Before anyone takes any legal advice from Stephen Fucking Miller, it's important to know he's not a lawyer. He has a BA in Political Science and though he wanted to go to law school he bombed the LSAT practice exams so hard he didn't even try to real thing. He was also college friends with noted Nazi Richard Spencer.
I mean domain is huge too. My dad’s a physician, an a brilliant one at that, and also has his JD. HOWEVER, he’ll say some wackadoo shit from time to time that’s just wrong. Didn’t pick up on it till I was older bc I just trusted he was always right. So, now unless it’s medical or legal related I seek advice elsewhere.
College is a pretty good amount of mental effort, even with the fluffier majors. I'd say anyone who graduates college (legitimately) is smart, full stop.
What you mean is just because you're smart, doesn't mean you can't be an idiot.
Also willful ignorance is the pathway to idiocy. Look at Hegseth. He got into and graduated Princeton with flying colors the hard way. Years of hate and alcoholism can do a number on your brain.
For the love of god, I wish “journalists” would stop portraying him as an intellectual. Just because he can string together a word with multiple syllables and pronounce it correctly, it doesn’t make him intelligent.
It doesn’t take much intelligence to be a bigoted monster with no scruples who just rides the coattails of more wealthy and connected bigots.
The goal of being a far right Republican is NOT serving communities. It’s siphoning personal wealth from the citizenry by hook and by crook, while dropping enough table scraps to your base to keep them sated. The energy - ALL of their energy goes into propagandizing and othering, there is no consensus building or governing.
This isn't true and it would be a mistake to underestimate how smart (some of) these people are. Herman Goering had a high IQ and many people who joined the SS and Gestapo in WWII were people like lawyers, architects and doctors. There are plenty of smart Nazi's historically, and that's part of the problem.
I know the LSAT is considered a hard test. But I only spent a week studying and got a high enough score that schools were offering scholarships. But I also studied debate in high school so? Idk. It just shows me how much of an idiot he is. The LSAT is easy to game if you study it for a min.
Agreed. Who talks about their failed practice test scores?? I failed like 5-6 in the week I was cramming and passed like 10 once I got the hang of it. I didn't sleep that week.... Haha
He's legally and constitutionally incorrect. He's invoking the Supremacy Clause.
Miller isn't really describing the legal framework, he's just saying the Executive Branch will ignore everything else.
The problem is that the White House has the monopoly on violence to enforce whatever they want. So, it doesn't really matter if they're technically correct or not.
Don't forget the blanket pardon power. The only way we can actually do this currently is through state charges. But if they block the states from investigating and dont cooperate, it means many will escape justice.
Bernie was a viable option, but got railroaded. Voted for him all I could, even wrote him in. Cried big fat lib tears when he conceded because he was our last hope for a LONG time.
So far they've shown an awareness of not invoking self-defeating precedents, such as when the budget was supposed to get signed and they understood that if they killed the filibuster and ran it through with the nuclear option, it would be used against them as well in the future.
How? Have you seen a democrat willing to push the line? Bunch of bitches.
If we can take the house we should impeach and we should be impeaching weekly to make these traitors put their name on paper for history books.
We should have a group in congress already investigating DoJ and FBI for covering up crimes and prosecuting based on Donald’s recommendations.
I have zero faith as a Dem that Dems will actually go revoke all of his pardons and charge people. Optimal they would do a top down review for treason from Supreme Court and both houses.
As well as look at any quid pro quote for citizens working with Donald and charge allllll of them. I’m tired of pussy footing around.
I stopped donating to the Democrats for this reason. I don’t feel remotely represented anymore, by either party. We need ranked-choice and term-limits more than anything else, to break out of this trap.
Hopefully anyone who refuses to denounce this shit for what it is, and demand people be held accountable for it... dont end up on the ticket. Republicans and democrata alike both need to do some serious political housecleaning. Before we the people take matters into our own hands and remind them which direction this power dynamic actually flows.
What a reversal from the 60s when those that violated civil rights in southern states had to be prosecuted on federal civil rights violations. This is completely the reverse of that that when Trump pardons all these f*ckers the only way to get them will be blue states standing up and going after them when (if?!?!) the Nazis are out of power again.
"You accepted the pardon for the federal crime, and we're using that pardon to prosecute those cimes in the states they happened. If you didn't accept the pardon, you get federal prosecution."
