Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
by IncreasePosts on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:52AM
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In that case, can't the next president just illegally imprison Elon or trump or whoever for their entire administration, ignore supreme court rulings or lawsuits or whatever, and then issue themselves a pardon at the end?
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Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
by aredox on Thursday February 20, 2025 @10:59AM
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Yes, and restrict the 2nd amendment by fiat, etc...
But Democrats "play nice" and respect the law. Biden could have ordered Trump assassinated as soon as the Supreme Court invented the new interpretation that puts president on a piedestal, but he was never going to do it.
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
by InsideOutSanta on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:49PM
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But Democrats "play nice" and respect the law.
That's the problem with the argument that Republicans need to be careful about setting precedents that Democrats will then also abuse: no Republican believes that any Democratic president will actually do this. In fact, a lot of Republicans probably don't believe that there will ever be another Democratic president.
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data
by ethagnawl on Thursday February 20, 2025 @12:05PM
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Based on last year's Supreme Court rulings and what Trump/DOGE have gotten away with thus far, it'd seem so. However, democrats insist on wearing kid gloves to a chainsaw massacre, so don't count on anything like that (or, more realistically, within a lesser order of magnitude) ever happening.