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Amazon makes the majority of its money from AWS. Literally using the Internet makes them buckets of money.

People can boycott it all they want. I just don’t use them, but none of that really hurts Amazon in the end.

If people want to actually hurt Amazon they need to call on the Government to break up AWS, Ma Bell style.

But once they do, notions like the filibuster also fall apart. Republicans have been pretty in favor of using the filibuster whenever Democrats are in power. So they would be torching a really handy tool they like to keep around.

Yes, this tweet is actually devoid of reality.

Nebraska is indeed facing a shortfall in their budget, but it is wholly of their own making. In 2023, lawmakers used the surplus to pass a personal and corporate income tax decrease. However, the surplus was largely due to one time Federal aid they received.

Now that the Federal aid has ended (and it ended because it was scheduled to end, not because Trump ended it), the tax revenues are not enough and the State is -$432M. They raided the rainy day fund for $150M, but all this does is delay the inevitable. The State was hoping that the decrease tax would spur growth and for the most part the State’s economy has been strong but steady, not exactly growing and nowhere near enough to cover this shortfall.

It’s very clear that the State has mismanaged the budget. You cannot use one time aid to fund long term tax cuts, that’s the intelligence of finding a lower paying job because you found a coupon. Nebraska’s Republican led State Legislature is pretty much the largest causer of harm to the State. Not to mention that they also passed LB 243 in 2023 which took a large amount of funding away from Schools, so outside of just ending public education, there’s not much more money they can extract from their favorite thing to extract money from.

But all that said, the State did it to themselves. No need for Trump to be involved.

Exactly. That’s the issue I keep trying to tell others about social media. It is insanely easy to run bot accounts with a very minimal amount of something like Python programming. And even if that’s not your cup of tea, you can just literally have a half dozen people very easily log in and out of six fold the number of actual humans accounts.

Like for six people, running 60 to 80 fake account manually is a piece of cake and if they’re really good and focused on task, that can easily be 150 to 200 accounts manually ran. Like running a bot army is incredibly easy for anyone.

This is why you have to take a lot of social media with a massive grain of salt. A lot of people are out there playing the algorithm, way more than I think people give credit for.

but to spread democracy to everybody around the world at the point of a gun

Wow, well that’s a take. It’s literally some shit you’d hear from Team America: World Police.

Mr. On again, Off again.

Total reset for good or just till the Chinese stop saying nice things.

Wants to stop mRNA. Which interestingly is being tested to cure AIDS, types of cancers, and other diseases.

All those wacks who thought that big pharma didn’t want to develop cures for these diseases, and the reality is it’s one of the wacks that didn’t want these cures.

How ironic.

The first wave of COVID deaths were clearly not enough.

Trump hates transparency. Hey Jeffrey, how’s that’s “donation” working for you?

Vindictive. Turkey feels better about themselves when the person is completely silenced.

However, I thought that the infrastructure would be set up prior for small business to come back to America and manufacture in America. So to wish ill on someone and to love the fact that they’re suffering, to love the fact that their family is being negatively affected, because I didn’t vote the same way that you did is [expletive] up

This guy is a double idiot. That he would think the manufacturing would be around before the tariffs went into place. it’s just silly thinking.

But also that he believes “go woke, go broke” isn’t the exact same thing he’s facing, is a whole other level of ignorance.

There’s no way this person isn’t just rage bait. No one could truly be this fucking regraded. I refuse to believe there are people this genuinely ignorant who aren’t just out there for rage bait.

Ha ha, but for real. They’ll just turn people’s power off, tell them to ration, and/or jack the price per kWh to 500% what it was.

Team Orange let’s no good calamity go to waste. Everything is potential profit if you have no moral compass.

You’re mostly right in that the person you’re replying is missing that we are providing money for those people’s detention. But El Salvador doesn’t HAVE TO give the person back, there’s nothing outside of us stopping payments that compels them.

It’s a semantic difference indeed but goes to point out the difference between legal means and diplomatic means. Legally, there’s nothing the US can do, once the person is in El Salvador they are under that country’s legal system. Diplomatically, yes, absolutely we can ask El Salvador to hand the person back or there will be diplomatic and potentially economic consequences for not doing so.

