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”.

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[–] [S] 171 points 1 year ago (17 children)

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

https://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.

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  • [–] 77 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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

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  • [–] 74 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Meanwhile in trumpland:

    ItS aLl LefTiSt MeDiA!!!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Which is the least worst in the current landscape?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    They have been quite open about it, if only people would actually listen to them...

    NRx,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

    Project 25,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't a "Dark Enlightenment" be an "Endarkenment"?

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    [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    He means Trump is the fuhrer

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What is it with these nazis being such goofy bastards.

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  • [–] [S] 36 points 1 year ago

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Someone just a fuckin screamin at him in the ear piece no doubt

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    For a moment I thought Miller was wearing a red armband in the thumbnail.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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?

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