I think this says something about the trump government.

[Marener]

He has no more power than the last President did.

If he gets Humphry's Executor overturned, he will. Dramatically more.

 

[berg80]

Says the side that wants to rig elections, disarm people, and throw people in jail for memes.

That's horseshit.

Eric Neff, a Republican attorney with a web of ties to election-conspiracy theorists, is the new acting chief of the voting section at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), according to the department’s website.

Neff replaces Maureen Riordan, who spent almost two decades in the department’s voting section from 2000 to 2017. In 2021, Riordan served as litigation counsel at the anti-voting legal group the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) before she returned to DOJ when President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

A Dec. 2 legal filing identified Riordan as a “senior counsel” in the voting section. A DOJ spokesperson did not immediately respond to an inquiry about her current role.

DOJ Replaces Voting Section Chief With Lawyer Tied to Election Conspiracists

Read more here.

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Couple that with Dotard's attempts to get R states to gerrymander in R's favor and you have a party hellbent on rigging elections. Lead by a man who tried to steal one after losing in 2020.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

Had Reagan not repealed the fairness doctrine we would have had to endure propagandists like Rushbo polluting the public airwaves and the minds of his audience. We would not be in the awful place we are in as a country.

And there it is! You can only “win” by forcing others to carry your ideas, you can’t compete and need the government to press down on the scales!

The average van is too stupid to make his own decisions and therefore need a small intellectual lead that you just so happen to be part of by virtue of your morality to make a decision decisions on their behalf for them, right?

You couldn’t compete on top radio you had error America and that folded in less than a decade why because your message and ideology suck you lost online because your message and ideology sucks so what do you do? You went around censoring and silencing people and now that’s coming to an end your screaming bloody murder and no one cares.


Rush Limbaugh was the least of your ******* problems pal, your ideology had it time, it had its reign of power and now is its decline into a shallow grave, why? Because it’s a ******* failure and nothing g will stop it’s terminal decline.

We’re going back the way things used to be, the way thing worked, don’t like it? I could care less. Out of the post war Neo liberal hellscape will come Renaissance unlike anything you ever witnessed and it’s gonna be beautiful.

 

[struth]

Formally as in “official” not formally as “in the past”.

or in that it's not the former independent agency...it's still the same as it's ever been.

 

[Harry Dresden]

It always has been. It's why post office naming doesn't come from the President, Congress has to do it.

It's really their agency, not the executives.

yet they wont let the PMG and staff run it ....

 

[martybegan]

You want to concentrate an astounding amount of authority in a single individual and it's the left that is power hungry?

Independent agencies diffuse authority amongst a large number of people chosen by numerous presidents and approved by numerous Congresses. It makes the system much more difficult to corrupt because no one has total authority.

These are exactly the kind of institutions that lead competent governments and vibrant economies.

Weakening institutions leads to really bad places, not only in civil life but in economic outcomes. Why do you think authoritarian nations do so poorly?

Who is accountable to the people every 4 years, not someone locked into a job for 30 years who never faces the voters.

LOL, the system is corrupted, but by people you agree with, so you are fine with that.

What we have in our bloated bureaucracy is the seeds of authoritarianism, which is what you actually want, but you lie about.

 

[martybegan]

yet they wont let the PMG and staff run it ....

That is another issue, aside from the fact the post office itself is an agency losing its original mission.

Letters used to be the only real communication method before the analog age, never mind the digital age.

 

[Marener]

Who is accountable to the people every 4 years, not someone locked into a job for 30 years who never faces the voters.

LOL, the system is corrupted, but by people you agree with, so you are fine with that.

What we have in our bloated bureaucracy is the seeds of authoritarianism, which is what you actually want, but you lie about.

Trump isn't accountable to the voters. Hell, he's not even accountable in a criminal court anymore.

How is the "bloated bureaucracy" a seed of authoritarianism? The definition of authoritarianism is concentrating power into a very small number of people and what you want is to concentrate an absurd amount of power into Trump.

If anything, the "bloated bureaucracy" is anti-authoritarian as it diffuses government power into a larger number of people.

 

[BluesLegend]

Abe is spinning in his grave right now.

Said no Democrat during the corrupt Biden regime.

 

[martybegan]

Trump isn't accountable to the voters. Hell, he's not even accountable in a criminal court anymore.

How is the "bloated bureaucracy" a seed of authoritarianism? The definition of authoritarianism is concentrating power into a very small number of people and what you want is to concentrate an absurd amount of power into Trump.

