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They shut down USAID over allegations of waste totalling $57,000.
Think of how much one of these North Korea style military parades would cost.
Just sayin’
This is standard procedure.
Claim it was a “joke”. That way, others can say the same thing and use the same excuse. This normalizes it. Then, when some lone wolf actors take it seriously and act on it, people like this can say “We had nothing to do with it! He acted on his own!” and disavow themselves of all responsibility.
This guy would love it if MAGA morons started taking it seriously and attacking reporters.
Everybody is thinking way, way too much into this.
If Trump would have to answer a question where he doesn’t know the answer, or would have to admit that people disagree with him, or he feels even mildly challenged, this is considered a personal attack on him. You are trying to get him to admit to not being 100% perfect 100% of the time. And he responds to that by lashing out like a small child, attacking you, making up childish names for you, and insulting you. This is how he has always responded.
This has nothing to do with his thoughts on economic policies or the effects of his tariffs. He doesn’t think far enough ahead to either know or care. This reporter had the audacity to challenge him, and Trump lashed out. That’s all. That’s how he always responds.
The good thing is that at least this judge’s order comes with a definitive timeline.
Unfortunately, that’s the only piece of good news. There was no “or else”, and the Trump administration has already claimed they couldn’t follow the order even if they wanted to because he’s out of the reach of US authority.
Which means that most likely, Monday will come and go and this guy will still be in El Salvador. The judge will do a lot of hemming and hawing and follow standard judicial practices of threatening to hold hearings to discuss the possibility of holding hearings, and eventually the whole thing will quietly disappear from the headlines once a MAGA-aligned appeals court dismisses it due to the claimed lack of jurisdiction.
And we do have to be realistic. Bukele (President of El Salvador) has every reason in the world to cozy up to Trump. And he really could put an end to this saga by saying that Garcia is facing charges in El Salvador and will not be sent back to the US. There may be made-up charges, there may not. He could just say that Garcia is being charged just to run cover for Trump so Trump can say “I tried, but Bukele confirmed that he is an MS 13 member being tried in El Salvador and will not release him.”. And at that point, I honestly could see a judge dismissing the case simply because it’s moot and any order would be unenforceable.
Overall, I’m not liking the man’s chances.
With all of that being said, how has not one reporter asked the question of “If this type of ‘error’ were made involving a US citizen being sent to El Salvador, are you also saying that there is no way to get that US citizen back?”
Yeah, and after 30 or 40 more hearings, he might consider threatening to possibly hold hearings to consider the possibility of maybe sending Trump a frowny face letter if he violates court orders another few dozen times.
Notice how not a single one of these judges is actually seriously threatening consequences. Because they know they have no enforcement power. They know that Trump’s response is going to be some variant of “What the fuck you gonna do about it if I don’t?”. They know they have zero actual answers for that, and they know exactly what it means when they are unable to answer.
They’re just stringing things along holding on to the illusion of power and hoping that people simply don’t notice that they hold no real power.
The people complaining are literally the only people with the power to actually do something about it.
All of this could end tomorrow.
I will guarantee you can get all Democrats on board with a bill that reclaims the power of levying tariffs as outlined in Article 1 of the Constitution. Reclaim the powers and nullify all tariffs that have been imposed by Trump since his inauguration. Even half of Republicans and all Democrats would be enough to cover the 2/3 in the Senate needed to override a Trump veto.
That’s it. That’s all it would take and this whole thing would be over. But anyone in the GOP that is complaining about these tariffs while holding the power to actually do something about it isn’t actually complaining. It’s performance art. Don’t listen to what they say, look at how they vote. If they’re saying they’re against it while voting in favor of it, they’re lying to you.
And these people are all lying to you. They will vote in lockstep when push comes to shove.
