I believe that they will treat it as if time stands still only for those rules that they want to avoid violating. Actually, I'm sure of it. They aren't going to stop their own pay and/or keep days running for those things that they want to continue.
See (but no one is going to see) my unpublished novel, Sixty Four Reasons Why Humans Will Never Have a Space-Faring Civilization.
Don't let the bastards dictate their definition of reality on you. It's their words! Either time stands still for them, or it doesn't. Take it from there.Whatever. Enjoy your misunderstanding.
So does this state of emergency apply only selectively? If so where are the boundaries? Only in Washington? Selected states? All the world? Really, this is stupider than trying to legislate state fossils.
So everything that Congress does is covered by this SoE? Or not? Or is each tawdry effort to rip off the US treasury and public exist in a sort of Schrodinger's time-warp, with the clock neither ticking nor tocking until the Trump function collapses the waveform one way or another?
Yet to be evidenced, much less proven. The only thing the Muskrat has done is to fire people who were fulfilling their contractual agreements with the US government, and without warning. What the Rat has done is to show that the US governments faith and credit is worth nothing. Canada, Mexico, Greenland and others are similarly discovering that the States are no longer trustworthy and will fail to live up to agreements at the drop.of a hat.
Agreed, but there are responsible ways to go about that laudable end, and stupid ways. DOGE chose the latter. That's what people object to, not a move towards efficiency and prudent spending.
To Emily's Cat point somewhere around here, there is some level.of logic to say "OK, kids, your budget is being slashed, make due with less", and kind of force streamlining. But I don't see a bureaucracy responding to that like a private business could. A government has a very tight chain of command, and improvising on the fly without approval is not their strong suit by design. That's why I'm a little dumbfounded by the DOGE approach. It pretty much can't work, even in the abstract.
Yeah. When Agent Orange was talking about setting up a DOGE, I thought it might actually be one thing that worked. Any bureaucracy is inefficient by nature, not just our Feds. But that is by design, requiring redundant approvals specifically to prevent fraud and abuses and keep money going where it's supposed to, with multiple offices aware of it.
The work force peaked at 2010 but the population went up. So it is not growing and growing. Seasonal type of tasks are handled by contract. Since the gov't does not make the same type of "product" as other work forces, it is just assumed to be inefficient. Not even the salaries are in any way out of line. People take those jobs if their skills match. Think weather reports.
Dunno about you, but every encounter I have with the Feds seems needlessly slow and laborious and insanely redundant. The IRS is an example we all are pretty much familiar with. In construction, when a government program is involved, the inception level approvals and authorizations and dear God additional costs and calender pages turning is maddening. It doesn't need to be as complicated as it is, and I'm armchair confident the multiple layers of bureaucracy could be pared away to no liability, if restructured prudently.The work force peaked at 2010 but the population went up. So it is not growing and growing. Seasonal type of tasks are handled by contract. Since the gov't does not make the same type of "product" as other work forces, it is just assumed to be inefficient. Not even the salaries are in any way out of line. People take those jobs if their skills match. Think weather reports.
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Chaos is the plan. They're not interested in efficiency, they're interested in elimination.
Right. It's the US Government. It ain't gonna be run like a small business.
Yeah, but I feel like we are not exactly kicking ass in the social stability department. I could stomach a bloated bureaucracy a lot more with single payer health care and living wages, than a bloated bureaucracy with no-account accounting at the Pentagon
To my disappointment, it's looking like it. Maybe, slim chance, Musk will have it sink in that this isn't going as he envisioned, and he gets smarter faster?
I routinely dealt with federal regulations. They were there for a purpose in the drug industry. I did not need to do the paperwork for the feds but the product needed to pass specs. I wrote and rewrote chemical steps till they passed. The specs and bureaucracy are identical to Europe at this point. They have been "harmonized." American bulk drugs manufactured in China follow US FDA rules as well.
Sometimes a corpse appears to be moving and making sounds, it's just gases escaping as decomposition proceeds.
I hope you are right.
Oh, he'll have an election, kinda sorta.
And so did the ones who first voted for Putin, Orban, Chaves, Hitler, etc. etc.
It remains to be seen whether Trump (or rather, his successor) can stop or cook the next election. That will be the true test of whether democracy still exists in the USA or not.
Kinda sorta.
These bullet points have little to do with the definition of democracy. In particular, the 2021 riots did not prevent the transition of power. The existence of groups of ass hole citizens doesn't mean that democracy doesn't exist.
My prediction. Some Democrat does indeed win the White House in 2028, but the US voting public/gerrymandering allows the Republicans to retain control of the Senate or the House of Representatives. Combined with a majority on the Supreme Court they turn it into 4 years where what they are breaking now stays broken and in 2032, with the blame for the mess helpfully pinned on the Democratic president by social media, the Republicans rally round a new MAGA messiah and finish the job.
