JasonDJ

Tomato tomato.

That's already happening without a new party. AOC has got some of the thickest skin in DC, she'd be fine.

A new party isn't going to go anywhere without big established names leaving the Democrats and leading the new one though.

They'd need to start ASAP, though.

That name is already taken by an organization funded primarily by Republican donors.

https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/25/these-are-north-koreas-28-state-approved-hairstyles/

We should make sure that we include hair plugs and androgel under the banner of "gender-confirming care".

I'm really digging the irony of this thread...

It would...but I think the union would shatter first. We've never even had a white AFAB president.

US Marshal Office is part of DoJ that runs under executive.

They gonna arrest their bosses boss? Or even defy orders from their own chain-of-command? How do you think that will turn out?

Well we can't do anything now, it's far too soon.

Can we just get it over with, please?

This whole year so far has been like watching a trainwreck. From the quiet-car. Like oh there's this cool disaster going on up ahead...it's definitely going to hurt everyone around me directly, but damn if it isn't mesmerizing in the meantime. And meanwhile the guy on my left is taking a nap and the girl on the right is reading a true crime novel about horny vampires (the author may have taken some creative liberties).

Sure. What?

I'd like to know what the courts can do.

Seriously.

Or even Congress.

The whole system is predicated on the idea that the executive follows the rule of law, as they are entrusted by us to execute the law.

If the executive fails to do their job, it's on Congress to impeach.

Congress should work in good faith too...but if they are complicit with the executive?

Judicials job isn't to write law or police the president. Judicials job is to make sure that the laws are, themselves, legal, and to extract the nuance out of the law and apply it to the context of the situation.

The judicial has no teeth. Nor are they supposed to. Congress makes the laws, executive enforces, and judicial essentially mediates. That's it.

Turns out the entire system goes tits up if one branch decides "I don't wanna" and the ones that are supposed to give him the boot are instead giving him applause.

Well yeah they learned that more than just little white girls like their movies. Look at the animated Disney/Pixar feature films, so much more than it was in the pre- renaissance era.

Even during the Renaissance ...we had Pocahontas and Mulan and Jasmine...but these people were more like phoned-in representatives of their cultures compared to now.

Look at Encanto, or Moana/Viana. Or Coco. Or even Soul.

Hell, Strange World features a mixed race family with a queer son and a three-legged dog.

And the movies are better for it. They are more relatable because they aren't all some xeroxed copy of the same plain princess with a slightly different tint. And more importantly, they are showing their young and impressionable viewers a cast that reflects reality. That not every family is a carbon-copy "traditional" family. That different cultures exist and yeah, live a bit differently than suburban white folk (who live a shockingly similar life to the Sultan of Agrabah).

I've got a love/hate thing with Disney. Like...enemy-of-my-enemy-enemy kind of thing.

I do love when they stick it to DeSantis.

But I still ain't going to FL anytime soon. We did Disney in 2022 and I think that's probably near the end of when FL was tolerable (in small doses) for sane people.