Then maybe we should just roll with precedent or something wacky like that.

“If you’re speaking your mind that means what you’re saying is fine” is yet another banger from the MAGA universe.

I’m sick of these people being allowed on TV to lie every fucking day while reporters sputter and stammer trying to deal with what amounts to the rhetorical tricks of a middle schooler.

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

If this simply *happens* as opposed to his social media declarations doing nothing, and nothing is done (either by the courts or congress) to reverse it or prevent it from happening again Congress just de facto lost the power of the purse.

He doesn’t have the authority to order the Secretary of Defense to pay troops with money that wasn’t allocated for that purpose.

He’s unilaterally declaring a made up authority here.

Any news outlet that doesn’t point out that this is blatantly illegal is complicit in the death of this Republic.

Make this fucking Supreme Court tell Congress it’s not allowed to stop the President from doing whatever he wants with the country’s money.

Make them write it down and say it.

Dems should keep the government shut down until there’s legislation changing the language of the Impoundment Control Act outright banning the President from requesting referrals/proposing rescissions, and reiterating the President is legally barred from reallocating funds appropriated by Congress.

Isn’t it insane?

“It was already drawn from the Treasury. We just decided that we should do something else with it after it was drawn.”

Oh my god I’m going to hate this shit so much.

The Trump Administration is going to make the argument that since this money was “reallocated” as opposed to “drawn from the Treasury” that means this action doesn’t violate Article I Section 9 Clause 7 of the Constitution.

I can smell the stupid from here.

Article I, for all intents and purposes, is effectively dead. It exists as a matter of Presidential privilege.

this is fucking obscene

Let’s say we get beyond this as a country. Let’s say everyone who needs to go to prison goes to prison, we get justice for all of it, and all of the Constitutional crises are settled in ways that strengthen our democracy/civic health.

What a waste of eight fuckin’ years. So much pain for nothing.

Tyranny isn’t when masked federal agents are kidnapping and brutalizing random people while refusing them due process.

Tyranny is when I can’t say slurs at work without anybody thinking I’m an asshole.

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

It's incredible the extent to which Congress just utterly refuses to defend itself. You'd think for entirely self-interested reasons you would stridently oppose having the power of the purse arbitrarily ripped from you, ya know?

Why would you allow yourself to become the Roman Senate circa 27 BC.

The constitutional remedy to this, as we established 375 years ago, is an axe.

The Shutdown is attempting to resolve a Constitutional Crisis because every other measure has failed.

Clearly someone who grew up here, she has no accent; really want to know what was going on here. Looks like they were following her already at the start of the video. Why?

Run it back!

The United States entered WWII officially on December 8th, 1941.

The USSR didn’t achieve victory in Stalingrad (which was what historical consensus agrees spurred on the German retreat from the Eastern Front) until February 1943.