pm

    @We had a choice

    … liars, and other sorts of fools, said there was no difference.

    Thanks for nothing, and everything else too; enjoy the fall — it’s all that’s left.

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  7. Bo Peep says

    May 25, 2025 at 3:58 pm

    What a bunch of horse wallop

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  8. Tony Mack says

    May 25, 2025 at 4:34 pm

    Will there be 2026 Elections????
    My speculation on the 2026 elections and the reasons Trump, the Heritage Foundation and the Republicans cannot afford to have free and fair elections in 2026.
    But let me add a thought as to why Trump and his criminal gang cannot risk free and fair elections again — consider —
    If the Democrats were to take control of the House or the Senate, Trump’s administration realistically becomes nothing but a “lame duck” entity for two years.
    Taking the risk that Democrats would initiate a multitude of investigations, Trump cannot risk the inevitable; similarly, any additional slash and burn tactics they wish to initiate or instigate would automatically be shelved in the House should the Democrats take control. It certainly would give meaning to the term “Lame Duck” for the Donald.
    And it may come sooner than most political followers anticipate. Republicans always play the “long game’ while Democrats are saddled with bipartisanship and defensive maneuvers. Certainly, not the way a “democracy” should work. But again…
    Caution — because they now control all levels of the Federal system as well as 26 state houses and legislatures…they cannot and will not risk losing all they have captured by holding free and fair elections in 2026. It simply will not happen. One bit at a time, they are removing or neutering any and all legislative or judicial powers that might thwart their efforts FBI — gone; Federal judges — controlled; legislature — threatened; minorities — vilified and demonized. People need to connect the dots and understand that Trump and the henchmen at the Heritage Foundation and the billionaires who support him, will do everything in their power to cancel the elections in 2026.
    Start with the fact that Trump is a criminal and he will surround himself with others who think nothing of committing crimes in his name. This is not the Sunday Choir singing praises to their Lord; these are the type of evil people who cancel cancer research, raise prices on life sustaining medicines needed by millions, who gather little children from their parents; who will abrogate the amendments of the Constitution because it suits their purpose of total control, who will leave no stone unturned to enrich themselves at the suffering of others by ending or privatizing the programs needed by millions of Americans.
    And having decimated the FBI and disrupted the DOJ…there is no competent law enforcement group that will be able to dislodge them. Exactly as planned. This may be a crime but remember — Trump has immunity from the Supreme Court!
    What they could not accomplish in the bloody coup on January 6th, they’ve now managed to accomplish bloodlessly…they have usurped the power of the entire Federal Government …think Germany in the Thirties…end of story…end of democracy…

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  9. Rusty Rollings says

    May 25, 2025 at 4:48 pm

    Pierre the courts are holding so far and I can’t see 7 of the justices to allow this. They’ve already said no to using war powers to remove any brown skin not born here and even trapped plenty of legal citizens. They’ve told him to return 2 now and he’s ignoring them but that won’t last as they have the power to lock him up for contempt.

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  10. Robert Swinderman says

    May 25, 2025 at 5:18 pm

    Please define “your democracy”. I hear that democracy must be protected by the left but not once have they defined it. It is, as another who commented said, this article is scare tactics. Guess you didn’t get the memo – people are fed up with “save democracy” scare tactics, censorship and brainwashing. Thinking emotionally got us into this mess. Thinking logically will get us out of it.

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  11. Mothwrsworry says

    May 25, 2025 at 5:27 pm

    This is pure BS imho. Could this be a prelude to some trumpy play?

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  12. JimboXYZ says

    May 25, 2025 at 5:31 pm

    Interesting, the 2024 election was the suspended Constitution in all it’s glory when the Democrats circumvented the Primary process to re-elect Biden-Harris that later turned into Harris-Walz. I don’t know how denying 82+ million voters the right to vote for the the nominee for 2024’s election vs Trump. Funny, 82+ million voters didn’t show up to vote for Harris-Walz ? What’s up with that ?

    We all still have our Constitutional rights, it just doesn’t apply to anyone beyond the 6th Amendment for a fair & speedy trial for the crimes they commit. Obviously, POTUS pardons take precedence over Constitutional Rights. And the funniest part, after they did it, the Democrats accelerated the debate schedule, otherwise September & October debates & it’s too late for Biden-Harris to turn into Harris-Walz. Democracy & Constitution suspended & on full display, all given to the US Citizen by the DNC & Biden-Harris-Walz. Pelosi & Democrats in Congress had their hands in it too.

