Via CNN:
Judge blocks part of Trump’s sanctuary cities executive order
Washington (CNN)A federal judge on Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a threat to take away funds from sanctuary cities — the latest blow from the federal judiciary to President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda.
In a ruling delivered Thursday, Judge William H. Orrick sided with Santa Clara, the city of San San Francisco and other cities, who argued that a threat to take away federal funds from cities that do not cooperate with some federal immigration enforcement could be unconstitutional.
Velveeta Voldemort was reportedly so angry he transformed Bannon into a ferret, performed a Cruciatus Curse on Conway and made Spicer chug the Drink of Despair so he could check the status of a locket Horcrux.
Major Major Major Major
God, what a great headline.
les
So, Ms. Cracker, when will you be publishing the definitive Thesaurus of Orangeymandias Appellations?
‘Cause ya could.
Frankensteinbeck
He is was going to cast the best Cruciatus curse, everybody loves his curses, some people say it would be the greatest Cruciatus curse ever performed by the government, but he forgot what he was doing and walked away from the podium.
Major Major Major Major
@Frankensteinbeck: plus those poindexters over at the military decided the cruciatus was illegal.
TenguPhule
Please find a better series for metaphors, Betty.
For the love of what remains of our sanity.
donnah
Wait, is this so-called “judge” from another tropical island? Because they don’t count.
Roger Moore
ITYM “transfigured”./pedant
Roger Moore
@donnah:
No, but he’s based in San Francisco, so nothing he says counts for anything anyway.
Betty Cracker
@Roger Moore: Take it up with Professor McGonagall. /pedant-pwnage
Splitting Image
Trump’s supporters will eventually become so angry they will transform him into a liberal.
Iowa Old Lady
When you look at some of the stuff the judge cites, it’s even better. He refers to Chief Justice Roberts saying the ACA can’t withhold Medicaid funding if states refuse to expand because that’s coercive and says this is the same. He also cites stuff Spicer said on the order’s intent. I love the way these guys keep getting hoisted on their own petard.
But I still want some indictments.
Shell
Separated at birth.
Arm The Homeless
Watching the Conservative “Brain Trust” try to tap dance around their pet-definitions of the 10th Amendment, will be both hilarious and frustrating.
It will be a master-class in Double Think, no doubt.
cmorenc
On an incrementally brighter note, in another week or two, we will be an eighth of our way to the next presidential election in Nov 2020, and only a little over 2 1/2 years until the next Presidential campaign begins in earnest (not sure when I EVER before actually looked forward to the start of the needlessly long marathon of the Presidential nominating and election process we have in this country, but this time…I cannot help but look forward to it. We’ll have to fight every step over most of those intervals, and often be sweating over whether Trump will succeed in destroying the country beyond redemption before then, but for the first time, I’m gaining hope in our survival until then.
Goku
@TenguPhule: Fuck that, Voldemort is literally Hitler and the Deatheaters, fascists. It fits perfectly
Trump and the Republicans. Voldemort and his Deatheaters. Mirror images
So who’s supposed to be Harry Potter?
Yutsano
@Goku:
Well Maxine Waters is McGonagall.
“Not today…”
billcoop4
@Shell: Don’t insult ferrets.
WMC
Barbara
I don’t know exactly which funds were being threatened and coercion might be one argument out of several, but nearly all funds are made available as part of statutory programs, with eligibility criteria established by statute. Congress can change the formula for apportioning those funds, and might be able to condition them on cooperation with ICE, but until Congress does that, the executive isn’t entitled to essentially rewrite statutes by fiat. This is seriously fucked up.
Oh, and apparently Trump’s latest country of concern is Canada. Because Canadian politicians have been outsmarting American ones over lumber and dairy and Wisconsin as a border state is particularly disadvantaged. Wisconsin isn’t technically a border state I guess he’s already worried about winning Wisconsin next time around.
Goku
@Iowa Old Lady: Ah, yes but that was different because liberals are the real fascists and Judge Orrick is a cuck who needs to be silenced by God-Emperor Trump. QED, libcuck!
