They never were. It was always cover to do awful shit like overturn Roe.

“States’ rights” has always been a bullshit lie. The confederacy did not honor states rights. The constitution explicitly instituted slavery as an institution an individual state could not abolish.

States’ rights to abuse its citizens, no states’ rights to protect any of them.

A 30+ felon who tried to overthrow the government, and stole enough classified docs to be imprisoned for millennia, is the president.

There is no “federal law”. There is only a fascist dictatorship — a kakistocracy with nothing but the illusion of authority — and the millions of people who let this failed-state clown show continue.

Like, I am genuinely baffled that in the most heavily armed county on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD, shat on for decades… How is the attempted murder of the people in charge not a daily occurrence? Shit’s wild yo!

Easy to sound like a big man when you’re shouting from behind a few hundred marines.

But that’s sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don’t turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.

It wouldn’t surprise me if Miller was one of those “Skinny guys [that] fight 'til they’re burger.”

I thought he might have been the source of Elmu’s black eye for a while.

Smeagol lied.

States rights are only for conservative states. Blue states don’t have any rights. Everybody knows that.

Lmao they’ll change their tune very quickly if that happens

This has been the game for the GOP for decades. They cry “states rights” when they don’t have the presidency, then want the president to be a king when they have the presidency.

Biden could have arrested Trump on day one.

Democrats set this coarse.

I love how the liberals dreams of “revenge” are of not allowing others to be oppressed by some fucked up law.

I mean. I get it. Don’t get me wrong. But if the dream of liberals in power is just “things aren’t getting much worse for awhile” I really think we need to reprioritize.

My idea of left seizing power and being “authoritarian” is enacting universal healthcare, high speed rail, billionaires in jail, ending garbage AI waste, and much more material actions.

If our idea is just to “stick it” to some racist people in Texas I think we need to rethink that plan. I want those racist people in Texas to have all of the things above too. I want the material conditions to improve for everyone because I know that that is what helps to end these manufactured divisions of race, gender, or religion.

Our goals can’t be to just play whackamole with fucked up laws in red states.

Optimistic of you to assume their mission won’t be a return to normalcy.

Sorry, the senate parliamentarian will say it’s not allowed and so the dems will pout about it some then just settle for sending a strongly worded letter about the matter.

Texan here: I’ll bring the lube

If there’s ever a non-trumpikan president of this country again they must declare the Republican party a fascist organization, its members arrested, its symbols hate speech, and ban everyone from supporting or promoting their ideas again. Anything less is, frankly, complicity with what’s happening now.

You can start rehearsing the rebel yell sounds of popcorn, sorry, of gulping and smell of jasmine tea in my room

The law doesn’t matter unless the president says it does. We can disagree but it doesn’t matter until he is removed.

EOs are far more powerful because they trigger actual action by federal agencies.

It may not be how we learned it in Social Studies, but this is the streets.

I need this on a shirt

How?

Federal taxes don’t pass through California on the way to the feds.

They’re the ones firing rubber bullets at news reporters.