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This is Stephen Miller's (White House Deputy Chief) response to Karen Bass (Los Angeles Mayor).
The "states' rights" crowd is not very supportive of states' right, right now.
They never were. It was always cover to do awful shit like overturn Roe.
“States’ rights” has always been a bullshit lie. The confederacy did not honor states rights. The constitution explicitly instituted slavery as an institution an individual state could not abolish.
States' rights to abuse its citizens, no states' rights to protect any of them.
Little punk sure talks big when you can't reach his little pencil neck. If federal law was as supreme as he plays up, him and his entire bunch would be behind bars right now
Easy to sound like a big man when you're shouting from behind a few hundred marines.
But that's sort of the crux of the issue. Miller has the Miller-tary at his beck and call while Mayor Bass will be lucky if half her LAPD don't turn and open fire on her because they say they smelled weed. The folks with the guns seem absolutely gleeful in stomping their boots on the necks of LA residents.
I would expect nothing less from a literal nazi.
"federal law is supreme." Is some supervillain shit. Even Hitler would have cringed.
Reminder, the states give the federal government its power. Hence the country's name. To say otherwise is moronic and ultimately leads to civil war to settle these dumbass disagreements. The objective here for Q-tip Pencil-Dick McGee is to persuade the public that it's the other way around to justify the administration's criminal actions.
Does this stance fall under the GOP doctrine of small government or states rights? I’m a little lost.
So much for "state's rights."
Fascists are never to be taken seriously when they say that they're very worried about protecting anything.
Another 5-10 years in power and they'll legalize conversion therapy and honor killings against gay and trans kids and call it "parental rights".
Small gubermint
The Feds aren't even following federal law.
A 30+ felon who tried to overthrow the government, and stole enough classified docs to be imprisoned for millennia, is the president.
There is no "federal law". There is only a fascist dictatorship — a kakistocracy with nothing but the illusion of authority — and the millions of people who let this failed-state clown show continue.
Like, I am genuinely baffled that in the most heavily armed county on Earth, with hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD, shat on for decades... How is the attempted murder of the people in charge not a daily occurrence? Shit's wild yo!
That's a weird way to spell "heil Trump".
hold on, this is from the "states rights" lot, right?
States rights are only for conservative states. Blue states don't have any rights. Everybody knows that.
Stop paying taxes. Let miller figure out how he’s gonna pay the military to keep up this supreme leader bullshit.
How?
Federal taxes don't pass through California on the way to the feds.
Grima Wormtongue-ass mfer.
- Known Nazi and self described white supremacist, Stephen Miller
Nice, if there's ever a democratic president again, let's use that precedent to completely fuck Texas and the other theocracies when they try to make bible shit into law again
Lmao they'll change their tune very quickly if that happens
No they won't, they'll claim they're being persecuted and play victim
gaslight, obstruct, project
Biden could have arrested Trump on day one.
Democrats set this coarse.
The party of "small government", trampling over the rights of the state of California, one of the largest economies in the world.
States rights! Until I see anything I DONT LIKE, then unlimited power federal government!
He’s still pissed off he got cucked by Elon with his ex-Wife.
States rights...to own slaves. Individual rights...to extract profit. Divine Federal right to smash dissent.
And he's right, as long as the "resistance" continues doing nothing.
Every day these people aren't afraid to leave their homes is a day Americans have failed.
This is ABSOLUTELY Correct!
-State's Rights Republicans!
No, Stephen, it isn't. Fuck off and die.
Wrong argument: he's literally citing the supremacy clause.
A better argument would be that same constitution prohibits violation of limits on federal power, especially the bill of rights, enumerated powers, judicial review.
I'd like to fight Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller is a Nazi and a terrorist.
What a shithead, we've fought rebellions in this country over goddamn stamps and whiskey, and they really imagine material conditions are good enough that this sort of behavior will be tolerated amidst their ill advised trade war?
It's somewhat hyperbolic to say a lot on the right are actual nazis, but this dude is the most neo-Nazi motherfucker and deserves everything that should come to Nazis.
LA should join Canada honestly.