Trump's Picks Are So Bad He Wants To Subvert His Own Congress. Can He?
Added 2024-11-15 10:13:43 +0000 UTCOA 1087 - We examine how the incoming President and his administration are already breaking the law with his transition team before taking on his announced intention to subvert the Constitution--and his own political party--through an unprecedented clown car of forced recess appointments. From the Defense Secretary the National Guard determined they couldn’t trust with a gun around Joe Biden to the Attorney General who just resigned from Congress to avoid the details of what he has been doing with high school students to the deputy chief of staff who is Stephen Miller, there are plenty of good reasons these freaks might not clear even a Republican Senate. Could this one weird Constitutional trick force them through?
Finally, the world’s richest man wants to tell the federal government how to spend its money. What’s the deal with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency?
“Will Trump Pursue a Bonkers Plan to Adjourn Both Houses of Congress?,” Ed Whelan, National Review (11/13/2024)
House Ethics Rules (2024)
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Matt, can you drop me a line at cyonus@gmail.com? I run a non-profit with mostly undocumented clients and volunteers. I want to take steps to protect our folks, especially after this Gaetz (rapist)/Boebert bill.
We can feed everybody
2024-11-20 01:50:48 +0000 UTCIt's such an enormous relief to hear you be frustrated with people angry at someone like Warren for not doing something. I think it is quite obvious that the issue everyone had this election was not even knowing how government works. Not knowing the GOP long term strategy of ruining government so people lose faith in everything and just let oligarchs take over. Like, this was their plan all along and it is working and people feel hopeless. The other problem is that if you so much as say it wasnt really Kamelas fault not being leftist enough etc, you're automativally labeled some kind of centrist establishment hack. I am a socialist, I dont think I could be much more left wing. And yet....I felt excited about Kamela and Walz. As an Aussie I have never expected to be enthusiastic about politicians, they're public servants and politics is all about comprimise and consensus. I want competent people who will do their job. We waste so much energy pretending that this Trump win was about anything to do with Palestinian support etc. All year listening to the mostly tepid punditry of "Trump/Kamala said a thing what does thing mean for the polls?" I kept getting irritated and saying to my husband..."Why arent they grappling with how in our new world it seems NOTHING matters in that old style politics oooOoOoH the policy" It's a facist takeover! All year it was Facism vs. Democracy! There is so much that could have been covered. Hannah Arendt's concept of 'The Banality of Evil', the way that billionaires and silicon valley coalesced in favour of the right....Facebook's moderation policies got worse perpetuating the spread of misinformation and hate..... the GOP blocking legislation in order to make Biden appear ineffective and weak, the courts demonstrated that they are increasingly a wing of the GOP. But no. We had to grapple with the REAL issues like "is Kamala answering policy questions to our satisfaction? It's nonsense, it's delusional. I cant stomach it anymore .tl;dr OA is my husband and my's sanctuary where we get to hear like-minded people talk about this. An oasis.
Jess C
2024-11-18 09:48:42 +0000 UTCThe frustration is understandable, for sure. It is exhausting. But that exhaustion is the point. Wearing people down so they accept these things as banal or commonplace is the goal. New things will keep happening. I'm being heavy handed with the cliches here: but it isn't a single battle. It's a war. There is *zero* shame in bowing out of a battle. But its important not to discourage others because you personally feel like you've had enough for the moment. I can't speak for anyone else: but I think that's what they were getting at. Real, meaningful change can take a lifetime. Take care of yourself, but know progress takes both a community and time.
Katie Herrmann
2024-11-17 06:09:01 +0000 UTCSo I can get the point that just saying “well do something then” is unhelpful when someone points out trump breaking some law or other, but on the other hand I can absolutely understand the frustration. Saying trump broke the law is like saying water is wet and that the pope’s catholic. We know he did, we know he does, we know he is going to continue to. And a lot of the do something crowd are people who have done literally everything they can, and all they ever see is what amounts to wagging a finger at him and saying “shame”. The response isn’t helpful, but it’s not unnatural either
Jinx Greymoon
2024-11-17 00:07:26 +0000 UTCMake America Great (Britain) Again? 🤣
Brian Shuford
2024-11-15 16:20:39 +0000 UTC"can't even get a mwahaha out of this guy". love it.
lauren
2024-11-15 15:57:54 +0000 UTClook, i'm on mastodon too, but it's not usable yet: there aren't enough moderation tools to keep people safe without having to play whack-a-mole. And Eugen hasn't really been proven to be any more responsive of a leader than the average tech CEO. We gotta fix these problems before demanding purity here.
Cheers to The Onion, the greatest media outlet in the history of humankind
2024-11-15 15:50:48 +0000 UTCknowing a skerrick of British* history, what the US is skating towards at the moment looks so much like the twists and turns of our old ass monarchy than anything really political. *(is THAT the Great in MAGA folks are pining for?)
lauren
2024-11-15 15:47:41 +0000 UTCOk, but that's still a CEO, maybe one that hasn't been bought *yet*, but nevertheless still a CEO running a company who centralizes social media services onto servers they control and moderate. By contrast, Mastodon is a decentralized and federated service, similar to email, where anyone can run their own server if they wish or get an account on an existing public server. This decentralized model allows you to avoid corporate censorship entirely, and that's why it's the only viable model for social media going forward. If this election taught us anything, it's that corporations are bankrolling our downfall and using social media as a means of crafting echo chambers that benefit them and their desired political outcomes.
Unlikable Internet Goblin
2024-11-15 15:34:59 +0000 UTCdorsey is no longer associated with bluesky. current CEO jay graber.
lauren
2024-11-15 15:19:00 +0000 UTCRegarding the "we have to do everything Trump says" crowd, I feel like it's not great that they're already polishing up their Nuremberg defenses. "The stuff I'm about to go along with? Rest assured I will have been only following orders."
Gmork
2024-11-15 15:10:08 +0000 UTCIt's insane that the very first thing Trump wants his newly elected majority to do is go on vacation so that he can try and subvert the Constitution.
I let one slip on my first opening statement and it was silent but deadly minus the silent.
2024-11-15 14:52:48 +0000 UTCYeah Bluesky is at best a temporary salve. You can't truly escape the sickness spread by Elon by going to Elon's best friend's house.
Drew Vogel
2024-11-15 13:42:54 +0000 UTCOne of my views of Jan 6 is that is was akin to the Beer Hall Putsch. Less of a serious attempt to take power and more of a social signal of who is truly committed and a test of the system to find weaknesses. A lot of the Nazis who were arrested following the BHP found commraderie with one another while in jail. Their bonds were strengthened while detained. When they got out they formed some of the worst groups fomenting violence that was designed to make normies flock to Hitler. There were a lot of sympathetic Nazi judges who made sure their detention wasn't a barrier to further organization. I strongly suspect Gaetz as AG would be willing to pave the road for the Jan 6 convicts to obtain post-conciction relief where possible and move those detainees to the same lightest security prison where they would be living together, able to collaborate on post-release plans. I'm hoping that Matt might be able to track down which facilities are housing the Jan 6 convicts and give some color on the reputation of each of those facilities. i.e. are they in Bannon jail or Diddy jail?
Drew Vogel
2024-11-15 13:37:53 +0000 UTCGet out of Bluesky and get into non-corporate-owned social media which can be controlled and censored by oligarchs. Mastodon and Lemmy and nothing else!
Unlikable Internet Goblin
2024-11-15 11:20:18 +0000 UTC
