r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/tapdancingtoes 1d ago

Jefferson tried to warn us.

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u/Grubsex 1d ago

He said things about a certain tree that were true.

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u/HotmailsInYourArea 1d ago

🎶 Are you, are you, coming to the tree? 🎶🔥

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u/snail-the-sage 1d ago

I'm curious to what you are referring.

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u/yosemighty_sam 1d ago

Jefferson was and still is one of the biggest voices against too much executive power. As I recall he wanted the chief executive to be more of a chief diplomat, and warned that giving any individual too much power would inevitably lead to tyranny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Ove4_JsCM

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u/Dwayne_Gertzky 23h ago

Trying to understand Jefferson’s personal politics through my modern political lense always interests me.

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u/RoboOverlord 1d ago

https://www.monticello.org/research-education/thomas-jefferson-encyclopedia/tree-liberty-quotation/

This, they are referring to this, but they are afraid reddit will ban them for posting it. So here is a scholarly article, with the actual hand written words so you can judge for yourself.