Source of news: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/7/ice-launches-military-style-raids-in-los-angeles-what-we-know
This is Stephen Miller’s (White House Deputy Chief) response to Karen Bass (Los Angeles Mayor).
So much for “state’s rights.”
Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they’re very worried about protecting anything.
Another 5-10 years in power and they’ll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it “parental rights”.
I will be shocked if it takes that long.
It’ll be anyone with it a red hat on being chased down by then. Trump will be a full vegetable if not dead by then, and the Vance/Miller/Heritage crowd will have found a way to take absolute power. Otherwise the whole thing will collapse and we might have a shot at reclaiming the country.
You have a shot now, you’re just not taking it.
What kinda shot?
Me against a police force? We haven’t even got left wing militias out there, let alone the size it would take for a coup.
Cool, well you just take a seat and relax. You’ve clearly done everything you can. Someone will be along to save you any day now, I’m sure.
Time for the Sartre quote:
Never believe that
anti-Semitesfascists are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. Theanti-Semitesfascists have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
Irony & Stephen being an arch-ghoul notwithstanding, federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2). Like, Nebraska couldn’t just legalize murder. They could stop enforcing that law, but it’d still be illegal and the federal gov’t could take action.
federal law does supercede state law (Art 6 Sec 2)
Only to the extent that the Federal law is constitutional (ie within its powers) and valid
And to the extent that they are actually following the federal law, regardless of its constitutionality.
That’s a fair point. But it would need to be argued in the courts.
Mmm, maybe, I’m pretty sure there’s pretty solid case law precedent on this. It’s been heavily litigated over the centuries.
The parameters around what is within the jurisdiction of the US Federal govt is pretty clear. Fundamentally Article I, Section 8 of US Constitution although there’s a few other loose ends (implied powers).
“The enumerated powers listed in Article One include both exclusive federal powers, as well as concurrent powers that are shared with the states, and all of those powers are to be contrasted with reserved powers that only the states possess”
The Feds aren’t even following federal law.
A 30+ felon who tried to overthrow the government, and stole enough classified docs to be imprisoned for millennia, is the president.
There is no “federal law”. There is only a fascist dictatorship — a kakistocracy with nothing but the illusion of authority — and the millions of people who let this failed-state clown show continue.
Like, I am genuinely baffled that in the most heavily armed county on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD, shat on for decades… How is the attempted murder of the people in charge not a daily occurrence? Shit’s wild yo!
kakistocracy
Learned a new word today. I’m keeping that one.
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- Known Nazi and self described white supremacist, Stephen Miller
Nice, if there’s ever a democratic president again, let’s use that precedent to completely fuck Texas and the other theocracies when they try to make bible shit into law again
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No they won’t, they’ll claim they’re being persecuted and play victim
gaslight, obstruct, project
You’re funny. We don’t change our tune in the south. We just claim that you’re singing it wrong.
This has been the game for the GOP for decades. They cry “states rights” when they don’t have the presidency, then want the president to be a king when they have the presidency.
Biden could have arrested Trump on day one.
Democrats set this coarse.
I love how the liberals dreams of “revenge” are of not allowing others to be oppressed by some fucked up law.
I mean. I get it. Don’t get me wrong. But if the dream of liberals in power is just “things aren’t getting much worse for awhile” I really think we need to reprioritize.
My idea of left seizing power and being “authoritarian” is enacting universal healthcare, high speed rail, billionaires in jail, ending garbage AI waste, and much more material actions.
If our idea is just to “stick it” to some racist people in Texas I think we need to rethink that plan. I want those racist people in Texas to have all of the things above too. I want the material conditions to improve for everyone because I know that that is what helps to end these manufactured divisions of race, gender, or religion.
Our goals can’t be to just play whackamole with fucked up laws in red states.
Optimistic of you to assume their mission won’t be a return to normalcy.
Texan here: I’ll bring the lube
Sorry, the senate parliamentarian will say it’s not allowed and so the dems will pout about it some then just settle for sending a strongly worded letter about the matter.
If there’s ever a non-trumpikan president of this country again they must declare the Republican party a fascist organization, its members arrested, its symbols hate speech, and ban everyone from supporting or promoting their ideas again. Anything less is, frankly, complicity with what’s happening now.
The party of “state’s rights”.
You can start rehearsing the rebel yell sounds of popcorn, sorry, of gulping and smell of jasmine tea in my room
The party of “small government”, trampling over the rights of the state of California, one of the largest economies in the world.
hold on, this is from the “states rights” lot, right?
Smeagol lied.
I think Miller is more a mix of Joseph Goebbels and Wormtongue, both sycophants seeking to advance on the backs of others.
Smeagol was basically a good guy until he was enchanted by evil. Miller brings evil with him.
I’m shocked! Shocked! I can’t believe that Smeagol would lie about anything.
States rights are only for conservative states. Blue states don’t have any rights. Everybody knows that.
I bet a few red states are in for a surprise.
Stephen Miller is a Nazi and a terrorist.
Executive orders ARE NOT LAW!
The law doesn’t matter unless the president says it does. We can disagree but it doesn’t matter until he is removed.
EOs are far more powerful because they trigger actual action by federal agencies.
It may not be how we learned it in Social Studies, but this is the streets.
States rights! Until I see anything I DONT LIKE, then unlimited power federal government!
States rights…to own slaves. Individual rights…to extract profit. Divine Federal right to smash dissent.
I need this on a shirt
It’s somewhat hyperbolic to say a lot on the right are actual nazis, but this dude is the most neo-Nazi motherfucker and deserves everything that should come to Nazis.
It’s a terrible system when fucking dorks who got bullied by classmates and never moved on get this kind of power. Some Latino kids beat him up or pantsed him or whatever and it’s been his mission to target the ethnicity of those who made his life as a teenager unpleasant rather than focusing on something more productive. We are being ruled by emotionally unstable babies who never got over whatever hardship occurred in their formative years and now see themselves as arbiters of retribution. We are under a bunch of stunted Eliot Rogers-esque dorks.
Where are all the right wing states rights mouthbreathers now?
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Everyone hates you, Stephen.