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  13. Need for Change says

    May 25, 2025 at 5:41 pm

    The framers were wise in their establishment of the 3 branches of government, each branch a check on the others. Until now that has pretty much worked for the past 248 years. Now we have a Congress that has pretty much ceded it’s power to the Executive Branch, maybe because they are afraid of the President and his threat to primary them, thus losing their free lunch and power. And now the Congress seems to be partnering with the Executive Branch to attack the Judicial thus diminishing their power as a check on the other branches. If the public allows this to continue, then as suggested in this article, the end may be nearing.

    I am one that does not believe in partisanship, I would prefer that no one party has complete control over the segments of each branch. I think if the Congress is controlled by one party, then the Senate should be controlled by the other. Same with the makeup of the Supreme Court, half would be conservatives and the other liberals. This would force the Congress and Senate to compromise to get legislation passed. Ideally, I would prefer to see the elimination of political parties, as in most states a significant number of eligible voters are excluded in the primaries, as they are closed and like Florida there are loopholes that unscrupulous people will put forth a straw candidate as a write-in, to ensure the closed election. This would allow the voters to elect more qualified candidates.

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  14. FlaPharmTech says

    May 25, 2025 at 6:02 pm

    I know I am not going to win a popularity contest, and that’s perfectly fine…IMPEACH the destroyer in chief NOW while we have a semblance of democracy!

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  15. Skibum says

    May 25, 2025 at 6:10 pm

    I do not think the wanna-be dictator in the WH will need to suspend the Constitution if he succeeds in his ongoing efforts to numb the ability of the federal judiciary to stop his illegal and unconstitutional governing by executive orders. So far, the milquetoast Supreme Court’s rebukes have not made strong enough impressions on him or those who are desperately trying to stop him. My worry is that having already nullified and castrated basically all of the GOP majority in both houses of Congress, and ordering the arrest of the first couple of what may become more judges and sitting members of Congress by the Gestapo like DOJ, making up excuses to incarcerate and thus silence the only ones left who have the ability to stop him, even the Supreme Court may be more apt to go along just to get along in order to continue to seem relevant… at least in their own eyes. I’ve said it before – buckle up, people because we are all in for a very rough ride while this unhinged “strongman” remains in power.

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  16. tulip says

    May 25, 2025 at 6:17 pm

    Trump is a vicious bully and all the politicians, lawmakers, judges and supreme court to some extent are very afraid of him and nobody tries to stop him. And like the school yard or neighborhood bully will continue to do so until he is stopped. I hope all the people that voted for him, especially the ones that did for a second time are happy about their decision to give him the USA to destroy. Our children and grandchildren are probably going to live a very different lifestyle. There could be no more middle class, only Trumps oligarch friends and himself ,as long as he is alive, will manage to create the very wealthy people who will rule the land, and the very poor ones who will have to obey and have very little.

    People don’t seem to realize that the loss of democracy is the loss of freedom.

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  17. Tadpole says

    May 25, 2025 at 6:38 pm

    Didn’t even read the article. The headline says it all anti-American..

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  18. Just say'n says

    May 25, 2025 at 7:29 pm

    Wow talk about extreme. Does the the left have any ability to not go to full trottle worst case scenario. How many times have they gone so far with hyper emotional proclamations about the next threat to democracy,and its all nonsense. Just stop already with the world’s gona end crap and get a grip.GET OUT OF YOUR BUBBLE!

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  19. Kyoshin says

    May 25, 2025 at 7:35 pm

    Uh America is a constitutional Republic not a democracy and tell me you know nothing about history without telling me lol now on the topic of America of witch your shiting on regardless who is in power it’s still the greatest nation there is Congress isn’t going no where the two party’s are one and the same America needs more then two choices

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  20. Tired of it says

    May 25, 2025 at 7:39 pm

    He ius already ignoring thr Supreme Court rulings. He and his cronies are trampling all over the Constitutions.. Wake up Americans. This isn’t about thoise poor imigrants you hate so much, it is about your rights.

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  21. Jake from State Farm says

    May 25, 2025 at 7:54 pm

    Hmmm. You once chastised me for saying there is no such thing as an “illegal” immigrant. Now you are using the term freely. Are you finally coming around.? The rest of your article fear mongering BS. But you are trying to speak to the “best Biden ever” crowd. As you are aware they are sheep and easily fooled.

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  22. Sherry says

    May 25, 2025 at 8:56 pm

    Evidence, really? There are none so blind as those who will not turn off Fox and rejoin factual reality! Yes, absolutely, unfortunately it is NOT Pierre who is hell bet on dividing us!

