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"Not.A.King.Tho'"
--maga
The whole system is being dismantled to the point I keep wondering when it'll suffer total structural collapse. It's less about the "doom" part than the lingering anxiety over the "impending" part.
It probably won't collapse completely anytime soon. It'll just be warped beyond recognition while the people who are in denial fight tooth and nail to keep the system from collapsing.
All the while, this warped system will continue to benefit Trump until him or his successor gains enough power to no longer need the old system and can dismantle them completely without meaningful opposition.
i.e. The Palpatine Method
You get to learn a fun new term: Cascading failures. Ooooh boy it's a good one.
Trump: "Haven't you idiots learned from my example by now!? We can do WHATEVER we want! Just do it. No one will stop us! A judge intervenes, we just get another to let us do it!"
So he is telling them to ignore the rules and do it anyway?
Their plan is just do it whether it's legal or not, it only matters if somebody actually stops them.
I think it requires 60 votes to overrule the parliamentarian. They just want to make a show of it.
Didn't take them 60 votes to ignore the parliamentarian and revoke the waivers that let California set its own emissions standards.
The Senate has overruled the guidance of the parliamentarian, a nonpartisan staffer who interprets the Senate's rules, and voted 51 to 44 to overturn a waiver allowing California to set its own air pollution standards for cars that are stricter than national regulations. The Senate has only overruled its parliamentarian a handful of times in the 90-year history of the role.
you know the thing