No, Trump signed an executive PURPORTING to rename DoD to Department of War. An executive order is a memo from the President to his underlings; it has no force of law and certainly cannot overturn or invalidate an actual law.
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No, Trump signed an executive PURPORTING to rename DoD to Department of War. An executive order is a memo from the President to his underlings; it has no force of law and certainly cannot overturn or invalidate an actual law.
There does not exist enough negative consequence in the Universe for them to understand. Not understanding is their superpower, and that pit is infinitely deep. You will not ever fill it.
I don't think McConnell chickened out. I think he calmly and coolly calculated that Donald Trump out and free and unpunished was useful to the Republican Party.
Well, this president really can't afford for us to look too closely into child trafficking, can he?
The Greenbrier bunker; the United States Director of Time; an Edsel in prime condition.
He does not have any legal authority to do this, of course.
Also, "bone-petite"??
In that the US government did not then (and should not now) recognize the Confederacy as a legitimate government and thus the rank of general was never conveyed by any legitimate authority. In some ways a fiction but a useful and meaningful one.
Considering how much time Trump spends golfing, eight vacations in seven months IS training for the presidency.
Not to quibble, but what exactly did he appoint her to? The President -- indeed, the federal government -- does not oversee elections.
January 6 was a violent insurrection, not a peaceful protest. Just posting this periodically to make sure we remember.
Enforcing it only up to the point that anyone brandishes a gun at one of them.
Can he also read their midi-chlorian levels?
More like, em, 40 years. Even before the decade was over we were doing nostalgia for it.
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One blue voter.
Maybe Trump should stop doing impeachable things?
Well, she now CLAIMS they said that.
Why isn't she suing the Surgeon General?
Some people need someone else to blame.
Did he somehow miss most of the Cold War? Does he not remember Sarah Palin?
Whatever works for you. I found "And So It Goes..." helped me revisit some Joel music I'd passed on, and it benefits from the revisiting.
Yep, because the go-to guy on the fairness of elections is the Russian dictator.
All bullying is a reaction to being afraid all the time. All MAGA are wimps.
All bullying is a reaction to being afraid all the time. All MAGA are wimps.
"outside the Capitol DURING THE INSURRECTION on Jan 6, 2021". Let's give full context.
I believe Trump when he claims he's trying to tackle violent crime in the Capital. He's just 1678 days late.
And the Epstein list.
""And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change"... :)
There is that quip in Star Trek VI where one of the Klingons admonish the Federation for speaking about "inalienable human rights". :)
Well, they're not veiling it anymore.
Oh, I'm fairly sure they understand it just fine.
To be fair, he's the Vice President. It's not like he has a real job or anything.
It's not incompetence. I mean, it is, but also, a hallmark of personality-cult authoritarianism and fascism is to concentrate power in the hands of as few loyalists as you can manage.
I wonder if this is actually legal? (a) If the state stops paying them by direct deposit, but keeps paying others by direct deposit, is that allowed? (b) There are also clear separation-of-powers concerns with allowing the executive to monkey with compensation for the legislature.
Of course they matter. Now he'll be able to claim how he BROUGHT crime down.
That actually isn't true. You can impeach people out of office, since one penalty is to prevent you from holding office again.
Not all caps? No exclamation points? Not authentic.
Hence the "stab in the back" theories.
I feel like you misread his post 100%.
I agree but I think the wound happened in 2008.
Well, Eric Adams desperately wants to be accepted in MAGAland, and MAGA is a literal death cult, so that tracks.
I'm pretty sure there's about to be a lot of snarky hate for We Didn't Start the Fire, but in fact that song is brilliant and deep, as evidenced by all the attempts to ape or parody it that fall so spectacularly short.
MAGA is a literal death cult. Like, I'm half expecting to see them summon Cthulu or something.
I will sheepishly admit to not getting how great a song it is until far too recently.
Oh, playing Catan is guaranteed to bring out the worst in humanity.
"Quick, make him choke an old lady so I know who to root for." www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBYz...
And mistaking "interest" == "economic interest" is part of how technocratic liberalism helped paved the way for Trumpism.
My wife laments the loss of the sandlot pick-up game, where kids learned how to NEGOTIATE the rules, without having some hovering authority to set limits. Our drift to authoritarianism owes something to our removal of this autonomy from them when young.
