This is important because if you control the mail you can make ballots late, and if that means they won’t be counted then you can choose to make mail from blue counties run late on Election Day in order to drive an election outcome.
This is why Trump hired Dejoy to run the USPS before last election. He spent 6 months gutting USPS’s backend mail sorting equipment leading to huge mail delays.
Congress’s entire job currently is to abdicate its power to the President. Johnson is a sycophant who has violated his oath of office.
I think throwing a wrapped onion and mustard sandwich is now a meme and therefore protected under free expression.
They get to throw stun grenades and shoot priests, we get the sandwich thing.
No way, who could have foreseen this plot twist
They could not capture their target in any other way except to raid a daycare in the middle of the day.
The entire US Intelligence system was helpless to find where this daycare worker lived and only a crack team of secret police, bravely facing down toddlers, could bring this horrible criminal to justice who recently overstayed her tourist visa in civil violation of immigration laws. May such a criminal never return from Ghana, or whichever civil-war embroiled country is accepting prisoners for crash.
I’m glad to report that not a single agent was hit by a sandwich, or otherwise grievously injured. The deployment of chemical agents was completely within agency policy, the mob of children were charging the police and according to reports, throwing rocks. After arresting the responding EMS workers, initial reports are that there were no injuries.
May our brave warriors carry on protecting us from tourists working thanksless jobs. My heart goes out to you, all of the best people are saying it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sanction whatever lawyer signed their name to that motion. Trump may be immune to law, but an attorney still has to be bar certified in order to practice.
This why team Trump tried to capture the DC bar by running Pam Bondi’s brother, a disbarred attorney cannot practice law in DC. Trump can’t pardon a DC Bar decision.
This game is older than some of my coworkers
Finally, the game is complete
Because they’ve abandoned any pretense of good faith participation in Democracy and only care about holding power.
We’re already starting to see populist progressive candidates overtake DNC Democrats.
Cynicism aside, if you don’t see a path out of this: Pretend for a second that we can get enough people into congress to have a functioning congressional body.
A properly led Congress has standing and capability required to sue the Executive branch and force it to follow the law across thousands of issues that are being created by it refusing the follow the law. The congress also has the capability to impeach and remove Supreme Court Justices, btw.
In addition, the “Power of the Purse” is not just a Schoolhouse Rock meme. Democrats in congress are already cutting off all funding for the government by refusing to pass a CR. They can keep refusing to do that until a budget is passed that includes, at the very least, not removing even more of the social safety net in canceling healthcare insurance subsidies.
This shutdown is already starting to turn public perception against the Republicans, rapidly. A huge amount of government workers, who are working without pay, are suddenly getting ‘sick’. Airplanes can’t fly if we don’t have air traffic controllers, the mail can’t move if we don’t have postal workers and during the holidays not having air travel or mail is kind of a big deal.
ICE and federal law enforcement are currently getting paid out of a fund that was appropriated specifically to pay them during a shutdown, but that fund is not infinite and eventually even ICE agents will stop receiving a paycheck. I’m sure some will work for the love of the game, but I don’t think all of them will. It’s also hard to keep arresting and deporting people if you can’t buy gasoline, electricity, jet fuel or take off from commercial air ports. Money is kind of important for these operations and money has to get through Congress first.
A President who has no workers to carry out his will is pretty powerless. He wants to invoke the Insurrection Act against the coming public backlash. I think he will find that there will be serious morale problems if he tries to deploy the US Military domestically. Everyone knows that this is illegal and they also know that the justification is bullshit. In the end, the enlisted of the US Military are just regular people who are working the best job that they could find. This won’t be a great outcome, should it occur, but I know a lot of current and former enlisted service members and while some of them are partisan on topics that they find outrageous, they are patriots and understand that the seriousness of their role is more important than worry about trans people playing sports.
This is why there is a huge battle to control Congress. Because as much as the Supreme Court immunized Trump against prosecution, they did not literally make him a King and in the US system of government Congress is not powerless despite being currently held impotent by sycophants.
You better fucking vote.
Right now it means they have to start the process of paying, the judges’ orders are final. They can ask the appeals court for a stay, but until that’s granted, they better start depositing benefits.
There’s still a gear grind so you can progress in your item score, but you don’t have to kill 30 rats and run around farming herbs for 2 hours just to do a raid.
Check out Fellowship, it’s WoW Mythic+ dungeons without the MMO grind.
“Targeted Intelligence led Enforcement Operations” Tom Homan called them.
Seems pretty odd that they managed to capture an American.
This doesn’t leave a very good impression of their intelligence.
They’re getting big enough now and getting enough right-wing attention that we can probably start expecting provocateurs to be hiding in the crowds.
Bring saline and baby shampoo. Saline to rinse tear gas out of someone’s eyes. Baby shampoo is for pepper spray, which is oil based. Don’t bring your phone. Wear Z87+ (ANSI standard for impact resistance) eye glasses to protect you eyeballs from rubber bullets or shrapnel. Tear gas grenades are incredibly hot, do not attempt to handle them without gloves.
Keep it peaceful, aggressively point anyone attempting to damage property or cause violence. Know the exit routes and be safe.
Good luck out there folks.
Only according to the law
This is on top of a $50,000 signing bonus that ICE is giving new recruits.
They have vacation plans that can’t be just ruined because some poors will lose access to healthcare, 85% of their campaign is funded by 5 people and they all have amazing healthcare.