As things stand, I’m sure this is a legally true statement, but the practical impact islikely zilch. Il Douche throws out EOs and they get treated as if they are laws. Congress supposedly has the ultimate power of the purse, but Trump has effectively taken that from them as well. Lower court orders are ignored, SCOTUS is bought and paid for. A fascist idiot will be president in 2027. My deepest worry is that there is a huge blue wave in 2026, and is not able to undo everything that has been done. And then a significant chunk of voters just give up. My point is not that this is hopeless, although it probably came across that way. It is that it will be a long-term project undoing this shit, and i am not encouraged at the ability of the public to maintain focus on long term projects. The fascists got here by playing on hate and fear of others. Negative emotions are very powerful. Somehow, hate of fascists (probably because they are almost exclusively straight white men) just doesn’t carry the same power. I feel like i am rambling, i did not sleep well and the coffee hasn’t really kicked in yet. Anyway, long story short, 2026 election is not an end, at best it might be the end of the beginning. Trump is not the disease. He is a symptom of the disease. Left untreated, even assuming we do win out in the end, we will be as we were in 1866 and 1946, thinking we have killed the beast, but it just waits for another chance. Like all predator/ prey races, we can only lose once, they can lose as many as they want. We need to address the underlying issue.
True, but I offer this analogy: one can treat the hemmorhoids, & then go to work long-term on eating more fiber.
Alternately, eradicate the pinworms & then keep working on better handwashing.
(I dunno, it’s something 
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No doubt. I hope no one interprets my statement as “so pay no attantion to the orange doddard.” Only that, assuming we do oust the fascists, that is not where you hang the “Job Well Done” banner. There will be a hell of a lot of work to do in the aftermath.
Ah, there’s the problem. T**** hasn’t taken anything Congress hasn’t given to him. The only reason any of his EOs have stood, even when he’s being propped up by the courts, is that Congress has not done any legislation. It’s not an oversight, either. The majority thinks that if they let him do everything by EO, then it won’t blow back on them. They are discovering that Americans may be dumb enough to elect Tangerine Mussolini but not stupid enough to ignore congressional complicity. We see this at their town halls.
Even with one chamber of congress not in his control, they can stop his bullshit. It’s looking more and more like the dems will pick up both chambers. At the very least, they can stop the EOs. And don’t underestimate the power of impeaching judges that back him. Even if they aren’t removed, impeachment itself shines a light on them that the grifters do not want.
Thus is life. Down to the cellular level, it takes work. An individual cell takes energy just to pump ions across the cell membrane.
Congress has been gradually abdicating its Constitutional power since . . . 1950, maybe? But it has certainly accelerated under Trump. SCOTUS seems to also now be abdicating its power, which is really troubling. Now, when I say ‘abdicating,’ I don’t mean that they’ve formally ceded some power to the executive, just that they’re refusing to use and/or enforce the powers they have. For Congress, and arguably the Supreme Court, this started with deciding that we could wage war without formally declaring war, a power exclusive to the Congress. The last time Congress declared war was June 4, 1942. I generally hate slippery slope arguments, but it seems appropriate here.
When we recover from this, that regression will need to be undone, along with so much other repair.
We’re really going to need more than just one or two terms to fix all this. This shit has been going on heavily since 1980. It’s going to take decades of more progressive politics to fix.
I hope this guy doesn’t turn out to be an asshole 
I posted that in the problems with the democratic party thread… while all true, they sort of ignored the huge ass elephant in the room, Peter Thiel’s purchase of a whole ass presidency so he can turn American into a techno-dystopia… Gizmodo has been more than a bit frustrating as of late…
I hate that we have to decide between Newsom and his Silicon Valley donors, and our GOP—which is made up of Kevin McCarthy, Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bunch of Libertarian batshit crazy donors, all of whom get their marching orders from the Texas MAGAts. 
Lawsuit is in the northern district of Texas,
If California succeeds, Jackson says it will dilute his power as a Republican member in the House and leave him vulnerable to losing his chair on two subcommittees.
Jackson filed the lawsuit in his hometown Amarillo, Texas, a single-judge division in the Northern District of Texas. The case is assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of President Donald Trump favored by conservative litigants.
As arlo guthrie said, “you got a lot of god-damned Gall”
Well, it’s a good thing a district judge’s ruling doesn’t apply outside of their district, right?
Well, hell, of course he is. How dare CA try to redistict TX! What? Oh hell no. Fuck you, you asshole.