cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/38674008

The supreme court has issued an emergency order temporarily blocking full Snap food aid payments.

The high court’s order came after the Trump administration asked a federal appeals court on Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly food stamp benefits amid a US federal government shutdown.

After that request to block was denied, the Trump administration turned to the supreme court in a further attempt to block the order to fully fund Snap food aid payments.

The application to stay reads: “If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.

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[–] 162 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds.

They are emergency funds. This is what they're there for!

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  • [–] 78 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    How the fuck did they have the gall to write this

    If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm

    I'm very much not a lawyer, I'm not even from the US, but even I know that irreparable harm is harm which may not be cured by monetary compensation. THIS IS LITERALLY JUST MONEY GIVEN TO THE STATES. IF THE DECISION IS LATER OVERTURNED THE STATES CAN JUST GIVE THE MONEY BACK FROM THEIR BUDGETS. This is the dumbest fucking shit I've read for a while.

    You know what is quintessential irreparable harm? Medical complications or death from starvation. Which I sincerely wish upon the fucking monsters who signed this decision, which is illegal even by the already crooked pro-capitalist amerikkkan laws.

    Y'all will need to relieve those injustices of their duties by force at some point. It doesn't seem like there's any other way.

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's even dumber than that. This was an order to use emergency funds set aside specifically for SNAP. Going before the Supreme Court and saying they don't have the funding is admitting that they stole that shit.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago*

    Its slightly more complicated. One judge ruled they have to use the emergency funds, another ruling said they have to provide full funding. Emergency funding is like ~5B, full snap payments for a month is like ~9B. So they would have to pull funding elsewhere, like from ICE. Which they totally should be forced to do, but that's just my opinion.

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  • [–] 72 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    So they want to starve people.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I think they want people rioting in desperation so they can declare martial law.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That is a fact. They want an excuse to start deploying the military and I hope to God there's enough officers in the military that has enough balls to support the Constitution and not the fucking dictator. They are trying to push a civil war

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Maybe they will arrest the people issuing the illegal orders just after they give the illegal orders.

    Maybe?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    When you say they do you mean the military? The military has no arrest authority over civilians. The posse comitatus act specifically says that. When I was in the military we spent two days going over the posse comitatus act and what the military is allowed to do. That was part of my officer training. There is no legal recourse for the military to do anything. If civilian leaders give illegal orders the only thing the military can do is look at the civilian leader and say no that's against the Constitution and we cannot do that. It was set up specifically like that to keep the military from trying to take over. Because you know a general could say hey civilian guy giving illegal orders we can arrest you or the general could say hey civilian in any situation we can arrest you and hold you indefinitely. The purging of the brass in the military and especially the upper echelon officers is really what is disturbing about this. The fact that there are military officers that are willing to go against the Constitution is even more deeply disturbing. I'm not really going to blame some 19-year-old recruit that just come out of basic because they don't know any better but they're NCOs and officer corps sure as fuck does. And that's where the real problem lies. Just like Bannon recently that the Republicans better take over the institutions or we're all going to jail in 2028 so he knows they know that all this shit is illegal but here we are

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    There is no one who could fight the feds in a civil war right now. They want domestic violence, riots, that they can crack down on to take more power and train people to accept domestic occupation.

    Wars require combatants. The troubles in Northern Ireland was not a civil war, and the IRA was far more organized than anything that exists now here in the states.

    They want a fight because they think they can win.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Indeed. The question will be how to keep the military, commandeered to kill their own countrymen, from following this illegal command.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Take the Texas national guard, tell them Portland has been overrun by Antifa, and send them in. That's the trick. If you send the locals, they won't do it. You have to get people who will listen to you and aren't local, that way they don't think they're fighting their neighbors.

    For example, at Tiananmen Square, they called up hundreds of thousands of troops from outside Beijing, not just for pure numbers, but because they would be less sympathetic to the students.

    They already know this. That's why Stephen Miller is doing this exact thing.

    When the local national guard units are deployed for riot control, usually they do a relatively good job. In the 1992 LA riots, there were a couple thousand CA guardsmen (I can't find a solid number) plus a couple thousand more other law enforcement, over 12,000 arrests, and 63 dead, of whom 9 were shot by police and only one by the national guard.

    (Kent State is the notable exception.)

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  • [–] 52 points 1 year ago (26 children)

    “If forced to transfer funds to Snap to make full November allotments, there is no means for the government to recoup those expenditures – which is quintessential irreparable harm. Once those payments are made, there is every indication that the States will promptly disburse them. And once disbursed, the government will be un-able to recover any funds. Worse, these harms will only compound if the decision below stands.

