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Comment by ModernMech

8 months ago

> It's still not too late to impeach that entire shack of clowns.

The problem is that the people in control of the power to impeach are also picked for being yes men/women. It's yes-men all the way down by design.

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jimbokun  8 months ago

It’s Trump’s one true talent.

He got the Supreme Court and the judiciary leaning his way in his first term. Congress is controlled by either his Republican primary candidates, or Republicans who are too afraid to cross him.

Now he’s purging from the federal branch anyone who is not completely ideologically loyal to him. That is the true purpose of Doge.

  • deepsun  8 months ago

    For years I've been taught that US political system is based on checks and balances. Now I see that just like in any other country it was based on morals of people: voters, elected, and appointed.

  • StackRanker3000  8 months ago

    I’m going to respectfully disagree with you there. Trump’s success as a politician is solely down to three factors.

    Firstly, he has an insatiable desire for attention, admiration, and generally benefitting himself. That’s what causes his drive.

    Secondly, he has no scruples or adheres to any morals or ethics whatsoever, he is completely ruthless. This allows him to do and say whatever serves him the most in any given situation.

    Lastly, he has a specific type of charisma that has purchase with a certain segment of the people.

    That’s is the full extent of it. He has no other skills or useful attributes. Anything else, especially if it’s at all technical or practical, comes from the people he’s surrounded himself with.

    To interact with your point, he’s not even particularly adept at enlisting sycophants. Remember his first administration, when numerous aides and associates had both public and private disagreements with him (as one example out of many, I’ll refer to Rex Tillerson calling him a ”fucking moron”). The reason things are different this time is that another set of people are running the show, and they’ve realized that including old establishment Republicans, that have to at least pretend to be serious members of society, would have been a barrier to their agenda.

    Turning the judiciary red across the country is especially not something you can attribute to Trump. It’s been a systematic effort by the Republicans (and adjacent organizations such as the Heritage Foundation) over the span of decades. He just happened to be in the position to make the appointments.