Red Mosquito

BurtReynolds wrote:It's obvious that Trump doesn't work on the weekends, because the news gets really quiet. I wonder how Elon feels about such laziness.

McParadigm wrote:We could always just talk more about what’s happening around us.

I mean, I understand that some people do fully support the dismantling of the administrative state. I’ve known that for a long time.

But we’ve had quite a lot of conversations in here that boiled down to “well, the president can’t do (thing that is being discussed but hasn’t been acted on),” or “trying to do (x) would be a terrible and scandalous violation of crucial norms.” We’ve had people here post op-eds about how canceling federal student loan debt is probably not within the president‘s constitutional powers.

And now you have an administration that refuses to pay out funds authorized by Congress, is unwriting corruption laws at a frenzied pace, and is shutting down entire agencies even when doing so requires outright ignoring the judiciary.

Normally, “criticism of how they are going about this thing“ is as much a part of the conversation here as “what will the effect of the thing they are doing be.“ And in this case it’s happening extremely quickly, so it seems pertinent to talk about.

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:We could always just talk more about what’s happening around us.

I mean, I understand that some people do fully support the dismantling of the administrative state. I’ve known that for a long time.

But we’ve had quite a lot of conversations in here that boiled down to “well, the president can’t do (thing that is being discussed but hasn’t been acted on),” or “trying to do (x) would be a terrible and scandalous violation of crucial norms.” We’ve had people here post op-eds about how canceling federal student loan debt is probably not within the president‘s constitutional powers.

And now you have an administration that refuses to pay out funds authorized by Congress, is unwriting corruption laws at a frenzied pace, and is shutting down entire agencies even when doing so requires outright ignoring the judiciary.

Normally, “criticism of how they are going about this thing“ is as much a part of the conversation here as “what will the effect of the thing they are doing be.“ And in this case it’s happening extremely quickly, so it seems pertinent to talk about.

These are good ideas... but frankly... I can't keep up. Which is the point, I get it, but it's to chaotic to have a marginally informed understanding of anything right now

E.H. Ruddock wrote:No but it’s finally called the gulf of America

epilogue wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:No but it’s finally called the gulf of America

Bi_3 wrote:

McParadigm wrote:We could always just talk more about what’s happening around us.

I mean, I understand that some people do fully support the dismantling of the administrative state. I’ve known that for a long time.

But we’ve had quite a lot of conversations in here that boiled down to “well, the president can’t do (thing that is being discussed but hasn’t been acted on),” or “trying to do (x) would be a terrible and scandalous violation of crucial norms.” We’ve had people here post op-eds about how canceling federal student loan debt is probably not within the president‘s constitutional powers.

And now you have an administration that refuses to pay out funds authorized by Congress, is unwriting corruption laws at a frenzied pace, and is shutting down entire agencies even when doing so requires outright ignoring the judiciary.

Normally, “criticism of how they are going about this thing“ is as much a part of the conversation here as “what will the effect of the thing they are doing be.“ And in this case it’s happening extremely quickly, so it seems pertinent to talk about.

These are good ideas... but frankly... I can't keep up. Which is the point, I get it, but it's to chaotic to have a marginally informed understanding of anything right now

Buby wrote:

epilogue wrote:

E.H. Ruddock wrote:No but it’s finally called the gulf of America

*In selected areas.

dimejinky99 wrote:That so far past a threat there isn’t a word for it.
Stochastic terrorism isn’t even it.

“Elon Musk is mad about Judge McConnell’s decision to unfreeze federal grants…

So he posted a picture of his daughter, her full name, her position of where she works, and a page of a signed tax statement she filed.
The judge’s daughter.”

dimejinky99 wrote:Tulsi Gabbard confirmed as Director of National Intelligence

You guys are fffuuuuucccckkkkkeeed