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So that’s what it looks like when Gemini hallucinates!

Most of the problems caused by Trump are for this exact reason.

Congress is too paralyzed to be effective anymore. The GOP is fully on Gingrich’s “never compromise with the Dems for any reason, and hold the government hostage until you get your way” corruption while the Dems are the party of “we’re beholden to the same corporate money as the GOP but at least the GOP doesn’t have to pretend to not be”.

Also, our eternally-increasing election cycles means that if you’re a Rep, you get maybe one full year to legislate before having to worry about the optics for your re-election.

Add in procedural bullshit like the Hastert Rule and the filibuster and the result is a government that only functions via executive order or when one party controls all the branches (and maybe not even then, depending on how extreme your caucus is or how bought your Senators are).

The actual definitions of words mean nothing to them.

Insert Sartre quote about arguing with antisemites here.

In much the same way that Confederate memorabilia is collectable.

As in, “You should avoid anyone who collects this shit. They’re probably a white nationalist.”

When you don’t know the actual definition of words, you can use them to mean anything.

Kinda like how they don’t know what Marxist, Leninist, socialist, globalist, woke, trans, leftist, liberal, or DEI actually mean, so the right just uses them all interchangeably to mean “things I don’t like or that scare me”.

Because most Americans have knee-jerk reactions to labels as opposed to policies. Like how everyone supports all the protections Obamacare provides, but how they all want to get rid of Obamacare.

Contrast this with NYT, USA Today, or WaPo, who are downplaying it with headlines that say “thousands” or “tens of thousands” protesting.

Essentially, yes.

The source provided by OP is lacking in details but here’s one with more.

When an appeal is filed at the Circuit Court level, it’s first heard by a panel of judges. The judges are supposed to be a random selection of three from the circuit (I don’t know if it’s ever more or less; I’ve only ever heard it as three. Someone more law-talky feel free to correct me).

In this case, the three-judge panel (consisting of two Trump appointees 🙄) granted the feds an emergency stay- meaning nothing can be done to stop the feds until the case has been heard, which they’ve set on the docket for Tuesday.

There are various reasons for an emergency stay but usually the reasoning goes like this: the panel believes that the defendant (eg, the feds) will suffer some sort of harm (in the legal sense, not necessarily the physical sense) if they allow the plaintiff (California) to get what they want. Also, they believe that the defendant is likely to succeed on the merits of their arguments. So if the defendant is likely to win their case and they would suffer legal harm if the courts allowed the plaintiff to stop them while the case was being decided, then the correct course of action is to maintain the status quo until the official ruling.

After that, the next step is to request an en banc hearing, which is where the entire circuit court hears the case. They could either affirm the panel’s decision or reverse it, and either way it’s likely this case would then be appealed to SCOTUS.

“Contingent” on what, Kegsbreath?

Greenland making fun of Trump?

Denmark still refusing to “sell” it?

Trumpy needing yet another distraction from some stupid shit he’s doing he wants to hide?

You getting cranky from the DTs?

They’ve been given the go-ahead to go full mask-off racist:

“This thing Trump said he was going to do isn’t what I voted for!”

Oh shit, now the Internet tough guy is gonna punch you in the mouth!

Until the courts say otherwise, the president’s order is presumed lawful, and the subordinate officers are compelled to obey it.

This is a roundabout way of making the point I was trying to make.

Newsome said it was unlawful. If it is, then he should be doing more than make social media posts about it.

The one follows the other.

The president can not order the military to do peacekeeping operations on US soil without a justification to do so. If the justification to do so is illegal, then so is the act of ordering it.

“I have formally requested the Trump Administration rescind their unlawful deployment of troops in Los Angeles county and return them to my command,” Newsom wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

If it’s unlawful, you don’t need to ask. Just tell them to go home.

I am, yeah. I have to drive past it every day so I saw it during construction and at no point was any equipment installed inside it. It’s tall enough to be seen from the interstate but not tall enough to be a cellular tower. Also there’s no equipment vault nearby either.

She’ll end up podcasting from her basement and irradiating her testicles with manosphere-branded red lights?

Quite literally the only reason I’d watch her.

DON’TKINKSHAMEME!

They’re both egomaniacal, drug-addicted narcissists. There’s no possible way they could work together long-term.

Trump can’t stand Musk getting any credit and Musk can’t stand Trump giving him any blame.

So no, I think this was completely inevitable.