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That's not quite right. It wasn't a myth. It was a product of belief, but the product was real. By aspiring to greatness we became greater. From the founding onward we had a mission to become a more perfect union, and a roadmap by which to do that. The abandonment of that mission is the great tragedy of this century, and it's a loss that will be felt globally. All traded away for sake of spite.

If Americans read this summary of events in any other country we would all recognize it for what it is. ...pardoning 1,500 criminals who supported him; firing independent agency watchdogs without process; purging apolitical police and military brass; ignoring laws; and his unilaterally deleting federal programs, and even a whole organization, created by U.S. Congress. He's just called his predecessor's pardons void and vacated. He gave a bitterly partisan speech at the Department of Justice, demanding the prosecution of the media and certain adversaries. He threatened numerous universities with sanctions. He invoked a 227-year-old war measures law during peacetime — for the first time ever — to deport accused gang members without due process. And, most importantly, when that deportation plan wound up in court, he may have — although it's still in dispute — defied a court order, cracking the ultimate constitutional safeguard. Today's Republicans, however, will pretend that it's not happening. They are eagerly trading democracy to advance their agenda. They simply don't believe in America as an idea.

This is another case where it's hard to tell if you are being disingenuous, or whether you really don't know how any of this works. The SCOTUS didn't rule on the virtue of an objective. Rather, they rule on the legality of the means of execution. Biden didn't "defy" or disregard their ruling, he applied other legal actions as a result of their ruling. Your argument is silly and self defeating. If he had defied the court he wouldn't have needed to find alternative ways to pursue his objective. Q.E.D.

Jeebus, dude, just even a basic understanding of the situation would go miles. They are NOT ignoring laws they don't like. They are "ignoring" laws they have no obligation or responsibility to enforce. It's not they job. And voluntarily enforcing those laws makes doing their actual jobs much harder.

You'd have to present some sources before I could be interested in them. This thread keeps getting dumber.

Tell you what. I'll send some kook book money if you share the receipt of donating an equal amount to the ACLU.

But you can't find it. So odd. 🙄

I have no idea what this means. But whatever you're on about now, let's not gloss over the fact that you (and apparently "Sandra Freedom" want to make an issue of media outlets reporting the campaign direction using the exact word that was used on stage at the DNC to describe the campaign. As if it's a goddamn conspiracy. That's nuts.

It's funny that a publication that calls itself "The Federalist" has so thoroughly lost the thread that it does not believe in the concept of a nation of laws. MAGA madness is in full swing. Also noticed that you took a hard pass on the "sanctuary city" learning. That's too bad.

Yet it seems you can't manage to find that quote from Biden. Nor "evidence" from outside the fever swamp. Hm... No, pretty much seems like a lot of made up nonsense from people milking a persecution complex. I know you'd prefer that credible allegations of wide-scale child molestation be swept under the rug, but most of us would like those things to be investigated.

You're way off base here. Elon Musk clearly doesn't like Bill Gates at all. Musk's plan is to funnel money to his own companies and those of his allies, not to his rivals. Microsoft won't be on the menu.

Apologize? They didn't make a mistake, they did their jobs. Since when does the DOJ apologize for doing their job? Like the basic farking function of the job? Why would we want or expect them to? That's absurd.

Yes, that's EXACTLY what's going on. Look at that stupid tweet--because apparently some whackjob calling herself "Sandra Freedom" is all the source you need. Actually look at it. The Google screenshot of the NY times even references the quote from Walz's debut speech: “Thank you, Madam Vice President, for the trust you put in me. But maybe more so, thank you for bringing back the joy.” The campaign set the tone and explicitly made "joy" a talking point for the tone and tenor of the campaign. This isn't evidence of a conspiracy where all the news organizations got together to decide to describe the campaign as joyful--though that's certainly what you intend to imply. It's evidence of news organizations doing the basic job of reporting WTF is happening in the campaign.

