Well no fucking shit! He co fucking authored Project 2025!
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Fascists shocked fascist they put in charge is doing fascist things. More at 11.
Furious he is going rogue, from the going rogue party, with the rogue president having a rogue administration?!?!
Are they out of acid so they had a lucid moment?
Nah probably just a bad trip.
He's gone so rogue that he is following a PLAYBOOK called PROJECT 2025!
IF ONLY THEY KNEW WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO NEXT!?
Yes that was impossible to predict. IMPOSSIBLE!
I know I'm certainly seeing rouge
Anyone with any sanity is. But republicans got what they advocated for. It's like getting mad about getting garlic ice-cream after asking for garlic ice-cream.
Constitutional Crisis as a Service /s
I hate this timeline. We must survive. Right?
Yes, we'll survive. Except for all those who don't (millions so far, between COVID, ending of USAID, ICE, attacks on Venezuela and Iran, etc.).
Alex Pretti
Renee Good
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Thank you for sharing those two names and happy cake day.
There is no crisis. It’s a gap in our framework.
There isn’t a law that says the Executive must spend the money Congress approved. The intent is, if the Executive is doing a poor job, the People will vote him/her out.
The People are the problem (because of a decades long assault on education and a concerted brainwashing campaign by the oligarchy).
The idiots that are us only have limited options years apart. For day to day issues, it is mainly Congress who can serve as a check to executive overreach. They are the failure. Most of the overreach is the executive branch stealing congressional authority and they don’t seem to care
It's also not necessarily a bad thing to have an executive not spend money Congress approved. While many likely disagree with how that discretion is being used, it's not bad that it exists.
You’re assuming the executive branch in its infinite wisdom knows better what we all want than Congress? I completely disagree. While I disagree with a lot of what Congress does, the consensus approach is less likely to lead to abuse
I'm assuming that it's a check against Congress just appropriating absurdly large sums for pet projects or for securing donations. The job of the executive is not to blindly follow Congress, but it's also not to fight everything Congress wants.
The responsibilities of each branch, the checks and balances, are well defined on both sides. Going off script is almost by definition an abuse of power
It's not off script. Not spending a billion dollars on Capitol landscaping even if Congress appropriated that much wouldn't be faithfully executing the laws.
In a perfect world maybe. In today's world where the executive has stolen and consolidated huge amounts of power, it's just another way to bypass Congress's intent and purpose,.
Congress has the power to impeach an executive not doing what they want. It's not limited to just the president. They are happier to just complain than use their powers though.
Exactly this, we don't need to legislate our way out of a problem that already has a solution.
The people are the problem because the real problem is something else? What a stupid statement.
Oh yeah- always stupid to peel back the layers of causation. What an intelligent statement and addition to the conversation!
That's the most pathetic description of victim blaming I've heard yet.
What did these assholes think was going to happen?
This is the same smug little jerkoff that is the architect of Project 2025.
After the huge DOGS cuts,
I hate to be the one to correct that to "DOGE". I thought it was fucking ridiculous at the time, and still do.
I cannot, even jokingly, refer to my Shiba Inu using that meme anymore. I refuse.
Yeah, I can see that. So many things ruined by fascism. heh
It's sad to me that you let them ruin it for you
The guy who said he doesn't answer to us isn't answering to us!
It's a travesty that vought is still breathing after everything he's done and everything he's capable of doing in the future.
Congress and the judiciary both need their own law enforcement branches to arrest traitors who pull this shit. What vought us doing is straight up theft.
ok but also "The crime is coming from inside the House¹!"
¹ I'm very proud of this pun. But also the Senate.
The US Marshalls and Capitol Police sort of fill that role, but the real remedy here would be impeachment of Vought. They aren't mad enough to actually do that though.
The marshals were moved to the executive branch unfortunately. And the Capitol Police only have jurisdiction on congressional land and for personal security for reps.