I think we agree that Congress has walked way back from being a co-equal branch. Problem is the GOP spent 50 years damaging the other co-equal branch which means both checks are no longer really in play.
We have laws to stop the racism I don't like. Those supercede EO's. Those laws lay out clear reporting pathways not subject to EO direction. I've been required to have training on those laws every year of my 24-ish years of federal service.
That isn't this. This is an assumption of pernicious action by federal civil servants. This assumes that everyone can and will refuse to follow this directive and thus must be threatened to comply. As with many things, it betrays the utter contempt for and lack of trust of the civil service by the Administration. This is further reinforcement of the notion that we are enemies because our loyalty is to the Constitution and not the President personally. This is "Comrade must report"
I have yet to see a prior EO requiring reporting of conduct going back to November 5th, and informing civil servants that failure to report within 10 days will result in consequences.
There are a number of existing whistleblower statutes. Every Executive Branch Agency has an internal hotline like the one you describe to every IG.
This isn't that. This is saying you are required to report even if there's no actual legal violation (which is the standard now) because we have to know who isn't doing the President's policies 1000% at all times.
It's a command designed to chill people who, say see an EO, look at the relevant statutes and conclude they can't follow the EO because they are breaking the law. Every authoritarian regime does this.
government employees being required to report instances of failure to fully embrace the preferred policies of the leader is a classic authoritarian/fascist move designed to force compliance in the civil servant workforce.
Hotlines allowing individual citizens to hold government accountable for public actions and decision is not at all the same thing.
From inside - if only that were true. We are already getting very specific direction to implement many of his EOs. Direction from career civil servants acting as political appointees - as they do every transition. They got their direction from somewhere.
Hakeem Jeffries has the House and seems well in charge of his caucus. The DNC is working toward an internal election, and Schumer is still "leading the Senate."
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Trump was impeached twice. He wasn't convicted. Words matter Jay.
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I have always maintained the GOP had and has agency. I'm told repeatedly by people here that I'm wrong.
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At what point do we get to start the I told you so chorus?
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I think we agree that Congress has walked way back from being a co-equal branch. Problem is the GOP spent 50 years damaging the other co-equal branch which means both checks are no longer really in play.
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We have laws to stop the racism I don't like. Those supercede EO's. Those laws lay out clear reporting pathways not subject to EO direction. I've been required to have training on those laws every year of my 24-ish years of federal service.
That isn't this. This is an assumption of pernicious action by federal civil servants. This assumes that everyone can and will refuse to follow this directive and thus must be threatened to comply. As with many things, it betrays the utter contempt for and lack of trust of the civil service by the Administration. This is further reinforcement of the notion that we are enemies because our loyalty is to the Constitution and not the President personally. This is "Comrade must report"
And it won't end here.
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Something, something, leopards, something something eating faces, something something.
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Fox is great if all you want is partisan commentary and GOP cheerleading. You have to look elsewhere for actual news.
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Following Bannon's advice to flood the zone with sh!t so people ( meaning mostly the media) become overwhelmed and shut down, ending opposition.
Seems to be working.
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I have yet to see a prior EO requiring reporting of conduct going back to November 5th, and informing civil servants that failure to report within 10 days will result in consequences.
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There are a number of existing whistleblower statutes. Every Executive Branch Agency has an internal hotline like the one you describe to every IG.
This isn't that. This is saying you are required to report even if there's no actual legal violation (which is the standard now) because we have to know who isn't doing the President's policies 1000% at all times.
It's a command designed to chill people who, say see an EO, look at the relevant statutes and conclude they can't follow the EO because they are breaking the law. Every authoritarian regime does this.
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government employees being required to report instances of failure to fully embrace the preferred policies of the leader is a classic authoritarian/fascist move designed to force compliance in the civil servant workforce.
Hotlines allowing individual citizens to hold government accountable for public actions and decision is not at all the same thing.
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They probably didn't since it was written to give formerly enslaved African Americans citizenship.
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That's for citizens to report on government, not for government to report on government.
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His executive order on ending DEI in the federal government contains language encouraging people to rat on each other.
Beyond that one can be a fascist authoritarian without being a Na.zi. So your better questions would be about that.
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Why do you keep associating Asperger's and theatre kids?
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And there it goes boys.
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Its not just for us feds - there's a separate EO requiring it to be policed out of contracts and grants.
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The House and Senate won't impeach him over this or anything else.
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From inside - if only that were true. We are already getting very specific direction to implement many of his EOs. Direction from career civil servants acting as political appointees - as they do every transition. They got their direction from somewhere.
His team is more competent then you think.
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drilling wasn't banned in the Gulf of America.
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We tried to impeach him twice. For critically important stuff. We failed.
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She seems to have done well so far.
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Hakeem Jeffries has the House and seems well in charge of his caucus. The DNC is working toward an internal election, and Schumer is still "leading the Senate."
Personally I'd put my money on Jeffries.
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Birthright citizenship is not a "problem" that needs solving. The 24th Amendment was and remains quite clear.
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So yes, a kindred spirit. Whom you like because he manages in a way you like.