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  23. Sherry says

    May 25, 2025 at 9:11 pm

    WASHINGTON — Today, President Trump will claim he is working hard to restore law and order in the United States, while he actively and blatantly violates the law, undermines the U.S. Constitution in countless ways, and attacks the men and women who patriotically serve their country in the Department of Justice.

    In advance of President Trump’s speech at the Department of Justice, House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (CT-03) and Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Grace Meng (NY-06) highlight how the Trump Administration is already violating the law.

    “President Trump began breaking the law on day one of his term, and immediately pardoned hundreds of violent criminals upon taking office. The Trump Administration is breaking the law and undermining the Constitution every day by illegally stealing funds for the programs that help American families and businesses, firing career civil servants without cause, and dismantling agencies created by acts of Congress. If President Trump wants to restore trust, he should get back to addressing the cost of living and not overturning existing trade agreements which help American workers,” said House Appropriations Committee Ranking Members Rosa DeLauro (CT-03).

    “From the first day his second term began, the President has continuously undermined the Constitution and made Americans feel less safe. From firing public servants to dissolving federal agencies and taking taxpayer money from our communities, the Administration has violated the law time and time again. Restoring law and order starts with respecting the Rule of Law itself and the sacredness of our Constitution. This Administration has failed to do so since day one,” said Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Ranking Member Grace Meng (NY-06).

    If the President is truly committed to law and order, here are examples of lawless and reckless actions and other actions that undermine law and order that he should immediately “Rectify/Reverse:

    *Impoundment of congressionally-appropriated funds at numerous federal agencies, in violation of federal law
    *Firing of dozens of experienced federal prosecutors
    *Firing of thousands of other federal professionals in violation of the law, and the initiation of government-wide plans for further firings
    *Firing of 17 Inspectors General, independent watchdogs that investigate waste, fraud, abuse, and potential criminal activity in our government
    *Letting Elon Musk and DOGE access the sensitive data on tens of millions of Americans
    *Signing of a series of illegal and unconstitutional executive orders
    *Removal of experienced career FBI officials and threats to fire FBI Special Agents and analysts
    *Removal or transfer of other experienced career officials at the Department of Justice
    *Initiation of plans to transfer up to 1,500 FBI headquarters professionals out of the Washington, DC area
    *Initiation of plans to gut the Public Integrity Section of the Justice Department, which helps investigate and prosecute corrupt public officials
    *Initiation of plans to gut other Justice Department units that combat money laundering, prosecute foreign corruption cases, and more
    *Initiation of plans to restore gun possession rights to convicted felons and persons with domestic violence convictions
    *Closure of the U.S. Agency for international Development, in violation of Federal law

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  24. kola says

    May 25, 2025 at 10:23 pm

    Pierre, please continue to write these types of articles. They are extremely informative of the ignorance and fear-mongering of “your kind.” These types of articles will help in our future elections for strong conservative constitutional informed citizens.

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  25. republic says

    May 26, 2025 at 4:07 am

    they all need to go…and lol this is a republic

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  26. Greg says

    May 26, 2025 at 6:33 am

    What a crock of crap.

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  27. The dude says

    May 26, 2025 at 7:47 am

    Oh Jimbo…
    Please point out exactly where in the US Constitution it commands that a political party hold partisan primary elections?

    Then he goes on to lament the orange sh!t stain was somehow “deprived” of his 6th amendment rights… when it was the orange sh!t stain who drew it out with legal maneuvering (all paid for by other people’s money).

    This is exactly why we are where we are. Locally and nationally.
    Old fools being told what to think by the for profit propaganda infotainment networks.

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  28. Joseph says

    May 26, 2025 at 8:33 am

    Would be a real slap in the face to all that served in our military to keep us free and continue with our democracy. If this happens the Supreme Court and Congress are corrupt to do this to our country.

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  29. Marlee says

    May 26, 2025 at 9:07 am

    Pierre….
    I disagree with this because I can’t believe all the support
    we get when we protest the different trump actions.
    I have never see so many thumbs up and honking in support and
    also, just having the public show up with their own signs.

    I believe people do not want a strongman to disrupt our Constitution.
    I feel it with the public reaction now.

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  30. Hookah Smoking Caterpillar says

    May 26, 2025 at 9:15 am

    That is the funniest crock of pure feces I have ever read.

