Politics Thread!

[KlaxonCow]

He can't run till 1930.

I presume you mean 2030, as 1930's already gone.

Well, unless you mean half 7 in the evening.

[tufty]

Over here in communist frenchystan, the government fraud office are asking for a sentence of 7 years of prison and a fine of 300,000 euros to be handed down to ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy for acts of corruption with regard to illegal campaign funding from Libya.

[F-ZeroOne]

I don't know, 1930 seems like a pretty suitable year for wannabe fascists - and yes, in the US they are literally snatching people off the street now for having expressed views that might be contrary to that of the Orange God-Emperors administration.

[PFVA]

He can't run till 1930.

I presume you mean 2030, as 1930's already gone.

Well, unless you mean half 7 in the evening.

yeah, 2030.
I wonder why had the 1930s in mind...

[KlaxonCow]

[tufty]

[zip accident]

I posted this in Programming because the idea that it could be done is absurd.

However, if the plan is to totally trash the USA's Social Security system (whatever that is) this is maybe a way to do it with some sort of (feeble) deniability.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/2 ... -in-months

[KlaxonCow]

Line #1345008 of the new code:

Code: Select all

if (name == 'Elon Musk') { taxRate = 0.0; }

[tufty]

I think you meant

Code: Select all

taxRate = -100;

[PFVA]

I posted this in Programming because the idea that it could be done is absurd.

However, if the plan is to totally trash the USA's Social Security system (whatever that is) this is maybe a way to do it with some sort of (feeble) deniability.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/2 ... -in-months

Social security is a giant database but it's not one of the ones that require more computation.
They pay only Retirement and Permanent Disability.
Once it starts the only change is the yearly cost of living adjustment.

Welfare checks, food stamps are paid by the counties in each state. That requires a lot more variables because people's income change, family composition, etc. Temporary disability is paid by the States.

Note: I didn't program it, I just verified they should be getting and entered the data correctly (hopefully) so that could happen. Most of the time I worked we used a Cobol based program. Change came about early this century and it was a nightmare because of lack of organization and bugs in the new system. Social security should be easier to change because of what I said above.

[F-ZeroOne]

Japan - Japan, a country which at times can be more conservative than Thatcher Night at a small villages Conservative Club - feels like DEI is a good thing:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20 ... na/018000c

[SuperMappy]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald ... rcna198752

Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so.

[KlaxonCow]

I knew it was coming. You'll notice every time I mentioned "the next four years", I always added "(or more)".

But, still, he is openly talking about defying the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, and that amendment requires overwhelming majorities that the Republicans simply don't have - that I think no party has ever had in US history. So he has zero chance of doing this via any legitimate route.

The White House's official Twitter posted this:



Granted, there is, no doubt, an edge of "trolling the libs" to any shit that Trump spouts, but he and his administration are overtly calling him a "King".

[Harlequin]

But, still, he is openly talking about defying the 22nd Amendment of the Constitution, and that amendment requires overwhelming majorities that the Republicans simply don't have …

That amendment refers only to elections and does not in itself bar someone who has served two terms from being elected Vice President, subsequently becoming President via that route. The Twelfth Amendment ("no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President") might apply but many argue it would not. The interpretation could be eventually be decided by the Supreme Court.

[SuperMappy]

From Wikipedia:

Amendments may be proposed either by the Congress with a two-thirds vote in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; or by a convention to propose amendments called by Congress at the request of two-thirds of the state legislatures. To become part of the Constitution, an amendment must then be ratified by either—as determined by Congress—the legislatures of three-quarters of the states or by ratifying conventions conducted in three-quarters of the states, a process utilized only once thus far in American history with the 1933 ratification of the Twenty-First Amendment. The vote of each state (to either ratify or reject a proposed amendment) carries equal weight, regardless of a state's population or length of time in the Union. Article Five is silent regarding deadlines for the ratification of proposed amendments, but most amendments proposed since 1917 have included a deadline for ratification. Legal scholars generally agree that the amending process of Article Five can itself be amended by the procedures laid out in Article Five, but there is some disagreement over whether Article Five is the exclusive means of amending the Constitution.

Interesting times ahead indeed.