The phalanx of political/legal people ready to challenge Trump with lawsuits are like that audit manager. They are prepared to fight fair using the legal tools they know how to use. But Musk has simply gone right to the spigot and taken control of it and can impound anything he doesn’t like. /5 - ThreadSky

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radthorne.bsky.social • 30 days ago

The phalanx of political/legal people ready to challenge Trump with lawsuits are like that audit manager. They are prepared to fight fair using the legal tools they know how to use. But Musk has simply gone right to the spigot and taken control of it and can impound anything he doesn’t like. /5

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radthorne.bsky.social•30 days ago

Who are the lawyers going to sue? Bennet? He gave the authority to Musk to ‘review things for efficiency.’ Does anyone see this Supreme Court finding that outside his power to do? Sue Musk? On what standing? He hasn’t ‘done’ anything yet except review. /6

radthorne.bsky.social•30 days ago

Without visibility into what he is doing, and only seeing the effects of it later after selective monies never show up where they should, he can burn things down rapidly before he can be stopped, and likely at a level that is unrepairable whilst waiting for the slow legal gears to turn. /7

radthorne.bsky.social•30 days ago

Throughout history, in times of conflict, the winners often are not just those with a better army or better weapons. They are the ones thinking outside the box, changing the rules of the game that the others continue to adhere to. We are in that moment now. /8

radthorne.bsky.social•30 days ago

What to do is certainly not clear. But what *is* clear is that if we keep playing by the old rules, we will lose (by ‘we’ I mean the American people, of all stripes, not just progressives). We all need to organize, to fight, yes. But we also need brave leaders to rally behind. /9

radthorne.bsky.social•30 days ago

We need our Vaclav Havel. We need our Lech Walesa. We need our Nelson Madela. We need our Volodymyr Zelenskyy. We need leaders with backbone willing to risk everything to fight against tyranny. The moment is here. Let’s not let the light die with us. /10

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