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|u/PacmanIncarnate - 21 hours
|
|I don’t get this. Trump isn’t the president right now. The FBI should
|definitely be running background checks on these people and there isn’t
|anything Trump has to say about that for a month.
|u/-Raskyl - 21 hours
|
|Doesn't matter, last time around he forced people into positions even
|after the background checks were run and they were found to be threats
|and the fbi refused to ok them. *cough cough* Jared kushner *cough
|cough*. This time he has the supreme court granting him presidential
|immunity for anything he calls an "official act", the congress and the
|senate backing him up, has threatened to send the military after
|people that come out against him, and said he thinks anyone that
|criticizes a judge should be jailed, and an established precedent that
|the background checks don't matter, he can just tell them to do it
|anyway. No one is going to fight him on this because they know they
|will get fired. And they won't win anyway. Welcome to putins america,
|this is only the beginning baby steps. The real scary shit will start
|after he's actually in office.
|u/81jmfk - 21 hours
|
|We’ve been told for years that the walls were closing in on him and
|nothing happened. He had all those felony convictions and nothing
|happened. Why would anyone be surprised he’s breaking rules and laws
|and still nothing happens.
|u/TertlFace - 20 hours
|
|I find the breathless gasps about “but but but THE LAW…” to be
|disingenuous at best; outright stupid otherwise. He has never
|faced consequences for anything. Now he has the SC and blanket
|immunity. Lawsuits take years. He’s going to do whatever he wants
|and laugh while lawyers file briefs as trucks full of people are
|hauled away. He’s already proven that our institutions are *not*
|resilient and able to check power. They will be even less so now.
|u/81jmfk - 20 hours
|
|Like Elizabeth Warren complaining about Trump not signing the
|ethics agreement. What’s the consequences?
|u/TheConnASSeur - 19 hours
|
|Oh, you're going to make those millionaires so *mad* that
|they're going to loudly *complain about it* and ask you for
|more money while they debate about how bad that thing those
|*other millionaires* did was. Also, it's literally the end of
|world, but apparently not serious enough for them to be
|*impolite* at this imaginary tea party we call congress. But
|it's the fight of our lives! That they'll maybe get to after
|brunch if the country club isn't too busy. Our laws are all
|imaginary. They cease to mean anything at all when not
|enforced.
|u/-boatsNhoes - 18 hours
|
|Eventually totalitarianism turns to mob rule when the plebs
|rebel against elites.... At least we have that to look
|forward to.
|u/Thundermedic - 11 hours
|
|We are getting there. I’m curious to see exactly what
|product the trump orange “fuckmoi” 2.0 exe will catalyze.
|A pandemic saved him, gave him an excuse for just what
|shitty decisions he made. It’s all under a microscope this
|time, but he got smarter or at least followed a direction
|because he knows to have other execute his plan this time.
|He will be efficient this time in dismantling his foes….no
|one will be left. Thoughts and prayers.
|u/DOMesticBRAT - 16 hours
|
|The elites have the entire U.S. military. There will never
|be mob rule.
|u/Angryg8tor - 15 hours
|
|The "Elites" are not the ones who serve in the military!
|u/PassiveMenis88M - 15 hours
|
|You do realize the US military is not a monolith? The
|elites don't own it, the volunteers do.
|u/OPaddict69 - 16 hours
|
|well the laws are certainly enforced, just not against the
|big wigs. We wouldnt have private prisons if the laws werent
|enforced.
|u/Tall_Play - 15 hours
|
|“Codes” are being enforced, the laws are just window
|dressing
|u/Hector_P_Catt - 13 hours
|
|What I don't get is, why doesn't he just sign that, and then
|ignore it? It's not like an "ethics agreement" is going to
|make him have actual ethics, after all.
|u/Gone213 - 19 hours
|
|Nothing, her just bitching about it on twitter
|u/Spiritual-Fix-4188 - 18 hours
|
|What do you want her to do? The Democrats only have the
|power that the American people give them at the polls.
|u/Gortex_Possum - 16 hours
|
|Dude, I don't know. But it's also not my job to come up
|with strategy. Republicans are so creative with how they
|execute their agenda. Even when they don't have the votes
|they are still trying things to see what works. Hundreds
|and hundreds of bogus lawsuits every year go through the
|court system specifically to see what they can get away
|with. The Republicans never stop playing offense even when
|they are the minority party and it pays off in the long
|run for them. If each political party was a burglar
|trying to rob a house, the Republicans would be the guy to
|check the front door, then the garage, then the windows,
|then the chimney ect. The Democrats would try to open
|the front door, see that it's locked, then give up and
|complain that they don't have enough money to rob the
|house.
|u/_thenational - 17 hours
|
|its so weird that whenever democrats are in power they sit
|by helplessly complaining about republicans obstructing
|them and then when republicans are in power they ignore
|anything stopping them and multiply their power tenfold
|dems played by a rulebook that no longer exists, and we
|lost america because of it. trump wouldn't have been
|stopped by half the shit biden was. we whine and complain
|about an ineffective appointee in biden's administration
|only to get told it'd be unethical or illegal to fire
|them, meanwhile trump's entire government got fired at
|least once during his presidency. if gaetz turns out to be
|dead weight like garland do we really believe trump will
|hesitate to fire him? oh wait, he already fired jeff
|sessions so we don't even need to ask that question.
|biden's presidency was 4 years of cowardice and millions
|of people who cared 4 years ago are now apathetic and
|hopeless because of it, and that's why they didn't bother
|voting
|u/inuvash255 - 17 hours
|
|on one hand, we shouldn't want our politicians to break
|every rule to secure power on the other hand, libs are
|weak as fuck
|u/AdItchy4438 - 17 hours
|
|This. The rulebook that the impeachers used against
|Trump was thrown away long ago by Newt Gingrich and his
|political descendants, esp Mitch McConnell
|u/Gortex_Possum - 16 hours
|
|It's plain as day. Establishment Democrats are the
|gatekeepers of progressive policy making, you have to go
|through their bureaucracy if you want to be a
|progressive lawmaker. Except they keep allowing
|themselves to be sabotaged again and again. Every looked
|at that and concluded that the whole house has to come
|down before we can get anything done again.
|u/After-Imagination-96 - 14 hours
|
|It's a 2 man con. With few exceptions every politician
|in DC wants what the GOP wants.
|u/Gone213 - 18 hours
|
|Supreme court gave biden carte Blanche to do whatever the
|hell he wants to do.
|u/roklpolgl - 18 hours
|
|Nah they ruled they decide what counts as an official
|act. Biden unlawful actions will be unofficial so
|unprotected. Trump’s unlawful actions will be official
|acts and protected. The experiment has failed.
|u/Prophet_Of_Loss - 17 hours
|
|Bingo. They purposely left 'official act' undefined.
|u/Guuhatsu - 18 hours
|
|What? Like seriously, what? Was Biden in your comment
|a typo, and you meant trump?
|u/Gortex_Possum - 20 hours
|
|Seriously, he is the law now. The time to get serious about law
|enforcement was years ago.
|u/_chococat_ - 11 hours
|
|I foresee the return of vigilante justice.
|u/lou_sassoles - 6 hours
|
|He’s rich. He gets little fines for fraud and money laundering
|his whole life.
|u/DocJawbone - 20 hours
|
|I remember comforting myself with the idea that the teeth of
|justice grind slow but grind fine. Nope
|u/gmishaolem - 19 hours
|
|What you forgot is that it's just you and me in the grinder.
|u/DocJawbone - 18 hours
|
|Apparently so
|u/Jackleme - 17 hours
|
|I blame Garland completely. I feel like Jack Smith and his team
|did everything they could with the time and challenges they had.
|If he had been appointed in 2021.... I really think this would be
|a different story.
|u/Exciting-Delivery-96 - 18 hours
|
|The American people wanted this. He won. Now they get to see what
|hell they brought upon this country. Doesn’t matter, they’ll
|still blame immigrants and the poor.
|u/Unhappy-Farmer8627 - 18 hours
|
|27 percent of our eligible population voted in this election,
|less than half of that elected trump. Less than 10 percent of
|our population voted for him. Put 100 people in a room, 7 of
|them are going to be absolute fucking morons. While I don’t
|think everyone who voted for him is dumb, the majority of them
|are. Russia Saudi Arabia and China convinced like 8 percent of
|our population to vote for this buffoon. I entirely blame Rupert
|Murdoch for normalizing this bullshit on fox. How pathetic does
|that make the democratic campaign though. They are even less
|popular and more out of touch than a literal kremlin implant.
|Russia just won the Cold War folks.
|u/BadHombre2016 - 17 hours
|
|Trump received 76M votes. So you’re saying the US has a
|population of 760M people?
|u/syates21 - 17 hours
|
|Pretty funny for them to rant about dumb people while
|projecting some serious innumeracy.
|u/CyberInTheMembrane - 16 hours
|
|> 27 percent of our eligible population voted in this election
|150 million votes have been counted, and the total population
|of the USA is 335 million. So according to you, 45% of the
|total population = 27% of the eligible population. Can you
|expand on the math behind that? It's sure to be fascinating.
|u/RecommendationSlow16 - 15 hours
|
|They also said "27% of the ELIGIBLE population" Not sure
|how many eligible voters there are, but it's probably less
|than 300 million so more than 50% of eligible voters voted,
|at least.
