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Bulletins and News Discussion from January 6th to January 12th, 2025 - The Fall of Trudeau - COTW: Canada (hexbear.net)

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Image is of Trudeau and Trump together at Mar-a-Lago in November 2024. Source is here.

The Liberals, headed by Trudeau, have not been doing so hot lately. Polls have been rather poor, showing the party far behind the Conservatives, and the Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland (an outspoken apologist for Ukrainian Nazis) resigned recently, with more MPs following her lead. Trump's return to power has shaken the Canadian establishment due to his threats to impose massive tariffs on Mexico and Canada, which will have substantial economic consequences given that Canada sends most of its exports to the US, compounding the economic malaise that has affected most of the world over the last few years.

With all this bad news, there are rumors and reports that Trudeau will soon resign, ending his nine years of rule. His fall would be yet another casualty in the wave of incumbent parties falling across the imperial core, only to be replaced by more conservative parties that have very similar policies but wish to cast all blame and hardship onto minorities.

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The bulletins site is here!
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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:

Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 53 points 5 days ago

Not exactly news but relevant for the news heads here: over the last few months Proles Pod has released a series of episodes called The Stalin Era from Episode 63-71 and going.

I haven’t listened to it and probably won’t have time to listen for quite a while, but I guess the comrades here might be interested to give it a go and let us know if they’re good or not!

[-] Alaskaball@hexbear.net 20 points 5 days ago

I'm halfway through 66 and thus far I endorse it. It's not as in-depth as one would get reading source material (which is why we always say read theory!) But for a general overview it's been an enjoyable mix of historiographical primary sources directly from major historical figures, theoreticians, historians, and journalists of the period and historiographical primary sources from the workers and the peasants of the Soviets.

They also stay on topic and follow a historical narrative instead of going off topic as is usually the case with podcasts, so you'll most certainly want to listen actively because it's laden with a constant flow of good information.

Lastly I emphasize it's a series on the Stalin era. It doesn't focus on the man himself all the time and works on presenting the whole story the best it can with the short time that they've alloted to themselves.

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[-] edge@hexbear.net 88 points 6 days ago

lmao hearing Kamala Harris officially certify her loss is hilarious.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 69 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Change is in the air, and surely I’m not hallucinating?

Three weeks ago, Trump put out a very short statement that the US and China should work together. Ever since, Chinese media have sprung into action.

Immediately the week after, the People’s Daily (in conjunction with Global Times) put out a featured call for submission of “US-China cooperation and friendship stories” followed by an editorial “China and the US should extend the list of cooperation, and enlarge the cake of mutual cooperation” (Dec 26th, 2024, in Chinese).

Last week, Qiushi, the CPC theory website, reposted the People’s Daily opinion piece on “The significance of friendship and cooperation for the people between China and the US” (Jan 4th, 2025, in Chinese) and a corresponding piece on their English outlet, “China, United States should inject more certainty, positive energy into world” (Jan 6th, 2025):

China and the U.S. should work together to promote an equal and orderly multipolar world and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, let the light of peace reach all corners of the world, and ensure that more development gains will be shared more fairly by people across the world.

"There are few certainties in world affairs. What we do know is that without much greater cooperation between the U.S. and China, the world will be in dire straits," said an American scholar when analyzing the future development of China-U.S. relations.

China-U.S. cooperation may not solve all problems, but few problems can be solved without China-U.S. cooperation. The U.S. should fulfill its responsibilities as a major country, stand on the right side of history, and work together with China to strengthen dialogue and communication, properly manage differences, and expand mutually beneficial cooperation, so as to inject more certainty and positive energy into the world.

Zhong Sheng is a pen name often used by People's Daily to express its views on foreign policy and international affairs. The views don't necessarily reflect those of Qiushi Journal.

I also checked the English outlets. Global Times editorial puts out several opinion pieces including “1+1>2 is the right path for US-China technological interaction” (Jan 3rd, 2025) urging for increased technological cooperation of both countries especially quantum computing.

