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I used to find it funny. It's not funny anymore.
I want to get off Mr bones wild ride.
You can
Unfortunately they've become immune to irony
Knowledge as well.
Well knowledge can be found in a library...
Can't trust anything that comes from something that even sounds like liberal!
Yeah, the Republican party originally was the progressive one IIRC
The great switch and the southern strategy.
One thing I learned as I grew up is that in politics, words mean the opposite of what they mean.
Examples:
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is neither democratic, a republic, or for the people.
The Nationalist Socialist Party had a problem with actual socialists. They were okay with nationalism though.
Right. Sweden is a Kingdom, but it's one of the most liberal democracies in the world.
Just like how Japan had, up until late last year, been majorly under the governance of the Liberal Democratic Party (Read: Conservative traditionalists).
Also, the whole point of them having guns was to stop a king taking over there aren't any kings in schools
So clearly the guns are working. (/s)
Edit: Actually, my high school had a homecoming king and queen, so I take that back. Schools are infested with the monarchy!
It's crazy how jealous the US and the UK are of each other's system.
This is the same crowd who danced to RATM - Killing in the Name during their blue lives matter phase. Irony is a foreign word to them, and we know how well they like foreigners.
Cognitive dissonance doesn't work on those people.
They don't want a King, they want a dictator. Different.
I feel there is nuance.
I have a joke that the Congress would create a department of impeachment and place it under the president. I know it's not really a knee slapper.
congress has been abdicating since the Wilson administration (at least) and we are now seeing the consequences of those actions.
if you had elected me to be president, i'd have scuttled an aircraft carrier and a nuclear sub during my inauguration speech, and I'd be dismantling the bureau of Indian affairs, the bureau of prisons, the federal bureau of investigation, the central intelligence agency, and the NSA ( whose full name i can't summon at the moment) just as we see trump dismantling agencies I think are mostly benign.
the problem is that Congress has had no courage for a century.
Disclaimer, I don't like what is being done, I think its wrong, damaging, and questionably legal, at least the process that is currently in progress.
To add more nuance and explanation, There are only 3 branches of government, and when congress says we want a thing done, the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it? For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that. The current administration is taking that to heart and taking more of an active role, often beyond bounds set, in what is still lower level of the executive. If you were to go to an org chart of the people being fired, and departments being closed, if you went up a few levels you would get to the president. As much as NIH, or CDC, or USAID, or any others are independent, at the end of the day, they are part of the executive.
Most of what is being done has been done or tried to be done before, not necessarily at the same time.
As for your list, I'd be careful about throwing the baby out with the bath water, the NSA is involved with evaluating encryption, although there is some checkered history (DES) in this role.
The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations
Intelligence from the CIA would be useful, but their history of foreign meddling that has come back to bite is a bit hard to overlook.
The FBI helps coordinate multi state investigations
the marshals already existed before the fbi.
For truly independent agencies, I think you need to amend the constitution for that.
i don't think we need most of these agencies at all, but those that are needed could still be created directly under the supervision of congress. would it make their lives harder? yes. but it would also stop any autocratically-minded executive from doing what's being done.
the executive is the one to execute, because where else could you even put it?
the congress. the congress could make a law. it's that simple. the fugitive slave act didn't need a fucking Agency of Slave Recovery.
Lololololololololol fuck right pretending there's any nuance.
It's fascism plain and simple
They are also "patriots" and "Christians" (love they neighbor - who is that? everyone. what does it look like? not... like... that) and "smurt" and "efficient" and so on.
It's not funny, it's deception.
All Republicans truly want, is hypocrisy
I find it funny that evangelicals outwardly embrace everything the bible says they shouldn't.
Oh wait, no, I'm just really fucking depressed to the point of insanity.
Before the party switch the right wing was Democrats. Just as bad that they want "democracy" when they want a King. But I think it was they wanted majority rule over black people. "Teehee, see it's majority rule to segregate. Teehee, see it's majority rule to not fund black schools."
Their stupidity isn’t even that funny anymore
I find it funny that Democrats are the ones who invented superdelegates so that their candidates can't actually be selected democratically.
Yes. Our political system is crap.
this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2025
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