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Should be a wild four years.

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"Woke right" is anybody who's right wing and doesn't care for Jews, niggers or feminism. So Ulysses S Grant, basically.
Sherman was better because war crimes.
This is so interesting because the role of the executive branch is a debate that never seems to go away in America. The Jeffersonian political tradition (and by extension the legacy of Andrew Jackson and the very existence of the party system stems from this debate). Hamilton’s plan to empower the executive could only be checked by congress, but congress could only mount effective opposition through unity, stemming from a party apparatus.
The whole idea that the founders had was that the mice are safe when the elephants are fighting. Our government is naturally supposed to be adversarial. Pit ambition against ambition.
In the absence of non-delegation you Americans find yourself with this horrible bureaucratic Frankenstein. The executive agencies have the lawmaking ability of congress, the enforcement authority of the office of the president and the ability to determine policy directions as if it were an elected popular body.
Hate to admit it but you're right, the founders did not anticipate that we would essentially gain a fourth branch through bureaucracy and if they did well they did a shit job preparing us for it. This is why it's so important that the bureaucracy is held to account by the executive since they are de facto a part of that branch.
The biggest nightmare of all of this is precisely because of the delegation of power, the only way to check the bureaucracy is through a unity of all three branches and a lot of patience. You lose a mid term? You’re done. No chance of reforming the government. A court case doesn’t go your way at the SC? Done. If the president doesn’t prioritise shrinking the government? Done.
It's not that bad, I think you're black pilling a bit. But it is true that everyone has to be on board to utterly gut what is essentially a fourth branch of government. The problem is that people have been very concerned about the growth of the executive, and rightfully so, and as a result it is hard to get SCOTUS or Congress on board to put the bureaucracy back in its place because that would just be giving the executive branch too much power in their eyes.
 
As a follow up question, what legal tool/mechanism do the federal judges use to block the orders and what legal precedent can be found in the case law and the constitutional that allows this behaviour?
The short answer is no. The powers aren't SPECIFICALLY laid out. It's kept vague on purpose. So it's not technically laid out. What is laid out is a separation of powers and states rights.

What the Democrat Judges are doing is using something called Universal Injunctions which means, a ruling from a different district or sect of the Judicial System tries to establish ruling over what the Federal government or other states do. It's been done maybe once or twice in the past and there was just never any reason to fight it. The reality though is that it's a relatively new thing to be used in this way. The answer is, it is Unconstitutional. Its taking away the rights of other states to govern. A judge in California has no legal right to have any control over what Texas does. It's a direct violation of the Constitution and the entire Spirit of the country in general. It's a flat usurpation of power by the courts over the federal government and the fact it's been allowed to stand this long should tell you something about the Supreme Court.


The big problem we're having is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts. No matter what the media tells you, Roberts is NOT ON TRUMP'S SIDE. He is NOT a Republican. He is NOT a conservative. He is a 1000% swamp creature and he ALLOWED this. He also ruled it's illegal to challenge an election when Trump lost to Biden. He's a complete piece of garbage. Earlier in Trump's term, he had a chance to stop these universal injunctions and he REFUSED to issue a ruling. He smacked down the specific law that was challenged and refused to hear on the matter any further. He is directly allowing these things to happen. He could end this bullshit at any second and he is actively choosing not to. I don't know WHY he is allowing this to continue. Trump's only move at this point is to force Roberts to rule against it, pack the court, or just ignore the rulings because they can't enforce it. If anything what Roberts is doing is forcing Trump to destroy the Judicial Branch in its entirety and that's ultimately what's going to have to happen if he doesn't rule on it.

The other problem is that all of what I've said above is largely esoteric. Normies are dumb and don't remember what happened when Trump challenged the election. They don't know about universal injunctions. They don't understand the Constitution and why what the judges are doing is insane. If you've ever heard Null bitch about lawsuits, that's exactly what the Democrats are doing. They're hurling any insane ruling they can think of at Trump and his team HAVE to answer it, preventing them from working on other things. It's bankrupting time and resources and they're just flinging shit at the wall so Trump can't clean house because he's focused on cleaning his wall. The courts also can't enforce these things. Trump can wipe his ass with the rulings and there's nothing they can do about it. Nobody can enforce it but Americans don't get that so expect the media to screech like harpies. The general average American does not understand this stuff and it's largely something you only know if you pay attention like we do on the Farms. The reality is, just by reading this you're now more knowledgeable about the situation than a solid 70% of Americans.
 