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  31. Kennan says

    May 26, 2025 at 9:55 am

    Honestly, there is plenty of evidence. People have packed off to prisons based on baseless claims of terrorism, because they had the audacity to speak against Genocide and Ethnic cleansing.
    It’s funny, the behavior points heavily in the direction of getting rid of certain provisions to the constitution which should tell you what plans this administration has. If you can’t read that writing on the wall, you are lost. I also find it funny. How the right will split hair when it’s convenient to them.
    Habeas corpus is about getting your day in court. Legally!!!!!! the White House’s version of Nosferatu, Steven Miller has talked several times about getting rid of habeas corpus, getting rid of a person’s ability to defend themselves within the constitution. If we don’t pay attention to the behavior……. The behavior will manifest a very real repeal in what many Americans apparently take for granted.
    Let’s not believe for a minute that we are all so insulated from this that it won’t happen. The evidence is in front of all of us, especially the Right. Don’t think because you feel like you cornered the market on patriotism that these fascists won’t come after you. They will. They always do.

    PS
    Framing Mexicans, Venezuelans, Or really anyone of a brown persuasion(Arabs) As either MS 13 or terrorist sympathizers Just isn’t gonna fly.

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  32. Kennan says

    May 26, 2025 at 10:07 am

    Nice article Pierre!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😎

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  33. William Moya says

    May 26, 2025 at 10:17 am

    The last amendment to the constitution was in the 1970’s something about payments to Congressman, prior to that was the the amendment to give women the right to vote, so technically we’re living under 19th century document which is becoming a straight jacket to our politics, and yet the one constant in life is change. So here we are, at least 40% of Americans don’t vote, our election are bought and pay corporations and billionaires, we are and had been involved in every international conflict since the beginning mostly incognito thanks to our proxy empire and pretending we’re fighting for freedom and democracy, our freedoms, our human right are in retrograde format, get rid of all the brownies and bring in the Vikings, our schools and universities are to be intellectually sanitize from all impurities, and our history is testimony to all of this. Alas, you don’t have to be a historian to figure out that the US has entered its decline period, and yes Caligula and his cronies are here to stay spreading pain and misery at home and abroad.

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  34. tulip says

    May 26, 2025 at 10:58 am

    In the headline of this article it says there are 23 comments, When I click on to read the whole article there are only 3 comments. What happened to the other 20?

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  35. William d says

    May 26, 2025 at 12:06 pm

    Lolat least there are more guns than people here. The republicons are a terrorist organization. Crazy how usa went from killing Nazis to becoming them. Sad but can’t feel patriotic when terrorist leaders take peoples rights away and dismantle the government. Treason is in the constitution!

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  36. Sherry says

    May 26, 2025 at 2:33 pm

    EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. . . The bill just passed by trump’s House of Representatives ha a provision that will STOP the courts and essentially make trump “King” . . . This from Robert Reich:

    So what’s next? Will the Supreme Court and lower courts hold the administration in contempt and enforce contempt citations?

    Not if the Big Ugly Bill is enacted with the following provision, now hidden in the bill:

    “No court of the United States may use appropriated funds to enforce a contempt citation for failure to comply with an injunction or temporary restraining order if no security was given when the injunction or order was issued….”

    Translated: No federal court may enforce a contempt citation.

    Obviously, courts need appropriated funds to do anything because Congress appropriates money to enable the courts to function. To require a security or bond to be given in civil proceedings seeking to stop alleged abuses by the federal government would effectively immunize such conduct from judicial review because those seeking such court orders generally don’t have the resources to post a bond.

    Hence, with a stroke, the provision removes the judiciary’s capacity to hold officials in contempt.

    As U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law Erwin Chemerinsky notes, this provision would eliminate any restraint on Trump.

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  37. What Else Is New says

    May 26, 2025 at 2:57 pm

    Pierre, you are a brilliant writer and I honor your intellect. Thank you for this meaningful piece concerning our constitution which is hanging in the balance, yet on the side of being weighted down. I agree we are in deep trouble due to the current corrupt administration. Somehow, I believe the constitution will hold fast. My worry is we possibly will not have an election in 2026. My age is long enough to realize in my lifetime I may not see our country returned to a democratic society.

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  38. Local double taxpayer says

    May 26, 2025 at 10:52 pm

    Jesus Christmas….doom and gloom….less and less people are buying it.

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  39. JimboXYZ says

    May 27, 2025 at 1:38 am

    The dude says…

    “Oh Jimbo…
    Please point out exactly where in the US Constitution it commands that a political party hold partisan primary elections?

    Then he goes on to lament the orange sh!t stain was somehow “deprived” of his 6th amendment rights… when it was the orange sh!t stain who drew it out with legal maneuvering (all paid for by other people’s money).”

