If Presidents Can't Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake

[TBoneTX 46,236]

Eye-opening stuff -- and true.  Comments?

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If Presidents Can't Control Executive Agencies, Elections Are Fake

The Department of Justice, FBI, and USAID are posing prominent test cases for how the Trump administration can reform a malignant federal bureaucracy.  [...]

https://thefederalist.com/2025/02/03/if-presidents-cant-control-executive-agencies-elections-are-fake/

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Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has just become the first fascist in the history of humankind to use his despotic powers to reduce the size of the government.

While most other fascist leaders throughout history have used their power to increase the scope of government influence in their respective countries, Trump has broken with tradition to become the very first fascist with a focus on dismantling his own government's overreaches.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-becomes-first-fascist-in-history-to-reduce-size-of-government

[Pooky 3,840]

On 2/5/2025 at 12:38 AM, TBoneTX said:

Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump has just become the first fascist in the history of humankind to use his despotic powers to reduce the size of the government.

While most other fascist leaders throughout history have used their power to increase the scope of government influence in their respective countries, Trump has broken with tradition to become the very first fascist with a focus on dismantling his own government's overreaches.  [...]

 

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-becomes-first-fascist-in-history-to-reduce-size-of-government

Well, this is depressing. 🙁

 

Satire is dead, killed by real life events less believable than any satirist’s fantasy. ☠️

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Donald Trump is Striking at the Heart of the Left's Central Belief

 

Donald Trump is striking at the heart of the left's mythology.  No wonder leftists are panicking.

One of the reasons why Democrats are reacting with such fury to Trump's efforts to end wasteful government spending is because this has simply never happened before.  Republicans and even some Democrats — remember Bill Clinton proclaiming that "The era of big government is over" — have railed against the out-of-control growth of the federal government, but even the strictest fiscal conservatives only managed to slow down that growth, not reverse it.

And even worse for leftists, in reducing the size of government, Trump is directly challenging the left's core dogma that government can and should fix all the problems of human beings.  This idea dates back to the Great Depression, when the Democrats first formed the coalition that made them the majority party for decades.  The disparate groups that originally made up that coalition, including ethnic minorities in the North and segregationists who largely despised those minorities in the South, were held together by a shared assumption that whatever was wrong, government could solve it.

This was and is the fundamental myth of the American left.  Born in the Great Depression that began in Oct. 1929, this myth claims that Herbert Hoover, the Republican who was president when the Depression hit, did nothing, leaving the American people in misery rather than expand the size of the government and tackle the problem head-on.  After the electorate decisively rejected Hoover in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt saved the nation, creating a dizzying array of federal programs that pulled the American people back from the abyss.

And so, you see, in our complex and multifaceted society, we need big government.  That's why Trump and Elon Musk are so irresponsible, you see, to [...]

 

https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2025/02/08/as-trump-slashes-government-spending-its-useful-to-recall-why-we-have-so-much-of-it-n4936822

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US judge temporarily blocks Musk's DOGE from accessing payment systems

By Nate Raymond

February 8, 20254:18 PM MSTUpdated 21 hours ago

• Summary

• Judge cites risk sensitive data could be improperly disclosed
• Prohibited persons must destroy any data already collected
• Order follows lawsuit from 19 Democratic state attorneys general
• Musk calls ruling 'absolutely insane'

Feb 8 (Reuters) - A federal judge early Saturday temporarily blocked billionaire Elon Musk's government efficiency team from accessing government systems used to process trillions of dollars in payments, citing a risk that sensitive information could be improperly disclosed.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer in Manhattan issued the order, opens new tab after a coalition of Democratic attorneys general from 19 U.S. states filed a lawsuit late Friday arguing Musk's Department of Government Efficiency has no legal power to access the U.S. Department of Treasury systems.

 

The ruling also applied to other political appointees of President Donald Trump's administration.

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-temporarily-blocks-musks-doge-accessing-payment-systems-2025-02-08/

 

On what planet can the Treasury Secretary, appointed by the President, be legally barred from accessing the systems of the department of which he is the head?

 

Planet Liberal Psychosis (this United States of America), apparently. 🤨

 

If this ruling is not overturned immediately, then this country is truly lost to law and reason.

 

And if this ruling by U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer doesn’t lead to comprehensive judicial reform (and his disbarment), then it will be a massive opportunity lost.

 

Let’s hope, for the survival of liberty in the USA, that this is the last dying breath of left-wing lawfare.

 

PS. And that doesn’t even touch on the deliberate circumvention of random judge assignment and blatant judge-shopping carried out by Letitia James and her cohort of corruptocrat AGs