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Gaius Cassius Longinus

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Perhaps the subject receives that treatment because Ross himself is no deep Christian thinker, but also just a garden-variety, dull, shallow, hateful, worthless bigot with nothing interesting to say?

11.10.2025 01:54 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Every conservative in a non-conservative space is always there as the thin end of the wedge that ends with it becoming a conservative space.

After all, nothing is more anathema to conservatives than the existence of spaces they don't control.

10.10.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Which is absolutely what the oligarchs want.

09.10.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

In DOJ's opinion, we are not citizens entitled to respect by those who carry out the law in our collective name.

Rather, we are subjects who owe deference to the officers of our sovereign, the president.

09.10.2025 17:32 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Perry: DOJ's definition of rebellion would mean that
"literally all nonviolent protest” could be considered evidence of rebellion. Is that your argument?
Hamilton: The president has determined there is a danger of a rebellion, and you must defer to that finding

09.10.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 789    πŸ” 184    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 78

And here I was trying to identify which building in Navy Yard it was shot atop.

08.10.2025 04:41 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What this regime is doing, though, is "impoundment"β€”unilaterally overruling appropriations acts by not spending moneys as directedβ€”an act made expressly illegal by the Impoundment Control Act.

08.10.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Recissions per se aren't illegal if they follow the procedures for recissions in the Congressional Budget Act (ie, president identities appropriations to recede, submits the list to Congress, Congress passes an act to that effect, President then signs).

08.10.2025 03:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The honest answer is that we're going to have to constitutionalize a new status for the traitors: heritable non-citizen nationality.

Yes, we're going to have to live with most of the traitors in the end, but there's absolutely no reason we would allow themβ€”or their descendentsβ€”any political power.

07.10.2025 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Not to mention, equity developed as a concept due to the fact that it's typically more just to prevent injurious or illegal conduct before it takes place, rather than to merely penalize it after the fact.

This is pretty fundamental pre-reception English law stuff here.

05.10.2025 08:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hey, some of us are child-free!

(Partially because of how much it sucked to be a gifted kid 30 years ago…)

02.10.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

More accurate headline:

"As America's justices reimagine themselves as its president's aides, what remains of its constitutional order?"

02.10.2025 17:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's no Speaker after 3 January 2027, their term dies with the outgoing Congress.

It's the Clerk of the House who calls the members-elect into session to elect a new Speaker and then to take the Oath.

02.10.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Blue states will still hold them.

02.10.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally, eliminate EOIR, BIA & immigration judges more generally, handing their caseload over to the Article III tribunals, vastly increasing their number of judges to accommodate the increased workloadβ€”and packing them accordingly with solid Dem judges.

01.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ditto abolish the remainder of CBP and hand over USBP over to DOI just for fun.

Then, make the rest of the department just USCIS, rename it the Department of Immigration & remove its self-funding mandate, lowering user fees and giving it an explicitly pro-immigration mandate.

01.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Abolish the remainder of ICE and hand its missions minus any additional supportβ€”and especially minus any personnelβ€”to the Marshals (removal operations) & the FBI (anything else worthwhile).

Good luck getting G-Men excited about tackling piddly civil immigration issues over big-boy organized crime.

01.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Make FEMA independent again & hand USCG back over to DOT along with TSA (which should be made into a standards agency; privatize airport screening).

Reconstitute the US Customs Serviceβ€”minus any current personnelβ€”from the rotting carcasses of ICE & CBP and hand it & USSS back to the Treasury.

01.10.2025 22:47 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Of course.

After all, under fascism the enemy is always simultaneously both too strong and too weak.

01.10.2025 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

30.09.2025 16:59 β€” πŸ‘ 18426    πŸ” 6522    πŸ’¬ 786    πŸ“Œ 404

No, "stupid" is a sufficient descriptor.

29.09.2025 18:25 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Especially because if he was actually well-read, he'd know that there's already a word for this exact concept: nomenklatura.

27.09.2025 19:43 β€” πŸ‘ 44    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is hard to overstate the contempt in which I hold John Roberts. He's the biggest fraud in America.

Trump is trash, but he's obviously trash. John Roberts wants us to think he's a respectable thinker. A legal philosopher. He isn't. He's a partisan hack in a robe.

26.09.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 284    πŸ” 63    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 6

They'd need to resign insteadβ€”and so lose their full retirement pay & benefitsβ€”if they wanted to avoid potential impeachment.

26.09.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Retired Supreme Court Justices still draw their full salaries and are eligible to sit on lower courts by assignment.

Accordingly, they could still be investigated & impeached by a sufficiently motivated Dem House come 2027.

26.09.2025 23:44 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

It's not just those two; the entirety of the Republican Party is in open rebellion against the Constitution.

When the end of this does come, among other remedies the GOP needs to be dissolved and its assets seized for their manifest treason against the Constitution.

26.09.2025 21:27 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty much.

26.09.2025 21:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the ICA is unconstitutional, though, Congress' power over the purse is essentially nullified.

And the Founders were pretty damn clear that Congress and Congress alone has that power.

26.09.2025 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#effectivealtruism

26.09.2025 20:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"Domestic dependent nations." (/s, but not really, but also kinda…)

(Indian law is weird)

25.09.2025 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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