volkris @volkris@qoto.org

Conservative media: #Trump is awesome! When you're covering him on a trip it's hard because he doesn't sleep, he comes out anytime day or night to talk to you!

Me: oh well that might be what's so screwed up about him. The dude is constantly brain dead exhausted.

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It's worth noting that in the recent #BlueSky vs #Fediverse drama, the fundamental complaint was that BlueSky wasn't centralized enough, so some people are coming to Fediverse seeking that centralization.

For the years of talk about how BlueSky isn't decentralized like Fediverse, those folks were always wrong, and this is another case illustrating their getting that backwards.

Fediverse is centralized around instances. BlueSky is decentralized down to users. Of the two, BlueSky is the decentralized option.

Whether that's good or bad is a separate matter.

Once again we can see that #Trump is being used, but he's too damn stupid to realize that the folks flattering him into thinking he's in charge are mainly just making fun of him.

This week there was a lot of reporting about "Trump's plan" for #Gaza, Hamas, and Israel, but there was also reporting that the plan was spearheaded by British figures. Trump was flattered into promoting it as his own, and he did as he was told, but thinking it was his idea all along.

Today it's being reported that Trump tried to issue orders with regard to "his plan", but those orders were ignored because no one actually cares about him beyond his usefulness to them.

This cycle repeats over and over again.

What a pathetic idiot.

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#Trump supporters are saying that #JDVance encouraged #Musk to apologize to Trump, saying that #Vance helped Musk come to his senses.

What they don't realize is, this fits into the model whereby folks like Vance are manipulating Trump, who is too petty and oblivious to notice.

A couple of figures like Vance know exactly how to play the game and manipulate Trump and his supporters. This is another case of that happening.

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Mainstream #conservative media take on #Musk vs #Trump seems to be settling on the idea that #Elon has poor impulse control, but good on Trump for being a mature statesman.

Just so you know.

Siiiigh.

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It's always worth reading for yourself rulings like those against Trump's tariffs, as you just know the reporting on it will be questionable, from both sides.

One really funny thing is that Trump has once again shot himself in the foot with all his nonsense of "they've been screwing us for years!" which means that isn't an emergency and thus doesn't justify emergency imposition of tariffs.

https://www.cit.uscourts.gov/sites/cit/files/25-66.pdf

#Trump #USLaw #tariffs #USPolitics

NPR: "Under the Constitution, Congress has the power of the purse."

Siiiigh, that kind of line might be okay in informal banter, but for a legit news organization actually trying to explain legal matters to their readers, it's just not right.

It gets into the realm of reporters begging questions with hand waving behind vague idiom. They might as well just say everybody knows blah blah blah.

They should have instead informed readers with what the Constitution actually says and legal disputes through history if they wanted to get into it. But all that gets hidden behind this often misinterpreted throwaway line.

Do better, #journalism . Our society desperately needs it.

#uspolitics #Trump #npr

Listening to the unedited #SCOTUS argument over the birthright citizenship process, the #Democratic appointed justices continue to be just the worst. Just want to pull my hair out, these justices are completely unqualified, making a joke out of the courts.

Just right off the bat they were making arguments, not asking questions making arguments, that went against history and went against even how courts themselves work. It's like, somehow you managed to find yourself on the Supreme Court but... have you ever been in a court? Because that's not how this works.

From not knowing the role of courts in the US system through seeming to be unaware of other parts of the judicial system through asking bizarre questions about why they themselves don't do things that they themselves can do, they are just bizarre and just pathetic.

But we knew that when they were up for confirmation. Democrats confirmed se these people that clearly were not up for job.

In the end they just came across as children stomping their feet and asking why they can't just make the whole country do what they want to do.

And it's just really a shame.

We need better people in that position to counter #Trump but unfortunately we just have these small-minded justices who can't carry an argument.

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Idiot Republicans: #China was limiting the import of metals and magnets to the US, and that was ruinous to the country. Therefore #Trump must... limit the import of metals and magnets.

Today's mainstream conservatives are dumber than I ever remember them being, as if after COVID they rejected any deep thought or professional analysis as elitist.

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The huge changes in the new #Ukraine deal once again underscore that #Trump botches everything he gets personally involved in, so the strategy is to distract him or wait until he gets bored and wander off, and then the real adults can actually work on solutions.

Even if they give him credit for show.

It's important to hammer home on this because it tells even his own political side that regardless of what his beliefs are, he's going to fail to deliver what they want.

I doubt Trump would have been elected had we been emphasizing this the whole time, instead of the opposite.

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