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gotta get those political prisoners out of the country ...

 

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[rareboy]

^ It is an ill wind that doesn't blow some good.

As noted...dark but accurate.

 

[KaraBulut]

^ It is an ill wind that doesn't blow some good.

As noted...dark but accurate.

The meme omitted one crucial WHO issue that the US routinely blocks and obstructs: abortion.

 

[rareboy]

^ This was one that I was thinking about....it will make the evangelicals a bit crazy though to know that the rest of the world can just ignore them from here-on in.

 

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[KaraBulut]

And a reminder... this is what got him impeached the first time: impoundment.

His lack of a competent White House counsel department is going to get him impeached again. Fucking with projects in Republican districts that translate to jobs is a great way to convince the House Republicans to dump him and install JD Vance.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974

Update: For GAO’s most recent testimony on the Impoundment Control Act, visit Testimony before the House Committee on the Budget—Proposals to...

www.gao.gov

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 created the procedural means by which the Congress considers and reviews executive branch withholdings of budget authority. It requires the President to report promptly to the Congress all withholdings of budget authority and to abide by the outcome of the congressional impoundment review process. Although the basic framework of the act is sound, there are several refinements that could be made to the law and the way it is administered. Administratively, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) should: specify the duration of proposed partial-year deferrals, identify all impoundments of congressional add-ons to executive branch budget requests, note whether there have been previous impoundments proposed for each program in which withholdings currently are proposed, and improve the timeliness of presidential impoundment reports. Legislative recommendations include repeal of the requirement to report routine impoundments in the form of budgetary reserves, providing a means to reduce the 45-day period during which funds can be withheld pending rescission requests, requiring a statement of the exact duration of proposed partial-year deferrals, elimination of the 25-day waiting period before the Comptroller General can initiate legal proceedings to compel the release of impounded budget authority, and specifying when impoundments may be proposed after prior impoundments for the same program have been rejected by the Congress.

 

[rareboy]

And a reminder... this is what got him impeached the first time: impoundment.

His lack of a competent White House counsel department is going to get him impeached again. Fucking with projects in Republican districts that translate to jobs is a great way to convince the House Republicans to dump him and install JD Vance.

The Impoundment Control Act of 1974

Update: For GAO’s most recent testimony on the Impoundment Control Act, visit Testimony before the House Committee on the Budget—Proposals to...

www.gao.gov

This time around though, it isn't his bumbling and incompetent WH lawyers on this.

This time, his project 2025 team and the oligarchs have likely got a plan for how this can get through the Courts and as noted, it would be the keyhole that permits TrumpCo. to operate as a dictatorship.

 

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[KaraBulut]

This time around though, it isn't his bumbling and incompetent WH lawyers on this.

This time, his project 2025 team and the oligarchs have likely got a plan for how this can get through the Courts and as noted, it would be the keyhole that permits TrumpCo. to operate as a dictatorship.

The people behind Project 2025 are in two distinct camps.

On one hand, there's Stephen Miller, an odious sycophant who has spent a decade strategizing on draconian ways to use the law and subvert the law to accomplish what he wants to accomplish. He is a real danger and should have been dealt with during the Biden years.

On the other hand, there's the Ken Cuccinelli types who can only exist in the shadow of a demagogue like Trump. Not the sharpest tools in the shed. They just threw together the White Christian Nationalist and Koch Brothers spank bank of wish list items, without thinking much about the legality of any of it.

The strategy appears to be "flood the zone" and "see what sticks". The Courts will likely throw a lot of it out. The real problem is the doormat formerly known as the US Congress: Republican Senators who appear to be more afraid of losing their jobs than they are of living in an autocracy and Democrats who had a year to plan on how to obstruct Project 2025, yet appear to have no plan.

The first thing that the Democrats in Congress should do is hire all the fired DOJ attorneys who investigated Trump. Those attorneys know where all the bodies are buried.