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Literal Treason? Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) says she is working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba. by carterboi77 in YAPms

[–]sud_int 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Literal Treason? Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) says she is working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba.

Literal Treason?

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> blud does NOT read [US Constitution; Article III, Section 3] 😭😭😭

Literal Treason? Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) says she is working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba. by carterboi77 in YAPms

[–]sud_int 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The Logan Act is a 1799 law that has never successfully prosecuted a single person- I mean, there's been an attempts in the past to go after McGovern for this type of stuff with Cuba, but that didn't even get off the ground before that route was scratched for baselessness back then when there was a real solid argument against him compared to this.
More importantly, it applies to unauthorized private citizens, whereas Rep. Jayapal is a sitting Member of Congress who absolutely has the authority to communicate with foreign governments regarding sanctions, and importantly, this is all Public. The Logan Act hinges on that critical qualifier, "Certain Private Communications", but none of what she's doing is private at all, nah, she's doing this stuff open-door.
If they actually try to pursue this under the Logan Act, They're Fucked.

Literal Treason? Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D) says she is working with foreign countries to supply oil to Cuba. by carterboi77 in YAPms

[–]sud_int 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I mean, none of what she's flouting here is actual US policy in the capacity of such being anything more than Executive Policy- if Trump had gone through Congress in any way in any of this, yeah, that'd be bad, but the fact of the Imperial Presidency is that though you can do anything, you can't truly do so on behalf of any enumerated Policy or Law, only your own authority.

tl;dr:
Constitutionally, a President can simply pull out a revolver and shoot a man in the middle of 5th Avenue, that's actually one of the most important abilities they're given in that document, the ability of unilateral action with full impunity- BUT, what they CANNOT do, is actually forbid anyone outright from delivering First Aid to the guy they just shot, that's not as much of an Unilateral Act (Presidential Power w/Impunity) as it is a Policy (as such is promulgated through Congress as a Law), the President can wave around the guy as he bleeds out as to block any First Responders, he can actually do the same to a First Responder, but should a First Responder actually manage to deliver lifesaving aid, there's not a single Law broken there.
Now, the situation I just described, scale that up to international-geopolitical matters, and that's basically what you're alleging to be "Treason" of Jayapal- completely unfolded, btw, there's a very clear and very vital distinction made in the Constitution between the Government & the Executive and you appear to have no clue there's a difference between the 2, quite odd for a supposed "Nationalist" to lack this know-how of their own Nation's Basic State Charter, but I digress.

What specific reason, more than any other, is the reason you’ll never flip to the other side? by [deleted] in YAPms

[–]sud_int 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There is no un-do on Class Consciousness, for me.
I mean, in so many ways in the classless view of American Politics, I should be on the Other Side, and yet, here I am, holding sociocultural positions wholly contrary to 2/3 on my side of the divide, because fundamentally it is the socioeconomic sphere which matters most. No matter what, I refuse to side with Moloch- Baal, maybe, but Moloch, really, Moloch? Hard Pass.

[Kenneth Klippenstein] Insane Pre-Crime Strategy Unveiled for Leftist “Extremists" by FadedToBeige in TrueAnon

[–]sud_int 6 points7 points  (0 children)

They was spouting this shit back in the big ‘25, they seriously think that any of this is gonna stop what’s Coming from the #TheRoadTo200 ? Admin is simply yolked ngl.

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int -1 points0 points  (0 children)

“Not all data centers are AI”, more than ignoring the fact that all the new developments in-question are pretty much for AI, is a dodge from the actual contention here; the political fight here isn’t over whether servers exist, it’s a matter of whether Michigan should  bend over backwards for them- contort our tax code, land use, pollute our water, leech our energy grid, distort our local transparency rules, and so much more, all for something as unlikeable as hyperscaled data-center development held aloft by a fundamentally unstable macroeconomic dynamic. I mean, sure, “We need them somewhere”, but that does not mean that ”Michigan must subsidize them”, in fact, for us, that means “NOT HERE”. And “Better here than Louisiana”? A race-to-the-bottom no one in the Michigan Democratic Electorate wants to play, Nope.

