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Mike Rodriquez
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Listening for the secret, searching for the sound ... interests: quilting, cooking, gardening, cycling, photography, cat-herding and too many more to list https://allthepages.org/ https://centralkansastrails.org/
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They are testing the military to see who will execute illegal orders. Sadly they will find many who will if history is any indicator.
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And the answer is that he did not get it done while he was in the Marines. You can't hide a tattoo like that when you live in a barracks. And a Totenkopf (vs a Jolly Roger) would be an Other Than Honorable discharge AT A MINIMUM.
It's been against DoD regs for as long as I can remember.
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Perfect

"When NY State Young Repub Club disbanded amid uproar over its racist, antisemitic rhetoric in group chat, the club left behind unpaid bills from extravagant social gatherings

..ran up bills of more than $23K over a weekend..3-course plated dinner w filet mignon & open bars but didn’t pay"
Turns out the Young Repubs are Trumpy in more ways than one
When you love to to dine and dash, but without the dashing www.syracuse.com/politics/cny...
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The absolutely insane circumstances aside, any other president who had chosen to perform construction on this level would not have let this gaping wound in the side of the symbolic seat of national power to be so nakedly visible.
Behold: Republican permitting reform.
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Many people are outraged that Trump is demolishing part of the White House. But of course Trump can't do it without help. It's ACECO LLC of Silver Spring MD ("full-service demolition") that is tearing down the People's House. You can call them and let them know how you feel. 1/
Yes. A summary at this point would be helpful, 'cause I don't care enough to re-read the thread.
You're drifting from the point of the discussion, which I've actually forgotten now. Anyway.
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Oh nooooo, Lindsey Halligan, this is not how any of this works

(15 screens into a Signal exchange) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
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He hates American values and principles. He hates democracy. He despises the Constitution and its constraints. He hates most Americans. All he desires is money, power and staying out of jail. Am I missing something?
What's "funny" is that he's preparing to live there a LONG time and he won't even make it until the end of this term.
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While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.
As a lay person, that does not seem like a good or convincing argument.

It's not, right?
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In that case, isn’t it incumbent on us to shout, as loud as we can, that they shouldn’t accept such orders?

I mean, even the third Reich cared about consequences!
Loud public demands for future prosecutions of the people who carry out crimes for this admin will be a crucial part of stopping them.

Even the Nazis worried about questions of legality. We know this because they explicitly exempted the Wehrmacht from criminal law in writing and in advance.
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Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
Trump: "I'm allowed as you know as president, like 50% of the presidents have used the Insurrection Act. Everybody agrees you're allowed to use that and there is no more court cases, there is no more anything. We're trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act."
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Had to explain this repeatedly during the 2020 interregnum: the Insurrection Act and martial law are not the same thing
Elaborating b/c there's a lot of misunderstanding on this.

Insurrection Act does nothing except you can then use soldiers as cops. They can enforce laws, but they're the same old laws. It doesn't suspend the Constitution. No martial law, no closing courts, no removing state officials, none of that.
Even if he did, which I'd bet is likelier than not, none of this is true. The Insurrection Act is not a declaration of martial law. It doesn't close the courts. It doesn't suspend habeas corpus. It means you can use the military to enforce federal laws, but the laws themselves remain the same.
Fwiw, your posts are informative to this currently agnostic, but raised as Christian, in the heartland where there are very (very) few Jewish people. Thanks!
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Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
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NEW: Memphis officials sue Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee over his deployment of the National Guard to the city at Trump’s request. They argue the governor can only activate troops in emergencies, with legislative approval and at the city’s request, conditions they say weren’t met.
🚨 Harris et al v. Lee et al
Learn more here.
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Thanks for sharing this. I've asked our local chamber if they offer such a service; if so, it should be publicized given the ACA issue.