John Tripp

@jptripp.bsky.social

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Humanist, Entrepreneur, Sustainability Professional, Climate Advocate, Swordsman, Gamer, History Nut, Science Nerd, and All-Around Geek, He/Him/His. I read a lot, acquire hobbies, and don’t give space for fascists. NSFW. Neurospicy. 💙🌊🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🖖

Trump underwater on all key issues, especially Epstein files. Difference between the percent of adults who approve and disapprove of Trump's handling of each issue, % points Jeffrey Epstein files -42% Inflation -22% Trade/tariffs -16% Deportation -15% Jobs and the economy -14% Overall -11% Immigration -5% Source: Strength In Numbers/gelliottmorris.copm • Created with Datawrapper
Text continues: But second, there is a workaround specifically for when a court is being thwarted by the DOJ. The court can escalate the charge to criminal contempt (the crime being committed is refusing to follow the court order). At that point the court has to apply to the Attorney General (also in the executive branch) to have an administration attorney assigned to prosecute. (6/8) HOWEVER, the law very clearly states: "The court must request that the contempt be prosecuted by an attorney for the government, UNLESS THE INTEREST OF JUSTICE REQUIRES THE APPOINTMENT OF ANOTHER ATTORNEY. IF THE GOVERNMENT DECLINES THE REQUEST, THE COURT MUST APPOINT ANOTHER ATTORNEY TO PROSECUTE THE CONTEMPT. (7/8) (You can find the full statute by searching for "Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure Rule 42. Criminal Contempt") By the way, did you catch that "must"? MUST APPOINT ANOTHER ATTORNEY. Not may. Must. So, the answer to "What can the court do if they simply refuse?" is, they've got ways. Our system of government has zero loopholes for someone to *actually* be king, no matter what they say. (8/8) (Join us at We the People Defend dot org)
Post by Annepmitchellesq WHAT CAN A COURT DO IF TRUMP OR MUSK REFUSE TO FOLLOW A COURT ORDER? HERE'S WHAT This isn't hypothetical, as I posted earlier today (on Facebook) about the case where the plaintiff has now filed a request for civil contempt charges against the administration for not complying with the judge's restraining order in that case. (1/8) SO HOW CAN A COURT ENFORCE AN ORDER AGAINST AN ADMINISTRATION THAT REFUSES TO COMPLY? CAN THEY? The answer is "yes". First, the enforcement arm for the Federal courts is the U.S. Marshal service (i.e. the Federal marshals - yes, they don't just fly the friendly skies, they enforce on the ground). (2/8) The U.S. Marshals serve warrants and subpeonas, and make arrests, on behalf of the Federal courts. In addition, as written right into our Federal law, "(a) It is the primary role and mission of the United States Marshals Service to provide for the security and to obey, execute, and enforce all orders of the United States District Courts, the United States Courts of Appeals, the Court of International Trade, and the United States Tax Court, as provided by law." (3/8) (You can read the full, short statute about Marshals, by searching "28 U.S. Code § 566 - Powers and duties") That's all well and good, BUT... the U.S. Marshals are overseen by the Department of Justice, which is part of the executive branch. This means that *in theory* Trump could order the DOJ to order the U.S. Marshals to not execute the lawful order of the court. HOWEVER... (4/8) There are two things about this: first, as I've said elsewhere, that almost has to happen in order for the House to start taking seriously their duty to impeach (once impeached the Senate would have to convict in order to remove Trump from the office of the President - we've seen how this went last time, but that was then... this is now. (5/8)
A gnome in a green hat and red coat stands below a timeline graphic illustrating the phases of a plan: PHASE 1: Collect Underpants PHASE 2: ? PHASE 3: Profit From the TV show “South Park.”
Screenshot of profile page for username “the concept of whiteness” Pinned post reads: “The American liberal is just somebody who has been extremely miseducated about how power works. That’s the purpose of that whole project.”
Post by Jorts (and Jean) I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping these dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs in the elevator lobby. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons. Anything they want, hide it or mislabel it. Anything they plug in, unplug it. Remove light bulbs. Move cubicles around so they hide some of the doors and when they leave the room move them again so they hide different doors. Play really loud music. Think like a cat, and sabo tabby yourself a mess.