Let’s see:
- Judge is a woman
- Is an Obama appointee
- From a blue state
- Has no enforcement mechanism
- is ordering someone with all-but-total immunity
- is ordering someone who has already ignored or defied multiple court orders with total impunity
I’m sure Trump will get right on this one…
And that doesn’t even take into consideration the claims that the Trump administration has made saying they have no method of getting these people back even if mistakes are made. Now that of course is scary for about 8,268,458 other reasons, and could also be made up BS. But I would not be the least bit surprised if he was right, and the deal is just to ship them to El Salvador and let them get lost in the system. You think some El Salvador authorities are going to even try finding him in a sea of 80,000 or so other prisoners who will all claim to be him if it means getting the fuck out of there? And that’s assuming he’s even still alive.
Just want to throw this out there for context.
In the urban districts I used to work for, Title I funding amounted to $5,000 per child per year.
So a small, rural district of say 1000 students would be looking at funding cuts in the $5,000,000 range. Your average urban district (15,000 kids or so)? You’re looking at a funding cut of $75 million.
This isn’t a case of losing some funding and having to lay off a couple of teachers and cancel the after-school art club. This is literally an amount of funding that determines whether a district functions at all. Expect many school districts to bend the knee even if only out of self-preservation and the fear that losing that much funding would lead to even worse outcomes.
The problem is you have to buy back in at the dip. And Noone knows when the dip will be done dipping.
Professional stock traders don’t know when the dip will end, so unless you are retiring in the next year or 3, you need to invest back in something… so start thinking about what that means for you
Yes and no.
Let’s say you sell now. Then stocks drop by 10%. (Making up numbers for easy illustration). You wait to see if they’re going any lower, and the next thing you know, stocks have regained 5% of that and are on the way back up. If that’s the point where you buy back in, and assuming they don’t drop again, you’ve still come out well ahead.
It’s not so much about “buying the dip”. It’s knowing when the dip is over, things have started rebounding, and getting in before all the losses have been regained.
Oh, come on now. It wasn’t just all about trans people. You’re forgetting the real threats.
Are you not forgetting the threat of tens of thousands of dog-eating Hatians in Springfield, Ohio? Notice how you haven’t heard a peep about dog-eating Hatians in Springfield, Ohio any more, because God-King Trump solved the problem of dog-eating Hatians!
And we had another problem about having a really, really old white guy with cognitive issues sitting in the Oval Office. Democrats tried replacing the old white guy with a <gasp!> black woman and the country collectively stood up and said “No, not like that!”, and lost their collective minds. So of course we did the sensible thing and went back to electing an old white guy with cognitive issues, and everybody lived happily ever after and nothing went wrong.
Then of course there was the Israel conflict, where everybody was upset over Biden’s support for Israel and the ongoing genocide in Gaza. So of course, the only sensible solution to that was to elect someone who promised to genocide harder, annex the territory, and turn it into beachfront property for the rich.
And all of this, of course, was meant to bring down the price of eggs. My understanding is that Trump had a meeting with the National Institute of Chickens the other day, and they are the ones who persuaded Trump to impose a 29% tax on uninhabited Antarctic islands out of fear of having to compete with Antarctic penguin eggs.
As a result of Trump, we’ve restored the dignity of the Presidency by making sure the status-quo is maintained, eliminated the threat of dog-eating Hatians, brought peace in the Middle East by letting Israel just steamroll over everything, and now have a President who is taking it to the front lines on the war on eggs! What more could we possibly ask for? <criessilentlyincorner>
I’d be willing to bet that there was a mis-translation somewhere along the line. The article says he was talking about Europe not “retreating into a fortress”, because that reaction would be worse than the tariffs themselves. Maybe somewhere along the line, him saying that in Italian got mis-translated into not complying? Just my thoughts.
This should not be a surprise. AI leads to AI. And by that I mean artificial intelligence leads to absolute ineptitude.
This should not be a surprise, since he was considered to be one of the dumbest people to have ever attended Wharton.
He taxed Penguins.
Penguins.
Not these Penguins. These penguins.
How is he not an open laughing stock on the international stage right now? Like world leaders should be openly mocking this man. This man is a national embarrassment.
In order for those to be connected, women would have to have more difficulty in producing that proof than men (which may be the case, but the article doesn’t show that).
