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I see Musk has called the federal judge in NY who put a stay on the activities of Doge “corrupt”and called for his impeachment. The judge who issued a
similar order in DC was not thus characterised. The difference? The NY judge was an Obama appointment, the DC judge a Trump appointment.
It looks very much like the start of a selective attack on the judiciary. I think Musk will be disappointed when the bench stands firm; Eileen Cannon is an outlier, not typical of Republican appointed judges at all.
 
On the brink.
A federal judge has ruled that Trump and others have broken his court order to unblock funds voted through by congress.
The normal sanction for this is criminal contempt occasioning a fine or even jail. The judge has not cited the defendants for contempt, effectively giving them a second chance. If they do not comply, there will be a full blown constitutional crisis. American democracy stands on the brink. Where is Congress?
 
KS55 said:
On the brink.
A federal judge has ruled that Trump and others have broken his court order to unblock funds voted through by congress.
The normal sanction for this is criminal contempt occasioning a fine or even jail. The judge has not cited the defendants for contempt, effectively giving them a second chance. If they do not comply, there will be a full blown constitutional crisis. American democracy stands on the brink. Where is Congress?
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Trump's immune, don't forget...

His minions, however, could be convicted ....then pardoned.
 
KS55 said:
On the brink.
A federal judge has ruled that Trump and others have broken his court order to unblock funds voted through by congress.
The normal sanction for this is criminal contempt occasioning a fine or even jail. The judge has not cited the defendants for contempt, effectively giving them a second chance. If they do not comply, there will be a full blown constitutional crisis. American democracy stands on the brink. Where is Congress?
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Link please?
 
lloydie said:
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What about Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Premal Shah, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Russel Simmons?

Oh wait, none of them have slightly tenuous connections from their grandfathers so we ignore them in this incredibly stupid and cherrypicked point we're making.

PayPal Mafia is a tongue in cheek term formed 20 years ago about a group of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs.

This is bottom tier media output. The stupidity of this is infuriating to all rational people and lapped up by idiots.
 
Damocles said:
What about Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Premal Shah, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Russel Simmons?

Oh wait, none of them have slightly tenuous connections from their grandfathers so we ignore them in this incredibly stupid and cherrypicked point we're making.

PayPal Mafia is a tongue in cheek term formed 20 years ago about a group of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs.

This is bottom tier media output. The stupidity of this is infuriating to all rational people and lapped up by idiots.
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Whose grandparents?

Nosek's? Please. We're British!
 
Damocles said:
What about Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Premal Shah, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Russel Simmons?

Oh wait, none of them have slightly tenuous connections from their grandfathers so we ignore them in this incredibly stupid and cherrypicked point we're making.

PayPal Mafia is a tongue in cheek term formed 20 years ago about a group of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs.

This is bottom tier media output. The stupidity of this is infuriating to all rational people and lapped up by idiots.
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Yeah, what we need is more upper tier media, because they're so objective.
 
Damocles said:
What about Jawed Karim, Jeremy Stoppelman, Andrew McCormack, Premal Shah, Luke Nosek, Ken Howery, Keith Rabois, Reid Hoffman, Max Levchin, and Russel Simmons?

Oh wait, none of them have slightly tenuous connections from their grandfathers so we ignore them in this incredibly stupid and cherrypicked point we're making.

PayPal Mafia is a tongue in cheek term formed 20 years ago about a group of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs.

This is bottom tier media output. The stupidity of this is infuriating to all rational people and lapped up by idiots.
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Keep telling yourself you're the rational one.

Plenty of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs have racist beliefs, go figure.

Your peevish rants are as convincing as Elmo's but, hey ho, plenty of Trumpists and Sissy fans will believe you.

You may know them by the company they keep.
 
lloydie said:
Keep telling yourself you're the rational one.

Plenty of incredibly successful investors and entrepreneurs have racist beliefs, go figure.

Your peevish rants are as convincing as Elmo's but, hey ho, plenty of Trumpists and Sissy fans will believe you.

You may know them by the company they keep.
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It's perfectly simple. The point the author was making (and he's just repeating his article from the Guardian almost verbatim), is that these people are a secretly aligned racist cabal. His evidence for this is that 2 of them lived in South Africa and that someone's grandfather held some very bad views. The fact that just living in Apartheid South Africa for a few years while growing up or having a racist grandfather doesn't actually make you a racist seems entirely lost on most. The fact that Musk also went to the same school as some of the major social reformers is never bothered to be mentioned when talking about how his school means he must have been a racist.

The Nazis used to call this "dirty blood". The idea that because your grandfather was something then you are tainted by that, independent of your own ideas. And the company they keep? You've been posting on the same forum as more than likely racists, murderers, rapists, child molesters and every other thing you can think is wrong with people. You're in their company sort of aren't you? You see how easy this dumb shit is? Being slightly affiliated with someone who holds certain views does not mean that you hold those views. That is so unbelievably simple that it's ridiculous that it even needs to be pointed out to a grown adult.

Oh and Elmo? Because that's a bit like his name isn't it if you spell it wrong? That's very funny if you're about 5 years old but I prefer to have political conversations above the intellectual heavyweights of primary school kids.
 
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