/s
cmorenc
@Iowa Old Lady:
Don’t be too disappointed if / when one of these cases gets to SCOTUS, to see Roberts and his RW cohorts pull off some astounding legal pyrotechnics to ahem…distinguish between the two situations such that what could not be done with Medicaid expansion CAN be done wrt “sanctuary cities” because….[argle, bargle, mumbo-jumbo…10th Amendment applies to one but not the other for…reasons.]
trollhattan
@cmorenc:
Yeah, and I’m sure Kennedy is malleable on that. We already know about the New Guy (such an independent thinker).
hovercraft
@Iowa Old Lady:
Dammit, what the hell is wrong with all these judges and the liberals, don’t they know that what Cheeto Benito and his minions say on TV is not to be taken literally. They are just saying words, not making or explaining what policy is. Poor Roberts, Scalia and co already used the, “this can only be used one time for this one thing” card on Bush vs Gore, now you have lower courts citing him to give the base a giant fuck you. SAD!
Something else apparently they didn’t know, your words can be used against you in a court of law. They’re so used to just going on TV , lying and just making shit up, and no one calling them on it, that they thought they could get away with it?
This is an unfathomable level of stupid and hubris.
Goku
@cmorenc: Why even go to that trouble. The conservatives on the SC could write their decision on a piece of toliet paper they used to wipe their cracks with with the originalist legal opinion of, “go fuck yourself”. I mean theoretically, right?
TenguPhule
@Barbara:
Most people don’t realize that a large part of what kept the executive branch in check was the notion that nobody would be stupid enough or evil enough to abuse its authority or try to do completely illegal shit because the other two branches would serve as a counterweight if they did so.
Now that Republicans control all three….
japa21
The GOP and RW was notorious for shopping around looking for a court that would see things their way which is how both the ACA and Obama’s executive orders on immigration made it to the SC and got upended. I expect the Dems and like minded people will work extra hard to have the 9th handle a lot of their cases against Trump.
And, of course, Trump will moan and whine about court shopping.
TenguPhule
@Goku: But all the good guys there were either morons, lawbreakers or pacifistic wizard hippies who didn’t do anything.
And their idea of punishment was to send the bad guys to a revolving door prison with easily bribed evil abominations that immediately side with the bad guys because they can eat more souls that way.
japa21
@trollhattan: I actually have a hunch you will see Kennedy lining up more on the liberal side if for no other reason than to stick it to Trump for his attacks on the judiciary. Needless to say, I can be wrong on this (being wrong is my default position) but it could happen.
Goku
@TenguPhule:
Since when did you ever have a problem with that lol jk
TenguPhule
@Goku:
Bush vs Gore: This opinion is only good this one time and may not be cited for use at a later date.
I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of this pretty soon.
SatanicPanic
I feel like Ed Rogers at WaPo doesn’t get enough attention. He’s Sean Hannity level hackish. His latest: Trump is skillfully navigating Washington’s budget realities
TenguPhule
@Goku: Because they were stupid lawbreakers. Having to rely on villain stupidity to pull off just about every plan really isn’t the hallmarks of good planning.
Goku
@TenguPhule:
I never understood that. I mean what’s stopping a future a Court from citing it? Because they said so? The rule of law????
Cacti
It’s apparent to anyone with a legal background that these EOs are not getting vetted by someone with legal education or training.
Cato Institute conservative/George Mason law prof. Ilya Somin wrote back in January why Trump’s sanctuary city EOs were going to get slapped down, and listed the line of SCOTUS cases that explain why.
Link
Mike in NC
Unlike Bannon, ferrets don’t mind taking a bath now and then.
The 100 Days of Chaos party on Friday should be epic.
Barbara
@Goku: That phrase gave the game away. A court that overlooked every kind of procedural roadblock to get to a predetermined result was trying to tell future courts to do as they say not as they do. Yeah, fat chance.
Iowa Old Lady
I think it’s time to revive “Blame Canada.”
chopper
“nobody knew federal law could be so complicated!”
Splitting Image
@japa21:
I don’t have any hunches yet, but I do believe that if Kennedy is thinking about retirement, how he decides to spend his no-fucks-left-to-give period is going to determine what the country looks like come 2020. If he decides he wants to Burnish his Legacy, you may very well be right. If he decides to check out early, he may throw in with the other four and leave writing the opinions to Alito and Gorsuch.
