Surprised at the lack of news on EO 14219 this morning. Was expecting some rumors at least for a few agencies on the massive deregulation lists.
Tomorrow I guess?
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Surprised at the lack of news on EO 14219 this morning. Was expecting some rumors at least for a few agencies on the massive deregulation lists.
Tomorrow I guess?
We’ve always been at war with Canada.
Engaging with folks on here a bit today and it has been eye-opening.
It seems almost everyone’s solution to everything now is escalation and expanding every military in every country on earth.
Hope it’s just a bad streak from where I started posting and there are still cooler heads out there.
I think you’ll find that when you really think about it, Europe has always been our key adversary.
Please do try to keep up with the present… and the past.
Oh god, yeah, I wasn’t thinking to combine this with the crypto ideas.
I don’t think that will work for them, but I do think it’s a plausible theory that may be what they are trying to do.
I don’t think this adds up.
What evidence would we look for to support this? What is their Exit path?
If they cash out USA in terms of dollars, and harm the long term of America to do that, what’s the play to abscond with the riches at the end? Can’t stay here, not trusted elsewhere.
Maybe SDRs?
It’s not a coup unless:
1) Congress impeaches and removes and he refuses to leave
2) A domestic military (or similar) interferes with the branches of government conducting their constitutional duties
And #1 would be a pretty sad and pathetic coup unless a militia backs him after impeachment
Fundamentally, this new group wants things from the lower tiers - maybe less now with automation and AI, but somebody still needs to maintain the machines and bring the food to the table, at least a while longer. Full “rugged individualism”, wild-west seems untenable for their goals (as I see it).
Certainly agree, except on the absence of rules. Our old rule of law was already multi-tier (elites/wealthy, in-group citizens, out-group immigrants). Perhaps the rules will shock with brutality or other deviations from the old ways, or perhaps they will be somewhat unspoken, but there will rules.
Now, I’m just hoping the new rules for the new order are revealed soon and they aren’t terrible. If we are lucky we will keep presumption of innocence and rule of law.
The Constitution still covers this.
A simple majority in the House and 2/3rds in the Senate. Repeat if necessary.
A SCOTUS ruling is not even a necessary step, but a refusal to enforce one of those would likely make it easier for Congress to explain to the people.
If Congressional actions on Amendments are invalid when tied to ratification time limits, then which other constitutional amendments would also be invalid for that same reason?
Quite a dramatic way to prevent ERA and allow Trump to be President for life, with a kicker ending women’s voting rights.
However!, if they lacked authority and it is NOT severable, that’s where this gets interesting/conspiratorial. In that case, the whole action of Congress on ERA was invalid from day one back in the 1972 and all the ratifications and timelines were invalid because the whole process was improper.
A SCOTUS argument to overturn Dillon v Gloss would be that the 28th is valid because the original action by congress in 1972 was invalid only in the part with ratification time limits text. If Congress lacks authority to limit Article V, and that is severable, then the 28th is the law of the land.
Biden ERA declaration hinges on the fact that Congress lacks authority to limit the constitutional amending process outlined in Article V. Essentially if they wanted to limit ratification timelines they would need a Constitutional Amendment to do that (also for rescinded ratifications to be valid).
President outranks Archivist last I checked. Some old legal memos don’t change the reality of the Constitutional Amendments process in Article V, and a Presidential declaration definitely has more authority (and at least arguably carries more weight) than a ceremonial publication.
The argument of “it’s not enough for a President to declare an Amendment as ratified” also works doubly well for “it’s not enough for the Archivist to simply publish it” - if people want to reject a constitutional amendment they can do that on any minor technicality they choose.
main thing i have to say to a lot of you is that if you truly believe that nothing matters then you should delete your account, log off, cancel your voting registration and stop paying attention to anything political at all
Good news for US is that an autogolpe won’t be needed (unlike the new situation in Korea it seems). At least not after the quadfecta starts on 2025-01-20.
If some or all members of the opposition party are enemies of the State, the government will have full legal authority to round them up.
Seems to fit with the timing of this narrative
Been thinking lately on writing a web browser with a file-over-app mindset.
Long ago, maybe in the 90s, an HTML file, image files, js, and css files could reliably reproduce a web page as you saw it…
Would be great if “save web page” was a real and simple thing for saving an article or blog post.
In “computer science” I think there’s a bunch of early papers in the 1960s you can find, but maybe look back a bit further to Agner Erlang too en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agner_K...
one thing that’s funny about “echo chamber” discourse is that basically nothing identifiably worthwhile has ever emerged from anything other than an echo chamber, at least culturally. the whole tricky part is connecting the outputs of echo chambers together, which is called “criticism”
(1) It is not true that history is written by oppressors and tyrants. Though many of the evils that afflict us are the work of men deceived by the Evil One, everything is ultimately subject to the judgement of Christ, the just and merciful King. #GospelofToday (Mt 25:31-46).
But, a more realistic hope:
1. 47 lives his best life, finally relaxed and carefree, sets a new record for most says spent golfing while President
2. 47’s team does good: smart deregulation, streamline bureaucracy, really help people with homelessness or drug use, lower energy costs, avoid WW3
Alternatively:
1. 47 expands executive power
2. 47 does great things
3. We establish a colony on Mars in our lifetime
(also could work out in branches where 47 leaves early due to old age and VP steps in)
Assuming a left-leaning American view:
1. 47 expands executive power
2. 47 does bad shit that is wildly unpopular (but recoverable/low deaths because “rosiest”)
3. Dems landslide into a super majority in 2026
4. Dems impeach and either use new executive powers for good or fix to prevent ever again
Such a great game!
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the median voter.
