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I mean, yeah, he definitely can't for the census 'cause the census has basically fuck all to do with the executive. Its handling et al is mostly a congress thing, and that by way of flat out constitutional mandate. Executive order largely can't do shit to it. It can try but by and large everyone involved is entirely and legally able to just go, "Uh, no."

What he's saying he'll do is what government agencies were telling him to do instead of this census bullshit a good year and a half (and however many thousands of dollars of federal funds and who knows how many man hours that could have been doing literally anything else besides dealing with this shit) ago, or thereabouts. That he's saying he'll go through with it is part of why it's only somewhat of a victory for people who aren't colossal sacks of shit, but overall it's still definitely a flat out loss for him and the GOP.

Oh hey. Trump's given up on the census thing, apparently. Got his shit pushed in so hard he's trying to spin doing what was recommended over a year ago as some kind of victory. Good-ish news, I guess.

She was a business major with a minor in philosophy, that was apparently looking into law school. Paperwork was probably a way of life prior to this new way of life. Some processes you don't forget, much including triplicate.

E: ... also, the character design on oscar (and his crew) is kinda' amazing. Might be my favorite design of what I've read of the webcomic, so far.

We actually have shit that asks about citizenship, anyway. There's other national surveys besides the main census.

Beyond that, at pretty much goddamn no point in the history of the census has the point of the thing been to enumerate citizens. It's always been a tool to identify raw number of bodies as accurately as possible, and pretty much anything that gets in the way of that is undesirable.

We're aware and the bloody GOP has been aware since day one adding a citizenship question to the thing would get in the way of that, up to and including depressing numbers even among actual citizens (which is zero surprise when the GOP's jackbooted asshattery has been shitting on them as well as migrants of all stripes).

Far as I can recall the Constitution doesn't apportion representatives based on number of citizens, anyway. The article that leads to the census itself just mentions free persons, untaxed indians, and "others", since they apparently didn't have the balls to call slaves slaves. Citizenship wasn't on the menu to begin with (and gods, why would they even give a flying fuck about immigration status at the point the thing was written? Most of the folks writing it would have been first or second generation immigrants themselves), and considering the amount of non-citizens (documented and otherwise) representatives are supposed to be governing over and otherwise, y'know, representing, it probably shouldn't be.

At which point the robber doesn't bother to eat, and just shoots and leaves. News stations around the world are later befuddled by the gun toting panda.

... since when? Far as I've noticed pelosi is entirely aware substantiative bipartisanship is dead and buried. She'll get GOP folks on board if possible (particularly on minor stuff) but is pretty damn cognizant of how possible that is without indulging in heinous shit probably directly aimed at major democratic constituent blocs.

You might be confusing her with biden, somehow?

Of course, outside the opinion smear piece, the source it drew that comment from also has commentary about Pelosi having cared about stuff like single payer for literal decades. I'm pretty sure it's less an issue of being pressured to care, and more about being pressured towards specific solutions, to the extent there's anything as strong as resentment to begin with.

As far as I'm aware there aren't many democrats particularly pissed off at AOC (or most of the further left wing of the party, for that matter) at all. Occasionally irritated over specific issues, but generally they're on the same side and same page.

Because calling them on it gets a chorus of "FALSE EQUIVALENCE!" ??

(because you know, mentioning that they are just as bad (at not representing their demographic, QED) as the GOP, means that somehow they are just as slimy in all the other ways. Somehow.)

They're not just as bad at representing their demographic as the GOP, though. At all. They're not perfect and they cater to more than one demographic, but once a-fucking-gain they're not nearly as bad as the GOP that regularly goes out of its way to fuck over regions they have political control over, along with everything else they can get their hands on.

Framing sidelining four votes out of 240-ish as ignoring public sentiment is pretty bullshit, too, though. That's not the democrat old guard capturing the process, that's the majority of the bloody party deciding something was the best option they had at the time.

E: In any case, for some actual news, it seems the lawyers working the census citizenship question are being replaced. To all appearances because they were basically stick-a-fork-in-them done, and now the shitgibbon's administration is flailing about in response.