During a Tuesday hearing at the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, the DOJ urged a three-judge panel to issue an emergency stay of a lower court order and allow the Trump administration’s deployment of the California National Guard to continue in Los Angeles — going so far as to argue a president’s federalization of militia can’t be second-guessed by the courts, even if the chief executive mobilized forces from all 50 states and Washington, D.C., simultaneously.
This is dictatorship. It’s mild only because no one is fighting back. The moment someone tries the gloves will come off.
That’s fascism, folks.
Arm yourselves.
Also, maybe don’t do something dumb like vote 3rd party or abstain from voting next time around. Y’all were warned. Now it’s happening.
Oh right, blame the voters in a rigged election. Makes total sense.
Actually, yeah. A lot of people voted third party and many more stayed home. I will blame them.
What can your party do to appeal to them next time?
Hint: it’s not “jettison marginalized groups” or “move to the right.” That got us here.
I would have thought eating the same gruel every day would have prevailed over eating saute shit a la fascism. As it turns out, Americans aren’t good at binary decision making and some like to be imaginary revolutionaries.
same gruel every day
Enabling, protecting and funding blatant genocide?
Purity politics have enabled more than one genocide, thanks to the non-voter.
What about all the votes that were lost, removed, not counted? The way the elections, gerrymandering and more, Its all rigged.
Look, if the only plan to stop the fascist uprising that has been building for decades was “win every election forever”, then there was no fucking plan. This shit was going to happen at some point.
Stop scolding people for not falling in line with you and start figuring out what to do next.
Nah dawg. I’m going to scold dumbfucks that checked out or voted for a candidate that could not, under any circumstances, win, allowing a felon rapist traitor and his treasonous party to bring fascism to our nation.
Because they deserve to be spoken down to. Because they’re idiots. Because they chose to place their perceived moral superiority over the wellbeing of our country.
They were warned. Now it’s happening. Defending them is not exactly an intelligent thing to do.
What’s really unintelligent is rehashing grudges over and over again and further alienating exactly the people whose help you need to fix this mess. But what do I know?
“Arm yourselves” and liberal vote-scolding in the same comment. Incredible.
liberal vote scolding
Oh have you guys come up with a cute name that lets you dismiss it easier?
It isn’t just liberals that are pissed at people like you, and your characterization is bullshit.
Unless the new definition du jour of “liberal” is “someone who was able to understand their own electoral system enough to vote for Kamala Harris instead of handing power to literal fascists”
Have you losers come up with a plan to win elections?
What do you think the goal of elections is? Just to “win”? This very post demonstrates military force against our own citizens–are you ok with that? I think it’s something we should all be opposing.
We’re all losing when we lose fundamentals of our democracy and our right to protest.
It’s ironic of you to ask me what the goal of elections is. As far as I can tell, democrats worship the status quo and civility. I used to think that democrats didn’t utilize political power when they had it, because that would be “tacky” or something. Now I’ve seen enough to realize that they don’t really want to change anything. If you keep voting for people like that, what can you possibly hope to achieve, aside from just to “win”?
It’s ironic that you’re lecturing “democrats” on worshipping the status quo while parroting the current right wing status quo propaganda. If you ignore what the media says, and instead look at actual votes (congress.gov) or watch congressional sessions on cspan, it should be very clear that a good amount of democrats tend to be the ones trying to govern, while the right wingers are constantly sabotaging everything they do in the name of corporate profit, then blaming dem’s for the fallout from whatever shitty thing the right wingers did instead of what the dem’s wanted.
Can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched dems lay out thoroughly researched, thoughtful plans on policy, or thoroughly explain how the policies the far-right implemented are screwing working-class Americans, only to have some right winger passionately “rebut” their arguments with complete nonsense, get their 5 second media clips, then sit down and stare at their phones not paying attention until it’s their time to talk again.
Everything they tell you dem’s are doing, they’re the ones doing it. And now they’re telling you that what I’m saying is what OUR propaganda is telling us. It’s all bullshit. I’ve been watching the behind the scenes stuff for almost 10 years. It’s been this way the entire time. And btw, I started doing this because I used to consider myself a libertarian until I started noticing the lies. Particularly how the party of “individual freedom” fought so hard against same sex marriage (a freedom heteros have, that every INDIVIDUAL of legal age should have). I bought completely into the propaganda and didn’t realize how far I was from understanding what was actually going on until I really started questioning everything. I hope you can muster the intellectual honesty to question things in a similar way.
Newsflash: the republicans fucking win with their bullshit. A major component of politics is connecting with people. You can connect with lies and you can connect with truth, but long, technocratic explanations rarely. Like it or not, sound bites win elections.
“BECAUSE WE SAID SO!! OKAY?!”
“Because once we have that power, we’ll use it on you if you speak out.”
Do you want a rebellion? Cause this how you get rebellions
I wasnt aware the DOJ could order judges to find in certain ways in cases.
Not yet.
quashing protests, will eventually leader to larger protests and then uprising, and maybe a rebellion eventually.
Rebellion is the American way, fight back
Rebellion is the American way
What are the real estate prices under rocks these days?
You remember how America became sovereign, right?
You’re right. You are willing to rebel in order to keep your richest citizens from having to pay taxes. My mistake.
EDIT: Also, to preserve slavery. You’ll take up arms for that, too.
well, what did the ninth circuit have to say in response?
And Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers say he’s totally innocent too…
trumps been using the DOJ as his own lawyers, they’re always gonna say he can do whatever he wants. Literally, they said nothing about this can be weighed on by any court:
“Our view is that this statute commits the decision whether to call up the forces to the president’s unreviewable discretion,” Shumate answered. “So no, there’s no role for the court to play in reviewing that decision.”
It two trump judges and one from Biden. And while the trump judges clearly disagree, they’re gonna kick it to the SC.
Which is what was always going to happen here. Newsom isn’t dumb enough to think a lawsuit would fix anything, he’s just grandstanding because he wants to run for president.
Whelp. Trump now has the means to get his 3rd term.
Isn’t the national guard supposed to be a state level militia?
Makes zero sense that the federal government should dictate where and how they are used. The feds should be going to states and asking to borrow their militia for whatever happens, typically national disaster response and not murdering political dissenters.
when there is no justice there is…
No peace
Someone got a C in high school civics.
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