The removed bits discuss habeaus corpus, emoluments, and congressional oversight of the military.
It would be nice if Congress and legislatures actually used git as a matter of law, having names attached to every commit and so on. The way they handle repeals is absurd...
Look at the UK's Hansard[0] as an example. Every word spoken in Parliament leading up to legislation being introduced is tracked and published. Those conversations eventually turn into Bills on the Parliament site[1], and eventually those bills turn into legislation[2]. These websites are all digital versions of the old paper copies which go back centuries.
[0] - https://hansard.parliament.uk
One of it's biggest flaws, actually. Completely understandable, of course, they were working on paper... weren't any reasonable alternatives.
>Look at the UK's Hansard[0] as an example. Every word spoken in Parliament leading up to legislation being introduced is tracked and published. Those conversations eventually turn into Bills on the Parliament site[1], and eventually those bills turn into legislation
I'm ignorant of how things work in the UK's Parliament. But somehow this all seems doubtful. In the US, legislation isn't drafted in such a manner at all.
Perhaps add a fixed offset to dates to bring them past the Unix epoch?
Freaadom isnt free. I think americans forget that. They are waiting for someone else to come save them, which will NEVER happen.
Lol, I thought you were serious until I got to this point. Good one.
Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability. They can report on things that make him look bad, and he remains in power, with his supporters still supporting him despite the evidence presented.
Isn't this like saying "doctors are pro heart disease because it keeps them employed"?
> Epstein headlines are big engagement vectors, yet haven’t seemed to bring about any sort of accountability.
True, but accountability for who exactly? There are a few people who are known to have been on the island - Prince Andrew, Bill Gates. No real accountability for them so far. Then there's a lot of suspicion around political figures like Trump and Bill Clinton, but no hard evidence. The fact that the Biden administration took no action here either suggests that either there's not enough evidence to actually do anything or prominent figures from both parties are implicated. I'd love to know the truth but I suspect that Epstein is going to be our generations JFK assassination and people are going to be spinning conspiracy theories about the situation for decades while the truth remains murky.
That has not yet been shown. When it comes down to it, I wonder what the military will do. Will they uphold their oath, which is to the Constitution? Or will they obey the President, as commander in chief?
It did not declare that the president cannot be impeached. It did not declare that the president cannot be criminally charged for what he does that exceeds the scope of his office (though it's a high bar to prove it). And most of all, it did not declare that whatever he does is automatically constitutional.
edit for clarity: My point is that faux-witty slights at communities to suggest nothing is wrong with a government is intellectually shallow and appeals to authority without making any point itself.
If you want the bill, first amend the Constitution.
For example, Congress should not do everything the president wants just because he's the president as is happening now.
Congresspeople have said out loud that the job of Congress is to ask "how high" when the president says "jump". Congress last year backtracked on immigration reform because the Republican candidate demanded it. Congress just took vacation early because the president needs a break from the stress of being on a sex traffickers contact list. Congress has allowed the executive to destroy congressionally mandated departments without challenge.
Each body of government should be protective of their own power and responsibility and fight against other branches illegally usurping it.
I recommend reading Federalist 51, and perhaps 53 and 76. Also John Adams "Thoughts on Government".
[1] https://www.congress.gov/about [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Blanche
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court."
Besides, the thing about organizations is that they encourage behaviors. A big corporation encourages different behaviors than a startup, and different company cultures can also encourage / optimize for different things. There's also a reason why we do expect ultimate responsibility to rest with leaders.
Maybe they didn’t find any meaningful waste with their random Python scripts, but at least they got to own the libs.
It's an IQ test.
This is the part I'm trying to understand. What is the threshold for the skeptics?
From dealing with constant hysterics.
In this case for example we can believe there's a power grab taking place in which the constitution (as represented on a government website out off all places, for some reason) has been altered unilaterally. Note that this in practice is meaningless and you might as well scribble over your nearest copy of the document. Nothing but outrage can come out of this.
Or, we can believe this to be an error of some kind. Which is far, far more probable.
The amount of work hysteria have done for Trump can't be overstated. The tribalism it has fostered, the media fog it has created, the decimation of trust in institutions, there is no doubt in my mind that he wouldn't be president right now if it wasn't because of the sheer inability to deal with him in a rational way. To his credit, he used it well, but I'd have preferred if it wasn't delivered to him on a silver platter.
Another good example: the aircraft accident months ago. All talk about how everything was about to fall off the sky (literally) or the impending collapse of air travel altogether. All while it was clear as day it was a unusual, yet tragic, occurrence. Didn't stop the hysterics though, and it dominated the news cycle.
The "200 men" I guess you are referring to are the ones that were sent to el salvador? These were all deported in accordance with current law, save 1 who had a special court order that said he could be deported anywhere _except_ el salvador. So there was one mistake but it was just that they didn't drop him off in sudan in the first place.
I'm certainly not saying you're wrong, a lot of dots connect and do look like malice, but there's a vast amount of data that supports incompetence.
[0] Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. ( elsewhere and generously, incompetence ) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Trump has no idea what a "fascist" is. He suffers from narcissism, and when you put narcissists in charge, you get fascist dictatorships as a result. That's why it's very easy to see that it's happening without having to psychoanalyze anyone. But because it happens in such a stupid way, people are constantly thrown off the trail as we see in this thread.
You cannot credibly claim a US gov website just accidentally loses a specific chunk of the Constitution that specifically refers to all the parts of it that Trump is currently trying to break. It might be an accident that some overzealous kid was put in charge of the website, and it might be an accident that the removal happened in the first place, but the actual removal is clearly intentional on someone's part. If it stays up and does not get restored, that's also "incompetence, laziness" but it's also the effect of increased fascism.
[1] https://www.newsweek.com/hitler-incompetent-lazy-nazi-govern...
(In case you don't want to visit reddit)
why would you make this presumption?
But it will still exist on https://news.ycombinator.com/active
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Also, Trump does not have the support of 50% of the population. At best he has 20% of the popularion which are very vocal plus the support of many of the richest americans.
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This is some bullshit and pisses me off, but here we are.
While I’m not happy they are changing the text of the constitution on this website, I’m glad they are such bumbling idiots about it.
“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of monsters.”
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