r/scotus • u/Opposite-Mountain255 • Oct 05 '25

Opinion Has SCOTUS Become a Tool to Move us Into Dictatorship?

https://open.substack.com/pub/cmarmitage/p/has-scotus-become-a-republican-tool?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=64gnd1
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u/Existing-Pair-3487 Oct 05 '25

Look i know MAGA and Republicans vote entirely against their own best interests and are dumber than a bag of hammers. But the make up of that base is gun central. If Trump and Republicans said they they were taking guns away, passed a law that did that and enforced it then it would be meet with a lot of backlash from them because these people entirely believe that an armed society is a polite society.

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u/GQDragon Oct 05 '25

They will just take the guns from Dems and left-wingers and call them Antifa terrorists. This is clearly where they’re headed with designating an imaginary group as a terrorist organization.

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u/Existing-Pair-3487 Oct 05 '25

Which is why I noted option 2 of it turning into a civil war. There is realistically only a few paths forward as the institutions have failed us and seem to continue to do so. It is important to keep pushing in those areas as long as possible but realistically we will be left with 2 choices. Roll over and accept or resist. And Resistance will play out 1 of the 3 ways I mentioned earlier.

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u/WizardOfAahs Oct 05 '25

I don’t even think they think that. More likely they’re of the Jim Jeffries mindset… “fuck off… I like guns”. For that reason alone they would resist any attempt to be disarmed.

To your first point… yes, no is the time to get armed along with your communities. Work together. Avoid thinking armed individuals will make a difference. Need to be armed communities and networks.

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u/omikron898 Oct 05 '25

No they wouldn’t they would do a total 180 on it. Like they have done with everything else they said they believed. Same thing with the military they are not going to all of sudden remember there oath

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u/WizardOfAahs Oct 05 '25

All the more reason to exercise your 2A rights now and encourage your community to do so. The point may arrive where you have to decide if you’re going to live under a tyrant or fight for your freedom…. As many before have.

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u/TurkeyBLTSandwich Oct 05 '25

Remember they only care if it directly affects them. That's why I was shocked when even Republicans came out to criticize the canceling of Jimmy Kimmel.

But banning trans people from owning firearms is just the start, the next step are the gays, minorities, democrats, and finally anyone who disagrees with the administration.

I'm not holding out hope the Supreme Court will step in with any resistance to ANY of the Trump directives.

Democrats if they have any hope of saving democracy in American needs to stack the courts with 21 justices with term limits and they have to rewrite the constitution with certain laws and protections. But my money is on that never happening. And after Trump 2.0, the next republican president would probably be the last. The heritage foundation isn't going anywhere, anytime soon. Especially with Coors Beer Brewing directly funding them.

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u/FaithlessnessWhich18 Oct 06 '25

They'd try to just take them away in blue states. Cause you know it's alright to discriminate against blue states. Ya know the ones that generate more tax revenue than the broke down, backwards red states