VOR
@Barbara: Well, Canada is right across Lake Superior from Wisconsin. You can debate whether you would have to go through Minnesota or Michigan waters, but the fact is you can leave a port in Wisconsin and sail directly to Canada. The real issue is Wisconsin has an R governor, Reince Priebus (Chief of Staff) is from Wisconsin, and the Speaker of the House is from Wisconsin.
Roger Moore
@japa21:
I expect the 1st and 2nd to get a fair workout, also, too. But the 9th has the advantage of simply being bigger.
NotMax
LurkerNoLonger
@hovercraft:
Thank goodness for small favors that they don’t because it has been their words that have come back to bite them.
mapaghimagsik
Has anyone made a lovely beverage image of Trump tears?
Felonius Monk
@SatanicPanic:
Did you read some of the comments? Hilarious.
NotMax
Canadian shakin’.
Brachiator
@Goku:
To mash up pop culture allusions, Trump reminds me of the title villain of The Wrath of Khan. Trump halfway knows how to be a businessman, but he does not understand how to run a government. Or, to quote Spock:
Trump can make bold utterances and sign executive orders, but he does not know how to get legislation passed or how to exercise authority cleanly via his cabinet appointees.
We are lucky also that so far the Republicans are even more fractious than the Democrats. The GOP can’t get past the Freedom Caucus or whatever Tea Party boneheads are calling themselves this week to make their majority work.
All this leaves Trump with empty gestures and dazzling his supporters with empty boasting and emptier displays of strength.
Unfortunately, in this game it is still advantage Trump. For now.
nightranger
Pretty sad that the absolute last firewall to a failed state is the federal judiciary.
debbie
@Iowa Old Lady:
Between this, the condemnation of Trump’s using the White House website as a marketing channel, and Ivanka’s being booed in Germany, it’s been a pretty decent day.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
Well, good luck with that. I assume that means they’re going to be sending out a bunch of bills that they hope don’t get taken to court in Canada?
MD Rackham
@mapaghimagsik:
Speaking for myself, I’m having nothing to do with any exudate of Trump.
Felonius Monk
Wow, Trump is gonna show them Canucks a thing or two. Let’s see how this works.
The U.S. does not produce enough lumber to meet our own needs, so we import about a third of our requirement from Canada. So now there is a 20% tariff on that imported lumber which makes it 20% more expensive for us to buy. So now the price of a new house here in the U.S. will go up by a few thousand dollars and that probably means some people will not be able to afford that new home they were planning on Which means the home building industry which was starting to make a comeback will be stunted. So construction workers will be laid off. etc. etc. You get the picture.
And the lumber that Canada won’t be able to sell in the U.S. will be sold overseas for more $ than we were paying, so when we finally come to our senses and remove the tariff, the lumber will be more expensive than if we had let things alone in the first place.
Nice job Trump. Too bad neither you nor Wilbur know the first fucking thing about economics. MAKING AMERICA GRATE AGAIN — ONE FUCKUP AT A TIME.
Gvg
@Mnemosyne: I don’t think tariffs are done by executive orders. I think he has to get congress to pass legislation. Could be wrong on that as I sure can’t recall anybody being this stupid before. I bet their is a problem with retroactive too unless they can argue Canadian firms broke some pre existing law and it’s a fine or something.
Trump and company still don’t get that you can’t just make stuff up and make it happen.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
I assume it means they’re saying whatever they think sounds tough because they know they’re unlikely to be called on it later.
SatanicPanic
@Felonius Monk: I did. They tear him a new one every time. I don’t know why WaPo employs him.
debbie
@Roger Moore:
Trudeau’s clearly the adult in the room:
Cacti
@Felonius Monk:
The home manufacturer’s association is livid about it. They estimated it will add around 4.2% to the cost of new homes, and destroy about 4,600 construction jobs.
NotMax
Forget the name of the novel am reminded of which featured the captain of a ship who would stride around the deck shouting “Do things!” at any crew in sight.
Newsflash for Dolt 45: it’s not a fiatocracy.
Brachiator
@debbie:
I guess the Germans also gave her a nickname:
Mnemosyne
@Cacti:
It’s okay, Trump promised those construction workers jobs as coal miners, so it’s all for the best.
debbie
@Brachiator:
My guess is it’ll be the second choice. Just one more distraction.
