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Oh they’ll be replaced, by toadies and GOP Youth interns looking for a salary and resume boost
by huxley 5mo ago
Oh they’ll be replaced, by toadies and GOP Youth interns looking for a salary and resume boost
- lacy_tinpot 5mo ago[flagged]
- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoWe're just telling you what the President says! It's his explicit position, which he repeats constantly, that everyone in the government should be personally loyal to him and never do anything he doesn't want them to do. If you'd prefer for his side not to be full of toadies, you'll have to take it up with him; he's making a conscious decision to do things that way.
- lacy_tinpot 5mo ago[flagged]
- JumpCrisscross 5mo ago> Executive branch shouldn't be beholden to the Executive? No. It should be beholden to the law. And sometimes the law creates independent agencies because that’s the only way to administer a complex, free society.
- lacy_tinpot 5mo agoThe law creates independent agencies?????? What?
- SpicyLemonZest 5mo agoIt's really a quite boring take. The executive branch is not the President's personal property; he's a temporary custodian of it on behalf of the American people, and he has a duty to faithfully execute the laws Congress passed. He has no legitimate power to randomly smash things just because he'd personally like for them to be different.
- lacy_tinpot 5mo agoThe "American People" are not the bureaucrats working under the Presidency. The American People are the common people that vote to have their will be represented. And the President represents that will. The government is the property of the public, the very people that assigned and put in place a President of their choosing, to direct a branch of the government. In effect to exert the power of the People. The President in effect very much has the legitimate power, as given by the American People, to smash everything and anything under the Executive branch. The wish of the President is in effect the wish of the people that have elected the President.