Elect a clown, expect a circus.
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Further confusing the situation, it is uncertain that President Trump has the authority to unilaterally halt government funds allocated by Congress. Under Constitutional separation of powers, Congress passes spending bills, and the president executes the law as it is written.
Get fucked NYT this waffling fucking language is what enables this. It is certain he doesn't have the authority, and not being able to say so is allowing Trump to dictate the terms of how our fucking government works.
who's gonna stop him?
this congress?
this scotus?
That's completely missing the point. The point is the press has been talking like this since 2015. They have given him every avenue to just pretend this is how things work. It has only gotten to this point due to this kind of waffling bullshit not willing to call a spade a spade.
It's not about the fact that no one is going to stop him, we haven't even had a press that's been willing to point out that he doesn't have these powers for almost ten fucking years now.
Good news: People are starting to become aware of the class war that has been going on for the past 50 years.
Bad news: We lost that class war.
You may be underestimating the amount of the US economy directly or indirectly impacted by a freeze like this. This is a big deal not just because it's usurping powers, but for simple economic reasons. Lots of rich people and Republican representatives that can't be too happy about this. They want MAGA nonsense to be distracting people so they can get big fat tax cuts, not actually be hurting their business interests.
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I mean, maybe when they stop getting paid and the lights at the government buildings get turned off?
The milquetoast whitewashing of Trump's transgressions are really all itll take for him to be successful in destroying this country. If our media apparatuses fail to mobilize us, we'll be an easy herd to thin.
The parallels to our Media and the media of Germany before Hitler took over is frighteningly similar.
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It's the Faithful Execution Clause (Article 2, Section 3, Clause 5) and he's absolutely violating it.
What's the remedy though? Likely a Russian-ectomy from the GOP to actually stand up to him. Even if SCOTUS rules against Trump they have no method of enforcement. I wonder if SCOTUS should have any kind of power to impeach or even expell a President (high bar, maybe unanimous decision).
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Well good luck to those 65% of veterans who voted for trump and were trying to buy a house.
The schadenfreude is delicious.
I keep hearing that word in the three body problem novels I'm listening to. Thanks for spelling it out so I can look it up 🤣
It's German. Means "Dark Humor".
It is German, but it does not mean "Dark Humor":
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude
Schadenfreude (/ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə/; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də]; literal translation "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another.
I wonder how bad it will get before a single Trump voter realizes what they've done.
“Sorry, I can’t hear you over the sound of my freedom”.
🎶Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose…🎶
They won't. They will literally blame everything else but him. He could storm into their house, kick their dog, shit on their head, and still post on Facebook how it wasn't him.
"Yeah, but that event was taken out of context!" Or "Well, yeah, he did and said those things, but that's not what he meant!"
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I've got a friend who's a trumper (he didn't vote tho and his county was blue) and I think he's almost there. But nobody wants to be wrong.
I've got a friend who's a trumper
I still don't understand this statement
It's really really easy to just think the entire voting group of his are nazi fascists who wanted all the terrible things he's going to do, but the sad reality is that so many of them are just fucking stupid and just didn't consume the right kinds of media (ie they only got the propaganda) and thus don't know what's going on.
Can confirm, every dumbfuck I was friends with (EXCEPT, SOMEHOW, THE DUMBEST OF THEM ALL) turned into a trumpette. I dont talk to them much anymore, one was a real Nazi (ditched him), one is just fed the shit by his parents, and the third is a gamer but a loud self-proclaimed christian gay man. Its just the dumbest shit you ever seen. Icing on the cake is the dude that lowers your IQ simply by speaking like a cartoon fascimally of a dumb person voted Kamala and I never clapped so hard in my life when his two brain cells rubbed together to say "The stuff Trump had to say just sounded like Hitler." Absolutely incredible.
That's his problem. Dumb as a motherfucker and gets his news from Facebook and TikTok. He's still a good dude though.
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It’s really really easy to just think the entire voting group of his are nazi fascists who wanted all the terrible things he’s going to do
Describes all the trumpers in my sphere.
I'm not saying that those people don't exist. But there's also just stupid morons who got duped.
Fair, I was just feeling extra saucy about all this bullshit this morning. Sorry.
I don't understand this statement. Are your only friends people you agree with 100% on all things? That must get boring, what do you even talk about?
I have friends that voted for Trump. Not many but a couple. Am I friends with all Republicans? No just like I'm not friends with all democrats.
In order to radicalize someone, one of the first steps is cutting them off from people that disagree with what you are trying to teach/preach/say. When you pre emptivly do their cutting of for these republican friends/ family you are just leaving them in an echo chamber of hate/racism. Believe it out not, like what some others have said, not all republican voters are bad people.
No, but there are certain important things that I do hold very important and would struggle to connect with someone on if they disagree.
I believe America is the country of second chances, the land where if you want to get educated it will be available to you on fair terms, and so forth.
Now we're training teachers on how to damage efforts by ICE to detain the children of migrants at school to coerce and deport. That's not my vision for America, it's not right and I don't respect anyone who thinks it is.
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It's all about vibes. They don't care too much about what actually happens.
Relax, they've already been convinced that all scientists do nowadays is autism vaccines and gender
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It was just HHS a few days ago... Then it came for NSF... Then this happened
I know the official memo claims this is "temporary" but there is literally no way this would end well. Heck there was at least one clinical trial terminated because of the "temporary" HHS pause, and this burden is on the entire country now
I envisioned for the worst when Trump was elected... and somehow this administration has managed to exceed some of my wildest expectations
Thankfully a federal judge blocked this from taking affect for all open awards until Monday. This gives time for other lawsuits to be filled to block it completely, as this is entirely unconstitutional.
I thought it would all be slower, so there is less risk of immediately crashing the economy... Apparently not.
Gotta crash the economy so the rich can swoop in and collect the last of the holdputs whonstill own homes instead of rent.
He has absolute power unless someone steps up and says no. Regardless of its legality (hint: this is illegal), it will happen if Congress or SCOTUS does nothing to stop it.
I wish the fucking military would arrest him. It's about our only hope left, and a shitty one at that.
And then military dictatorship will start... nice
Lots of my academic friends are real worried, particularly those who are paid entirely with grants…
It's a fast timetable too. This isn't a "continue on and we'll figure things out", it could be "don't come to work tomorrow and good luck with rent".
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Just a temper tantrum.
Can't even deliver on the promise of a strongman with this whiny baby shit.
As much as I want to write him off like I have for years, now the despot has actionable power and is actively hurting people.
Just a temper tantrum that will hurt a lot of people.
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