A strategy for the empowerment of the purge is revealed.

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

As of the weekend it sounds like the strategy is to claim actually breaking the law depends on whether a criminal thinks the law can be broken.

Trump and the MAGA are following the George Costanza Defense: if you think it is true, then it is not a lie or a perjury. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, don't believe it is a lie.

 

[berg80]

Trump and the MAGA are following the George Costanza Defense: if you think it is true, then it is not a lie or a perjury. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, don't believe it is a lie.

That is Faux's business model.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems​

Judge Engelmayer said in an emergency order that the officials’ access heightened the risk of leaks and of the systems becoming more vulnerable than before to hacking. He set a hearing in the case for Friday.

Federal lawyers defending Mr. Trump — as well as the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the Treasury Department — called the order “markedly overboard” and said the court should dismiss the injunction, or at least modify his order.

They argued that the order violated the Constitution by ignoring the separation of powers and severing the executive branch’s right to appoint its own employees. The restriction, they wrote, “draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction” between civil servants and political appointees working in the Treasury Department.

The filing followed warning shots over the weekend. Vice President JD Vance declared that the courts and judges aren’t allowed “to control the executive’s legitimate power,” although American courts have long engaged in the practice of judicial review.

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems

The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and unconstitutional. A hearing is set for Friday.

www.nytimes.com

I am far from the first person to note virtually everything Don is doing with respect to government employees is in pursuit of expanding executive power. Not just by claiming the authority to break current law but by installing obedient lackeys to take the place of non-partisan civil servants.

The problems is that there might be tens of million of people illegally collecting from dead people

 

[kyzr]

The problems is that there might be tens of million of people illegally collecting from dead people

Not only dead people. Criminal gangs do it too according to Steve Miller. SS needs a very thorough audit.

 

[berg80]

If democracy comes through on the other side of this (there is no guarantee it will), and those who are responsible are held to account for what's happening, I don't think the POT can survive.

 

[Independent thinker]

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems​

Judge Engelmayer said in an emergency order that the officials’ access heightened the risk of leaks and of the systems becoming more vulnerable than before to hacking. He set a hearing in the case for Friday.

Federal lawyers defending Mr. Trump — as well as the Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, and the Treasury Department — called the order “markedly overboard” and said the court should dismiss the injunction, or at least modify his order.

They argued that the order violated the Constitution by ignoring the separation of powers and severing the executive branch’s right to appoint its own employees. The restriction, they wrote, “draws an impermissible and anti-constitutional distinction” between civil servants and political appointees working in the Treasury Department.

The filing followed warning shots over the weekend. Vice President JD Vance declared that the courts and judges aren’t allowed “to control the executive’s legitimate power,” although American courts have long engaged in the practice of judicial review.

Trump Argues That Courts Cannot Block Musk’s Team From Treasury Systems

The president’s lawyers argued that the distinction between civil servants and political appointees was unworkable and unconstitutional. A hearing is set for Friday.

www.nytimes.com

I am far from the first person to note virtually everything Don is doing with respect to government employees is in pursuit of expanding executive power. Not just by claiming the authority to break current law but by installing obedient lackeys to take the place of non-partisan civil servants.

Two points to the objective:

1. Cut down big government, which has given us a 36 trillion dollar national debt.

2. Weed out the deep state who would resist Trump to further the goals of the democrat party.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

This struggle is not one that either GOP or Dem will win.

It will smudge the democratic republic into even more of a modern neo-fascist state of the 21st century.