This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.
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Aaron Rupar
TRUMP: The NCAA has complied immediately. That's good. But I understand Maine -- is the governor of Maine here?
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
JANET MILLS: Yeah I'm here
TRUMP: Are you not gonna comply?
JM: I'm going to comply with state and federal law
T: You better do it bc you're not gonna get any federal funding at all
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State governors are a threat to him. He has no control over state law or state constitutions. I’m sure he’s getting a lot of heat from concerned Republicans as a white South African immigrant boots veterans from their jobs
This is not a man who is in control.
the answer to his goat-skin thin 1980’s sales talk is-
“get fucked, fascist.”
he will crumble. he may disintegrate in real time, who knows.
I think the apartheid guy lent the carrot a bit too much horse tranquiliser.
The Executive branch cannot interpret or implement laws. Only the Judicial branch can do that.
Powers are seperated for a reason.
Thank you Janet Mills
https://bsky.app/profile/kenwhite.bsky.social/post/3lipoxfhb6k2c
Or is that just for Democrats.
I know the answer.
Denis Diderot
He pulls the same old threats and bullying. HORRIBLE!
So ashamed to see the office denigrated by this bozo.
Think he has Mommie issues?
You go governor!
Well, we know how to handle tyrants. SST.
This guy is not hiding it.
Let the red states tap Texas to feed their uneducated, unhealthy, foolishly GOP voting dependents without blue state $
I live in California. We're the 5th largest economy in the world.
“You better do as you are told, little Missy, or else !!!”
It’s going to come in handy
https://bsky.app/profile/katiecannon.bsky.social/post/3lipmtngofk2w
Trump loves to attack women. Notice he rarely or never treats men the same way. Because he is a misogynist and a coward.
How many times did we hear Trump — during his first term — refer to any and all female reporters who asked him challenging questions …as “nasty?”
What an immature child.
A national embarrassment.
NOT Presidential material.
“In 1933, the year that Adolf Hitler took power, the police in Essen, Germany, revoked Simon’s permit to dress as a woman in public. Simon, who was in her mid-40s, had been living as a woman for many years.“
so “first” is not quite correct.
If this were a real democratic republic, the Senate would have booted him over his Russia ties or J6.
What's happening now will forever be Mitch McConnell's legacy, and I don't think history will be kind.
Surely there must be a law, or at least a loophole that will allow states to withhold federal tax being collected.
Their silence signals complicity.
Their cowardice makes them collaborators in Trump's attacks on our democracy and our Constitution.
Just laugh at him & stop.
That’s what I’d do.
There is no need to be personal about it, that❜s lowering oneself to his meagre level.
Inject this directly into my veins.
(God, he is so easily provoked by a strong woman…meaning any woman who doesn’t agree with him.)
“And enjoy your life after governor cause I don’t think you’ll ever be in elected politics.”
He’s such a thin-skinned toddler a-hole.
LOVE THAT !!
She clearly sees him for who — and what — he is.
But not on the smarts and the education.
She outclasses him at every turn.
And she's a woman.
Well there’s one woman he loves…. But that’s disgusting.
Are you referring to Elon-ia?
"With the law, yes."
"Well, you'd better comply with ME or else you're disowned,"
That's what I heard. idk bout anyone else. Good on them for standing up to a very obvious abuse of power. Maine Locals should be proud 👏
End of discussion.
He's been impeached twice, he just wasn't convicted or removed.
Complete fraud.
She showed him what we're made of.
Which will be super ironic when Doge accidentally fires that entire division next week.
Ask every outlet and every journalist why they didn’t publish it then.
When it might have helped
I stand with Governor Mills
But they won't stop at Maine. Your state might not think this this your fight, but if they can do it to Maine, your state is next and eventually they'll take something you care about.
That's why we stick together
as in the military adage ' never i
give a command you know will be disobeyed.'
i think we are seeing the orange peeling in real time
healthcare deficit
would be an impediment.
You have over twice
our population counting Washington and Oregon. Too many
guns.
It's still better than
51st state idea.
I'd rather just have
a normal person in
charge of all 50 states and not 11+
Provinces.
a stick before ?
My wife and I will be discussing something in the news and I’m like, don’t forget the President is an actual criminal and then we’re like, oh yeah and it just reframes the entire conversation.
Funny but sad and true
Men could take a lesson
Trump to Mills: “Enjoy your life after governor because I don’t think you’ll be in elected politics.”
Wait till the next president cuts off funding to any state with an abortion ban via an EO. Will Republicans be cool with that?
His team is using trans people as leverage to take control over everything