The idea of SCOTUS being any kind of impartial arbiter of justice has been made into a complete joke because of bullshit like this and too many other incidents for me to count. Whenever we get the corrupt bastards off that court they are going to have to overturn so much garbage from the past 20 years or so.
Has she apologized for supporting Harris in the past? Condemned Israel's genocide against the Palestinians?
She might be the best option in this race, but there have been way too many times in the past twenty years where a progressive who blew up overnight and scored an "upset" win turned out to just be another establishment shill all along.
Or he could pull some truly inhumane and unconditional stunt to deflect attention from his inability to get trade deals, or his inability to get stop Russia's war on Ukraine, or from how FEMA bungled the Texas floods on his watch or etc., or he might do something truly inhumane just because he's Donald Trump and he wants to
You really don't think it's relevant to this story that the president who said he wanted to fund the police in his first state of the union address signed a law that allowed these Republicans to waste federal money on stupid cop bullshit? It's basically guaranteed that if any staffers inside his administration had tried to stop this county or anyone else from wasting this money on stupid cop bullshit they would've been fired on the spot because Biden thought "funding the police" was a political winner.
Stop whining about the past and work for a better future.
This is basically what Greg Abbott and all the Republicans have been saying about this with their "finger pointing is for losers" bullshit, and they're wrong too. Until more people understand our past and understand that there are a lot of shitty Democratic party members who make the damage the Republican party is able to inflict on all of us worse who need to be removed from political influence our future is fucked.
“Only a bad person would ask a question like that, to be honest with you,” the president said
For real, he is such a weakling, even when he's throwing his little hissy fit here he's reflexively couching it in the "I'm just being 'honest' with you so you're not allowed to get mad at me for being a dick" thing
I for one am shocked that Joe "fund the police" Biden signed a law that allowed for federal money to be wasted on cop bullshit! Gosh, if only someone has told us there were better ways to protect public safety. Like maybe some protesters or activists somewhere could have said something? I'm sure we would have listened to them and taken them seriously, and we definitely would not have tear gassed them and beat them and shot them with rubber bullets and etc.
The sad part is this is how the Biden administration actually thought. They could have restricted these funds from being wasted on stupid bullshit but instead did the moderate Dem thing and just let douchebag Republicans do whatever the hell they want so they could campaign on how bipartisan they were. At the end of the day, nobody in a position of power gave a shit about the safety of these people.
A couple of decades in the future the addition of "Presidented" to American English (verb: to arbitrarily make a declaration or issue an order, implicitly illegally) will really confuse things
Eh, close, but that's still theoretically barely viable until the administration takes the affirmative step of saying "everybody in Denver can't vote but Rifle's cool", at which point anybody in Denver who can't get a lawyer and a court date is probably screwed,
So, yeah I guess the difference between rule of law being down for the count and democracy going into hibernation might be entirely semantic in practice
Do with that as you will
I'm going to believe a lot of people are about to realize what a bad idea this all is and keep telling people what a bad idea this all is and eventually live in a better world or get dumped in a mass grave for running my mouth. Good luck everybody.
Yeah, like even if they did manage to break away they would constantly be getting little raiding parties and all sorts of harassment from the old government and continually have to waste all sorts of resources on defending themselves. If it gets to the point where open armed conflict with the US government seems like a good idea you might as well skip past secession to overthrow.
Because Republicans hold a 53-47 advantage in the Senate, it will be difficult for Democrats to regularly defeat judicial nominations. But a clip of, for example, Missouri district court nominee Josh Divine trying to explain why he endorsed literacy tests for voting and analogized homosexuality to bestiality is the sort of thing that, if done correctly, would have a chance to go viral enough to get Susan Collins to have second thoughts.
The bad news is that no such clips exist, because when Senate Democrats had the chance to question the nominees in person, they decided they had other things to do or other places to be. Illinois’s Dick Durbin, California’s Adam Schiff, and Rhode Island’s Sheldon Whitehouse spent more of their allotted time lauding Federalist Society judges for sometimes ruling against Trump than they did asking questions of Whitney Hermandorfer, the pending nominee to the Sixth Circuit. Incredibly, their performances were still more impactful than those of Connecticut’s Richard Blumenthal, New Jersey’s Cory Booker, Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, and California’s Alex Padilla, who did not say anything to Hermandorfer at all.
Democratic politicians are fond of casting Trump as a threat to democracy and the rule of law, and are very aware of the power of political theater when they have new books to promote or campaign donations to solicit via lengthy, meme-laden, green-blubble text. But it is difficult for Senate Democrats to persuade voters to care about judicial confirmation battles when they, the Democrats, are so uninterested in fighting them.
I worry RFK is going to use a combination of being exactly who we thought he was, moving just slowly enough for people to lose interest, and his boss's tendency to demand all of our attention to do some truly awful stuff, and by the time we realize how awful it is it will be way too late to do anything about it
TBF, seeing Trump treat someone else like shit, empathizing with their experience, and realizing how it could happen to them is really hard for Republicans because they're morally and intellectually defective
Yeah, I guess I was thinking of this from the top down constitutional perspective of it (and even then I probably should have said taking ICE's side or the federal government's side), but meanwhile on the ground the LAPD is doing the LAPD thing and the National Guard is doing the National Guard thing
tl;dr PieFed has different people behind it, a few more features, and is written in Python instead of Rust (I'm not a coder or an instance host, so don't ask me what that distinction means, but I've anecdotally seen more people saying python is easier to work with than rust than the other way around),
PieFed communities federate with Lemmy communities, tho, so no matter which kind of instance you're going through as a user you should be able to interact with all the communities (assuming your instance admins haven't decided to defederate with the other instance for some reason)
The idea of SCOTUS being any kind of impartial arbiter of justice has been made into a complete joke because of bullshit like this and too many other incidents for me to count. Whenever we get the corrupt bastards off that court they are going to have to overturn so much garbage from the past 20 years or so.