He's not using some "rare power." He is violating the Constitution and his oath of office.
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This is the kind of editorial complicity that I truly hope historians will be incredibly harsh on.
Like if you're the editor of the guardian (or wapo, or idk a billion other publications), I hope the whole world knows your name as a complicit spineless bitch that was instrumental in perpetuating this bullshit were all living through.
The media is owned by… the owner class. Of course they’re complicit. They’re a weapon. It’s like saying the gun was complicit in the murderer’s killings.
The editor is not "the media,"
A person okayed this for a paycheck.
Someone's kid says "My (mom/dad) is the editor of the guardian's current events section." When asked what their parents does for work.
The biggest criticisms from the left about the guardian and their leadership seems to be their allegiance to liberalism as opposed to progressivism, so a defense and support of capital and the capital class at the expense of actual progress no matter the subject. This instance would also fit into that category if you perceive the Scott Trust group as owned by the ideals of the capital class.
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And yet sometimes they are.
Some of us experienced free press and that's our starting context.
There is still free good press Online. Zateo etc
We need to spread the word and get everyone listening to free news network exactly what Republicans did with morning radio decades ago.
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It's not fucking "rare and contested." It's just blatantly violating the Constitution. Congress has control of the budget, not the president. It's his job to execute on the law, not to pick and choose which laws to follow.
If that were true then the president couldn’t cancel it 🤷♂️
The president does a lot of things that he isn't allowed until the courts tell him to fuck off. Just wastes valuable judge time having to babysit his every move because he doesn't know what he is doing.
You are wrong though. He or his handlers know exactly what they're doing. This has been his strategy his entire life. Break the law, then tie up the ensuing suits in the courts so long that he still effectively gets away with it and/or it costs his opposition too much to continue.
He is proof positive that delayed justice is not justice at all.
If murder is illegal then why are you dead? Boom, checkmate.
I mean, if the authorities don't arrest/charge then functionally yes. This demented old pedo has legit killed hundreds of thousands through inaction during Covid and killed millions globally by letting that dipshit Musk gut USAID. He's a murderer on par with any other fascist but will he see consequences?
Well, yeah, murder or sexual abuse against minors is illegal, yet you see the rich and powerful engage in these things constantly without consequence.
The law is words on paper, enforcement is what makes law reality, otherwise it's just a suggestion.
If you deny someone their life-saving medication you might go to jail for it. If a rich person does denies life-saving medication to someone because it makes them a few dollars more, they get praised for it.
They'll sue, it'll get overturned and the only losers are the taxpayers.
Sorry, is this your first visit to this timeline?
I was gonna say, does this not constitute a line item veto?
"rare and constested" does this apply in court if I rob a bank? Like is my claim on the money in the vault a "rare and contested" legal defence?
If you bought the judge and the jury, then yes. It’s legal.
Great news for when I finally become a billionaire!
Just gotta keep voting Republican and eventually everyone will be billionaires.
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Bet that billion somehow ends up in trumps pocket.
But like I actually bet. someone bet me.
it's already in his pocket
Sure, or some other project that will harm us.
Sorry, the odds on that bet are so low, after the transaction fees you would be out money - so, just hand yourself a dollar and be done with it.
Most of the cuts are focused on services for immigrants, including non-profits that serve refugees and unaccompanied minors accused of being in the country illegally
They're literally doing the Ophan Crushing Machine!
Trump wants to provide them company himself
They really should start clarifying, the people manipulating and controlling Trump did this, Trump is not smart enough to fight his was out of a paper bag
Correct your speech, citizen: Trump is not smart enough to America his way out of an American America.
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Ah, Susan Collins trying to get her name out there in a better way. Too late, Susan!
Her issue was Abortion, and she blew it. Unforgiveable. No half-assed attempt at morality is going to earn her a second chance. Besides, nobody in Maine cares about immigration, she was just grasping at the first straw she could.
What a chickenshit sane-washing headline. Shame on you, Guardian.
Genuine question. What headline would you have chosen?
Trump Derelicts Duty and Fails to Dispense Funds as Legally Appropriated
I desperately hope that a deathly illness happens to Trump. I'm so fucking tired of him.
I vote for Ebola, Marburg, or rabies. Those are some terrible ways to go.
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I've been hoping for a lightning strike on the golf course.
Make damn sure those evangelical Christian supporters see exactly what their God's opinion of Trump was...
And what will he do with the billion dollars?
Give it to Isreal.
#AmericaFirst
Rape and/or murder children. Not necessarily in that order.
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And nothing of consequence will be done.
"A sYstEm oF cHEckS aND bALanCes"
And the cons have the gall to still be whining about "cancel culture".
Ne wants so bad to be a king that the hasn't even considered the possibility of ending up with his head chopped off.
That and the toxic grandpa who knows that everybody hates him and puts up with his sadistic bullshit because of the inheritance and is making sure to get a kick out of it.
This fucker is speed running civil war.
Probably so he he can funnel it to his family.
How?
As an 80 year old dotard with delusions of dementia, does he even know what he is doing anymore?
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