Even the corporate Democrats don’t support this. It’s not good for the slow and steady accumulation of wealth without risk of discord. Their problem is that they’re the champions of the status quo. And when your political goal is for nothing to change, your entire political philosophy and toolbox is based around finding reasons not to do anything.

So now, even when the status quo is being obliterated and it should be the one time these people have value, their instincts are to just go through the same motions they always do, making ineffectual gestures, making excuses for inaction, and avoiding confrontation with their colleagues so they can all find a way that their people (not their political sides, their respective wealthy peers) can profit together.

You blocked them and now you’re using the fact that you don’t see similar posts from the people you say you’ve blocked to justify that your blocks were correct?

Would you consider that result to be an administration that has deferred to the rule of law? Would that make you feel safer?

Unless it is demonstrated that our legal system still has the power to correct wrongs being done by the administration it doesn’t much matter. “You might be unlawfully abducted and lost before the judiciary can return you” is not a message that resolves this as a demonstration of where the regime’s limits are. They want to strike fear, and “a judge said to bring them back but that didn’t happen” does that just fine.

The market was moving even before then. Someone knew through a channel other than Trump’s public statements.

And it started at 42% before the genocide. So two years of genocide convinced 11% of people that the apartheid state was bad, actually.

Education leaders expressed concern about arrests and revocations that could lead to a drop in international education in the United States.

They’re framing this as a non-optimal policy for long-term enrollment, like Trump may have just made a mistake and needs to be informed, not an attack on education, freedom of expression, and multiculturalism from the playbook of fascists.

I live on an island covered in military bases and have been on them both locally and elsewhere for various reasons. It’s not all MAGA, but it’s also not an environment of woke resistors. Those high skilled people ready to refuse are the exception, not the norm, and they’re not the people a declaration of martial law would rely on.

A martial law order isn’t going to look like “go shoot some hippies”, it’s going to be seizing and holding important infrastructure, setting up checkpoints, and enforcing a curfew. That stuff can all be military-speak formatted to look like just perfectly fine orders under exigent circumstances. If violence happens it will be plausibly framed as defending those “legitimate” orders, and it will likely be performed by people who are loyalists. The rest will just be there to support and protect them.

A lot of them are in because it can offer an escape from poverty, and training involves hammering home that they have to just follow orders. They’re going to go along like everyone else because defying orders is a big personal risk for people who are not in a position to just lose everything.

GWB + Trump judges in the majority, Clinton judge opposed.

He at least managed to not vote for a Republican nominee for once. Maybe some small part of his pre-stroke brain is able to recognize at least one Republican he thinks is not fit for greater power. All it took was the Republican being the actual guy he built his career through opposing.

therefore I’ve always taken anyone who says,“I’m not antisemetic, I just think Israel shouldn’t exist (IE, anti-zionist)” is a closet antisemite at best.

There are whole sects of Judaism that are anti-Zionist. Zionism/Israel are not synonymous with Judaism or Jewishness in any way and there are both secular and religious anti-Zionist Jewish organizations.

People who are anti-zionist seem to only have a selective and limited knowledge of a few thousand years of the history of the area.

Yes, tell us more about people with a selective and limited knowledge of the history or the area.

I have some really bad news for you about the Governor of Texas.

What is that minimizing title? He’s talking about an invasion of conquest. Call it that.

The problem with admonishments from groups like this is that they’ve so covered themselves with shit trying to maximize profits their words don’t mean much when they actually have something meaningful to say.

Yeah, the whole thing is a just an embarrassing demonstration of how it’s just a big social club rather than a relationship where they should be naturally antagonistic.

Trump nominee + Bush senior nominee. Couldn’t find it in this article.

News organizations and the judiciary might want to pretend who appointed a judge is unimportant to understanding a news story because they all strive to do good objective law, but that’s a fantasy.

A pardon is just words in the same way a law is. Someone has to implement them, and in this case it would require state officials to act rather than people who can be fired if they don’t do it.

This is insane and stupid and tells me there’s no one involved in the process that has ever managed a software project before, which makes it doubly insane and stupid.

Of course a fresh out of college hotshot thinks they can complete a major coding project in 3 months. That’s why no one takes their estimates seriously, not announces them to the world.

Man, my broad social-studies type learning cut off around World War II out of fear of touching anything politically controversial and this guy is out here just regurgitating propaganda to justify the American gestapo currently kidnapping dissidents.

Cool that you elevated a subjective quote by noted partisan liar Elon Musk into your title CNN.