    “There is every reason to expect that if the shutdown lingers, the court below will not command the government to tap these funds again in December to support Snap – blowing a bigger hole in the budget for the child nutrition programs.”

    This is absolute bullshit. Those funds have already been allocated by Congress in the 2023 Farm Bill. The money is already authorized for use for the next few years. They don't need to "find it" somewhere else, or "get it back" at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.

    The only reason these benefits would be held up for any reason during a government shut down, is if the staff in charge of distributing that money are not currently working. That's what the $6 billion emergency fund is for. Paying the federal employees needed to make sure that money gets to its pre-authorized destination.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (21 children)

    They don’t need to “find it” somewhere else, or “get it back” at some future date. It is literally sitting ina find account, waiting to be used.

    You're assuming Trump hasn't already appropriated those funds and handed them to ICE or his rich buddies. How the hell can he loot the government if courts are allowed to force him to spend money where Congress tells him to spend it?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    If he has done that, then he's broken federal law, and will be facing criminal charges and most likely jail time, once he's out of office. That goes for anyone else who helped him, as well.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Hey! It's obviously your first day on the Internet. Glad to have you here, welcome!

    Now, before you comment further, I suggest you do a little study of American history over the last decade.

    Then get back to us with your thoughts.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Donald Trump has a certain degree of immunity for official acts only. The people who work for him do not. The only thing protecting any of them right now, is the fact that he's still in office. Once he's out, everyone who committed crimes on his behalf, are all going to be charged.

    And even he is open to prosecution for anything that can be proven to have been committed for purely personal gain (which is almost everything he does).

    You may not remember this, but every single one of the lawyers who did his dirty work after the 2020 election, to try and flip the results...have all been found guilty of crimes and misdemeanors...and had their law licenses taken away. This shit does have consequences. Trump himself is just really good at gaming the system, thanks to the fact that he has so much money to burn on his own defense. But even that will only go so far.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Speaking of lawyers, I just read an article today about all the lawyers that have been fired from the DOJ, and how they are all forming law firms with various specialties going after MAGA crimes - immigration issues, fired federal workers, etc. By firing all those lawyers, he seeded the legal resistance that will give legal authority to the punishments of him and his henchmen.

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    It's extremely encouraging. I love that the people he is abusing aren't just slinking away like the MAGAs expected (because thats how cowardly MAGAs would behave), they are firing back.

    That's the legal world, which isn't known for cooperation. So what are the fired Generals doing? They are known for lockstep organization, and I doubt they are slinking away away, either. Generals aren't usually known for their lack of courage, but they are known for their ability to keep quiet about their plans. If the lawyers are organizing against MAGA, it's a pretty good bet that the Generals are, too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    because thats how cowardly MAGAs would behave

    I wish! Every time a MAGA gets busted for something terrible or ruins themselves, they end up with published ghostwritten books full of their whining and excessive airtime on FOX News and various nutter podcasts. Lol

    But yes what these lawyers are doing sounds FAR more productive and that's awesome. :D

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    This is the best news I've heard all weekend. Do you have any sources you can share?

    My girlfriend and I just toasted yesterday to Mamdani's win and Cheney's loss. With shit getting worse by the day, it's been a long time since we've had anything to look forward to.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This was the article:

    The new law firms being founded to fight Trump

    Here's another good one that covers a lot of the same territory:

    Former DOJ lawyers switch sides

    I Googled Fired DOJ Lawyers Form Boutique Law Firms, and these articles was first, and a whole bunch more followed.

    Very encouraging.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    Thank you! I'm still not ready to hope for things, but this is fantastic news!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Want some more hope? What are the Generals thinking?

    After the Generals were all summoned to a Come To Jesus meeting led by UberPutz Pistol Pete Hegseth, EVERY report said that they were beyond offended, beyond pissed off. They were treated like children, and they are massively pissed off about it. They HATE these guys.

    The lawyers are banding together to fight back, instead of slinking away in humiliation, as they were supposed to do. Surely the ignominiously fired Generals will react differently, and after a lifetime of service to this country, they'll just retire quietly, and just stand by and watch as their beloved country goes the Nazis that they spent their lives fighting, right? Does that sound like a General?

    MAGA is stupid enough to believe that. We know what the fired lawyers are doing, but Generals aren't exactly known for revealing their plans in advance. I doubt they are sipping mai tais on the veranda in their retirement. At least a some of them are in contact with their old colleagues, and planning for...something.

