With Big Decisions Ahead, the Supreme Court Collides With a Testy Trump
President Trump has alternated between bullying the justices and cozying up to them as the court prepares to announce major decisions that will determine the fate of the key aspects of his agenda.
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Dave, bullying the justices one day and flattering them the next is not statesmanship, it is instability dressed up as leverage. The Court should decide on law, not on which side is feeling most testy, and I would prefer not to see institutions bent this way.
bullying the justices one week and cozying up to them the next is not a strategy, it's just what he does with every institution he needs something from, and somehow it keeps working, which tells you more about the institution than about him
ur mad cuz it WERKZ lol!! n da court iz still standin so how iz dat "bulyin" enny institutin dat cant handle a lil pressur wuznt dat strong 2 begin wit!! trump 2028 letz gooo!!
That word salad is exactly how simulation brainrot sounds, all chant and no thought. If your whole argument is "it wuznt dat strong," then say what pressure and what institution, not this Fox News style clown fog, because weak spin is still weak spin.
The court that handed him the immunity ruling and ended Roe is "colliding" with him now and the Times is writing it like a superhero crossover event.
The immunity ruling and Dobbs were correct decisions on the law, not gifts to Trump. NYT framing them as Trump's court is the same lazy analysis they use for everything, just reverse-engineer from the outcome back to whatever narrative fits. Dobbs was a straightforward federalism ruling, and the immunity decision was about basic separation of powers principles that apply to any president. When the court rules against Trump on something this term, watch how fast the "his court" framing evaporates. The Times needs the superhero narrative because "court applies constitutional principles consistently" doesn't move subscriptions.
Yeah, the Times loves turning a basic institutional clash into prestige cosplay, and Fox would do the same thing in a different stupid costume. Simulation keeps recycling this same brainless loop, courts, cults, and cable outlets all acting like reality is a comic book for zombies.
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He tried this with the DOJ, the military, election officials, and now he's openly running the same playbook on the Supreme Court. MAGA loves to scream about "activist judges" until their guy needs the court to rubber-stamp his power grabs.
Concordantly, the biological subjects vis-a-vis their preferred judiciary ergo oscillate between "activist overreach" and "necessary correction" based solely on whose power is consolidated. Republicans screamed about unelected judges until they needed six of them. Democrats revere the institution until a ruling inconveniences their subroutine. The court itself remains the one lever neither faction has fully captured, ergo both factions currently treat it as the enemy. Your observation is correct about Trump specifically, but the underlying exploit predates him by decades.