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softlynow

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  1. Truly sorry for your loss. He sounds like an incredible father, husband and a great person. You were truly lucky, as you say, and we are lucky to have, as an internet friend, someone raised by the man you describe.

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  2. Just now, HOOKEM4 said:

    Well shit, this is how stupid I am. I never even put two and two together that this is exactly what was done. Pausing all federal grants...etc.. just cut all funding to farmers. It has been a long day. I doubt the farmers realized this when the scroll went by their fox news feed. Deport their labor force, cut their subsidies right before you need to buy seed and fertilizer for the spring planting season. Hahahha

    We will see how long the Judge ruling holds up.

    Depends on how long Thomas holds out for a better vacation package.

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  3. 1 hour ago, The Dog said:

    he absolutely hears if he's being blamed for it though. this is blowing up in his face so Trump will find someone to throw under the bus.

    How does he hear it? Through what sources?

    The campaign redirected him on Project 2025 because they needed to win an election. He has no more elections to win. Public opinion is the last thing he cares about now. He will retain power through extralegal means (vis a vis the current status of the law). What Elon and Putin think matters. What trucknuts10234758017 thinks is completely irrelevant.

    He also doesn't need to outright grift from folks anymore with things like bibles and signs. He can just redirect tax dollars to his hearts content.

    Some of y'all just do not get that it is all fucking over.

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  4. 10 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    This is the Stephen Miller strategy. Do something outrageous like try to repeal by executive order a constitutional amendment, wait for a Federal judge to halt the order, kick the case around until you get a Trump favorable judge or ultimately get it before the Supreme Court and roll the dice on ruling on your unconstitutional power grab. 

    It's not a bad strategy, really.

    If FedSoc cunts hadn't spent decaded eroding the rule of law, it would be a losing one, but . . . .

  5. Just now, lemonlime said:

    What's blowing up in his face?  He's golfing while enjoying tons of paid for security at one of his many mansions, while keeping Daddy Putin happy.

    Yep. It's not he actually reads anything on Truth Social. He just posts there. None of the folks complaining about his shit will get through to him.

    Any blowback will simply be spun into reason to disolve the constitution, make himself Emperor, and be used as causus belli to invade Canada and Mexico.

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  6. Just now, mdmost said:

    Because I doubt Trump has zero idea about any of this. This is Stephen Miller and others putting the EOs in front of him. Trump doesn't have the attention span to do all this. 

    Agreed. Trump is a lot of things, but expertly strategic is not one of them. He will likely never know nor care, even he hears, that the facsists running the show for him are breaking things.

    At this point, I don't think even the folks on the ledge are pessmistic enough about where things are headed.

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  7. 58 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Pretty much exactly.

    I think the constitutional argument goes like this.  ICA violates separation of powers because of the take care clause, which reserves enforcement to the executive, and spending of funds is included within enforcement.

    On the other side, spending/appropriations are reserved to Congress, and the House specifically.  And the president already has veto power as a check on spending.  And, prior to ICA, SCOTUS affirmed a congressional limitation in appropriations legislation on executive impoundment in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_v._City_of_New_York.

    So, we know how this should go.  That doesn't mean that's how it will go.

    Since know how it should go, we know the opposite will happen. Train did nothing more than interpret a statute. Even if state decides was a real thing anymore, there’s no need to dance around it to declare the ICA unconstitutional. Train address the ICA or even mention the Constitution.

  8. 20 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    There’s no outcome where we “control Greenland” any more than Denmark controls Greenland today (which is even less than we control it today).
    No matter what president thinks: this is about what Greenland wants and who they want to sell their nominal allegiance or nominal independence to.  They will determine the outcome of this*, with an outcome probably determined by pitting us against the Chinese for access to rare earth minerals.
     

     

     

    * community note: according to Surly lefties, assertions of Greenland’s agency are right wing propaganda. 

    Don’t paint us all with that brush. Most of us are ignoring y’all. 

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  9. 1 minute ago, David Dennison said:

    Retirement accounts wouldn't exist without the state. 

    In a sense, they do, if you consider having a bigger arsenal and an easier position to defend than all your neighbors an "account." 

  10. 35 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

    Blah blah blah.  Trump does it -- Ana finds a way to be okay with it, no matter what it is.  Anyone who opposes Trump does something?  Ana will always find some way or reason to condemn it.

    It's fascinating to watch.

    You insist that you're not a Trumper, while supporting/excusing him with more consistency than even many of the MAGAts I know.  That you fail to see it - or just deny it - is another layer of fascinating.

    There's nothing fascinating about it. All the posters pretending at being an honest broker become clowns. Some rather quickly (LonghornLaw/Laphraig/another handle I forget), some on a bit longer timeline (TahoeHorn). Ana has reached the late stages here, having fooled a bunch of us for a long time, but getting near universal pushback on his nonsense. It's time to let him talk to the void more often. He avoids the buzz words, but like the others of his kind, he's "just asking questions."

