The Ninth Circuit rejects DOJ's request for an immediate administrative stay. Also: SCOTUS addresses a religion claim — and you can guess the likely outcome.
Trump/Vance/Musk aren’t incompetent or unqualified. They would only be those things if we thought they were trying to build and create and strengthen our country, our people, our economy, and our standing in the world.
It also isn’t just greed and making the wealthy wealthier and privatizing everything. They don’t know how to operate any business model or corporation successfully and they aren’t trying to here.
Their primary objective is our utter destruction. The chaos and destruction is the point. The American people and our democracy and freedom loving allies are their enemy. Trump and Putin have waged war on the USA and started WWIII. They are working together to create an authoritarian and kleptocratic new world order run by the crime bosses, morally bankrupt, craven, greedy, lying, cheating thief’s, rapists, and traitors.
If we understand this is Trump/Musk/Vance/Putin’s true goal, then they are achieving exactly what they intended. When we discount Trump/Musk/Vance and their fellow traitors as incompetent or unqualified - we fail to see the grave existential threat that we face. Their intention is our annihilation. Their ultimate goal is to wipe democracy off the face of the earth. They work with Putin and other right wing and authoritarian leaders in Hungary, Israel, Venezuela, North Korea, Turkey, El Salvador, etc…
The element that I think is missing here is that Trump and Vance are both tools being used by a coordinated group. I'm sure Trump is exerting more authority than they would like, but the effort that crafted Project 2025 took the work of many over time and their influence is definitely wrapped into the chaos that is the Trump administration. It does look though like it's a deliberate effort to undermine the foundation of our government and remake it to something they like more.
the Catholic case--it seemed that much of the "you can't tax a church" questions really dealt with the apparent fact that the particular Catholic-based service here didn't "proselytize." How big a difference does or should that make?
There are Jewish charities (like, I think, Jewish Family Services), that have no religious function or bias. I don't know if they have a tax exemption, though.
Trump/Vance/Musk aren’t incompetent or unqualified. They would only be those things if we thought they were trying to build and create and strengthen our country, our people, our economy, and our standing in the world.
It also isn’t just greed and making the wealthy wealthier and privatizing everything. They don’t know how to operate any business model or corporation successfully and they aren’t trying to here.
Their primary objective is our utter destruction. The chaos and destruction is the point. The American people and our democracy and freedom loving allies are their enemy. Trump and Putin have waged war on the USA and started WWIII. They are working together to create an authoritarian and kleptocratic new world order run by the crime bosses, morally bankrupt, craven, greedy, lying, cheating thief’s, rapists, and traitors.
If we understand this is Trump/Musk/Vance/Putin’s true goal, then they are achieving exactly what they intended. When we discount Trump/Musk/Vance and their fellow traitors as incompetent or unqualified - we fail to see the grave existential threat that we face. Their intention is our annihilation. Their ultimate goal is to wipe democracy off the face of the earth. They work with Putin and other right wing and authoritarian leaders in Hungary, Israel, Venezuela, North Korea, Turkey, El Salvador, etc…
The element that I think is missing here is that Trump and Vance are both tools being used by a coordinated group. I'm sure Trump is exerting more authority than they would like, but the effort that crafted Project 2025 took the work of many over time and their influence is definitely wrapped into the chaos that is the Trump administration. It does look though like it's a deliberate effort to undermine the foundation of our government and remake it to something they like more.
Corrupt MAGA Rich-owned SCOTUS. … no longer respected by citizens
the Catholic case--it seemed that much of the "you can't tax a church" questions really dealt with the apparent fact that the particular Catholic-based service here didn't "proselytize." How big a difference does or should that make?
There are Jewish charities (like, I think, Jewish Family Services), that have no religious function or bias. I don't know if they have a tax exemption, though.
Superb update. Thank you, Chris.
'Minimize the damage', the last words in the piece, imply a fairly severe value judgment.
Yup.