My very-anecdotal sense as a high school teacher of 29 years is, this is definitely true. Kids don't have free periods. Kids have afterschool activities like sports or yearbook. They don't often just "hang out".
Remember when we were told we didn't need race-based qualification because what really mattered was socio-economic admission? But now it's also verbotten to ask about income. Hmmm. It's almost as if the people attacking affirmative action were insincere...
Huh. 2024, you say? Which President should get credit? (We all know which President will CLAIM credit.)
And wittier.
>> I own operating businesses but somehow it's suspect because I made money. << Nah, Senator. You're suspect because you oversaw the greatest Medicare insurance fraud in the history of the United States. www.politifact.com/factchecks/2...
The DEI you mention helps people of color, which the white supremacists see as prima facie anti-white. Let's face it -- the fascists and racists basically can't compete if the field is anything like level.
I need to know something about it. My wife has very serious issues with the uncanny valley and also doesn't like stuff as dark or weird as I do, so I have to know whether I'll be watching it alone. :)
I haven't seen it yet, so I'll accept the argument.
Travelers, the best time-travel show of the past 15 years. Also Timeless and The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Firefly, of course. The Expanse. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks.
Person of Interest, hands-down the near-future best sci fi of the past 15 years. Also increasingly relevant in these AI-soaked days.
Well, that's DEFINITELY worth $30 billion. Smart move, Tesla board.
And yet, they're so wildly incompetent, they wouldn't pull off even the lie.
I just spam-block any unsolicited text asking for donations. I don't care how big the name or how urgent the call. Rewarding bad behavior incentivizes bad behavior.
What I love about that first tweet was, Dr. Krugman was very clear in saying that he DIDN'T think the books were being cooked at that time; he was just flagging (correctly so, I believe) that we couldn't be sure, due to earlier Trump shenanigans.
Since NYC is blue, this is a feature, not a bug, from Trump's point of view.
EVERY Republican accusation is a confession -- every one.
You can't build your politics on fear without being, at heart, a coward.
Wow. That is a huge claim. Not necessarily wrong, mind you. I'm just saying, it's pretty high bar to clear.
Easy enough.
Ooh, deep cut. Much props.
EVERY Republican accusation is a confession.
Walkback. It's TACO Thursday.
In the early 1980s, too. In fact, nearly every era.
So, guy offered money for doing a task had an incentive to do the task? Shocker!
👏👏👏
"Or just charged". That's insane.
Winning isn't the only worthwhile motivation.
How do you know it's not cats already in charge?
One reason for opposing general debt relief is that it removes it as a tool that the powers that be can use to control the plebs.
"Said to be" by who?
>> for the remainder of their operational life. << In an unrelated note, DoD decided that their operational life ends tomorrow (probably)
Due to Trump's well-known concern about hurting innocent people by hurling unsubstantiated charges, of course. 🤦
Every time he states angrily that he never went to the island, I become a little more convinced that he went to the island.
I thought I was the only person who felt this way.
The most dangerous invention in human history was the LLC. It's far from clear that there's any good reason to limit liability.
What do you mean by "fine"? Whom do you mean by "we"?
My unpopular opinion: I don't like First Contact on any level. It is a subpar action flick and hardly at all a Trek film, mangles the history, and absolutely ruins the Borg, the only truly alien alien species that Trek had come up with.
"Period" accurate? I see what you did there.
I think you're right, but consider this: There's no reason for billionaires to struggle and scheme to make in more money when they already have more than they could ever spend -- yet they do. They've "won" capitalism, yet they still fight.
The evil synergy is that ICE imprisonment is BOTH highly wasteful (but satisfies racists) AND lucrative (satisfying grifters). Racists and grifters encapsulates nearly the entire modern GOP. Of course, no reason a particular person can't be both.
I just think people are hoping for some out-of-context event to reset our civilization and clear away the ongoing dumpster fire. Good? Bad? I'm not sure people care any more.
In two weeks, of course.
Nuance? But I thought bluesky was just an echo chamber?
Excellent! Are these available anywhere?
It's a shame they couldn't do this two weeks ago, or even last week.
Sadly, it is not. The people really screwing us over -- the oligarchs -- wouldn't be caught dead in an airport lounge. Or on a commercial flight. What do you think private hangars are for?
I mean, at some point, accepting a lie is a choice.
So they ARE becoming more human.
Of course, you have the same issue if you substitute "human" for "LLM"
And read them, too, of course.