Zaktor @ Zaktor @sopuli.xyz

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But in a 7-2 ruling, the US supreme court paused Murphy’s orders, clearing all obstacles preventing the Trump administration’s plan.

Wait. TWO? I guess I missed at the time that Kagan completely shit the bed on that one.

Lol. The fuck are talking about?

The diplomatic decisions of a monarch are not reflective of even his subjects at the time, let alone create lasting culture, especially not when that monarch was literally overthrown and executed.

And trying to pull that on someone hundreds of years and multiple governments separated from the offending king when Trump is literally the elected president right now is just abject nonsense.

I'm just making fun of your dumb statement, not trying to address anything else.

The French monarchy refused to get involved until it benefited him. Which has fuck all to do with any modern Frenchman's to opinions.

"Barely 100x more."

Yeah, my distaste for Buttigieg stemmed not from him being a centrist, but because he doesn't seem to stand for anything. Like Harris he started the primary in a vague progressive lane and then realized that he wasn't going to complete with Bernie or Warren and decided Biden was weak in the moderate path and shifted there. If there was a communist revolution, Pete would speak the theory and throw his hat into the ring for Chairman.

He's the epitomy of the view that politics is mostly about finely crafting a message and winning the spin game, not policy or action. He may even be right, but I don't trust him to be anything more than a spokesman.

Yeah. Matthew Shepard was murdered when he was 15 or 16. There's a reason "Pride" is named "Pride", and it's not because pride and acceptance is the default state for homosexual youths.

What if the kid specifically tells you because they think it's confidential and the thing they are seeking is counseling? Reporting wasn't made mandatory for social workers and counselors because they were thinking about the desires of the rapist, it's because they wanted kids to have someone they could trust.

Priests I'm not so sure, as the perpetrator is likely a member of their club.

That was a House vote. They're in the Senate.

They've built conspiracies about child predators up to the point where it's a foundational principle of the movement for many. They make movies about pedophile hunters and spread conspiracies that inspire people break into pizza stores with rifles. Maybe this is a coordinated threat to Trump to get him to bend on tariffs and deportations, maybe they just didn't realize the themes they were using to rile them up actually stuck and wasn't something they were going to reverse course on when it became politically inconvenient.

I don't think it was to protect Trump. I think it was still the normal sort of selfish legal maximization. The story is that he couldn't answer about his times being with both Trump and young girls without incriminating himself, which implies that when they were both together with young girls, something illegal happened.

The answer really should have been "fuck the consequences" from the start. It wasn't justified before because there could be diplomatic and economic fallout, but we're now in a political environment where the previous protectors of the status quo are willing to push toward that result and the lie at the core of a lot of MAGA is bucking their leadership to push in the same direction, so even if they haven't both become better people en masse, they might get there anyway.

If they (the whole Republican caucus) supported him, they could have stayed open and voted it down. Nothing that's happened has advanced their position. The committee vote wasn't improved by Trump and Johnson becoming weaker. You're too deep in the grand conspiracy theory to actually capitalize on changes in the political landscape. In your eyes, every development at every point in time is just another example of the enemy winning, so whatever happens must be what they want and it must be moving you further from your goals. But there's no winning with that mindset. You'll never see when there is an opportunity to rally workers to contact representatives in a newly chaotic political environment where they're off balance because the previous status quo of blind loyalty to leadership is in doubt.

They're not your friends and the game isn't won, none of this is a development that means we can all just sit back and wait for success, but being at maximum doom all the time means you're not prepared to take advantage of their weakness.

It's derailed their propaganda machine. No one thinks Trump's going to be arrested in the White House, but this is the first issue that's put a wedge between Trump and Congress (and where it hasn't between Congress and their base). As long as this runs, Trump isn't the golden leader of the unified conservative team and individual reps have to fear whether loyalty means they'll lose their job. Which then empowers local campaigns to block bills.

If you think a House committee passing a bill out to the shut down House (not even an actual full House vote) was going to trigger something if only people weren't distracted by scandals, you're delusional. The media aren't riding Epstein to stealth a fucking Education and Workforce committee vote.

You think this is a distraction? The most damaging scandal for the billionaires' president is actually a secret plot so we should just ignore it and focus on an unspecified not-damaging story?

These memes about media manipulation by mastermind powers puppetting everything often just seem like an excuse for perpetual inaction. It's the lefty version of the liberal "keeping our powder dry", where no current conflict is ever worth engaging in because somehow action is always playing into the opponents' hands and the savvy move is either inaction or refocusing on something else without traction.

Take off your stupid sunglasses you business dweeb. You're not a techie, you're just another MBA asshole scamming investors and leeching off the work of the actual smart people.

Thanks Obama.

When the Supreme Court comes through to do something not fascist, you know the lower court opinion is going to be fucking insane. "Citizens can't sue for violations of the voting rights act."

And the three worst justices agreed. I think they're generally just surprised their fellow conservatives don't get that the movement is going full fascist and they don't need to maintain the veneer of law anymore.

The only way the United States can maintain its core function of managing immigration is to have private prisons in New Jersey?

Yeah, anything MTG puts forward that isn't already supported by Republicans is likely pointless nuttery (the supported stuff is dangerous nuttery). But more generally, these people all know when a bill is going to be 50/50 and when it's going to get 400 no votes.

That's not to say representatives never should be judged for their votes on doomed bills, but their vote should be in the context of it just being a statement itself, and with MTG writing the amendment, the statement is a muddled mess.