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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 21, 2025 at 10:45 pm
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The trouble is getting from here to there with their own power intact.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
February 21, 2025 at 11:48 pm
Maybe it's just my own lack of imagination, but I don't imagine Congress is desirous of allowing themselves to fade into irrelevance.
Yet, here we are.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
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(February 21, 2025 at 11:48 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Maybe it's just my own lack of imagination, but I don't imagine Congress is desirous of allowing themselves to fade into irrelevance.
Yet, here we are.
They're not allowing themselves to fade. They're embracing it.
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RE: The Official "Damned Trump" Thread: Phase II
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Ignoble surrender of democracy.
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(Yesterday at 3:43 am)Ravenshire Wrote: (February 21, 2025 at 11:48 pm)Jackalope Wrote: Maybe it's just my own lack of imagination, but I don't imagine Congress is desirous of allowing themselves to fade into irrelevance.
Yet, here we are.
They're not allowing themselves to fade. They're embracing it.
They're making the same mistake that social remoras always make. I'm not surprised. If they didn't balk at president klan robes qanon routine they weren't going to balk at anything else.
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A federal judge in Maryland has issued a preliminary injunction blocking key provisions of President Donald Trump’s recent executive orders to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, ruling that they likely violate constitutional protections.
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Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc...p/4114738/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(Yesterday at 3:24 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Trump voter who got laid off from IRS tells NBC10: “I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found [waste] instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/loc...p/4114738/
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"business acumen" 
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Quote:The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase said on Friday that the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to drop its lawsuit against the company, lifting a legal cloud over the global crypto industry and signaling a broader retreat by federal regulators.
Coinbase, in a post on its website and in a regulatory filing, said it had reached an agreement in principle with the S.E.C. to have the lawsuit withdrawn without any financial penalty. If the S.E.C. confirms the proposed settlement, it would be a remarkable reversal by the agency after years of legal battles against crypto firms.
The S.E.C. sued Coinbase, the largest U.S. crypto company, in 2023 on the grounds that the digital currencies sold on its platform constituted unregistered securities that put consumers at risk of financial harm.
Any settlement that results in a dismissal of the lawsuit would require the approval of the S.E.C.’s commissioners. A spokesperson for the agency declined to comment on Coinbase’s announcement.
The lawsuit was the most significant of several that the S.E.C. had filed against major crypto companies, arguing that they were operating outside the law. A victory for the government could have threatened the continued operation of Coinbase, a publicly traded company worth about $65 billion, and decimated the broader crypto market.
The dismissal would be the biggest victory for the crypto industry since President Trump took office last month, promising to end the Biden administration’s regulatory crackdown on crypto under the previous S.E.C. chair, Gary Gensler. And it would underline the growing influence in Washington of billionaire technology executives, who wrote enormous checks to support Mr. Trump’s campaign, hoping to secure softer regulation.
Paul Grewal, Coinbase’s chief legal officer, said in an interview that the agreement was “nothing short of a complete win” — Coinbase would not have to admit to any wrongdoing or pay a fine. The agency agreed to dismiss the case with prejudice, he said, meaning that the lawsuit can’t be brought again.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/techn...wsuit.html
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