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS FRET LEVEL ADVISORY SYSTEM SEVERE STERNLY WORDED LETTER! HIGH "HAVEN'T MADE A DECISION YET" ELEVATED "VERY CONCERNED" GUARDED "MITCH PROMISED ME" LOW FURROWED BROW
Screenshot of Jared Moskowitz’s X feed: “This is an Excellent idea by @realDonald Trump. This council will provide recommendations to improve FEMA and disaster response throughout the country.” Retweet of Post by @MarioNawfal • 1d “* TRUMP ISSUES ORDER TO CREATE FEMA REVIEW COUNCIL “President Trump signed an executive order establishing a review council for FEMA, just...”
Picture of a man (me) with a mustache and goatee, wearing Elizabethan clothing of white shirt, blue doublet, brown jerkin, and brown felt hat. Holding a large Harris hawk in the front of the frame.
Screenshot: Post by anarchotradwife men will refuse to learn basic life skills like "cook food" and "wash clothes" because "that's a woman's job" and then turn around and call themselves "high value" Post 2 by anarchotradwife bro you're helpless. you're a little baby. you don't want a girlfriend, you want a mother
Picture of Albert Camus smoking a cigarette, with the following attributed quote: "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
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Profile page of Vanessa Holguin, proudly claiming her MAGA affiliation.
Picture of Nancy Reagan in a red pantsuit, alongside the following text: “I'm a Republican. I fought against the LGBTQ community until my daughter came out. “I'm a Republican. I fought against stem cell research until Ronnie got Alzheimer's. “I'm a Republican. I don't give a shit about you until it happens to me.”
Cartoon of the Mari-Lwyd on someone’s doorstep. Caption: IT WAS COMMON FOR THE MARI-LWYD TO SHOW UP ON YOUR DOORSTEP AND SING AT YOU UNTIL YOU LET THEM IN. Mari-Lwyd: “Let me innn, la, la, laaa.” Person in house: “NO.” A RHYMING BATTLE OF WITS ENSUED, WITH THE MARI-LWYD EVENTUALLY GAINING ENTRY THROUGH ITS CUNNING WITTICISMS AND RUDE RHYMES.
Donald Trump is superimposed into the “Back to the Future” scene of Biff washing George’s car. The pale yellow truck behind him reads “Trump’s Auto Detailing.”
“Earthrise.” ‘Nuff said.
Morpheus from the Matrix, with the text: What if I told you that this is a meme
Screenshot of Profile for “Alex”(@alexmarkk.badly.social). Claims “Team Blue.” Top post reads: “I have a serious problem with gays! It’s against the natural order.”
An equation, that makes a limerick. “A dozen, a gross, and a score, Plus three times the square root of four; Divided by seven, Plus five times eleven, Equals nine squared and not a bit more.”
Text over a background picture of Captain Malcolm Reynolds from Firefly: "It's my estimation that every man who ever got a statue made of him was some kind of sumbitch or 'nother" - Mal Reynolds
Screenshot of an X post from @QasimRashid, saying "The people who stepped over the dead body of the UH CEO, held the investor meeting despite his death, & re-listed his job just 48 hours after he was killed, want you to know that you citing the 68k preventable deaths due to lack of healthcare is being insensitive to his humanity
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Drawing of a raccoon reaching out to grab something with the text: HEY. I just wanted you to know I'm going to steal this.
Cartoon: A speaker is on stage behind a lectern with his hand raised. A banner to the left with a picture of the Earth reads "Climate Summit." Behind the speaker is a bulleted list: - Energy Independence - Preserve Rainforests - Green Jobs - Livable Cities - Renewables - Clean Water, Air - Healthy Children - etc. etc. A man is speaking at the back of the assembled crowd. His word balloon reads: "What if it's all a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
A woman in old-time dress is carrying an empty harvest basket, with the caption “Alas, me basket-o-fucks be empty.”
A picture of a Dungeons & Dragons products from 1st-Edition to 4th, including Basic, Expert sets and a couple early modules laid out on the playing surface of a tan-covered wooden pool table.
Three rabbits, two smaller, one larger, all with deer antlers.
Cartoon dog sitting at a table in a room that is on fire. He wears a small hat. In panel 2, he says “This is fine.”
A bearded man in Elizabethan garb of a green doublet and matching trunk hose, with a gold brocade jerkin, brown leather thigh/high boots, sword, cape and hat with feathers.
Quizzical owl with head tipped sideways.
Quizzical owl tipping its head sideways.
