Jason Quarrilex

Fuck that, Ill name your kid for five bills and a half rack of miller high life.

Huh. I thought the reallocation of funds was something that was an unintended consequence of the “fix the energy infrastructure” part of the fake energy crisis order.

Bunch of fat sailors with facial hair in the background. Hegseth must be at his limit.

That was a direct consequence of an EO from January, iirc. And I think I remember hearing an analyst say that this was already in the works like 10 years ago but got derailed by the slow pace of Hurricane Maria recovery. I'm not sure about that tho, I can't find it now.

My theory is Trump knows he's dying and does not give a fuck about whatever dirt Putin has on him because he either won't live to see the fallout or he has such a hold on the MAGAts that whatever it is they won't believe it if he denies it.

Yeah that's kinda what I am getting at. I'm of the opinion that it can't fire at all. The only effects long term will be some version of the neo nazi meme cartoon of the black guy shoving a stick in the spokes of his bicycle.

One of those moments when I was guys like Jon Pike and Ross Tucker would move over to bsky from TwiX

Territorial law seems like a hodgepodge of ad hoc arrangements without a lot of uniformity.

it all is, then I agree fully. I'm just wary of giving them credit for accomplishing something noteworthy when they are clearly just blundering around reacting in real time to whatever passes for paranoia in Trump’s advanced state crank-addled dementation.

incitement has a different flavor from all of that, I agree as far as that goes. But quantitatively I think it's too much at this point to call this unprecedented as far as the violence itself is concerned. if you want to say this is unique in history for how inept, clownish, stupid and fake…

My point is more that there was a lot of state violence in the 60s as a result of conflict over the use of state police powers between federal and state officials. Lots of people got unalive as a direct result of state actors encouraging that rhetorically as a matter of nat’l policy. Trumpistas...

Maybe, but even tho the Klan was de rigeur in the roaring 20s post BoaN, membership was already controversial by 1948 when Justice Black was appointed. at least according to Wikipedia the # of known KKK pigs elected to nat’l office is surprisingly small. But That's not really what I'm getting at…

not my area. I only know about that because it's one of the few useful SCOTUS opinions about family law jurisdiction prior to the adoption of uniform interstate acts.

Yeah, just PR. That's Interesting, I didn't know that. but still, I would think her power in that regard remains subject to Art IV § 3 cl. 2. See Simms v Simms, 175 US 168, 175 (1899). I think that means territorial governors are still federal officials even tho they are locally elected. Altho its…

Those aren't all state segregationists though, the list includes two US senators who were officially members of the Klan, Wallace was a presidential candidate, LBJ signed the civil rights act and appointed Thurgood Marshall, and Jim Rhodes was the OH gov responsible for Kent State.

Nah, they are all well credentialed enough that they could walk out of the AGs office into literally any other public attorneys office and in many cases make more money. At this point They have chosen to side with the regime, they deserve nothing but our contempt.

Aren't they already federal?

HAPPENING NOW: Emergency hearing before Judge Karin Immergut on Trump's effort to circumvent her temporary restraining order re: Oregon national guard deployment.

I plan to listen in for @lawfaremedia.org.

Follow along (court remote access technology permitting...) ⬇️🧵

Genius: ICE goons have the choice of beating up a froggie in front of a nation brought up on sweet, optimistic Kermit or retreating.

What's the name of the band?

I'd quibble about the not top down characterization. Bull Connor, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Lester Maddox, James Rhodes, Robert Byrd, Al Lingo, Jim Clark… all state actors responsible for acts of state violence. Even LBJ’s war on crime was a precursor to Trump’s militarization of policing.

Once upon a time, the most goth thing imaginable was to drink a snakebite while smoking a clove cigarette. Clove flavoring is illegal now and it's been years since I saw lager and cider in the same pint glass.

Trump's term is four years. That it will get worse was always a given. And while all of this is bad, if they were even remotely competent totalitarians things would already be a hell of a lot worse. We’re not even matching pace with the Kennedy/Johnson administration yet.

counter examples I can think of off hand all of them, are North Korea, Cuba & Vietnam.

To clarify, I may have retreated too far into a Machiavellian strategy of long term small baseball, but from a world-system perspective political violence in the modern era has almost always sown the seeds of autocannibalism and failure for its instigators within a human lifespan or so. The only...

What is your metric for calling it successful? It seems really self-defeating to me.

There is another timeline where miller went to lawschool and failed con law because of his right wing brain rot, and as a result went into a spiral I'd self-doubt and paranoia and now works the graveyard shift at a car rental lot. A better world is possible.

Counterpoint: the mine-run chucklehead on these sites making spurious comparisons to the Missouri compromise may signify the third branch is functioning better than it might appear at first glance.

Matt from Chapo joked about this back in the day--lock Trump inside a room and play him fake TV addressing him like he's the president--and at the time I thought it was a great idea but whoops!

Didnt the assassins creed games do that a couple times?