On the legality of DOGE
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You’re missing the point. FACA governs external groups staffed by non-governmental employees. Government departments have their own transparency and accountability rules, for what they’re worth.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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I was listening to NPR on the way to haircut this morning. They had some DEI person on who said the Trump EOs won't matter much because it's not really about race and gender, DEI is about a color and gender blind meritocracy. Then she said when you walk into a room or a meeting and look around you'll know whether they have DEI or not.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@jon-nyc said in On the legality of DOGE:
You’re missing the point. FACA governs external groups staffed by non-governmental employees. Government departments have their own transparency and accountability rules, for what they’re worth.
Ok then. The "useful mental exercise" yields a yawn from me, considering we already have a distributed system for the purpose described, all of which have nominal reporting requirements. It would have moved zero needles, but for pundit talking points at the worst, to have a department of DEI with no reporting requirements.
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@Mik said in On the legality of DOGE:
I was listening to NPR on the way to haircut this morning. They had some DEI person on who said the Trump EOs won't matter much because it's not really about race and gender, DEI is about a color and gender blind meritocracy. Then she said when you walk into a room or a meeting and look around you'll know whether they have DEI or not.
DEI is about the opposite of what DEI is about? Is that what the rhetoric of the left has become? Or maybe just that particular pundit.
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@Horace said in On the legality of DOGE:
@jon-nyc said in On the legality of DOGE:
You’re missing the point. FACA governs external groups staffed by non-governmental employees. Government departments have their own transparency and accountability rules, for what they’re worth.
Ok then. The "useful mental exercise" yields a yawn from me, considering we already have a distributed system for the purpose described, all of which have nominal reporting requirements. It would have moved zero needles, but for pundit talking points at the worst, to have a department of DEI with no reporting requirements.
The broader point I was making is that both sides, when their guy is in power, seem to want very few constraints on executive power, forgetting that eventually the office will be occupied by someone they wish were more constrained. It’s useful to imagine some alternative scenario where the other is in the office so you can be careful why you wish for.
You may want Trump to be able to coerce states into doing his bidding by withholding highway funds. But do you president AOC to be able to do that? No? Ok then, be thankful that’s not allowed.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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@jon-nyc said in On the legality of DOGE:
@Horace said in On the legality of DOGE:
@jon-nyc said in On the legality of DOGE:
You’re missing the point. FACA governs external groups staffed by non-governmental employees. Government departments have their own transparency and accountability rules, for what they’re worth.
Ok then. The "useful mental exercise" yields a yawn from me, considering we already have a distributed system for the purpose described, all of which have nominal reporting requirements. It would have moved zero needles, but for pundit talking points at the worst, to have a department of DEI with no reporting requirements.
The broader point I was making is that both sides, when their guy is in power, seem to want very few constraints on executive power, forgetting that eventually the office will be occupied by someone they wish were more constrained. It’s useful to imagine some alternative scenario where the other is in the office so you can be careful why you wish for.
You may want Trump to be able to coerce states into doing his bidding by withholding highway funds. But do you president AOC to be able to do that? No? Ok then, be thankful that’s not allowed.
I can't speak for everybody else here, but I'm familiar with basic principles of critical thought. I'm pretty sure everybody else is too. Remember the drumbeat about what all the lawfare against Trump might mean when the shoe is on the other foot? That would be an application of this principle.
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Trump already tweeted out a constitutional change and it’s just as worthless as the one Biden tweeted out.
When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in On the legality of DOGE:
Let's see what the courts say about "subject to the jurisdiction thereof".
It will be an interesting argument.
That's about as interesting as saying let's see what the courts say about "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State ..."
