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Do not obey in advance.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. Perhaps rulers did not initially know that citizens were willing to compromise this value or that principle. Perhaps a new regime did not at first have the direct means of influencing citizens one way or another. After the German elections of 1932, which brought Nazis into government, or the Czechoslovak elections of 1946, where communists were victorious, the next crucial step was anticipatory obedience. Because enough people in both cases voluntarily extended their services to the new leaders, Nazis and communists alike realized that they could move quickly toward a full regime change. The first heedless acts of conformity could not then be reversed.
this congress will rubber-stamp whatever ‘substantive rationale’ white house minions can pull out of the diaper, but at least it gives 30 days for ig to come up with a plan to preserve the independence and integrity of the folks tasks with government oversight.
from the wiki:
In the United States, Office of Inspector General (OIG) is a generic term for the oversight division of a federal or state agency aimed at preventing inefficient or unlawful operations within their parent agency. Such offices are attached to many federal executive departments, independent federal agencies, as well as state and local governments. Each office includes an inspector general (or IG) and employees charged with identifying, auditing, and investigating fraud, waste, abuse, embezzlement and mismanagement of any kind within the executive department.
kinda obvious why lord diaper wants to get rid of them.
If it was amended in 2022 that means Biden did a solid in safeguarding some of hoe government runs. Curious where else he may have snuck in those safeguards.
resistance doesn’t look like this, i watched donald trump and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff walk through a peaceful protest while they were being gassed and beaten to a church he’d never been to, to hold up a bible he’d never read. real resistance will only begin once we’ve been hurt enough to start taking out railroads and airports.
This is resistance. As long as the IGs still exist, they can make life more difficult for the administration. To get rid of them properly, a new law repealing the 2022 amendments would need to be written and signed. That takes time. If the administration through dirty tricks just bars them from work, then they get sued, and it will go to SCOTUS. That also takes time. At this point, taking their time slows their agenda. The administration is trying to use a shock and awe strategy to push changes through as fast as possible, and slowing it down detracts from that strategy and hurts them. It’s a death by a thousand cuts strategy.
well, they are throwing a spanner in the works by doing everything exactly by the book and it kinda reminds me of the CIAs Simple Sabotage Field Manual 😄 if they manage to do this for 4 years, they could turn out less awful than expected.
Are you… gatekeeping resistance?
How does this make sense to you? There’s worse things happening so nope, not good enough, let’s all go home?
This is not what solidarity looks like. If we don’t start there, we kinda lost already - and they know this. And so do you.
Let’s go, Rule of law.
yes, because the united states rule of law, and justice system, was so helpful in every criminal case trump faced in the 4 years he wasn’t fucking president. who you rootin on, buddy? who you talkin to?
but in this case the situation is reversed. in legal procedures against trump, the prosecutors wanted to get him and he could drag it out and dilute the process. now he wants things done quick and others can drag it out and dilute what he wants.
drag everything out for 4 years, claim he didn’t get anything done, his chances to win again dwindle, the next president cancels all the ongoing things he put in motion.
chances to win again dwindle,
I thought the US had a limit on the amount of times you could be president.
Yeah, two 4-year terms.
Except they’re trying to change that now.
The justice system is deeply flawed and needs to be entirely rebuilt. That just means we have to fight back with everything, including the broken tool we call the courts.