|u/drewcandraw - 15 hours
|
|Trump won a slim majority of the popular vote. He picked up
|~3M votes from his 2020 total, and Harris’ total was down ~15M
|from Biden’s in 2020. The Republicans were able to energize
|their voters and Democratic voters either flipped or sat out.
|u/Grimalkkin - 13 hours
|
|About 258mil people (as of 2021 consensus) are eligible to
|vote or are at least 18yrs of age. However, only
|approximately 150mil people voted and 76mil of those votes
|went to Trump. This means that ~28% of the adult population
|voted for Trump. I think that’s where their 27% number came
|from.
|u/fakemoose - 11 hours
|
|64% of the eligible voting population voted this past
|election. Did you get the numbers backwards?
|u/OneBillPhil - 20 hours
|
|IMO he has a mandate to break the rules. Nothing about Trump was
|secret, the voters gave him three levels of government.
|u/bloodontherisers - 20 hours
|
|I think that is one of the reasons why people didn't show up to
|vote, the sheer fact that he was the candidate again made them
|feel like they had already lost, nothing mattered anymore and they
|just gave up. That was the Democrats biggest failing the last 4
|years was not holding Trump accountable, for fighting limp-wristed
|and half-hearted. Obviously there were plenty of other reasons as
|well, but I think that is something that is not being talked
|about.
|u/Dramatic-Heat-719 - 19 hours
|
|Merrick Garland is going to go down in history as being the king
|of the candyasses. The guy was more interested in appearing
|neutral and apolitical that he didn’t do jack shit and he
|deserves every smear he gets at this point.
|u/gmishaolem - 17 hours
|
|> The guy was more interested in appearing neutral and
|apolitical But that's exactly why both Obama and Biden
|pushed for him: He was a placation. Biden especially is Mr.
|Reach-Across-The-Aisle no matter what is happening on the
|other side of the aisle. He's doing exactly what he was put in
|to do; He just isn't doing all the other things he *should* be
|doing.
|u/justsikko - 15 hours
|
|I mean the guy was friends with Strom Thurmond. Anyone who
|expected him to be anything other than the guy who wants to
|befriend republicans was fooling themselves.
|u/Hopsblues - 17 hours
|
|Media as well. people just pretended he didn't say and do the
|shit he did. Thought he would go away. They miscalculated big
|time. He should be in prison, instead he is potus and Putin
|puppet.
|u/janethefish - 15 hours
|
|At a minimum he should have gotten the same treatment other
|leakers got. He should have been in jail not on the campaign
|trail. Yes maybe SCOTUS would have ratfucked it anyway, but it's
|like they barely tried.
|u/Royal_Bitch_Pudding - 20 hours
|
|Nothing is going to happen until the people are uncomfortable
|enough
|u/stinky_wizzleteet - 20 hours
|
|Bread and Circuses
|u/kim_bong_un - 19 hours
|
|Well. 2 people got uncomfortable enough.
|u/bobolly - 12 hours
|
|How many people have to be uncomfortable for things to be not ok
|and corrected??
|u/Royal_Bitch_Pudding - 12 hours
|
|A lot
|u/Arfuuur - 17 hours
|
|guillotine
|u/Royal_Bitch_Pudding - 13 hours
|
|That tends to be the natural progression unless they learn
|their lesson in time.
|u/Jffar - 19 hours
|
|Because it was all a setup. Biden hired a Republican member of the
|Federalist society (traitorous group of thieves) to lead the DOJ.
|Gaetz really isn't too different.
|u/Few-Mind-1918 - 18 hours
|
|Just like the slap, it's all an act.
|u/C00ke1896 - 15 hours
|
|He could rape and kill a woman live on TV and probably nothing
|would happen.
|u/jscarry - 18 hours
|
|"He thinks anyone who criticises a judge should be jailed" That's
|REAL fucking rich coming from him. I'm assuming that just doesn't
|apply to him criticizing every single fucking judge he's ever been
|in front of
|u/Unhappy-Farmer8627 - 18 hours
|
|Trumps critique of media isn’t that media is biased. It’s that
|it’s criticizing him and he doesn’t like that. He wants state run
|media. He posted a video about it on his website. People in
|America actually voted for someone who openly and loudly is
|advocating for state run media like we are fucking North Korea. So
|much for free speech. Between him and Elon. I don’t know who’s got
|a worse track record. Elon constantly suspends and bans accounts
|that mock him or he disagrees with but is totally cool with actual
|natzis on it.
|u/ThunderChild247 - 18 hours
|
|This might be one of the worst aspects of this kind of behaviour.
|This is Putin’s victory. He’s spent years trying to destabilise
|western democracies with the goal being to be able to say to
|Russians “look how unstable democracy is, aren’t you glad you’ve got
|me?” He now has a president of the bastion of democracy, granted
|effectively supreme power by the court, ignoring security concerns,
|putting a suspected peadophile in charge of justice, a anti-vax
|roadkill eater in charge of health, an accused foreign agent in
|charge of intelligence and a TV host in charge of the military.
|Whatever happens with Ukraine, Putin may well have already won the
|war he’s been waging since he took power. He can point at America
|and say “Democracy is a joke, freedom is chaos, stick with me.”
|u/EagleOfMay - 18 hours
|
|It is the argument that the Chinese use all the time also. I've
|had multiple conversations with Chinese students who say that a
|free press is a destabilizing influence and China is better run.
|Yes, the wealthy buy food from different places that the poor
|because you can't trust the food supply in China due to
|corruption. Being wealthy, that is a price they are willing to
|pay.
|u/RiffRaffCatillacCat - 15 hours
|
|Putin won because the GOP are willing co-conspirators in the
|dismantling of American Democracy.
|u/Hopsblues - 17 hours
|
|Bingo..we have today's winning post of the day. cheers!
|u/Miatrouble - 20 hours
|
|Soon we will have our own political prisoners. Oh wait! That’s
|like Cuba. We are going to be the new Cuba.
|u/BMFDub - 20 hours
|
|Do we get the cool stuff like socialized medicine too?
|u/FloridaMJ420 - 20 hours
|
|Nope, just the gulags!
|u/Natty4Life420Blazeit - 19 hours
|
|Serious question - at the time why would Kushner have been
|considered a threat?
|u/Unhappy-Farmer8627 - 18 hours
|
|There’s obvious compromising information out there. A lot of what
|the security clearance does is weeds through easy to find issues
|someone might have that can be used against them. It can be
|something seemingly innocent like lying about smoking weed. Then
|all of a sudden a foreign government has that information and uses
|it against you. In this specific case I remember something
|financial tying him to Saudis or something along those lines with
|his father being a massive conflict of interest. Per usual trump
|pushed it through. Kushner netted 200b or something like that
|during trumps presidency. Totally normal. Thank god we don’t have
|Kamala.
|u/pathofdumbasses - 18 hours
|
|Assuming you are asking an honest question, His personal and
|family business dealings. Google Jared Kushners father and do some
|reading.
|u/werther595 - 21 hours
|
|Can Biden request background checks? Don't we do background checks on
|memebrrs of Congress as standard operating procedure?
|u/Lockhartking - 20 hours
|
|Trump himself would fail a background check as a felon. What's it
|matter anymore?
|u/Hopsblues - 17 hours
|
|McDonald's wouldn't hire him.
|u/iambecomesoil - 16 hours
|
|Musk would fail one as someone in contact with people under
|sanction by the US and a known user of federally illegal
|narcotics.
|u/Lockhartking - 16 hours
|
|There are soooo many reasons
|u/merrill_swing_away - 1 hour
|
|I guess Trump feels that he would most certainly fail a background
|check so why bother with the others. Also, the others could come
|back and say why are you doing a background check on us when you
|are a 34 times convicted felon????
|u/IsaystoImIsays - 21 hours
|
|Standard procedures are out the window for at least 4 years, maybe
|more.
|u/Worthyness - 17 hours
|
|Standard security protocol has found to be too inefficient, so
|they just scrapped them. Why clog up the system with stuff like
|background checks? Just hire whoever you want!
|u/AgUnityDD - 16 hours
|
|__Definitely__ More than 4 years, more like most people's
|[shortened] lifetime.
|u/Bottle_Only - 20 hours
|
|Your country is over dude. Move on and move out.
|u/NormalUse856 - 20 hours
|
|I always thought the US was impenetrable and couldn’t be seized by
|a authoritarian figure ever, because of all the Intelligence
|agencies, Congress, Senate, Pentagon etc. Turns out that it wasn’t
|that difficult after all.
|u/Bottle_Only - 20 hours
|
|Turns out when you're rich and famous and somebody tells you
|that you can't, just do it anyway. If they stay stop, just say
|no, if they say that's illegal, just ignore them. Anything short
|of physical intervention is meaningless to these people. Law and
|order, dignity and respect, honor and class are just make-
|believe concepts apparently.
|u/unWildBill - 20 hours
|
|What other nations with nukes and tanks and millions of troops
|couldn’t do for centuries…one old dullard with a bunch of
|sycophants who hated gays could accomplish by simply asking to
|speak to the Manager
|u/Soylent_Milk2021 - 20 hours
|
|We’re too far away (think oceans) from everyone else for
|tanks and troops to matter. The only thing that can get us
|will be bombs.
|u/unWildBill - 19 hours
|
|They worked pretty well when we went to them
|u/Soylent_Milk2021 - 19 hours
|
|That was close to a century ago. The world has changed,
|or did you just wake up from a 80 year coma?
