They can ignore illegal orders, but illegal threats to withold funding and frivolous lawsuits are a lot harder to ignore.
I don't expect the median voter to understand the finer points of separation of powers and federalism, and I don't discount the damage the press has done with its dishonesty and incompetence. But I don't have any sympathy for anyone who voted for Trump after living through his first term and now claims to be surprised by what they got.
At best, Trump’s pardon puts pressure on Colorado’s governor to pardon her for those crimes.A Democratic governor in a state that went Clinton-Biden-Harris? If he's feeling any pressure, it's to come up with the most creative and memorable way to tell Trump to go fuck himself.
And, y'know, in the Miami mayoral election three days ago.
And the press is, for the most part, treating the fact that he can't do that as a debatable opinion.
And while bothsidesing is usually bullshit, the anti-vaxx movement has historically had support on the far left, not just the far right. (Don't forget that RFK Jr. has been a Democrat for most of his life.) You see all sorts of medical woo among hippie/new agey types: healing crystals, homeopathy, raw milk, etc. (It's not that there's no truth to any "alternative medicine" -- things like yoga, meditation, and herbal remedies have their place -- but as with anything it's important to separate scientific evidence from feelings.) Ironically, in the hyperpartisan age we live in, people on the left are actually less likely to oppose vaccines now that that's associated with Trump.
No, swing voters are a tiny minority and Democrats' fixation on trying to win Republican votes is deeply misguided. The way to win elections isn't to swing the squishy middle, it's to turn out the base. Trump didn't win in 2024 because Biden voters became Trump voters, he won because Biden voters stayed home.
Why does that matter?Because there's an election in November and Trump's net approval is at Nixon levels. Do you need me to draw you a diagram?
I’m simply reiterating that even if you did thinkThat's an awfully roundabout way of admitting you were replying to something nobody was saying, but I suppose you got there eventually.
You are the second-worst Mason I have ever seen in the BestNetTech comments.
do you... do you think that the point of this story is that people who do this should be prosecuted for it
Add another piece of evidence of selective and vindictive prosecution to the pile. Might be useful if any of these prosecutions ever actually get far enough for a judge to evaluate those arguments.
I don't follow. In what way is this a scheme to fleece investors while intentionally failing to turn a profit at the thing they're investing in?
Yeah, like, I think somebody could subvert the tropes and make something really interesting out of them, but...like, I wouldn't do that project by myself as a white dude.
Imagine if the closest thing you'd ever had to friends were Roy Cohn and Jeffrey Epstein.
the first Looney ToonsI'd be real careful about using Bosko and Honey.
Motherfucker gonna sieg heil and endorse great replacement theory and then get mad when people call him a nazi.
Or South Africans. Well, some South Africans.
"We don't have any problem with legal immigration. You just have to do it the right way." - Lying racists
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