The great 2020 election thread....

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I wonder what black people would make of the claim that America was great in the 1980s. The LA riots of 1992 didn't come out of nowhere, y'know.

''Make America Great Again'' does often seem to translate to ''Make America White Again''. Just saying.

"Diversity" does often seem to translate to "less whites"

It's supposed to translate to 'more non-whites and women'. But I try to be a 'glass half full' type.

Remember when Black Panther's cast was 90% black? That was "diverse"

The fact that you have black movies as well as white movies is a measure of diversity. Like, that's something you can say about the MCU, which isn't for nothing.

[GreyICE]

Anybody here ever consider that 9/11 is a reference to the day of a CIA operation in Chile to overthrow a democratically elected communist?

No, because Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad didn't care about Chile.

The sadder truth is that if you pick a random day out of the year you can probably tie it to something questionable the US did.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Anybody here ever consider that 9/11 is a reference to the day of a CIA operation in Chile to overthrow a democratically elected communist?

No, because Bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammad didn't care about Chile.

The sadder truth is that if you pick a random day out of the year you can probably tie it to something questionable the US did.

[well I mean] the likes of the US doing something fundamentally corrupt to its own principles, globally divisive on a western/eastern front, and fits the explicit description of why the terrorist act was committed, all at the same time.

Not to mention under the direction of the CIA by the man whose son was rather recently elected president.

[clearspira]

Out of interest, did Trump ever build that wall? I have heard nothing on it on our news here in the UK since the mid-terms.

[Jonathan101]

Out of interest, did Trump ever build that wall? I have heard nothing on it on our news here in the UK since the mid-terms.

No, he never built the wall.

There is a big fence though.

[LittleRaven]

There is a big fence though.

To clarify, there is slightly MORE big fence than there was when he took over.

Very slightly.

[J!!]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, a chief nemesis of the 45th president, ruled against the Trump Administration on Friday in a border wall construction case. The panel was clear that the “Executive Branch lacked independent constitutional authority to authorize the transfer” of military funds to build The Wall.

Bill Clinton-appointed Chief Judge Sidney R. Thomas penned the opinion, with which fellow Clinton-appointed Circuit Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw agreed. President Donald Trump–appointed Circuit Judge Daniel P. Collins penned a lone dissent.

“The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment in an action brought by the Sierra Club and the Southern Border Communities Coalition (collectively the ‘Sierra Club’) challenging the Department of Defense’s budgetary transfers to fund construction of a wall on the southern border of the United States in California, New Mexico, and Arizona,” the opinion began. “At issue is whether Section 8005 and Section 9002 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2019 (‘Section 8005’) authorized the budgetary transfers to fund construction of the wall. The panel held that the Sierra Club had Article III standing to pursue its claims.”

“In companion appeal State of California v. Trump, Nos. 19-16299 and 19-16336, slip op. (9th Cir. June 26, 2020) (published concurrently), the panel held that Section 8005 did not authorize the transfers of funds at issue here. The panel reaffirmed this holding here,” the opinion went on. “The panel held that the Executive Branch lacked independent constitutional authority to authorize the transfer of funds. The panel noted that the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution exclusively grants the power of the purse to Congress. The panel held that the transfer of funds violated the Appropriations Clause, and, therefore, was unlawful.”

The circuit court said that the district court “did not abuse its discretion in granting Sierra Club a permanent injunction enjoining the federal defendants from spending the funds at issue”:

First, the panel agreed with the district court that Sierra Club would suffer irreparable harm to its recreational and aesthetic interests absent injunction. Second, the panel agreed with the district court that the balance of equities and the public interest favored injunctive relief. The panel held that the Supreme Court’s decision in Winter v. NRDC, Inc., 555 U.S. 7 (2008), did not require the panel to vacate the injunction.

Circuit Judge Collins wrote that Sierra Club did show that it had Article III standing to sue, but said the “Organizations lack any cause of action to challenge these § 8005 and § 9002 transfers.”

“I agree that at least the Sierra Club has established Article III standing, but in my view the Organizations lack any cause of action to challenge the transfers. And even assuming that they had a cause of action, I conclude that the transfers were lawful,” Collins wrote. “Accordingly, I would reverse the district court’s partial judgment for the Organizations and remand for entry of partial summary judgment in favor of the Defendants. I respectfully dissent.”

Law&Crime’s Elura Nanos previously argued that the district court decision in the Sierra Club case was a sign that the Trump administration would ultimately lose this battle over the border wall.

Legal experts promptly pointed out that, despite the Ninth Circuit’s Friday ruling that the Trump administration acted unlawfully, the Supreme Court’s July 2019 granting of a stay nonetheless allowed the administration to proceed with construction.

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ninth-circuit-hands-trump-admin-a-big-loss-the-transfer-of-military-funds-to-build-the-wall-was-unlawful/

[J!!]

youtu.be/4TogbPPyQQM

[ProfessorDetective]

Wow... I think Parody & Satire might actually be dead... Becaus you just can't tell if it IS anymore!

[Draco Dracul]

I wonder what black people would make of the claim that America was great in the 1980s. The LA riots of 1992 didn't come out of nowhere, y'know.

''Make America Great Again'' does often seem to translate to ''Make America White Again''. Just saying.

"Diversity" does often seem to translate to "less whites"

It's supposed to translate to 'more non-whites and women'. But I try to be a 'glass half full' type.

Remember when Black Panther's cast was 90% black? That was "diverse"

It depends on the context. If you mean the film itself, it's not diverse. If you're talking about the film landscape as a whole it does represent diversity as a tentpole film with a majority black cast as well as a black director as those are basically non-existent.