|u/unWildBill - 18 hours
|
|Yes,how is Peleliu going?
|u/Soylent_Milk2021 - 19 hours
|
|We’re both saying that Trump’s putting us at risk,
|right?
|u/cedped - 17 hours
|
|That's how big empires crumble. The Roman and Ottoman
|empires for example lasted centuries and controlled a huge
|portion of the old world and their downfall didn't come from
|foreign invasion but from internal power struggle and
|corruption.
|u/Epyon_ - 19 hours
|
|They arn't make-believe concepts they are concepts for people
|they dont like.
|u/DoctorZacharySmith - 20 hours
|
|They are make believe concepts. Always have been. They
|depend solely on whether people agree to them. The problem
|is that when people refuse, there have to be ramifications
|The Democratic Party is literally incapable of making the GOP
|face ramifications.
|u/Soylent_Milk2021 - 19 hours
|
|Without consequences, there aren’t any laws. Same goes for
|morals and societal norms.
|u/DoctorZacharySmith - 13 hours
|
|Some people have internal motivations for being moral. To
|them, being moral is it’s own reward. They are always
|the minority.
|u/DonkeyTron42 - 17 hours
|
|I pin this on the corporate media. Trump in power doing crazy
|shit means big ratings so they did everything they could to
|make sure he returned.
|u/jasonbt751 - 20 hours
|
|That's why our constitution grants physical intervention when
|tyranny raises its head. I'm against violence, but there are
|plenty of crazies that will head that way if pushed too far on
|both sides. I believe America will be pushed to its limits,
|and it will be up to the people to decide if a few dbags can
|change the American experiment or not. Will we be idle and
|allow our freedoms to be taken, or will we stand and fight for
|our rights.
|u/Lockhartking - 20 hours
|
|The republicans being in complete control of the government
|have already said they plan on a constitutional convention
|to completely rewrite the constitution... America is at its
|limit now and come January it will be way past it. This
|will be the downfall of America and the rest of the world is
|already hoping for that.
|u/CCG14 - 19 hours
|
|There was a paper written in the 80s iirc by a Russian who said
|you have to divide us from the inside and then conquer us.
|Well, what seems to be happening here? It’s annoying to see
|it, know it, and watch others vote for it.
|u/Thin-Professional379 - 19 hours
|
|Foundations of Geopolitics by Aleksandr Dugin. His reaction
|to the election: "We have won."
|u/CCG14 - 19 hours
|
|That’s the one! Thank you! Haven’t had my coffee yet. ☕️ I
|was up way too late binging Andor. 🙃 oh the similarities.
|u/PejHod - 17 hours
|
|Painfully true. Love Andor!
|u/Muffin_Appropriate - 19 hours
|
|You always start be defunding education. republicans started
|doing that 50 years ago. It was difficult. You just weren’t
|paying attention
|u/wirefox1 - 20 hours
|
|Doing away with the three tiers of government which was our
|system of checks and balances was the final blow.
|u/Muffin_Appropriate - 19 hours
|
|Defunding education was the first. If you were voting
|republicans the past 50 years this is what you were doing.
|u/wirefox1 - 19 hours
|
|I understand, but that hasn't happened yet (but now it's as
|good as done). They've been working on the dismantling
|checks and balances since Bush, at least, and they've
|accomplished it first. Just saying. It opens the door to
|finish their goal of authoritarianism.
|u/mrtomjones - 15 hours
|
|Turns out the US has let Russia and China destroy the cohesion
|in its population through social media and the internet in
|general. Much easier to do in a country like the US versus one
|that rules like China or Russia do. Meanwhile both of them are
|expanding their influence at ridiculous paces in Africa and
|South America and other places. China just opened up a massive
|port in Peru that is going to make them closer and avoid the US
|for shipping
|u/EduinBrutus - 18 hours
|
|Thats part of the lies you were told. The bottom line is the Us
|is a poor excuse for democracy and always has been. Its shitty
|outdated constitution is really being exposed now but the idea
|it was every a decent democratic state is farcical.
|u/Tex-Rob - 18 hours
|
|That line about fascism coming to the US wrapped in a flag and
|holding a Bible couldn't have been more correct.
|u/atropezones - 16 hours
|
|That's what shocks me. It not only was possible, it's looking to
|be easy.
|u/ITriedLightningTendr - 16 hours
|
|Where the hell did you get that idea
|u/drunkshinobi - 13 hours
|
|A lot of people didn't. I had a lot of people tell my that this
|type of stuff could never happen here. That our government, fbi,
|cia, nsa, state laws, judges would all put a stop to it before
|it ever got anywhere. This way of thinking made it easier for
|them. The people sat by and waited for the government to protect
|them. While the people in government that would have stopped it
|were waiting to see if they had the support of the people to
|take action. We should have been protesting and refusing to show
|up for work on Jan 7th until the people responsible for Jan 6th
|were held accountable.
|u/ElectricalBook3 - 1 hour
|
|> I always thought the US was impenetrable and couldn’t be
|seized by a authoritarian figure ever Maybe not from without.
|But it always had authoritarians within.
|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
|https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s
|u/Hunter2222222222222 - 20 hours
|
|No one will take us.
|u/Cultural-Sherbet-336 - 18 hours
|
|I prefer balkanization with the West Coast, great lakes regions,
|and Northeast seceding.
|u/HamunaHamunaHamuna - 18 hours
|
|I wonder how it feels like to be ruled over by criminals of a type
|that even other criminals want to beat to death because they're so
|awful. Pedophiles last longer in government than in prison in the
|US.
|u/cjthomp - 18 hours
|
|> and move out Much harder to do than this throwaway phrase would
|indicate.
|u/Same-Cricket6277 - 18 hours
|
|Even falling apart id rather be in California than anywhere else
|in the world. Thanks.
|u/Same_Recipe2729 - 20 hours
|
|He could, but congress doesn't need security clearance since they're
|elected and his cabinet picks are all members of the executive
|branch. Also since security clearance only exists as a function of
|the executive branch and an executive order that was made by a
|previous president, he'd be able to do whatever he wants with
|security clearance as president since he's the head of the executive
|branch. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligenc
|e_Community_Oversight#:~:text=Members%20of%20Congress%20are%20not,th
|e%20need%2Dto%2Dknow.
|u/mtaw - 12 hours
|
|I'm quite sure he can't. Certainly in the EU I know you can't -
|background checks can only be done with the consent of he person
|getting checked. Otherwise you have no legal basis to go
|requesting their info, since they're not suspected of a crime or
|anything. Naturally if you refuse a check for a job that
|requires it, they won't hire you. But as you say, nothing stops
|the president from disregarding that since it's an executive-
|branch rule and he governs the executive.
|u/Chance_Fox_2296 - 18 hours
|
|Biden believes in "respect and decorum" even in the face of fascism.
|That way, when the fascist are in control, Biden will pat himself on
|the back for at least being "the last respectable" president. Good
|things Biden has done aside, we have to remember this is still the
|same dude who said Mr."literally shit his own pants while trying to
|filibuster away civil rights" Strom Thurmond was a "good friend and
|mentor" of his. He's a "reach across the aisle and shake hands with
|a poop pants segregationist" *"bipartisan"* politician. He ain't
|gonna do anything.
|u/Battle_Fish - 15 hours
|
|I'm not sure what the standard procedure is but background checks
|aren't required by the constitution. The president can appoint
|whoever he wants regardless of criminal background. That person is
|then approved by Congress and confirmed by the Senate. Trump
|doesn't need a criminal background check either. He can be a felon.
|If you vote for him, that's on you. There's some restrictions on
|age, must be born as an American, and not convicted of treason.
|That's how politics goes.
|u/arobkinca - 6 hours
|
| > That person is then approved by Congress and confirmed by the
|Senate. Just the second part. The House has no say in
|appointments.
|u/John_T_Conover - 20 hours
|
|> Can Biden I'm gonna go ahead and stop you right there. No, he
|can't. He is spineless, doddering and stuck in trying to preserve
|and play politics by the norms of 40 years ago. There's a lot of
|things the president could do now, especially with the SC decision
|on presidential immunity, but Biden himself isn't capable of
|swinging his dick around like that.
|u/MischievousMollusk - 20 hours
|
|Biden doesn't do anything. He's unwilling to break the rules to save
|the country he's so much a supposed patriot for so he'll just sit
|out the last vestige of his presidency.
|u/TheDamDog - 19 hours
|
|Not even rules, he's unwilling to break *decorum.*
|u/MechanicalCookie25 - 19 hours
|
|Huge smile on his face welcoming Trump back to the White House.
|Like huge smile
|u/NihiloZero - 17 hours
|
|MAGA used to call Biden... "The Crypt Keeper." But I never
|really saw the resemblance until he sat there smiling with
|Trump.
|u/DoctorFenix - 19 hours
|
|I’m glad he’s going to sit home and eat popcorn while the country
|crumbles. I’m going to do the same thing.
|u/interwebbed - 20 hours
|
|Nothing matters anymore, the law and justice is dead. He can and will
|do anything he wants. We’re cooked tbh
|u/kytheon - 18 hours
|
|Elon Musk just met with a UN envoy for Iran. It seems like they
|already started their reign before anything official. And what do the
|democrats do about it?
|u/ghostwilliz - 6 hours
|
|They're going to "take the high road" or some stupid shit like that
|u/Wooden-Frame2366 - 21 hours
|
|Exactly. WTF 🤬??
