Trump Sparks Constitutional Crisis, Seizing Budget Authority from Congress
LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net Posts 18Comments 2,306Joined 2 yr. ago

LibertyLizard @ LibertyLizard @slrpnk.net
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I think people are underestimating the seriousness of this action. He is effectively turning the civil service into his personal servants. Does congress even have a say in government anymore if this is allowed? Do the courts?
If Trump can effectively order government employees to do anything under threat of firing or worse, then is our situation meaningfully different from autocracy? This is an absolute emergency and I think people are not seeing the bigger picture here.
We need a plan to fight back against this, and I want to ask everyone to participate in whatever capacity they can. And please don’t give me any “ThE pLaN wAs VoTiNg” replies. We lost the election and we need to move on from this learned helplessness and figure out what comes next. We don’t have time to wait until the next election to fix this.