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Interesting to me, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but Musk has found all of this “waste, fraud” and somehow it is all the fault of the Democrats. Are we to believe that Democrats are solely responsible for all waste and fraud in the US government? I would think that should set off alarm bells for anyone with a mind that thinks critically.
Which means MAGAts are being deceived. Shocking I know from the crowd that if Trump and Musk shit and pissed in a bucket they would shower in it and tell you how clean they are.
 
CFordUNC said:


If true, this really sucks to read.
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I mean, Vance just went to Europe and told Europeans they, not authoritarians in Russia and China, are the problem and they shouldn’t fear fascism, they should work with fascists and quit being so pissy about foreign government officials from Russia and the U.S. interfering with their elections.

The Trump Administration has gone on the world stage to declare that we are a Supervillain State, and so far everything they’ve done indicates an intention to carve up the world into spheres of domination among the United States (Western Hemisphere & Middle East), Russia (Europe) and China (the rest).
 
nycfan said:
I mean, Vance just went to Europe and told Europeans they, not authoritarians in Russia and China, are the problem and they shouldn’t fear fascism, they should work with fascists and quit being so pissy about foreign government officials from Russia and the U.S. interfering with their elections.

The Trump Administration has gone on the world stage to declare that we are a Supervillain State, and so far everything they’ve done indicates an intention to carve up the world into spheres of domination among the United States (Western Hemisphere & Middle East), Russia (Europe) and China (the rest).
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So hard to even process that this is what's happening. Truly surreal.
 
If I’m Zelensky no way I ever meet in person with Trump/Putin. They will probably assassinate him, if they can figure out how. They give zero shits about any consequences.
 
nycfan said:
I mean, Vance just went to Europe and told Europeans they, not authoritarians in Russia and China, are the problem and they shouldn’t fear fascism, they should work with fascists and quit being so pissy about foreign government officials from Russia and the U.S. interfering with their elections.

The Trump Administration has gone on the world stage to declare that we are a Supervillain State, and so far everything they’ve done indicates an intention to carve up the world into spheres of domination among the United States (Western Hemisphere & Middle East), Russia (Europe) and China (the rest).
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We had a chance, Pubs. Russia has never been weaker. China is facing enormous demographic and economic challenges. We could have led the world for the next 100 years. But you guys just couldn’t handle the thought of sharing a bathroom with a biological woman.
 
"...on Thursday came news that Apple and Google were restoring access to TikTok in their app stores in response to letters from Attorney General Bondi promising that they wouldn’t be prosecuted for violating the TikTok statute. (For background on that statute, see this earlier post.) By all accounts, the Bondi letters simply followed the directives President Trump had spelled out in his January 20 executive order—promising no prosecution and also providing the Department’s legal conclusion that supporting TikTok in app stores would not, in fact, violate the TikTok statute.

As I wrote three weeks ago, whatever else might be said about an Attorney General’s choice to not enforce a federal statute that the Supreme Court just upheld against a constitutional challenge, putting into writing that companies like Apple and Google are not violating the statute when they transparently … are … is something else altogether. Don’t just take my word for it, though; as relevant here, the statute bars U.S. companies from:

Providing services to distribute, maintain, or update such foreign adversary controlled application (including any source code of such application) by means of a marketplace (including an online mobile application store) through which users within the land or maritime borders of the United States may access, maintain, or update such application.
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In other words, when Apple and Google provide access to TikTok through their app stores, they are violating the unambiguous, plain text of the statute. There’s just no non-frivolous argument to the contrary. Thus, to assert that Apple and Google aren’t violating this provision is to assert that 2 + 2 = porcupine. It’s not a legal argument at all; it’s just a diktat.

In essence, then, the Attorney General of the United States has put her name to legal conclusions that (1) she was directed to reach by the President; and (2) are laughably wrong. It was one thing when Trump put it in an executive order. It’s something else when a Senate-confirmed Attorney General follows through—it is the epitome of politics over law from the federal officer who ought to be most committed to the latter. ..."

www.stevevladeck.com

124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)

Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.
www.stevevladeck.com www.stevevladeck.com
 
nycfan said:
"...on Thursday came news that Apple and Google were restoring access to TikTok in their app stores in response to letters from Attorney General Bondi promising that they wouldn’t be prosecuted for violating the TikTok statute. (For background on that statute, see this earlier post.) By all accounts, the Bondi letters simply followed the directives President Trump had spelled out in his January 20 executive order—promising no prosecution and also providing the Department’s legal conclusion that supporting TikTok in app stores would not, in fact, violate the TikTok statute.

As I wrote three weeks ago, whatever else might be said about an Attorney General’s choice to not enforce a federal statute that the Supreme Court just upheld against a constitutional challenge, putting into writing that companies like Apple and Google are not violating the statute when they transparently … are … is something else altogether. Don’t just take my word for it, though; as relevant here, the statute bars U.S. companies from:


In other words, when Apple and Google provide access to TikTok through their app stores, they are violating the unambiguous, plain text of the statute. There’s just no non-frivolous argument to the contrary. Thus, to assert that Apple and Google aren’t violating this provision is to assert that 2 + 2 = porcupine. It’s not a legal argument at all; it’s just a diktat.

In essence, then, the Attorney General of the United States has put her name to legal conclusions that (1) she was directed to reach by the President; and (2) are laughably wrong. It was one thing when Trump put it in an executive order. It’s something else when a Senate-confirmed Attorney General follows through—it is the epitome of politics over law from the federal officer who ought to be most committed to the latter. ..."

www.stevevladeck.com

124. The Thursday Night Massacre(s)

Two very different episodes on Thursday provide growing evidence of a Department of Justice that is showing less respect, by the day, for the rule of law.
www.stevevladeck.com www.stevevladeck.com
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Google and Apple restore TikTok to app stores​


Apple restored the app after Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to the company assuring it will not face fines for violating a law that banned the video-sharing platform last month, according to a person familiar with the correspondence.

"...Apple restored the app after Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to the company assuring it will not face fines for violating a law that banned the video-sharing platform last month, according to a person familiar with the correspondence. A Google spokesperson did not give a reason for why the app was restored.

Both companies took the app off their online stores after a ban on TikTok took effect in the U.S. on Jan. 19. Apple and Google had kept TikTok unavailable for downloads even after President Donald Trump signed an executive order promising his administration would not enforce the law for 75 days.

The order also directed the attorney general to “issue a letter to each provider stating that there has been no violation of the statute and that there is no liability.” Bondi was sworn in last Wednesday. ..."
 
lawtig02 said:
We had a chance, Pubs. Russia has never been weaker. China is facing enormous demographic and economic challenges. We could have led the world for the next 100 years. But you guys just couldn’t handle the thought of sharing a bathroom with a biological woman.
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Not sure I've ever seen a more succinctly accurate statement in more than a decade on this board.
 
HandsonFire said:
Interesting to me, and please correct me if I’m wrong, but Musk has found all of this “waste, fraud” and somehow it is all the fault of the Democrats. Are we to believe that Democrats are solely responsible for all waste and fraud in the US government? I would think that should set off alarm bells for anyone with a mind that thinks critically.
Which means MAGAts are being deceived. Shocking I know from the crowd that if Trump and Musk shit and pissed in a bucket they would shower in it and tell you how clean they are.
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You are correct. Unfortunately there is almost no overlap between those who think critically and MAGA.
 
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