It’s the judicial branch version of a strongly worded letter. Utterly useless.
Well, “judicial branch version[s] of [a] strongly worded letter[s]” have been pretty meaningful since Marbury v. Madison, but I guess we’ll see if that holds.
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In the 1893 United States Supreme Court case Nix. v. Hedden , the court rule unanimously that an imported tomato should be taxed as a vegetable, rather than as a (less taxed) fruit.
That’s the Supreme Court, and yet we still have people like JT saying a tomato is a fruit. Abandon all hope, no one will save us, etc etc
Seems NBC isn’t too worried that Nunes might sue them.
Asked point blank during a Fox News interview Sunday whether he met with Shokin in Vienna, the California congressman refused to answer, saying that Parnas was “a criminal” and that he would not “debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally corrupt.”
Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that Nunes would “likely” face a House ethics probe over allegations he sought to dig up dirt on Biden.
Nunes should face another kind of probe
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Well the current iteration of the Supreme Court isn’t saving us regardless of what some dipshits in the 1800s did.
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The supreme court was terrible during most of the 1800s.
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Well, I guess we only have to go through a civil war to maybe get us back to some semblance of normalcy?
Didn’t Pelosi speak in some sort of presentation at The Atlantic recently? And now they’re doing an issue full of strongly worded essays?
Too perfect.
I’m starting to seriously suspect the US will break up in my life time… and honestly I’m looking forward to it. The rural states who only had power/money because they were getting heavily subsidized by the rest of the country deserve how this ends.
Alabama/Mississippi may not even be in a first world country when this is over.
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Dems will never do that because most of them are funded by the rich.
A couple of the cities in your state stand a very good chance of being the new capital of all those dirt poor southern territories if the US splits up.
Zero chance the US breaks up and Texas isn’t just it’s own country. Particularly as blue as it’ll be by then. Texas and California legit don’t need the rest of the country.
If the US blows up it’s going to be 10-20 countries not 3-4. In particular the deep south is going to find it insanely difficult to find dance partners because they have no demonstrated ability to pay their share of tax revenue vs federal services consumed. Nobody wants to support a basket case. The only reason why the rest of country has tolerated it up to now is history, tradition, etc. The same goes for nearly every rural area frankly.
Honestly from my perspective watching GOP politicians from the deep south undermine the federal government is like watching a dude on a tree limb saw away at the limb. They can’t even admit that all their welfare queen rhetoric is projection lol.
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The world is not static. TX will be closer to where CA is now in 10 years, and OK will be where TX is now.
Slavery was most of the wealth in the South in 1850 as well as the foundation of the culture. There’s nothing nearly as strong today to anchor their bullshit except racism and a dying religion.
There will be no large scale conflict because demographics will dictate politics.
Trump isn’t some harbinger. He’s the death rattle of the old GOP coalition.
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You overrate both civil wars and having nuclear-armed, belligerent religious zealots for neighbors.
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Tell that to the Cherokee.
Do you think the US would break up without widespread war and suffering? Seems bad man.
This is the alpha and omega. The world is not static.
If I had a glass half full, I think you’d tell me it was overflowing. Oklahoma? Really?