|u/Gatorama - 19 hours
|
|This is why we always lose close elections. We appear as spineless
|and toothless cowards. Come on Joe, do justice to the people who
|voted for you.
|u/justtakeapill - 18 hours
|
|Joe never even ordered Garland to do an investigation on Trump -
|he's clueless. Until the Dems get some actual fighters who intend
|on winning, I am done voting.
|u/redbitumen - 14 hours
|
|So, your plan to not vote and just hope that dems start
|fighting? lol classic lefty thought process
|u/dre_bot - 18 hours
|
|People are suddenly surprised at how fascism works. Did you think
|liberals were "overrating" or being hyperbolic calling him a fascist?
|Now mfers pikachu shock face. There are no more rules, checks and
|balances. In fact apparently, there never was. lol
|u/Solid-Mud-8430 - 19 hours
|
|Where have you been for the last 8 years? Democrats will coddle
|Republicans to no end out of fear of not wanting to come off as
|"political." Anything they want, they get. It's pretty much the main
|reason a lot of their voter base didn't turn out for them. Why would
|you go to bat for someone who has demonstrated they're not interested
|in doing anything about this insanity?
|u/I_PING_8-8-8-8 - 19 hours
|
|The FBI is with Trump, and the CIA and the NSA. And he will swap the
|army around till every last leader is a loyalist. The Great Looting
|will start. Protests will be squashed. The NSA with its new AI will
|pro actively have homeland arrest people. Fear will reign. Tension
|with China and Russia will be used as pretenser to make conscription
|mandatory. Once there is nothing to loot in the US, they will invade
|Canada and Mexico.
|u/Mistform05 - 19 hours
|
|Democrats are cowards.
|u/TheVog - 20 hours
|
|This should be one of those lightbulb moments for you and other
|Americans who don't quite realize just how utterly fucked the U.S. is.
|The last 8 years should have been a dead giveaway, but many remained
|unconvinced for some reason. Time to wake up.
|u/Busy-Dig8619 - 19 hours
|
|You have yo cooperate with standard background checks by providing a
|shit-ton of information. Without cooperation they can investigate you,
|but it won't be a background check... and depending on how you parse
|it, could look like Biden ordering criminal investigations.
|u/DoctorFenix - 19 hours
|
|And this is why we’re here. Democrats don’t want to seem like they
|are attacking their adversaries, so Republicans are allowed to break
|the law. Meanwhile Republicans do not play by those same rules.
|They investigate people openly without evidence or cause. And the
|investigation itself is proof to other Republicans that someone did
|something wrong.
|u/William_d7 - 18 hours
|
|There’s a huge window of opportunity for a populist democrat to
|start pull a McCarthy lite and start calling these people
|communist stooges or something but everyone is too chickenshit.
|u/timmojo - 17 hours
|
|There's no shortage of politicians and media calling
|republikkkans Russian assets. Accusations (or lack thereof)
|aren't the problem. The problem is that the voting public has
|shown repeatedly that they don't give a shit. That's the
|difference between the McCarthy era and now -- the public cared
|about Russian influence back then.
|u/mlor - 17 hours
|
|I have been seriously asking for exactly this since the first
|Trump administration. As far as I can tell, I'm qualified as
|hell: * center-right growing up turned "radical" left because I
|listen to people * no political experience to speak of other
|than being class president (you bet I'll reference it as a
|qualification) * old enough but not old as shit * huge asshole *
|willing to call stupid shit "stupid shit" and dumbasses
|"dumbasses" on national television * will say "I don't know, but
|I'll fucking find out" when asked questions that I don't know
|Obviously not me, but Jesus Christ find me a candidate that will
|do this. How Trump doesn't get laughed at openly in interviews
|and debates is beyond me.
|u/Flush_Foot - 19 hours
|
|What makes it even… funnier?… to me is that it is still **his** FBI
|Director!
|u/El_Zapp - 20 hours
|
|Those people at the FBI are still humans who have families and
|potentially need jobs. Trump is going to be the supreme leader come
|January. People will keep their head down in hopes that the lightning
|doesn’t hit them. The FBI is no different.
|u/Lockhartking - 20 hours
|
|The efficiency team is going to eliminate the fbi altogether because
|they are the ones that found all the classified at trumps house so
|they must be corrupt.
|u/CCG14 - 19 hours
|
|They’re also the ones who thwarted a plan by Iran to take Trumps
|dome off but I’m sure Iran doesn’t really mean it.
|u/beren12 - 11 hours
|
|Shame they are so good at their jobs sometimes.
|u/LordPennybag - 19 hours
|
|The FBI director was appointed by Trump to defend him and Biden didn't
|want to look political.
|u/Hemiak - 21 hours
|
|Should be is doing a lot of heavy lifting in your sentence. I fully
|agree. These people should all be investigated (as usual). And a good
|portion should probably be locked up.
|u/TertlFace - 20 hours
|
|Merrick Garland *should* have pursued justice instead of deferring
|to the please-don’t-hurt-me cowardly political stance. He spent all
|his time worrying about the GOP calling him names and he let them
|dictate the application of the law.
|u/LordPennybag - 19 hours
|
|Garland was a bad joke from Obama and getting blocked turned him
|into some figurehead for the Democrats.
|u/Soylent_Milk2021 - 19 hours
|
|It wasn’t the GOP calling him names. He was trying to give the
|benefit of the doubt and not stooping to GOP level. Want to see
|the DOJ weaponized? Watch some reruns from the McCarthy Red Scare,
|and then settle in with popcorn on Jan 21, 2025. There’s going to
|be a show to remember coming up.
|u/Bad_Demon - 18 hours
|
|Cause the rules only matter if you abide by them. Who is going to hold
|him accountable? The system is already rigged in his favor he just
|needed to take advantage of it
|u/FL_Squirtle - 16 hours
|
|Literally everything this guy is doing is illegal and everyone knows
|it. Everyone sees it and nobody with any power is doing anything g
|about it.
|u/MosquitoBloodBank - 15 hours
|
|Background checks are conducted by the OPM, not the FBI. They aren't
|receiving classified information at the moment, so there's no need for
|a clearance. The president has the constitution power to run the
|government, which can involve disclosing classified material to
|whoever the president wants.
|u/ilmalnafs - 7 hours
|
|Hah, this guy not only thinks any rules and regulations matter in
|relation to Trump, but he’s also under the impression that even a
|single person in a position of power would enforce them against him.
|u/Past_Watercress_1897 - 22 hours
|
|Cause why ensure national security when there’s the deep state to worry
|about! /s
|u/-Badger3- - 20 hours
|
|Nothing says “drain the swamp” like hiring an actual sex trafficker to
|be your attorney general.
|u/muchasveces82 - 20 hours
|
|When the president is a rapist they just let you do it.
|u/AdvancedLanding - 19 hours
|
|When the president is a far Right wing billionaire Capitalist, the
|Federal Government just lets you do anything to them. If a real
|Left wing president tried any of this, they would have been
|arrested. I don't know how much more Americans need to see to
|realize that the judicial system and courts, the politicians, and
|Oligarchs are completely okay with a Fascist president and a
|Fascist takeover of the US. They know they'll keep making millions
|in a Fascist America, it'll actually be easier.
|u/Accomplished-Mix-745 - 19 hours
|
|That reminds me of when the FIFA was saying it’s easier to run
|the World Cup in a dictatorship
|u/AdvancedLanding - 18 hours
|
|Past 3 Republican present have said something to that effect.
|Bush 1, 2, and Trump have said they wish the US was a
|dictatorship.
|u/Agreeable_Point7717 - 17 hours
|
|Bush's grandfather was possibly involved in the business
|plot in 1933 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
|u/Accomplished-Mix-745 - 18 hours
|
|I’m gonna trust but verify here. I believe/remember the
|trump one but can you provide a source for the bushes?
|u/AdvancedLanding - 18 hours
|
|Bush 2 https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4460866/user-clip-
|bush-transition-comment-dictatorship Bush 1 I read in a
|book. But it's out there
|u/Noslamah - 16 hours
|
|Just gonna be that guy and play devil's advocate for a
|second, prefaced by the fact that I believe Bush 2 is a
|war criminal and do not support him in any way
|whatsoever, but I genuinely think you're misinterpreting
|his words. He's explicitly saying that it's okay to
|disagree with your political opponents. He's saying it
|would be easier for HIM if he were dictator to get
|things done. Not that a dictatorship would actually be
|better or that he actually wants to be a dictator. In
|fact, I'm fairly certain Obama said something exactly
|like this (I found [this article](https://www.washington
|examiner.com/policy/foreign-policy/690015/obama-it-
|would-be-so-much-easier-to-be-the-president-of-china/)
|which is not the instance I was thinking about, but it's
|fairly close anyways) and I don't believe he actually
|wants it either. There are plenty of things to
|criticize Bush for, but I really don't think that this
|is one of them. And that said, Trump is a different
|story entirely. Not only does he clearly want to be a
|dictator and is actively working towards that, but he
|has openly praised violent dictators like Putin and Kim
|Jong Un and also said he wants to have the kind of
|generals that Hitler had. There is a very, very big
|difference between what he was saying and this joke
|(which despite the headlines' suggestive use of the
|quotation marks around the word "jokes", I actually
|really think was a joke).
|u/Accomplished-Mix-745 - 18 hours
|
|lol classic dumb statement followed by that weird laugh.
