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I mean, this isn't really governance. It's Trump signing an executive order that will never come to pass without an constitutional amendment, which isn't going to happen. Trump might have promised to be a dictator on day 1, but no matter how much he fancies himself a king, he will always have to work within the boundaries of the framework of government, no matter how ratfucked it might be. Expect this one to be struck down in court very quickly.

I noticed a trend with Trump's executive order spree yesterday - almost all of them are just fluff or red meat for the base that don't have any effect on anything, like the one defining genders, and others are so blatantly unconstitutional that they will be challenged and most likely never implemented, like the one in question terminating birthright citizenship - it's guaranteed to go before the courts and get struck down. Doing something like that would require an constitutional amendment.

He's counting on the goldfish brain base to give him credit for doing these wacky things and then not pay attention three weeks from now when an ACLU lawsuit essentially puts the order in limbo before it dies in front of a judge.

Trump might as well sign an executive order that declares himself Emperor of the Moon and Supreme Chancellor of Outer Space, it'll have about the same amount of impact as this first round of executive orders will.

Of course. I always look at claims such as this with a healthy degree of skepticism, doused with a generous splash Occam's Razor for good measure. A skeptic's simplest explanation would be that nothing happened and Trump is being an idiot as usual. But still, it's worth looking into I would imagine. A subpoena to get Trump and Musk on record about this statement and what Musk does or does not know about the voting machines, at the very least, would be prudent.

I kind of like that TOR is a more primitive version of the web out of necessity (because having these fancy webpages with graphics and other shit to load would just take forever through an onion relay) but I kind of hate that it's just damn hard to find working links to stuff and the association with the seedy underbelly and criminal enterprises of the internet. Also, I've been totally spoiled with my fast internet connection to the clearweb because I no longer have the patience to click on a link and wait for 20 minutes for it to finish loading.

I guess in the future there might be more of a reason for people to retreat from the clearweb, especially considering how shitty things are going in western politics right now.

It's a little more nuanced than that, but it does heavily imply that Elon Musk had some kind of insider knowledge on how the voting machines worked (which, as a private citizen with no connection to the manufacturer of the product, he should not have access to) and Trump credits him as the reason he won the state in a landslide... Highly, highly suspicious phrasing. It could be that Trump is just giving Musk credit for his knowledge of tech in general, but given Trump's known history of attempting to influence the outcome of elections through nefarious means, I wouldn't put it past him to have actually done something. Especially something like using the resources of the richest man on the planet to get what he wants.

Of course, spineless Dems will never challenge him on this. I expect him to fully get away with it, like he does everything.

Remember, it's only a Nazi Salute if it occurs in the Weimar region of Germany between 1938-1945. Otherwise it's just Sparkling Fascism.

You're talking about a guy who told an average of 21 lies per day during his first term, and you believe him when he says he has your best interests at heart?

He has no intention of putting the USA or it's citizens first. He's a liar and you've bought into his bullshit.

It's a tradition we're starting just now, but a tradition nonetheless!

When the value of your money is only measured by how much of a different currency you can exchange it for, and not it's actual purchasing power (which is 0 for 99.9% of all cryptocurrencies) then it's essentially fake money. Literally no different than the monopoly money Luigi was carrying around with him.

The important thing is that we remember. Every last one of these shitbags who are kissing the ring must never be allowed to wash their hands of the stink of Trump.

If some public figure or company kowtows to Trump, they might as well be dead to me. I'm not going to forget that shit in 4 years when Trump is gone and they try to go back to pretending that they are on our side.

Hasn't even been sworn in yet, and they're already sucking him off for doing nothing.

At least there were tiers of canon in old Star Wars. If there were ever inconsistencies in the lore, there was an easy way to determine which version of events was lore accurate and which was just a goof or a reimagining of events.

Disney doesn't seem to think there needs to be nuance like that in the stories. Axing the old canon was necessary for their new "everything with our stamp is canon" approach to work, but they haven't exactly been the most diligent stewards of the lore since then.