Villago Delenda Est
@SatanicPanic: Rogers is an utter hack. Name on tumbrel manifest.
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
They’ll have to get in line behind the 10,000+ who have lost jobs in retail.
AdamK
@Shell: Never seen a real ferret that blotchy.
Millard Filmore
@NotMax:
With Trump in charge its a kakastocracy.
Omnes Omnibus
@AdamK: Mange.
Captain C
However, since Velveeta Voldemort is actually a Squib…
This actually happened, as Mattis was hiding behind the door and did the actual magic. Not that it’s hard, as Bannon’s pretty much a rodent anyway.
Which had no real effect on her, so she feigned extreme pain so as to maybe get back onto VV’s good side and therefore TV.
In other words, another pee show. Besides, Qusay (Eric) sold the locket Horcrux for beer money long ago, and replaced it with a gaudy but fake souvenir he found on Canal Street.
Villago Delenda Est
@Millard Filmore: Pedant mode: Kakistocracy
Roger Moore
@Cacti:
And guess who will see a larger percent increase in house prices and who will see a smaller? That’s right! Coastal elites, who are paying most of their money for land in desirable areas, will see a much smaller percent increase in house prices than red blooded, small town Americans.
Kathleen
OT, but I just saw this “column”, er, drivel, er bilge vomited by David Brooks last month. I thought at first it was a parody. Sadly, I think this paean to Steve Bannon is genuine, but hell, I can’t separate parody from real life anymore.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/opinion/let-bannon-be-bannon.html?smid=tw-nytdavidbrooks&smtyp=cur
Millard Filmore
@Villago Delenda Est: Sure, but the French “kaka” prefix is generally better understood.
Millard Filmore
@Millard Filmore: Humph. I do not have permission to edit my comment. The real French prefix is “caca”.
hovercraft
@NotMax:
@Millard Filmore:
With Trump in charge its a kakastocracy.
Says who?
Roger Moore
@Captain C:
Ferrets are mustelids (i.e. carnivores) not rodents./pedant
SatanicPanic
@Felonius Monk:Maybe the word softwood makes him self-conscious.
jl
This is good news but not that much of a surprise. I heard some local coverage of the arguments. The federal lawyers were saying “Naw man, the executive order can’t do all that. That would be unconstitutional. Don’t worry about it so much, local city lawyer dudes, it’s no big deal, really.”
Which seemed kind of an odd thing for them to say in court. But then, it was a Trump administration executive order, so I guess they did the best they could.
Patricia Kayden
Thank goodness for the courts. They’re doing a great job keeping Trump from fulfilling his horrendous policies.
JMG
I wonder if the DoJ lawyers are shaving points in their court arguments. Easy enough to do, not like Trump or Sessions know the law.
Captain C
@NotMax:
I once was flipping channels and caught a few seconds of the Apprentice. The Donald was walking through his office through an array of obviously busy people, and growled “Get to work, you people!” like he was showing off how tough a boss he was for the camera.
I think he’s currently getting some real lessons in actually being a leader; however, I don’t think any will sink in.
Patricia Kayden
@Felonius Monk: Picking unnecessary fights with our allies like Canada is not a good move. Makes you wonder what the hell Trump is doing.
Captain C
@Captain C: Help, in moderation! Did I post a forbidden word by mistake?
Captain C
@Patricia Kayden:
I’m guessing “following every random impulse that passes through his brain.”
Quinerly
@Cacti:
Just heard a snippet on NPR’S Marketplace. That report was saying at least 8,000 construction jobs will be lost. Not finding the figures on line, though. It will kill new construction. That I know.
Barbara
@jl: This is a variant of an argument that you cannot challenge something until it clearly poses a threat of injury. In this case the argument was that it was not actually being enforced. I will spare you the ins and outs, but in this situation it is not surprising that argument was not persuasive.
Citizen_X
@Felonius Monk:
Is this even possible under NAFTA?
TenguPhule
@Citizen_X:
Legality has never stopped the Trumps from doing anything before.
After the fact is another matter, but of course the damage is done.
TenguPhule
@Patricia Kayden:
Two front land war in North America to show those stuck up Italians that Asia is a Pu**ycat.
