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The world needs to realize that there’s a new person in charge of carrying the big stick. And we have all the tools to do what we want, when we want, and how we want. Here’s a short video on the above: 👆
What’s happening in Poland tonight is a serious constitutional crisis, and the images of police surrounding the country’s top court should concern anyone who cares about stable institutions.
The government has moved to suspend the president and vice-president of the Constitutional Tribunal and is seeking criminal charges against them. Police have sealed off the building in Warsaw. Opposition supporters (including some MPs) gathered outside; a few tried to cut the fence to get in. President Karol Nawrocki—who won a free election last year—aborted a foreign trip and returned immediately. The tribunal’s own account has called the moves a “coup d’état.” The government says it is restoring the rule of law.
This is the latest round in a years-long fight over the court. The previous conservative government appointed judges who, in their view, were correcting earlier imbalances and defending Polish sovereignty against external pressure. After the current government took power, it has tried to install its own judges. The elected president has refused to fully accept several of those appointments, and the tribunal’s existing leadership has blocked the new judges from sitting. Tonight’s suspensions and the police cordon are the sharpest escalation so far—using state force against an institution the opposition still regards as legitimately constituted.
It is easy to see the parallel to high-stakes American fights over institutions. When one side decides a key constitutional body is illegitimate and moves police in to pressure or replace its leadership, while the other side treats that body as a last check on power, trust collapses and the risk of escalation rises. In this case the building is the Constitutional Tribunal rather than the Capitol, but the dynamic of competing claims of legitimacy plus police at the doors is the same kind of dangerous moment. For conservatives in Poland, this looks less like ordinary reform and more like an attempt to remove the remaining independent constraint on the government before next year’s elections.
Poland has a long history of defending its institutions and identity against outside control. Scenes of police locking down its highest constitutional court, while the elected president rushes home, are a reminder of how quickly those fights can turn from legal disputes into physical standoffs. Whatever one’s view of the underlying appointments, treating the tribunal this way carries real costs for the rule of law.
LETS GO!
Pèp ayisyen,
Nou prèske fin deplwaye sòlda nou yo ak ekipman nou yo sou tè Ayiti. Sa a se pa yon operasyon kont pèp ayisyen an, ni yon envazyon peyi Ayiti. Nou pa yon gwo pisans. Nou pa gen okenn enterè ni pou nou vin domine pèp ayisyen an, ni pou nou mete men sou richès Ayiti.
Nou se yon peyi modès k ap devlope. Sèl sa nou vle, se pou kat teknisyen avyasyon nou yo tounen lakay yo. Epi n ap bay gang yo yon leson, gang sa yo k ap fè pèp ayisyen an soufri, ki touye moun pèp la renmen yo, k ap anpeche l viv yon lavi nòmal, lib, san laperèz.
Se prèske nou menm sèl k ap peye pou operasyon sa a. Menmsi nou resevwa yon ti èd lojistik nan men kèk lòt peyi, se ak pwòp ti kès nou n ap kouvri 90% nan depans yo.
Sa koute nou chè, men nou te aprann nan pwòp soufrans nou: jistis ak lapè pa gen pri. Nou te pase nan menm soufrans Ayiti ap travèse jodi a. Nou te viv yon beny san ki te pi terib toujou pase sa pèp ayisyen an ap sibi kounye a. Nou konnen sa sa vle di: viv nan laperèz, pa fè politisyen konfyans, pa kwè okenn moun ki pwomèt l ap ede w. Paske pèsonn pa t vin ede nou, e moun ki te vini yo pa t gen bon entansyon nan kè yo.
Men nou te rive chape anba sa. Apre 200 lane soufrans, finalman n ap viv nan lapè, e jodi a nou se peyi ki gen plis sekirite sou kontinan an.
Nou pa vin ann Ayiti pou nou touche lajan, paske pèsonn pa peye nou pou sa. Nou vin ann Ayiti pou nou goumen kont mechan yo.
Men sa m ap mande nou: fè nou konfyans, lapriyè sèl vrè Bondye a, epi mande L pou L geri Ayiti.
“Lè sa a si pèp ki pote non m lan lapriyè nan pye m, si yo soumèt devan mwen, si yo pran chache m ankò, si yo vire do bay vye peche yo t'ap fè yo, m'ap tande yo nan syèl kote m ye a, m'ap padonnen peche yo, m'ap fè peyi a kanpe ankò.”
2 Kwonik 7:14
Ede nou ede Ayiti.
Epi lè misyon nou an fini, n ap tounen lakay nou. Petèt jenerasyon Ayisyen k ap vini yo ap sonje nou kòm zanmi ki te vin ede yon lè.
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#CringeForACause good stuff!
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When the boss backs you and then try’s to put you out of business… typical socialism. And why you might ask? Because the average person can’t use tax dollars to supplement their business. Once again, all good until you run out of other people’s money to spend.
Immigrant-led business coalition votes to sue NYC over Mamdani’s taxpayer-funded grocery-store, warning 30%-discounted groceries could put nearby stores out of business.
ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/pol…
Mamdani seeing a Texas grocery store in 5 years because he’s put the local shops out of business due to them not being able to use tax dollars to subsidize their businesses….
The guy on the left is cosplaying the guy on the right.
Hasan Piker (left) openly wears Mao suits and has spent years soft-pedaling or defending one of history’s most lethal regimes. Mao Zedong (right) is responsible for the deaths of an estimated 40–70+ million people through the Great Leap Forward famine, political purges, land reform executions, and the Cultural Revolution.
That’s not “vibes.” That’s not “aesthetic.” That’s the largest peacetime body count of the 20th century.
Dressing like a mass murderer while lecturing everyone else about morality isn’t edgy. It’s just historical illiteracy with better lighting.
Today we must oppose democratic socialism because it won't work. The trouble with the socialists is that they promise the golden egg and then kill the goose that lays it.
Jonathan Chait just published a piece titled “Abolishing the Senate Might Be the DSA’s Best Idea.”
It isn’t.
The U.S. Constitution contains one provision that is deliberately placed beyond the reach of the normal amendment process. Article V states that “no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate.”
That single sentence is the only part of the entire Constitution that cannot be altered by the usual two-thirds of both houses and three-fourths of the states. Every other clause can be changed. This one cannot — unless every single state agrees to give up its equal vote.
The Framers put that firewall in place for a reason. The small states refused to join the Union unless they received an absolute guarantee that they would never be outvoted into permanent minority status in the upper chamber. Equal representation in the Senate was the price of ratification. It was non-negotiable then, and the Constitution still treats it as non-negotiable now.
So when activists talk about abolishing the Senate or converting it into a proportional body, they are not proposing a difficult reform. They are proposing something the Constitution itself declares off-limits. The only ways to get there would require either the unanimous consent of every state (politically impossible) or a complete rupture with the existing constitutional order. They are asking for the typical socialist ideas which are so good they have to be enforced by some kind of violent revolution.
You can dislike the Senate. You can argue it is undemocratic. You can claim it frustrates progressive majorities. None of that changes the text. The equal suffrage clause is not a suggestion. It is a hard structural limit that was designed to survive exactly the kind of political pressure now being directed at it.
Abolishing the Senate is not a clever idea waiting for the right moment. It is a constitutional dead end unless you want Americans fighting Americans again.
