Trump owns the agencies, the national guard, the military and supreme court.
Which is why the SC ruled in his favor and there are currently Marines and National Guard enforcing state laws in LA and Chicago.
cattywampas
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American cheese (provided it's good quality) is just cheese, milk, and sodium citrate.
And when the courts said Trump couldn't send in Marines and National Guard to enforce state laws did he ignore them and do it anyway? Nope, he fell right in line and obeyed the ruling.
Checks and balances - even with a conservative majority Supreme Court - is what got federal troops out of LA and what has kept them out of my home city of Chicago. So yeah, I still have a little faith in the system.
Fully agree that it's not enough. But people who run around saying the Trump administration is just doing whatever they want, are not being challenged on it, or are winning those challenges are just reading headlines on social media without really paying attention to the news.
There actually is a lot stopping that. Are there federal troops in LA and Chicago right now? And why or why not?
wtf has any of that stopped him from doing so far?
Have you seriously been paying so little attention to the news that you don't know that the answer is "a whole lot"?
States run their own elections. "Cancelling the election" is not a thing that ever could or would happen. Nor is a new constitution, as that would require 34 states to even call a convention and then 38 states to ratify one.
Well in theory with a big enough campfire it would work. So you weren't entirely wrong.
Like people everywhere, most of us are pretty chill.
There's a Calvin and Hobbes strip about this. I think it's the run where their house was broken into and Hobbes was missing. Calvin came to the same realization and I remember it really sticking with me as a kid.
This happens occasionally when they're discussing the past in Star Trek. I'm reminded of some season 2 episode where they've lost power or whatever during an emergency and Pulaski tells them to make some splints. One doctor responds "that isn't medicine, that's barbaric" which gives me the same vibes.
I don't think the writers intended this, but it does give us a reminder that people always view the past through the lens of the present and it can be easy to dismiss or disparage the way people have lived throughout time.
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ding ding ding, there are no troops in those cities!