(Dec 25, 2025 02:32 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Apparently you either can't read or don't know what "federal agents" are. Hint, they are not National Guard nor military.
What do other "federal agents" have to do with a post about SCOTUS preventing the manbaby from using the national guard to bash protesters heads in cities? Or do you always post off topic? Shall we discuss mutilated fetuses next? How about bathroom-lurking transvestites?
(Dec 25, 2025 03:06 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ] (Dec 25, 2025 02:32 AM)Syne Wrote: [ -> ]Apparently you either can't read or don't know what "federal agents" are. Hint, they are not National Guard nor military.
What do other "federal agents" have to do with a post about SCOTUS preventing the manbaby from using the national guard to bash protesters heads in cities? Or do you always post off topic? Shall we discuss mutilated fetuses next?
Wait... lemme sharpen my crayon...
If you can't deploy National Guard, due to the SCOTUS ruling, then do more of what Trump has already been doing... which is surging more federal agents into one city at a time, to have enough manpower to crack heads and enforce the law. With federal agents, there is zero question of authority, jurisdiction, etc., so just give them enough backup to go hard... and steamroll any attempted "resistance."
Quote:If you can't deploy National Guard, due to the SCOTUS ruling, then do more of what Trump has already been doing... which is surging more federal agents into one city at a time, to have enough manpower to crack heads and enforce the law.
Which, if it were working, wouldn't have needed the National Guard to back them up and make protesters look bad. So Trump goes back to losing the PR war again, with ICE agents beating up innocent Mexicans in Home Depot parking lots in 1 minute TV news clips.
Yes, hence "do more... surging more federal agents."
And yes, hapless ADD morons who only watch one minute clips and don't know the context for anything.
It should be pretty clear that Trump doesn't care about PR if the job is getting done.
Quote:It should be pretty clear that Trump doesn't care about PR if the job is getting done.
Bullshit he doesn't. All he is after is looking like he is tough on immigration and crime by sending ICE to cities to bash heads. Which pleases his racist-ass base to no end. Unfortunately the smarter majority of Americans (college educated) see thru his crap and no longer care. Hence his abysmally low popularity ratings. He's goin down quickly as the most unfavored president in history. Sad...
"President Donald Trump’s job approval rating stands at just 36 percent in the latest Gallup poll, the joint-worst rating of any U.S. president at the end of their first year in power of the last 50 years.
The other man? Himself – at the end of the first year of his first term in December 2017 – when he picked up precisely the same score.
For comparison, his predecessor Joe Biden was at 43 percent at the end of his first year in the Oval Office in December 2021."----
https://www.the-independent.com/news/wor...90210.html
(Dec 25, 2025 05:35 AM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:It should be pretty clear that Trump doesn't care about PR if the job is getting done.
Bullshit he doesn't. All he is after is looking like he is tough on immigration and crime by sending ICE to cities to bash heads.
Apparently, you don't see the contradiction there. Of course pansy leftists won't like him looking "tough on immigration." If that's what he wants to do, you're just proving my point.
Quote:Which pleases his racist-ass base to no end.
We don't want the immigrants harmed... just out. Trump's even upped the incentive, from $1,000 to $3,000, to self-deport.
It's the leftists obstructing the law that need their heads cracked.
Quote:Unfortunately the smarter majority of Americans (college educated) see thru his crap and no longer care. Hence his abysmally low popularity ratings. He's goin down quickly as the most unfavored president in history. Sad...
For instance, individuals with higher levels of education are just as likely to fall for misinformation as those with a lower level of education. The work, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
- https://phys.org/news/2025-02-easily-fal...ation.html
Although the study did not find greater belief in misinformation based on the race of the person defamed, the study found two dismaying correlations. First, higher education levels of respondents correlated with greater belief in misinformation, greater willingness to recommend negative action based on misinformation, and greater willingness to share such information, even in the face of a warning label flagging the misinformation. Second, greater usage of social media showed the same correlation. And the two factors overlapped and interacted detrimentally. Higher education levels did not save respondents with higher usage of social media from believing in misinformation. Instead, higher education levels worsened such belief.
- https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...id=4570230
A constant bombardment of legacy media ginning up misinformation and hatred go a long way toward a president's approval rating. Obviously Biden should have been much worse, if legacy media actually reported on his mental decline.
Somehow doesn't sound right coming out of the gob of a fat spray-tanned 80 year old real estate tycoon.
(Dec 24, 2025 09:08 PM)Magical Realist Wrote: [ -> ]"The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump's ability to send National Guard troops into Illinois over the objections of its governor.
It was just a denial of an emergency stay of a lower court's ruling and as is usual in Supreme Court rulings, it revolves around fine points of the law.
Here's the actual text:
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2...-order.pdf
Relevant excerpts:
"Federal immigration enforcement efforts have encountered significant resistance, as well as some violence, in Chicago...
On October 4, 2025, the President called 300 members of the Illinois National Guard to active federal service to protect federal personnel and property in Illinois...
In calling forth the Guard, the President relied on 10 USC 12406(3) which empowers him to federalize members of the Guard if he is "unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States".
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a temporary restraining order barring the federalization and deployment of the Guard in Illinois...
The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order...
We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs... on the meaning of the term "regular forces" in 12406(3)...
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in 12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States military. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service, the President must be "unable", with the regular military, "to execute the laws of the United States". Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional, under the Posse Comitatus Act the military is prohibited from "executing the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress" 18 USC 1385...
At this preliminary stage, the Government has failed to identify a source of authority that would allow the military to execute the laws in Illinois. The President has not invoked a statute that provides an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act. Instead he relies on inherent Constitutional authority that according to the Government, allows him to use the military to protect federal personnel and property...
So basically they seem to be saying, on the basis of an extraordinarily extreme reading of 10 USC 12406(3), that the President needs to call up the regular military before he calls up the Guard (which is both extreme and dangerous) and to do that must invoke an authority that allows him to avoid the Posse Comitatus Act. Which would seem to require invocation of more extreme Civil War era authorities such as the Insurrection Act that still exist in federal law, which in my opinion is a more extreme and potentially dangerous option than the limited option that the President opted for and the Court opposed.
https://policy.defense.gov/portals/11/do...on_act.pdf
Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion. 10 USC 332
So the President can simply federalize the 300 Guardsmen
again on the authority of 10 USC 332 instead of 10 USC 12406(3), which on any reasonable reading seems to authorize it as well. 332 doesn't require that he send in the regular military first, though it expressly authorizes him to do so. There is historical precedent for invoking 10 USC 332 such as when the regular military was called out by President Eisenhower to enforce school desegregation in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
(Dec 26, 2025 10:24 PM)Yazata Wrote: [ -> ]So the President can simply federalize the 300 Guardsmen again on the authority of 10 USC 332 instead of 10 USC 12406(3). 332 doesn't require that he call up the regular military first, though it expressly authorizes him to do so. There is historical precedent for invoking 10 USC 332 such as when the military was called out by President Eisenhower to enforce school desegregation in Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.
It's 10 USC 252. And this is probably what Trump should have used from the beginning... unless one of his goals was to make leftists waste their time and resources on useless lawfare.
If nothing else, he could always deputize off-duty National Guardsmen into ICE/CBP.
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