Without consequences rules and laws have no meaning.
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When someone is willing to rape and brutalize children, or help cover up for the people who serially commit crimes against children—are there any moral boundaries or limits on what their conscience will allow them to do? Are there any lines in their life that should never be crossed? These are the questions I contemplate whenever people seem to be surprised that constitutional guidelines and traditions of civil engagement are steamrolled yet again by the Trump administration.
As with almost all other headlines ending in a question mark, the answer is "No."
But, our other branches of government who are supposed to provide checks and balances are complicit.
I think the better question is "would it matter if they weren't allowed?". Because it doesn't seem to.
Are they allowed to? Were they actually doing anything else aside from pocketing our tax dollars and finding new, cruel ways to harm people?
Are they allowed to?
Who's gonna stop them?
If the best the regime can muster is send Doug Burgum and Brendon Carr on the campaign trail, they must be desperate. It's hard to find Trump henchmen who are more inconsequential and devoid of charisma.
The Hatch Act comes up in popular media fairly regularly too. Parks and Recreation had at least one episode on it.
Hatch act is dead and buried
The demographic most likely to be swayed by Lutnick's appearance:
You leave Healslimes out of this.
Ragnar?
2016 ass headline