Month Eight: Crashing Out Over A Podcaster

[Tyche]

If you think Dems are gonna roll over and not replace the hired lackeys that are supposed to be non-political executive appointees, you're fucking insane. Someone like Newsome is not gonna keep Kash Patel, who is serving a 10 year term, as Biden kept Wray.


Not. Fucking. Happening.

0% chance.

[Tyche]

I mean, the EOs will be gone within the first week. That's not even norm breaking. But a Democrat will absolutely destroy every norm they previously held to get rid of a sycophant.

Most of this shit is being done outside of the legislative branch. It'll get rolled back the same way.

[Tyrath]

If you think Dems are gonna roll over and not replace the hired lackeys that are supposed to be non-political executive appointees, you're fucking insane. Someone like Newsome is not gonna keep Kash Patel, who is serving a 10 year term, as Biden kept Wray.


Not. Fucking. Happening.

0% chance.

That is not the same thing as all the media censorship the current admin is doing.

[Tyrath]

Also you're funny if you think Kash Patel is gonna make it to the end of Trump's term.

[Obsidian]

Curious how Tyche expects a Dem President to fix the Supreme Court being currently filled with Republicans who never die.

[Tymon]

Kash is really lucky that the Kirk murder happened when it did. It's giving him a ton of cover, which he desperately needs right now given he is testifying in front of Congress this week that there not only is no Epstein list, but that Epstein himself may have been innocent.

[Mertron]

if a democrat does win the presidency next (i say if because trump and republicans are still actively working to rig the next election, don’t forget), the supreme court has already ruled that the president can fire federal appointments without cause

sure they’ll probably all change their votes real quick once a democrat is in office, but if the next president has any balls, they would use all these shitty rulings to their favor before they can. the president can just move money around without congressional approval? cool. there goes ICE funding, let’s put it right back into education

[Tymon]

Curious how Tyche expects a Dem President to fix the Supreme Court being currently filled with Republicans who never die.

Well, if we're going off of the hypothetical "fuck the norms" then you nuke the filibuster day 1 and pack the court with an arbitrary number of liberal judges.

People have been screaming for a Democrat president to do that for my entire adult life.

[Mertron]

this of course assumes the next dem president (again, if we get one) doesn’t just shrug their shoulders and say “but my norms”

[Mertron]

Well, if we're going off of the hypothetical "fuck the norms" then you nuke the filibuster day 1 and pack the court with an arbitrary number of liberal judges.

People have been screaming for a Democrat president to do that for my entire adult life.

just say “the supreme court has ruled that the president can fire federal appointments without congressional approval and without cause” and just tell whoever they replace thomas and alito with that they can kick rocks

[Tymon]

Or since the President is immune for official acts he could just kill them all but hey we're splitting hairs here

[Mertron]

just let me be president I’ll take care of it

[Tyche]

That is not the same thing as all the media censorship the current admin is doing.

FCC chair is an executive appointee. The ONLY reason they're able to do what they're doing is because they're extorting their wants for various FCC approvals.

That is clearly an executive function that can be done and undone until some media station grows balls and takes it to court.

[Dimmauk]

Do we not go through this scenario literally every single time. If dems get back in, not a god damn thing changes.

Surely, THIS time is different. Said every other time.

Weird because it seems like the cycle is Republicans fuck up the economy and the Democrats fix it, and rinse and repeat. Its been like this since the 80s

[Sirious]

It's not weird. That's the norm. And will continue to be the norm. Dems won't break from the standards and best practices.

They'll never get the chance, but if they did, they wouldn't anyway.

[Lucavi]

Also you're funny if you think Kash Patel is gonna make it to the end of Trump's term.

I feel like he's going to croak from chronic dehydration from all the nervous sweating he's doing, lying out of his skivvies and knowing that the hammer of justice WILL fall on him someday, because he's brown and will NEVER be accepted by - or protected by - the people he's bootlicking for.

Look at his eyes: its the expression of a perpetually-fearful man who knows he's in over his head and out of his depth.

[Meresgi]

I feel incredibly confident that this administration will destroy those norms. Dems have no choice, they'll have to abandon the party politics of the past to simply BEGIN to reverse the damage caused in the next 3 years.

They wont, 100% they won't. After 2016 we talked about "Trump broke all the norms, once dems come back they'll patch things up, use these broken norms for our benefit" and.....they didn't do shit like that.

[Tyche]

They wont, 100% they won't. After 2016 we talked about "Trump broke all the norms, once dems come back they'll patch things up, use these broken norms for our benefit" and.....they didn't do shit like that.

Ummm? He rejoined Paris climate. Renewed some Medicaid enrollment deadline extensions, DACA, ended that 1776 commission. He put together a ton of DEI initiatives, levied sanctions against Israeli settlers in West Bank. Stopped.bjilding the wall.

Like, come the fuck on guys. This illusion Dems do nothing instead of doing too little is overplayed. Do they do enough? No. Do they do nothing? Also no.

[Anoat]

I'm reading that Kimmel's contract expires in May 2026, and he gets paid regardless whether the show airs or not. His staff though, they aren't as lucky. Kimmel already stated in 2022 before renewing his deal that he was contemplating retirement, so he may just ride off into the sunset. Or HBO or something.

[Sirious]

You're conflating doing things we expect them to do and breaking norms.