Source of news: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/7/ice-launches-military-style-raids-in-los-angeles-what-we-know
This is Stephen Miller’s (White House Deputy Chief) response to Karen Bass (Los Angeles Mayor).
The “states’ rights” crowd is not very supportive of states’ right, right now.
They never were. It was always cover to do awful shit like overturn Roe.
“States’ rights” has always been a bullshit lie. The confederacy did not honor states rights. The constitution explicitly instituted slavery as an institution an individual state could not abolish.
States’ rights to abuse its citizens, no states’ rights to protect any of them.
Little punk sure talks big when you can’t reach his little pencil neck. If federal law was as supreme as he plays up, him and his entire bunch would be behind bars right now
Easy to sound like a big man when you’re shouting from behind a few hundred marines.
But that’s sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don’t turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.
Unfortunately yeah
It wouldn’t surprise me if Miller was one of those “Skinny guys [that] fight 'til they’re burger.”
I thought he might have been the source of Elmu’s black eye for a while.
Maybe. All I’ve seen him do though bitch andnmoan and threaten with is mouth
I would expect nothing less from a literal nazi.
“federal law is supreme.” Is some supervillain shit. Even Hitler would have cringed.
Miller is a known white supremacist and hardcore Nazi
I know. But even then, that is so over the top.
Miller is what caused the “Uncanny Valley” phenomenon in early humans. He’s what prowled in the dark that looked human but wasn’t. And for long enough to warrant an evolutionary response.
Reminder, the states give the federal government its power. Hence the country’s name. To say otherwise is moronic and ultimately leads to civil war to settle these dumbass disagreements. The objective here for Q-tip Pencil-Dick McGee is to persuade the public that it’s the other way around to justify the administration’s criminal actions.
Does this stance fall under the GOP doctrine of small government or states rights? I’m a little lost.
Small gubermint
So much for “state’s rights.”
Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they’re very worried about protecting anything.
Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.
I will be shocked if it takes that long.
It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.
You have a shot now, you’re just not taking it.
What kinda shot?
Me against a police force? We haven’t even got left wing militias out there, let alone the size it would take for a coup.
Cool, well you just take a seat and relax. You’ve clearly done everything you can. Someone will be along to save you any day now, I’m sure.
Time for the Sartre quote:
Never believe that
anti-Semitesfascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semitesfascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."They’re all about protecting their own wealth and their own “supremacy.”
Irony & Stephen being an arch-ghoul notwithstanding, federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2). Like, Nebraska couldn’t just legalize murder. They could stop enforcing that law, but it’d still be illegal and the federal gov’t could take action.
federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2)
Only to the extent that the Federal law is constitutional (ie within its powers) and valid
And to the extent that they are actually following the federal law, regardless of its constitutionality.
That’s a fair point. But it would need to be argued in the courts.
And “constitutionality” is defined by the Supreme Court…
Doh!
Yeah, the courts being captured is possibly the biggest problem facing the US right now. They’re what makes all the bad stuff the current regime is doing possible.
Mmm, maybe, I’m pretty sure there’s pretty solid case law precedent on this. It’s been heavily litigated over the centuries.
The parameters around what is within the jurisdiction of the US Federal govt is pretty clear. Fundamentally Article I, Section 8 of US Constitution although there’s a few other loose ends (implied powers).
“The enumerated powers listed in Article One include both exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are to be contrasted with reserved powers that only the states possess”
That’s a weird way to spell “heil Trump”.
The Feds aren’t even following federal law.
A 30+ felon who tried to overthrow the government, and stole enough classified docs to be imprisoned for millennia, is the president.
There is no “federal law”. There is only a fascist dictatorship — a kakistocracy with nothing but the illusion of authority — and the millions of people who let this failed-state clown show continue.
Like, I am genuinely baffled that in the most heavily armed county on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD, shat on for decades… How is the attempted murder of the people in charge not a daily occurrence? Shit’s wild yo!
kakistocracy
Learned a new word today. I’m keeping that one.
I like stulitocracy too,
From stultus: stupid, silly, unwise, foolish
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Stop paying taxes. Let miller figure out how he’s gonna pay the military to keep up this supreme leader bullshit.
How?
Federal taxes don’t pass through California on the way to the feds.
hold on, this is from the “states rights” lot, right?
States rights are only for conservative states. Blue states don’t have any rights. Everybody knows that.
I bet a few red states are in for a surprise.
Smeagol lied.
I think Miller is more a mix of Joseph Goebbels and Wormtongue, both sycophants seeking to advance on the backs of others.
Smeagol was basically a good guy until he was enchanted by evil. Miller brings evil with him.
I think of Miller as more like Himmler, which is why I call him PeeWee Himmler. Bannon is more analogous to Goebbels.
Goebbels was on the propaganda side, while Himmler was on the Final Solution side.
I’m shocked! Shocked! I can’t believe that Smeagol would lie about anything.
JRR Tolkien had smeagol a chance at redemption, but Sam blew it. There’s a yt video about it, if anyone cares to look.
Grima Wormtongue-ass mfer.
- Known Nazi and self described white supremacist, Stephen Miller
Nice, if there’s ever a democratic president again, let’s use that precedent to completely fuck Texas and the other theocracies when they try to make bible shit into law again
Lmao they’ll change their tune very quickly if that happens
No they won’t, they’ll claim they’re being persecuted and play victim
gaslight, obstruct, project
You’re funny. We don’t change our tune in the south. We just claim that you’re singing it wrong.
Biden could have arrested Trump on day one.
Democrats set this coarse.
This has been the game for the GOP for decades. They cry “states rights” when they don’t have the presidency, then want the president to be a king when they have the presidency.
I love how the liberals dreams of “revenge” are of not allowing others to be oppressed by some fucked up law.
I mean. I get it. Don’t get me wrong. But if the dream of liberals in power is just “things aren’t getting much worse for awhile” I really think we need to reprioritize.
My idea of left seizing power and being “authoritarian” is enacting universal healthcare, high speed rail, billionaires in jail, ending garbage AI waste, and much more material actions.
If our idea is just to “stick it” to some racist people in Texas I think we need to rethink that plan. I want those racist people in Texas to have all of the things above too. I want the material conditions to improve for everyone because I know that that is what helps to end these manufactured divisions of race, gender, or religion.
Our goals can’t be to just play whackamole with fucked up laws in red states.
I think red states need to be humbled, and I live in one. Not that they should be denied those things, but never given another opportunity or concession as in post civil war.
Optimistic of you to assume their mission won’t be a return to normalcy.
Sorry, the senate parliamentarian will say it’s not allowed and so the dems will pout about it some then just settle for sending a strongly worded letter about the matter.
Texan here: I’ll bring the lube
If there’s ever a non-trumpikan president of this country again they must declare the Republican party a fascist organization, its members arrested, its symbols hate speech, and ban everyone from supporting or promoting their ideas again. Anything less is, frankly, complicity with what’s happening now.
It always was complicity, too. Sherman should have burned it all, zero concessions given.