Photo Collage: Upper left: art of Peter Parker, with his Spider-Man mask rolled up to reveal his perplexed face. Upper right: Horatio Hornblower (as played by Ioan Gruffydd) standing at attention in full 18th-century British naval uniform. Lower left: Malcolm Reynolds from “Firefly” (as played by Nathan Fillion), in combat dress of tan trousers, maroon shirt, and long brown coat with pistol drawn, ready to fight. Lower right: blank.
A black & white cartoon of Donald Trump, in crown and ermine-fringed cape, sucking his thumb as he hides under the Resolute Desk.
Two pictures of Elon Musk, one from the start of his career, and one more recently. In the early photo, he is balding, with a weak chin, but smiling. Sort of. In the recent one, he has clearly had a hair transplant and other work done.
Picture of an omelette on a white plate on a red placemat. A yellow mug of coffee sits in the upper right.
Cover art of Robert Jordan’s “The Eye of the World.” Depicts a warrior on a large black stallion and a woman in blue riding a smaller white mare, with the full moon behind them. A younger man in rustic clothes follows on a bay horse.
Background of part of the American flag with the text: “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - Sinclair Lewis
Burning candle with a label reading: My Last Fuck Oh, look. It’s on fire.
Faux Bayeux Tapestry Art with the following text: Behold the field in which I grow my Fucks. Lay thine eyes upon it and thou shalt see that it is barren.
Cover of “The Count over Monte Cristo” by Alexandre Dumas. Blue with gold filigree.
A graphic of a gnome standing below a timeline… Phase 1: Collect underpants Phase 2: ???? Phase 3: Profit
Cover art of “Exit Earth” by author Martin Caidin. Depicts 2 spaceships departing from an Earth as it’s hit by a massive solar flare.
Picture of humorist Will Rogers alongside this quote. “The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. “Mr. Hoover didn't know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. “But it will at least have passed through the poor fellow's hands.” • Will Rogers
Three men in Elizabethan clothing face off against each other with drawn swords and daggers. A crowd of onlookers react.
A blonde woman seated on the road with a column of text. Headline: “I’m a Democrat, Not a Socialist.” MAGAS CALL ME THE "RADICAL LEFT." I BELIEVE IN FULL LGBTO RIGHTS, THAT WE SHOULD PROTECT THE PLANET, THAT THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN AMERICA, THAT EVERYONE DESERVES HEALTHCARE, THAT ALL RELIGIONS ARE BEAUTIFUL, THAT PEOPLE AND PLACES ARE MADE BETTER BY DIVERSITY. I DON'T THINK THAT'S RADICAL. I THINK HUMANITY FEELS RADICAL TO INHUMANE PEOPLE.
Comic characters Calvin (little boy) and Hobbes (a tiger) are visible looking up at a night sky. Calvin: “I love looking at the stars in a clear winter night.” Hobbes: “It’s only 4pm.”
Cover of “Storm Front” by Jim Butcher.
John Waters, seated and surrounded by stacks of books. Includes the following caption: “We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don't have books, don't fuck them.” - John Waters
“The Lord of the Rings” 3-volume boxed set. Black covers on a white background.
Photo is “Earthrise,” showing the moon rising over the lunar landscape. Taken by William Anders on Apollo 8. Caption: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth" - William Anders.
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Photo of President Harry S. Truman in suit and tie alongside the following text: "Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at everyadvance the people have made in the last 20 years. “Socialism is what they called public power. “Socialism is what they called Social Security. “Socialism is what they call farm price supports. “Socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. “Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. “Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." -Harry S. Truman, 1952 Source: OCCUPY DEMOCRATS
A 4-panel cartoon, showing two characters, one in a red MAGA hat, the other in a blue D hat. They flank a bright red button that both are looking at. In panel 1, MAGA hat says: “Pushing this button will begin the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and Trump…” In panel 2, MAGA hat continues: “But Bill Clinton must also…” as blue hat presses the button. In panel 3, MAGA hat looks shocked. In panel 4, MAGA hat struggles to pull blue hat away from the button as he says “Dude”
Picture of the Season 3 cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation. At the top it says: “This is the future liberals want” Caption reads: “Equality for all, science prevailing over religion, cool shirts. Yes, we want this.”
A lit candle with a label. It says: My Last Fuck Oh, look, it’s on fire.
Cover of “A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, depicting watercolor art of a happy bunny in a polka-dot bow tie in front of a big white house and its garden.
Picture of Earth rising over the lunar landscape taken from Apollo 8 e we the the quote: "We came all this way to explore the Moon, and the most important thing is that we discovered the Earth.” - Astronaut William Anders, Apollo 8.