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This is blatantly illegal since a judge recently ruled they MUST allow congressional visits: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspections-dem

This is blatantly illegal since a judge recently ruled they MUST allow congressional visits: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspections-democrats-congress-lawsuit.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/us/politics/ice-inspectio... The DHS (Kristi Noem) now claims their repeat of the same illegal policy is now legal because it is using a different funding source, which is obviously false. It’s all the same pool of money.

gorgoiler 10mo ago
What color are your tax dollars?
nine_zeros 10mo ago
Their bet is that they will not follow the law, nothing will be done about it, and Americans will be ok with it. So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing that America no longer exists the way you thought about the country.
- SilverElfin 10mo ago
  It’s absurd that there is no actual way to hold the presidency accountable. No way to arrest them for violating the law? No way to arrest them for ignoring court orders? No way to arrest them for detaining people for months and then letting them go and dropping all charges? What’s the point of such a childishly designed political system?
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- ranger_danger 10mo ago
  > nothing will be done about it > thanks to maga I'd say a failure to do something about it is everyone's fault.
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kelseyfrog 10mo ago
The "pool of money" idea itself has got to go. Government spending and revenues operate much more like sources and sinks than a purse. Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine. The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty. I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.
kahrl 10mo ago
So? Since when does legal matter? MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. HEIL.

gorgoiler 10mo ago

What color are your tax dollars?

nine_zeros 10mo ago

Their bet is that they will not follow the law, nothing will be done about it, and Americans will be ok with it. So far, that has been the case. The constitution has become meaningless thanks to maga, and you're better off recognizing that America no longer exists the way you thought about the country.

SilverElfin 10mo ago
It’s absurd that there is no actual way to hold the presidency accountable. No way to arrest them for violating the law? No way to arrest them for ignoring court orders? No way to arrest them for detaining people for months and then letting them go and dropping all charges? What’s the point of such a childishly designed political system?
- nine_zeros 10mo ago
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ranger_danger 10mo ago
> nothing will be done about it > thanks to maga I'd say a failure to do something about it is everyone's fault.
- nine_zeros 10mo ago
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kelseyfrog 10mo ago

The "pool of money" idea itself has got to go. Government spending and revenues operate much more like sources and sinks than a purse. Spending injects money into the economy and revenues extract it. The two roughly balance each other but only because overspending/undertaxing increases the money supply in negative ways and under pending/overtaxing decreased the money supply in other negative ways. Besides these, interest rates are the third lever of the economic engine. The constraint is inflation rather than solvency for states who have monetary sovereignty. I get the appeal and the logical, rational appeal of the purse model, but it leads to a warped idea of how the government and economy interact.

kahrl 10mo ago

So? Since when does legal matter? MIGHT MAKES RIGHT. HEIL.