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"Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order
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I enjoy discussing politics, but flagged this because the title is so absurdly far beyond sensationalized and links to a friggin Reddit post which then amps the hyperbole up even further. It's not going to be conducive to interesting or informative discussion for anybody, and seems mostly intended to mislead.
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#63Direct link to the order : https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/ensu... In short, Trump is claiming full and direct authority and control over any and all federal agencies, with the express directive of "The President and the Attorney General, subject to the President’s supervision and control, shall provide authoritative interpretations of law for the executive branch. " Basically : L'État, c'est…
Nuclear-armed dictatorship, and the strongest military power on the planet, run by Donald Trump. All bets now off.
Well he is talking about disarming US nukes
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> and if it goes beyond the scope of executive powers, it will be curtailed or shut down.
The position of the executive order is that only the President can interpret laws, including executive orders about interpreting laws.
That is to say, if the courts try to stop it, Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What corruption? Firing the inspector generals and making up claims don’t count as receipts.
It's the equivalent of the cops pulling you over and using a slightly dim tail light to search your entire car, make you get out, spread your legs, and get a pat-down. Every large government department in every country in the world has some waste. All of them. All of the time. This is why it's so disingenuous for Trump/Musk supporters to point at tiny bits of waste or whatever and scream "See! See! We found it! They…
Elon Musk's people have been remarkably bad at finding real examples of waste. Their hit rate is extremely low - almost everything they publicize turns out to be wrong.
You'd think they'd be able to scour the Federal budget and find a few real examples of waste to crow about, but instead they give us things like: $50 million in condoms sent to Gaza so that Hamas can make bombs??? And of course, that instantly turned out to be fake news.
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Sorry, what does that mean??
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> and if it goes beyond the scope of executive powers, it will be curtailed or shut down. The position of the executive order is that only the President can interpret laws, including executive orders about interpreting laws. That is to say, if the courts try to stop it, Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
That is not what the EO says. You’ve been misled by a Reddit post.
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> and if it goes beyond the scope of executive powers, it will be curtailed or shut down. The position of the executive order is that only the President can interpret laws, including executive orders about interpreting laws. That is to say, if the courts try to stop it, Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
>Trump may try to say "the courts don't have that power" and order the DoJ and/or military to block anything they do.
Perhaps we should refrain from calling the US a de facto dictatorship until that point then?