While interesting, this article seems to assume we still live in a democracy with separate but equal powers.

Section 1245 of the NDAA explicitly prohibits the transfer of F-35 aircraft to Turkey as long as the country remains in possession of the S-400. Unlike CAATSA, this law does not provide the president with discretion to suspend the restriction unilaterally.

Trump will just do it regardless of the restrictions. Who would check him?

Congress will likely not do anything to check his powers if he violates the law on the books. I’m guessing the new bill mentioned won’t go anywhere either, especially since Trump would need to sign it.

The courts probably will stop him, but Trump will just go appeals surfing until he finds a pliable maga judge.

DoJ/FBI will agree to not arrest individual contractors or military staff shipping parts and support to Turkey since the king’s decrees take precedent over laws apparently.

Sounds like insecure, not-fully-developed teens doing their insecure thing. Everybody is acting in a way they hopefully won’t as an adult.

He does not. He’s above any and all laws. I don’t know why, but he his. The Constitution is meaningless to a king.

Remember, losing his job should only be the most minor thing he faces out of all of this.

He should face felonies for leaking classified information and for actively creating non-traceable government records. He should be spending time in solitary for this, based on other prosecutions.

Just like his boss.

No way, this is protest worthy.

The plan allegedly has this going from VA to DC, so a bridge crossing and two jurisdictions are involved. Arlington, VA and DC. So that’s the first protest. Make sure Arlington and DC know they cannot issue permits or support this in any way. Likely would involve crossing Memorial Bridge or 14th.

A complex route with a bridge crossing is a second. Would be a shame if something happened there to prevent movement…

Finally, twin 12v truck horns are $22 at Harbor Freight, a 100 pack of ear plugs for you and your neighbors are $15, and sealed 12v batteries can be had for about $100. If a 1,000 people are willing to pony up less than $150, it will shut this thing down completely. Would require water cannons or tear gas to restore it. Which might be even more difficult to deploy if Arl and DC cops aren’t there to support it (see #1).

Just ignore the fucking thing. It isn’t a law. Don’t pretend it is one. Don’t try and interpret it. Just ignore it.

Well Trump is known for stupid decisions, so buying a Tesla is yet another.

Also, the stock really needs to fall much further. Bubble is still popping and there’s a long way to go to come back to anything remotely reasonable.

Market cap is still (even with recent losses) bigger than GM plus Ford plus Disney plus Delta Airlines plus Northrop Grumman plus Nike plus Verizon plus CSX Rail.

Price to earnings is 113. And that’s with dubious and outdated earnings information.

Absolute insanity. Sell whatever you have now while you can.

Lockheed, Boeing, and NG are way more ingrained than Space X and would love to clear away a competitor. And they have no morals and will happily strike during a moment of weakness. Should at least be entertaining as the country collapses.

Contempt needs to happen, like tomorrow. The longer these folks feel above any law the worse our chances of recovery from this get.

Uh oh, watch out. Collins is thinking about the idea to think about saying something slightly stern to President Musky and Lady Trump.

Right? -0.5% yesterday, -1.0% for the week. Totally normal and not deserving of any kind of adjective.

Certainly not saying Lady Trump’s actions won’t kill the stock market, but this ain’t it yet.

Plastic butter knife.

Hint of a major and disrupt health policy shift, not backed by any science, with a Trump-knows-shit-about-shit answer of “we’ll have to look into that” two days before an election. What a fucking guy this idiot is.

Just like how mammy and pappy raised me.

They don’t even need violence. Just an official act that decrees that only 3 specific justices have case voting power. The other six are just non-voting members. Effective immediately.

He’s has a mastery of gish galloping. There’s no way I could ever approach half of what he does.

But that’s about the only thing I can think of that he’s good at. And it’s definitely something he’s good at due to severe character flaws and mental development issues, not exactly a learned skill or intentional thing he applies. But good nonetheless.

Trump aides alarmed that Trump is ranting about crowd sizes.

Trump aides alarmed that Trump’s skin is orange.

Trump aides alarmed that Trump only cares about himself.

Trump aides alarmed that Trump is living in the past.

Trump aides alarmed that Trump is a convicted felon.

Like, who are these aides? Where were they the last 20 years?

Watch his recent NJ speech for a couple of minutes.

I would, but that’s a couple minutes more than I can stand. Given that I don’t want to stab my eardrums with an icepick, I’m going to trust you on this one.

Top sign = Trump said it. Nothing that flows from his mouth hole is reliable, accurate, or true. So you know this isn’t either.

OK politicians sure do like wasting taxpayer dollars on unwinnable court cases.