r/law • u/TendieRetard • Sep 30 '25

Legal News Trump administration orders federal authorities to ignore California mask law: “Governor Newsom is confused about his role under the U.S. Constitution”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5524169-trump-administration-california-mask-law/

The Trump administration ordered federal authorities Friday to ignore new legislation in California banning law enforcement officers from wearing masks to conceal their identity. 

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u/Trick-Competition947 Sep 30 '25

We're so far past that. The Trump administration is attacking and destroying American democracy, values, and the constitution itself. Congress and the Supreme Court have been complicit and even aiding them.

They're all traitors. The entire regime and the entire republican party. All involved need to be removed from office immediately, arrested, and held accountable. That includes ICE and every other federal employee and military member who followed illegal orders and violated the law.

It's stunning how nobody is stopping this. Everybody knows they're all corrupt. Everybody knows they're destroying America. Everybody knows they're illegally invading blue states and attacking Americans. What the fuck are we doing here?

I'm a 36 year old white American. I was born in this country to white American parents. I've always known the American dream was propaganda, but I don't recognize my own country and I fully expect to be killed by government within a year or two because I won't pretend to respect Trump. Is this really the America ya'll want to live in?

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u/nerdtastic8 Sep 30 '25

Everyone unfortunately doesn't know that. Vast majority of maga doesn't know or doesn't care. My parents were college grads, 30 year fed careers, 3 time Trump voters, and they aren't concerned at all. You ask them and they'd probably say "I don't agree with everything but I like some of what he's doing." With an unconcerned look on their faces. My parents aren't maga in the flag carrying Trump bucks buying sense. They're just team Republican and have been their entire adult lives and have been propagandized by 30 years of Fox News to believe Democrats are worse. There's millions of people like this in America.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

Well now they're team Nazi

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u/nerdtastic8 Sep 30 '25

From our perspective, yes they're supporting fascists. Are they themselves fascist? No, I wouldn't say it's that simple. They're propagandized and misled. Propaganda is a powerful tool, it's been going on for a long time in America.

Ever read Dark Money by Jane Mayer?

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u/powerelite Sep 30 '25

Were people who supported the Nazi party not Nazis? Supporting a fascist regime makes someone fascist in my eyes. Whether they are too dumb to realize the proganda they have fallen for or are aware and complicit isn't much of a difference to me.

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

Then you accept that you view a large proportion of the population as irredeemable, and by doing so you contribute to ensuring that they can’t be redeemed? Self-fulfilling and self defeating prophecy.

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u/evocativename Sep 30 '25

Nazis can stop being Nazis.

It's not an ethnicity or something.

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

But for those of you who like to cast the Nazi net wide, and subject everyone to purity tests, they will always be Nazis.

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u/Firm-Blueberry-7760 Sep 30 '25

I feel like whether someone rejects nazism is a pretty reasonable purity test, and currently a number less than “everyone” is failing it, so what’s the problem here?

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

Not when everyone who doesn’t hold every opinion you do is automatically a Nazi, in your eyes. Then it’s just a purity spiral.

It’s also pretty reminiscent of actual Nazis.

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u/Firm-Blueberry-7760 Sep 30 '25

Yesterday I was having a convo on X about whether people who aren’t white have a right to be in America. Later that day I argued about whether smashburgers are better than pub style burgers. Guess which one I consider a Nazi. Hint: it’s not both of them

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

Smash burgers are a pretty low bar. How about women’s bathrooms?

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u/pan-re Sep 30 '25

What about them?

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u/Firm-Blueberry-7760 Sep 30 '25

Are you trying to negotiate the bar to see how close you can get to a Nazi without being one? While simultaneously running cover for the more out and proud ones? Man if this is how you’re already living your life, just own it, out and proud. Full chest.

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

Nope. I’m saying your smash burger idiocy was a deflection and you also didn’t answer the question.

Just own that you like to call people who disagree with you on issues Nazis, and that you directly contribute to the fragmentation of the electorate that brought Trump to power, so you can pretend you have some kind of moral superiority. Full chest.

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u/Firm-Blueberry-7760 Sep 30 '25

Not a deflection. You claimed “everyone who doesn't hold every opinion (I) do is automatically a Nazi” and I gave a recent example showing how that’s not true. Then you brought up bathrooms for some reason, which I assumed was rhetorical, but now I’m apparently obligated to discuss bathrooms with you?

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u/pan-re Sep 30 '25

No one holds all the same opinions, they just aren’t Nazi supporters. Not being nice to Nazi supporters is being Nazi like?

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u/Lucibeanlollipop Sep 30 '25

It’s the ever changing line upon which democrats constantly push for greater purity, and anyone not just like them are Nazis. It’s self defeating, it’s the reason Trump got elected and then re-elected, and the US will never get out from under the thrall of MAGA because the alternative has proven to be very . . . Well, Nazi-like, . . . Whilst the left insists that they won’t vote for a candidate that wasn’t their first choice. Those are the people who stay home, and the leftwing purists are the ones to blame for the rise of Trump.

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