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Chicken ate my Ballot's avatar

* set up the ziggy bat signal*

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DemoCat's avatar

Even the SCOTUS should be nervous about failing to remind Reichmaster Von Drumpf that his powers are limited, he must respect congressional authority and he works for us. If Elon’s goons break the treasury, and millions of Americans can’t get their benefits and social security, things might get…unstable. If the market tanks and Trump sends America reeling into a Great Depression: MAGA Sized! It’s going to affect them too. Maybe this mad science experiment should be reigned in? It’s time to take the book of matches away from the two pimply geeks who want to burn it all down.

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Stephen St John's avatar

So now Vance and Musk think Trump should ignore court orders. They're literally destroying the country.

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Synical's avatar

Once trump and musk openly defy the courts, all that will be left to protect the current system and keep us from falling into fascism will be the US military.

Does trump and project 2025 have a plan to corrupt that too or is that the last true bulwark...?

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

It seems they're going to corrupt everything and then the Courts will tell them to go lie down. They're out over their ski's but if nobody puts them back "in check", they'll continue pushing their agenda.

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Ron Spangler's avatar

Vice President Butthair's statement is both factually correct and completely irrelevant.

Vice President Butthair himself is only half of that pair.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

"At some point this administration is going to defy a judge’s order." They've been doing that for a week.

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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Marcie. The whole maladministration is insane, inane, inept, inapt, and incompetent. Unfortunately, they're also "in."

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

I have been dutifully filling out online forms to my Attorney General.

The only phone number available is the BCI (Bureau of Criminal Investigation) line. I'm sure if I called them with my concerns, I'd have someone with a badge at my door disputing that it was a legitimate use of that resource.

So, I fill out their tedious, tedious form.

I have been polite. Basically, Elon Musk has stolen my personal information. I want to know what the Attorney General's office is doing to safeguard my information.

I get a return email noting the receipt of my message with a meaningless number that's probably significant to them attached.

I got a little snippy today.

I noted that 19 Democratic Attorneys General have filed lawsuits to try to protect their citizens rights while mine had done nothing.

I ended by asking if Elon Musk would have to publicly identify as a woman before his office would do anything.

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Johnny Appleseed's avatar

Good. Snippy shows fire (and possibly some anger). As you were!

If it's a financial institution who didn't secure your/our data, they'd have to pay you/us for it. I'd say we should be able to legally, through the Courts, recoup money from Musk.

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Innocent_Bystander's avatar

Only a complete idiot would believe these fascist assmonkeys *aren't* actively violating and/or ignoring every court order that comes out.

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Daniel O'Riordan's avatar

Funny how every single person on the Sunday shows is a complete idiot, isn't it?

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RRJKR's avatar

MAGA chuds do not understand that the Federal Government is the largest single consumer of EVERYTHING Cut Federal spending and it all goes to shit!

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RRJKR's avatar

When all those Federal employees lose their jobs can can no longer buy stuff from Amazon,. what happens? Did you consider that, Jeffie?

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RRJKR's avatar

For the most part, Trump's "oligarchs" hold only fictional wealth based upon popularity. NO "real assets" nothing tangible. That kind of wealth is very fluid Even Bezos is dependent upon the ability of people to buy shit through his marketing system Remove millions of Federal employees from his marketing base See what happens

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RRJKR's avatar

Both Trump and Musk are nouveau riche To the long term wealth they are irritating. A nuisance that will be tolerated for only so long When they start fucking with "Old Money' They could see their "paper wealth" vaporize overnight

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Old Man Yells at Cloud's avatar

They could see more than their paper wealth vaporize. If they fuck with old money enough, they will have a "You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won't have it!! Is that clear?! " moment.

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RRJKR's avatar

I deal with major financial institutions and insurance carriers every day.. BIG MONEY I'm starting to hear through the grapevine some dissatisfaction from those entities about ELMO fucking with their interests. Elmo may be the richest man in the world but there exist entities that can crush him like a bug., Will be interesting to see how this plays out. He might be screwing with the wrong people

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GEM's avatar

I keep thinking that the Moneyed Class might be ok with this shite for a while but if their money starts looking like it's in danger of being wiped out, they will do something.

Oth, our local area has some Trump supporters that are fairly wealthy but aren't getting it yet. I am a tiny mouse in their FB accounts, waiting for them to catch up.

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Robert Eckert's avatar

From your lips to Mammon's ear...

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KEITH TAYLOR's avatar

And when a judge tells a right-wing politician, "You may not do that because it's illegal," when it damned well IS illegal, the right-wing politician may then tell the judge to eat rats' dicks sprinkled with arsenic and do the illegal thing anyway, while the judge is sent to Guantanamo?

Sure. Just fascism 101.

Nemesis, goddess of retribution, stalk the earth with the Furies behind you.

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mr_snarky's avatar

musk and his minions working to make the us venezuela north

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