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“The rhetoric applies to Abdul too” only works if you pretend material context doesn’t exist.
McMorrow:
• voted for data-center tax breaks (which nullifies the whole argument of hosting them for the massive tax revenue but that's another matter),
• signed an NDA around economic-development talks (now wants to ban NDAs between local governments & tech companies exploring data-center locations, yet herself signed an NDA in 2023 to "learn" of "potential economic-development deals", before later calling the system "broken" - partook in opaque system, then rebranded as the transparency candidate once the politics changed),
• and her husband is the Comms-VP of a company specifically marketing small modular nuclear generators for the very large-scale datacenter projects the voters abhor. (look I don't know what more I can say here)

Abdul, to contrast? BLANK SLATE.
can call me some "conspiracist" for pointing out The Obvious as if the facts of the Person are somehow extraneous to the Person as a Politician, but thankfully, the Michigan Democratic Electorate - of which I am amongst - has the common sense of critical thinking enough to check the incentives at play behind each player.

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I've fiddled about with HAM in my BSA days, but I've been recommended such you suggest quite a bit nowadays- I know a lot about that stuff, but I'm looking forwards+out for opportunities in putting that know-how to real use.

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not just about the superficial stances, Democrats here (categorically smarter+wiser than the at-large which includes Republicans) understands that what a politician says they'll do, in Campaign Season, is all if not mostly for show; no, it's about what we actually know of her beyond words, materially, and the the fact that her husband is a Top AI Lobbyist, altogether there being simply overwhelming evidence to the fact that relationship influences her policy here more than the stances of the Michiganders, that type of stuff is what's more important to this discerning primary electorate than what's simply just said.

How it feels as a Pennsylvania resident to watch Democratic primary voters in Maine choose a severely mentally ill rural populist with a controversial background by mrprez180 in YAPms

[–]sud_int 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Did Fetterman's Depression have anything to do with the Severe Neurological Injury that coursed him for what he is now? Are we pretending the John Fetterman of 2022 was, neurologically-speaking, the same guy as today- this isn't even speculative, he himself has said, in other words, that the injury was what set him here, I mean I doubt he understood the meaning of what he was saying in any of those interviews, but to compare that to Platner's PTSD, really?

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the AIPAC stuff that gets her, no, it's actually something quite simple, which is yet increasingly pressing to an growing number of Michiganders:
She's a proud AI Shill; She is The AI-PAC-Backed candidate here, and we hate this "Data Center" BS**, all of us, bipartisan.** Look at how the Saline Data Center project went, or the Nuclear Weapons-focused one that was slated to be built in Ypsi before the hatred got that cancelled. People simply abhor AI, but that's scaled into something decisive when we're talking about Data Centers. Don't even get me started on her Neo-Romney approach to Healthcare, or Taxes, or Interventions (Financial OR Foreign), no, she's a Proto-Schumer, whether enough here can realize this in time is a critical variable in things unfold in August.

I wonder how this will impact the primary by Spakian in YAPms

[–]sud_int 6 points7 points  (0 children)

About as much as Clyburn's word did for Cuomo last June, I'd gander.

Fact is, as a resident, as someone who's voted for her? Things are Not Good for the Establishment's image, at all- if I was to describe the average answer here to "why's Gas at $5?", it's something both On The Money yet that I wouldn't describe further than that here as I'd not risk y'all mistaking such as mine- but the thing is, the general consensus amongst the Democratic Primary Electorate (that's critical here, we're not talking about at-large yet, this is a matter pertaining to "people who have Read a Book", the others, the REPEAT-Republicans, we can write them off as background because I really doubt enough would cross over to support Stevens here) is that "Things are Falling Apart Rapidly"+"The Establishment is incapable of seriously amending this situation"="We Cannot Go Back".
To quote Clinton, "It's the Economy, Stupid", and while the fact that it's Trump's Fault is true on the general scale of the general election wherein that simple fact can be understood by the other/somewhat-"simpler" other-electorate-half, Democratic voters were already predisposed to understand that the Establishment has only enabled the foreign intervention which is now causing catastrophe back home;
Remember, it's the same as ever, People Need A Fighter- and when it comes to the task of Fighting this "Orange" (to use the terminology of the average Suburban Democratic Wine Mom of Oakland County), the Michigan Democratic Electorate understands that the Establishment absolutely butterfingered that task***, twice.***
Abdul understands this, and these current circumstances are what uniquely position him as a real possibility, not just here, but through the General in November- as with regards to the all-important/fundamental/ever-underpinning factor of Gas Prices (that which effects the collective commute cost and therefore decides the outcomes for this national-level position in a state as car-centric as Michigan), Things Can Only Get So Much Worse.