|I lowkey miss him these days man. Shit is so bad right
|now ow
|u/NihiloZero - 17 hours
|
|Now that you mention it... I'd never have thought that
|I'd give a vote to GWB over anyone. But now he'd
|actually be the lesser evil. Truly shocking.
|u/Ndgrad78 - 12 hours
|
| Bush #1 never said any such thing. Bush #2 was obviously
|joking. Only the Orange idiot said it and was serious.
|u/MotherTreacle3 - 18 hours
|
|If a real left wing person was in American politics they'd be
|assassinated if they even looked at the presidency. Even people
|like Bernie Sanders and AOC would be considered pretty centrist
|in most of the western world.
|u/roryt67 - 16 hours
|
|In other words if I ran as an Atheist who thinks housing, food
|and water, clothing, transportation, energy, communication,
|health care and education from K to Master degree should be
|100% free I have no chance at ever being President? I will
|either continue or suspend my campaign depending on the
|feedback.
|u/LA-Matt - 16 hours
|
|For what it’s worth, you would have my vote.
|u/MotherTreacle3 - 15 hours
|
|Ask Martin Luther King Jr or Fred Hampton how that kind of
|rhetoric worked out for them.
|u/42Changes - 14 hours
|
|See also Bobby Kennedy.
|u/rort67 - 12 hours
|
|Oh don't I know it. I have been a scholar of American
|history for 50 years. Boat rockers don't last long usually
|but we have to keep trying. Eventually the levee will
|break.
|u/joeltrane - 14 hours
|
|That’s been tried before. Power is too centralized and it
|becomes corrupt as soon as you leave office (or you get
|power hungry while in office). We need a market system so
|that individuals can retain some power over the goods we
|need. But the government needs to step in and support people
|who cannot afford market prices for their needs.
|u/rort67 - 12 hours
|
|Worker owned businesses is a start. It's completely
|foolish and obsolete for just a handful of people to run
|large businesses and dictate the fates of thousands of
|workers plus IMO the CEOs are just looking at the company
|as a giant ATM. I'm going to start contacting all Democrat
|members of Congress to immediately divest from large
|corporate and billionaire donations. Get campaign money
|$10 and $20 at a time from workers. That would be a huge
|step forwards. Notice I didn't mention Republicans. Lost
|cause I'm afraid for that group.
|u/brutinator - 17 hours
|
|Given that far right parties made significant headway in
|almost all european countries, I dunno how long thats gonna be
|the case for.
|u/JackryanUS - 14 hours
|
|The center left prevailed in almost every European election.
|u/NihiloZero - 17 hours
|
|> They know they'll keep making millions in a Fascist America,
|it'll actually be easier. I think this is the colossal
|miscalculation. They think imposing tariffs while eliminating
|taxes and social programs will make them more money, but it's
|increasingly looking like the business-as-usual fabric of modern
|American society is going to be torn asunder. What if
|defunding public schools has a negative impact? What if
|forcibly deporting 11 million people is economically disruptive?
|What if banning vaccines and basic public health measures... is
|bad for the broader economy? What if closing all those
|businesses that MAGA doesn't like isn't helpful for the economy?
|What if cutting loose thousands of bureaucrats isn't helpful?
|All those green dollars are based on faith in the American
|system, but what happens when that faith is shattered and
|inflation kicks into overdrive? I suspect MAGA is going to
|usher in hyperinflation and general instability.
|u/Inevitable_Shift1365 - 16 hours
|
|You're not seeing the big picture. The billionaire oligarchs
|are trying to burn it down so they can buy it back at fire
|sale prices. They will ride crypto and cripple the dollar and
|then once everybody's all aboard they will dump the crypto and
|buy the devalued gold and real estate. I can't believe people
|don't see this
|u/SWARM_6 - 19 hours
|
|When... did we stop? Did we slow down? No. The nazis were
|INSPIRED BY US. WE USED THEIR SCIENTISTS. WE KEPT THEM HIDDEN
|FOR WHAT? Profit.
|u/rocket_dragon - 18 hours
|
|The fascists are a small minority; everyone else is too busy
|infighting to do anything about them.
|u/Clovah - 18 hours
|
|I don’t disagree with your general premise but we use a lot of
|technology on a daily basis that we would not have if it
|wasn’t for keeping those scientists alive. People of a
|singular passion rarely care much for or about politics - the
|scientists were going to science regardless of who was paying
|for their research.
|u/WildBad7298 - 18 hours
|
|Half of the country is cheering on the fascists.
|u/Sad-Wolverine6326 - 18 hours
|
|The voters let him do it.
|u/ThirstyJohn - 18 hours
|
|He moved on that cabinet pick like a bitch.
|u/SarahKnowles777 - 20 hours
|
|Meh, remember when he appointed DeJoy to head the USPS? He
|intentionally makes appointmentss to: 1) destroy the department he
|appoints them to 2) enrich himself 3) act out his dark triad
|psychopathic tendencies 4) troll
|u/Foxy02016YT - 19 hours
|
|My dads a mailman, fuck DeJoy
|u/Same-Improvement8493 - 18 hours
|
|Unfortunately - not for long. These people are going to destroy
|federal labor.
|u/jmikehall - 18 hours
|
|Privatize baby, privatize. Fuck the loyal workers who’ve done
|all they can to keep their jobs by running it correctly!
|u/GuiltyEidolon - 17 hours
|
|They've been trying to privatize the USPS for decades now.
|It's infuriating to think that this means they'll probably
|succeed.
|u/Jmacq1 - 16 hours
|
|And boy oh boy are a lot of rural voters gonna be hella
|surprised when they get only weekly or monthly mail
|deliveries, or maybe even none at all and have to drive 50
|miles to a post office in order to get their mail.
|u/cartcrash3286 - 15 hours
|
|Way things are today, they will probably make it
|subscription based like everything else. Daily mail? Pay
|more! Weekly mail? Pay a little less. Want your mail
|picked up? There's a subscription or one time large fee
|for that.
|u/theskepticalheretic - 13 hours
|
|Fun fact, you used to have to go to the post office to
|pick up mail. During the Civil War, home delivery was
|made a thing so the postmen wouldn't have to see lines
|of crying widows and children waiting for their
|husband's death note.
|u/HandsomeBoggart - 13 hours
|
|Which is a stupid ass choice since all the private
|shippers use USPS to do final delivery in rural areas.
|Live in bumfuck Iowa? Ohio? Kansa? Oklahoma? Good job
|voting Republican. They just abolished USPS and let FedEx
|and UPS buy the pieces. Oh and now you no longer get
|service in your area due to costs, or you pay 4x more.
|u/cat_catcity - 19 hours
|
|My mom is a mail lady, absolutely fuck dejoy.
|u/Voice-of-Calm - 19 hours
|
|Retired mail carrier, Fuck Dejoy.
|u/ZebraImaginary9412 - 9 hours
|
|It makes me so angry that Biden kept DeJoy.
|u/No_Scallion1094 - 20 hours
|
|It’s a smart play. If you’re a president with a history of rape,
|sexual assault and underage stuff then you absolutely want an AG who
|clearly doesn’t care about any of that (or really any illegal
|activity).
|u/LostinEmotion2024 - 19 hours
|
|Explains the Trump base quite well actually.
|u/Varitan_Aivenor - 19 hours
|
|Men who want to protect themselves against possible future rape
|charges are a big voting block it seems.
|u/TheChangeYouFear - 19 hours
|
|Yup. Doesn't get much rapier than saying something like "Your
|body, My choice".
|u/Whitechapel726 - 19 hours
|
|I don’t generally support doxxing, but…..
|u/iminyourfacebook - 18 hours
|
|And it's not like that shit wasn't already easy to piece
|together for someone who wanted to get at him. Nick
|Fuentes had already pissed off the white supremacists he's
|been desperately pandering to by being caught watching
|[gay and femboy porn during a
|stream,](https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-801627)
|laughably blaming it on Mossad hacking him for him being
|such a proud antisemite -- I *think* they've had their
|hands a little too full as of late to worry about what a
|far-right American Trump leg-humper is up to. He's also
|extremely Catholic; all of that combined with his last
|name has made him a frequent doxxing target and a lot of
|the stuff that got posted on Xitter probably only took
|that person about 15 minutes to track down and compile.
| These dorks having "their side" turn on them like
|that always reminds me of when T\_D dramatically quit
|Reddit in favor of "free speech absolutism" Voat back in
|2017. [Their overdramatic departure "I'm running away from
|home" note left for Reddit was fucking
|hilarious!](https://archive.is/ysbVu) Anyway, they were
|back on Reddit within a couple of months because Voat had
|been *heavily* brigaded by Stormfront soon after it went
|live in 2015 -- and before "the fattening" sent *those*
|kinds of Redditors to Voat -- and the neo-Nazis of
|Stormfront took over just about every major subverse
|(Voat's version of subreddits) and absolutely fucking
|hated Trump, because as an establishment Republican, he
|was all up in Israel's colon; neo-Nazis hating Jews, who
|knew? ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯ So after believing they were gonna be
|welcomed with wide open arms, T\_D arrives at Voat only to
|find out Voat already hates them almost as much as the
|rest of Reddit did. Hilariously, their new T\_D subverse
|was the *constant* target of brigades by the neo-Nazis,
|and the regulars there who were constantly defending Trump
|elsewhere on that site were getting harassed at every
|turn. Suddenly, T\_D didn't like a taste of their own
|medicine, and the mods fucking *hated* the baked-in,
|impossible-to-disable public mod logs, because it
|disproved their laughable "last bastion of free speech on
|~~Reddit~~ Voat" slogan; not that anyone really needed the
|proof since it was already blatant before and after they
|left/returned to Reddit, Voat's publicly-accessible mod
|logs were snitching on the mods every time they banned a
|user or removed a comment. And you know how much Qult 45
|hates transparency.
