volkris @volkris@social.cleverlibre.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
11 Democrats didn't vote (compared with 7 Republicans), allowing the process to be sidelined to the committee.
I don't think judges are as cavalier as you think they are.
The judicial system in the US is very, very hesitant to issue such penalties, and for good reasons involving both working relationships and the limits of their powers.
The DoJ's behavior in other cases has and will impact how they handle the matters before them, but it's not as if the judges are going to visit executives at the houses demanding payment.
It's really for Congress to act at this point.
Well keep in mind this has been in the works for a while.
He's been raising these issues for a long time, and it's been wellknown that this filing was in process.
It's just not likely to go anywhere since so much of the public actually likes what Hegseth is doing and doesn't understand why it would be illegal.
@lawprofblawg neither a pea nor a nut!
Listening to conservative talk radio, the Republican side of things has been split solidly by last week's election.
The younger generation blames Trump and says his era is over. The older generation said Trump did everything right, refusing any blame at all.
This disagreement is so stark and irreconcilable that there's no overlap. If the party does manage to hold together it will be a prove the younger generation correct, as it would mean this disagreement over Trump is as irrelevant as Trump himself.
#SeanHannity, in my interpretation— Even though the Republican loss was not their fault, and Republicans did well compared to all these other thing...
Right, because it's a work computer the point is to make it better for your workplace.
This makes sense.
Glancing around reports on this today, it sounds like he's focusing on delivering usefulness to customers and not AI for the sake of AI.
Looks like he's targeting a different path than those other companies.
@jaykuo Republican voters were saying all this stuff, so Cruz was just following his own advice.
He was responding to what Republican voters were saying.
And now that the bottom has fallen out of Republican unity after the election it's only reasonable to start responding to the new reality of voters.
Now Republican candidates will have to start reaching out to Independents because they won't fear the Republican orthodoxy.
@petersuber keep in mind that not all government employees hold such an office.
Keep in mind, also, that just because something is written into the Constitution doesn't mean there is a legal channel to execute it.
This is not the winning play that some people think it is.
Well, their voters paid attention to them, and in the US system, that's what matters.
It's always worth stressing: in the US system congresspeople represent their districts, not their parties or their country.
The American Senate doesn't allow anyone to anoint themselves anyway. That's not how that works.
Majority leaders are just the team captains that the rest of the team settles on.
And their power is hugely overstated in the general press. They just represent the majority in a chamber of equals.
It's not necessarily that he's a step closer, depending on how the strategy here works out.
He might be a step farther if he won't be able to actually form a government, making his going first a way to make him look bad and less able to govern.
Yes!
That's the real solution to White House putting up roadblocks.
Great, if they don't want to get their side of the story out then they lose. The press will keep on reporting with what they have, and apparently the White House isn't interested in engaging with the public.
It's not censorship, it's forfeit.
@gottalaff.bsky.social Not everyone will.
A whole lot of people ignore the guy because he's not that interesting, and his schtick got old long ago.
@mehdirhasan The key is we need to fire them if they don't succeed.
If they get the job done while taking that money, maybe using the money against the donors themselves, great!
But we don't need to go into the conspiracy stories. However they get the job done, get it done. If they don't they get fired. That's it.
And as I understand it, it's a very unusual order that came about because Trump kept messing around with the golf course stuff.
He kept thumbing his nose at the courts in bad faith so they laid this down because they were fed up with him.
The Miller and Wiles transition really helps illustrate what's been going on in the Trump White House.
Wiles represents the way most of the Trump folks were turning the White House into a retirement home. She was like the washed up socialite still finding her place by organizing the Bingo nights.
Miller is a Rasputin-like figure, a powerhungry sociopath with no loyalty to anyone but himself. He jumped at the timing to grab this lever of power.
It will be interesting to watch him stab Trump in the back without Trump realizing it.
Agreed that it's old BS, but there's still a big difference between titled nobility and a moral or spiritual leader.
It reminds me of the scene from Blackadder:
"Prince George, who is described in his party news sheet as a 'great moral and spiritual leader of the nation,' but is described by almost everyone else as a 'fat, flatulent git."
How does qasimrashid find a justification of pedophilia in that question?
Is he just trying way too hard to twist a simple, if really ignorant question?
Honestly, this kind of response is how that ignorance gets promoted.
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Joined Dec 2022
