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- politics@lemmy.world
Summary
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s drastic federal budget cuts and regulatory rollbacks have sparked legal and political backlash.
Musk has gutted agencies while Trump fired 17 inspectors general without legal notice.
Critics liken the firings to “firing cops before you rob the bank,” accusing Trump of dismantling oversight to benefit donors and special interests.
Judges have blocked some moves, prompting Trump and Musk to attack the judiciary and threaten impeachment.
Lawsuits are challenging their actions, warning of constitutional violations and unchecked executive power.
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This is a coup
Yeah, we know.
But most other people don’t. This needs to be shouted loud and clear over and over again until everyone knows what’s happening.
It never was about the costs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
One of the many parallels we’re taking to the original Nazis rise to power. We’re basically a single mustache short of it being a direct copy-paste of history.
“Replace them with our people.”
They said they were going to do it.
I am very aware. What’s fun and good, though, is my complete inability to do anything about it.
Tbh, I think that dismantling the federal government this aggressively and this scattershot is going to destroy the legitimacy (in the sense of whether people accept the government as legitimate) of the federal government at the same time as it destroys its capacity to govern. It might shamble on for a while like that unless they do something real fucking stupid like try to invade Canada, at which point I think you’ll finally see a bunch of states say enough and declare independence as regional nations.
It’ll probably be a good thing on the whole, imo. I imagine it’ll open the door for quite a few changes that have been prevented by an unresponsive federal government.
That’s been their plan this whole time: slowly break the system by defunding important services like USPS and education, etc., and then point to those poorly funded programs and give hot takes about how the government sucks and we need to privatize it.
It’s only a possible good thing if we survive it, and that’s extremely questionable
Elon inherited a government whose primary purpose was to stake the deck in his favor. He’s throwing the cards in the trash because Aces and Queens are too Woke.
Inheritedpaid for
It’s like watching Jan 6th all over again but in slow motion.
And more widespread.
How did a massive dork and a Nigerian prince go into the white house? I mean how short does your penis have to be to cheat at diablo, and then blame the problems on social workers? Unfortunately, we know how short the Trump penis is because of stormy Daniels who should definitely turn it into a meme coin.