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Oh, then it’s really gay that they took a stupid word like punk and applied it to a foreign context

I hope they get beer bottle glass shards in their backs from the floor of the vfw basement that was the only place dumb enough to let them appear in public
Lol. But yeah. Think WH40K Imperial Guard. That's Diseslpunk. The aesthetic, style, all that, very World War style.
 
A Yale professor is moving to Canada because Trump has made the country unlivable for descendants of Holocaust survivors with black children:
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This is so fucking specific that all i can do is laugh. Later leaf, you'll be rejoining soon enough. Move to Greenland instead. I hear the forests are green there!
 
Oh, then it’s really gay that they took a stupid word like punk and applied it to a foreign context

I hope they get beer bottle glass shards in their backs from the floor of the vfw basement that was the only place dumb enough to let them appear in public
Look, this all happened after I aged out of pop culture, so definitionally, I hate it and think it represents a form of retardation.

No personal offense intended, but I don’t want to picture it. I want to criticize it and tell it to get the fuck off my lawn and definitely not try to put a mattress in my dumpster.
 
The whole idea that the founders had was that the mice are safe when the elephants are fighting.
Unfortunately they're using the mice to fight with.

Hate to admit it but you're right, the founders did not anticipate that we would essentially gain a fourth branch through bureaucracy and if they did well they did a shit job preparing us for it
They did an excellent job of preparing you for it. It's called the Second Amendment.

No system can survive the inaction of its citizenry. Any government can be corrupted if nothing is done to push back against the corruption. This they knew and understood and tried to both provide those who followed with the tools to control it, and clear warnings of the necessity to do so.

I'm not sure what more could have been asked of the Founders. They did a remarkably good job compared to every other country I can think of. Most of us don't even have a Constitution. And the few emulators like Ukraine tend to fill them with absurd temporal goals like 'our goal is to join the EU' making it unconstitutional to oppose such.
 
Only the original trilogy is alright.

Everything after became a panderverse

“We need shit to sell more toys to kids! Wait boba fett looked cool? We have to start retconning him into a heroish antihero. Make the star a kid so kids will make their parents take them to see it! Buy a hat for your hat”
 
Only the original trilogy is alright.

Everything after became a panderverse

“We need shit to sell more toys to kids! Wait boba fett looked cool? We have to start retconning him into a heroish antihero. Make the star a kid so kids will make their parents take them to see it! Buy a hat for your hat”
They're only "underrated" because they're being compared to the Sequel Trilogy. If Disney had never made the sequels, we'd still be making jokes on Jar Jar Binks rather than sucking his dick.
 
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Only the original trilogy is alright.

Everything after became a panderverse
The Original Trilogy has a fraction of the world building as the Prequels. One of the major complaints about the Prequels was that they had too much depth (e.g. the "boring politics") for low-IQ manchildren like RLM.

Lucas was a master at making movies that both kids and their parents could enjoy. Boomers and Gen X love the Original Trilogy not because they're better movies, but because they came out when they were young. For every Jar Jar in the Prequels, there was an Ewok in the Originals. For every awkward Anakin/Padme scene, there was an awkward Luke/Leia/Han scene. Some of the CGI looks bad in the Prequels today, but so do lots of the practical effects in the Originals.
“We need shit to sell more toys to kids! Wait boba fett looked cool? We have to start retconning him into a heroish antihero. Make the star a kid so kids will make their parents take them to see it! Buy a hat for your hat”
Boba Fett wasn't even in the prequels beyond a cameo. His backstory was expanded by making his father the template for the clone troopers, but it was the third-party EU that turned him into an antihero (which happened long before the Prequels were made).
 
What the fuck is with the left-wing's obsession with refugees? There are homeless people on the streets right now but they want to import refugees who can't speak English, don't want jobs, and will get thousands in EBT along with Section 8 housing the second they come into the country?
 
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