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US lawmakers demand investigation into admin's secret surveillance of Americans
- josefresco 1mo agoCalling them "lawmakers" at this point seems like a stretch given our laws are now almost exclusively dictated via social media/EO by the executive. I wish I was kidding. Maybe "former" or "legacy" lawmakers is more accurate?
- NDlurker 1mo agoLawmakers in name only. Rubber stamping bills proposed by lobbyists and the executive branch. Lino printing
- verdverm 1mo agolegacy seems appropriate given their average age
- wncvx 1mo agoMaybe call them "chat", like a Twitch chat? Trump is already streaming from the Oval Office and blogging on Truth Social, and the chat reacts within the allowed boundaries.
- megagpt5 1mo ago[dead]
- ratelimitsteve 1mo agoatp calling them show-uppers would be a little bit much. perhaps "elected vacationers"?
- int0x29 1mo agoAsking for an OIG investigation would be more reassuring if Trump were not regularly firing inspector generals, replacing them with loyalists, and then using them to investigate his perceived enemies.
- josefritzishere 1mo agoHow can America be a kakistocracy and a kleptocracy at the same time? We are that good.
- CamperBob2 1mo agoIn a nutshell, what they are good at is hiding the consequences of their fuckups. They are blessed with (among other things) unbelievable luck that never seems to run out.
- majorchord 1mo agodon't forget oligarchy
- josefritzishere 1mo agoand plutocracy
- OutOfHere 1mo agoThere is a bigger problem, which is the governmental encouragement of software and hardware products with implicitly low security, spyware, and even backdoors. Google and Cloudflare are prime examples of vendors peddling such products. As in case in point, if the security on Android had been any good, then GrapheneOS wouldn't need to exist. We even have a governmental institution (NSA) dedicated to making software weaker rather than stronger.