The NCAA bends the knee: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/us/politics/ncaa-transgender-athletes-ban.html

One of the script kiddies had to leave because of racist posts: https://www.wsj.com/tech/doge-staffer-resigns-over-racist-posts-d9f11a93

Pam Bondi just announced that the Justice Department serves the interests of Trump and is his personal law firm

Trump was surrounded by more "reasonable" people in his last term who were willing to tell him, "no, you can't do that."

Trump has gotten rid of those people this term and is also giving positions to people who were too toxic for his first term. Hegseth was considered for a position in his first term but was rejected because of his issues with alcohol and sexual assault. Not a big deal this time for the toughest cabinet position. Not too mention the outright ideological cranks getting nominated like Gabbard and Kennedy and Oz.

Additionally, people who were kicked out of Trump's first term for attending things like White Supremacist rallies are being invited back in for more important positions like Under Secretary of State.

TL/DR, optimism bias is a hell of a dangerous drug and past performance does indicate future results

I think it is highly unlikely that the Supreme Court rules that the President can unilaterally decide what the Constitution means and doesn't mean because that basically turns the President into an absolute monarch.

I do think it is possible, perhaps even probable that they decide "How many divisions does Justice Roberts have?"

A Judge has blocked Musk's script kiddies from access to Government Computers: https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-doge-2671109322/

We will see if this sticks or not.

It is an obvious scam and an imaginary asset!!!

Trump's trade war tirade seems to have turned things around for the Liberals in Canada: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/3c55718eb5e339cf81070172531d58fea7d0a6657f84efe83ae15a648ce96490.png

I found the whole thing a bit too Marxist but this is a good summation on the ironies of Crypto: https://www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happened-here-c9f

“Musk’s total idiocy is structural: it goes back to the very origin of the Greek term idiotes, a person who cannot understand the shared political life of the city. These people cannot understand that their wealth and power are not their sovereign creations but the shared product of the wider state and society that supports and sustains them. Cryptocurrency is the perfect embodiment of this structural misrecognition: its advocates say it represents wealth outside of the state and society, but its notional value is wholly determined by its price in fiat money, created and sustained by the state. (It also functions a lot like “race” and “IQ:” as a repository of social value that provides a haven from degradation, but I’ll address that another time.) Here’s the thing: They can only see corruption around them because they are wholly corrupt.”

Defense Intelligence Agency personnel sent memo to suspend observations for MLK Day, Juneteenth, Holocaust Rememberance Day among other woke observations

I fully expect Trump to lost the overwhelming majority of these cases even in conservative Courts of Appeals and at the Supreme Court. I don't think there is much appetite for allowing the President the unilateral ability to interpret the Constitution as he/she sees fit because then you might as well pack up and go home.

I also fully expect Trump and Co. to ask how many divisions does Congress and the Courts have?

In 2 years time, we will have stories on American soldiers being injured by IED from Hamas and the Quebecois.

"Buyouts" are coming for the CIA:

https://bsky.app/profile/joshtpm.bsky.social/post/3lhfj5wkavk2a

The new reports are that the Gizmocrats have forced their way into NOAA and the next target is the DOL. All the wheels are f**king off.

https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3lhfda6bj3k2i

Trump's new plan for Gaza is a lot worse than imagined and by a lot worse, I mean it is a moral disaster of epic proportions.

"I’m sure Americans at home and abroad all feel safer tonight now that Trump announced with Bibi that the US is going to take over Gaza, level all the buildings, and forcibly remove the population.

Might want to cancel any vacation plans you may have had to Europe."-Ron Filipkowski

The scene at Treasury: https://bsky.app/profile/alvarezreports.bsky.social/post/3lhf4ykzuuc2m

How many divisions does the Congressional Minority have?

The CR was until March 14, 2025*

*The writers are hacks.

Lets look at today:

1. USAID officials stationed abroad have been told abruptly that they are returning stateside on Friday and if they refuse to comply, the military might forcibly return them;

2. Democratic Congress members and their supporters have been blocked access to Treasury;

3. Trump reiterated that he wants 1.7-1.8 million Palestinians to leave Gaza and never come back.

4. Head Start programs in Washington, Oregon, and Wisconsin indicated that they have been cut off from funds which indicates that Musk's crew is playing with the turn off funding to blue states program.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/nx-s1-5285470/venezuelans-florida-tps-immigration-trump

I see plenty of Leopards eat my face stuff

Legally? There is no authority to do this.

But the GOP is seemingly under the complete control of Trump and Musk and the ideologues behind them and GOP members in Congress seem fine with not asserting any authority to get back their perogative.

There are very few areas where zero sum thinking is a good idea.

Murc's Law in Aisle 4!!! Murc's Law in Aisle 4!!!

They could have removed in 2021 and 2022. This is when they controlled all three branches of the government.

At the time, they were dealing with the COVID vaccine roll out and getting life back to normal (COVID restrictions did not fully end until mid or end 2022), Inflation, and the Afghan withdrawal.

Pardon political capital and resource allocation for being real things.

A lot of Americans don't understand the difference between weak political parties and strong political parties.

In the US, both political parties are weak and it is probably more accurate to state that there are 50 if not 100s of Democratic and Republican Parties joining together for one. All that it takes to register as a Democrat and Republican in the U.S. is checking a box when you register to vote.

A lot of Parliamentary countries have strong political parties especially ones where the upper house is more ceremonial than not have strong and centrally organized political parties. You have to be a dues paying member to join and participate in the conferences. There are no primaries, the parties state "Riding X, Ms. Jones is your candidate for the Labour Party." And the parties have a lot more power to punish wayward members who don't tow the line.

Instead we get half-baked conspiracies theories on the evil DNC controlling everything and preventing the true voice of the people from being heard.

BS, if the DNC was strong, AOC would not be in Congress or her path to Congress would have involved a lot more ladders

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