volkris @volkris@qoto.org

@bespacific more like thank Hamilton and Madison, and the congresspeople we've elected that appropriate this funding in the first place.

Roberts has nothing to do with it.

@b7bird.bsky.social No, Trump doesn't extort doj. They work for him now.

He hasn't have to extort them.

The American public murdered him in, for some reason.

@shoq because it's dumb and people don't care.

In general at least.

Yeah it's being ignored because it is internal to the echo chamber, and they have other things to report about.

@indivisibleteam No, Senate Republicans are not holding show votes. That is factually inaccurate.

Senate Republicans are holding votes trying to move funding legislation forward. If Democrats didn't block the progress then the legislation would move forward to passage and government would be reopened.

That's not a show vote. That is a functional vote, and Democrats are blocking the function.

@walterolson.bsky.social I think you're missing that a significant swath of the American people approve of this sort of thing, and so he's doing right by the folks that elected him.

@kingrat The congresspeople we elect even appropriate money for them to furnish the house.

My point is, we can stop electing the people that do this stuff if we want to. But we keep reelecting the people that give it the stamp of approval.

@kingrat Right.

For better or worse, we provide this housing and leave it up to presidents. He's just doing what we have for some reason decided to allow, so meh.

We don't have to provide presidents with housing. We don't have to give them this authority over the housing. But we do, so that they take advantage of what we allow, really on us.

@dever

Kind of a devil you know versus the devil you don't situation.

Yeah, Windows sucks. Not going to get an argument from me over that! I don't use it. Yeah, all of this stuff they're doing these days seems really gross.

However, "well that's how it's supposed to work" is a lot better than having to admit that they were running on a platform that was exfiltrating sensitive information not to the normal and generally accepted spying eyes, but to some hacker in a basement.

Is it right? I don't think so. But that's the reality of the industry and society these days.

@mhjohnson @francisscottkey

@walterolson.bsky.social

Yeah, but the thing is, there's a good chance Trump doesn't know because the people who manage him don't seem to tell him the truth.

Every once in awhile he has a event where he sort of admits confusion about the facts, saying flat out that something can't be right because the people around him told him otherwise.

This really is a case where people around the official are manipulating him for their own ends.

@Godfrey642 Oh some are speaking out. The condemnation is just getting lost in the noise of everything else that's happening.

In the end, the US is full of a lot of idiotic voters that voted for a bunch of idiots and so, yay democracy, we are in a state that is very stupid.

@dever

You're probably right, buuuuut there is another possibility to consider:

Tax information is really sensitive stuff, so inputting that information on an OS that isn't maintained for security does open a security issue. Maybe even a liability.

I figure it might be a combination of the two. Developers being slightly concerned raised the issue, and marketers jumped on it as a way too sell more product.

@mhjohnson @francisscottkey

@fkamiah17 Well there's not much more they can do.

@fkamiah17 what's going on in the video?

@BathysphereHat do you have a source?

I wanted to see a clear picture of the tattoo in question but my quick search only showed a blurry one. Now there's a second one? I want to see clear pictures of both, but I'm guessing my search is going to turn up something equally blurry.

@CindyWeinstein Trump is not demanding taxpayer money.

He's looking for restitution from the US government for what he claims is damages the government inflicted on him improperly. And whether that's fair or not, it needs to be stressed, this isn't taxpayer money, this is government money allegedly owed because government inflicted harm.

This is important because it's part of holding government accountable, and even applies to crap that Trump is doing against other people.

@psoul But that's not how the federal government is set up, so it can't really work that way.

For example, should ICE detain people through programs that weren't properly funded, the detention would not be legal, and so would be extra-governmental. Unauthorized.

Yes, you might say that Trump doesn't care about legalities, and that would fit with his pattern, but when we're talking about extra-governmental detention it would be happening as if he wasn't president anyway, it would just be effectively private citizens abducting people.

It's a very different context.

@freeschool

Important to note that the Constitution itself addresses this.

@PattyHanson

@Stoneycase

Part of it is because a whole lot of professionals who work behind the scenes aren't interested in these political games, they want to do their jobs, and they don't want to sink to the level of trying to score political points.

Often it's those people who are making these decisions.

Biden may not have been personally interested in directing them to go political like that. He was focused on other issues.

But mainly I suspect the files don't really exist in the first place, at least as described. What we've already seen might be the long and short of it.

@old_hippie it does.

When you read Supreme Court rulings they are replete with references to our Constitution and the rule of law.

It would be pretty weird for them to spend so much time and energy referring to something they don't believe in.

This despite sensational headlines and political jabs trying to score points by misleading listeners...

@vmbrasseur

Did he go into where the reasoning of the court got the law wrong?

It seems like a political diatribe that doesn't really match with what the legal experts have concluded.