|u/CaliNVJ - 17 hours
|
|The US has gone so nuts I am sitting here laughing about the
|word (NOT CONCEPT) of “rapier”. Sadly you are correct.
|u/LostinEmotion2024 - 19 hours
|
|Or men who don’t think sexual assault is that big of a deal is
|possibly a big voting block. We won’t begin to discuss the
|seed seeded misogyny that exists but anyway - you were close
|u/Hopsblues - 17 hours
|
|Yep, they sweep it under the rug when it's a conservative,
|but if you make a hypothetical about 'what if' it was their
|wife or daughter and they get bent out of shape real fast.
|u/MotorcycleMosquito - 18 hours
|
|Russel Brand… Kanye West
|u/discussatron - 18 hours
|
|He’ll protect Trump, and therefore himself. A crooked ruler needs
|crooked law enforcement.
|u/thiscouldbeben - 20 hours
|
|He’ll drain the swamp, then fill it with his own muck.
|u/PomeloPepper - 18 hours
|
|The irony of that phrase! Swamps are part of a healthy ecosystem
|and support a lot of different animals. They also help process out
|pollution.
|u/Hardcorish - 17 hours
|
|Trump hates anything good for the environment, so it still makes
|perfect sense that he'd want to drain a swamp lol
|u/LA-Matt - 15 hours
|
|The biggest irony of Trump’s “drain the swamp” slogan is that he
|hired more lobbyists in his administration than ever before.
|Four times more than the previous administration, in only four
|years. If anything, he embraced the swamp.
|https://www.propublica.org/article/we-found-a-
|staggering-281-lobbyists-whove-worked-in-the-trump-
|administration
|u/beren12 - 11 hours
|
|Turning the swap into a landfill.
|u/KonigSteve - 19 hours
|
|Fill it with toxic waste maybe
|u/Vladishun - 17 hours
|
|Toxic waste? You mean all that stuff filling up his adult
|diapers?
|u/PcPaulii2 - 18 hours
|
|Wish I could claim this as my own, but one line I heard was that
|MAGA is the stuff you find AFTER you've drained the swamp. The
|slimey, gooey, hard to contain, etc goop at the bottom.
|u/MotorcycleMosquito - 18 hours
|
|Drain the swamp and fills it with toxic waste while his base does
|bellyflops in the mud.
|u/mortimusalexander - 18 hours
|
|*musk
|u/Ermeter - 20 hours
|
|My theory is that Trump's cabinet consists of people with blackmail
|on them. All who have proven to follow orders.
|u/Aware_Material_9985 - 19 hours
|
|Or a possible Russian asset for the intelligence community or a
|white supremacist for the DoD
|u/SierraPapaWhiskey - 19 hours
|
|I’d rather the old swamp than this nuclear waste cesspool of Donnie
|and the Dumbasses.
|u/Fluggerblah - 19 hours
|
|dude watched dexter and thought that could apply to the fucking
|government
|u/DesignerFlaws - 21 hours
|
|Who needs background checks when they are handpicked by the chosen
|one? /s.
|u/Quakes-JD - 21 hours
|
|We should just trust him. He says he hires “the best people” so no
|need for an FBI background check. /s
|u/no_f-s_given - 20 hours
|
|He *always* hires the best people. Until he fires them shortly
|after claiming they are terrible people, bad at their jobs, nobody
|likes them, the worst, hardly knew them, etc.
|u/MrsMel_of_Vina - 20 hours
|
|Scaramoucchi(sp?) only lasted two weeks, if I remember right.
|u/Rineux - 20 hours
|
|11 days, or what is now known as 1 mooch
|u/manyhippofarts - 20 hours
|
|Right. I heard that's how we're going to measure the tenure of
|all these new folks he's hiring. We'll see how many mooches
|they last. I give Gaetz about three mooches. Just over a
|month.
|u/Longjumping-Jello459 - 20 hours
|
|I honestly don't see him getting approved most Republicans
|hate him his only saving grace is the fear of Trump's wrath.
|u/manyhippofarts - 19 hours
|
|If I'm honest, I'm thinking that Gaetz was gonna quit
|anyway in order to avoid the ethics report. Trump see this
|as an opportunity to throw Gaetz a bone and use this
|appointment as a legit reason to resign, rather than
|having to resign for the reason of avoiding the ethics
|report. Trump knows he's a slime ball and could never
|pass approval even if the senate was 100% Republican. He
|never expected Gaetz to be AG. Gaetz is less damaged,
|because he resigned for a legit patriotic reason, and now
|he owes Trump. Also, now Trump can say "JFC you've already
|killed one of my cabinet picks, are you gonna just kill
|every single one like you did with Gaetz?" It's a win for
|Gaetz . But it's a win-win for Trump. I don't know why we
|keep underestimating him.
|u/Longjumping-Jello459 - 19 hours
|
|Trump doesn't seem to me to be one to plan ahead or
|really at all now those around him certainly are
|planning/scheming things.
|u/manyhippofarts - 18 hours
|
|Oh yeah absolutely. When I say "Trump", that's exactly
|what I mean. I don't expect him to do much beyond some
|golf and sharing well-done steak with heads of state.
|u/Slim_Charleston - 20 hours
|
|11 days
|u/BobasDad - 20 hours
|
|I just want to know if he can do the Fandango with thunderbolts
|and lightning.
|u/Goose1963 - 17 hours
|
|I’ve always had a lot of questions about this particular Human
|Resources strategy.
|u/Technical_Moose8478 - 20 hours
|
|If he hires the best people, why didn’t we listen to like 80% of
|those when they said don’t vote for him?
|u/Chelsie_girl1 - 20 hours
|
|He also does not pay best people he hires.
|u/Daksout918 - 20 hours
|
|Um excuse me, he has a mandate which means he gets to do whatever he
|wants /s
|u/AccomplishedMoney205 - 20 hours
|
|A con man surrounds him self with conmen… of you thought 2016-2020 was
|a shit show… ooohh booyyy
|u/BlueShift42 - 20 hours
|
|He knows they have the same boss as him.
|u/SplendidPunkinButter - 21 hours
|
|Does “if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to worry about”
|still apply? Because I can remember conservatives using that line plenty
|of times.
|u/Glass1Man - 21 hours
|
|What happened to “trust, but verify”. - Skibidy Reagan
|u/g0d15anath315t - 19 hours
|
|Ironically, originally a Russian proverb doveryay, no proveryay
|u/FightingInternet - 18 hours
|
|Oh, that's perfect. They should put that on our money.
|u/-Raskyl - 21 hours
|
|This is like the "customer is always right" thing. People forget their
|is more to the quote. Which is "the customer is always right, in
|matters of taste". As in, they don't get to tell you how to run your
|business or serve them. They only get to tell you what they think
|looks good on them. The part of the quote that seems to be missing
|here is where they establish the disclaimer that this logic can only
|be used to "own the libs" and in no way applies to themselves or those
|they support.
|u/smarterthanyoda - 20 hours
|
|That’s not quite right. The phrase originated in the early 20th
|century and was clearly used in ways that go beyond matters of
|taste. Sears put it more clearly when they said their employees
|“satisfy the customer regardless of whether the customer is right or
|wrong.” They just counted on employees to have the common sense to
|refuse unreasonable requests and consumers weren’t so entitled that
|they would demand unreasonable accommodations.
|u/awesomefutureperfect - 20 hours
|
|> They just counted on employees to have the common sense to
|refuse unreasonable requests and consumers weren’t so entitled
|that they would demand unreasonable accommodations. The problem
|is that the consumers got ahold of that paradigm and ran with the
|idea that they could never be wrong no matter how hard they tried
|to be wrong and no matter in how poor taste they behaved. Couple
|that with the idea that the person with the money has power over
|the person is earning money, that capital is always superior to
|labor and mass media from reality TV to "prank" youtubers
|portraying outrageous behavior that is imitate-able, having to
|deal with the public is a hellish nightmare. No one likes dealing
|with automated services, but serving the public is a job for
|unfeeling robots not humans that can't deny service because their
|programming wasn't designed to accomodate childish tantrum.
|u/smarterthanyoda - 18 hours
|
|Retailers today don’t follow the “customer is always right”
|paradigm. That paradigm requires them to empower employees so
|they can use their own judgment. Instead, employers have
|mostly moved to a policy-based paradigm where they remove
|employees’ discretion and try to write policies that cover every
|situation. This has led to good customers having bad experiences
|when their situation doesn’t quite fit the policy. On the other
|hand, bad customers learn to game the system and get benefits a
|smart empowered employee wouldn’t have given.
|u/SirMasonParker - 17 hours
|
|And the only times I have heard an actual customer say those
|words to me, an employee, have been absolutely insane reasons in
|my opinion. I heard it from a woman at a pizza joint when she
|asked for sliced mozzarella instead of shredded and I told her
|we didn't stock that product and it was not listed on the menu
|as we didn't have it in the building. "Well, the customer is
|always right!" Not about the items we literally do not sell!
