Even if this is true, and I make no comment on that, you may very well be correct. Without further laws/treaties bidding ≠ selecting. I assume one of the criteria is the company’s fitness.
The train operators should recognise that they are in a bit of a monopsony, here.
Looking at the requested penalty makes me wonder why they didn’t request one trillion. I mean if you are being blatant about your ulterior motive to scare off further investigation into your unethical practices.
Anyway they now got the stink on them. Any railway operator dealing with them will have no one but themselves to blame going forward.
I think the tariff situation is more subtle than you are letting on. Basically, Trump is now on the clock were previously he wasn’t. He will now be forced to go to congress to ratify this increase.
While we may feel smug in our federated social media, I wonder how far those protections even go. I guess it really depends where our instance is, and who they host with.
This is yet another nail in the coffin of physical media. Or, in other words games you actually own instead of long term lease.
Trump can raise all the executive orders he wants. He just doesn’t have jurisdiction on how states run their elections.
This doesn’t mean he can’t cause trouble, though. For instance, maybe he can just order the USPS to not deliver ballot mail. Or worse, open it an substitute the ballot inside to one that’s much more favourable to him.
Obviously, if he does that the US can kiss goodbye to being a representative democracy.