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So the next headline is “ICE staff charged with felony kidnapping and human trafficking” right?
death to ICE
Watching this zombie judicial system trudge along like people think it will affect anything is just so fuckinv stupid. Like literally what will it take for liberals to realize that the courts are not solving this?
the moment the govt started doing illegal, extra judicial shit, it should have taken 5 seconds for anyone with a brain to realize that the only proper response is illegal, extra judicial reprisal, because they're ignoring the fucking courts, and even if they weren't they're not going to arrest themselves
I guess everyone is still just caught up in a dreamy haze of hopium that there's a way out of civil war. But there isn't. The civil war has already started, except only one fucking side realizes and is fighting
I think liberals are able to hold on because, on occasion, judgements are actually followed. Mohsen Mahdaw was released from custody when a judge ordered it, after all. These little strategic retreats act as a pressure release, to keep people from realizing the courts are not going to save us.
Democrats have the resouces to fight on multiple fronts. They could pressure on the court side and use unjust and illegal rulings to stoke popular support forntheir own illegal reprisals, which would pressure the Trump admin into either overstepping their support, or continuing to allow the courts to mediate disputes.
Or they would if they had any sense of strategy whatsoeve
Well of course, the problem is ideological. The only way courts will have the power to actually stop the administration is if they are backed up by people power. Democrats really believe that courts have inherent powers, like magic, and that their power doesn't require mass mobilization.
If we were ever serious about checks and balances, the judiciary would have their own army, at the bare minimum.
: “Teeeheee….oopsie daisy!”
This is why I roll my eyes when chuds try to act like they’re talking down Light Yagami ‘who gets to decide who is and isn’t fascist’ when they gleefully let pigs be the judge jury and executioner not because someone actually committed a crime, but because they look a certain way they personally do not like.
