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They’ve really given up on being subtle about anything, haven’t they? This is a clear conflict of interest and yet I doubt anyone is going to stop Musk.

Unfortunately Trump isn’t alone in that regard - quite a lot of people reach adulthood lacking critical thinking and the ability to actually discern what is or isn’t a reliable and useful source of information. Add to that the propaganda machine of media empires like Murdoch’s and it’s no wonder people buy Trump’s inane ramblings.

They’re only worried about this now?! These are supposed to be observant people who manage large sums of money… How can they be that oblivious to Trump’s modus operandi?! Even in his first term there was obvious evidence that he never matured beyond childhood and had a tenuous grip on reality.

I’m not sure if this is Johnson acting immature and throwing a tantrum because the GOP couldn’t get their way, or if he’s buying time to make sure they can get the nine Republicans into line before trying again.

I’m not a lawyer either, but my take on it is that they will argue that whilst the 12th Amendment requires that the VP candidate be eligible for the office of President, that eligibility is not the same as the election constraint of the 22nd Amendment and that the 22nd Amendment doesn’t actually address eligibility.

So much for cutting the waste!

Out of curiosity, how many of the downvoters on this article have actually read it? Most of it is not about Fetterman but the fact that the Democrat leadership seems to have their heads in the sand and is neither demonstrating leadership nor willing to learn from their loss last year.

At least she regrets her decision and seems to be capable of learning.

Signal security relies on user competence. The user has to be savvy enough to not fall for phishing attempts. All it would take is for one of the morons to have scanned such a QR code for that whole chat to have been compromised. I would bet big money that at least one of these fools had already done so.

Considering one of the participants of that Signal chat (Witkoff) was in Russia at the time, I think you would win that bet.

Apologies! Don’t know what happened there… it’s Malcolm Nance.

Malcolm Nance (veteran of US intelligence) discussed the Signal breach here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MERwAvesX9o

It’s not just conceivable, it’s almost guaranteed that non-US powers were listening in. These people are either incredibly stupid (and have the Dunning-Kruger over-confidence to match) or they are traitors to the US.

Okay, so who’s going to stop him? Anyone?

It should be blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention that the “Department of Government Efficiency” isn’t really about efficiency.

It may not even be that rational. It could be as simple as him being petty.

This is the approach I would suggest. I do not agree with forcing people to take vaccines, but if they want to be part of society then this is a reasonable requirement. It’s simply an extension of the duty of care principle we already have for healthcare environments where vaccination and other measures are required for people to work in.

The most generous way I can look at this is to say she’s in denial. Five unvaccinated children with one dead. Apparently a 20% fatality rate (in her family) is not enough of a reason to get the vaccine.

Ah, good catch. I’d forgotten about that. Apparently the 12th Amendment should narrow that loophole significantly:

But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.

Honestly, the whole insurrection thing should disqualify him anyway, but again they’d probably argue that he’s not ineligible for the office of President, he just can’t be elected to it due to the 22nd Amendment.

no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once

Unfortunately, there’s an obvious loophole right there that they will argue for. The 22nd Amendment doesn’t say that Trump can’t be VP and take over as President on Day One. It just restricts how many times he can be elected as the President. He could theoretically run as VP and have an enabler run as President an indefinite number of times - there are no limits to the number of times somebody can be elected as VP: https://www.factcheck.org/2008/04/vp-term-limits/

I believe the term is “airship” (blimps have no frame/internal structure). Can we toss the Nazis out of them instead?

He’s really leaning into the villain trope. So many sci-fi villains claim that empathy and/or compassion are weaknesses. Their lack of it is usually their undoing.