    Whatever it is, I doubt it's going to be good for MAGA.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I will always accept more hope. These are really strong points.

    There are probably numerous similar bands of scorned professionals working together after being burned by Trump.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, I think when it kicks off, MAGA is going to be VERY surprised at the ferocious opposition they will encounter.

    I have closely followed the rise of the Conservative Propaganda Machine since Rush Limbaugh got on the air in the late 80s, and one thing that has remained consistent is their total belief that the MAJORITY of American citizens are on their side, and most of those that aren't, are just brainwashed by the liberal media, and will come over to their side when they see the light.

    They cannot fathom that they are a minority in this nation, and are only in power because of nefarious cheating strategies, and not a true choice of the voters. Furthermore, a vast majority of their followers, those who aren't in it for the corruption, are incredibly stupid AND ignorant, and in a real uprising, they will be useless.

    Look what happened on Jan 6, they came prepared for war, and it was a circus. They have no discipline, and no consistent goals. Everybody wants their own agenda, whether it's Corruption, or hatred, or murder, etc., they are all pulling in different directions, right down to the lowest level street MAGA.

    At the same time, the strongest faction of the Democrats, the Progressives know exactly what they want, and their goals are clear. They have a much better chance of organizing a resistance that can counter the MAGA chaos, which is overwhelming America at this very moment.

    Fear is the key to defeating them. Conservatives are notorious cowards, it is literally their core foundation. They are afraid of EVERYTHING - Liberals, minorities, other religions, women, women's genitalia, poor people, education, intelligence, Critical Thinking, Merit based advancement, DEO, CRT, Democracy, etc. They choose their leaders out of fear. They will take a treasonous pedophile mobster monster who promises to protect them, over a reasonable candidate who want to teach them to stand for themselves.

    If we want our elected politicians to reject MAGA, and defend our Democracy, and answer to the people, we have to make them fear the WRATH OF THE PEOPLE more than they fear MAGA.

    So how do we do that? Right now, MAGA only has power because the former Republicans (the MAGA larval stage), feared that if they didn't appease MAGA, they'd all end up losing their jobs/ power/ insider trading. That, and fear that their corruption will be made public, and send them to prison, keeps them under control.

    So we have to frighten them with something much worse than their mere jobs. They have to fear for their lives, and the lives of their families. They have to know that if our Democracy falls they will WISH that they had the protection of a prison cell. Because if they try to end our Democracy, we will end THEM, and their families, and take every penny of their precious stolen wealth.

    THAT'S what they need to fear.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I honestly can"t tell if you're serious...

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I am serious. They can just keep adding it to the list of charges that will be levelled against him, once he's removed from office. Steve Bannon wasn't joking when he said they will all be going to prison, when this is over.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    He never did time for any of the crimes he committed last time he was in office. What reason is there to believe it'll be different this time?

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    That was because they started investigating those cases a little late. But the cases against him would have warranted prison time, if they had gone to trial.

    This time around, he's doing even more illegal shit, and being super obviously about it. He doesn't seem to understand that everything he's doing is going to be used against him. His reckoning is coming.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Jail? At this point?

    Their crimes against humanity have far exceeded that, and this entire administration exists at all so their pedo hitler can dodge jail.

    If there's any justice, their regime will be facing a pockmarked wall, or the end of a rope.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My theory is that they already spent/stole the money and it's literally not there.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    ....an emergency order to not assist the people.

    JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WE ALMOST HELPED SOMEONE. SOMEONE IS SO FUCKING FIRED.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    So, let me get this straight -

    Either the Dems surrender health care for Americans,

    or...

    MAGA is going to starve us to death?

    Imagine when American citizens, even children, start dying of STARVATION in America because the wealthiest government in the world, led by dozens of Psychopathic Oligarchs, DELIBERATELY engineered it so they could pay less taxes?

    Yeah, that's the government we want.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Maybe this will inspire some people to vote differently?

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    It could, if anybody on the Dem side had any idea how to market ideas to the people. If I were the DNC, I would put massive billboards all over every city in America that say:

    MAGA wants you to SURRENDER YOUR HEALTH CARE, OR

    The RICHEST will STARVE the POOREST,

    To DEATH.

    Don't be a hostage. Resist.

    But they won't because it wouldn't be polite to the PedoCons. And we all know how polite they are.

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  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    So the argument is that "if we give people food, and then they eat that food, then we are harmed because we cannot make them give us back that food that they ate"?