An investigation is not a circus. It's an investigation.

Holy shit! Joy everywhere! So the media was reporting--almost verbatim--the words the candidates used to describe the tone and approach of the campaign? Well, I suppose basic reporting is deeply confusing to the Fox news crowd.

You made all of that up. It's fiction.

This is a fantastically stupid post from a fantastically stupid POTUS. There is no evidence that an autopen was used. There is no law that forbids the use of an autopen--and multiple precedents that confirm it's legality. Does anyone think that Trump signed 1300 J6 pardons by hand? He's just a buffoon.

Bullshit. I've proposed nothing of the sort. You are proposing that religious people (well, Christians, at least) are beyond the need for investigation. I'm sure all those kiddy-diddling priests deeply appreciate the complicity of people like you. It was a good run while it lasted. The facts are that credible accusations were made and an investigation ensued. That's how the justice system works. The bible doesn't come with a free pass.

Again, you are just making shit up. Nobody is trying to keep undocumented criminals in the US -- well, except perhaps for the for-profit prison system. But the idea that mayors are doing anything of the sort is pure fantasy. I'm going to take this as a tacit admission that you have no idea why "sanctuary" cities and states exist. Go educate yourself on the facts.

Holy shit, you are just an unhinged mess. When you get stumped by information which does not fit your preconceptions you just vomit up a Gish gallop of insanity. Which frankly is not a surprise at this point, but I'm still shocked sometimes by the top-to-bottom crazy. It's not that you misread the numbers, it's that everybody lies all the time to cover up the grand conspiracy for nefarious (but unknowable) purposes!

OFFS, Worobey (who you've never heard of before yet try to dismiss as if you actually know this subject) is not the "only person" to trace the origin to multiple crossovers. There are multiple reports in the linked resource alone. Deflect as much as you want, you're trying to change a quote and lying when called out on it. Fauci said the markers are totally consistent with natural spread. The science today still says the same thing. -- The difference is that you want to spin a fiction about him saying something more definitive than that because your entire conspiracy thinking framework is predicated on the idea of a coverup. People are welcome to make up whatever theories they like, but speculation without evidence is not going to trump what the research says. Everyone should care if Fauci lied, but there's no reason to believe that he did. You simply attack him (a man with a stellar record of public service and worldwide respect) because the MAGA cult of ignoramuses decided they didn't like the information he was relaying.

Nonsense. It's called DOGE because Dogecoin (and sophomoric humor) enthusiast Musk is trolling America and thought it would be funny. As illustrated with his chainsaw performance, the mission absolutely is cutting costs, not pursuing efficiency. These yahoos have no idea what impact their cuts will have on productivity or efficacy or outcomes. They are just breaking shit and hoping (or perhaps not caring) if the decimated remains figure out some say to meet their missions.

Serious question, do you really have no idea why sanctuary cities are sanctuary cities? Do you not understand that policy? It has nothing to do with wanting undocumented people. And they are not preventing ICE from doing anything, they simply have a policy of not helping.

An investigation is an investigation. Not all of them result in charges. That does not mean that the investigation was without merit or somehow political. That's ridiculous. -- Frankly, after what was discovered in the Catholic church, there is no possible way these allegations would not be investigated. And it's absurd that you think they shouldn't have been investigated.

Are we a nation of laws or a nation of executive fiat? Setting aside that this is an antiquated law that has an ignominious history, we're simply not at war. Invoking the Alien Enemies act is an abuse of power to try to work around immigration law rather than through the law or to change the law. The laws don't exist as a fig leaf for executive action, but rather as a curb against such power. They are meant to have meaning and must be respected to have meaning. Unfortunately, the voters of this country chose to elect a President who has no respect for the law whatsoever, and now the strength of the constitution will be tested--over and over again--as he tries to break through it. It doesn't matter what the aim of the executive action, or if people agree with it in principle, people should be invested in the law as an institution. And that's what those legal actions represent.