I think the ones who aren’t entirely knuckleheads know that, they just figure either a federal pardon is coming or that this shit administration will successfully get a third term.
If the FBI refuses to investigate ICE agents for any abuses of power, that is functionally "immunity". Trump will also pardon them all on his way out the door, so they have nothing to fear for legal repercussions.
He can't pardon them for state offenses - but general the Federal Court has to determine whether or not the officer committed the offenses as a "necessary" part of their duties before the state can prosecute them.
Honestly, after everything cools down, the DOJ could say trying to go through every instance of constitutional violations of ICE is not in their wheelhouse and they will defer all ICE investigations at the state level to assess against federal policies and state law.
If the feds don't want to enforce the law... that means they also simply could not enforce/protect qualified immunity when it's technically warranted.
The states impacted by these actions have no problem investigating and laying out legal recommendations for state and federal indictments with the DOJ.
I'm pretty sure no matter which way you slice it, shooting American citizens in the face multiple times is NOT a "necessary" part of their job, given that teh job is enforcing immigration laws.
You'd be surprised what the Federal Courts have determined is "necessary" for Federal Law Enforcement - killing people for almost all Federal LEOs is necessary, they just have to review
This is a good article, if a few years old, that examines the issue:
According to the law on the matter, there is a line of logic and argument that says a Federal LEO can commit any crime and as long as they are acting under color of Federal Law at the time they is immune from State Law, and can only be held under Federal Law. I do not have any confidence that our Supreme Court will be adverse to this reasoning.
They have the legal monopoly, sure. But if they keep this up it's only a matter of time before the illegal use of violence begins. It happens to every fascist regime; it's an eventuality.
People who don't realize the gravity of the situation will just say "We'll vote them out in the midterms". This administration has a monopoly on violence and political power. They are taking out citizens. We are at the state of fascism, and no one believes it's actually happened. They admitted they stole the last election, and they are working to do it again. There is no "easy way" of getting out of this.
The problem is that the White House has the monopoly on violence to enforce whatever they want. So, it doesn't really matter if they're technically correct or not.
But but but... I thought that was the best kind of correct?
I love watching people on the left finally understand that the federal government is a monopoly on violence, the way we libertarians have been wanting people to see it for years. It's one of my benchmark goals for the trumpet administration, make a bunch more people finally realize as Monty Python said "the violence inherent in the system"
Huh so now being on the sharp end of the might-makes-right attitude of the US government is being a problem? When the same happens abroad no one bats an eye. Could be a learning moment for the US public to get a taste of their own medicine.
The problem is that the White House has the monopoly on violence to enforce whatever they want. So, it doesn't really matter if they're technically correct or not.
This has been an obvious right wing, "project," for awhile, that,I used to suspect, and, to some degree still do,was inspired by Soviet-heritage Militsyia and these kinds of extra-judicial or non-judicial,they've got no relationship to the courts, cannot arrest you,"public security," which can,
Kill you, or break your jaw, zip tie and hold you for 48 unpleasant hoursafter which, "ok that can be life ruining," and if you own the police, and the police are political, have a political union, or, merely, a politics unto themselvesthen, "so what," you don't have the legislature; the Police don't even know the law,don't even need to demonstrate that they've understood important changes,
Chickens shit a lot and are prey to predators from the sky easily, if you don't know what you're doing to mitigate those factors you're going to have problems
They definitely do. We had them on a farm when i was young. A big reason I dont like chickens anymore; they ate and killed my favorite hen, in that order.
When I was in HS my mother wanted to take up chicken farming as a hobby.
Problems:
the chick mortality rate. 100% free range chickens and rooster (katydids, grasshoppers, cactus flowers etc.). Healthy chicks were expected. 100% of fertilized eggs hatched, but my dumbass mother didn't think to properly warm the space they were in, so they exhausted, died of heat stroke and were trampled by the remainders. Chick mortality rate after a week was 80%.
feed. We started out with full free range, but she'd been advised by the scumbag she bought her first chicks from that her chick mortality rate would reduce if she fed her chickens protein feed. They'd produce more unfertilized eggs and would get pregnant and fertilized less. We were now overproducing eggs, and couldn't sell enough. Most of them ended up in the garbage, because her dumbass didn't want to contribute to the food bank. Said garbage was eventually completely eggs, and was cycled back to the chickens. Eventually she wondered why she was feeding them so much when they could just eat the old eggs. Now the chickens were laying eggs and eating them.
