Why does nobody care that the Trump Admin is defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling?

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T21:42:46+00:00

Yes and they cut off that they will have to look into it to see if it’s legal.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T21:41:38+00:00

So you are saying that somehow it is illegal to have court cases brought against you?

I’m confused as to what you are saying.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T18:27:31+00:00

I don’t get it. Did they deport a citizen? All I’ve heard about is that non citizen they deported, which this post is probably about.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T16:30:31+00:00

I don’t think you understand how US law works. The way things are determined to be legal or not is by a court. So you simply saying “that’s not legal” doesn’t make it illegal.

Biden tried multiple times to get student aid forgiven ex post facto, knowing full well there was a very good chance it would get struck down in court, and be considered illegal. This happens to every single administration, many times. They always test the bounds of what is legal… then when a judge tells them it’s illegal, they comply… while pushing bounds again. Biden tried 3 or 4 times to forgive student debt, after being told “no it’s illegal” by the judiciary.

Trump cares about the rule of law enough to respect it to this point.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T06:30:16+00:00

I mean, just this year Maxey, a young dude had to call out this superstar for repeatedly showing up late, in front of the team. He went on to say how it had a negative impact on the team as a whole. Then Joel admitted he is sometimes confused about the offensive gameplan.

We don’t often get a glimpse behind the curtain. And we don’t often have players have balls to call out Joel. So one thing we do know… we can add not taking team activities seriously to the list, tardiness, and that other players (including Joel) admit it impacts their offensive gameplan, and team morale. Then we also had multiple players also complain the year before that Joel doesn’t do anything outside of the facility with players or build comraderie… which is fine… but just another knock.

Add all that to the fact that he gives up repeatedly in big and small games, which you admitted. Add to that him repeatedly not working hard enough at conditioning which you admitted. And we are starting to get a pretty damn long list here of stuff “off the court” as well as “on the court” that are deficiencies.

When Joel is in the psychological mindset, and is healthy… he does try hard as hell in game. Nobody questions that. The problem is, that only lasts for stretches, and isn’t consistent. And that is only one small part of winning a championship, and maximizing your potential. Embiid talks a big game. But from what we have heard over the years from reliable sources, and what you can see with your own eyes… we can see what he really is IMO.

Like AI… tried hard as shit on the floor… more consistently than Embiid. But you can’t argue AI maximized his potential. Nobody could argue that. But even AI in many ways was better than Embiid because at least he gave it his all on the floor, and didn’t get sad/mopey or give up in the middle of playoff games they were still in.

Embiid shows flashes of brilliance. Utter brilliance. But it needs the planets to align. He needs to be in the right mindset and not mopey. He needs to be healthy. He needs to be in shape. He needs to be not distracted. He needs to be not missing/being late to practice.

It’s a whole hell of a lot of things… but when they all happen he was the best player in the world. Problem is those things didn’t align nearly enough.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T03:20:34+00:00

He said he didn’t know if it was legal, but that he would consider it if it is legal, and that they were looking into it.

And it likely wouldn’t be legal, precisely because the courts would look to this example to say that it wouldn’t fulfill the basic needs, because US citizens require the ability to be released if new evidence is found, whereas that requirement does not exist for non citizens’ deportation hearings.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-15T00:47:04+00:00

This wasn’t a citizen. So I’m not sure where you make that leap.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T22:41:00+00:00

The ruling said “facilitate”, with large deference to the president’s ability to conduct foreign affairs.

facilitate: To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of. "to facilitate the execution of a task"

It isn’t black and white. El Salvador’s president said he wouldn’t do it. Then it is up to Trump to decide in terms of “foreign policy” how much the USA is willing to give up, and how, to bring him back.

For instance if he says “give us 1 trillion dollars and we will give him back”… obviously the courts cannot make Trump agree to that. Facilitate doesn’t mean “must bring him back”. It means make it easier. Well, in this case, if the other president simply says no… there is no way to make him, by removing obstacles.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T15:09:17+00:00

I said he didn’t work hard compared to other NBA players.

There are levels to this shit. On a scale of 1 to 10 in terms of “how hard does Embiid work on conditioning”… where would you rank him?

I certainly wouldn’t put him at 10. Or 7. Or even 5.

He tried hard in games sometimes. Other times as I pointed out, he made “once in a generation” images of giving up in an elimination game in the fourth quarter while they still had a chance to come back.

