Oligarchs, of course. But also, plutocrats, kleptocrats, petty tyrants, and malefactors of great wealth. Or keep it simple and avoid the Latin - rich assholes.

Not the first time he’s called him or his predecessor that. It’s Trump’s stupid little joke, implying that Canada is not a sovereign country, but will soon become part of the United States.

This isn’t just weaponizing the DOJ, it’s perverting it, turning it on its head.

You got that right. It’s been several decades, but the Eagles crowd once booed Santa Claus. My brother justified it by saying, “he was a really bad Santa Claus.”

I know Philly well. (Grew up across the river and have a couple of brothers there.) Minnesotans are tough, but polite. Philadelphians can be downright nasty when angered (sometimes even when not). ICE can expect a warm welcome. 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

The same reason the necromancer animates dead bodies to populate his zombie army. Recruitment.

He cannot defend himself. So I guess it’s OK if 3 or 4 strong men confront him in a parking garage and have their way with him.

They can pass a bill cutting off funding. Then Trump defies them and continues writing checks. Then the courts can issue orders, which Trump also defies. He’s immune from criminal prosecution, so that leaves Impeachment. So they convict him. But what actually happens depends on the men with guns.

Once they are deployed by the governor, it becomes legally difficult for Trump to federalize them. He won’t bother. He will simply send in the military. Tell me that isn’t a recipe for civil war.

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They weaponize Christianity or a version of it. I call them “Christianists,” the heirs of Torquemada and Cromwell, not Jesus

He thinks he can.

Perhaps this will be the test.

Only Congress can decide this, and somehow I can’t see them voting for a 50% increase in the military budget.

I’m sure it’s no more than 15-20%, but then again, he’s not taking a salary.

Put it up. Have a little ceremony, a quick one. Film it all. Make him take it down. Film that, too.

Extras in the great pageant in which they imagine themselves in leading roles. Troublesome extras, at that, and easily replaced by CGI.

May they choke on them, each and every one of them.

Try 60.

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I agree. The problem with laws that might justify this is that they are, as many have noted, “pre-crime.” Membership in or association with a particular group is by itself evidence of criminal activity or an actual crime. It’s RICO on steroids. W and Cheney crossed that line.

WTF does this mean. We are building out the infrastructure of a fake organization we’re going to call Antifa so we can put dissents in prison?

Interesting. Putting aside the “corrupt pedophile” part, are there any circumstances, backed by any quantum of evidence, that would in your view justify seizure of a foreign oil tanker? Not legally. (Clearly there are, although here it seems doubtful.) Morally.

Unless it was issued or approved by a US District judge after having heard evidence, I don’t trust it. Certainly not from this administration.

I don’t think such a person exists, including his wife and children. Can you imagine living with that every day of your life, having to praise and pamper him, tiptoeing around his rages? The patience of Job wouldn’t be enough.

Exactly. Trump’s EO is written to be prospective only, but that’s not usually how the constitution works. If you were were born here, but are denied citizenship because your parents weren’t citizens, then what about if they were but their parents weren’t? Oddly, naturalization could be safer.

“We could distinctly see the two survivors doing the doggy paddle with what appeared to be bags of cocaine clenched between their teeth.”

States need to step up whenever possible and prosecute under the dual sovereigns doctrine.

Soon we will be debating whether a cruise missile attack wiping out a “narco-terrorist village” in Venezuela was a war crime and whether Hegseth’s meme showing Kermit the Frog executing prisoners was funny or in poor taste. There is no bottom.

How long before they are celebrating Trump’s public use of the N-word?