Statement on Trump's Attack on Federal Funding for Libraries
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Traitor Watch - The 45 & 47 Thread
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I guess that'll have to do until he can get the book-burnings going.
I'm torn on this bit: because, generally speaking, republicans are stupid enough to buy the books before they burn them.
But also... burning ******* books.
Say things do get to that point: what if we take the dust jackets off of whatever books the MAGAts most want to burn, stick them on bibles, and give 'em those to incinerate? Then when they reach the apex of their cheering and Roman saluting and dancing around the bonfire, we show them a copy of one of the books they're burning and tear the cover off for the big reveal. How badly do you think they'll get burned frantically trying to pull their precious story books out of the blaze?
Realistically: unless they burn the printing presses too, or they burn enough books to start triggering nuclear winter... there's no point getting between them and their anger without enough people being with you to make them think twice.
I mean: a very dramatic idea and the giggles would be priceless; not worth the effort. Not like they'll read the bible anyway.
I mean: a very dramatic idea and the giggles would be priceless; not worth the effort. Not like they'll read the bible anyway.
Yeah, a book burning just isn't the thing it used to be. In the digital age it would be very difficult to keep a book from getting anywhere.
But I don't really think this movement is very interested in that anyway. Discrediting a book or idea with their supporters is fairly easy. I expect the move on library and museum funding is a lot more about how they just don't view such nerdy things as being worth spending money on.
But I don't really think this movement is very interested in that anyway. Discrediting a book or idea with their supporters is fairly easy. I expect the move on library and museum funding is a lot more about how they just don't view such nerdy things as being worth spending money on.
Trump said on the campaign trail that he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 on immigration and now he's done it. Federal judge put a stay on it immediately.
If Trump was reading the Allspark last fall (?) he should have seen where I pointed out that Congress would have to declare war. Idiot.
If Trump was reading the Allspark last fall (?) he should have seen where I pointed out that Congress would have to declare war. Idiot.
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I'm sure they're working on that too.
nice note going into hurricane season:
If you're not white and you need assistance; TOUGH jive.
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If you're not white and you need assistance; TOUGH jive.
Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid
The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors.
People who think it is just some gimmick have forgotten that they elected a real estate developer to the White House. What was he thinking as soon as he saw Gaza in ruins? He was thinking he knew people with concrete trucks and cranes and welding torches and he could make that into a resort. Every place he sees on the globe, this is his first impression. Every square mile of land on the globe could probably be monetized better and who better to do that than me?
I don't think Trump sees books as dangerous, because he doesn't see them as powerful.
That's not what the article says.nice note going into hurricane season:
If you're not white and you need assistance; TOUGH jive.
Trump admin makes Asheville remove ‘DEI’ language to access hurricane relief aid
The Trump administration recently denied a funding request from the city of Asheville, North Carolina, to help its recovery from Hurricane Helene, telling the city it must cut a program meant to aid female and minority contractors.
So, trump enacted the alien enemies act. Functionally declaring war on Venezuela.
Invoking the Alien Enemies Act presupposes that Congress has already declared war on Venezuela, which they have not done. It doesn't declare war. It just gives him the ability to suspend normal procedures for people from Venezuela. If Congress has declared war on Venezuela, which they have not done.
Right, so what happens when congress just goes along with it? Cause... they will.
I know some people who wear red hats and fly Trump flags at their house. There are a couple trucks in my city that fly huge Trump flags on the bed of their pickup. Some of these people are totally all in on the man Trump. There are a handful of Congress members that may fall in that category. There are two larger groups in Congress, whose relative size I cannot measure, who like how Trump makes their job easier and who are afraid of what Trump will do to their career if they don't seem to be aligned. Neither of those groups is declaring war on Venezuela, because that would make their jobs harder and hurt them worse than Trump can. And the damage done to them by not doing it is minimal because Mike Johnson is in that middle group and will not bring it to the floor. They don't have to actually vote against it.
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Not joking, not being facetious, not being sarcastic. Congress is controlled by republicans are they are currently aligned with trump, to facilitate his whims. If they don't openly go along with it, they'll simply not call him on it.
The question isn't "who will let him" the question is "who will stop him" and congress has proven they will not stop him. They will cede their power to him, and they already have.
The question isn't "who will let him" the question is "who will stop him" and congress has proven they will not stop him. They will cede their power to him, and they already have.
Pretty much. For some gods unbeknown reason, people who have spent their entire lives clawing for every scrap of power they could get their hands on have not ceded all of it to this orange man-child. I really don't understand why, I don't know how he's managed to cow the world's largest collection of septic egos, but he has. They bow before his altar. The courts are the only ones left and SCOTUS bears his taint as well.
We have to rely on John Roberts desperation for a legacy beyond leading the greatest kangaroo court in SCOTUS history and Amy Cohen Barrett's demand that they subvert democracy the right way, dotting all the is and crossing the ts before they get to her.
We have to rely on John Roberts desperation for a legacy beyond leading the greatest kangaroo court in SCOTUS history and Amy Cohen Barrett's demand that they subvert democracy the right way, dotting all the is and crossing the ts before they get to her.
To more closely deal with your question is a little hard. The judge ordered a plane en route to turn around and I heard that it didn't turn it around. Courts aren't good at stopping crimes in progess. But that judge is still going to have a hearing concerning this. I don't know what penalty they can level for breaking this law. In the end, maybe one of the reasons Congress won't declare war (and look, they AREN'T going to) is because there is no need for it. It may not matter what words Trump uses to justify his actions. Our system was not designed to operate where the President would do whatever he wanted even with courts telling him he has to stop and Congress won't impeach him. Those checks were supposed to work. And I just don't think the framers expected a President that had no idea what they were doing and no intention of following the law.
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