I think it’s fair to say that not enough was done about the coup attempt, but there were hundreds of cases successfully prosecuted. That’s not ‘nothing’.

Isn’t a much simpler answer that China started dumping bonds, and they’ll dump a lot more if the tarriff situation isn’t resolved soon?

As a real estate investor who’s mortgaged to the max, Trump wants high inflation to increase the nominal value of his properties, and low interest rates. China has extensive US bond holdings and at least some ability to drive up 10 year rates by selling those bonds. Trump doesn’t want higher rates, even if you only consider his direct, personal situation.

No, every single member of that chat should have pointed out that the communication violates multiple clear, long existing federal laws about how communications about federal government business is to be conducted, especially about military operations, and refused to communicate via signal instead of approved channels.

All of them violated multiple laws.

Trying to make it seem that they’re not actively breaking all the laws around record keeping for government business.

There’s no excuse for this.

American Airlines will ask you to remove devices from your checked bags is you tell them that you have batteries in your checked bags. Airlines are allowed to have more strict rules than what the FAA allows.

https://www.aa.com/i18n/travel-info/baggage/restricted-items.jsp

Please remove batteries from devices in your checked bags and put them in your carry-on in separate plastic bags.

When you enter the US, you have to claim your checked baggage as part of the process of going through customs, then re-check your bags if you’re continuing on a domestic flight.

If you have a device in your checked bag:

1. you’re violating the safety rule about not having lithium batteries in checked luggage.

2. if you’re asked if you are travelling with a phone and you lie and say you don’t have one, then if they search your bags and find it, then they’ll have strong evidence that you lied to a federal officer, which is a crime.

The judiciary could shut this down pretty quick by referring DOJ lawyers who attempt to enforce this inappropriately for disbarment.

My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.

Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he’ll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can’t self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that’s his plan and nothing else really matters to him.

What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He’s willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.

The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they’re able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.

There’s going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We’ll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.

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I’m just going to throw this out there as an option for recurring maintenance drugs:

https://www.costplusdrugs.com/

If it was in DC, pretty sure that’s a federal issue.

And if you go to a locally owned restaurant, pay with cash. Fuck visa/mc/banks and their merchant fees.

I think the teach tech bros think they have enough bitcoin that they’ll come out ahead in the event of a dollar collapse.

I think they’re wrong.

It has options for providing metadata, thumbnails, etc for jellyfin automatically, by pulling the metadata from the youtube page.

Riots trigger martial law, suspension of habeas corpus. That’s part of the first 6 monh plan for Project 2025.

He’s not questioning the credit of the United States government, is he? I feel like there is a constitutional clause concerning this.

Dollar stability is largely due to petroleum. If OPEC decides to start accepting Euros in payment, the dollar will lose strength quickly.

Darts implies at least some degree of precision. This is just flinging shit wildly in all directions.

Fucking French. ‘we’re never, ever going to say this ‘h’ character, but you still need it to spell words correctly because fuck you, that’s why.’

The part of this discussion that doesn’t make a lot of sense to me yet is that largely, the tech jobs that are in play here can be done anywhere. FAANG + Microsoft can and do hire hundreds of thousands of people anywhere in the world.

I’m assuming it’s stricty the indentured servant aspect of the ‘jail’ that the visa process creates.

Still waiting to see what the twist is going to be in this particular part of the unfolding soap opera.