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ICE: We did it. We did it. We did it! Yay! ¡Lo hicimos!

Yeah, something got in their crawl and Bluesky is on low key TPOT rising.

Someone did a post on it, you can see the map that was done in the picture there with TPOT in blue.

I don't know why they started coalescing on Bluesky, but it is what it is. If they get annoying there, I know how to mute them. But as long as that doesn't also herald the "free speech absolutists" that literally add zero value, I'm cool with TPOT heading to Bluesky.

Besides, I'm more active on Fedi/Mastodon at this point than Threads/Bluesky so it's not really a pressing thing for me. I mean shit, I wouldn't have a problem with Musk's network if he'd clamp down on the utter trash going on over there. Like it's gotten to pure garbage, I haven't the time to block everyone who pops into my feeds that how hard the algo there is pushing the trash.

The postrat folk. The deep value Silicon Valley folk. Core Techbro kind of people.

Would have thought they'd be prone to sticking with Musk

Ditto, but at the same time. Being with daddy Musk might be too traditional at this point. No idea the reasons, but you can to see a lot of this popping up in that circle on Twitter.

TPOT → Bluesky is actually an interesting example of what looks like a successful transplantation... quasi-existential concerns about Elon Twitter, vibes have been off leading to big cascades of migration tend to happen after inciting incidents (eg twitter banning substack links being a canary in the coal mine)

You know the "I sound super thoughtful" kind of stuff. Lots of praise from that Group on XTwitter/Bluesky.

I don't know. Lots of folks pointing out That Part Of Twitter (TPOT) also migrating over.

That's not the victory Republicans will think it is.

The House Freedom caucus routinely has at least one or two who dig their heels in over "this bill doesn't go FAR enough!"

With a 218 majority, that means 100% of the Republicans have to toe the line. Not a single person can be out of line, something that rarely happens with either party. There's usually at least ONE person who doesn't like the outcome.

This is going to put a lot of people who are known for digging in their heels into very precarious situations. Either they toe the line and have to accept some compromise because of Democrats in the Senate looking to filibuster. Or they alone hijack the Republican plans.

And woe if someone dies, gets sick, or retires in office on their side, something that also happens at least once per year on either side.

Yeah. We don't have anything in place for this kind of thing, so we had to rely exclusively on things we use for corporate litigation and what have you. The whole impeachment, that's about it as for what our founders created to protect us and if Congress doesn't exercise that power, well this is what happens. That whole argument way back "the courts will settle this" from the Senate that gave him a pass, that was the Senate knowing they failed and trying to pass the blame elsewhere.

Trump got away with everything because the actual few protections we have, the people entrusted to use those powers lacked the spine to actually use that power. Cowardice is how we got here. A short but important line of defense was entrusted to weak minded people and so they failed at every step of the way.

Perhaps we will one day fix these shortcomings. Maybe. But this shows that if we give power to weak individuals that will put wealth, power, and their own interests over the rule of law, then we don't have a country. The Constitution is only a sheet of paper if we do nothing to enforce it.

Bold of you to assume that any family member of Trump's would not already be stealing the money.

Someone, somewhere wished that Rubio and Gaetz were no longer in Congress.

And the monkey paw curled a finger.

This cluster just gets worse by the day.

And we all have 1,529 days left to watch that hope get even dimmer.

One. Trump can't fire the Comptroller. They report to Congress.

Two. Trump will get to select the next Comptroller on December 22 of 2025. So it's kind of a moot point.

WHAAAAATTT?!

Rubio? Dang. That's a choice. There's Romney, Paul, Barrasso, and Cruz that are some heavy hitters on the Committee on Foreign Relations and he went with Rubio? I mean shit, Rand Paul is who I would think would slide the best into Trump's Sec. of State. There's likely no one for Sec. of State that's on Foreign Rel. that's been more meticulous about the southern border that him. Additionally, the man is an easy pick for if you wanted to have someone sign a giant check from the US Treasury to Israel in the amount of ALL dollars.

Rubio is a bit more slow paced. Don't get me wrong, he wants a wall just as much, but he'd likely slow walk it to allow it to gain heavy media traction. Paul would just be like "Give me some fucking bricks".

is viewed by State Department officials as unlikely to overly politicize the role

That is a massive understatement there.

All I have to say is color me surprised by the choice. I mean, obviously Trump is going to tell Romney to eat shit, but shit if Foreign Rel. is where Trump was going for Sec. of State, I would have surely thought Paul would be a a perfect fit to Trump's mannerisms.

Dems Should Steal It Back.

Or you know, Bernie should just have it and everyone should stop stealing it. I mean I'm as liberal as they come, but c'mon Democrats, stop stealing Bernie's shit and leaving him behind and just listen to what Senator Sanders is telling you will actually win Americans.

I mean, I get it, I'm bummed about Trump, but shit, PLEASE LEARN SOMETHING THIS CYCLE DNC!! I mean there's a ton of reasons for why Trump won, but holy fuck, Democrats if you could run something just few nanometers short of the current level of insipid political rhetoric, that would be amazing.

I'll still vote Democrat on the mid term, but c'mon drink a Red Bull or something.