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Should be a wild four years.

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A Rhode Island US District Judge has indefinitely blocked President Trump's freeze on federal grants and loans, arguing in his ruling that the White House had "put itself above Congress" and undermined democracy.

In a Thursday ruling, Judge John McConnell Jr., an Obama appointee - prohibited the Trump administration from freezing or otherwise impeding the disbursement of appropriated federal funds, WSJ reports.

The decision is a victory for Trump critics who say he has trampled on Congress’s authority in his effort to cut federal spending and overhaul agencies.

McConnell’s order follows a similar one issued by a different federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 25. The judge had previously issued a temporary restraining order, which on Thursday he converted into an injunction, a more permanent form of relief.
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"The Executive’s categorical freeze of appropriated and obligated funds fundamentally undermines the distinct constitutional roles of each branch of our government," wrote McConnell.

"Here, the Executive put itself above Congress," he continued. "It imposed a categorical mandate on the spending of congressionally appropriated and obligated funds without regard to Congress’s authority to control spending."

McConnell's ruling came after 22 Democrat states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit which challenged a directive from the White House's Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directing them to pause funding while it assessed whether various government programs complied with executive orders issued by Trump which target foreign aid, DEI, and green energy projects.

While OMB then rescinded that directive, the states say that come Congressionally-approved funds were still being improperly withheld - and that the initial OMB policy rollout sowed confusion among state governments, nonprofits, and lawmakers.

McConnell issued an earlier temporary restraining order (TRO), in which he said that the administration couldn't "pause, freeze, impede, block, cancel, or terminate" its federal financial-assistance obligations to the states.

According to the judge, state governments face "significant disruption in health, education, and other public services" due to the funding freeze, and as such, "the Court finds that the public interest lies in maintaining the status quo and enjoining any categorical funding freeze."

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No child, you can't freeze federal grants and loans. Even though you're the president. Enjoy prison, stalker.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
The CCP is officially atheist but pagan/shamanic in practice
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Counterfeit Obol said:
I'm pretty sure they're a Cult of Personality revolving around Xinnie the Pooh these days...
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SpergioLeonne said:
Sure, but they also have all of these superstitions, like you’re not allowed to reference Xi having been born in the year of the snake because of bad luck and shit, and you have the problem of them poaching American brown bears because bear gallbladder is supposed to make their tiny dicks work or whatever
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Actually if we analyze it well the CCP seems to be ironically quite close to a modern version of the Legalism of Qin Shi Huang the First Emperor. Especially since they almost fully killed the Confucian cultural aspects with the Cultural Revolution.

The stuff with the folk medicine and potions seems to be modern Taoism. It is still quite big in China, with feng shui taken seriously and shit like Taoist shamans doing rituals to bless shit.

Legalism is a philosophy/ideology/religion quite popular among the bureaucrat classes of the Chinese Dynasties which was quite authoritarian and preached central planning and strong social control.

The easiest way to understand Legalism for westerners is to just think of the Human Hive from Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, led by Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang.


 
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Party Hat Wurmple said:
@tehpope Since I can't respond to you for whatever reason, all I have to say is; I fucking told you all so. Trump is now being put in a position where he has to ignore these judges orders. These corrupt pieces of shit have been given carte blanche to undermine the government thanks to that faggot Roberts.
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We're gonna see Unitary Executive Theory tested out. the likes of which have not been seen before.
 
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marvlouslie said:
So. She's pretending to be a Christian. Got it.
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Michelle Wu is as Christian as much as I'm a vegan. She has never, ever, at any point in time made Christianity part of her identity as the Mayor of Boston. It is entirely performative.

In fact, the first winter of her term as mayor, everybody wanted to eat her guts because she banned the custom of space savers. Basically, after it snows and you shovel out your own car space, you put a lawn chair or something in the spot to reserve it. Moving a space saver could very well get your ass kicked. Michelle Wu said it was no longer allowed on paper and everybody hated her for it.
 
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SpergioLeonne said:
No, all you needed was a drivers’ license up until the post-911 security reforms
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People really do forget that until 9/11 America really was a free country.
You didn't need your balls Xrayed, you could arrive 15 minutes before you flight and catch it on time, you also only need do to be screened back in the day if you were going to fly on the plane.
Traveling anywhere was easy and housing seemed reasonable.
Catch The Rainbow said:
Another problem is that women are the majority of spenders and they love fast fashion/temu shit
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Yeah the one way you are going to kill China is by basically making Latin America the new China. Even with tarriffs Mexico is playing ball more than Canada.
 
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Buck Broken Chimp said:
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It's like Trump wants to lose, we finally had a way to pull in New European immigrants and Trump blew it up to own Zelensky.
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Who needs Ukrainians when we’re getting Boers?
Not Based or Redpilled said:
The plural form of "Fuentes" should be Fuenti
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Noted. That was the most difficult part of the post.


tehpope said:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political...admin-funding-freeze-says-white-house-has-put
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Can we just get rid of all of these judges already?


Vinluv Handesbukia said:
Weaponized TDS is Trump 2.0’s most valuable asset. He just has to make sure that the worst people are mad at him for the worst reasons. https://x.com/claytravis/status/1897182322933555449?s=46
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Why are these people so broken? The kid nearly lost his life at a super young age. He looks up to police officers, something many children do. Let him have fun and live out his fantasies. He deserves it.
I have nothing but hatred for all of the people mocking and attacking this child, and really any child that is having their make-a-wish style dream fulfilled. These were the most vulnerable people who lose a lot, and this stuff gives them the hope to keep on fighting. I was genuinely happy for the boy when Trump made him a binary secret serviceman. And I think his little police uniform is adorable as hell. Just let him have his fun.
 
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CharlesBarkley said:
So let me get this straight. Democrats, people who spend millions on think tanks and media experts, think the following will work for them:
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They spend so much on think tanks to figure out how to indoctrinate people against their own best interest and to pay traditional and social media to carry it out. They don't spend a single cent with the intent to actually learn what a non-lizard person thinks or wants.
 
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Justin Igger said:
I’ve kinda asked something similar before, and the person literally just switched to “Oh he’s a rapist though”. Some kind of TRANSitive principle that these people have to use to slip away.
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When they do this I bring up the Ashley Biden diary, it's funny to see them then instantly flop to "It's private you shouldnt talk about something like that!"
There is absolutely nothing solid to them, they are complete mush, it's not just that they lack a spine or principals, there's just nothing there, it's all completely vapid and emotional with no solid basis at any point
 
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Pew_Pew_Slash said:
If Trump deported the Ukie whores who abandoned their boyfriends and husbands to go slut it up elsewhere I would kek so hard.
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I swear not even a year ago Ukraine was saying they will not process men's visas at their embassies so they'd have to go back to the country and be drafted and the Western media whitewashed it as those men needing to go fix their country.

Meanwhile we get boatloads of refugees from other countries and get lectured how they can't be expected go back to their country to make it better.

I'd hate to be a Ukrainian man.
 
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