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I’d laugh if it weren’t so phucking serious.

Of course people isolated. I never said they didn’t. For some reason, you keep insisting on making this about covid, while I am simply making the point that under this new regime, vital public health information will be limited, if made available in the first place. We saw a huge indication of that yesterday with the dismissal of key personnel at the CDC.

One would think Congress would have enough members with integrity not to let him do that, but then again, the GOP in Congress don’t know the meaning of the word anymore.

Our only hope is that our military men and women, of all ranks, insist on keeping their first oath to the Constitution and have the courage and fortitude to counterman illegal orders as is their responsibility. Because it couldn’t be more obvious that we are headed for trouble with the current leadership in this country and we will need them to intervene on our behalf sooner or later.

Trump is one bitter mother phucker. He and his fascist henchmen continue to make us and the rest of the world unsafe.

Nobody has ever accused dems, especially California dems, of not being totally clueless at times. That said, there is legitimate concern about non criminals getting swept up as well. Illegally entering our country can be either a felony or misdemeanor, depending on whether it’s a first offense or not. And we’ve already seen ICE raids that have mistakenly targeted US citizens already. I mean some Karen alerted officials because a lady, a US citizen, was speaking Spanish for crissakes.

IMO, we cannot give back enough to veterans and their families. So I hope as you do that these new policies don’t impact you and others who’ve more than earned our support. But I’m not certain that these new policies won’t hurt veterans in some way, shape or form, regardless. Nor can I just ignore that 30% of the federal government workforce is comprised of veterans. There are 2.4 million federal workers and that 30% represents 720,000 employees who are veterans. I hope the Trump/DOGE cuts in staffing across the federal workforce doesn’t impact them too severely.

Caved? Please show me where Newsom ever disagreed with deporting criminals. He’s disagreed with the dem legislature on this issue in the past. Caved? Hardly. More like stuck to his guns on the issue.

More than OK with it, I’d say. There’s a reason those times were referred to as The Velvet Revolution.

I implied no such thing. It is simply a fact that in high density populations, isolation is extremely difficult when it comes to super virulent pathogens. That fact has nothing to do with mandates at any level of government.

Sorry about the pay wall as I used my one free remaining article. It did not pertain to the Hiring Freeze EO of 1/20, only to the cuts and hiring freezes at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs targeted by DOGE and how that will impact veterans who depend on those vital services. IIRC, it mentioned a subsequent memo regarding the EO which said that any exemptions to the hiring freeze must be approved by the OPM and Secretary of Veterans Affairs.

Our question for veterans, both active or not, should always be, “What more can we do for you and your families.” But Trump and Musk insist on doing less. Neither has a clue about the unique challenges veterans face. Shame on them. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/political-commentary/trump-musk-military-veterans-war-doge-1235266086/

Doesn’t matter because with Trump at the helm, we will only be a member of NATO in name only, if even that. His good buddy Putin says NATO is a “terrorist organization” after all.

It’s nice that some of us can just self-isolate. However, that is virtually impossible in high density populations when it comes to as virulent a kind of pathogen as SARS Cov 2 was. This administration will seek to censor any information and handcuff the organizations charged with public health policies.

It’s less about transparency than it is a giant one of these: By the most arrogant president and group of lackeys in out history.

I only caught the first period and I though both Karlsson and Hedman sucked; a train wreck of a D pairing. Did that continue the rest of the game?

Irony? Is that the new spelling for hypocrisy?

Nope, no waste here. The hypocrisy is laughable. Why do I doubt that Faux News and the other far right propaganda outlets will even bother to report it.

We better hope we don’t have another pandemic with a deadly disease because if we do, we stand to lose more people than we did with the previous one. RFK Jr. is nothing short of a mentally deranged conspiracist totally unfit for the job.

Trump has long been suspected of laundering money for various Russian interests. Indeed, it was Russian money that saved his businesses. Trump used to boast about how he never used cash to transact business; that it was always smarter to use various forms of credit vs your own money. When American banks would no longer give him loans due to his multiple bankruptcies he had to find other streams of finance. Enter those various Russian oligarchs, Russian mafia, etc. and his business model changed overnight. Eric Trump even boasted that they no longer needed the banks as they now did everything on a cash basis. The old man shut him up quick on that one. I wonder if those Russian mobsters still have residences in Trump Tower, Unit 63A.

Thank you. It’s NOT legal as only Congress controls the purse strings and the appropriation of funds. The Executive branch simply has no authority to re-direct funds already approved and appropriated by Congress. The ignorance of our Constitution and laws by people sworn to protect and defend as well as those who never took the oath in the first place (Musk) is staggering. And it’s a shameful indictment of our patriotism that so many are OK with it.

It’s called leaving a vacuum and bad actors will soon seek to fill it. IMO, unless you’ve been on the ground and have seen first hand the tangible results of our influence in various places around the world, then you just can’t appreciate the importance of the work. By all means, root out and prosecute the corruption and fraud, but by all means, continue to do the work. We seem to have a collective amnesia as to why these agencies were created in the first place. They are even more important today.

Just to be clear, that doesn’t mean the states can’t freely give their assistance in federal law enforcement if authorized to do so. They just can’t be ordered to by the feds.

The 10th Amendment usually does take precedence in favor of the states, thus the difference in drug laws, etc. The supremacy clause comes into play when laws conflict and the federal law always prevails. With regard to this lawsuit over immigration in NY, the federal government is prohibited from using states as the instrument to enforce them and I don’t see the conflict in the actual laws, but it will be interesting to see how the state law that says the DMV must inform people when their information is requested by federal authorities, is challenged.

Phucking. Moron.