TenguPhule
@Kathleen: I think Brooks has been replaced by the wise old cab driver that eats at the salad bar.
Roger Moore
@Patricia Kayden:
Trying to eliminate any coherent opposition to Russia? Just a guess.
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: Firing squads are more efficient when dealing with job lots. The blades tend to get stuck once the necks reach triple digits.
TenguPhule
@Brachiator: Not the Dick Whisperer?
Steve in the ATL
@Patricia Kayden:
For the moment, yes. But Justice Stolen Seat hasn’t had a chance to rule on anything yet.
Brachiator
@Patricia Kayden:
Trump consistently looks for simple answers to complex problems. From NPR News:
But with Trump, anything does not put America first is always a “disgrace” that has to be resolved “quickly.”
This always dazzles the rubes, even if they end up with nothing when the dust settles.
TenguPhule
@Gvg:
WTO rules, violation of. We’re gonna risk getting kicked out soon if Trump keeps up this shit.
zhena gogolia
@Steve in the ATL:
Oh, yes, he has. He killed a man just to watch him die.
NotMax
@TenguPhule
And that’s why one should spring for the Ginsu brand (as seen on TV!).
;)
TenguPhule
@NotMax: Ginsu jam after reaching low double digits. Can’t even resharpen the blades without them snapping.
NotMax
@TenguPhule
More like the coarse whisperer.
And her hubby, the bourse whisperer.
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Poison gas is reputed to be very effective for the truly large-scale jobs.
TenguPhule
@Iowa Old Lady: “We have to blame them before someone thinks about blaming us!”
/It wasn’t supposed to be a documentary FFS!
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore: Requires large rooms that you can seal off airtight. Bullets are cheaper and faster.
joel hanes
Makes you wonder what the hell Trump is doing.
Digby speculates today that one possible reason The Donald might have summoned all 100 Senators to His throneroom at once is to break the news that he’s decided to pre-emptively nuke North Korea.
With any other President I would dismiss that idea as incredible.
efgoldman
@donnah:
I’ve seen parts of the opinion elsewhere. Basically the judge said (with sarcasm just below the surface) “Since there is no legal or political definition for a sanctuary city, there’s no legal or political way for the gummint to take away appropriations on that basis.”
NotMax
@joel hanes
Digby ought to at least be aware they’re traipsing to the Old Executive Office Building and, it is claimed, at the behest of national security people and not Dolt 45, who is not to be in attendance (again, it is claimed).
Unusual arrangement. So unusual one suspects it’s an exercise in upmanship to demonstrate how high the senators will jump at the snap of certain fingers.
Mike in NC
@joel hanes: Makes one sort of wish that “White House Down” was a documentary.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
No Democratic senator should attend. It stinks of an elimination gambit/false flag premise.
A hundred dead senators would allow Trump to kill two birds with one bomb.
ETA: And allow him to dispense with the White House in favor of spending all his time on Trump properties. A threefer!
JMG
@NotMax: It’s just a stunt. And Senators of both parties who attend, who themselves are not without ego, will not be happy if it’s just another briefing.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
The check (denominated in Loonies) is in the mail
NotMax
@TenguPhule
You must be the proverbial life of the party.
;)
efgoldman
@Felonius Monk:
Among many things Persimmon Pustule doesn’t understand is actions => consequences.
@Gvg:
Smoot and Hawley have been dead a LONG time
TenguPhule
@NotMax: It says something about these times that the scenario doesn’t actually sound that paranoid.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: Don’t we have enough loonies in our country? Why would we want to import more?
TenguPhule
@JMG:
And Riechstag was just a fire.
Millard Filmore
@TenguPhule: When this meeting was first announced, my first thought went to Saddam Hussein’s move: “[he] called an assembly of the Ba’ath Party. During the meeting, a list of 68 names was read out loud, and each person on the list was promptly arrested and removed from the room.”
http://www.biography.com/people/saddam-hussein-9347918
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: Yes, it does.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
Splitting Image
@joel hanes:
“What? Do I look like some sort of comic book villain? I did it 35 minutes ago.”
TenguPhule
@Millard Filmore: That was my second thought. My first was thinking, didn’t I already see this Designated Survivor pilot?
efgoldman
@NotMax:
He saw that the ni[clang] issued a whole bunch of EOs and thinks (as much as he “thinks”) “well that’s easy enough….”