Concurrently, on January 6th, “Chinese foreign ministry slams US ‘small yard, high fence’ strategy, vows to safeguard WTO-centered multilateral trading system” blasting the Biden administration for not respecting the (neoliberal) WTO free trade order and criticizing protectionism:

"Free trade is an inevitable requirement for global economic development, with the fundamental goal of achieving mutual benefit and promoting common development. Engaging in protectionism and building 'small yard, high fence' significantly disrupts global supply chains and damages the common and long-term interests of all countries," the spokesperson said.

lol

And on the same day an editorial piece titled “What do Tesla’s ‘record high’ sales in China reveal?” that praised Tesla as an exemplary model of foreign investor’s success in China and why more foreign companies should come invest in China:

China has become an important part of Tesla's global landscape, and this is not an isolated case. Currently, over 70,000 American companies are investing and operating in China, with annual sales exceeding $600 billion. Qualcomm and Intel derive two-thirds and one-quarter of their global revenues, respectively, from the Chinese market. Among Apple's 200 major suppliers, 80 percent are based in China. In 2023, about 60 percent of McDonald's new stores globally were opened in China. Shanghai became the first city in the world to have 1,000 Starbucks stores. These facts demonstrate that Washington's trade sanctions and technological restrictions against China are unpopular and cannot hinder American companies' enthusiasm for expanding in the Chinese market. This situation is determined by the essence of mutually beneficial cooperation in economic and trade relations between China and US, as well as the objective laws of economic development at play.

Tesla's "report card" serves as a mirror, reflecting China's status as "an important engine of global economic growth" from both production and market perspectives, while showcasing the solid fundamentals and positive development prospects of the Chinese economy. Tesla's thriving presence in China can particularly be attributed to the country's open, inclusive, and mutually beneficial cooperative attitude.

Meanwhile, still on January 6th, China's two major stock exchanges hold meetings with foreign institutions:

The two exchanges reiterated their commitment to further opening up China's capital markets, expressing hopes that foreign institutions will jointly drive comprehensive reforms and achieve high-quality development.

SCMP (not affiliated with CPC) also put out articles from international relations “experts” like “China-US ties may improve if Trump goodwill signals ‘manifest in tangible actions’” (Jan 4th, 2025) and an opinion piece “Why Trump’s return opens door for China to reform capital markets” (Jan 5th, 2025) about why China should open up its capital markets for foreign investors to come in to save its economy lol. Pretty concise read if you want to understand how the libs think.

These are just a sample of the articles and opinion pieces. Overall, I haven’t seen so many articles that signal the thawing of US and China relationships in such a short period. I think we are likely heading towards a rapprochement between the two countries, and a return to a (renewed) status quo. Both countries have realized that they cannot live without one another, and that it is in their self-interests to return to the existing world order after Covid and the Ukraine war.

Wall Street will be happy to enter the Chinese financial markets (and the Belt and Road), the consumption driven by large scale foreign investments will save both China’s economy and allowing further growth and poverty alleviation, while reigniting the US oil and gas boom under Trump. The dollar hegemony is retained and Trump will be happy to declare victory on trade deficit reduction and some token “bring back American jobs” on a limited scale.

Unfortunately, it looks like China’s gonna save the US empire from its crisis once again, and the medium term outcome also means certain victory for Israel.

The questions to follow up on are: are there any forces within the US that will actively undermine this effort? Will the neocons accept it? Maybe Trump give them the war with Iran that they’ve always wanted? Which also brings us to the question of who else benefit from such (re-)arrangement? Will Europe (poised to be the biggest loser) be forced to import Chinese goods under US order to further destroy their industrial capacity? What happens to Palestine, Lebanon, Russia, Iran and the other major players?

[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I think we're seeing the process of the US slowly getting absorbed and turned into a kind of a capital mitochondria. A type of fuel tank for another bigger thing.

Let's just hope the CPC is really interested in developing other nations as they say they are. This is probably the way out of colonialism on a global scale.

I wonder how China's whole strategy will look like if humanity still exists 100 years from now and we look back at it starting from Deng until 2080 or something.

