President Donald Trump said on Tuesday SNAP benefits will not go out...
  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    91·
    3 小时前

    this is rediculous. you guys in congress know that the country cannot remain as a stable and nice place if he is not impeached. you can’t just let a president break the law constantly. impeach. impeach. impeach.

  • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
    33·
    7 小时前

    You know how the right tried to twist the truth? They told, on camera, that Trump wants to continue SNAP but legally can’t.

    I really want to see a reporter ask them how that fits with reality now.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 小时前

      There’s another reality where the hungry masses swarm what’s left of the White House like macrophages and destroy the rot inside, demonstrating with great visibility the it can be done, triggering a cascade of fascism FAFO worldwide.

      Sadly, we seem to be in the cancer timeline where they take all the resources and starve us all to death instead.

      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        5 小时前

        I do appreciate the Mussolini ending, but…

        What I have been saying since Jan 6th:

        Bury him alive at the feet of Lincoln, maybe a 20 foot deep shaft, just throw him in, then the concrete.

        All that would indicate anything was amiss, would be an engraved gold plate on the floor, on top of the shaft, reading SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.

        … A more patriotic spin on the steretypical real estate developer method of assasination.

        Leave him encased in his own disgrace, literally under Lincoln’s feet, the only suitable place for a racist insurrectionist mob boss.

        And also, the plate is gold… meant to be stepped on, and the engraving wear away with time.

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
    17·
    7 小时前

    Let that Federal Judge know that if he want to deputize citizens to carry out his orders, I will gladly help.

  • Unlearned9545@lemmy.world
    24·
    9 小时前

    Can we please for the love of God have a judge actually enforce their order for once? He has shown over and over that he’s just going to do what he wants. The rest of us would have to sleep on a jail bench for a few days then still be forced to comply.

    • LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      5 小时前

      Trump doesn’t personally fill the SNAP accounts, and Trump doesn’t personally manage the money.

      Start charging the employees with violating court orders.

    • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      10·
      7 小时前

      That’s the problem with the separation of powers… The executive branch is supposed to be the one that enforces the laws… The judicial branch has very little power to actually enforce their rulings. And Trump is the head of the executive branch.

      • bitjunkie@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 小时前

        I’m not sure on the legal veracity but I read somewhere after one of his MANY ignored court orders that the Marshals might have the ability to enforce it somehow

    • InputZero@lemmy.world
      6·
      7 小时前

      That’s what happens when the Supreme Court decides that when the president does it, it’s not illegal. He does what he wants because the Republican justices decided that The President is above the law. There literally isn’t any legal way for a judge to enforce their orders over Trump.

  • DeICEAmerica@lemmy.world
    1·
    4 小时前

    Literally anyone with a brain knows the GOP and especially Trump is starving them whether they vote red or blue. Maybe all these red people need to lose their cable tv and just watch the de-programming start. Without their confirmation bias Fox/Oan/NM they become normal(ish) again.

    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 小时前

      It’s funny when you consider those networks could just do the same shit over broadcast tv but choose not to for some reason

  • LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    341·
    12 小时前

    But then when reporters questioned Levitt, she barked back that he IS NOT withholding them and they are being sent out as needed.

    Why is it that the president makes some unhinged, mental social media post, then the white house has to translate that for the media? This is absurd and they all need to be removed from office for incompetence, then charged for all the crimes they have committed.

    • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
      92·
      10 小时前

      This is absurd and they all need to be removed from office for incompetence, then charged for all the crimes they have committed.

      Why do yall keep saying things like this. It feels like there are dozens of people trapped in the thinking that somewhere some other grown ups will be the grown ups for them.

      These are the people who have been picked and who have the power.

      They won’t be arresting themselves, and they wont allow fair and free elections if no one forces the issue.

  • boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world
    141·
    11 小时前

    Nothing will happen until they are made to comply with physical force.

    Or basically - using the exact same measures of enforcement that would be applicable to a normal citizen.

  • hume_lemmy@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    13 小时前

    Hopefully they remember that he’ll do it anyway. Deals with him are worthless.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
      34·
      14 小时前

      We’re approaching a huge turning point in US (and world) history. Either republicans are going to mostly lose for a long time (at least 6 years if I were to guess), maybe until they demonstrate they’ve changed, OR they are going to succeed at rigging or cancelling elections so they don’t have to give up power. I don’t think we can expect much in between those two extremes. Makes my stomach queasy as hell to think about.

      • Credibly_Human@lemmy.world
        82·
        10 小时前

        I am supremely doubtful with all the infighting on the left with the literal child mentality “but they’re both bad!!!1!” bothsiders, and the “nothing ever happens” crowd who thinks things will magically just go back to normal that it will be the good outcome.

        I mean we’ve seen a number of positives recently like

        • Nancy Pelosi dying retiring (might as well be the same things for old crotcheties like herself)
        • Dick Cheney dying (May god rest his soul… in hell… for all eternity)
        • Prop 50 passing
        • Mamdani winning with a higher percentage of votes than everyone else combined

        But that’s just not enough.

        They are in charge of all the institutions required for a fair or even approximately close to “”“fair”“” by old standards election and there are literally no means for recourse that aren’t just straight up violence, which despite the edgy people online’s messages, no one actually has the stomach for and is therefore just words used to procrastinate.

      • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        12 小时前

        Which is why everyone should be prepared for them to inflict physical violence upon us, because it’s coming either way.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          81·
          12 小时前

          People keep saying stuff like this, but there’s basically nothing that will turn me into a violent person outside of defending myself in the moment. I don’t own weapons and I don’t want to own them. I’d actually probably rather die than fight through that kind of a world.

          I’m prepared for insults and scolding but it’s true for me and many people. No amount of people saying “buy guns” is going to change me. And I suspect most people are like this.

          • TheHighRoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            10 小时前

            I’m right there with you, but there are many ways to prepare without resorting to participating. I think the mental preparation is the key, because it’s tough to stay home on election day when doing so is akin to putting the barrel against your own head.

          • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
            3·
            12 小时前

            TBF, this particular person didn’t say buy guy, they said be ready for them to inflict physical violence, and honestly, it’s reasonably likely. Maybe not on you, or me, but surely for many and it’ll be quite visible.

      • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        43·
        12 小时前

        I don’t think it matters. Democrats aren’t gonna seize power and be like “Oh, my God! Would you look at all these mechanisms to abuse power! Better get rid of them!”

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
          61·
          12 小时前

          I don’t understand your point. Democrats also historically haven’t been the party of outright evil and fascism.

          • Steve Dice@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            42·
            11 小时前

            That there will be no turning point. Once the mechanisms for fascism have been established, unless an actual revolution happens, the next government will always abuse them.

            • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
              6·
              10 小时前

              So by this logic, if Democrats win back control of our government, they will also deploy the military to maintain a police state, arrest and prosecute political enemies, and deport immigrants by the thousands? I can see your point to some degree but I don’t really buy any of the things I listed would be the case.

              • zqps@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                6 小时前

                No but they do like the idea of keeping their options open. There’s a reason they haven’t codified so many basic protections and relied on historical precedence and decorum instead.

                And even with Trump they haven’t shown a willingness to admit their mistake and learn their lessons in this regard. They’ll write Trump off as a fluke and keep making all the same mistakes, including the repetition of many far-right talking points.