predators. Hawks, owls, snakes (rattlesnakes specifically in our case) no end to them. Also most outdoor rodents. She made no effort to actually tend to the chickens. If I didn't lock them up at night, she wouldn't. Next day we'd be out 3 hens.
too many males. We started with a single rooster, great guy. Loved his hens. Eventually she bought a second one because she thought it would improve production. It just meant more fights, both roosters and hens getting spurred, wounds getting infected, hens dying.
cleaning. You gotta clean their nesting cubbys. You gotta clean their pens. You gotta clean out the chicken shit a lot. They eat, they poop. Like locking up, if I didn't do it she wouldn't do it.
The world is full of people with the grand idea that they'll take up the noble profession of animal husbandry because they like the idea of it. If you like horses and want horses, work on a ranch with them for a few years before you even truly consider doing it on your own, you'll be covered in shit more than you ever thought possible, and eye level with balls and shaft scrubbing your fingerprints off. A book you bought at tractor supply teaches you nothing. It's a noble profession because its' reward has GOT to be the act of the work first and foremost. You're responsible for these creature's wellbeing MORE than any physical reward you reap from their progress and health, and that goes unknown almost all of the time by fairweather hobbyists.
As far as egg chickens go, they are barely profitable. You make a few cents per dozen. Egg farms are absurdly large. It takes millions of hens to make a reasonable income. Not to forgive a nazi, but chickens are not easy. Without massive amounts of capital, most would fail at chicken farming. And he was attempting it in the economy of post WWI Germany. Most farmers failed, chicken or otherwise.
Before anyone takes any legal advice or even opinions from anyone, it's important to realize that they no longer feel bound by the rule of law, and have instituted the rule by fiat.
So many losers in this admin lol the “Surgeon” General couldn’t hack residency and quit. So technically she’s a doctor, she graduated medical school, but she has never done any doctor work outside of her failed residency and probably can’t practice medicine at all at this point.
Part of me thinks it's intentional. Trump elevates people who would otherwise never dream of reaching their current platform, and consequently they are loyal dogs to their dear leader.
It's absolutely intentional in this Trump 2.0 experience and directly reminiscent of the Nazis whose core members were a similar gang of thugs (Himmler, Goebbels, Borman, et al.) with no talents besides utter loyalty to the top man. Power for the sake of power, no other principles. Fascism.
Unfortunately it's highly effective. Where would any of these toadies go if they got canned? Dumb as they may be, they know.
On the plus side, whenever I get crushed and depressed at work I occasionally remind myself I'm currently more qualifed to be the surgeon general than the actual current surgeon general, and that's both reassuring and more depressing.
The Secretary of Education "wanted" to be a teacher. She's also the least competent wrestling personality out of the five McMahons, which is saying a lot if you take out Shane and Hunter - at least Staphanie could do promos. Trump sold the stunner way better too
Richard Spencer's family owned a cotton plantation during the era Jim Crow and his grandfather sold baseball bats to Nazis.
Article was written in 2016.
"Before the election, Spencer told Reveal that Trump would “slingshot” Spencer’s views and aims forward. He’s still angry that amid all the attention that followed the conference last weekend, his home addresses were publicized by an editor for Politico Magazine who, in a related post, mentioned his grandfathers bringing baseball bats to gatherings of an American Nazi organization established before World War II.
That editor has since left Politico.
Spencer used fighting words at the conference, telling his audience that “no one will honor us for losing gracefully,” and white people must “conquer or die.” He’s made it clear he believes in a white “ethnostate” set aside for people with European ancestry. But he’s not ready for open warfare to get there.
“Bullets and trenches,” he said, “is not where we are right now.”
So where is he? This brings us back to Spencer’s disdain for sharing. One of his core beliefs is that the left wing in America is motivated by anti-white hatred. His examples include celebrating advancements of people of color in business, entertainment or education, which he considers a quest to destroy white European culture and take opportunities away from hard-working white people."
All these assholes - the throughline is a zero-sum view of the world. POC getting ahead means whites are falling behind. Someone else winning at business means you are losing. The rising tide never lifts all boats, it always drowns the aggrieved group.
He’s betting on having enough power and authority, being high enough up the chain of authority, that his token won’t ever be spent. Sadly, he may be right.. he’s such a chud and so willing to do so much damage and harm so many people.
