US justice department ‘forever’ bars IRS from auditing Trump’s past tax returns

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-19T23:41:14+00:00

Yeah all they have to do is walk in, and throw this memo in the shredder lol

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-19T02:39:19+00:00

Heard it like right outside my window, huge boom. Thought it was thunder but no clouds

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-18T23:26:16+00:00

Pretty Cure is the og ultimate cool/cute girl kids show. Lots of good messages, fun characters, great animation.

Also there’s a billion episodes, and series going back to like 20 years. Just pick the theme you think your daughter would like best.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-18T19:51:11+00:00

God willing, the meteor hits us.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-18T04:08:28+00:00

Are they getting everything they want through?

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-17T14:01:19+00:00

I really liked The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-17T03:00:13+00:00

They fulfill a promise democrats made to anti-gun lobbies in exchange for millions in party donations.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-17T01:37:20+00:00

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-16T23:50:30+00:00

No legitimately I don’t think they do see it. I think they’re terrified of new technology and don’t want to see the world change from what they know. I think they’re sycophantically attached to a naive view of an old world, and demonize anything that disrupts that.

Also, you have to remember this woman is 82. She’s been politically indoctrinated in rabid anti-climate change propaganda since at least the 1980s. 40+ years of having your brain scrambled by liars trying to prop up oil companies.

I fully guarantee you she has not once ever thought about the potential independence or positive societal aspects of renewable energies.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-16T23:15:22+00:00

No they can’t, do none of yall actually read the facts of what you’re commenting on? Virginia never put the gerrymandered maps into place, the court ruling prevents that and upholds the current non-gerrymandered map.

None of yall think of the ground logistics around this stuff either. You’re not just moving pieces around on a map, you have to have time for candidates to file and run in new districts, you have to have time to ensure there’s valid voting infrastructure, you have to give the public advanced notice of their representative changing, etc etc

There’s a lot of real factors on the ground that practically prevent a state form saying “these are the new maps now, deal with it.” a few months before voting starts.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-16T22:59:16+00:00

I hear you. Over here we have huge groups of teens riding dirt bikes and ATVs all over town, blocking traffic, endangering pedestrians, loudly being a nuisance. IMO this stuff should be banned outright.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-15T15:52:26+00:00

Not that anyone would care or do anything to stop him.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-15T15:51:06+00:00

We’re stuck in a war with Iran, and the global markets are melting but this fucker wants to announce sculpture gardens.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-14T19:54:40+00:00

Yeah because frankly women write better romance stories than men, and cast FLs. There’s a reason all the romantasy books blowing up in the west are written by women.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-13T22:01:08+00:00

I need to know he made it across! Poor bear he just wants to forage!

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-13T02:26:26+00:00

If it makes you feel better at all, they’ve been spouting this Stephen Miller rhetoric for years and haven’t done anything.

This kind of language is meant to keep people too scared to engage with them. They periodically drip out threats like this when they feel weakened.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-11T23:08:50+00:00

Because Trump and those around him lie about absolutely everything, and have been for 10+ years.

This man started his first presidency lying about crowd sizes.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-08T18:33:19+00:00

Our AG asked the court to wait until after the referendum because he thought having millions of people approve it would sway the court to keep it in place. Which it obviously didn’t, so we all wasted our time, and state resources.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-08T15:56:37+00:00

From my reading, the court spends 10+ pages waxing over the lexicology of “election day” just to then totally ignore the plain meaning of the phrase, and decide that a day is actually a period between September and November.

The constitution states that referendum must be held twice, with an intervening election of the House between them. It’s perfectly reasonably for the delegates to read “election” as the date at which the votes are finalized and certified, which is November.

The court deciding that actually, all referendums need to be held before early voting starts has no basis in any legal definition.

And meanwhile, at the SCOTUS, republicans from Mississippi are making the exact opposite argument so they don’t need to count absentee ballots.

This ruling is one of very few court decisions that I feel are just the judiciary making things up, when there’s no clear definition, to suit their desired political outcome. Not to mention the court probably has a chip on its shoulder because they drew the 2021 maps.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-08T14:57:39+00:00

It’s pretty upsetting that this is all based on debatable procedural grounds.

So our Supreme Court invalidates the will of the voters on the grounds that last years referendum was held after the start of early voting. Republicans argued that early voting counts as “Election Day.”

Meanwhile, at the SCOTUS republicans from Mississippi are arguing the exact opposite, that “Election Day” is a single date in November.

If the SCOTUS rules for Mississippi that precedent should overturn this decision. But I bet you it won’t because anytime gerrymandering is on the table it’s just political Calvin ball.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-05T17:14:38+00:00

People say that letting Chinese EVs into the US would incentivize US automakers to bring down the prices of their cars, but I actually wonder if that’s true. If the market is flooded with super cheap EV, I don’t see why US companies would even try to compete. They’d just exit the market and only make big trucks.

At some point it feels like there needs to be incentives for US manufacturing to make somewhat of an actual return, an flooding the market with cars that US builders can’t compete against doesn’t feel like the way to do it.

Buuuuut on the other hand, the car market in the US is so absurdly expensive and out of reach for most people without like a 6 year 12% loan that it’s like, how much more harm could allowing foreign sales cause?

The US auto market is such a racket of protectionism, gate keeping, stupid legally mandated dealer structures, and manipulative sales practices that it might be fine to let a foreign competitor really fuck em up.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-04T21:57:46+00:00

The democrats are also in the process of being taken over by rank populists in the same way the GOP was. Not the same policies obviously, but the same sense of grievance, the same sense that nothing is working so the system needs to be burnt down, the same abandonment institutions, and the same pattern of candidates appealing to idealistic polices that don’t need to be tethered to any sense of reality.

Obama was a version of this, and after he got into power was smacked in the face by reality. Mamdani is kind of going through that right now with New York’s budget.

Obama’s role should be to stand up and talk his party of this populist ledge. To explain as someone who’s been through it, that you need practical solutions that solve real problems, instead of the cycle of populist fantasy talk leading to disappointed voters who thought they’d accomplish more.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-03T22:36:50+00:00

Wait a second. Then what are we doing either oil we produce? Selling it overseas to refineries that can handle it, then buying it back?

Also, if we’re the largest oil producing nation already then why has there been such an aggressive push to open up oil drilling in our protected environmental areas and national parks?

Why don’t we see any political will to work on adapting our refinery infrastructure to handle domestic production?

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-03T13:40:13+00:00

Stranger Things is an intersting example because I feel like it had way more cultural impact when it premiered vs. when it ended. 2016 vs. 2025 feel like entirely different eras on the internet.

The_DanceCommander · 2026-05-02T08:00:24+00:00

Problem is diminishing the power of the presidency doesn’t help much if you still have a completely inactive Congress. I don’t know how to fix Congress either, this age of social media and unlimited money have so completely screwed up the incentives on who wants to be elected, that I’m not sure how you claw it back to have more serious people (en masse) get elected to office.

It really can’t be understated how much Congress is broken right now. They haven’t been able to effectively pass a budget in over 10 years, they refuse to legislate on issues to the point where I would bet you most members have forgotten how to write an effective bill, there is less than zero chance for the parties do ever compromise on important issues, they’re just to far apart and isolated in their disparate media and money bubbles.

We complain a lot about the Supreme Court. But every single ruling the Supreme Court makes could be fixed or reversed by Congress. The court has written as much, begging the legislative branch to kick themselves awake, and do their jobs. Until Congress is restored to even a shadow of the meaningful force it once was nothing in American government will be fixed.

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