The Absurd GOP

[Fake Messiah]

Good Liars: “What’s Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year and a half?”

Trump supporter: “Trump’s done a lot of things. Number one, a lot of people don’t realize, he got our country back because we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain the last 125 years, they destroyed the evidence”

GL: “Wait, we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain?”

TS: “That’s why King Charles come here, he thought he was going to manipulate Donald Trump. And Trump went along with him cause that’s who he is. But that’s what the 250 years was really about was we got our country back. You just gonna have to research just like I did. It’s true”

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[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Good Liars: “What’s Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment in his first year and a half?”

Trump supporter: “Trump’s done a lot of things. Number one, a lot of people don’t realize, he got our country back because we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain the last 125 years, they destroyed the evidence”

GL: “Wait, we’ve been under the reign of Great Britain?”

TS: “That’s why King Charles come here, he thought he was going to manipulate Donald Trump. And Trump went along with him cause that’s who he is. But that’s what the 250 years was really about was we got our country back. You just gonna have to research just like I did. It’s true”

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The MAGA definition of 'research' is a lot like the religious definition of 'evidence'.

Boru

[Angrboda]

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

In addition to not knowing what his job is, he’s wrong about mercury. It doesn’t even crack the top ten.

It’s almost as if Trump’s cabinet is having a race to the bottom to see which of them is the least qualified for the position they hold.


Boru

[Fake Messiah]

So according to Republican appoint judges:

Clean drinking water for those who can afford it.

Polluted water for those who can’t.

And politicians who can legally lie to Americans about the reasons why.

Constitution Doesn’t Cover Right to Clean Water, Court Rules

The US Constitution doesn’t provide a right to clean drinking water or accurate information from public officials, a divided federal appeals court ruled.

The decision affirms the dismissal of a lawsuit over alleged lead-contaminated drinking water in Jackson, Mississippi.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that the lawsuit from the Jackson residents alleged violations of due process rights not granted by the Constitution.

In a majority opinion by Judge Kurt Engelhardt, the appeals court said there was no historical basis to find such rights fall under that clause. “The Constitution does not provide redress for every governmental wrongdoing,” Engelhardt said.

Engelhardt, a Donald Trump appointee, said the residents have other options, like pursuing tort claims, electing officials who will better manage the water system, and petitioning representatives for other solutions.

Residents of the city have claimed that officials deliberately allowed lead to contaminate the drinking water, harming those who drank it. Jackson has denied those allegations.

A divided Fifth Circuit panel in 2025 revived the residents’ claim against the city of Jackson, over their right to bodily autonomy. That ruling was vacated when the en banc Fifth Circuit took up the case.

Engelhardt said while the residents raised a right to bodily integrity, that right applies in instances like sexual assault by a police officer and forced medication of prisoners. Mismanagement of a water system, he said, is “wholly different.”

Engelhardt’s opinion was joined by nine other Republican-appointed members of the court.

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-wee...ion-claims

[Angrboda]

Lisa McClain says that Republicans are glad the president is standing up to Canada. What a joke these people are.

[Angrboda]

Who else is reminded of the Evil Empire from Star Wars?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

^For me, at least, the parallel is Mussolini’s rise to power.

Boru

[Ravenshire]

^For me, at least, the parallel is Mussolini’s rise to power.

Boru

I'm thinking that, with no real area of operations, this is what will become the American SS if Trump successfully retains power after the end of his term. It may be darkest before the dawn, but I fear it's only midnight of midwinter's night.

[Angrboda]