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If you come for my constituents, stop no...
If you come for our mayors, that's unfortunate.
Threaten our governors? So sad, horrible, can nothing be done?
Come for me? We're going to have a problem.
None fo the Dems are going to do shit until they come for them directly, a year after it's too late to do shit.
Tell me, did she also sLaM him? I'm fucking sick of this posturing, do something already
I mean, I doubt he'd refuse her offering to SLAM him, I think there was no such offer.
I was about to write they need to make an offense first.
But you are right, they already did that, by preventing legal oversight.
That shouldn't be allowed to pass.
If the trump admin goes after congress members, they're going after the Squad first so most democrats will be on board.
If the bar has to be that high given everything they have already done, then perhaps you are living in an oligarchy.
But mayors are totally kidnappable?
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/newark-immigration-baraka-ice-arrest-w02968
Hooray for more posturing! Really nice that this current administration has shown without a doubt that our entire system is full of spineless garbage that really will do nothing to balance power, which is literally why those branches of government exist. Yes AOC is a firecracker and more verbal than most. Yes, she drives change and is a speaker for a the people. But without any backup from the entirety of our gov, she's just a megaphone yelling into a void.
she’s just a megaphone yelling into a void.
That makes you the void...
That'd be the humanity.
Any system without wide popular involvement turns into shit.
Wide popular involvement requires simplicity and small number of levels, and ability to ruin and rebuild any part of the state apparatus quickly. So it's limiting, but those limits are liberating, one can say.
At the same time there are no good systems for that wide popular involvement, one would have to pick between Switzerland and the idealized Soviet system, neither is perfectly functional.
Oh a big problem!? Like what exactly? What are going to do against a group of people who laugh at the supreme court and dont follow court orders? All they can do is send a strongly worded letter and say "Shame shame". We are already a dictatorship these other branches have no power other than for optics.
I really like AOC but what will congress or the courts do? They will do nothing and continue to do nothing. Even if Trump and the DOJ go after GOP law makers Congress and the courts will do nothing.