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But....he lost the house?
Honestly I think either his staff promised him the ability to do this post mid terms and he's been chomping at the bit ever since, or he's real fucking scared of the house doing some actual investigating.
He believes he is responsible for the increased majority in the Senate.
Or just that it was assumed POTUS would want to pick the most qualified person to run his departments in a manner that would not scandalize them.
Lol.
No, we do not.
And there will not be any organizing of protests on the forums.
Posting news articles/photos of protests that do happen is fine.
Which is kinda funny as it’s not 60 votes, so the one or two seats they picked up in the Senate (not all states are done yet) is small potatoes compared to losing the House.
Trump lost and lost bigly and seems to be taking it well.
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I know I'm pushing it here (and I apologize), but I hope some levity is okay in this thread.
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Happily for him, he lied to the Senate and not the House.
It does turn any judicial or cabinet nominations into something he doesn't even have to pretend to fight for, though. With 50 or 51 senators there's a couple people who can pretend to be on the fence to throw some weight around; if it's a few more than that they can let a couple of rebels be rebels and still get their people confirmed.
Given Trump doesn't really believe in the other two branches of government as anything other than bodies of uppity employees, I can totally see him fixating on that as a victory.
"The Basics of Federal Bureaucracy" isn't "I have memorized pay structure by rank."
You're a hierarchical civilian command structure! Just use the damned ranks!
This isn't some bullshit wonk-off where posters get to show off how much fucking smarter they are than other posters by going "Oh, $105,123 a year, that's clearly a GS-15! This is a completely normal way to talk about human beings and their merit for placement in the government, by their financial compensation!"
The issue wasn't being aware of what level that exact number equated to whatever rank.
The issue was you apparently being unaware that the federal bureaucracy has a codified pay scale and yes that would fall under "The Basics of Federal Bureaucracy".
You didn't know something. Some other people did and provided that information to give context.
That's not "some bullshit wonk-off".
It's how discussions like this are supposed to go.
I've been looking to see if some of the bigger outlets are confirming that it is happening. Would mainstream media outlets report on plans of protests or just report on them if they happen?
So like
Guessing he doesn't know we were founded by a bunch of Secularists and Deists, huh?
This is the organizing point that I'm aware of.
https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/
Like, five people know what deists are. We don’t teach history good.
He’s the dude who sang Holy Diver
No no not that part
The "Rich People Should Get All the Money" and "Stone the Gays" parts.
You know
The American Bible.
I think he also believes that said majority is instantaneous. That putting forward a new AG now means an absolute clear victory instead of a few holdouts with Nixon memories.
Or perhaps he just believes he'll let a temp fill the position indefinitely. Like a good capitalist would.
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Yeah, (although there are other passages in the new testament implying that harsh punishments are to be disfavored among Christians in favor of social interventions, and Jesus really didn’t care for strict legalism favoring leniency and flexibility coming from a moral-ethical point of view. “ Don’t be a dick” is a much higher biblical Christian value than “follow all the rules. )
I just thought it was a really ironic quote.
I'd say his Black Sabbath output is more in line for the founders, Heaven and Hell and Mob Rules in particular.
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While true, it’s not exactly like Trump hasn’t already gotten two SCOTUS picks combined with Schumer conceding even more judicial picks in that ridiculous deal to get more campaign time.
So in theory, losing two seats gives more latitude for appointees, in practice it’s irrelevant since Trump was getting what he wanted anyhow. Especially compared with the value of gaining the House.
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My current theory is that Mueller just dumps everything he has in the hands of everyone everywhere; state governors, newspapers, 24 hours, the daily show, law enforcement...
I mean, as long as Mitch is willing to prop him up he's not really wrong...
Unless the result of his investigation would lead to a clear and present danger to the continued existence of the nation, if they were withheld by the DoJ or White House, there is no possible way this occurs.
The investigation is clearly functioning on a base assumption that the structure of our government is sound and can withstand whatever results. Releasing the results outside of the normal procedure would represent something so unprecedented that the action in of itself would put the government at risk by potentially evoking a level of civil unrest that could undermine whatever chance the process that is supposed to take place could possibly prevent.
Additionally, if the results are that dramatic and criminal, the White House would immediately deny it and use the narrative they've been fostering for some time, that it is all a witch hunt, and the actual threat, to rile up their base.
It could quite literally result in violent conflict, and the circumstances I can imagine someone like Mueller, based on his past and the way the investigation has been proceeding thus far, are so far fetched that even someone who is utterly disgusted by Trump and the people who support him, as I am, think are damn near impossible.
It isn't out of the question that the results can and will be leaked by someone before they get sanitized by the DoJ under the White House's direction; but that leak isn't going to come from Mueller, nor, I would imagine, anyone he's hand picked to handle the information and work on the investigation.
But my perspective is that if the results are as bad as some fear (or hope, I guess, depending if your perspective is "how bad is this" vs "how can we take down Trump"), we absolutely need the systems put in place to function as designed, with as little intercession as possible, in order to reaffirm that our system of government can actually survive. I think, ultimately, if it is so dire that Mueller feels the need to breach every system in place in order for the public to know, it's done, over, time to start over; because this shit isn't going to burn, it would mean it already has and we just didn't know it.
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I feel like the reason the investigation is not being broadcast is for exactly the opposite reason; that your government can't withstand the results of it, and that Mueller's attempting to thread the needle between preventing Republican betrayal of your country, and open disillusionment with your government.
It would be much better if the Dems could retake control of the country before charging Trump.
But even that... Trump has not been one for advocating the peaceful transfer of power since 2016.
I really hope Mueller can thread the needle is all I can say.
And I also really hope I'm just being overly pessimistic about it all.
Whatever the consequences, the people need to know.
If the US can't survive that, then the experiment is already a failure.
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The experiment is not a failure, it is simply time to revise the test conditions
- how much of Muller's stuff is at least confidential
- how much will the new guy care
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Could choosing to seek out and access materials from an investigation against him count as... wait, no, I hope I already know the answer here.