…not imprisoned at The Hague?
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Because that would make it rather inconvenient for Biden to take “sage, wise” advice from him.
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With Dick Cheney? and Colin Powell? and
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Yup. No more of this playing nice crap. Live by the sword, die by the sword. They need to get canned at 12:01 pm on January 20th.
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That’s a bad metric for measuring how long somebody stayed in a job.
Scaramucci was out again about 10 days or so before he was supposed to start in his WH job.
President William Henry Harrison stayed in office for 31 days, now there is a metric for political jobs in DC.
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That would be tricky since Erik Prince’s Chinese-funded Hong Kong company already has mercenary contracts in Africa with China.
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That said, how many Harrisons left of life do you think Lord Dampnut has left in him? When friends keep talking about how he might run in four years, yada yada yada… I have to keep reminding them, look, he’s not immortal and he’s in terrible health. Do you think he’s like Palpatine or something? The guy isn’t going to live forever.
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I put €20 on “massive stroke while taking a dump”, but that was almost a year ago, so who knows…
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Even if they were appointed for political reasons? Ridiculous.
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Like I said abundant grounds to do so even before they start the job. .
I also don’t think these people have their shit together enough to pull it off in the first place. Provided they attempt it and actually get anywhere they’ll probably do it improperly and it won’t end up mattering.
Well that’s the trick. Career civil servants aren’t appointed and their positions aren’t political offices. They pass the civil service test and work their way up.
So if you turn your political appointments into career path civil service jobs…
That’s of course reliant on no one trying to do anything about it, these people not meeting any of the requirements for firing civil servants for non political reasons. And the idea that there aren’t other ways to get rid of them besides firing. Like say prosecutions.
I’m not worried about it honestly. According to the reporting it’s just what the administration is attempting to. Supposedly to hamstring Biden and the Democrats. Personally I think it’s more about keeping the gravy train flowing, and styming eventual investigations.
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I don’t see how an Executive Order, by nature, can turn political appointees into career civil servants into the next administration. By their nature, Executive Orders (and all their results) can be overturned by the next President.
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What they seem to be doing is improperly hiring former political appointees and campaign functionaries to existing or newly created positions. Then eliminating the appointment positions or leaving them vacant.
While I know an actual coup is a really fucking long shot by Cadet Bonespurs, it’s not out of the realm of possibility. Just because the attempt seems laughable doesn’t mean it can’t work, especially if the goal is just chaos and doubt. All coups seem laughable until they succeed.
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It sucks, they’re annoying, they’re fuckheads, they’re doing damage… but… it can all be undone in a month and a half, and will be. Republicans are always trying to hamstring the Democrats, but Democrats always clean up the mess and fix things. Republicans are the biggest mess makers. That’s all they do: make a mess of the economy, the government, the law, the social structure, the world, the land, sea and air, near-earth orbit… and we have to come in behind them and clean it all up for next time.
Papa’s tired.
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The USA don’t subscribe to the Treaty of Rome, which established the International Criminal Court (the The-Hague-based body in charge of investigating, prosecuting, and adjudicating purported war crimes).
In fact, 22 USC 7427, affectionately called the “The Hague Invasion Act”, basically gives blanket authority to POTUS to use “all means necessary and appropriate” to free any US personnel detained by the ICC.
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Aww, shush. It’s not a war crime when American troops do it - they are The Good GuysTM!
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