r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 1d ago

Soft Paywall The Trump Administration Just Violated Another Court Order | It gets worse: The order found that the administration was covertly withholding millions in FEMA funds from blue states.

https://newrepublic.com/post/193650/trump-administration-just-violated-another-court-order
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u/Jedi-El1823 I voted 1d ago

Robert Kraft literally had to use the Patriots plane to smuggle in PPE so the state of Massachusetts would have some. The feds kept withholding PPE from blue states.

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u/Content-Ad3065 1d ago

That is why Cuomo is back in the NYC mayor race. He was the one who had to organize governors to work together to acquire PPE. They shared the resources because Jared, the Middle East peace guy, was withholding the equipment from blue states.

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u/catcrazy9 Washington 1d ago

Not just withholding, actively intercepting shipments the states had paid for and stealing them

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u/DarthRizzo87 1d ago

This is one of the things that Bidens DOJ should have sought justice for. It’s an easy argument it lead to the death of Americans, and it’s hard for FOX News to spin it any way positive without it blowing up in their face.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 1d ago

Merrick Garland may have been Biden's worst decision for his entire career.

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u/pat-ience-4385 1d ago

That and helping Clarence Thomas get his judgeship during the Annita Hill debacle.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 18h ago

He unfortunately gave Clarence Thomas the benefit of the doubt. It was also a different time... and sadly, the testimony of a black woman wasn't given the credibility she was due.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 1d ago

When history books look back on this time, they will say that Biden's failure to remove Garland was the lynchpin in the collapse of the world's wealthiest and most influential country. Exactly like how we learned that the assassination of Franz Ferdinand was the lynchpin in starting the destruction of Europe in the first world war.

When Biden stepped down, everyone said he'd go down on the history books as a hero. But then Harris wasn't elected. And Biden's legacy is now his utter failure to accept what was going on around him and act to save the country.

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u/cytherian New Jersey 18h ago

Biden was a conundrum... in that he was steeped in probably the deepest amount of political experience and wisdom across the gamut (I don't count McConnell... that fiend), and also, diehard hopefulness for bipartisanship. True, he got the infrastructure bill passed and that wouldn't have happened without bipartisanship cooperation, BUT... the Republican Party has been rogue and willing to break the rules. Biden just refused to accept the danger. To them, "bipartisanship" is a curse word.

The result? Now, everything Biden worked so hard for is being torn apart. That infrastructure bill? Trump has frozen the funding for it. It's basically dead at this point. Trump would rather invest in pumping up the wealth of large rich corporations, private equity firms, and wealthy individuals, rather than in helping America's aging infrastructure.

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u/reccenters 1d ago

Nah, it's not Biden's fault. It's straight on the American people.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 1d ago

This. Not an American, so removed from internal perspective. All the talk of legacy or "miss him yet?" is absurd. From an outside perspective, the man watched Democracy burn. Even towards the end, as Presidents were confirmed in their dictatorial powers by a corrupt high court - crickets.

To the finish line with a smile and a handshake. Warm receptions and tea for the Dictator.

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u/karamisterbuttdance 1d ago

Voting-age Americans are at fault, it's just a convenient deflection to blame leaders when the people don't actively exercise their ability to choose who runs their country, state and county. Choosing to view this as leaders not stepping up is a disservice to civic responsibility. At least half of the voting population chose to not care and abdicate their duty.

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u/MercantileReptile Europe 1d ago

Maybe, just maybe, a few may have given a shit had their supposed leaders done the same? Watching criminals plunder and destroy with impunity does not exactly make for an attractive government to participate in.

Apathy among voters is a giant problem, no doubt. But ignoring -again- Criminals in government only excuses said apathy.

At some point, the head of state has to actually engage on behalf of the state. Not doing so has some grave consequences, evidently.

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes 18h ago

It's both. But even in your own comment you point out inadvertently why it is very squarely on the shoulders of the "leaders".

choose who runs their country

We chose people to do a job - to speak for us, to protect us, to be in the weeds so they could see when bad stuff was coming and stop it. By design, we choose these people so we don't have to pay all that much attention, given we all have our own jobs to do.

Choosing to view their leaders as not stepping up is a disservice to civic responsibility.

Our leaders shouldn't have to step up. They should already be up. It's what they were sent there to do - to represent our interests and lead. We're not "choosing to view" them this way. Thats like saying your boss is "choosing" to view you as unproductive when really it's their fault for not standing over you making sure you were working.