I am still trying to grapple that in the eyes of a lot of voters Harris was tied to positions they didnt like that she took in a short campaign in 2020 and seemingly no longer supported, but Trump was allowed to back away from things they dont like that he actually did as president.
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There are now several reports of the lack of support among Republican senators for several of Trumpâs cabinet picks. But you should not that expect to play out publicly where people have to put their name to these opinions aired in private
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Good⌠let them feel an ounce of what theyâve helped unleash on everyone else.
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They were full of love while chanting hang Pence. So why should any GOP member worry?
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I voted for Trump because cancel culture has got out of hand and we need to get back to being able to speak our mind
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Oh no, not about me though. Saying mean things about me, a moron, is elitist and you must be punished for that.
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Sending wishes of peace, safety, good health, and belonging to all those who are about to lose families and communities.
I hope we donât lose all our compassion to hate.
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Letâs see what happens when the gardener doesnât show up, the meals take three hours to deliver and the price of oranges goes through the roof.
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I think unless the toadies he has in Congress approve it, it would be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, no?
I donât know about anyone else, but this smells like the recipe for a civil war to meâŚ
And the red states are very much in dreamland if they think theyâre going to win that one.
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But Trump didnât mean what he said when he said he would do that.
Aging well.
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The same people who said that before the election are probably still saying the same right now.
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Emboldened by you-know-who
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The things people tolerate to see their memecoin go upâŚ
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It does, but national guard are exempt, which makes sense when you consider the law was created to prevent the Feds coming into the south to obstruct the creation and implementation of Jim Crowe.
But the bigger issue is emergency powers*. We have developed an acceptance of using âemergency powersâ to deal with a broad range of issues with ill defined parameters or controls (there was a law signed by Ford that codified this but then those parameters were almost immediately extended), to the point that the main limit of what you can do with these powers is determined by shame and what you and your people are willing to argue to the nation. It was something we saw Trump starting to learn to use towards the end of his first term. Its basically a case of declaring âemergencyâ to give you cover to do something you otherwise couldnt and having enough people in the chain of command to make sure what you want to do is carried out. And it is this second part that the Unitary Executive branch of the conservative movement spent the last 4 years of Trumpâs âexileâ writing a play book to make sure they could create that reality should he get back into office.
*Invoking the insurrection act is a variation on that.
None of these things that are being floated are powers people believed 8 years ago, but now Trump is floating them the RW legal movement and pundit class are jumping into place ready to make up arguments for why they pretend to believe it is an appropriate use of emergency powers and the insurrection act.
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Wish theyâd send the troops instead to arrest the sexual assaulters within their own ranks, including the head honcho of the fascist movement
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Barry McCaffrey was a general in the Army. The right dont actually care about the troops, they only care about the concept of them can be weaponized to win their arguments at home.
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An outspoken general very often in the media, very often on US tv stations, very often writing articles.
The comment below him is made by a particularly dumb individual though. Whenever you read something written by a non-anonymous person on twitter, you always, always press their profile to see what they write about themselves. It is ABC in twitter use when talking to others. I donât comprehend the stupidity, ignorance and arrogance involved by that lady. Social media is not the problem here, some people should not have access to the internet and she is one of them ( I would obviously not forbid her to use the internet, it is just my opinion that some people get dumber and more ignorant by using it and not more informed)âŚ
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