Journal shanen's Journal: Watching the dead giant fall... 6
Next major step in the death of the republic will be a SCOTUS ruling that [what DOGE is doing] is legal. It's funny because key decision they will overturn is "Clinton v The City of New York" that threw out the "Line Item Veto Act of 1996". It's also funny because there is no pretense of legislative legitimacy here. The orange buffoon simply doesn't want to be bothered and isn't capable of any hard work, so he's happy to delegate the actual work of destroying America to Elong [sic] Musk and "his" SCOTUS will create the fake law the same way they created "presidential immunity" from nothing. [And if the SCOTUS "fails" by actually following the Constitution and state decisis, then that decision will be ignored--so I predict Roberts will stay his destructive course.]
The real question is which puppeteer has the best GAIvatar (Generative AI avatar) for pulling the orange puppet's strings. If there is a future and there are any future historians interested in human history in the 21st century, they might be able to answer that question if enough data survives cleansing.
[Brackets are for slight editing from a different website. Slashdot not worth much creative energy these years. I might have posted it from the clipboard (perhaps even with a bit more editing) if I had found a relevant story on the current front page--but I didn't spot any.]
It's simple... (Score:3)
...we're doomed.
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However there is a chance that something useful could come out of this once the national divorce is finalized. It won't be painless but it might actually be overdue. We might see the emergence of 3 or more new nations that can each go and do their own thing, and ride their preferred philosophies to their conclusions. If this can be done in a courteous manner this could have more winners than losers.
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Hmm... There's some funny here in that the first (real) Republican president decided the issue of state sovereignty with an exceedingly messy war.
My take is that evolutionary change is always better than revolutionary. When evolution makes a mistake, it tends to be minor and the losses are limited. When you have a revolution you know there has to be a lot of dying and the outcome is not certain. Sometimes better, but sometimes worse. Even much worse. More humor from considering the Russian example? I would
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Hmm... There's some funny here in that the first (real) Republican president decided the issue of state sovereignty with an exceedingly messy war.
Any "real" Republican you are thinking of doesn't matter any more. Lincoln and Reagan would have both been chased out of today's MAGA party for being too soft and liberal. That kind of Republican simply is not allowed to exist today; Republicans support Trump or they lose their jobs, there is no middle ground.
When you have a revolution you know there has to be a lot of dying and the outcome is not certain.
Nations have split from other nations with minimal bloodshed before. The dissolution of the union of Norway and Sweden comes to mind - not truly bloodless but not catastrophic either. The questio
Where have all the real Republicans gone? (Score:2)
Mostly the ACK, but I don't think there are any real Republicans left, though there are a couple of governors who are still trying to fake it.
Okay, I'll go a bit beyond the ACK because I've been thinking about another extension to my ontology of lies. This actually started with a bit Heinlein wrote on three kinds of lies. Level 1 of "counterfactual" and Level 2 of "partial truth" are almost the same as LL said. (Pretty sure LL was the source, but Heinlein had a lot of similar characters.) My first major cha
Preview is never enough? (Score:2)
*sigh*
c/state decisis/stare decisis/
Also I've reconsidered the GAIvatar of YOB (Yuge Orange Buffoon). I don't think you could make one that would give you any useful predictions or allow you to control YOB's actions. Too many butterfly effects in YOB's "mental" network of lusts and fears. Same reason no one can predict the details of the weather more than a few hours into the future, no matter how big the computer is. However I think a VZ-GAIvatar may have been used to prepare "prompts" for the fake VP to u