> hope it will be get reined in before
oops. they already have access to data, and there's no unseeing what they've seen.
oops. they already have access to data, and there's no unseeing what they've seen.
I have a feeling it's not the ethics of the actions that have changed, but the goals for doing so. In both cases it was about controlling a narrative.
For example, asserting that two groups are exchanging money simply because they're both customers at the same bank.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/the-twitter-files-playbo...
https://x.com/Cernovich/status/1887267531267940517
They are providing receipts for all of the corruption they are uncovering.
>SERVICES FOR UNACCOMPANIED CHILDREN.
https://x.com/GenFlynn/status/1885872007062892568
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH, INC: $134,190,472.95
LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA, INC.: $82,937,819.95
The truth is that LSS got grants to pay for the resettlement of legal immigrants. LSS was NOT "facilitating mass migration." LSS has a long tradition of this work and from what I know of their work in Washington, DC (the city, not the cap), it was exemplary.
The US government ran ads in Haiti and other nations in French teaching people how to apply to come to America as asylum seekers.
The US government flew huge numbers of these people into the US and also paid organizations like LSS to “resettle” them.
This is mass migration and ALL of this was done using taxpayer money. Nobody voted for this, this is pure corruption.
It is so wonderful to see it all being dismantled and exposed.
Maybe ask yourself why you/they are against immigration of low-income workers but don't have a problem bringing in as many higher-income workers as they can(at lower salaries than they would have to pay non-immigrants).
I don't want to be working at McDonalds while companies like Tesla, Google, Amazon, etc. are importing labour for the higher-paying jobs in the country, but that seems to be the future a lot of people are excitedly running towards by supporting Musk.
These are taxpayer dollars:
LUTHERAN IMMIGRATION AND REFUGEE SERVICE INC: $367,612,906
LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF THE SOUTH, INC: $134,190,472.95
LUTHERAN SERVICES FLORIDA, INC.: $82,937,819.95
Specifically, provide some evidence, please.
Going into CMMS and IRS records almost certainly puts them in jeopardy of state crimes. Tight collections of only young, fervent ideologues have one role in military and political systems: cannon fodder.
Supremacy just covers removal [1]. The body of law being adjudicated doesn't change. And the President can't pardon state offences.
I'm not convinced all these folks will get convicted. But they're almost certainly spending their thirties in court.
Maybe I'm confused, but why do we think Elon is committing offenses that a state could charge so that a pardon from Trump would not be possible?
Prosecutors have the power to ask 2 years incarceration for jaywalking, without proof, 10 years for ignoring a stop sign and having not paying because the state has a wrong address for them and can let someone who empties a machine gun into a kindergarten walk free. But why go so far as to actually convict them of anything?
An IRS agent (and every state has them, not just the Federal government) could just accuse anyone of tax fraud 9 years ago, arrest, then deny bail (if the accusation is tax fraud it is the IRS agent that gets to approve or deny bail, not a judge), and then think about what they'll do next, for 3 years. They also have the power to block any particular bank account US-wide, or all bank accounts "that benefit an individual", so they can damage the person's family too.
No worries, after those 3 years, those now freshly declared innocent people will have to be paid 20 or so dollars per day to make it all alright (technically they don't, as they would not even be innocent, as the IRS does not need a conviction to declare you a criminal, but that's kicking someone hard in the nuts after incarcerating them for 3 years).
None of this requires even a single judicial decision, just an executive on your side. And Trump does NOT have the power to grant pardons over any non-federal matter (which is pretty ironic since part of the reason presidential pardons exist, is to prevent state or local governments from using state justice systems to influence the Federal government)
However, if you put them on a scale blanket pardoning the mob who stormed the capitol, attacked and injured police officers, threatened congress members, planted bombs and were looking to hang the Vice president because he would not overturn the election results where do you think it will lean towards?
The one is bad optics the other is literally giving blank checks to convicted enemies of the State.
Depends on who/when any of these theoretical charges occur. If they were to happen now-ish, then Biden would be thrown under the bus. Which I'm assuming is the opposite response to what you're trying to apply rational reasoning to. I think for at least the remainder of the next four years, applying rational reasoning will be a fool's errand.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ty6853&next=42914628...
It is a (ridiculous) pretext for purging the system from people that the new power deems “uncooperative”.
And it's not some theoretical idea, in all Western democracies, every civil servant that has been in place for long enough has seen governments from multiple political sides. That's how it works.
Using illegal means to purge the institutions from undesired people is not something that happens in a democracy, this is unprecedented in the West since Gleichschaltung.
Have you forgotten Trump's first presidential term? The resistance [1], the gleeful celebration of the "deep state" fighting back against Trump [2], a US general calling his Chinese counterparts before the 2020 election [3]?
Bureaucrats cannot fight against a democratically elected executive, call themselves the resistance and then be surprised when they are treated as the resistance.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/opinion/trump-white-house...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/02/opinion/trump-fauci-deep-...
[3] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-top-general-secretly-cal...
In a democracy, a civil servant must respect the law even if it goes against orders. When all you have civil servants who respect their boss's orders even when it goes against the law, you have left the domain of democracy.
for example, you are defending firing workers for: “People are just going to have to accept the results,” he told The Washington Post. “I’m a Republican. I believe in fair and secure elections.”
...some dangerous deep state, indeed.
Which was something people here screamed bloody murder about when they accused Biden of doing it, just by asking Twitter to moderate content, but I guess this is all fine now.
It's never wrong when it's something you agree with, and that's as far as Musk's belief in free speech goes. Allowing posts he agrees with, it's free speech. If it's something that sheds bad light on something he is, owns, or believes, it's bad and must be stopped. It's a classic as old as time