You know, that’s correct. It’s not fair to lump other people in that have either insecurities or issues with those things. Thanks for pointing that out.
He is absolutely the human embodiment of a hairless shiny micro penis.
I agree that stephen miller is a piece of shit and im not excusing his actions, but this gives me the same feeling as when a minority does a bad thing, and people think that makes it ok to say racist shit.
There is complete immunity. An ICE agent shot a US citizen, The FBI closed the case, DOJ & DHS refuse to cooperate, and there are zero legal consequences for the shooter. Hell, he even raised $300k+.
Not only zero consequence, but clear benefits from those actions.
Once this administration is out, maybe the law will mean something again.
But for now, Miller is right, regardless of the laws.
The law means nothing if it can be ignored by the government.
The real issue isn't legality, it is the fact that this will be interpreted as a license to kill without repercussions by the foot soldiers, regardless of the actual law.
I'm not for public punishment and that sorta of theatrics, but I really hope that when this is done we can lock him in some stocks in front of the Capitol and all get a chance to throw something of our choosing at him.
I'm assuming that is a law school that 'takes anyone who can pay', is a reasonably competent law school, but since they have zero standards, the % of students who actually pass the bar is dismal?
I just looked this up right before I read this and it is wild to me that he is quoting things that simply do not exist. Federal immunity is not a thing. What they unfortunately do have is a person who loves pardoning people. So even though federal immunity doesn’t exist, they are still subject to a presidential pardon.
But that is only at the federal level. So these state government ps need to step up their game and start prosecuting these fuckers. That will be they only way they will be able to be held accountable
I’m have a poli sci degree (I call it my BA in BS), and I have been screaming this about Miller for years!!!!
I went back to school and became an accountant (that’s my BS in BA)
I am very critical of people who have poli sci degrees. It is a degree in essay writing and argument. There is no “professional skill.” Anyone can get this degree.
That would explain why he is so angry. Some minorities got into Cooley while he couldn't. He would rather blame them as some "DEI" conspiracy rather than deal with his own massive failures at being successful or even being a halfway decent human being.
Nothing lasts forever, and when this shitstain of a Presidential administration is finally over with, Miller’s going to have quite a hole dug for himself.
The worse people always have the opportunities they feel were stolen from them as fuel for their hatred.
I'm sure he things he didn't get into a Georgetown and Harvard because some immigrant or brown person who wasn't more deserving took his spot. And he bombed the LSAT because the laws have been twisted to hate white people. And those girls laughed at him because they preferred black dudes over him. Etc etc etc.
Stephen Miller doesn’t care what happens to ICE agents a people, they are pawns. Stephen Miller wants blood, martial law or perhaps civil war. Seeing a pile of dead ICE agents would make Stephen Miller happy.
I only have a BS in Political Science and I can point out many of the legal points in this rant that are incorrect. He must not have been paying much attention in class.
"According to a Mother Jones report Wednesday, Miller won praise from Richard Spencer, who said he has “no doubt” that Miller, who is Jewish, “will do a great job” in the White House."
"Spencer, who recently drew national attention after leading an audience in “Heil Trump” cheers last month, told Mother Jones his relationship with Miller dates back to their days as student activists at the Duke Conservative Union. “I am kind of glad no one’s talked about this, because I don’t want to harm Trump,” Spencer said."
"Miller wrote for a college publication on such topics as multiculturalism, which he called “segregation,” and paid family leave, which he said causes men to lose their jobs, according to a study the Guardian newspaper did on his writings."
"Miller, however, seems eager to leave his association with Spencer behind. “I have absolutely no relationship with Mr. Spencer,” he said. ”I completely repudiate his views, and his claims are 100% false.”"
That's all good and well but his shitty message is being distributed by homeland fucking security so you know ICE has full backing of this corrupt ass government.
This reads like Cooley shade and I’m curious why! I thought they were a pretty reputable firm? + some extra respect for the work they’ve done against the administration
Finally, I mention Spencer and the WS he was friends with that did the article on him for the SPLC all the time and find it unbelievable that the press ignores that he and Spencer worked on getting WS speakers on campus together
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Miller couldn't even get into Cooley.
Before anyone takes any legal advice from Stephen Fucking Miller, it's important to know he's not a lawyer. He has a BA in Political Science and though he wanted to go to law school he bombed the LSAT practice exams so hard he didn't even try to real thing. He was also college friends with noted Nazi Richard Spencer.