The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor
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Does Trump even care? The only reasons he ran again were to:
- Avoid prison
- Get revenge on those who had the audacity to try to hold him accountable for his crimes
- Take massive bribes
Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog.lol)
Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
bsky.app
Richest man in the world runs rampant across the government despite being "unelected" and decides what to cut from the budget while former Cabinet members gleefully cheer him on.
I'm beginning to think Luigi shot the wrong CEO. I'm also really hating the fact that I'm beginning to think that violence may be the answer this time... I've NEVER thought that way before and I'm a little scared that I'm trending that way now.
There's no such thing as shooting the wrong CEO. Luigi just didn't shoot the CEO whose death would have benefited society the most.
Counterpoint: no one wants to shoot the costco CEO.
There's a reason Musk keeps going out in public with his toddler son and it's not because he actually cares for the kid.
Amendment: it's only wrong to shoot one particular CEO.
I suspect the only reason we haven't seen more copycat CEO shootings is because there wasn't really any appreciable positive difference after the first one. United Healthcare replaced their CEO in a few days, health insurance companies took down the lists of executives off their websites and carried on with business as usual. At least if there's been some big change in how they operate, I haven't heard about it.
Oh, there was a change: and you could see it in growth trends. Private security exploded for a few minutes, becoming a massive hiring field. The CEO's got scared, but not enough to stop being the scum at the bottom of a septic tank.
That means pain and fear do work to change their behavior. So we need to keep killing them.
Kevin Beaumont (@[email protected])
The US DOGE - Department of Government Efficiency - has closed the U.S. Agency for International Development today. Their DNS records were deleted last week ( https://www.usaid.gov/ ) An official has told the WSJ “It’s a coup”...
cyberplace.social
Next question: was it extablished by executive order or congressional legislature recently? If the latter, this is definitely illegal. If the former, then it's only illegal until trump pens yet another EO revoking the original EO. Not that it'll stop anything until it's far too late to undo it.
An article for reference: https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-usaid-c0c7799be0b2fa7cad4c806565985fe2
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This is insane! Is there really no one who's both willing and able to stop this?
Like I keep reminding my dad(who basically said "That'll get challenged in the courts" about the Canada tariffs), going through the courts takes time, and is far slower than the rate they can do these things, and doesn't stop the immediate effects. Everything they're doing is basically going to DDOS the courts, and make it take even longer to undo some of these things.
Also, as I saw pointed out elsewhere, by taking control of the Treasury, Musk is basically using the ability to write the checks to usurp Congress's control of the pursestrings, which is one of their checks against the executive branch in theory.
Also, as I saw pointed out elsewhere, by taking control of the Treasury, Musk is basically using the ability to write the checks to usurp Congress's control of the pursestrings, which is one of their checks against the executive branch in theory.
It’s a coup. I have a dreadful feeling that no one is seriously opposing it because they don’t want to be first up against the wall.
Just saw this, looks like USAID was created by Congressional legislation, so the President technically can't shutter it.
www.justsecurity.org
On the other hand, what's the difference if all employees are fired/on permanent leave with maybe one person left and no funding supplied because the checks allocated to it aren't being written? Not to mention Congress not stepping up to actually use what authority they have.
Can the President Dissolve USAID by Executive Order?
Congress established USAID in statute, and the president may not unilaterally override a statute by executive order.
www.justsecurity.org
On the other hand, what's the difference if all employees are fired/on permanent leave with maybe one person left and no funding supplied because the checks allocated to it aren't being written? Not to mention Congress not stepping up to actually use what authority they have.
Yep. This Trump administration is just a continuation of what he started on January 6, 2021.
I called this one wrong. I thought DOGE was just going to make some nonbinding recommendations, because it still doesn't actually have any legal authority to do anything else. I figured they'd run into a conflict the first time they request access to non-public information they don't have the authority to see.