May feel as if, like with the Borg, resistance is futile.
The Borg, however, were wrong. The Federation took on the Borg. And they won, or at least tied.
tRump and his minions have backed down over and over. And they will continue to do so. Every time they do, they look weaker. They ARE weaker.
This diary doesn’t just have six ways tRump and maga are losing. This diary has six categories of ways that tRump is losing. In each categories there are many, probably dozens, possibly hundreds, of examples.
Because I don’t have time to write them all (and you wouldn’t have time to read them all), I am limiting to only a few in each category.
However, if you want to add some others, please post in the comments.
Every time tRump loses, his administration becomes weaker.
And he usually loses. Sometimes he gives up in advance.
🐔 There’s even an expression for it: TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out
So we need to keep fighting.
We don’t obey in advance.
We don’t obey at all.
Come on in, friends.
1. Courts
There are way too many examples to list, so here are a few:
Here’s another example Steven Harper Common Dreams
President Donald Trump and the Big Law firms that surrendered to his unconstitutional executive orders suffered another bad week.
Trump Loses Again
In a 52-page opinion, U.S. District Court Judge John D. Bates—a 2001 appointee of President George W. Bush—rejected the Justice Department’s effort to defend Trump’s executive order targeting Jenner & Block. Trump’s own words doomed it:
Like the others in the series, this order—which takes aim at the global law firm Jenner & Block—makes no bones about why it chose its target: It picked Jenner because of the causes Jenner champions, the clients Jenner represents, and a lawyer Jenner once employed. (Jenner & Block v. U.S. Department of Justice, et al. Civil Action No. 25-916 (JDB) p. 1)
The court left no doubt that Trump had violated the Constitution:
Going after law firms in this way is doubly violative of the Constitution. Most obviously, retaliating against firms for the views embodied in their legal work—and thereby seeking to muzzle them going forward—violates the First Amendment’s central command that government may not “use the power of the State to punish or suppress disfavored expression.” (Id.; citations omitted.)
2. States
My favorite example is Governor Janet Mills:
3. Voters in special elections
In nearly all the special elections since tRump took office, the maga candidates either lost or at least team blue did better than expectations. This includes Nebraska, New York, and even Texas. Still, nowhere was this more obvious than in the Wisconsin election of a state supreme court justice. Elon Musk was there, spent ~25 million dollars, and got rejected soundly.
The result means that the GOP who are in office may have a little less to fear from Musk’s threats to primary them.
4. Businesses
Note that organizations supporting tRump are hurting. Target, Tesla, the law firms that bent the knee:
Not only are the law firms that bent the knee losing in court, they’re losing lawyers Debra Cassens Weiss ABAJournal
Associate Rachel Cohen may have been the first lawyer to resign from a law firm because she disagreed with its response to President Donald Trump’s punitive executive orders, but she isn’t the last.
Cohen is one of at least nine lawyers who have left six out of nine firms that reached deals with Trump, according to reporting on resignations by Law.com, the New York Times, Reuters (here and here) and Above the Law.
Cohen was a finance associate in the Chicago office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. She left the firm after it refused her call to support Perkins Coie in its lawsuit challenging an executive order that, among other things, barred its lawyers from government buildings and imperiled its representation of government contractors.
While companies that are woke are doing well:
Costco doubles down on DEI — and benefits Nancy Marshall-Glenzer Marketplace
Despite boycott threats from conservatives, Costco reported that net sales for April were up 7% from last year.
5. Other countries have gotten tRump to back down, over and over.
Not good for the US position in the world, but given where tRump was heading, better than him not backing down.
Here are examples with five countries (or country blocs) where tRump reduced or eliminated tariffs:
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Trump reduced the tariffs on China in exchange for nothing.
He paused the tariffs on Canada & Mexico in exchange for nothing.
He postponed tariffs on EU in exchange for nothing.
He threatened Russia with sanctions if they didn’t sign ceasefire & did nothing.
Art of the Deal.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-26T00:05:21.709Z
And we can’t forget the penguins, who also won in the tariff battle
The world has learned to ignore tRump.
Even putin, as Ron Filipkowski mentioned above, is ignoring tRump. tRump is even acting hurt about it. Perhaps he is starting to realize that the dictator putin, like all the other leaders in the world, also despises him. I mean, he already knew the educated despise him. Europeans despise him. Now he’s starting to see that dictators think he’s a chump as well.
6. Other countries have gotten their acts together
As the 2024 election showed, we did not learn our lesson. But other countries have observed the chaos and corruption brought on by the maladministration. And so the elections in other countries have veered away from the tRumpy candidates: Australia, Canada, Romania, Germany and even the Vatican. And they have consequences:
Even the UK and the EU are talking more.
The fight isn’t over. Victory is not guaranteed.
And there will be casualties.
But victory is possible.
Keep it up, friends. Let’s keep our country.
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