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How can we save Colorado and New Mexico from this hypothetical “Central States of America” hell hole?

Yeah, I do too. I just wish it was otherwise. I wish people with integrity could stick it out.

I deeply appreciate his whistle blower report. I wish someone with his level of integrity hadn’t resigned, though. Resigning means you’re done fighting. That worked as a protesting previous administration’s but means they’ll put in someone much worse in this one.

To be fair, though, Trump is deeply unlikable for many people. I’ve had almost a physical reaction to hearing him speak or seeing him since his debates against Hillary. He’s always seemed gross and slimy to me.

In other words, just because you and I see JD as unlikable doesn’t mean that MAGA will also find him unlikable. In fact, Vance’s approval rating among republicans is 89% favorable while among democrats it is 3% favorable as of the beginning of August.

What is this “if” business? They’ve been openly doing this for decades. Take REDMAP for example. Democrats have failed to respond.

As long as democrats fail to respond and just play defense, they will continue to need 53% of the vote to win the presidency and will continue losing federal and state legislative majorities.

In other words, Texas Dems are unprincipled cowards. Imagine what happens when they face a real threat. Fascism is going to break these useless bastards so fast…

Ignoring the actual content of what he’s saying here for a minute, it’s amazing to hear how different his speech patterns were at this point. He’s actually capable of composing a single sentence. Now it sounds like he’s just creating a mashup of a bunch of unrelated sentences.

Yet…

Come on, no one is this dumb. The senators knew they’d do this from the moment they voted to confirm. This is just premeditated political backtracking to fix as much damage as they can now that they’ve received their reciprocal favors.

I’m not in any way defending this. This is going to get people killed, including people who are here with legal status. Likely even citizens.

They don’t appear to be accepting just anyone off the street, though. The order talks about deputizing existing law enforcement officers as ICE agents.

So, we’re going to have even more poorly trained ICE officers rounding people up to be sent to concentration camps. People who have no idea how to validate documents. People who don’t understand the different types of legal statuses. People who want nothing more than to round up anyone with brown skin, regardless of their status. People who know that due process is dead because we can’t afford five million trials.

Ignoring what anyone thinks of undocumented immigrants, people with legal status are going to get caught in this. Some of them are going to go to camps. Some of them are going to be deported. Some of them are going to die. There will be more and more “mistakes” with no attempt at remediation.

I have no doubt that even citizens are going to die as a consequence of this.

“Troops” is in the title of this post but not in the executive order. It’s editorializing to make a point.

Dude… yeah, brush your nose, there’s something on there. Almost got it! There! It kind of looked like cheeto dust.

Of course they are! They’ve engineered their appliances to get the energy star label. If that label disappears they lose their investment because that label will no longer be there to quickly distinguish the efficient products.

Onky if the price is higher due to regulations on child labor and non-toxic materials and manufacturing processes. Oh, wait, they want to roll all of that back to the 50s, too!

I wonder if there is animosity between Trump and Huckabee Sanders. Maybe this is retribution for some slight? She did go more than 90 days without doing a press briefing before she stepped down as press secretary.

Nope, no corruption here! Definitely no corruption happening! Everything is 100% above board!

These people need to be hanged for treason.

Soon, Mike Johnson will bringing his son to classified congressional briefings to make absolutely sure they don’t miss any of one another’s porn usage.

So, four… FOUR supreme court justices think it is okay for the US government to fail to pay it’s debts to an AIDS prevention organization for work they had ALREADY DONE!

What the fuck happened to this country?

As a side note, how long before Trump starts calling SCOTUS illigitimate if they keep ruling against him?

That’s interesting. The vast majority, about 83%, of their shareholders are large institutional shareholders like Vanguard and JP Morgan Chase. Would those be who voted in this?