Wonders never cease: HN now supports the CIA regime change front that funded coups in dozens of countries, as well as laundered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to all sorts of shady special interest groups and political operatives domestically and abroad, and was responsible for funding illegal GoF research that led to COVID. Is this really the organization y'all want to carry water for?
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#12Wonders never cease: HN now supports the CIA regime change front that funded coups in dozens of countries, as well as laundered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to all sorts of shady special interest groups and political operatives domestically and abroad, and was responsible for funding illegal GoF research that led to COVID. Is this really the organization y'all want to carry water for?
Rule of law, mate, rule of law. Lose that and you lose everything.
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#13Wonders never cease: HN now supports the CIA regime change front that funded coups in dozens of countries, as well as laundered hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to all sorts of shady special interest groups and political operatives domestically and abroad, and was responsible for funding illegal GoF research that led to COVID. Is this really the organization y'all want to carry water for?
Rule of law, mate, rule of law. Lose that and you lose everything.
Reorganizing USAID into State Dept is lawful. That's what's going to happen.
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#15> But President Trump was less definitive about shuttering the agency, telling reporters on Sunday night that USAID was run by "a bunch of radical lunatics". > "We're getting them out," he said, "and then we'll make a decision." This is pretty wild considering USAID is an extension of the state department, sits with the National Security Council, and closely works with the CIA. However you feel about USAID, the point…
In a way the argument doesn't matter, because there's a good chance it's just a lie they don't believe themselves.
Fascists will prioritize accumulating power, even if that means destroying previous allies. They don't care whether you think some of they ways they do, you've got something and they want it and might makes right.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not if it has the effect of circumventing Congressional funding discretion.
Has it been circumvented? No? Then what's the problem?
So far, at least one judge seems to think so [1]: "Defendants' actions appear to suffer from infirmities of a constitutional magnitude."
1: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhckndvvb...
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Has it been circumvented? No? Then what's the problem?
So far, at least one judge seems to think so [1]: "Defendants' actions appear to suffer from infirmities of a constitutional magnitude." 1: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhckndvvb...
That's just what she seems to think, literally. I'd also be surprised if she thought any different given that she's been appointed by Biden.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
So far, at least one judge seems to think so [1]: "Defendants' actions appear to suffer from infirmities of a constitutional magnitude." 1: https://bsky.app/profile/joshuajfriedman.com/post/3lhckndvvb...
That's just what she seems to think, literally. I'd also be surprised if she thought any different given that she's been appointed by Biden.
But of course, it's fine if Trump's own trials are handled by judges he appointed.
You've been sold a bill of goods. You can come to terms with the truth now, or confront it later when his actions start to hurt you and those you care about.
Not that it will make any difference, though; the outcome will be the same.
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That's just what she seems to think, literally. I'd also be surprised if she thought any different given that she's been appointed by Biden.
But of course, it's fine if Trump's own trials are handled by judges he appointed. You've been sold a bill of goods. You can come to terms with the truth now, or confront it later when his actions start to hurt you and those you care about. Not that it will make any difference, though; the outcome will be the same.
Did I say it's fine? Where? They too sometimes get overturned. I'm merely saying an opinion of a district judge is fairly small potatoes when it comes to the events of this magnitude.