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    The argument made is saying that if they release funds, the states will spend the money, as intended, on the poorest citizens and there will be no way to recover the costs of feeding the poor. I might be being somewhat controversial here, but a smidgy little extra tax on billionaires?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I really don't understand the argument at all. If we spend the money as intended we won't get it back? The fuck did they expect?

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  • That's not "running the government like a business."

    This is Trump's administration. Which not only means "don't give money away," but also that they have to bankrupt it before discarding it.

    Like money-vampires, draining the company country until it's no more than a poverty-stricken husk.

    These monsters will do and say anything to uphold that goal.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It’s shocking because of how easy it was for them to do the decent thing. Literally all they had to do was nothing, but they paid for the lawyers and did the work, and made a conscious effort to fuck over the most vulnerable people in the country.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    “Our attorneys will not stop fighting, day and night, to defend and advance President Trump’s agenda,” said attorney general, Pam Bondi

    Tells you everything you need to know. And they finally free enough to just come out and say it.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    Like the messages on government websites blaming democrats for the shutdown, snap recipients should be directed to the homes of the members of the Supreme Court, to find who is to blame. Ruling on other's hunger. This is no high court.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    How many reasons do the Dems need before they start seriously talking about adding at least 4.seats to the Supreme Court? That's the kind of bold promise that many people will vote for, especially if they are in interracial or gay marriages, because those won't survive another MAGA administration.

    And when we take our country back, we also need to impeach Clarence Thomas, and imprison both him and his treasonous bulldog wife.

    It's time to re-balance the Supreme Court.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Getting the government back via "legal" means is over.

    Time to start thinking outside the box.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, it isn't, not yet. We still have the 2026 Midterms, and the 2028 Presidential Election. How MAGA handles those elections will tell the tale. If they manage to game the system again, or worse, end elections with some excuse, THEN legal means have failed, and it's time for out-of-rhe-box solutions.

    I understand that people are frustrated, and want action, and that's good. But if we respect the Constitution (which is the very foundation of this battle with MAGA) we have to reserve that righteous indignation for the moment, and let this play out until they violate the Constitution so badly that it becomes ineffective. Something like cancelling elections.

    Then we have the moral authority to act decisively. And when it happens, we will have plenty of support. All the military leadership they fired, all the legal power the they fired, etc., will all support the resistance.

    In addition, Trump and MAGA are REVILED by the rest of the world. Not only will our allies refuse to support Trump, they are likely to heavily support his opposition. Even those that claim to be his friend hate him, and are unlikely to help him in any substantial way, and risk retaliation and sanctions from the other nations.

    If you respect the Constitution, you have to let it play out, but we all see where this is going.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    By the time people like you realize the legal means have long failed, it will be too late.

    The constitution has a clause for this specifically: the 2nd amendment.

    Why don't you read up on what Thomas Jefferson and James Madison have to say on the topic?

    And for the record, this isn't a "battle against MAGA". It is a battle against corporations. I'd recommend figuring out who your enemy is first.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wow, so condescending.

    We have a 250 year old Republic that has survived far worse than MAGA. We got through the Civil War, and we will get through this.

    I know what Jefferson, et al said about the Tree of Liberty and all that, but we aren't there yet.

    Frankly, your post is a bit hypocritical. You advocate for throwing away the Constitution and just have a revolution, while you cite the 2nd Amendment. Do you respect the Constitution, or don't you? You can't ignore it on one hand, and still use it as justification with the other.

    If you do respect the Constitution, then let it play out, and respond to the MAGA response. I believe it is a better than 50% chance that there will have to be some violence during the MAGA end game, because they will have to play their final card before surrendering or being ruthlessly crushed, but it will be useless, and almost certainly pathetic.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    For one I agree with you. I hate how fast everything is going to shit too but I still have hope and want to avoid mass bloodshed and conflict. If there's a legal way to take these monsters to the gallows, we should pursue every avenue.

    It's always so brave and impressive that these revolutionaries have the time to stoke violent insurrection on Lemmy whilst they're serving on the front lines of the rebellion themselves! Such dedication to the cause.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Exactly. America is filled with reactionaries who are more than willing to criticize others for not taking the steps that they aren't willing to take themselves. It's a lot of "Go fight my battles for me, or you're a coward."

    I want to remind people that immediately after Jan 6, people started whining that they'd all get away with it, and the government wasn't doing anything.

    But the FBI combed through every video they could find, including many posted by the Traitors themselves. They identified the worst behaved, and posted their faces EVERYWHERE. Immediately, family, neighbors, co-workers, etc. started turning them in, and they started to make arrests. The DoJ went on to convict more than 1000 people, and many got multi-year sentences.