|Working at Costco a customer used that line to tell me that the
|price of a TV should be lower because when he was looking at TVs
|two years earlier they cost less and he budgeted around those
|numbers. "The customer is always right" sir you were right two
|years ago but there's a statute of limitations on that in this
|scenario. I've never heard someone say that about something an
|employee could actually fix for them.
|u/AndesCan - 20 hours
|
|Well today I learned
|u/thatoneotherguy42 - 20 hours
|
|I believe the full quote is "The customer is always right in
|matters of style and taste." People always leave the style part
|out for some reason.
|u/werther595 - 21 hours
|
|Just do what the cop says and you won't get shot
|u/Yoko-Ohno_The_Third - 19 hours
|
|It never matters to their own. I found that out first hand through
|comments just yesterday with a maga clown trying to say that kamala
|Harris wanted to abolish the first amendment. I commented a link of
|trump literally saying he wants to imprison people for a year for
|burning an American flag. Totally ignores what trump said as a desire
|to abolish the first amendment but could show any actually evidence of
|kamala wanting to jail people for free speech. They don't give a fuck
|about the hypocrisy.
|u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 - 21 hours
|
|Imagine a Democrat president doing this...
|u/Great-Hotel-7820 - 20 hours
|
|The media might actually cover it adequately.
|u/spasmoidic - 15 hours
|
|Because their voters actually read the news
|u/WildBad7298 - 18 hours
|
|Remember: Tim Walz is unfit for office because he got a DUI 30 years
|ago, but Matt Gaetz is good to be AG even though he was investigated
|for raping a 17 year old.
|u/Feisty-Barracuda5452 - 17 hours
|
|Bible Mike said it would be mean to release it, he resigned.
|u/kelly9791 - 14 hours
|
|Gaetz has a DUI too. Didn't want to let that be forgotten, might as
|well pile on
|u/beekeeper1981 - 8 hours
|
|And two witnesses testified under oath to seeing it happen. The fact
|Trump brought Gaetz up for the AG position makes America look like
|one giant sick joke. America wants the world to be a democracy like
|them.. that's rich.
|u/SiFiNSFW - 17 hours
|
|Is he still under investigation? I thought they pinned absolutely
|everything on that Joel Greenburg guy and then announced they
|wouldn't be proceeding with any charges against anyone else? I
|swear i read the rightful outrage from this very sub over that like
|12+ months ago.
|u/Optimal_Carpenter690 - 8 hours
|
|Well, you're talking about the party that A) already wants to reduce
|the age of consent and B) apparently doesn't think grooming is
|possible between people of opposite sexes, that it is a trait
|exclusive to the LGBT community
|u/LilithWasAGinger - 8 hours
|
|His rap sheet includes about a dozen wreckless driving and DUIs as
|well. Not to mention his college roommate who died under suspicious
|circumstances. Day Gaetz cover that up as well
|u/BUNNIES_ARE_FOOD - 15 hours
|
|Yeah and the pubs would be screaming absolutely bloody murder. They
|would be rallying the base, organizing massive protests. They would
|be airing ads and scorching the earth. The Dems? Fat chance buddy.
|I've seen it over and over again for decades
|u/FleshlightModel - 11 hours
|
|Then they get mad at you for trying to point out their hypocrisy.
|u/MattyTheSloth - 18 hours
|
|They are. Biden is President _right now_, it's his FBI; why isn't he
|doing a background check and releasing the results? Because it's
|'improper'? lol
|u/wterrt - 11 hours
|
|probably because when they find shit and then do nothing it looks
|worse than just doing nothing in the first place we've already
|proven laws don't mean shit. why keep pretending?
|u/TechieTravis - 21 hours
|
|You can't get the Russian agent in position to sabotage our intelligence
|services if she can't get cleared by the FBI.
|u/Syntaire - 21 hours
|
|Given the deafening silence and absolute lack of fucking *anything
|happening at all* even in the face of Putin 'n' Co. stating publicly
|both that they interfered in the election AND that Tulsi is a Russian
|agent, not sure there's much left to sabotage at this point anyway.
|u/TechieTravis - 21 hours
|
|It's kind of over for us. This is a complete takeover of our
|government by Russia. Even if the democratic process survives enough
|to get them all out in 2028, the irreversible damage will have been
|done. All of our military secrets will be compromised. Russian
|intelligence will be deeply embedded across all institutions, with
|nobody pushing back against them for four years. They will have our
|nuclear secrets. I can't see any room for optimism. It's over for
|our republic.
|u/EugeneStonersDIMagic - 20 hours
|
|And the 20 something bros just handed them the fucking keys for
|the LOLs
|u/XavieroftheWind - 20 hours
|
|No. The "non-compromised" other side of system smiled and handed
|over the keys after calling them a threat to our democracy. If
|they were serious about being anything but controlled
|opposition, Trump and Co would be locked away as compromised
|foreign assets easily. Unless, they're all already
|compromised and want the Russian type of Oligarchy to take
|place. I mean, it doesn't hurt them or their donors so?
|u/ActuallyIWasARobot - 16 hours
|
|The world is run by the ultra-rich and they don't care about
|borders.
|u/seattleseahawks2014 - 19 hours
|
|Fuck
|u/redbitumen - 14 hours
|
|It’s only over if you guys don’t learn to get your hands dirty.
|You need to break the rules, encourage dem politicians to break
|the law (they can be protected), embrace hypocrisy and
|misinformation, attack anyone who doesn’t fall in line, etc. Dems
|are weak and they’re cowards and would rather let fascism take
|over as long as they can feel morally superior. Looking through
|this post peoples conclusion is to just give up so it’s not
|looking good.
|u/HouseplantHoarding - 10 hours
|
|Given all the times we have interfered with other countries
|elections to install oppressive regimes that benefit us; we had it
|coming. Long overdue, in fact.
|u/frumiouscumberbatch - 20 hours
|
|To be ruthlessly fair: Russia would also say that if none of it were
|true, because it helps sow discord. don't get me wrong, as of noon
|on January 20, Putin will own large chunks of the American
|government.
|u/Syntaire - 20 hours
|
|He would, but that honestly doesn't really matter much. If a
|hostile foreign nation claims that your prospective head of
|intelligence is an agent for said nation, you fucking investigate
|the absolute shit out of the person. You find out what they had
|for dinner, at what time and where every single day of their life.
|You don't just say "oh well the guy that isn't even the president
|says background checks take a lot of time, so I guess we'll just
|skip it."
|u/frumiouscumberbatch - 16 hours
|
|absolutely the fuck yes
|u/TaupMauve - 19 hours
|
|Biden should order all networks to go dark and burn the
|documentation, if operatives can't be extracted.
|u/OneAlexander - 20 hours
|
|Unfortunately it's not just US intelligence services, it has huge
|implications for interlinked Western agencies. People in MI6
|especially are likely pulling their hair out.
|u/No_Reaction_2682 - 2 hours
|
|The FiveEyes nations are likely putting together a list of things
|not to tell the US once Trump is in charge
|u/SPzero65 - 20 hours
|
|How those egg prices looking 👀
|u/IvyHearts - 15 hours
|
|A lot higher now that bird flu is here
|u/mabhatter - 18 hours
|
|This is why we have senate confirmation. The senate needs to
|immediately reject any nomination that cannot complete the security
|clearance. But they won't.
|u/MayDay521 - 16 hours
|
|Yeah, unfortunately checks and balances completely fails to function
|when one faction holds all of the power. It's got heavy "we've
|investigated ourselves, and found we did nothing wrong" energy. We
|handed all the power over to one side, and now there's nothing we can
|do to combat it.
|u/SignificantSmotherer - 13 hours
|
|Checks and balances have been largely missing in action at the DOJ
|for the last 16 years. It’s not unreasonable to consider third
|party services for vetting nominees.
|u/MayDay521 - 12 hours
|
|Or I guess in this case just not even bothering to vet them at
|all!
|u/Academic_Value_3503 - 14 hours
|
|If the Senate goes along with it, then the Democrats must force the
|Republicans to officially vote on doing away with the security
|clearance process and have them put their money where their mouth is.
|It's either you have them or not. You can't pick and choose. The
|media should at least ask them if they believe in security clearances
|or not.
|u/xtreme571 - 11 hours
|
|> The media should at least ask them if they believe in security
|clearances or not. The media is complicit in what is happening
|today. The didn't question shit when GOP candidates were spewing
|hate, saying crazy things that one would think is insanity. Media
|is not going to do jack. Media is part of the problem. They ARE the
|reason Trump won first time around and they ARE the reason he won
|this time around as well. Media never aired what good was
|happening under Biden. They never showed how GOP was taking credit
|of things after voting against them. They just cared about ratings.
|Trump said x, Trump said Y.
|u/EarthyFeet - 18 hours
|
|Yeah about that..
|u/roklpolgl - 17 hours
|
|He’ll just do recess appointments like he said he would.
|u/NolChannel - 17 hours
|
|The answer there is simple, don't go on recess. Just have one
|Democrat at a time sitting in session as an eternal fillibuster.
|Democrats need to stop pretending its normal and shut down the
|government for a literal year. Just refuse all budget proposals and
|drag Trump through the mud,
|u/KingsleyZissou - 17 hours
|
|And then Trump throws them in jail as an "official act". What
|then?
