It's all the new AI software, his hardware just can't handle it; plus the software needs to steal real thoughts, expression, insights, from a real source.
In most systems, it pays handsomely to be an asshole that abuses the rules...
...right up until the rest of the players decide to actually hold you accountable, at which point the fun stops.
And when it's clear that the other players are not likely to hold you accountable (because they recently haven't held anyone accountable),
and you're sociopathic or just greedy enough to convince yourself your actions are okay actually,
well, that clearly tempts a lot of people.
And since there are so many people, even if only a small % of people have questionable morals/ethics & are willing to be assholes,
well, that results in a lot of assholes willing to abuse the system 🤷♂️
They don't always. It's just more noticable when they do, because it offends our sense of justice. 1000 horrible people could get soundly punished, and we'd still notice the one who didn't more than the 1000 who did. If bad guys always won, Trump would be President right now.
There's an argument that basically any governor can ignore these kinds of moves since it interferes with the state constitution usually but nobody's tried it for some dumbass decorum reason I assume.
It's a weak argument on the text of the 17th Amendment, which explicitly gives legislatures this power.
The more colorable argument is that laws limiting the choice to somebody of the same party are iffy, arguing that it's a binary either allow appointments or not.
But Kentucky didn't pass that sort of law. They just said no gubernatorial appointments, period, it stays vacant until a special election. That's pretty clearly within their explicit constitutional power.
I think this law replaces a law dictating that the new senator be from the party of the former senator, which was passed in the last couple years and obviously never used.
Right, that's the one Beshear had talked about maybe challenging. In theory there's a not-crazy 17th Amendment argument to make there. But it's very unlikely the courts would agree, those sorts of laws have been around a long time in a good number of states.
The 17th amendment explicitly grants state legislatures the authority to allow the state executive to appoint a replacement ahead of an election. Which means they can also disallow it, which is all they're doing. The seat will remain vacant.
This is actually weird if for that reason because it actually opens up the possibility of a dem replacement, which the previous law would not allow for. Previously it demanded a replacement from a list of three of the same party of the vacator. This allows a doug Jones possibility.
This party is not the long thinking super geniuses that Biden wants you to think they are when he continues a Trump policy. They are rather dumb and transparent.
This is just a further attempt to restrict the Dem governor’s power over filling Senate seats. They’ve already passed restrictions that largely tie his hands. Though reportedly he can try to ignore all of this & let it play out in court.
