OK, I'll show how I as a reporter, and experts I talked to, didn't appreciate what was coming.
I did a quick hit on DOGE after it was announced. I talked to experts. And the upshot was, well, only Congress can create a federal agency. How much power could this have? 1/
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5189453
I did a quick hit on DOGE after it was announced. I talked to experts. And the upshot was, well, only Congress can create a federal agency. How much power could this have? 1/
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5189453
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But in his world, asking for forgiveness is replaced with, “It’s easier to do what we want and the figure it out after the law suits start.”
And most journalists treat it all as BAU
#naziamerica and the musk ilk are doing it right now.
They are DOING IT. And they will get away with it.
Trump’s mind kept wandering. As it still is.
This is how off the map we are right now. I can't speak for all reporters but I'll speak for me... 2/
Convention of States movement.
It’s way under the radar
And when our Constitution gets ripped apart and rewritten, we can say
I Told You So
#Resist #WTYS
But Trump of course does all sorts of stuff that is off the map -- like announce tariffs on Canada -- that it makes reporting extra hard. 3/
All public info I found.
Just take the phrase "so what could this do *legally*?" and remove the word 'legally' and there you have your worst-case scenario.
fascist takeover
of the United States.
and literally there is no one fighting back with even a tenth of the level that these evil bastards are perpetrating.
Regulators need to mount the fuck up.
#naziamerica
United States DOGE Service (USDS) is an official agency.
So what now?