|u/atuarre - 15 hours
|
|Well if he does something like that then it's on you, the
|person, to do something about it. You know Americans don't have
|the stomach for protests and whatever else they need to do. I
|remember in Hong Kong when those people protested for months and
|months and months and months. Americans don't do anything like
|that. MAGA makes up roughly 30% of the population, give or take
|a few. If everybody did their part, these people would never be
|in power again. Locking up political opponents, if that happens,
|then it's on the people to do something about it.
|u/poopfaceone - 15 hours
|
|We had the Occupy Wall Street and BLM protests that each went
|on for months. They send agent provocateurs to start doing
|violence or destroying property, which creates a narrative in
|the media, and then send in the militarized police to break
|the protests. And the Hong Kong protests didn't accomplish
|anything, just like OWS and BLM. Then Trump will stroll in
|with a Bible and a photographer and the rest of the country
|gets behind it. Not to mention, the protests usually happen in
|cities . Cities are primarily blue territories, and they love
|pushing the narrative of cities being scary lawless warzones
|u/roklpolgl - 14 hours
|
|Honestly if he starts blatantly violating the Constitution
|with impunity, I would hope the military, who swear an oath
|not to the president or the government but to protect the
|Constitution against enemies both foreign and *domestic*,
|would step in. Realistically, while we should still protest,
|with the police state we exist in (and who they largely
|support) protesting will not be enough. We would need the
|military to intervene. But in reality that’s probably not
|happening either and we will just go full force into
|dictatorship and oligarchy.
|u/dgisfun - 13 hours
|
|This is why…. But they won’t. Answered your own comment there
|u/hachijuhachi - 22 hours
|
|And people who are critical of trump have TDS… I hate what’s happening
|right now.
|u/lordnecro - 21 hours
|
|Trump says or does some terrible thing. Left calls him out on it.
|Right screams fake news and TDS. ... I feel like we live in some sort
|of bizzaro world. If this were a movie everyone would hate it because
|it is so unrealistic.
|u/Wooden-Frame2366 - 21 hours
|
|Indeed it’s 💯
|u/DetroitLionsSBChamps - 20 hours
|
|If you showed this movie to anyone from before 2015 they would be
|like Jesus it’s a little heavy handed isn’t it? Donald Trump
|leading this movement is extremely on the nose and over the top,
|that’s for sure.
|u/TurtleMOOO - 21 hours
|
|Plenty of his fans will become homeless due to his policies, so I’m
|okay with it. I can’t wait for the maga cult to suffer.
|u/Sweaty-Feedback-1482 - 22 hours
|
|Anytime people accuse the left of having TDS, I like to show them
|picture of folks at his rallies decked out with capes and face paint…
|somehow they never seem to catch the point
|u/Bakkster - 21 hours
|
|I think the golden diapers really sell it.
|u/Wooden-Frame2366 - 21 hours
|
|Yep
|u/seattleseahawks2014 - 19 hours
|
|People are so dumɓ.
|u/Dense-Consequence-70 - 22 hours
|
|Right? TDS is a way for ignorant people to deflect criticism without
|actually engaging it.
|u/Bakkster - 21 hours
|
|The [alt-right playbook](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUdd
|XvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ) has entered the chat.
|u/BIGSTANKDICKDADDY - 18 hours
|
|They also engage in backwards, contrarian logic where criticism
|itself is proof that they must be right. They are cheering on these
|cabinet picks *because* they're controversial, the merits of the
|controversy is never given genuine consideration. If it makes libs
|mad it must be good.
|u/fyhr100 - 21 hours
|
|"Why do Dems keep comparing him to Hitler?" when it's literally his
|entire former cabinet, prominent GOP members, and his own VP pick
|doing that.
|u/Rare-Peak2697 - 22 hours
|
|I know right? You don’t see the right being irrational about this
|stuff. They express their dissatisfaction with buying thousands of
|dollars in merch talking about how the wanna F JB…also J6
|u/HoosierBoy76 - 21 hours
|
|Isn’t it DTS? (Deranged Trump Syndrome)
|u/Leading-Fish6819 - 20 hours
|
|It is THEY who have TDS: Trump Devotion Syndrome
|u/DroneSlut54 - 21 hours
|
|Right? The only people with TDS are the absolute morons who voted
|for him.
|u/5PQR - 13 hours
|
|It's projection, it's always projection with those folk. I'm not
|even American, but I've been noticing it from the sidelines for
|decades at this point. Other examples:- * "Blue anon" and "alt-
|left" * Calling Dems a "cult" * "NPC" * Cuck/beta/soyboy (in
|reference to their masculine insecurity) * Claiming Democrats are
|interfering with elections ... And **never, ever** leave a child
|alone with an American conservative who rants about LGBT folk being
|"groomers".
|u/wirefox1 - 20 hours
|
|That's the irony. Calling it 'patriotism" and the "Christian way",
|is sadly the other part.
|u/Serpentongue - 20 hours
|
|When your president you can just tell them to give someone unearned
|clearance, like he did for Jared last time.
|u/PocketSixes - 16 hours
|
|This is specifically to place Russian agents in position
|u/Tidewind - 17 hours
|
| Because of course. All the better to pass America’s secrets to Moscow.
|ALL HAIL THE PEOPLE’S GLORIOUS, REVOLUTIONARY DEAR LEADER!!
|u/Tazling - 20 hours
|
|he keeps doing illegal sh*t and nothing happens. this guy is the real
|Teflon Don. all others are left in his fairy dust.
|u/pick-axis - 19 hours
|
|Leftover orange Adderall powder with a hint of tan de' buff parfume
|u/luv2fly781 - 19 hours
|
|Still getting away with it and nobody doing a thing
|u/HilariousButTrue - 15 hours
|
|Not a Trump fan but the article has a misleading headline. It's the
|first time a President has stepped over the background check process
|and there is nothing that explicitly states that he has to have the
|FBI carry it out. Reviews can still be carried out by the Senate if
|they skip agency review but that's about all there is as far as checks
|and balances to his appointments. Elections can have scary
|consequences and it should make people question how much has not been
|accomplished historically and how much the establishment has been fine
|with the status quo despite campaigning on hope for change and other
|similar propaganda slogans.
|u/Tazling - 15 hours
|
|Thanks for the clarification. The amount of US governance that
|hangs precariously on "gentleman's agreements" is absolutely
|terrifying.
|u/espressojunkie - 17 hours
|
|He received basically zero repercussions for inciting an insurrection,
|election fraud, and financial fraud aside from having to sit in court
|a few times and taking a mugshot, and now the Supreme Court has said
|anything that he says is an “official act” is immune from prosecution
|so it’ll be open season next time
|u/SqnLdrHarvey - 13 hours
|
|When you are dictator, you can do that. Trump is a dictator.
|u/Both_Lychee_1708 - 10 hours
|
|Would it even make a difference if the checks were done? No! That's
|how you know how fucked we are. The US has fallen and it ain't getting
|up (certainly not anytime soon)
|u/MrFrode - 11 hours
|
|You don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to.
|u/euph_22 - 21 hours
|
|Efficiency. His cabinet picks would fail a background check anyways so
|why do it. Save the tax payers money.
|u/iScreamsalad - 20 hours
|
|I don’t think many people would agree with you that top level
|clearance should be given to unverified people
|u/DragonfruitFew5542 - 19 hours
|
|Shit, when I had my clearance it was a ridiculously long, arduous
|process. But that investigation is necessary, at the end of the day.
|And I wasn't even looking at documents as sensitive as they are.
|It's seriously scary.
|u/st1tchy - 19 hours
|
|Mine took over a year to go through.
|u/DarkMimic2287 - 19 hours
|
|I think he's being sarcastic there
|u/niknik888 - 19 hours
|
|No but “ the people spoke, and he has a mandate”…. On his pea sized
|cerebrum.
|u/WhosAGoodDoug - 19 hours
|
|In fairness, Trump can't in good conscience ask his employees to undergo
|a criminal background check that he could not pass.
|u/MayDay521 - 16 hours
|
|One of the first rules of good leadership! Don't ask your subordinates
|to do anything you wouldn't be willing to do yourself. He's such a
|great leader! To be clear, I fucking despise him and think he
|couldn't even properly lead a blind person off a cliff. This next 4
|years will be hell.
|u/Funkyokra - 18 hours
|
|I was trying to convince myself that it might work out but this is
|insane.
|u/jimlahey2100 - 18 hours
|
|Do you not remember the clown show that was his first term? Seriously,
|do you not?
|u/Funkyokra - 18 hours
|
|I was just giving it the old good faith consideration.
|u/Zweihart - 18 hours
|
|There's always the chance he'll have another, larger stroke on camera.
|u/Funkyokra - 18 hours
|
|JD Vance is not an improvement here.
|u/moose51789 - 18 hours
|
|i'd argue Vance is a bigger threat even
|u/dimerance - 17 hours
|
|You discount what a generational populist Trump is. It doesn’t
|make rational sense and we can hate it all we want, but the man
|has captured a massive portion of America. Vance couldn’t do
|that, but he would probably get 8 years out of it. Maybe 10 if
|Trump were to die mid term. Which isn’t crazy to say given he’s
|old as fuck, unhealthy, and has had to of had extreme stress the
|last year.
|u/Optimal_Carpenter690 - 8 hours
|
|I don't actually think he cared enough about doing a good job
|to actually get stressed out
|u/atuarre - 15 hours
|
|He's worse. He's waiting for his moment so his master Peter Thiel,
|who is seriously a nut job, can start giving him his instructions
|