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  • Looking at the requested penalty makes me wonder why they didn't request one trillion. I mean if you are being blatant about your ulterior motive to scare off further investigation into your unethical practices.

    Anyway they now got the stink on them. Any railway operator dealing with them will have no one but themselves to blame going forward.

  • I think the tariff situation is more subtle than you are letting on. Basically, Trump is now on the clock were previously he wasn't. He will now be forced to go to congress to ratify this increase.

  • While we may feel smug in our federated social media, I wonder how far those protections even go. I guess it really depends where our instance is, and who they host with.

  • Maybe. But if that's all she wanted to do, she could just concentrate on that. It sounds like she went above board to fit in.

  • To these people any society with trans people in it is a destroyed society since their society is trans exclusionary.

  • Despite all his bloviating about militarizing Washington DC being anti crime. He repeatedly shows himself up to be quite the opposite. Rhetoric is cheap actions are where the rubber meets road.

  • And the politicians that are hoping to sell out.

  • Is that your policy? Sorry bub, even abstaining is a political stance.

  • What a petty diva Musk is. FFS, every jab Musk tries to land on Trump circles 'round to him. As he, himself stated he got Trump elected despite credible accusations that Trump palled around with and knew about Epstein's PDFilia.

  • Most of the legal issues raised in this piece assumes that the executive cares for such trifles. To sum it up concisely: "I'm the President, bitch and I can do WTF I want. Don't like it? Come at me."

  • Unlikely that this will happen but if we are playing a game of escalation perhaps he could deputise people with access to millenary equipment. Remember, the armed forces pledge allegiance to the constitution and nobody else. They also have the duty to not follow an illegal order.

  • That and reneging on past promises. Bet Ukraine regrets giving up their nukes on a promise from the US for protection.

    What's even more troubling for nuclear proliferation reduction efforts is the weight any such promises will have in the future: "no thanks, I'll keep my nukes, thanks-you I don't want to me Ukrained".

  • You're right about the US's military, but you know who also had an outstanding military? Almost all (now dead) empires. I think it stretches exceptionalism beyond all credibility to think the US will buck this trend. That the US empire will be thought of in the past tense is pretty much inevitable, I'm most worried about how it goes. Will it be with a bang, or a whimper. I fearful of the former as they can mount a pretty big bang.

  • Or, looking at the popular vote figures would the rest of the United States.

  • Even if you're right, here. Trump will petition the supreme court to have the count stopped. Memories of Bush v Gore.

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    Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
    
    
      

    -- Clement Attlee

  • While prima facie, that's true, your reply doesn't mention that anything has been uncovered coupled with the fact that Trump has a history with frivolous and vexatious litigation kinda makes me think this is nothing more than pretext. Though the boy that cried wolf is a parable for a reason. So one shouldn't drop their guard. It's just a shame one man can clog up the court to this extent. There are remedies that courts can take against vexatious litigants, though.

  • "I didn't expect them to eat my face"

  • Even in their worst excesses, any legislation cannot change a deeply held moral position. Oh they can try, but the best (worst) they can do is legislate action and communication.