Just for clarification, this part has been answered in other articles discussing this subject. Married women would have a tougher time meeting proof-of-citizenship requirements if they took their husbands’ name (which happens 99.9% of the time) because their birth certificate would still have their maiden name. Since the voting rolls contain their married name and not their maiden name, the names wouldn’t match which would be grounds for removal from rolls. This would be made worse for those women who were married recently, as it’s more likely that even more documentation such as a drivers’ license would also still contain their maiden name and would therefore not be considered acceptable proof.
Women would have to provide additional documentation (such as a marriage license), but it’s expected that this alone would cause some women to consider it not worth the hassle and therefore not bother voting.
P.s., there are definitely plenty of conservative women too stupid or unwilling to admit to themselves that the conservative position is women as second class citizens, but I wanted to respond with the perspective I’ve heard from people who seemed to be more honest.
Sadly, there are women who openly embrace this line of thinking. Particularly those who were raised in ultra-religious households where women being subservient to men in all matters is the norm, and have no problems forcing those views on the secular women that they view as “whores”. Mostly, it’s a subconscious way of lashing out against the fact that they themselves have been oppressed for their whole lives and therefore feel better being the oppressor instead of the oppressed. But they are out there.
Ok, I’m missing something. There’s some shady money laundering tactic going on here. Just not seeing where it is. Can someone explain to me what the point of this is?
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I like the term chaos facism to describe it, but the author is looking too deeply into things. Trump thinking the way the author believes would imply that Trump does things like think or plan.
Trump is only taking the advice Steve Bannon gave him, which is some pretty damn good advice if you’re looking to do an authoritarian takeover. Ignore laws. Do whatever you want and let the justice system try to keep up with you. Move so fast that the justice system, the media, and the people can’t keep up with it all so by the time they’re done even processing one thing, five more have made it completely under the radar. And on the chance that something does blow up in your face? Do something random, disruptive, and distracting that others have to deal with. Threaten to take over Tuvalu. Who cares why. Let everyone else be focused on figuring out what the hell you’re talking about and force them to spend time and resources dealing with that diplomatic disaster while you go back to whatever other things you actually care about. Did one of your cronies do something embarrasingly stupid? Just announce a 380% tax on coffee grounds or something. Not that you care about coffee. It’s just something to dangle out there in case the rubes start getting a little too uppity and need a distraction.
And that’s pretty much what Trump is doing. He does things so fast that the media and justice system can’t keep up with it all. Why do you think he’s pushing to eliminate nationwide injunctions? Because if one of his policies impacts a million people, he wants the justice system to have to deal with a million separate cases, not just one. And there’s only so much news that can be crammed on the front page of a website. Reporters can only push out so many Youtube clips.
And it works well.
How many colleges have bent the knee to Trump? If you’re just saying Columbia, you’re wrong. Harvard and Yale have done the same thing. It just flew under the radar. And by the time you’re reading this, other colleges may have done the same.
How many law firms have bent the knee to Trump? Not just the two reported in the media, but how many others have flown under the radar?
How many times has Trump directly ignored or defied a court order without consequence?
How many people have been illegally deported from the US without due process?
And if you answer those questions, are you 100% confident in your answer? Or do you think your answer may be too low?
That’s chaos facism. Make it so nobody even knows what the fuck is going on from one minute to the next, let alone be able to do something about it.
As predicted.
Roberts gave no official reason yet, but we all know how this case is going to end up.
Most likely, the Supreme Court is going to say that while the Trump administration made an “administrative error” in deporting him, there is currently no enforceable remedy available. There’s also the chance that they’ll just slip in a reminder that this man’s deportation was an “executive decision” by Trump as part of his official duties and is therefore immune from any legal liability even when he makes an error.
Most likely, the official decision is going to render Xinis’ order unenforceable and therefore quashed and that’ll be the end of this case. His family may continue trying to pursue this case through civil litigation, but will most likely run into the same wall of “Too bad, so sad, Trump’s immune, sucks to be you.”