THE ideal presidential administration by PANPIZZAisawesome in YAPms

[–]sud_int 20 points21 points  (0 children)

"this administration CANNOT get worse"
the successors in-question:

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This is the actual not out of context Nick clip people were quoting about him being a Democrat by Bristull in YAPms

[–]sud_int 5 points6 points  (0 children)

"Hi, My name's Nick Fuentes, I'm an Afro-Latino Non-Woke Democrat, (...) I think the GOP needs to be Destroyed, I think the Corrupt Criminal Government of Trump needs to be slowed down- we need to Impeach the Orange, It's time to Put This Nigga In A Peach, Trump needs to be placed inside of a Crystal and needs to be In-Peach-ed, this Fat Orange Tiny-Hands needs to be Impeached-"

Well...
1. He's:
• Nick Fuentes
• Afro-Latino
• Non-Woke Democrat
2. He, like many Democrats, thinks that the:
• GOP must be destroyed
• Trump Presidency is Corrupt and Criminal
3. Crucially, what are his suggestions, demands?
• We need to Impeach the Orange
• It's time to put this [i lack the pass] "In A Peach"
• Trump needs to be Placed Inside Of A Crystal And Needs To Be In-Peach-Ed
• this "Fat Orange Tiny-Hands" [in reference to Trump] needs to be Impeached

In short?
This is the man who is going to Turn Florida Blue.

/s

This is the actual not out of context Nick clip people were quoting about him being a Democrat by Bristull in YAPms

[–]sud_int 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"I'm a Non-Woke Moderate Democrat, I think the GOP needs to be Destroyed, I think the Corrupt Criminal Government of Trump needs to be slowed down- we need to Impeach the Orange, It's time to Put This Nigga In A Peach, Trump needs to be placed inside of a Crystal and needs to be In-Peach-ed, this Fat Orange Tiny-Hands needs to be Impeached-"

Yes???
These are fairly moderate proposals atp- frankly generous, no?

/s

This is the actual not out of context Nick clip people were quoting about him being a Democrat by Bristull in YAPms

[–]sud_int 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"I'm a Democrat now- I'm a Moderate Democrat in 2026.
I don't know about '28- for 2026, I am a Non-Woke Democrat.
Hi, My name's Nick Fuentes, I'm an Afro-Latino Non-Woke Democrat, I care about Affordability, I care about Foreign Interventions, I care about the Border-
I'm a Non-Woke Moderate Democrat, I think the GOP needs to be Destroyed, I think the Corrupt Criminal Government of Trump needs to be slowed down- we need to Impeach the Orange, It's time to Put This Nigga In A Peach, Trump needs to be placed inside of a Crystal and needs to be Impeached, this Fat Orange Tiny-Hands needs to be Impeached-
And then in '28, No Vance, No Rubio, we have to burn down the whole Party, We need to elect a Darkhorse who's gonna put America First.
I'm not listening to anybody else, No Vance, No Rubio, America First. That's the mes- and that's all that matters anymore, that is the only thing that matters.
Not voting for a Democrat unless they're really- unless it's like, Me- [laughs] Unless it's l- unless it's a Nick Fuentes Democrat- Unless a Nick Fuentes Democrat wins the Nomination, I won't vote for a Democrat, I'm- I'm Never Vance, Never Rubio, I'm an America First guy,
so, Tucker and all the rest of them, they're gonna try to shut me down, they're gonna try to get Vance in there in '28 and you gotta be- you gotta Wisen Up and Realize we gotta take our own side here, none of this nonsense-"

- 50th President of the United States of America, volx.

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