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66 sats \ 5 replies \ @siggy47 7 Oct \ parent \ on: Bipartisan Blowback After White House Threat to Furloughed Workers’ Back Pay Politics_And_Law
Exactly. 100%
One of the highlights of the Reagan years was firing air traffic controllers who went on strike illegally
Reagan gutted that union
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I remember thinking back in the day that if anyone tried to do what Ron Paul said he would do (shut down most of the federal departments) they would be killed before they could. It happened with Trump. We still don't know much about that topic with Trump but even if it is a lone gunman in both cases the case could be made that Trump is such a threat to the system that these events are organic reactions. Reactions triggered by how afraid the system is of being reformed.
Trump is ridiculously moderate in my opinion. He's a turd in the punch bowl. His changes are not insane at all. If I had the power I'd do MUCH more. I think we underestimate how much the system fights back. People mistakenly think the deep state is some top down thing. I don't buy that. Yeah there are powerful people that do have massive control but organic reactions to change are often underestimated.
We are seeing this in the FDA/CDE and anything with decades of its own politics. RFK isn't politicizing these agencies. He's CHANGING the politics of them. That dude needs to have some amazing security if you ask me.
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Left right and center
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