In the future of the 1994 movie Timecop, there’s a White Supremacist Party that wins 5% of the vote in the election. They were right but for a zero.
Also the villain is a tech billionaire who gets into politics and wants to buy the election.
Along with “the court has no jurisdiction because personnel appeals must go through official channels in Congress” despite not going through Congress to enact any of this in the first place.
And appeals court judges have bristled at the Trump administration’s view of due process, most notably in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran native whom the administration expelled to his home country in March.
Such flaccid writing. He was not just “expelled to his home country.” He was sent to a maximum security prison for terrorists and murderers despite having never been charged or convicted of any crime, where he has been (at least up until the last time anytime has ever seen him) kept in solitary confinement.
It wasn’t a mistake! He misspelled it intentially
US Attorney Alina Habba:
“He has willingly chosen to disregard the law,” she said on X. “That will not stand in this state. He has been taken into custody. NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW.”
Racist Traitor Heritage Month doesn’t have quite the same ring
I mean, the stated intent is to eliminate the agency. So why would anyone there assist you in eliminating their jobs?
The worst sequel to Speed
Sorry to say, but you’d better get those bootstraps ready
I had a stroke (really, a multi-stroke trauma event). I spent many days in the hospital under close supervision. Unlike Fetterman, I listened to my doctors, took an extended leave of absence from work, slept almost the entire time so my brain could heal in those critical days and weeks, took my medication, and went to physical therapy.
Fetterman reportedly didn’t do any of that.
I recovered fully. Fetterman clearly did not. In his current state, he should step down for the sake of everyone, especially himself. The stress of his job is about the worst possible thing he could do to himself.
The Judicial system, which includes the Supreme Court, is a branch of government.
It wasn’t fine. ATC hasn’t been properly staffed in decades, and many of them are functioning alcoholics because they can’t get mental health support or they’ll be forced to take unpaid leave for 6 months.
Like everything else, Trump made it all worse, but ATC has been struggling since before Reagan due to chronic underfunding. It’s been getting worse as more and more of them retire. Trump made it worse by firing the replacements who had undergone years of training. When things began to derail, they hired back the ones that had already retired.
There’s no game plan. Congress has no game plan in place to fix this. I’m not a both sides kind of person (check my comment history), but most elected officials in Congress are completely incompetent. It goes without saying for this administration as well.
As one example, the current problems in Newark are because there are just 20 ATCs that work that airport (from Philadelphia by wire) and 5 of them went on leave. This in turn caused downstream effects in other places because airlines cancelled flights or had to reroute. Think about that: the Northeast aviation system begins to fall apart if a single-digit number of people who normally work 6 days a week, who work overtime, decide to take leave.
The reason they went on leave is because they lost all communications for like 90 seconds when they were tracking a couple dozen flights. These people are such nervous wrecks and it came so close to a major aviation disaster that they had to go on leave to recuperate from the stress.
Ah yes, swift boat veterans for truth, 2024 edition
It’s incredible how someone is so committed to doing the wrong thing in every situation. Next he’ll outlaw sunlight and children’s laughter.
Of course the right took a side in this lawsuit that has nothing to do with anyone besides these two.
By sheer coincidence, it’s the anti-woman side. Again and again.
No, it’s cool. The DNC is thinking about running Harris again. That is a very smart decision by very smart people and it will turn out very well
“So if you want me to be able to push back, that requires me actually going and talking with DOGE.”
No, you jagoff, it means passing legislation, which is literally your only job.
Without exaggeration, this may be the stupidest chart I’ve ever seen in my life.
A declining trend line of Musk’s spending cut promises means by end of year he’ll apparently start promising $2T in new spending by DOGE according to these geniuses.
Purely punitive. They haven’t raised the federal gas tax since 1993 or adjusted it for inflation, and the federal highway fund is set to dry up in just a few years. So in response they levy an outrageous and disproportionate tax on 2% of drivers rather than across the board.
Removing the $7,500 tax rebate, stopping the EV charging station expansion, removing emission rules, levying this tax, and then having the nerve to say it’s about “fairness.”
I own an EV, and with how little I drive, if I paid a gas tax it would be literally $25 annually for me.
We have a set of ironclad rules: laws. But they can’t be enforced when a majority of the institutions charged with enforcing them are intent on subverting them instead.
The only way you could make this work is by making, say, the Department of Justice a separate and co-equal branch of the government, with its leader nominated and voted on by federal judges, completely detached from the normal political process. And that would require amending the Constitution.