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 55 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I doubt Trump reaching power will make a significant difference, the US and China are inextricably locked in conflict regardless of what the people at the top of each party think about it. The US simply cannot tolerate a world power that is competitive with their (decreasingly) monopoly position, and that lack of toleration will force China to oppose them to fulfill the survival instinct of their own businesses.

It's been the path of interimperial/anti-imperial conflict for the last 300-odd years. Capitalism vs socialism has rather little to do with it, in the same way that the Cold War wasn't communism vs capitalism, it was imperialism vs anti-imperialism (and anti-imperialism largely won, but was then defeated by neo-imperialist strategies). Most of Europe was ruled by the same family of inbred monarchs with relatively similar economies (albeit with stronger and weaker powers, especially pre-WW1) and despite their generally similar capitalist economies, conflict over resource and colony control still prompted them to, twice, start apocalyptically destructive wars. China and the US are in a comparable situation, with even greater ideological differences.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 50 points 6 days ago

Chinese liberals are either fully delusional or they're actively trying to surrender to the US empire Gorby-style

Ironically America's racism and inability to tolerate any competition to their hegemony may save Chinese socialism in the long term, since even if Chinese liberals embrace a surrenderist mindset, that doesn't mean American liberals will, they mean business when they rail against Chinese "violations of the world order"

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 48 points 6 days ago

With 1.4 billion people’s lives at stake, it’s not as easy to change radically the economic structure. China wants to do it slow and steady. The first 30 years of overthrowing the Qing dynasty ended up with warlords carving out fiefdoms all across China and the weakness resulted in the Japanese invasion. Nobody wants to relive that era once again.

Again I remind everyone that the radical and transformative change under the USSR took place was extremely brutal. China’s socialism adopts a stance that integrates itself into the global trade order in order to achieve its socialist aims.

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 43 points 6 days ago

We cannot treat the post-feudal conditions of the USSR and Warlord-era China as a general theory for action, we are literally a century removed from those realities

The problem with global integration is that radical and transformative change can now be hurled onto China by external actors like the United States, the choice of confrontation is out of China's hands and firmly in the United States's and the Americans have made their position clear

China may buy itself time by playing the ruse of cooperation (assuming it is a ruse) but the US in desperation will eventually instigate a hot war to smash and isolate the Chinese economy

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

So basically, the US realizes that reindustrialization is impossible and China realizes that there is need for investments.

So both realize their complementaries to one and the other.

China gets to build up the third world to become better producer and consumer and the states gets to have a cut in the pie as financial returns

[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 40 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Basically yes, but it’s not so much complementary but the fact that the US threatens to blow up its own economy through tariffs. If the US does that, the US economy will be damaged, but all the export economies in the Global South get wiped out just like during the 2009 GFC if not worse, and their ultimate fate is still IMF bail out and privatization. That is the stick.

It is a sane calculation to give in to the US threat because at least we’re not going through a mutually assured destruction in this scenario. It is still a win-win (carrot) for both the US and China and other developing countries if they can keep the US from going into an economic depression, while the US gets a good portion of financial control over their assets in return. This will become the renewed status quo until something in the global capitalist machine breaks again.

I’ve always said that the only way for China to gain leverage over this is to make the painful transition into a domestic consumption led economy, and doing that requires China to reclaim its monetary sovereignty instead of accumulating foreign reserves through export and investment. Without that, we will simply see a return to the status quo but with Europe out of the picture as a major player. None of the Global South debt situation gets resolved, the global financial institutions will remain in place, dollar hegemony will persist and capital continues to flow through the established neoliberal free trade system. An alternative is needed.

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[-] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 43 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

If trump makes Russia an offer and Putin is receptive then RF has maybe 3 or so months to capture as much territory as possible. Since they moved west of Oskil river Luhansk is completely controlled by Russia which leaves parts of Donetsk, northern Zaporizhia oblast and Kherson oblast north of Dnipro river still on the table.

