Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@qoto.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@exsangus Yeah, but in theory he could just have them detained under house arrest instead, for a far less bloody exercise of the abuses they've enabled.
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There is a presumption of immunity if the President orders the assassination of his political rivals.
There is absolute immunity if the President does this using his core commander-in-chief powers.
If I were a political opponent, I would not travel overseas where the President's powers are at their zenith.
Welcome to authoritarianism.
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #law #lawfedi #legal #SCOTUS #Supremecourt
@feld (A) The president has the entire DOJ at his disposal. That's like DoSing Google. The attorney's fees alone would be astronomical.
(B) The previous precedent was that a *sitting* president couldn't be charged, so that wouldn't be a problem anyway. They had to wait until after the term was up to level criminal charges, compared to political charges (impeachment), which can be leveled during the term.
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Supreme Court: The president has immunity for official acts.
Biden: Wet socks.
Supreme Court: What?
Biden: Official order, new uniforms. Wet socks, tight bowling shoes, thick wool robes. Get em on.
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From the future wikpedia article: "Weak, old, and confused, Biden and his hidebound neoliberal advisors seemingly could do nothing to stem the rising tide of fascism, claiming the 'checks and balances' of government prevented him from taking any substantial action. The Biden administration looked on, seemingly helplessly, as the evil rose and metastatized." #supremecourt #biden #Trump #history
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Kevin Kruse: "The current Supreme Court of the United States has just cemented its place in history as the most radical Supreme Court ever. For a century and a half, that dishonor has gone to the antebellum court led by Chief Justice Roger Taney, whose pro-slavery perversions of the Constitution brought us such indefensible decisions as the infamous Dred Scott ruling. The current court might not have issued a single ruling that rivals Dred Scott for sheer awfulness, but its broader record of capriciously overturning a much wider range of precedents and offering increasingly thin pretenses for its path of destruction puts the Roberts Court below the Taney Court in terms of its overall horrors." #scotus #uspoli
The Radical Roberts Court
The Radical Roberts Court
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Shorter SCOTUS immunity decision
TIRED: July 4, Independence Day
WIRED: July 1, Coronation Day
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The US Supreme Court has declared the POTUS is immune to prosecution for "official acts".
The Magna Carta was in 1215. The US is now politically reactionary by the standards of medieval England.
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Pretty good decision from the Supreme Court in Netchoice today. (The case where Texas and Florida wanted to ban content moderation) ...
Would usually celebrate that as a nice victory. But between the other recent Supreme Court rulings and the Democratic party's absolutely dogged determination to lose the next election, Netchoice feels like winning $10 on a lottery scratch ticket while watching your house burn down.
I did it. Never have before in my life, and I felt a degree of trepidation doing so, but at least through the end of today, that symbol seems appropriate, so an upside-down American flag will fly in front of my house.
Dire distress, indeed.
Today is the day the flag should be flown upside down.
So, Biden should use his complete immunity to arrest the Supreme Court, right?
@tehuti88 What you see as "disloyalty" is actually loyalty.
If someone is failing the party, then the loyal thing to do is urge them to step down and allow someone who can better serve to take their place.
Loyalty to the party is more important than loyalty to any individual, even a president. Just as loyalty to country is more important than loyalty to party, and loyalty to humanity is more important than loyalty to country.
@inquisitormundi I think like 90% of it can be traced back to measuring our economies based on "average" wealth instead of "median" wealth.
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The Netchoice opinion will dominate the news tomorrow from 10 am through about 10:10 am, at which point it will be promptly forgotten.
Fun fact: If you don't fear Thor, then the best time to clean out your gutters is during a downpour.
"Never fear, my friends, for we have the dough! I promise you, here and now, that every pig lacking a blanket will- be- made- ...delicious!!"
*thund'rous applause*
@JSharp1436 He's got too much baggage. The entire world has been watching California literally burn under his watch.
@marynelson8 The problem is, "STOP" only works if they're legitimate. If they are legitimate, you can just block the number. But if they're not legitimate, then you've just confirmed you're a real human at a real number to a scammer and you get far more spam as a result.
As you noted, the fact that they can spoof their number means conventional blocking doesn't really work either.
However... Most cell providers offer a service to report these kinds of texts. In my case (AT&T), I can forward them to 7726. The more people who do this, the quicker those companies can identify the source of the spam and cut it off (these texts annoy their customers and cost them money; they want them gone too!).
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
Politically moderate, but a registered Democrat since January 7th 2021.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
