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Oliver_Wendell_Ramone 03-28-2025 03:28 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 534823)
You'd think.

OTOH, I'm not entirely sure if the law as we all understand it still exists.
Weird times, indeed.

But which is dumber: Dead Kennedys without Jello, or Sex Pistols without Johnny?

Tyrone Slothrop 03-28-2025 05:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 534823)
You'd think.

OTOH, I'm not entirely sure if the law as we all understand it still exists.
Depends on whether you're in court in Louisiana or California.

I am wondering how federal judges will hold administration officials in contempt. What happens then?

Did you just call me Coltrane? 03-28-2025 07:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 534823)
You'd think.

OTOH, I'm not entirely sure if the law as we all understand it still exists.
Maybe everyone is too busy ignoring oral orders and only following the written ones.

Holy shit I couldn't believe that position. I can't imagine trying to assert it with a straight face to a federal judge.

Anyway, I think the guardrails (the federal courts) are barely keeping the American bus on the road. Barely. I was certain they were going to start ignoring orders. And then this whole grand experiment would be over.

We just need to get to midterms, and I need to figure out what to do with my almost 6-year old Tesla.

Did you just call me Coltrane? 03-28-2025 07:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 534825)
Depends on whether you're in court in Louisiana or California.

I am wondering how federal judges will hold administration officials in contempt. What happens then?
We're fucked if it gets to that point.

Adder 03-29-2025 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 534827)
We're fucked if it gets to that point.
I assume they are only (sorta) following orders now because they think the 6 will ultimately vindicate them. Before Trump v US, I would have thought they were overconfident, but when you ignore the literal text of the constitution to make up presidential immunity out of whole cloth, you've already trashed your integrity.

Hank Chinaski 03-29-2025 10:55 PM
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From some platforms I see that Musk’s company got astronauts back from the space station. But it is not widely reported. Did that happen?

Icky Thump 03-30-2025 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan (Post 534823)
You'd think.

OTOH, I'm not entirely sure if the law as we all understand it still exists.
Many of us are playing squirrel hiding from the hawk. When 47 starts squashing law firms, only lawyers give a fuck. Regular folk are like “Oh no. Anyway”.

Tyrone Slothrop 04-01-2025 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 534827)
We're fucked if it gets to that point.
Seems like we are going to get to that point very, very quickly, because the administration playbook right now is all about pushing back against any constraints on what they want to do.

Replaced_Texan 04-01-2025 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 534831)
Seems like we are going to get to that point very, very quickly, because the administration playbook right now is all about pushing back against any constraints on what they want to do.
I mean, today, they said "oops, our bad, we sent an innocent guy to the fucking gulag in El Salvador and we aren't going to do squat to rectify this".

This is the sort of shit they used to scare us about when they told us how horrible the communists in the USSR were when we were kids.

Tyrone Slothrop 04-03-2025 10:46 AM
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These tariffs are such a colossal, unforced, self-inflicted debacle, worse than the Gulf War or Brexit.

Barbara Tuchman wrote a book years ago called The March Of Folly, about governments that pursued mistakes that were widely understood at the time to be mistakes, like Britain's loss of the American colonies and the US in Vietnam. I think I need to re-read it.

Democrats ought to be branding this stuff with the word Republican, because Trump is not going to be running in two or four years, and congressional Republicans are too scared and feckless to stand up for what they know they ought to be doing. Congress gave the executive this tariff power, and Congress could take it away.

Adder 04-03-2025 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 534833)
These tariffs are such a colossal, unforced, self-inflicted debacle, worse than the Gulf War or Brexit.

Barbara Tuchman wrote a book years ago called The March Of Folly, about governments that pursued mistakes that were widely understood at the time to be mistakes, like Britain's loss of the American colonies and the US in Vietnam. I think I need to re-read it.

Democrats ought to be branding this stuff with the word Republican, because Trump is not going to be running in two or four years, and congressional Republicans are too scared and feckless to stand up for what they know they ought to be doing. Congress gave the executive this tariff power, and Congress could take it away.
There are like three people in the world who thinks these tariffs are a good idea, but every GOP elected official fears one of them.

Icky Thump 04-03-2025 03:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 534833)
These tariffs are such a colossal, unforced, self-inflicted debacle, worse than the Gulf War or Brexit.

Barbara Tuchman wrote a book years ago called The March Of Folly, about governments that pursued mistakes that were widely understood at the time to be mistakes, like Britain's loss of the American colonies and the US in Vietnam. I think I need to re-read it.

Democrats ought to be branding this stuff with the word Republican, because Trump is not going to be running in two or four years, and congressional Republicans are too scared and feckless to stand up for what they know they ought to be doing. Congress gave the executive this tariff power, and Congress could take it away.
In other news Miley Cyrus does a decent version of Zombie by the Cranberries. . https://youtu.be/l81u-oSIAp4?si=ID_GfAD0N4r6klVZ

sebastian_dangerfield 04-06-2025 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop (Post 534833)
These tariffs are such a colossal, unforced, self-inflicted debacle, worse than the Gulf War or Brexit.

Barbara Tuchman wrote a book years ago called The March Of Folly, about governments that pursued mistakes that were widely understood at the time to be mistakes, like Britain's loss of the American colonies and the US in Vietnam. I think I need to re-read it.

Democrats ought to be branding this stuff with the word Republican, because Trump is not going to be running in two or four years, and congressional Republicans are too scared and feckless to stand up for what they know they ought to be doing. Congress gave the executive this tariff power, and Congress could take it away.
I can't think of a satisfying explanation for why he imposed these tariffs. The pundits who argue they're part of a grand scheme to lower federal debt service and tamp inflation seem like after the fact Rube Goldberg schematics.

The best explanation I have heard was from a DC reporter who pointed me to an open letter Trump published in a paper back in the 80s touting the need to impose reciprocal tariffs. It seems he's just had this idea in his head for four decades, and now that he has nothing to lose, he's testing it.

So we're all lab rats in a giant experiment hatched way back when everyone was concerned about Japan taking us over economically.

Maybe shoulder pads, Vaurnet sunglasses with the cloth attachments on the sides, Judd Nelson, and full bushes will come back into vogue too.

sebastian_dangerfield 04-06-2025 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane? (Post 534827)
We're fucked if it gets to that point.
That one judge, Boasberg, is threatening to hold members of the admin in contempt.

Adder 04-07-2025 11:17 AM
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield (Post 534836)
I can't think of a satisfying explanation for why he imposed these tariffs. The pundits who argue they're part of a grand scheme to lower federal debt service and tamp inflation seem like after the fact Rube Goldberg schematics.

The best explanation I have heard was from a DC reporter who pointed me to an open letter Trump published in a paper back in the 80s touting the need to impose reciprocal tariffs. It seems he's just had this idea in his head for four decades, and now that he has nothing to lose, he's testing it.

So we're all lab rats in a giant experiment hatched way back when everyone was concerned about Japan taking us over economically.

Maybe shoulder pads, Vaurnet sunglasses with the cloth attachments on the sides, Judd Nelson, and full bushes will come back into vogue too.
I do not understand why this is a surprise to so many people. We have been saying this about him for a decade.


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