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by kcplate 2y ago
> the SCOTUS ruling on immunity for "official acts" gives him broad protection for basically anything going forward How is this any different than the qualified immunity given to many law enforcement officers? I mean, personal
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by kcplate 2y ago
A “constitutional crisis” is a situation where the constitution does not provide a specific way to resolve a dispute between branches of government. Seems to me that in every case we have seen so far with Trump’s use of EOs, there is still
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by kcplate 2y ago
It’s outsourcing. Frankly, it’s really only an issue if they hold a US citizen and do not provide appropriate constitutional protections. That would be the same as any offshore provider not meeting a service commitment…you fire them and t
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by kcplate 2y ago
Do you understand how long and what it takes to ratify an amendment? There a reason why we haven’t done one in 33 years and that one took 202 years. The process is designed to be difficult, it’s much more than a simple majority and bang o
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by kcplate 2y ago
The executive branch from 2021 through 2024 ignored some laws too. That’s what executive branches do…”selective enforcement”.
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by kcplate 2y ago
It takes much longer than 4 years to amend or unamend (which would be required in this case). He’s out in January 2029 without a doubt.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Good luck with that. He is in for the next four years and will finish his term. Impeachment and removing him from office means the dems will need to control congress. Which can’t happen until 2027. Then, those dems will need convince at
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by kcplate 2y ago
I am saying that the pandemic caused an statistical outlier election shift that year and Trump’s election in 2024 where the stats sort of reset to baseline makes it seem pretty likely that without the pandemic and with his ability to increa
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by kcplate 2y ago
I do my part to heat up probably 75 birds a year on my grill if you are keeping count.
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by kcplate 2y ago
It was reported because of the prior incident in DC. Also this crash was more newsworthy because it was damaging to ground structures and there were bystanders on the ground who were injured.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Please let’s not go back to the 2016-2020 impeachment and removal fantasies. The man was impeached twice, once even after his presidency was over and still the American people put him back into office. Also, of note, every time he has run
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by kcplate 2y ago
> I'm sure it's fine he can pick and choose Pretty much every president has done this…so it probably is fine .
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by kcplate 2y ago
> is for good people to do nothing Or for good people to run shitty candidates that can’t win the election
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by kcplate 2y ago
> then turned around and said you would indeed be offended if someone used the wrong one. You need to go read my comments again because I literally said no such thing.
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Out of respect for everyone Sorry, I don’t believe that this is the real reason, but I realize it’s the reason that is often given as justification. If it was really “out of respect for everyone” you wouldn’t make a big deal out of it
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by kcplate 2y ago
No, I am not playing the guessing game, they are. I am choosing to not play a game that didn’t exist 3 years ago because it’s unnecessary. This is literally a first world, English language only language fad. Y’all want to play it, have f
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by kcplate 2y ago
> If you do I can't respect being unwilling to put in the miniscule effort to state your preference instead of being offended when someone doesn't default to it Before about 3ish years ago such a thing was never expected of me
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by kcplate 2y ago
Just how many actual “rank and file employees” have actually been targeted or fired so far? If you are going to bring up the RTO directive, please don’t, those folks are in full control of their continued employment and prior to March of 20
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by kcplate 2y ago
You are making accusations with certainty and this implies that you have special legal knowledge or evidence that could be used to at a bare minimum to stop the behavior. There will be no shortages of lawyers available to you willing to us
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Those made nearly everyone uncomfortable in my experience and were the height of performative advocacy policy. I won’t do it, but don’t care if others do in email signatures . I find it odd when it’s done in a meeting but I still won
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Trump and Musk's actions are very explicitly against the law. So sue them. Take action, make your case. All you have here on HN is an opinion which may or may not be accurate.
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by kcplate 2y ago
Happens every administration. But someone from the opposition party always gets their nose out of joint and it makes news and it’s just the most horrible thing ever .
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by kcplate 2y ago
Exactly what do you think you have refuted here? All you did was link to a financial aid page for a private university that costs nearly $90k a year to attend. Every university has some sort of financial aid page or program. Every universi
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by kcplate 2y ago
Perhaps I should have said: “Simmer down there sonny boy, we may not speak your lingo but at least our generation can recognize obvious sarcasm”
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by kcplate 2y ago
Not a full ride of course, but a scholarship of some kind? Definitely. Lots of scholarship money is out there and if you have the ability to get accepted at Stanford you undoubtedly qualify for many scholarships. Frankly if you are a stud
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by kcplate 2y ago
When our dog’s toy rolled under the couch he went and retrieved a flyswatter we keep in the cleaning closet and brought it to me. He had seen me use this only one other time when his toy rolled under there.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I am calling BS on this as a daily consumption diet, you would have to have a helluva constitution to pull this off and definite competitive eating levels of body control. You would need to completely override your brain’s satiety center.
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by kcplate 2y ago
I’d lay a bet down with good money behind it that every kid at Stanford with wealthy parents also has or had a scholarship or two. Not sure that the presence of a scholarship, financial aid, or even a student loan necessarily proves poverty
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by kcplate 2y ago
> Clearly, we the minority have failed in explaining our views. Many years ago I wrote an essay called Two Laws of Explanation. One law says that if you’re explaining something and the person you’re explaining to doesn’t get it, that’s n
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by kcplate 2y ago
As was said in another comment on this thread, some agencies chose to add accessibility into their DEI programs. A11y needs were already legally protected (and still is). Unfortunately by tying it into a political concept (that is not pre

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