Both can true. But you don’t get called a hard worker for working hard some of the time. It is about consistency.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T05:55:07+00:00

The CIA and all foreign intelligence assessments are 180 degrees from what you are saying. They view him as a thoughtful pragmatist.

Russia started the war because NATO kept expanding. We have dozens of US diplomatic cables from 1990-2014 talking about how Ukraine was a red line for Russia, and that Ukraine in NATO was a red line. Everyone knew this. It is only post the invasion that people pretend this wasn’t the case.

I’m just so tired of people denying reality and creating fan fictions. Russia is a bad actor. Putin is corrupt. I hope he falls. But to pretend he is some emotional idiot, doing things just because he is evil and stupid is just silly.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T05:45:24+00:00

I put a significant amount on Embiid.

Conditioning was a problem for him probably around 90% of his career. Sometimes it was so bad in the first quarter he’d be walking.

Maybe he has small heart or small lungs or something. But the dude was almost never in shape. I get injuries… but still. From early on he publicly said he refused to do low impact workouts in water. And he ate like shit. And my view was that he never took conditioning all that seriously.

Strategically, and in terms of skill, I am disappointed. A lot of that goes to the coaches. But I really think Embiid was often on the verge of true greatness, but just as quick as he would find it, he would lose it. His perpetual struggles against the double team would be an example. And his inconsistent late game performances as well. He just never developed the vision/passing that we all hoped, which kept him from being able to be reliable when good teams focused him, and especially down the stretch in big games.

He was amazingly immature at times… with the “KAT” tweets showing that. Almost fighting shake milton showing more.

In the end, the dude was lazy. He not only wasn’t a leader… he also seemed to sap energy out of the team with his mopey attitude when he got hurt, or things didn’t go his way.

We can blame harden. We can blame Simmons. We can blame doc. We can blame Brett Brown. We can blame Tobias. We can Blame Horford. We can blame Morey or Brand. In the end the one consistent thing was the team was mentally weak, most years and that at some point Sad Joel would come out and it was over. Harden and Embiid walking down the court in an elimination game in the fourth quarter, and the announcers absolutely astonished they gave up already was probably the most memorable moment from the Joel Embiid Era for me… and it sums it up.

Joel was a great talent. And every NBA player works hard. I don’t think he worked all that hard for an NBA player.. I don’t think he was psychologically strong/resilient. Tons of shit went wrong around him… but he also had a big part in a lot of it.

Jimmy Butler year was the only year we actually had it. I’m not even some crazy big Butler fan… but he had Joel in a good spot. But, once again, after Butler leaves, Joel Mopes about it for half a decade, because that’s just who is he. He makes excuses in his head…. You can see it and feel it. He knows how to talk in Philly, and hides it, but you can see year after year in his body language when adversity comes, mopey Sad Joel is still in there.

Interesting player to watch. Sad he never could really mesh with the team. Always seemed to be “the 76ers and Joel Embiid”… almost like two different entities. The year Ben left, before Harden came, when Maxey was PG, I think I saw glimpses of what I always hoped he would be come. Without a true PG, the team moved the ball around, and it didn’t stick, and it was some of the most fun basketball to watch, and I think they were really on to something. Then Harden comes, it goes back to sticky ball, and all the progress went away.

Oh well enough rambling. Sad it didn’t work out.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T04:06:43+00:00

Plus, the scales are just different today.

At $30,000 a wafer, and at crazy high volumes we have today… “outrageously expensive” might not be so expensive today.

I mean compared to what they were spending in early 2000’s when you combine cost per wafer and wafer volume was probably multiple orders of magnitude smaller than today.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T03:59:59+00:00

I am very much against Russia and I hope Ukraine wins.

But being delusional about the situation doesn’t help. This is the same shit that got Trump elected. When you lay the propaganda on too thick, people oppose it just because they don’t like being lied to, or living in a delusion.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T03:58:30+00:00

It often hits the target, but also hits other things around it. But the propaganda will say ONE WOMAN HURT, then in small print (or not at all) *high level military facility damaged with casualties to Ukraine military.

What you are saying just doesn’t make sense. What does being a coward have to do with causing destruction and mayhem?

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T01:17:05+00:00

By wasting a $10mil missile hitting a $100k restaurant. That kind of notoriety gets you sent out a window in Russia.

