Showing posts with label national emergency. Show all posts
Showing posts with label national emergency. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2026

Trump creates an emergency by attacking Iran, turns right around and declares an emergency to by-pass Congress and sell weapons to Persian Gulf states even though we need another $200 billion from Congress for weapons

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    Trump invokes emergency powers with $23 billion in Gulf arms sales as Iran war wages on: WSJ report ... For some of the deals, the Ameri...
Friday, February 20, 2026

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Supremes rule 6-3 that IEEPA law does not permit Trump's tariffs on the world, Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissenting

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Supreme Court strikes down Trump tariffs, rebuking president’s signature policy ... Many of those tariffs were invoked using a novel readin...
Tuesday, February 10, 2026

To get around the law on national emergencies, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives declares that the next 171 days will not add up to even one calendar day

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Remember when the Obamacare provisions in March 2010 were deemed to have passed when they hadn't? Remember how the Big Ugly Bill which p...
Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Victor Davis Hanson is as blind to reality as Trump

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  Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Is Stronger Than He Ever Was, The Left Is Desperate     Trump II started his term with a 5-seat advantage in th...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Who needs to run if elections are suspended in yet another phony national emergency?

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Trump is not allowed to stop spending money which was lawfully appropriated by the Congress for specific purposes, or to spend it on other t...
Wednesday, October 22, 2025

One nutball era takes over where one left off: Trump's big ugly bill had no money in it to replenish the Strategic Oil Reserve gutted by Joe Biden, at a time when WTI is half the price it was in 2022

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 US seeks 1 million barrels of oil for Strategic Petroleum Reserve ... The previous administration of former President Joe Biden sold recor...
Monday, September 15, 2025

More autocratic rule by national emergency from Mad King Ludwig

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Is that national emergency #53? I'm losing count.  Trump vows national emergency in Washington, D.C. over ICE dispute    
Friday, August 29, 2025

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit isn't buying Trump's emergency argument for his tariffs because he's taxing everything from nearly every country

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   Most Trump tariffs ruled illegal by appeals court, dealing major blow to trade policy A federal appeals court ruled Friday that most of P...
Tuesday, August 26, 2025

What would you call it?

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Embrace The Red, White, and Blue Reich   Declaring 52 "national emergencies" as of June 2025 under which the executive branch exer...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Trump invokes emergency powers yet again, takes over DC police for 30 days under Home Rule Act over non-existent crime surge except against his own people, deploys National Guard

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This is pissing-match security theatre: "If Biden can do it so can I".   Trump puts Washington, DC, police under federal control, ...
Sunday, August 10, 2025

Andrew Sullivan makes Trump subhuman the way Mark Levin and Michael Savage have made their enemies subhuman, says the American people no longer want to govern themselves

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They shoot wild boar in Texas from helicopters, don't they?    The Permanent Stain  ... Trump is conservatism’s actual nemesis: a wild b...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

We've been liberated from Liberation Day by two Republicans (one appointed by Trump) and one Democrat on a court handpicked by Trump to adjudicate his tariffs lol

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  Federal trade court strikes down Trump’s reciprocal tariffs The U.S. Court of International Trade on Wednesday blocked steep reciprocal t...
Monday, April 28, 2025

Fareed Zakaria: Trump uses an unprecedented eight national emergency declarations for his own end run around the constitution, the Congress, and the courts

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 ... Trump has declared eight national emergencies in his first 100 days, more than any other president. ... Invoking an emergency has come ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2025

In the age of everything that is good is awesome, everything bad must be an emergency

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 The Zeitgeist is epitomized by a general hysteria, incapable of proportional thinking and hostile to reason, and so it should come as no su...
Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Trump will stop at nothing in his quest for imperial power and will destroy the credibility of US Treasury debt

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  telegraph.co.uk If you think it’s alarming now, just wait for Trump to wreck the bond m...

Ceding tariff authority to the executive was the Congress' way of escaping the political consequences of fulfilling their responsibilities under the constitution, but that may be changing

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 The phenomenon is mirrored in the states by the enthusiasm for referenda, aka ballot measures, which are promoted as democracy but are in f...
Sunday, February 2, 2025

Trump tariffs will increase costs of fruits, vegetables, potatoes, and grains, among a hellish host of things

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  ... The sweeping tariff could make more expensive a host of items that the U.S. imports from its neighbors. Among the common Mexican impo...
Saturday, October 5, 2024

The Harris-Biden M/O: Create an illegal alien emergency through asylum gimmick, redirect emergency funds meant for hurricanes to communities overrun with foreigners, run out of money when hurricanes hit, blame Republicans

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

German court rules emergency spending on climate change is unlawful, coalition government forced to freeze outlays under debt brake rules

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Story here . Freeze. Lolz.
Saturday, July 15, 2023

Death Valley, CA, Climate Emergency ROFLMAO, where year-to-date average temperature is running 1.7 degrees F below normal

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 If it's in The Grauniad, it's probably wrong.