He missed the part where the ni[clang] had battalions of lawyers and department heads review the EOs first.
Of course, it doesn’t help that Apricot Asswipe has left a lot of those positions unfilled. On purpose. .
TenguPhule
@Splitting Image: Thankfully, not that competent.
efgoldman
@Patricia Kayden:
Since he doesn’t have the first fucking idea, why should we?
amk
Roger Moore
Speaking of rain on the fail parade, it sounds as if there’s yet another wrinkle in any attempt to repeal Obamacare. The UN High Commissoner on Human Rights has apparently written to the trump Administration saying that any attempt to repeal Obamacare without an adequate replacement would constitute a human rights violation. They asked the administration to share the message with Congress, which they naturally didn’t. Now it’s apparently been leaked by somebody in HHS and confirmed as authentic by the UN.
Uncle Cosmo
@efgoldman:
FTFY. Call it a favour for a Good Neighbor, eh? :^p
BruceFromOhio
There ain’t nothing like regret
to remind you you’re alive
El Caganer
I wonder if this lumber tariff was his idea, or if somebody who wanted more Federal forests opened to logging whispered it into his ear.
Goku
@Roger Moore: They blew off the UN. Wouldn’t be the first time a powerful enough country has done so when it suited them
Villago Delenda Est
@amk: I informed Tom that he won the Internets for today.
J R in WV
@Goku:
Maybe….. Chelsea?
Cacti
@Quinerly:
My numbers were based on a 2016 study of the effects of a hypothetical 15% tariff on Canadian softwood. Presumably a 20% tariff would be worse.
Here’s a link.
J R in WV
@Quinerly:
When we were building our new house in the early 1990s, Hurricane Andrew hit southern Florida like a hammer, and the price of plywood went up by 100% overnight.
So much for budgets and cost forecasts!
Plus I needed a generator to work up in the woods, prior to getting a power drop installed – none to be had. They sent trucks around to pick up the machines in stock and took them all to Florida!
randy khan
@NotMax:
He’s starting a trade war with Canada!??!!?? Man.
Quinerly
@J R in WV: @Cacti:
I guess the mattress/box springs manufacturers are all up in arms over it too. Seems all the wood in box springs comes from Canada. I think that NPR report said the tariff will add an average of $3000 to the price of new construction. I’m thinking there will be more press on this later this week…that is if we aren’t nuking North Korea tomorrow.
Quinerly
@randy khan:
Yep. Trade war with Canada since Trump thinks WI shares a border with Canada. Didn’t you hear?
PPCLI
@Cacti: I have a hunch that 95% of the home builders and 99.9% of their subcontractors voted for Trump. I hope they enjoy getting what they wanted.
Mnemosyne
@PPCLI:
Don’t worry, any job losses will be the fault of liberals and Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, and the solution will be to double down on supporting Trump.
Ian
@Goku:
Frighteningly enough, they can do that. Furthermore, they have.
fuckwit
@Arm The Homeless: I can’t wait until the subject of The Weeds comes into focus.
fuckwit
@Goku: The sad, frightening truth is that Democracy and self-government only works if people, well, RESPECT THE PROCESS and have some integrity and consistency. It’s SELF government, which means you have to govern yourself. You have to say, OK, fine, that makes sense, I was wrong, you win. That takes self-discipline. We can’t have a democracy with people in power who do not want to keep democracy running. It relies on their ability to police themselves.
Sure, checks and balances, three branches.. all of that means nothing if people ignore the whole thing and just do whatever they want. “What are they gonna do, MAKE me? Issue a strongly-worded letter? Fuck that!” With that attitude, you have a dictatorship or anarchy, or an oscillation between the two.
Power flows from the barrel of a gun. Self-government flows from people’s willingness to do the right thing even if someone else isn’t pointing a gun at them (or even, in spite of that).
That’s why the pursuit of power for its own sake as Troll embodies is so fucking toxic and dangerous.
You want a slow, inefficient, consensus-based, mired-in-bureaucracy-and-comity, totebagger, bipartisan-cooperation world like Obama envisioned and behaved as if we really lived in. Because the alternative to that is a fucking nightmare.