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Gimme some evidence that anyone at all in the government is pushing back on Trump with any effectiveness at all. Someone throw me a bone here. 😬 (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm starting to really consider the whole "reality is a simulation" angle, and whoever is running the game has put in a cheat code. (not really really, but more than I ever have before)

It's like a shitty unrealistic movie plot has unfolded over the past decade. And every time it looks like maybe things are heading back on track, BOOM, we get another event that just turns us right back on the track to crazytown.

I'm having a hard time coming up with anything I can cling to in the hopes that Project 2025 isn't going to go exactly as planned down to the last detail.

How are we not going to become real-world Gilead (but with more racism)?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

Most of the safeguards were removed in trump's previous term, and now the way's open.

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I dunno, man, it just feels like the ol' fascist/totalitarian tactic of flooding the zone with shit until people get exhausted from fighting it has worked, people are exhausted, and there's this energy of elated resignation, like, we can't swim upstream anymore, so fuck it, riding the current is kind of fun (and the inevitable waterfall is out of sight and out of mind for the moment).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Thats all fine and well until youre shot on the front lines or happen to be one of the minorities being drowned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

All I’ll say is you’re not taking the “reality is a simulation” angle far enough, because you still believe that there is some sort of outcome that is both objectively good AND long term stable. But the only such outcome is that the simulation goes on, with or without you.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 15 hours ago

Who just knocked?

[–] [email protected] 74 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (2 children)

The Inspectors General that Trump is trying to fire basically told him to fuck off.

Under a law passed in 2022 (you know, when the Dems were doing nothing 🙄) the president has to give Congress 1) 30 days notice of firing an IG and 2) enumerate the reasons why that IG was being fired. The second any reason is given to Congress these people are going to sue for wrongful termination since it's blatantly obvious to everyone Trump is trying to rid the government of anyone who could hold him accountable.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

What is the consequence of not following these rules?

If the only consequence is a lawsuit he doesn't have to pay personally, then I don't think he cares.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I suppose if the firings are regarded as "official acts," the courts will support POTUS on this one.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Currently the consequence is they aren't accepting the termination of their enjoyment and aren't leaving.

If the consequence of not following the rules means it doesn't get enforced then he cares very much.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago

Why does trump care if someone he tried to fire refuses to accept that they're fired. He can still hire a replacement and pretend the person he "fired" doesn't exist, and as long as the rest of the bureaucracy plays along with him (which it always seems to) then trump faces no consequences for breaking the rules.

This happened time and time again last term where he broke norms and rules that had no codified repercussions. Dems would say "you can't do that, it's not allowed" but he'd do it anyways and succeed.

The checks placed on the POTUS need to have actual teeth and not just be a gentlemen's agreement

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (3 children)

Oh yeah I saw that headline when I got up this morning and it made me happy to see. But talk me down the tree a little further if you can.

In the current state I don't see how it matters. I'm glad they did it. I appreciate the gesture, and I think it was an important one. But I feel like we're all still pretending that laws and norms matter when clearly they no longer do for Trump and anyone under him.

What exactly stops him from having these people forcibly removed and/or their access to government resources cut, their paychecks held, their clearances revoked, etc? Who is in charge of those things that can stand up to that?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What exactly stops him from having these people forcibly removed and/or their access to government resources cut, their paychecks held, their clearances revoked, etc? Who is in charge of those things that can stand up to that?

What stops him is people willing to ignore obviously illegal demands, and the more people that stand up to him the more people will be encouraged to do the same. Now, if Trump openly defies court orders and the executive branch has enough sycophants in it that they're willing to help him, then it becomes up to us to solve that problem.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Solid summary, the best way to deal with authority in general is to ignore them. Mind you someone can always use violence but often times thats a sign of weakness from someone who is trying to claim they have power.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

What exactly stops him from having these people forcibly removed and/or their access to government resources cut, their paychecks held, their clearances revoked, etc? Who is in charge of those things that can stand up to that?

Trump doesn't directly do any of those things, he would have to order other people to do so, and the risk of doing so is that if he encounters more resistance people start to notice that the emperor has no clothes.

The more people resist the more it encourages others to do the same. The president is not a king that can dictate commands, and the more people stop obeying the more Trump runs into those protections that stop him being a tyrant.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 14 hours ago

My concern as well. Trump really doesn’t seem to give a damn this go-around. There were people in place that hit the brakes on him last time, but this time nobody’s doing shit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Some reporting is saying impeachment is being floated, suing the president has been a matter of course since Obama took office and hasn't stopped since, he's already issuing orders that are blatantly illegal and clearly violate the constitution. There are a lot of openings to fight back right now. Is anyone? Idk.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt this to the point I would bet money against it if I could.

Did you not see that a proposal to amend the constitution for 3 terms was ACTUALLY proposed by a Congressperson from TN?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

The republicans do not have enough of a majority in either house to get that through.

I sincerely doubt they are going to convince a third of the Dems to support it either

[–] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago

Remember that you'd have to get at least 38 state legislatures to ratify it as well. Getting any amendments passed in the modern day is a whole circus in and of itself, and I highly doubt there's enough political capital to get such an obviously targeted amendment (since the candidate in question would've had to have two nonconsecutive terms - meaning this applies to Grocer Cleveland and Donald Trump) passed.

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Did you not see Obama and Trump joking around? If it was serious Obama wouldn't be joking like that. He'd be busting heads.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Trump triedcseveral times before Obama, polite as he is, answered.

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