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cross-posted from: https://lemmit.online/post/5052526

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The original was posted on /r/technology by /u/esporx on 2025-01-31 04:57:09+00:00.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what the heck, trumpf broke the law? he's toast!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (1 children)

'likely' illegal

I wonder if they'll ever figure out that laws only work when the threat of them is credible, or that there is someone willing to enforce them.

Kids on the playground have a more lucid understanding of this reality than any of the people living in Elysium. If the group calls "no touch backs" but you keep doing it, you'll either end up playing alone, or beat up.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I wonder if they'll ever figure out that laws only work when the threat of them is credible, or that there is someone willing to enforce them

Senate parliamentarian

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Unfortunately for liberals, conservatives likely remember the parliamentarian can just be replaced by the Senate Majority Leader (since they did that during the Bush admin days when he wouldn't allow them to do something), and the Senate Majority Leader happens to be a conservative

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Lib armchair experts thinking that sternly shaking their heads is going to accomplish anything was funny the first time around but it’s genuinely just depressing now aware

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Need libs to get it through their heads that the law is not a binding spell

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

This exactly. Libs might as well be sov-cits with this level of baseless faith.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Never. The. Less

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

I can't wait for him to receive zero consequences from this.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Stop making everything an acronym.

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)

STOP MAKING EVERYTHING AN ACRONYM

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Liberals really aren't gonna stfu about this are they?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

should we throw away our rule book and get a golden retriever? no, let's appeal to subsection a, paragraph 7 of clause c in the auxiliary bylaws

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Don't worry libs, federal law will be changed soon.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

They should impeach him again, I heard he hates that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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