• Klox@lemmy.world
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    I don’t understand how the federal government gets a pass breaking all these fucking laws. It was ALREADY the law! Where are the consequences? Rule of law my fucking ass. Are the officers that arrested Representative LaMonica McIver and Mayor Ras Baraka facing ANY consequences?

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      To my understanding (not saying I agree with it, just trying to make the logic understood for awareness)…

      • Congress passed a law allocating funding, but also requiring access for Congressional inspections without notice

      • More funding was later allocated, and it explicitly was not conditioned on access for inspections

      • Noem took that to mean allowing inspections without notice were no longer required, despite the initial funding with the requirement still being in place

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        When your entire agenda relies on exploiting whatever loopholes you can invent, you’re probably doing something wrong.

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        Mom can I have Jeremy come over, “sure but you have to leave your door open.” Mom, Jacob is with is with Jeremy, is that okay? “Okay that’s fine”

        Kid closes door because you didn’t go out of your way to specify again that the door must stay open.

        Why was that how I read your description, haha

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          I suppose, but if you want to keep the nuance, the kid is a teenage girl, Jeremy is the boyfriend, and Jacob is hella gay and the parents have said they don’t care. One kid explicitly not having a condition (the second bill specifically said it’s not subject to those conditions) doesn’t mean the other magically went away

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    We’re in the phase of descent into fascism of: “so what? what you are gonna do about it? who’s gonna enforce the law?”

    The answer to that is not something I can say online

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    Who’s getting punished for breaking the already existing laws? If the answer is no one, this will just happen again under slightly different circumstances and added charges to the reps that dare to show up.

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    And let someone interrupt their behavior toward women in cages? I think we all know what’s happening.

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    Didn’t he get something slipped into his “big beautiful bill” which exempts him from court-injunctions?

    Why should he have to comply?

    Why should any of his regime have to comply?

    The more that people hold they have to comply, the sooner they “have to” invoke the Insurrection Act, right?

    That’s the logic they’re running on, anyways…

    People’ll see: escalation on both sides is going to produce a crossing-of-the-tippingpoint, & then it’ll be Civil War Part2, but only Republicans will be legal to own guns ( everybody else “de-naturalized” with that law he’s holding in reserve, so that once everybody else is denaturalized, then everybody else can be ICE’d. So long as he holds-back on using that de-naturalization law, it’ll remain on the books, for when he needs it. & if his 1st-use of it removes all non-Republican judges, then … it’ll never get overthrown, will it? )

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