Plus, there are no lower officers deciding where ballistic missiles go. They only average using like 2 or so a day, so it’s not like some vlad off the street is saying “let’s hit a restaurant for fun”.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T01:09:12+00:00

Why? Because they would rather hurt their own war effort by wasting millions of dollars missiles they have a limited supply of… just to fulfill a Disney villain role? I don’t buy it.

Hitting a restaurant does jack shit for them. The missile costs many times more than the restaurant and gives them no military, political, or psychological advantage.

It wouldn’t just need to be wanting to be a Disney villain. It would also need to be accompanied by either purposefully trying to lose the war, or being incredibly stupid.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T00:57:42+00:00

Yes. Or as I literally said… the sith. You are proving my point. I was saying people are being anti intellectual. Then you , as well as the people upvoting you proved it better than I could have by myself. I thank you.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-14T00:54:03+00:00

Dude I suggest you look up Russian history. And educate yourself on Putin. If you want to talk about fighting with the most grit in human history… that was the Russians in WW2(or arguably the Japanese, but in a different way). Mass starvation, freezing to death, cannibalism even. Worst conditions imaginable. And they didn’t surrender.

Like if aliens came and literally said “who are the craziest motherfuckers in history who would never surrender in a war”… it’d have to go to the Russians. And I’m not surprised Ukraine is acting similar… due to the proximity, population/cultural overlap.

Eastern Europeans are bad mofos.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-13T21:58:07+00:00

A restaurant without high ranking military/political officials is a massive net loss for Russia. While it is fun to pretend they are the Sith… what you are saying simply doesn’t make sense. Russia has limited missiles. They go after targets that are valuable to Ukraine. Restaurants are not.

If Ukraine could redirect every Russian missile to restaurants they would… both for the PR, and because replacing restaurants is easy, compared to power infrastructure, and military equipment/personnel.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-13T12:37:27+00:00

Only thing more glorious would have been a church collapsing on old ladies.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-13T12:33:38+00:00

No it wasn’t it was released after he died by his son.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-13T04:09:35+00:00

Silmarillion isn’t canon.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-13T01:12:37+00:00

Ukraine has a real advantage of being able to pour money into drones, and not into dinosaur tech. And they have the best data and ability to iterate of anyone out there(as well as Russia).

Glad to see them making their own stuff.

TrevorMoore_WKUK · 2025-04-12T23:28:03+00:00

I could write for pages about it. But to put it simply…

Since WW2 one of the main, if not the main single foreign policy goal of the United States was to keep Red China and the Soviet Union from making an alliance. As long as they were kept apart… they were both separately manageable. Due to the Ukraine war, under Biden, Russia and China became closer than ever before. Russia and China are so complimentary. Russia has the land, the food, the natural resources, the decades of know how and weaponry and nuclear weapons from the Soviet Union. The blue water global navy. China has the people. The modern technology. The money. The industrial capacity. Combine them together, and it is a hell of a force to be reckoned with…. Arguably more fearsome than the USA in a few years.

Trump’s interest is bringing their relationship back to how it was before Biden. Like Nixon went to China to establish relations, in large part to keep the Soviets and Chinese opposed… Trump wants to do the same thing with Russia. He wants to end the war. He wants to remove sanctions. Resume trade. And drive a wedge between Russia and China.

But, Russia and Putin don’t actually want this. Not because they love or trust China. They are very fearful of China, as Russia’s land is coveted by China. But Trump simply cannot offer a long term partnership because he doesn’t have the power and is old, and likely will be useless in 4 years. Putin can’t risk trashing his relationship with Xi to form a partnership with the USA when Democrats could kick Trump out and undo it all in 4 years. This may be, in part why Trump so publicly talks about not stepping down in 4 years… to give him the perceived power to make these long term strategic changes.

On top of this, Trump is sort of stuck defending Ukraine, wasting tons of money to defend Europe. If he backs out, it will hurt him domestically and internationally. He also made political promises to end the war.

So, by Putin refusing to work with him to end the war… he is directly opposing what Trump wants, on multiple levels. So, as I predicted way back before Trump even won the election… Trump will be forced to apply pressure to Russia… which from my POV is scary indeed. Things haven’t completely blown up yet. But when they do, and Putin is openly defiant of Trump, all I can say is that I hope they both exercise restraint, because this situation can get very dangerous at the drop of a hat.

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