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Her role was to enforce animal welfare laws. Simply investigating if those were upheld in extremely public examples of cutting chimps heads open who later died, doesn’t appear political to me.
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
A minority spoke clearly. Many of "the people" didn't vote, and Trump got less than 50% of those that did.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/phy... hmmm. let's see ... $ echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | ... oh, never mind. I'm too lazy to write the regex for getting this output from the above input: Elon Musk's brain implant forcefully removed after termination order
echo "Phyllis Fong, who was investigating Elon Musk's brain implant startup Neuralink, "forcefully removed from office" after refusing termination order" | sed -E "s/Phyllis Fong, who was investigating (.*) startup Neuralink,(.*) from office(.*) refusing/\1\2\3/"Earlier quoted context omitted.
The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
This is my big struggle with all of this. His first term I felt America was duped by a con man so protested and made a fuss on social media. Americans saw the first four years and astonishingly decided they wanted more of it, by a decent margin. So while I absolutely hate what is going on right now this seems to be what the people wanted. I question each day whether that needs to be respected or we should resist. I a…
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Uh what? If I got fired from a private company security would also remove me
I guess one minor distinction is the piece of legislation Congress passed that outlines the specific process for firing Fong, which was not followed, whereas I assume you have no such protection on your job? Just a minor distinction though!
Our government is literally falling in a matter of weeks. It's being assaulted, and we're all just standing by.
The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
Nothing to see here. Just a massive conflict of interest from an unelected foreigner exacting power over your government.
The specific law that Trump is very obviously breaking is the Securing Inspector General Independence Act of 2022, which says Congress must be notified 30 days in advance and given "substantive" rationale for dismissing inspectors general. This law was passed specifically in response to Trump breaking the antecedent law, Inspector General Reform Act of 2008, during his first term. Will the "party of law and order" do…
I'm tired of congressional Republicans being treated as unmentioned bystanders in this. Reporters should be pushing microphones in their faces asking why they approve of the latest thing Trump did, or at least what they think of him breaking laws they passed.
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
Americans are desperate. May not be felt among the HN crowd, but standards of living in the US have been declining consistently for a long time [1]. Remember that Trump was not re-elected to a second term initially specifically because he failed to deliver on his promise of "MAGA". He instead did a Jeb Bush presidency, complete with Wall Street (Mnuchin) and the CIA (Pompeo) running the country exactly as would have…
They wanted to cause harm for reasons unrelated to economics.
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The people spoke very clearly in November: they wanted this.
If you look at everyone eligible to vote, the people spoke clearly in November with the same message they have for decades, "none of the above".
So again: the people have spoken. America is getting exactly what America wants.