    And throughout that entire process, people were constantly posting complaints about how the govt wasn't doing ANYTHING!

    It's kind of the same thing now. NOTHING is not what's happening. Everyday, MAGA gets closer to the Red Lines that they cannot cross without massive resistance. They are in the midst of one lighter red line, which is killing health care in America. It wont trigger a rebellion, but when the rebellion finally happens, there will be so many people who have suffered medically and economically by MAGAs psychopathic health care policies, that they will enthusiastically support it.

    For me, the biggest Red Line would be if they disappear certain close people in my life who are members of vulnerable communities. If ANYTHING were to happen any of those people, I would have nothing left to lose, and I would become a VERY dangerous man indeed.

    I'm older, and I have come to the realization that dying an old man in my sleep would be a waste. I'm coming to terms with the idea that my life may have a twist ending that I never anticipated, but is starting to come into focus.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago*

    No food for you!

    Ok just some food but not all

    Kidding! No food for you! Bwa haha!

    That's what this is like and it's horrifying. These are people's lives they're fucking with. People who live and work and pay taxes in this fucking country. And they re STARVING them. What the everloving fuck!!

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago* (9 children)

    After a Boston appeals court declined to immediately intervene, Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued an order late Friday pausing the requirement to distribute full SNAP payments until the appeals court rules on whether to issue a more lasting pause. Jackson handles emergency matters from Massachusetts.

    What the fuck is Justice Jackson doing ? Fucking I give up on the whole lot of them "Justices" now.

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  • [–] 151 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    What the fuck is Justice Jackson doing ?

    Here's one analysis:

    Jackson gets this application because it's from the 1st circuit, and she is assigned to initially handle all shadow docket matters from the 1st circuit. By writing this admin stay, she potentially keeps the full court from stepping in and doing it for her. And this way she gets to set the 48 hour limit. This could cause the whole case to be decided one way or another a lot faster.

    The supreme court let the trans passport case sit on the shadow "emergency" docket for 48 days. This stay gives the 1st circuit approx the weekend to make their decision, then the 48 hour deadline puts some oomph on the rest of scotus to make their decision.

    If Justice Jackson did nothing, and 5 votes on the court intervened to issue a stay at 1 am, then there would be no 48 hour limit.

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  • [–] 35 points 1 year ago

    God damn you bringing all this rational and logic to a discussion. ~~This is reddit dammit! ~~ I have been informed this is not ::: reddit :::.

    Either way, damn you, I just want to be angry! No thinky! Angry!

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    When you consider the strategy here, and the potential downsides if Jackson didn't issue this stay, it makes more sense why she did it.

    We'll see how SCOTUS rules on it. Hopefully they'll be on the side of fucking humanity

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Trying to start a riot to force Martial Law, at least from what I've heard.

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    If the democrats win and don’t impeach these criminal Supreme Court justices …shit is going to hit the fan

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Supreme Court Problem should be a top priority in the 2026 Midterms. People are already tired of being pushed around by the Supreme Court, which is supposed to protect us from government overreach.

    Interracial and Gay marriage are on the chopping block under MAGA, and who knows what else these psychopaths will think of? People are scared of how the Supreme Court is being manipulated.

    Dems need to run on increasing seats on the the Supreme Court, and impeaching Clarence Thomas for his many, many crimes.

    Add 4 seats, get rid of Thomas, and the Dems would have 8 seats, and MAGA would have 6. And if a MAGA seat opens up, Dems need to go to war to take that seat, McConnell style.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    thomas and alito both, are obviously paid for. everyone else on the bench should have their entire lives upended in a very thorough fbi investigation, uncover and publicize any and all skeletons they have hidden in the closest then impeach as necessary.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Thomas is definitely a proven corrupt justice and a traitor, and his wife is also a proven traitor. Alito is an American hating traitor, but I don't recall him doing anything that's actually illegal, although I could easily be wrong. I hope I am, because if there's some way to toss him in jail - for his CRIMES, not his politics - then I'm happy to be wrong.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They'll retake control in the midterms and do fuck all as they always do. Watched this my whole fucking life.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago*

    Seriously. Not getting aggressive with Nixon directly lead to trump and this whole criminal administration. Sherman didn't march far enough.

    We really need more AOCs and the other three. And definitely more Mandami's, but aggressive, in local positions.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Shouldn't this headline be "supreme court allows trump to dodge responsibilities for another week"? The court order was more focused on enabling godking trump than on whatever silly poor people shit they were supposed to be deciding.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Supreme Court blocked student loan payments too. What are they allowing recently?

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