KMV on Fri, 3 Feb 2017 02:19:35 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> will someone explain |
Ben is on target. Additionally, while it seems there are constitutional grounds to challenge quite a few things Trump is doing, it requires not only the political will from the other branches to mount the challenge, but the further will to force the matter if Trump and others alied with the Executive branch refuse to comply with the law. Bottom line, who will the army/national guard side with if it turns out that the Whitehouse ignores court orders. However, I think (hope) it won't come to that. Just in the last couple of hours talk of impeachment has been attributed to some Republican lawmakers. Ironically, even the Koch Bros. are disenchated now because Trump is such a loose cannon, the markets have become very volatile, which they don't like. We could end up with Pence, which would suck, but at least is less likely to precipitate a multiple front war. Probably. I'm still hoping that an impeachment investigation reveals far more widespread corruption and more of the Republican leadership is caught up. And, on the positive side, there is growing cooperation between new resistance groups and older ones like Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ groups, and some people who were too privileged to realize anyone else was suffering are waking up. So we may seem some long-term gains from that. I mention these coalitions because they are finally energizing some of the democrats enough to push back, and may have a big impact in the next elections. On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 10:34 AM, Ben Birkinbine <bbirkinbine@gmail.com> wrote: Hi David, I'll offer a very brief explanation, but I think it should provide some general context for your question. <...> -- Kim De Vries http://kdevries.net/blog/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject: