This is the admiral over the SEALs.

Murder prosecutions were removed from the chain of command a couple years ago. It's JAGs all the way down for major crimes now.

bsky.app/profile/anja... this period of American politics won’t last forever and institutions should behave accordingly

Which is usually a distinction people with her worldview are quick to pounce on others for misstating.

I'm not sure if they (the political appointees, not the lawyers) honestly think non-expert GWOT-era talking points justify these things, or if they know they don't but know that Viewers At Home think they do.

Wonder how this will figure into the "irreparable harm" of the stay analysis.

Only if the journalistic elite and the donor class that control all perceived reality for elected Dems has a massive change of heart. Because they believe that wholeheartedly, and that's why Trumpism keeps getting a pass.

It's textbook.

Democrats must run on a campaign of reckoning in 2028: everyone writing, reviewing, approving or executing these plans, and every oil company that benefits from anything here must be investigated and held accountable.

But there wasn't. Neither staying home nor voting would stop that genocide. There was an option to prevent an ethnic cleansing, an anti-vaccine crusade, and a naked attempt to end democracy - and with it the ability to demand the other genocide stop - but I'm sure the new victims understand.

...until it's solicitation of those crimes.

Maybe, but you better be pretty sure about the constitutional argument when this is on the books:

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Oh, 100%. Dems suck. Their prolonged inaction, and continuing inaction against full-throated fascism is killing generations of people and progress. Which is why I don't think inaction on Election Day was particularly defensible, either.

I apologized, that was my mistake.

the popular votes are in fact what ultimately determine who gets the power.

Are you talking about the electoral college? Those are almost all bound by the laws of their respective states to vote for the ticket that wins the popular vote in that state. And in fact different electors are sent based on which candidate wins the popular vote.

So there are extra steps, but /

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By the time of the general election, yes, one of the candidates on the ballot will be put in power and votes are what determine which one.

Ope, my bad, sorry about that!

I'm not defending the Dems! They suck! But they are easily the lesser of the two evils, and gen election votes only determine which of those evils got power.

The Dem Party of the 60s was the conservative party! It was still the party of the Confederacy until the mid-late 70s! Read a book, ppl.