The US has laws to handle stuff like this. The real problem is that the pardon power is completely broken and it needs to be removed.
In practice, that has always been an ineffective threat against Presidents who are within days of leaving office anyway. And more importantly, the framers of the Constitution seemed to have entirely failed to imagine a party like today's Republicans who value strict personal loyalty to the President over every other principle of government.
We've certainly had some colorful presidents in the past, but the current president is engaged in a lot of blatantly impeachable behavior, and as far as I know, we've never had such a passive and complicit Congress before.
- Terry Pratchett
Paul Graham and Garry Tan were both big cheerleaders of DOGE, so, keep that in mind.
A shocking number of the biggest stories about DOGE over the past year were flagged here, probably including the stories about goons physically removing people.
Posts questioning this suppression/censorship were flagged.
Some people like to argue that since any story about Musk becomes toxic - for some reason - it 'makes sense' to flag every story about anything to with him. You know, like Israel, or US torture, or Assange, or Snowden, or Epstein, etc.
For we are but naive children here in the tech industry, and must have a safe space to discuss PCB specs and the meaning of 42 without too much 'current affairs', lest the site 'lose its focus'.
It's not like almost the entire top of the industry is neck-deep in collaboration with all this or anything, right?
... Anyway, if people here don't know much about DOGE, the massive flagging that's gone on here is probably a big factor as to why.
That’s the only way I browse HN now because this place is clearly brigaded to bury certain topics.
And I also would bet that saying them 'out loud' here would result in a ban for 'harassment'.
Idk if there's anything anyone here can do about it. There's zero transparency, or less; so most people don't even know there's a problem.
However, the people of the USA voted for Trump. Twice.
I fear things have changed and Trump'ism is here to stay.
The first time they got Trump lite. They didn't like him, and ditched him after one term.
The next president has the misfortune to get elected during a worldwide recession. They liked the recession even less than they liked Trump lite. So they re-elected Trump lite.
But they've now found the person they re-elected was Trump heavy. He's doubled down on all the things they disliked about Trump lite, and will probably land them in a recession entirely of his own making.
I'd be stunned if Trump heavy or anybody following in his footsteps won an election for a decade or two. Memories will have to fade.