Looking at Donetsk there are two major fronts left. In the north there is the Slovyansk - Kramatorsk line and in west there is the Pokrovsk & Myrnohrad to Dobropillya line. Slovyansk, Kramatorsk and Pokrovsk + Myrnohrad are each larger than Bahkmut and all of them are transportation hubs with multiple highway and rail access from western Ukraine. Several small rivers flow east to west thru these areas with small farm cities along the banks and with limited access but other than that it's all farmland. If Syrskyi tries to defend this like he did Bahkmut it will be a blood bath.

railroad map

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 70 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

cw: execution

https://x.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1875646257328451892

Assad's Presidency was so mid at best when compared to Gaddafi or Najibullah yet he was better than these nutjobs.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 6 days ago

Argentine Judges Sentence Leftist Leader for Pro-Palestinian Messages - Telesur English

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Attempts to silence critical voices show that authoritarianism is an intrinsic component of Zionism, Alejandro Bodart said. On Friday, the Buenos Aires Criminal Court sentenced leftist leader Alejandro Bodart to six months in prison for allegedly inciting antisemitic discrimination.

The complaint was initially filed by the Delegation of Argentine Jewish Associations (DAIA) in May 2022, after Bodart posted the following on the social media platform X: “74 years of catastrophe endured by the Palestinian people at the hands of the racist and genocidal State of Israel. The key, a symbol of their stolen homes and lands, is present in every struggle. For a secular and democratic Palestine, from the river to the sea.”

Subsequently, the DAIA sent Bodart a message requesting that he retract his statement. In response to such intimidating action, the leftist activist refused to apologize, asserting that his message did not contain hateful antisemitic content. “This permanent anti-democratic attitude of seeking to silence every critical voice only strengthens our political conviction that authoritarianism is an intrinsic component of Zionism,” he stated.

In May and August 2024, two lower-court judges acquitted Bodart of the charges. However, after the most recent ruling was appealed, the matter was transferred to the Third Chamber of the Court of Appeals, which overturned the acquittal by majority vote.

One of the judges who voted to uphold the acquittal, Patricia Ana Larroca, argued that Bodart’s tweets did not meet the “objective or subjective elements” required to constitute the crime of discrimination. She further stated that “the expressions under dispute are protected by the right to freedom of expression,” ARGmedios reported, noting that Bodart announced he would appeal the decision at all possible levels.

Since October 2024, Israeli occupation forces have killed over 45,000 Palestinians in Gaza, the majority of whom are women, children, and the elderly. In light of these events, the International Criminal Court (ICC) convicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of crimes against humanity.

“Other international human rights organizations have also agreed that Israel is committing ‘genocide’ in Palestine. Even Pope Francis called for an investigation into whether the events in Gaza could be considered extermination crimes against the population,” ARGmedios highlighted.

[-] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 63 points 6 days ago

fidel-sarcastic His dad would be so disappointed, only stayed in power for 9 years.

[-] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 58 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Calling all Newsheads, I'm going to put together a 2025 News Mega Bingo Card, reply to this post with any suggestion you have and I'll put it together sometime later in the week to give time for submissions!

Edit: if there are more than 25 submissions I'll go with the highest voted comments

[-] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 59 points 6 days ago

democrats work across the aisle on a sweeping tax cut for the wealthy

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[-] newmou@hexbear.net 60 points 6 days ago

Elon Musk is kicked out of Trump’s cabinet but pretends he quit

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 63 points 6 days ago

Justin Trudeau announces his resignation as PM of Canada: “I intend to step down as party leader and prime minister as soon as the party selects its next leader through a competitive, robust and national process.”

This country deserves a real choice in the next election, and it has become clear to me that if I have to fight internal battles [in the party], I cannot be the best option in this race.”

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 61 points 6 days ago

This country deserves a real choice in the next election

No lies tbh but also lol

[-] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 59 points 6 days ago

I guess it's over for canadian black obama

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 57 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Austrian guy calling himself Volkskanzler gets to attempt to make a government, very cool Austria! :austria-cool:

CGTN - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday tasked Freedom Party's leader Herbert Kickl with forming a new government, local media reported.

