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14·16 hours agoThey’re pretty disorganized about it all:
Mr. Chopra expected to be fired immediately after President Trump took office, but he improbably hung on for nearly two weeks, even as the president ousted scores of other agency leaders. He used that time to impose a $2 million fine on a money transmitter and release reports on auto lending costs, specialty credit reporting companies and rent payment data.
“All” is what I see in reporters’ screenshots of Trump’s Truth Social post. I don’t think I’ve seen interviews with the fired individuals yet.
Most of the existing makers make them now, but it’s often really hard to get a dealer to actually sell you one.
Yeah. The problem with dealers is that fossil cars need more service, and that’s where the dealer makes money. So dealers of legacy brands push fossil cars much harder than EVs.
For a dedicated EV brand, having no dealers is a money grab, since you don’t need to have the dealer turn a profit.
Calling something a swasticar gets the cops mad. There’s a reddit thread with eyewitness accounts somewhere
At least one that I’m aware of was intentionally burned.
We’ve had a lot of those so far; for the most part, people are getting court orders to put things back. It’s that the Musk/Trump administration keeps doing new things, for which there isn’t yet a court order telling them to stop it.
The other civil servants around them are likely to welcome back colleagues.
It’s not yet clear that the courts will go along with it.
And be reinstated by the courts. But that takes time
30·4 days agoState murder law applies, so it won’t do the killers much good
There is definitely more they can do to slow things down (eg reject unanimous consent every time) and they’ve largely started voting as an opposition bloc at this point.
And show up for a protest. People see those and realize that they’re not alone in opposition.
He’s seeing a lot — but they they’re a minority in both houses of Congress, which means that:
- They can’t prevent nominees from being confirmed
- They can’t stop budget legislation if Republicans are united about it
- They can’t even hold official hearings with subpoena power
What they can do:
- Slow things down - insisting on the maximum amount of debate on every nomination
- Block non-budget legislation in the Senate
So far they’ve started slowing things down a fair bit, but not by the maximum possible, and non-budget legislation hasn’t yet moved in the Senate.
I’ve seen others try this in other positions. They stop getting paid and are locked out from work, and sue
It’s definitely one way. I like how she just stalled things for an few days first.
Thanks. I’ve edited the post to use the new one