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  11. 38 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    Why are all of these people in a church anyway? What she said could have been taken directly from the Bible. Fuck that shit! Deport her!

    I always kind of figured that the vast majority of "religious" people were completely full of shit about it, but it's really depressing to get the confirmation this way. 

    The vast majority of church goers want this:

     

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  12. 24 minutes ago, DixonHur said:

    I'm not left or right, and don't care about "owning" anyone.  I also don't care about "inclusiveness" per se.  I care about fairness and equal opportunity based on merit.  If you are a good person (IE treat others with respect and dignity), I will treat you with respect and dignity regardless of race, class, gender identity, legal status, religion, sexual orientation, etc., but if you want to support Nazis and other fascists hell bent on taking other people's rights then I wouldn't piss on you to put out a fire.

    In my opinion, taking the high road goes out the window when dealing with traitorous assholes.  We tried that and look where it got us.

    I'm not sure anyone is asking you to take the high road. I'm sure as hell not.

    But think about it this way: you have a message you want to convey and a large chunk of your audience will tune you out if you, say, called the assholes fag, kike or spic, or, as you did, by their deadname. What would Sark gain by trying to fire up the troops by rolling in the locker room with a, "listen up n-----s!"

    It's more about messaging and persuasion than asking you to be sensitive.

    I mean if you want to waste your time and just fill up a post on the board, fine. Just be aware you're not being as effective as you could be.

    Similarly, would you roll into a bar and announce, "which one of you cunts wants a painting of Hawaii on their face?"

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  13. He's getting what he wants when y'all continue to respond. Remember he considers facts and reason to be liberal tears. Block him and move on. Let this thread fall off the first page quickly and him be forgotten like rank and file nazis have been forgotten. Nothing but embarrassments to their descendants.

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  14. 11 minutes ago, Bojack said:

    I legitimately worry that we're soon going to have para-military death squads running around soon. For instance, I've dreaded the possibility that we'll have ethnic cleansing somewhere like Springfield, Ohio. Local law enforcement looks the other way. Springfield sheriff on social media: "If you support the Democrat Party I will not help you." I wonder if he'll support those Haitian immigrants or if Trump's new FBI will do anything to hinder right wing domestic terror. No bottom and remember that your worst expectations aren't anywhere near bad enough. We'll still be shocked.

    And the media will normalize it by equating the death squads to Obama’s community organizing.

    Our only hope, small though it may be, is that he dies before they can cancel the election, and his supporters don’t immediately become cultists for the next guy. 

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  15. 3 hours ago, Okie State said:

    I honestly don't even know what to think anymore. It has been eye opening seeing how many people I know are all in on this and I can't even comprehend why. I'm not sure they even know why.

    You ever wonder why you get so many phishing/scam emails, texts, and phone calls? It's because they work.

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  16. 6 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

    I can't even imagine what kind of document we would get out of a constitutional convention today, but I'm pretty sure that it would be a disaster

    If it was written this year we’d get a hereditary monarchy with absolute power and codify the divine right of rule by the Trump family. There would be protections only for straight, white, Christian men. Ratification would be by plebiscite and would pass with 101% of the vote.

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  17. 14 minutes ago, bolverk said:

     

    Yeah, I agree with Brian that it was stupid to wait, but with this timing, I'm guessing Biden is just farting in the elevator before getting off.

    I'm certainly no lawyer, but a reading of this makes it pretty clear that Congress has been empowered to impose a time limit on ratification since SCOTUS's decision in 1921. This did not apply to the 27th Amendment since that Congress put no time limit on its ratification.
    https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artV-4-2-1/ALDE_00013054/

    Now, I do think there's a valid question about why such a restriction would be put on ratification in the first place. I suppose you could make the argument that if an amendment can't get ratified by X number of states within a certain period of time, then it's not worth passage. Of course, that's a dubious proposition when a chunk of the country is too entrenched in its own prejudices.

    Regardless, I applaud shining a light on the issue, so let's see if the Dems can make any hay from it (narrator: they can't).

    I'd appreciate it if anyone could point to the ABA language providing an opinion on why the amendment actually should be valid.

    It doesn't take a lawyer to understand that the constitution is like the strike zone, except it's 5 people's opinions that matter, not 1. The only real wildcard is whether a couple justices would've held out for a better vacation package.

  18. 2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Even if you accept that it was "the economy, stupid," what in the name of God would have made you think Trump would improve it?

    Asshole is already crawfishing on consumer prices.

    That he's a bidnessmen?  Jeezus jumped-up Christ on a cracker.

    As someone with lots of working class clients, that is truly what many still think. I learned how to gracefully disengage when they try to suck me into a discussion on the virtues of Dotard, but the garbage that comes out before I can change the subject (usually back to the terrible situation they've made for themselves) has really soured me on humanity. The oligarchy barely has to try to get these folks. We're fucked for a long while.

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