Most of this was written by an LLM, with the writer doing post-editing. Susprised not to see any other comments on this yet!
That doesn't mean it's a bad piece, I think it's a good writeup.
Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or you know - find everyone congressperson who is not doing their job, figure out if they are breaking state, federal law, or even party law. Get special elections going and get a working congress. This paralysis amongst Americans is very un American. You have a decent poltical set up. Use it. You don’t need a magic wand like a civil war. You need to do the boring dull work of reading, analyzing and then making execu…
> Get special elections going and get a working congress. There are no recall elections for Congressional seats.
You are correct, I was ignorant and my words reflected it. I have updated the comment.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
All executive orders, it can be shown - expected a functioning set of co-equal branches of government. Congress is broken - intentionally.
It's not broken , it's complicit. As I understand it Congress has a R majority, which is why all this is happening.
The time window you indicate here is too narrow for the topic under discussion, and thinking in partisan terms about the dysfunction of this republic an error, in my opinion. At the foundational (practical not ideological) level, the complicity has been between the economic, political, and informational power centers in US. It is possible they did not foresee the black swan of Trumpism and now a faction of the ruling elite is being excised through mechanisms of their own making. But that would not absolve them of the responsibility for where we are today.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
All executive orders, it can be shown - expected a functioning set of co-equal branches of government. Congress is broken - intentionally.
Congress abdicated their role quite a while ago. They don't even pass a budget anymore.. which they're explicitly required to do. They learned there are political consequences to their action so they handed their job to agencies in the Executive Branch to write their own rules which acted like laws. When SCOTUS struck down Chevron Doctrine last year, it boiled down to "No, Congress writes the laws." The fix is Congre…
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Re: Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
#146"The Constitution explicitly forbids Congress from issuing bills of attainder—laws that single out individuals for punishment without trial. While that restriction technically applies to the Legislative branch, the spirit of it clearly applies here. A president cannot simply declare someone an enemy of the state for contradicting a political narrative. That’s not national security—it’s authoritarianism, dressed up in…
Well the way it should work is that executive orders are not laws and should not be treated as such. They’re supposed to be memos about how executive agencies should interpret the law. Somehow though, as congress has languished they’ve been accruing more and more power
When a law is passed that says "Do what the executive agency says.", then it makes executive orders that control that executive agency on the level of laws. Even with some limits in the original law, the executive order becomes like a law at least within those limits. But it isn't a law, meaning that some protections based on laws aren't offered. So now we run into an issue where we have things that aren't laws that effectively work as a law as far as the common man cares. The only simple fix I see for this is to require that all laws must clearly define what is and isn't illegal without any regard to another system's interpretation of the matter (but as with any simple fix, it is never that simple).
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think they are just nice and ignorant, honestly. So many I interact with are just simply unaware and vote based on their discomfort with urban liberal culture. That's it. The blue hair and the pronouns made them feel weird, so they voted the other way.
You're completing brushing over the rampant racism and xenophobia in white conservative America.
That's the "urban" part.
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#149https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/addr... https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr... >Krebs ... falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen This quote coming from "whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets" is pretty wild. This seems to be retribution, plain and simple.
Please, some reasonable Trump voter explain how this is acceptable. How can the sitting president still be openly claiming that a previous election was fraudulent after all this time?
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not broken , it's complicit. As I understand it Congress has a R majority, which is why all this is happening.
The time window you indicate here is too narrow for the topic under discussion, and thinking in partisan terms about the dysfunction of this republic an error, in my opinion. At the foundational (practical not ideological) level, the complicity has been between the economic, political, and informational power centers in US. It is possible they did not foresee the black swan of Trumpism and now a faction of the ruling…
Trumpism is simply the cherry on top of a dedicated plan that favored partisanship.
This is not news, it is well known, and public facts (60 years) https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/03/10/the-polar...
The core plank of the Repub strategy has been to eschew bi-partisanship. It is the home of the Tea party movement, because it kept feeding its base red meat, and then never actually delivering. Trump is lauded by his base, because he treats the political theater as reality.
Please remember, during Trump 1, liberals and centrists reached out constantly to the Republican rank and file, and never made progress. You cannot overcome a media and political machine built to prevent such progress and dialogue.