I’m not from the US so all of this is baffling. In Europe and even South America there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening, and this kind of meddling would seriously result in arrests. However this is happening in the US with these people going completely unchecked. How is that even possible?!
Laws are only a thing if enforced.
The fox is in the hen house so if we want law enforcement we need to make sure it happens ourselves.
The Devil is in the details, and he needs to get the fuck out!
It is a real department, sort of. Trump used Legislation that was intended for an Obama Era “US Digital Service” and rebranded it “US DOGE Service”. He didn’t even need to change the acronym, although it is now a nested acronym.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_DOGE_Service
They do, in fact, overstep their legal boundaries quite often. But the administration simply fires anyone in any other department who gets in the way until they get an acquiescent administrator who lets them grab the department by the pussy.
“When you are rich and famous enough, they just let you do it.”
I wish Trump bragging about sexual assault wasn’t national policy.
yeah but the non-voting lefties are way diggin’ it. They’re so glad genoside joe is out.
Someone better than I should make a copypasta of the typical .ml response. Most of their shit reads as that way anyway.
Don’t worry. They’ll be by, directly.
It’s a little thing we call “tyranny.”
It’s good to be a king, and that’s what Trump is now. The people in charge of defending us from this took the money instead.
Good question, as an American, I’m all for these fucks being the first against the wall.
there’s tons of mechanisms to stop that from happening
There are tons of such mechanisms in the United States as well. Unfortunately the mechanisms essentially boil down to laws, policies, and norms. Doing an illegal action does not pull a lever that deposits you in jail. The whole system relies on the people in power choosing to do the right thing. That’s going to be a potential issue in any country with centralized power.
There are all sorts of mechanisms in the USA to stop this from happening as well. However, Trump spent the first term embedding loyalists in the courts and congress, so there really is not much left to stop him. If the people who are there to act as a check on presidential power are in on the game, then who is left to enforce the law?
Prosecution takes a very long time and authoritarians move very quickly. Time is not on our side.
This is like in Latin America when a president wins a CIA backed ‘election’ and then creates a NEW legislative branch of government that has twice the power of the current legislative goverment, it’s a very simple and obvious way to practice ‘legalism’ which is a Fascist principal of doing things that APPEAR legal. But clearly aren’t.
Commonwealth countries have a cabinet system of govt.
Minsters are selected by the cabinet from members of parliament. Departments are closed, opened and altered all the time when there is a ministerial reshuffle ordered by the cabinet.
Any minister could run this sort of operation in their department without palrliamentary approval, and the cabinet could do so for the whole govt (and frequently do).
The US has a presidential form of govt. The presidental office is separate from the parliament. Minsters are appointed by the president and must not be members of parliament.
But the president can’t just choose anyone - they must be members of their political party and they must be elected through a series of member elections and state executive decisions.
The issue here is not that DOGE cannot operate under a minister, its that the president cannot order a political outsider to undertake the duties of a minister properly elected through party processes.
BTW, no such limitaion exists in France - the French president can appoint anyone as minister, they don’t even need to be a French citizen or a residnet in France ! Macron attempted to do this recently but had to back down when the parliament blocked money bills.
