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What were the massive problems? The transcript clearly indicates Trump was only interested insofar as obtaining just enough votes to overturn the election. If he truly cared about election integrity, he wouldn't emphasize the exact number of votes he needed to win.

They didn't pick any examples, they pulled all the footage that was available off of Parler. There are plenty of footage from inside the building in that link from the rioters themselves- not sure what you mean?

I certainly remember the pipe bomb. No memory hole of that: https://www.fbi.gov/video-repository/january-5-pipe-bomb-inv...

FBI provocateurs? Citation?

https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/ - doesn't look like "walking through" the building to me. Source: I chaperoned a school group through the Capitol back in 2017 or so, and our tour did not look like this.

not to mention the brazen attempts to pressure states, specifically Georgia, to "find" enough votes to change the election outcome:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/03/us/politics/trump-raffens...

https://www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2023/02/15/read-full-transc...

He came damn close in his first term. I remember watching the Twitter video on June 1, 2020 - see the video: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/watch-helicopters-hover-low-ov... to see how low the helicopters were flying and the rotor wash was clearly intended to intimidate the protesters.

https://warontherocks.com/2020/10/let-the-generals-speak-ret...

> In May 2020, protests emerged in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd by a white police officer, as well as other incidents of police brutality against African Americans. In these protests there was in some cases significant property destruction and looting. In response, more than 20 states and the District of Columbia activated the National Guard to assist in stabilizing the situation.

> By June 1 Trump was reportedly ready to send 10,000 regular military troops to the streets — forces usually used in external conflict. He threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act, which would have allowed him to deploy the troops without the governors’ permission. Active-duty troops were brought to the Washington, D.C., area, including some from the immediate response force brigade of the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division. For a few days it looked like Trump might send in the troops, precipitating the retired officer commentary detailed below. Ultimately the president did not invoke the Insurrection Act and the troops were sent home.

It wasn't just Trump: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protes...

https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2020/10/helicopters-over-d...

https://media.defense.gov/2021/May/27/2002730396/-1/-1/1/DOD...

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/soldiers-disciplined-helicop...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230607212142/https://casebook....

https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2020-06-0...

I didn’t say money didn’t remove their suffering, only that they managed to become fabulously wealthy without encountering any suffering along the way, mostly cause they’re so young when they become wealthy.

Probationary employees are fired afaik without any severance, as they are not yet covered by worker protections.

Even those who do accept the “buyout” may be unpleasantly surprised in March with the looming government shutdown and corresponding lapse in appropriations.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-firing-probation-workforce-...

“Things many of the doge staffers are too young to have experienced yet”

This I think pervades the zeitgeist of the moment. Regardless of age, we have fabulously wealthy (mostly men) who have experienced little to no suffering in life. Now they come into power and bring that arrogant attitude you have before life shows you that it owes you nothing.

I used to think “why do I pay school taxes” when I bought my first house, before I had kids.

I used to think “why does anyone need help” before I lost my house to a forced short sale.

I used to think “who cares about healthcare” and then my wife almost died of sepsis contracted through surgery for breast cancer.

Too many people in charge have zero empathy because their lived experience is becoming fabulously wealthy and pretty much nothing else. No wonder we are living in a terrible timeline.

Really? "Free" speech in the USA costs an awful lot these days.

https://apnews.com/article/abc-trump-lawsuit-defamation-step...

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/492499-trump-campaign-...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/judge-fi...

I googled "How many people work for the federal government?" and landed here: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f..., which pulls the data from the same OPM data sources.

I will admit, this administration is great at flooding the zone and making big splashes over trivial tasks. It's kind of like removing the muffler from your Civic, it'll sound like a sports car but it's still a Civic.

You've moved the goalposts. Your previous comment implied that the OPM data set does not include the facets for age, tenure, salary band, etc that the DOGE website presents. That's incorrect- the OPM data set includes those facets.