Reuters - Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen on Monday tasked Kickl, head of the eurosceptic, Russia-friendly Freedom Party (FPO), with forming a coalition government after a centrist bid to assemble one without the FPO collapsed over the weekend.
[...]
[Kickl] then railed against a centrist attempt to form what he called a "coalition of losers" that sidelined the FPO. That collapsed at the weekend, leading Nehammer - who had described Kickl as a conspiracy theorist and security threat - to resign. The new leadership of Nehammer's centre-right People's Party (OVP) has signalled it will now enter coalition talks with the FPO, though there is no guarantee they will be able to form a coalition government and another election remains a possibility.

This guy is just a mask off Nazi, btw

In 2010, Kickl said he opposed branding Hitler's Waffen-SS as "collectively guilty" for war crimes. The FPO's first leader in 1955 had been a senior SS officer and a Nazi minister.
[...] Van der Bellen, a former leader of the left-wing Greens, said on Monday as he announced he had asked Kickl to form a government: "I did not take this step lightly."

Unrelated, did anyone make a news mega bingo for 2025 yet?

This is what I had for last year's bingo

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[-] Socialism_Is_The_Alternative@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago

Today’s news and combat footage from the Donbass and Kursk oblast.

Russian forces liberated the Donetsk People’s Republic settlement of Dachenskoye (south of Kiev-occupied Krasnoarmeysk): https://sputnikglobe.com/20250106/russian-army-liberates-settlement-of-dachenskoye-in-donetsk-peoples-republic-1121368368.html

Russian forces continue repelling Kiev regime attacks in Kursk oblast, destroying another ten tanks and seven infantry fighting vehicles there today: https://www.rt.com/russia/610493-kursk-tanks-ten-broken/

Russian drones finished off a Kiev regime T-72 tank in Kursk oblast (video): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/T72.mp4?_=3

Russian drones striking more Kiev regime tanks in Kursk oblast (video): https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/01/05/957352.html

[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 61 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Hey everybody interested in the aforementioned Imperialism Reading Club, with some feedback, I think we'll start off with the foundation of Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism. It's not a terribly long book, so it's a soft start for those who aren't really sure if they have the energy to commit to a big text right off the bat.

I was thinking two chapters per week to start off. That averages out to something like 20-30 pages per week, which should be achievable even for quite busy people, and we'd be done by mid-February. If you think that's too slow and would prefer to go faster, then let me know - I'm unsure how many of you are already involved in reading so I don't want this to be overloading. After Imperialism, I think we'll move on to Super Imperialism by Michael Hudson, with the benefit of adjustments to the pace and structure of reading as we learn lessons as we move through Imperialism.

To give everybody time to get their hands on a copy, digital or physical, we'll be starting next week. If you already have it, then feel free to read the introductions and prefaces and whatever for whichever copy you have.

As I previously said, I will take notes on each chapter and post them here, so that even if you don't or can't read along with us, you can still benefit from getting the basic idea and key arguments made.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 44 points 6 days ago

Trump Team Claims New York Court Order Violates Supreme Court Immunity Ruling - Telesur English

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The communications team for President-elect Donald Trump has expressed strong opposition to a New York court order requiring the former president to appear for sentencing on January 10. They argue that this order violates a Supreme Court ruling regarding presidential immunity. Steven Cheung, Trump’s communications director, stated on Friday that the court’s directive represents a “direct violation of the Supreme Court’s immunity ruling and longstanding jurisprudence.”

Cheung characterized the case as “illegal,” asserting that it should never have been brought forward and claiming that “the Constitution demands it be dismissed immediately.” He emphasized that Trump should be allowed to continue with the presidential transition and fulfill essential duties without being hindered by what he described as remnants of a “witch hunt” against him.

Earlier on Friday, a New York state court determined that there was no basis to dismiss the hush-money case involving the former president, ordering him to appear for sentencing on January 10. This development adds another layer of complexity to Trump’s legal challenges as he prepares for his upcoming term in office.

As the situation unfolds, it remains to be seen how these legal proceedings will impact Trump’s presidency and his ability to navigate both political and judicial landscapes during this critical transition period. The ongoing legal battles highlight the contentious relationship between Trump and various judicial entities, raising questions about accountability and the rule of law in American politics.

[-] Cimbazarov@hexbear.net 61 points 6 days ago

It's so Trudeauver

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