Now as others have pointed out, the Executive branch has a wide latitude for diplomatic powers. Judge indicated that the President work diplomatically to bring the person home, but outside of that, the “or else” part. There’s not much the Judge can do past that.

Additionally, El Salvador could press charges on the person and then there would be nothing that can be done to bring the person home in any legal means and likely less so diplomatically. This is the issue with sending people there. President Bukele of El Salvador could wish for better diplomatic relationships with the United States and Trump and just invent charges to keep the person there forever. There’s literally nothing we can do is El Salvador indicates that they are keeping the person and there’s nothing in the court system that can compel anyone to make those reasons clear.

That’s the biggest thing about the difference between diplomatic and legal. In legal means, the Court system can ensure that people are following through on requirements. In a diplomatic means, it’s just depends on who can butter who’s biscuit the best. The Judge can tell the President to bring him back, but that means next to nothing when it comes to diplomatic matters.

If it passes the House, it doesn’t matter, Trump can veto it.

Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha in 1983 declared Legislative Veto unconstitutional. It should have been then when all the emergency powers were rewritten.

So as it stands. All those emergency powers that were written with the understanding that a simple majority was all that was needed to end an emergency, now need a veto proof majority.

President Trump will impose a 10% tariff on all countries

It’s just whatever at this point. Clearly he’s gunning for recession, fuck it. Nobody in Congress stopping him.

At this point all those emergency powers Congress has given the President since the 1920s needs to be pulled back because clearly we can no long assure that the President won’t declare everything an emergency.

Elon Musk is neither President or Vice President, yet yields a massive amount of power for someone who is just “an independent contractor”.

This is what I’m getting at. That a JD Vance President and Mike Johnson VP (let’s just say for sake of illustration) could indicate they’re bringing Trump on as a “consultant” and then leave their jobs largely up to him.

Technically speaking Vance would still hold the title President but Trump would be executing most of the functions.

Yeah. Then Putin took back the role of President using the argument that Medvedev being President allowed Putin to run again despite term limits.

Medvedev became Prime Minister, then everyone in Parliament resigned all at the exact same time, leaving the President as the only one running the place.

Putin rewrote the Constitution and that was the end of that.

NBC News asked about a possible scenario in which Vice President JD Vance would run for office and then pass the role to Trump. Trump responded that “that’s one” method.

That isn’t a method. At in the sense that Trump obtains the title President. But we’ve seen during this administration that the President can delegate broad authority to others with zero questions.

So we could have a President who is still the President in name but has passed 99.9% of their duties to Trump who is an “independent contractor”.

This is quite literally the foundation they’re building with Musk.

Kids aren’t going to work these stupid ass jobs. And if they are working a hotel, they aren’t going to give a fuck if some stick up their ass tourist gets upset, they’ll just flip the person off and walk out.

Teenagers aren’t going to fucking fill these positions DeSantis is pitching. Migrants work it because they’ve got a need to do the work. A lot of teenagers work jobs because they’d like a little extra cash, but outside, they give flying fuck. Hell, the biggest fucking reason teens got jobs in the first place to fund their car is falling apart as more teens just skip the whole driving thing or start way later in life driving.

DeSantis is living in some yesteryear daydream.

cut waste and fraud

If at any point she actually believed Trump was going to do that, then mission accomplished. Her energy to empower Trump was wasted and she is only a fraud to herself.

I have very little in any expectation that she will learn from this. She will absolutely believe the next con man and lose again. That whole

I’m not sure that I would have [voted for Trump], and the way that it’s been done… I’m for balancing the budget, that type of thing, but not, not in this context, it’s just not right

Is just so devoid of any rational thought that I find it difficult to believe this person is real. And if what she says is indeed the fact, she’s too blind, lacking a better appreciation of how government works, or some mixture of both that one could likely bank on her falling for this exact same con several more times in her life.

There’s just no way anyone could have listened to Trump in the run up and bought so blindly what he was pitching. Just a simple basic understanding of the notion that humans lie is enough to have seen past Trump. Truly if this whole story is true, there’s not a stopping this lady from more self flagellation. She is in a position that being a rational thinking person would not get themselves into, so there is no rational means to help her escape her level of desire to cause self harm.