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It would be difficult, but arguably everything has been difficult for the congressional GOP as even when they ran the house during the last cycle they could bar
by duxup 1y ago
It would be difficult, but arguably everything has been difficult for the congressional GOP as even when they ran the house during the last cycle they could barely operate.
They struggled to pick leaders among their own party members numerous times.
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- seanmcdirmid 1y agoIt has been hard for the judicial system as well, with Trump ignoring injunctions and orders as if they were just advisory. I wonder if he will try that here as well? "Oh, the court said no tariffs, but I'm not even going to bother with an appeal to the Supreme Court and just use an executive order to invalidate...", here is hoping he doesn't do that.
- msie 1y agoIt would be nice if some US marshals put Trump in jail for ignoring the court but we know nothing will come of it.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> some US marshals put Trump in jail for ignoring the court In chess you never capture the king. Similarly, the way to fight this is have arrested the lower rung players e.g. the tax collectors. (And ICE agents conducting illegal arrests.)
- ben_w 1y agoGiven how often American "kings" leave the metaphorical playing board, this isn't chess: it is non-euclidian, real-time, penultima, on a continuous board, with hundreds of players and billions of pieces (and any given piece is under the control of potentially multiple players), and where the secret rules for every piece include self-playing behaviours and weird emergent dynamics. And in penultima, sometimes the king isn't the real target, and attempting to capturing it destroys random other pieces instead.