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And the US and Russia will start their own Friendship Union. Like the G7, except only two of them.

We can call it FU2

r/conservative is full of morons

He's gonna grab 'em by the Parliament.

When you're a star, they let you do it!

I think these people are so far down the rabbit hole that they don't even realize that their narrative is bullshit. Nobody in the Administration looked at that video and said "shit, we have a problem" because they're all True Believers and think they are right about everything.

This Mayor might just find himself on the wrong end of a military-assisted "law enforcement operation"....

Oh, they don't have their toys yet. Because that would be a "bribe", and super illegal.

No, they get their toys after the fact. Then it's called a Gratuity, and totes legal.

I fully expect her to give him her medallion, and then he will expect people to complement him on "my Nobel Prize, which I earned fair and square, unlike that lying Obama, who rigged the vote to get it". Anyone who doesn't acknowledge that he is now a Nobel Prize winner will be sent to CECOT.

She will do this, expecting Trump to endorse her to run Venezuela, but he will deport her instead.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

If the tariffs are unconstitutional then Trump will be sued for billions and billions from businesses and governments.

Oh, it's worse than that. Very large companies might be able to afford to sue to get that revenue back, but others can't afford the legal fees to do that.

But Wall St. has a solution! Firms have started buying tariff refund rights from importers, at a discount to reflect the uncertainty regarding whether those tariffs will ever be refunded.

One of the largest firms doing this is Cantor Fitzgerald, who was run by the Commerce Secretary before he took office and is now run by his sons.

See! They figured out how to grift, no matter the outcome!

I appreciate your insight here, all of your responses show how the legal system in the US is supposed to work, and apply to all citizens equally. But what this analysis ignores is that the Trump Administration is building up its own "in group", to which these restraints no longer apply. Both sides are playing by different rules now, enforced by an Administration and DoJ which is taking sides.

Consider the case if someone (maybe even a sworn law officer with their own qualified immunity) steps in front of a car driven by an ICE agent and kills them in cold blood. The US justice system is supposed to work the same for that person as for the Minnesota ICE agent. But we all know what will happen. The surrounding ICE agents will render their own vengeful (and biblical) verdict on the spot, Kristi Noem will spout some bullshit, and nobody involved will ever see a courtroom.

That's the problem. The rules are changing, and the courts can't keep up.

The black man actually won, though. There are lots of people out there who voted for the black man, but viewed voting for a woman as a step too far.

No, you don't understand, the only other choice was a lady....

You are right to be worried, Conservatives have been angling for a Constitutional Convention for years, specifically to nuke the parts of it they don't like. 28 states have already called for one.

What you are looking for is a Constitutional Convention, which will be convened once 34 states call for one. While it is intended to propose amendments that can only become law if 38 states approve it, the rules of the convention are set by the delegates and there is nothing stopping them from ripping it all up and starting from scratch.

And I did the calculations once before, but I believe the 38 smallest states only have 44% of the population. If they live in the right zip codes, a minority of citizens can rip it all up and impose their will on the rest of the country.

And if this happens, why should the states that didn't vote for the change stick around?

That's surprising, the Fins did better than I expected them to do (and were good enough to cost the Bills their division title and that last home playoff game in the Ralph). He probably deserved another go. I wonder if they only did this because Harbaugh is available.

He should dispatch one Guard member for every ICE officer, each with orders to follow and observe at a respectable distance, with their body cams on. Let ICE know we are all watching.

Also red meat and butter should not be a large part of anyone's daily calories.

Won't anyone think of the beef and dairy industry lobbyists, though?

Getting a lot of mileage out of this one