If anything, the "bloated bureaucracy" is anti-authoritarian as it diffuses government power into a larger number of people.

yes he is, he was elected by them.

authoritarianism is when the people are removed from the equation, which is what you want in this situation. Unelected bureaucrats, and appointees from previous, ended administrations running things instead of those who were elected BY THE PEOPLE to do so.

LOL, the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists all increased the bloat of government, your definition is moronic.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

speaking for the post office....get the congress out of telling them what to do.....

Agreed, and the tax dollars too. They can be a private business.

 

[Marener]

yes he is, he was elected by them.

authoritarianism is when the people are removed from the equation, which is what you want in this situation. Unelected bureaucrats, and appointees from previous, ended administrations running things instead of those who were elected BY THE PEOPLE to do so.

LOL, the Nazis, the Soviets, the Chinese Communists all increased the bloat of government, your definition is moronic.

We can't remove him from office and he's not going to run again, so he's now unaccountable to the people.

Authoritarianism | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Authoritarianism, in politics and government, the blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom of thought and action.

www.britannica.com

authoritarianism, in politics and government, the blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom of thought and action. Authoritarian regimes are systems of government that have no established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and do not afford their citizens civil liberties or political rights. Power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite, whose decisions are taken without regard for the will of the people. The term authoritarianism is often used to denote any form of government that is not democratic, but studies have demonstrated that there is a great deal of variation in authoritarian rule.

Nazis, Soviets, Chinese Communists all concentrated the authority of that government into the hands of a small number of people, just like you are proposing.

Do you think the Soviets had independent commissions?

You really don't understand that the economic success of nations depends on the strength of their institutions. Look into the research that won the 2024 Nobel Prize. We don't want the president being able to exert individual control over decisions that are supposed to be made outside of politics.

 

[martybegan]

We can't remove him from office and he's not going to run again, so he's now unaccountable to the people.

Authoritarianism | Definition, History, Examples, & Facts | Britannica

Authoritarianism, in politics and government, the blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom of thought and action.

www.britannica.com

authoritarianism, in politics and government, the blind submission to authority and the repression of individual freedom of thought and action. Authoritarian regimes are systems of government that have no established mechanism for the transfer of executive power and do not afford their citizens civil liberties or political rights. Power is concentrated in the hands of a single leader or a small elite, whose decisions are taken without regard for the will of the people. The term authoritarianism is often used to denote any form of government that is not democratic, but studies have demonstrated that there is a great deal of variation in authoritarian rule.

Nazis, Soviets, Chinese Communists all concentrated the authority of that government into the hands of a small number of people, just like you are proposing.

Do you think the Soviets had independent commissions?

You really don't understand that the economic success of nations depends on the strength of their institutions. Look into the research that won the 2024 Nobel Prize. We don't want the president being able to exert individual control over decisions that are supposed to be made outside of politics.

Actually congress can impeach and then remove him, which is the intent of the Constitution.

Our institutions have been destroyed by leftists.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Agreed, and the tax dollars too. They can be a private business.

what tax dollars?....

 

[Marener]

Actually congress can impeach and then remove him, which is the intent of the Constitution.

Our institutions have been destroyed by leftists.

Congress can impeach and remove anyone in these independent commissions too.

So they’re equally accountable.

You lost a talking point.

Which institutions did the left destroy? USAID? CFPB? I’d like to know.

 

[martybegan]

Congress can impeach and remove anyone in these independent commissions too.

So they’re equally accountable.

You lost a talking point.

Which institutions did the left destroy? USAID? CFPB? I’d like to know.

There should be no such thing as independent commissions.

 

[Marener]

There should be no such thing as independent commissions.

This is exactly what an authoritarian would say.

 

[martybegan]

This is exactly what an authoritarian would say.

Not even close. You want to remove the power as far from the people as possible, by making these people accountable to no one.

The Constitution has 3 branches of government, the 4th, the Deep State doesn't have any constitutional backing.

 

[Marener]

Not even close. You want to remove the power as far from the people as possible, by making these people accountable to no one.

The Constitution has 3 branches of government, the 4th, the Deep State doesn't have any constitutional backing.

They're just as accountable as Trump. More so, given that they can actually be prosecuted for criminal acts but Trump can't.

How is the country better off by allowing the president to use the entirety of the federal government to serve their political purposes?

 

[martybegan]

They're just as accountable as Trump. More so, given that they can actually be prosecuted for criminal acts but Trump can't.

How is the country better off by allowing the president to use the entirety of the federal government to serve their political purposes?

You just have to impeach the President first, you forget that part.

How is the country better off when the elected President has to deal with unelected bureaucrats and leftovers from old administrations hostile to his agenda, and thus the agenda of the people who elected him?