volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@kegill the answer is simple: because it's simply not an option on the table to return to the previous borders.

There has been no workable plan for forcing Russia to return to the other boarders. That milk has been spilt.

That's why the victim needs to hand over territory, at least for now. Because there is no realistic alternative on the table.

@kegill this misses that the argument is precisely that the activity WASN'T constitutionally protected.

There are other issues with the legal process here, but that framing gets the situation wrong.

@Free_Press I'd say it goes the other way from the picture.

We ALREADY HAD a circus, so we elected a clown.

The cause and effect are the other way around, and this is backed by the public levels of dissatisfaction with how government had been operating.

@petersuber there's so much question begging there, though.

For example, installing "ideologically aligned" people can be PRO-science if you don't start with the assumption that they're anti-

And so, so many say it's in promotion of science that we need to break the ideological bonds that have been keeping these institutions bound to antiscientific patterns.

@chrischirp

@MattBinder on his radio show today Sean Hannity announced that he was going to buy some Teslas in support.

If Trump was copying Hannity here that really captures the current state of affairs where Trump is just doing whatever conservatives are talking about, just following them.

Just to emphasize it: not leading, following and taking advantage of whatever is being talked about by those morons.

@audiodude not in this political environment

@LevZadov kind of funny to say nothing like this in American history while pointing out that there was something like this in American history.

No we all need to emphasize that the solution is and has always been at the feet of Congress.

If Congress isn't doing its job, be very interested in what your particular congresspeople and probably stop reelecting them.

@lawprofblawg

Going behind the satire, one thing I find fascinating is that the new crop of conservatives have been happy to dethrone Reagan. I've never seen mainstream conservatives so willing to call him out.

@walterolson.bsky.social Musk is trolling us. He's posting things to get attention.

There's an old internet adage, don't feed the trolls.

Even wondering about what he might post is playing into his game and encouraging it to happen.

@robcinos taken?

No.

Accepted payment in return for providing services the government found really valuable and worth buying.

It's a pretty important part of the story.

@MikeDunnAuthor I think more importantly, as I recall he used the same sort of language that Biden used and that conservatives held against him.

So, it's the kind of thing where we should have been emphasizing to Trump supporters that their guy had done the things that they said they were against, had really betrayed them and failed them in the first term, so they should regard him as the loser that he was.

Unfortunately that's not the strategy people used so he got let off the hook.

@MikeDunnAuthor replace the services because the US government has on a remarkably bipartisan and democratic basis determined that these are services that make the country better.

Feel free to try to change minds about that, but for now the US government wants these services, and it will cost more to provide them without these companies.

@MikeDunnAuthor The problem is, replacing their services would be even more costly.

@MikeDunnAuthor it would be funny to respond to those conservatives by pointing out that if she was DEI hire then it would have been Trump promoting that DEI program

@SenatorMoobs Well that's not true.

If it was true that the court claims to be exclusive decider of constitutional meaning then we wouldn't see the court actively and explicitly citing the constitutional meanings decided by others, both other courts and even conclusions by non-governmental speakers.

No, the court said that it CAN issue opinions. But it can't exactly force anyone to care or abide by them.

@servelan being able to fire your own employees is hardly reaching to royalty.