This is the essence of it. You can do any and all of this stuff by passing laws. They're not because they lack the votes. So all of this is illegitimate and frankly illegal. I'll go one step further and say there should not be a senate filibuster. You should be able to do any and all of this by ...
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One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/
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Fuck these motherfuckers.
Don’t Give Up the Ship!
Trump won't leave quietly, even if he'd served 2 consecutive terms.
He will burn it all down before he leaves.
All he needed to do in the interim was find soulless billionaires to help do his dirty work. And no, they don't care about anything - even their own kids' futures.
And if course Donald is a lifelong pathological criminal who somple cannot follow a rule no matter how performative or nominal
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This part is important. I might think the policy is stupid or evil, but yes I absolutely do think they should be able to do it by simple leg majority no filibuster.
"Trump is acting like a King because he is too weak to govern like a president."
Way back in 1775.
See Constitution Article I Section 8 Clause 18:
https://oversight.house.gov/report/a-constitutional-obligation-congressional-oversight-of-the-executive-branch/
But even with a simple majority these kinds of sweeping changes are a pain to pass because cutting spending is a suicide pact that will eventually screw your consituents.
Plus it means Ted Cruz becomes the most hated man in Senate again. I'm convinced they created the current fillibuster just so he would shut the fuck up.
Worst. Darmok. Remake. EVER.
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They claim they need high drug prices because of the cost of research as a justification but they don't pay anywhere near the full costs for it.
For example, remove the presidential ability to fire employees. Congress can fire, but only with 65+ votes
It's not an effort to work around not having the votes. It's an effort to stage a kind of Cultural Revolution/Year Zero.
Their goal is to destroy society and create the post apocalyptic feudal order that people like the tech and crypto bros, the Mercers, the Mellons and the Uhlines fantasize about.
They don't want to be accidentally limited by their own law either, so the law to allow them to do anything they want (within the limits of an interested reading of a pre railways constitutional document) would have to look like the Ermächtigungsgesetz.
Now they've just taken over the government themselves for themselves.
Actually, I hope it’s that rather than the bloody alternative. I’d like to be long gone by the time the heavily armed MAGA militias of red states wake up to what’s been done to them.
https://www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-against-america?utm_campaign=post&triedRedirect=true&sort=new
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/16/are-cows-better-represented-senate-than-people/
Thanks tony.
NO CONGRESSMEN TO BE SEEN OR HEARD FROM.
I too, would rather have the Chick-fil-a Cow Representing Me ! Dammit !!
For them to succeed EVERYTHING has to go their way. Circumvent Congress, defy the Courts, control ALL media, command the military, have N Guard subdue citizens, satisfy big donors
It might be ‘shock & awe’ but it’s only the first volley in a long battle & they’re sloppy & arrogant
This is the same reason company execs hire consultants to make big decisions - when they fail they don't want to be accountable
https://www.uscis.gov/citizenship/learn-about-citizenship/the-naturalization-interview-and-test/naturalization-oath-of-allegiance-to-the-united-states-of-america#:~:text=%22I%20hereby%20declare%2C%20on%20oath,the%20United%20States%20of%20America
NO negotiation skills
Cuz they’re losing issues
At least they are finally showing their true colors.
But greed is a strange thing.
Billionaires will go to incredible lengths to avoid taxes, even though it will have no effect of their day-to-day lives whatsoever.
The rest of us gotta decide if we are gonna continue letting Musk stymie our Republic.
Nothing like what we're seeing now, however.
Private military contractors employed globally by Triple Canopy, earlier connected to Blackwater, run by Eric Prince.