The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
See, Republicans have been raiding Social Security for petty cash for decades…
That’s a popular opinion but it’s not supported by any reputable source I can find.
“Fixing” Social Security can be done pretty simple by just raising the taxable income limit. That could be done at any time but of course Congress is about as useful as wet toilet paper so nothing will happen until it’s a pants on fire emergency.
I don’t like this at all.
There’s overlap because of Federal Elections. You can have one set of rules for State / County / City level elections and another set for Federal.
If I was this Judge I’d be requesting a 24x7 security detail from the US Marshals.
As a taxpayer I would like to know WTF the USAC is doing with 9 Billion dollars a year 'cuz were sure not seeing much of that investment.
I honestly can’t figure out what Congress is doing with these kinds of programs. There’s another one called BEAD (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) that was created in 2021 that had yet to get a single household connected to the Internet as of September 2024 despite having already spent $20 BILLION dollars!
So for Fiscal Years 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 the US Federal Government according to official figures spent a combined total of 46 BILLION FUCKING DOLLARS ((9x4)+20) and has nearly nothing to show for it.
Yeah, the courts needs to be looking into this.
Shush Greenie. It’s a Billionaire’s playground and there’s so many of them knocking around that you can’t throw a rock without hitting three of 'em.
The guy who came up with checks and balances really overlooked only giving one branch a military
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The United States didn’t start keeping a large standing Army until after WWII!
Take a look at this from Statista for most of our history the US would build up the military for a war and then strip it back to almost nothing as soon as the fighting was over.
The original guys didn’t fuck it up we allowed Congress to break it!
Yessss Republicans keep grabbing that 3rd rail. Clutch it tighter!
It’d be a shame if someone(s) sent an extra-large Dragon to her house.
Had to look hard to even notice the skirt past the mismatched socks. 🤷
Yes Republicans. Grab that 3rd rail and hold it tightly!
It’s referred to as “structural adhesive” and it’s used by everyone from Ferrari to Lockheed-Martin.
Honestly nearly every vehicle on the road and plane in the air uses structural adhesive. The problem here is with Tesla, not the technology.
No just the property of the very rich dude
Puh-leeze. The gal who burned down an abortion clinic in Wyoming also got a 5 year Federal Sentence.
So anyone who damages my property will also.get 5 years?
Probably. It’s what the gal who burned down that abortion clinic in Wyoming a few years ago got.
The word “violence” hasn’t historically been specific to just people. One can get violent with a vending machine or in British English one could say “the reporters did violence to my speech”, meaning they twisted the meaning of what was said. Violence is nearly a synonym for damage.
Beyond that most Media refers to Arson as violence, the fact that they’re using the word with property instead of a person isn’t unusual or suspicious.
I have absolutely no issues with the boycott. Elon the Idiot is learning the same lesson that the Ultra Wealthy of the 1920s did; getting publicly involved with politics can cost you a LOT of money. Bezos and Zuckerburg are learning it too. All of these Billionaires are getting a very expensive lesson in why they need to stay out of the limelight.
Because this is definitely a response against the insanity of fascism.
I don’t think this has much to do with “fascism”. If this was only happening to Cybertrucks (which are a pretty new model) or only happening at dealerships and so impacting Tesla itself that would be one thing but WTF does someone who bought a Tesla 3 years ago have to do with “fascism”?
This is a knee jerk reaction to what Elon is doing with DOGE and one group of people is lashing out at another group of people, many of whom having nothing to do with Tesla or it’s front man aside from having bought a product.
don’t think the MAGA crowd retains significant reservations about engaging in vandalism themselves
The MAGA crowd is supposedly the most heavily armed and violent group of fascist thugs in existence and yet somehow they simply haven’t bothered to ever do anything like this.
…it’s just that so far they haven’t spotted a target where it would serve their cause to do so
The coal rolling good ol’ boys with an AR-15 in their back window could have started doing burning down EVs a decade ago when Elon was a Liberal darling…but they didn’t. They could start doing it now but they haven’t.
Should Republicans be voted out of power eventually, there will most certainly be vandalism from the right, conceivably even widespread violence against people…
I’ve been hearing this same argument for over a decade and yet its never really happened. Again, somehow the most highly armed group of violent fascist thugs in existence hasn’t ever bothered to this en masse. Not even when they weren’t in power, like just 2 years ago when they were all POd at EVs and Immigration.
Again, and I can’t stress this enough, fuck Trump and his MAGA idiots. I despise them and I’m not defending them. I’m simply trying to force some reality and introspection into this mess.
This is happening all over the United States sometimes multiple times per day and being publicly celebrated in various places. I honestly can’t think of a conservative oriented example of private property destruction on this scale to this much cheering.
'Member when everyone was convinced that SCOTUS was going to overturn Trump’s 2020 election loss?
Trump and his MAGAts can go fuck themselves but pretending that SCOTUS has never bucked them is denying reality.
Sadly it’s a near inevitable outcome of an overly powerful Federal Government attempting to deal with a population this large. The more powerful the Federal Government gets the less able it is to balance the different desires of its citizens and the less popular it becomes.
The solution was to NOT have such a powerful Federal Government but we tossed that out the window around somewhere between 1900 and 1920. It may not happen now over this but the clock is ticking and it’s going to happen at some point over something.
It will be terrifying and terrible when it happens.