[epistasis]

Look at the body cam footage of the armed takeover of the Institute of Peace on youtube, or here's a politico article:

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/doge-institute-peac...

Or Musk "deputizing" his private security guards to be federal agents for his purposes:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

A new department head gets installed, DOGE selects people to fire, has complete access to IT etc.

What's not to understand? The government was completely in the control of Trump and DOGE. What type of "authority" do you think did not exist? This is the standard authoritarian playbook that's played out many times over the world over the past century, it's not hard to understand.

[trinsic2]

Thats a federal institution. Is this institution federal?

Edit: thanks for the links. You can tell they are operating without authority. I had been totally unaware of this

[ok_dad]

Maybe go back and edit or delete your other ignorant comments now that you’ve actually learned something. You sat here derailing the conversation for an hour because you lacked the motivation to look up facts.

[trinsic2]

I don't need to delete my comments. The stand the way they are. Im comfortable with making mistakes and being wrong. And btw its not a derailment to ask questions related to jurisprudence of this administration's criminal actions.

[epistasis]

I agree with this attitude and think it's helpful.

In the modern age there's no one set of things that people have seen, no common base of knowledge, and the process in this comment thread was super informative in the sense that if I had provided some links to start, a lot of confusion could have been avoided.

[ok_dad]

Maybe you need to be less comfortable with being wrong and educate yourself about politics more before you comment a dozen times with misinformation then claim you’re totally innocent and were just “asking questions”. That shit is so common amongst trump supporters. Not sayings you are but you’re playing the same game as they do.

[trinsic2]

I was transparent in where I was at. You are making statements based on nothing. We are all human, we make mistakes, your the one with the problem if you cant see this.

[ok_dad]

You almost seem proud of your ignorance, maybe you should be learning something from this rather than just being fine with your hour of arguing misinformation. If you are truly not ashamed of bring ignorant and spreading FUD because of that, then I guess there’s nothing more for me to say to such a person. You didn’t just make a mistake, you sat here and doubled and tripled and quadrupled down for an hour while people tried to correct you over and over and you simply didn’t even look up anything, only coming to your realization after someone fed you a link.

This is why they say lies go round the world before the truth gets its shoes on.