@ChrisMayLA6 This is what privatisation really looks like. Steady revenue streams, no competition, statutory guarantees of a market, bugger all quality control

It's easy money, and it's big money.

@nikatjef The article at https://www.scu.edu/government-ethics/resources/trump-v-united-states-and-the-ethics-of-presidential-immunity/ doesnt mention the word impeach. Not even once.

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@nikatjef So you can't identify any specific judgment, and you offer zero evidence that the courts would ignore a conviction at impeachment.

I get why you are v worried, but if you want to make a serious contribution to a discussion about the actions of a court, that needs identifiable rulings.

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@nikatjef What have I missed? Which SCOTUS ruling(s) have removed or restricted the power of Congress to impeach and remove from office?

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@nikatjef With respect, I think that you are missing my point that both SCOTUS and Congress are failing to restrain Trump.

Despite the corrupt #SCOTUS, Congress is not neutered. Congress still retains huge power to tighten law, and ultimately to impeach. Trump's authoritarianism could be stopped by either Congress or SCOTUS.

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@nikatjef It's not just the corrupt SCOTUS. The MAGA-controlled Congress has rarely even tried to stop Trump.

The separation of powers doctrine never envisaged one sociopath capturing all threw branches of government.

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I see in this thread a lot of touching belief in variants of the phrase "Trump can’t do XYZ lawfully".

Sadly, the last 12 months is the story of Trump doing whatever he wants, regardless of law or constitution. Tariffs, removing trans rights, invasion, genocide, murder at sea, demolishing the East Wing, snatch squads, torture: all "can't legally do" but all being done.

These legal theories no longer describe actual power in #USA.

@ChrisMayLA6 @econproph Few civil wars involve an ongoing punch up on every street. Mostly, they are localised.

@guardeddon California will not secede until the humongous gravy train of military spending dries up. That's not a sufficient condition for a #CalExit, but it's a necessary condition.

Also, Silicon Valley is now so strong that there is probably no secession without #techbros in the driving seat.

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@HarriettMB The USA has been in a persistent civil war since a century before its foundation. Mostly against non-white people, but also against working class people.

It is labelled as a "civil war" only when the endemic war on non-white America and poor America is turned onto chunks of white middle-class America.

But don't let the colonist labels deceive. This is not the start of the American civil war. This is just an intensification of one front of the continuous civil war.

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