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@chunderboolt
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I have opinions. I like cats, too. My pronouns are (woofer, woofer's, piddle champ). My opinions may be different from yours, it's ok.
Maryland, USA
Joined July 2022
Defund universities with racist/sexist policies and coursework.
🇺🇸 INDIANA U LATEST WOKE FAIL: WHITE CHRISTIAN MEN MUST ADMIT THEY'RE 'OPPRESSORS' Students at Indiana University are being forced to confess their "dominant identity" sins in a mandatory diversity course. The catch? If you're White, Christian, or male, you're automatically labeled an oppressor—no debate allowed. One student revealed they "had to make something up" since being privileged apparently disqualified their real life experiences: "I'm forced to suppress my own identity." Meanwhile, the course fulfills "social studies" credit requirements. Because nothing says historical study like mandatory self-flagellation sessions. Source: Fox
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@godfreedomlove @tack8110 @Bubblebathgirl @kyledcheney No, that's now it works at all. But we agree that SCOTUS is the ultimate check and does not answer to the executive. But it's ridiculous to suggest that the president controls federal courts. Nonsense.
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@tack8110 @Bubblebathgirl @kyledcheney Nope. That's not in the U.S. Constitution, you just made it up. Lolz.
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@ESN1956 @Bubblebathgirl @kyledcheney The Supreme Court needs to "weigh in" yes. Some folks may be surprised at what they say, though, for some of these orders and rulings.
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@NCC1673 @MarioNawfal Youre a fool if you think none of NIH's research is important. No further discussion needed, because only a fool argues with a fool.
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When did I say it was an entitlement? Never. It's funds allocated by law for research. The executive branch is tasked with faithfully executing the law. The judicial branch acts as a check to ensure that laws are faithfully executed. Reasonable people debate where each branch's authority begins and ends. That is what should be happening now. Elon can rant on X about judges, but it won't end the legal debates.
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That's not what I said. Read it again or take your ranting somewhere else. No one is trying to remove a judge yet, not Musk or Trump. If Trump were able to ignore or remove a judge, then so can a dictator. Whether it's a communist dictator like Chavez or some other flavor. Nullifying or removing the judiciary is exactly what dictators do. Don't just emotionally attack anyone who disagrees with you.
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RT @chunderboolt: @Natellalp That is one big reason why we have judges. To act as a check on the exercise of executive power. One or more…
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That is one big reason why we have judges. To act as a check on the exercise of executive power. One or more of these cases will go to the Supreme Court eventually. Two simple things Elons team needs to understand about what he is doing: -don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. This isn't Twitter with 3 content censors for every coder. - there is a body of laws and legal precedents that limit the scope of federal executive power. He needs lawyers who understand this very well, or he is going to get stuck in a legal mess of his own making, and the wider public may turn against him.
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Ok, let's think about that for a moment. If many but not all grants are fraud, then do you really want to chop off funding connected to all grants, or would it be smarter to have people who look at each grant individually? Let's not toss out thousands of babies with the bathwater. There are so many good things that have come out of the U.S. research enterprise.
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@ztormtra @Bubblebathgirl @kyledcheney None yet, because no one had the authority. Let's not even consider giving someone that power.
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A judge appointed by Obama is still a judge. And has the same powers and authority as a Trump-appointed judge. People have a way of being blind to excesses in the exercise of power when they agree with it. But how power is exercised matters as much as why it is being exercised. Some of what Elon is doing is legitimate trimming of waste and fraud. But some of it may cross a line into altering regulations and reiterpreting laws or even nullified parts of laws. These are serious, non-partisan, legal issues.
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@LaboratoryMan6 @MarioNawfal They need to give themselves a pause and bring more lawyers on board. They are going to find themselves bogged down in legal cases that could have been avoided.
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If you want to grant unlimited, unchecked authority to the executive, with no accountability, then you don't understand the constitutional powers of the president. The president doesn't have unlimited authority to reinterpret and modify spending decisions; only Congress can do that. And it's the judiciary's job to interpret where the lines are drawn. Elon will figure it out and stop yelling about judges eventually.
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@Hunt1955578 @Bubblebathgirl @kyledcheney I didn't say Trump or Elon were dictators. But if they can nullify the judiciary, then so can a dictator. It doesn't matter how good the justification is.
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RT @havivrettiggur: The United Nations does, in fact, believe that it is legitimate to suspend humanitarian aid in places were combatants m…
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