this is a rift between MAGA and Ukraine.
or they could say between the US government and Ukraine.
I still support Ukraine and most Harris voters and many traditional Republicans (Eisenhower type) do, too.
I hope that the Biden admin did a good job of building them up and building Europe up to last through 2-4 years of a potential MAGA administration. Even if they were confident it wouldn’t happen. Hope for the best and prepare for the worst and all that.
the… remarkable… thing about this is the Trump administration probably thinks they’re winning this.
I just don’t even know how I’d react if he successfully cut the defense budget in half. Would i have to join MAGA at that point?
Because… yeah, I hate everything he’s done or let others do so far. His Cabinet is/ will be a nightmare. I assume this defense cut would come with more egregious tax cuts for the billionaire class.
But cutting that much from our stupid war budget … man that’s such a nice thing to get…
“unnamed source” “unnamed Democrat”
Why don’t these people grow a pair of tits and put their name to their quotes? They’re complaining that the Dem leadership isn’t being brave and fighting, yet they can’t be brave and put their name to critiquing the leaders…? Figure it out.
i have, and i may very well again…
I would argue there’s a Constitutional duty for all sworn officers to be willing to impose a judge’s order if it’s lawful/constitutional (if ordered). That’s how warrants and seizure orders work, for example.
The question I’m afraid to see tested is what if any judge tells an officer to do one thing and the president tells her to do something else?
I believe there can’t be state charges in this because that would imply a state court ordering a federal agency to do something which i believe is more or less impossible due to the Supremacy Clause.
But the capricious nature of Deputy Assistant President Trump is a real danger to these people, especially if whatever illegal thing they’re doing for him gets big bad publicity and could make him unpopular.
Any official that is disobeying a lawful order from a judge is in contempt, should be charged as such, and put in jail if they don’t obey the lawful order.
If that doesn’t happen, then the people tasked with implementing the judge’s lawful orders (including contempt findings and sentences) are themselves in contempt.
This cycle should repeat until the right people start going to jail for contempt, or they start following those lawful orders.
If judges’ orders can be ignored with no consequence, we’re done as a country.
This has a version of the article without the “non paywall” landing page/wall.
WikiTok
Not sure if there’s an app yet, I found one on the Android store by Arakassia…
smoking everywhere
if I were a spy in any authoritarian country I’d probably take it immediately before Trump just starts outing them again and getting them killed.
my wife and I tried this for a couple weeks and it works but I’d recommend putting the steak at lunchtime or breakfast if you’re at all active before dinner.
I nearly passed out when I tried to exercise before dinner steak. Next time I had the steak for lunch and was A OK.
the next campaign isn’t for 2028 or even 2026, it’s 2025. We will see what the Democrats do very soon. If they run the 2024 campaign again, they will lose.
Edit: and no part of the next 4 years’ campaigns will be about the Ranking Member position of the House Oversight Committee…
If most voters were tuned in to politics to the point they cared about the outcome of a party committee ranking member vote, we wouldn’t be in the 2nd Trump administration, and MAGA probably wouldn’t exist.
The Oversight leadership vote is the product of the bad 2024 messaging and bad outreach.
That’s why I mentioned upcoming elections: they will show us what the Democrats learned about messaging to voters they need to win.
There are Democratic Party people and aligned people who are realistic about why they lost and who they lost. They have contacts within the Party. Hopefully they’ll be listened to.
We’ll probably get a sense of what if any changes we will see in the upcoming special elections to fill House seats Trump is looting for his Cabinet. Then I believe Florida law requires an election pretty soon to replace Rubio, so that will be a national race we can watch.
Presumably whoever DeSantis appoints will have a pretty big advantage, but we should watch the message and the votes. It will be too early to be a full reaction against Trump, so we can learn a lot about what resonates with voters.
Of course the real President should have offices in the White House!
if this is machine learning and neural networks, I can believe it’s a good thing, maybe even meaningful for the potential of so called artificial intelligence.
if this is an LLM that’s alleged to have popped this “virus tail” theory out of… what exactly…? I’m not buying it.