Since you've brought up UX, check out usafacts.org (mentioned on HN a few days ago). For example, a graph of the age of the federal workforce over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-old-is-the-federal-workfor.... Or the federal workforce size over time: https://usafacts.org/articles/how-many-people-work-for-the-f.... They also link back to the original raw OPM data sets.

The point stands, the data is publicly available. DOGE isn't creating some new radical transparency for the federal government. They're not even the first to reformat the data in a UX friendly manner. AFAICT all they've done is skinned it with "dark mode" and managed to put injection vulns in a .gov website.

You can add those facets on the left

Affording to feed your family and put a stable roof over their heads is a bit more than “immediate personal comfort”.

What’s amazing to me is that FSD to this day cannot recognize active school zones. Even my 6 year old Audi onboard cameras can do that. If you put FSD on and you go through a school zones, the Tesla will happily zip at full speed completely ignoring the school zone.

Awww. Poor LLM companies worried about competing companies creating models based on … data “stolen” from their own model? Totally makes sense, since the original LLM was conceived without data, kind of like the Virgin Mary. Let’s just all pretend like OpenAI didn’t steal terabytes worth of data themselves in violation of a whole bunch of terms of services.

This is what’s frustrating with the current political situation. Since we are already wielding the sledgehammer, why not take it to this system, which would actually solve some real problems for every day people?

Man. I did stuff like this as an 18 year old. Then I grew up to be a mature professional. I don’t want to taint these people for life, and at the same time I don’t want them anywhere near sensitive data or critical systems for our national infrastructure.

In other words this reflects way more poorly on the “management” than these kids themselves.

Don't worry, the extra tariffs, mad growth from unshackling those repressed corporations from pesky regulations, closing the Department of Education, USAID, and of course the establishment of the strategic memecoin reserve will magically pay for all these tax programs! YOLO baby!

The crime in question occurred in a non-state, so that isn’t much help here.

I’m confused so when the president says something I’m supposed to not take it seriously? So when he said he would pardon all J6 defendants, and all his sycophants including his VP said - well of course not the violent ones - we should or should not take him at his word? Is there some sort of magic decoder ring I’m missing?

Technically one of those criminals would have been musk himself, who was in violation of immigration law by violating the terms of his student visa when he first started working in SV: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/10/26/elon-musk...

He also just pardoned a bunch of criminals who physically assaulted police, desecrated Congress, because… they were on his side? That’s simply unprecedented. I don’t need a “party leader” to tell me that’s wrong.

Most of Europe and the world don’t have as wide ranging protections for free speech or bearing arms as we do, either. So using that as an argument is not relevant, regardless of any spiffy smart sounding Latin phrases.

The text of the 14th amendment follows:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

For better or for worse, the amendment does not make any exceptions for denying citizenship to persons born of late term pregnant women who just arrived on the shores.

Marking lawful citizens as enemy combatants for simply being born in the US sounds like a very bad idea to me, and should be to you too. Why would I not be a potential enemy combatant for making this comment on hacker news right now?

Eliminating birthright citizenship is cut and dry an attempt at unconstitutional rescindment of the 14th amendment of the constitution.

“Massive popular mandate” - citation needed

Why would it backfire? He basically says he’s smarter than any of the bureaucrats. So let’s just give him a chance to fix it all by himself, as he promised he would do.

It’s not like we haven’t already had experience with his actions. We went through that discovery process from 2016-2020 already

America first, indeed. This will definitely drive down inflation and improve economic conditions for normal people.

It’s still only at 2/3?

It’s already happened. The avian flu has driven supplies down and prices through the roof for eggs. My local deli is now charging an extra surcharge of 40c per egg.

Strange, considering bringing the price of eggs down seemed to be a key message in their campaign? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BPT3xe6jbk

Strange that the wsj has suddenly found some courage, considering they were the among the biggest cheerleaders of his candidacy. Did they not hear him continually say he would impose tariffs on day one?