    Never said Trump was deprived of standing trial per 6th Amendment. But there’s a reason Hunter Biden ate the guilty plea. And everything the DNC/Biden machine did was circumvent that from ever going to a trial. Hunter would be on a witness stand under oath & potential perjury, answering the questions of where that money came from that became Biden family wealth ? Hunter was getting a pardon either way, with a Harris win or Daddy Joe Biden making it happen. Otherwise Trump would’ve been the one in a position of exercising any pardon. Joe wasn’t leaving that to chance or rather Trump’s goodwill at that point. One article I see that is absent from FlaglerLive ? Biden’s recent announcement of Gleason score 9 Cancer. That progression doesn’t happen overnight ? They all knew Biden wasn’t going to be healthy enough. That cover up alone influenced how the DNC would handle replacing him. If Biden’s condition is that bad in 2023, chances are the DNC holds it’s primary process for Biden’s successor as the Republicans did. Vivek Ramaswamy was predicting that Biden would be replaced back in 2023. How come everyone, but the Democrats knew this ? They had every chance to have a primary. It’s not a conspiracy theory, when the facts play out. Like it or not, Biden is the worst POTUS in US History. Spinning Biden as anything better on the list is just misinformation, that is & always will be Biden’s legacy.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/republicans-float-conspiracy-theory-biden-wont-ballot-rcna121467

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  40. jake says

    May 27, 2025 at 6:03 am

    Fairy Tales from the left.

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  41. David Meeks says

    May 27, 2025 at 8:56 am

    Yet another moron that needs to disconnect from the TV! No idea where these whacks come from?

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  42. StillPissedbutnotinPC says

    May 27, 2025 at 10:14 am

    To @JimboXYZ, turn off the BS factories of Fox fake news, RSBN, OAN, dump Breibart, other right side news sites and QAnon because you are damaging the few brain cells you have left to function in a democratic republic society. It’s people like you who are damaging the rule of law and ignoring the constitution.

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  43. Laurel says

    May 27, 2025 at 10:55 am

    It continues to amaze me that the more bait Trump throws out, the more the maga takes it, hook, line and sinker. They make excuses for him like “He didn’t mean it,” or “It’s just his bluster.” He smirks at them, talks in ridiculous, poorly formed sentences, he insults them, and they dig in even deeper. He lies compulsively, enriches himself while cutting children’s benefits and the maga cheer! He breaks the law, and frees the lawbreakers. He constantly plays the victim and the real victims suffer. He is not your “retribution,” you are his. He is the epitome of indulgence while telling his faithful to feel the pain.

    Even ten years ago you could not have told me the American public would put up with this for a minute. No, not here in the USA.

    Grifters know their target: victim mentality, gullible folk, and the greedy. He plays the victim card to be one of them. He uses broken language, like Nigerian scammers, to draw in the gullible. He uses greed, again like scammers do to draw in people with his promises.

    He has actually done and amazing job of fooling the public! Using blatant behavior no less! That, I’ve got to give him.

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  44. Starve a kid for a dollar says

    May 27, 2025 at 11:49 am

    Haha funny how people from the cult don’t believe it! They get their information from network propaganda news. Murikkka is a fascist nation , get used to it. Your life is cheap and millions will die from the treasonous cult. Get what ya voted for when you went out and voted for a child molesting criminal! Hopefully you r cons will get to experience the concentration camps you opened!!!!! The orange terrorist must go!

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  45. Red arm band says

    May 27, 2025 at 11:58 am

    America is dead. It’s Murikkka now . We Only care about money and white power! No more red vs blue, it’s billionaires against you!!! How many thousands of children are dead already from the orange terrorist policy ??? Don’t count that on faux news propaganda? Feel bad for all those people that fought and died for a nation that went fascist overnight without a fight or a single bullet. They gave all for nothing !sad the freedom they died for was stolen in the middle of the night by the republicon terrorist group!

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  46. Sherry says

    May 27, 2025 at 2:55 pm

    David Meeks . . . please explain, in detail, what you are talking about and who you are referring to. Thanks!

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  47. Ed P says

    May 29, 2025 at 6:34 am

    Just wondering…
    Is Starve a kid for a dollar and Red arm band the same person?
    Both posts use similar vernacular, punctuation, spacing, and explanation points.
    Maybe it’s in our drinking water.

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  48. BIG Neighbor says

    June 1, 2025 at 9:42 pm

    Okay, this article kick started my heart…now what? Obviously written to push buttons… this sad vision is an unmistakable likelihood, but stands as sensational witchcraft without a potion to conjure up a solution. Midterms, flipping the House and Senate…with what? The same people that didn’t care enough to vote? Or the canvassing crooks that suppressed results.
    Give me something to believe in, not settle for as the lesser of two evils. Emergency Powers?

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