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• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:59pm

  *1997

  No. Also, even if it were actually from 1997, you haven't adressed the main point: that the Act makes it so USAID can't be dissolved by EO. It's almost as if you're full of shit.

  Official is determined by the appoints clause of the constitution. It has not been amended and cannot be overwritten by any mere law. (it’s not even clear what you’re citing, but lol, no) He’s not an official.

  First of all, no, officials aren't determined by the Appointments Clause; that's officers. An officer is a type of official, but an official isn't automatically an officer. Secondly, Fox is saying he's a government employee and Congress says government employee = official. So you're either completely wrong(again) or calling Fox and/or Congress liars. Pick one.

  Everything else you wrote is irrelevant and incredibly stupid.

  I'm disappointed, Matty. I had hoped for more fantasy headcanon on how a former Associate Counsel is wrong about the law, but alas. I have to settle for your "nuh uh".

• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:44pm

  Funny, cuz to the entire internet outside of techdirt land, it sure looks like Bill Krystol’s org got about $50M directly from USAID.

  Then post a credible source saying so. If the entire internet agrees with you, it should be easy. I have a feeling you won't, though.

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:37pm

  And Trump said he would fix the prices of everyday items on his first day in office. How's that going so far?

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:36pm

  Ooh, self-burn! Those are rare.

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:33pm

  You d@amn reeeeeetaaaard (not ad hominem)

  Explaining to someone how calling them stupid is ad hominem, then calling them stupid and saying that isn't ad hominem is extra moronic, even for you.

• On the post: ‘Moral Sanity:’ Dipshit Lawmaker Issues Slew Of Bills To Ban Everything From Porn Possession To No-Fault Divorces

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:25pm

  I'm not kidding. And don't call me Shirley.

• On the post: YouTube Bad Takedowns Continue, Details Behind The Silicon Curtain As Always

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:15pm

  YouTube’s spokesperson, Boot Bullwinkle, did not respond...

  I didn't know AI's could be spokespeople.

• On the post: When It’s Not Just A Coup But A CFAA Violation Too

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 12:32pm

  By your own admission, you're not a lawyer, and also by your own admission, if one is not a lawyer, one is not an expert on law. So take your own advice and shut the fuck up about pretending to know anything about the law.

• On the post: To Stop The Coup, We Must Be Clear About The Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:44am

  No, I’m not arguing about your made up nonsense, fuuuuck off.

  ...he said, right after making up nonsense to refute.

• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 11:32am

  *1997, but no, it didn’t create USAID, just mentioned it.

  That's a nice try with trying to seem credible by correcting me, but no, the Act was enacted in 1998, and I didn't say it created USAID. The Act is what effectively made USAID an independent government agency, and as such, can't be dissolved by EO. That's according to an actual lawyer and former Associate White House Council, by the way. But I'm sure your extensive legal experience will prove us all wrong.

  No, they’re not.

  Here's Fox: "Elon Musk has been named as a "special government employee," according to the White House." And here's Congress stipulating what a public official is: "A public official is an elected or appointed official, or an employee of a Federal, state or local government in the United States." So yes, Musk is a government official, which makes his actions very constitutionally iffy.

• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 10:22am

  USAID was started by executive order, actually. If an agency was started by and EO, it ABSOLUTELY can be ended by and EO.

  No, it can't. Look up The Foreign Affairs Reform and Restructuring Act of 1998.

  Everything Musk is doing is legal, and no, he’s not an “official”, but yes he is authorized and has clearance.

  Are you calling your own government liars? Because they're saying he is.

• On the post: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 10:01am

  The responses I’ve received to recent articles about the Musk/Trump administration’s actions reveal a stark truth: for many supporters, the goal isn’t better policy or stronger institutions — it’s the satisfaction of watching their perceived opponents suffer. “Elections have consequences,” they say, wielding the phrase not as a statement about governance but as a celebration of retribution.

  How dare you! Matty would be very upset if he could read!

• On the post: CVS Will Make Shopping Slightly Less Annoying If You Download An App, Consent To Being Tracked

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 09:30am

  And that proves this is a "direct result" of blue state policies how?

• On the post: CVS Will Make Shopping Slightly Less Annoying If You Download An App, Consent To Being Tracked

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 08:14am

  If shoplifting weren’t a problem at these stores, why would these stores intentionally lower sales by locking OP certain items?

  Nobody claimed there's no shoplifting problem, just that it isn't an epidemic as some journalists claim.

• On the post: CVS Will Make Shopping Slightly Less Annoying If You Download An App, Consent To Being Tracked

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 08:13am

  Retail theft is absolutely a problem

  And nobody has claimed it isn't. If you think the article did, that's only because you have the literacy of a toddler.

  Stores don’t make shopping more difficult for fun, it costs them a lot of money.

  True, but a store doing something doesn't automatically mean that it's for a valid reason. If store managers buy in to the "shoplifting epidemic", they may try all sorts of things.

  This all the direct result of failed blue state policies

  Prove it.

• On the post: CVS Will Make Shopping Slightly Less Annoying If You Download An App, Consent To Being Tracked

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 06:07am

  Wouldn't work. Musk or his teenage cronies would simply have the level-headed brain cell fired, and open it themselves.

• On the post: Musk Shows Us What Actual Government Censorship On Social Media Looks Like

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 05:18am

  You should read the entire article, because they cover this:

  The Supreme Court’s Bantam Books v. Sullivan precedent makes clear that government officials can’t use their position to coerce private entities into censorship. Musk isn’t just suggesting removal — he’s doing it directly.

• On the post: A Coup Is In Progress In America

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 04 Feb, 2025 @ 12:34am

  It's all explained in the article above. You know, the one where you only read the headline, and then proceeded to excrete your misinformed opinions on in the comments section.

• On the post: Musk’s Takeover Of The Government’s Computer Systems Needs To Be Understood As A Cyberattack, Or Worse

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2025 @ 01:10pm

  The Department of Government Efficiency is a department in name only, because only Congress can establish federal government offices. Congress didn't do that with DOGE. In other words, Musk is not an official government employee and is therefore not authorized to do what he's currently doing.

• On the post: A Coup Is In Progress In America

  

  Strawb ( profile ), 03 Feb, 2025 @ 01:03pm

  Musk has the security clearances required, and was asked to do this work by the President of the United States. It’s about as “authorized” as you can get. It’s not “illegal” just because you dislike it.

  Checks and balances is a thing, you colossal nitwit.

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