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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
x5 Which office specifically? It depends.
Generally the answer is yes. If someone has the authority to create an office, they can cut it too. Those two powers are essentially the same thing in terms of government reorganization.
edited 3rd May '18 4:37:48 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.Trump could strangle a man on live television and get away with it.
He's basically The Caligula at this point and is kept in power by his Evil Chancellors.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.So I just looked over the executive order, and like everything Trump it's half terrifying and half dumb. It looks like it's basically taking a bunch of Bush-era faith outreach programs and combining them into a White House Office with access to the Domestic Policy Council. Basically, it's a spot for one of his friends at the table. He'll probably appoint someone horrific and they can whisper in his ear about policy like the rest of the bunch.
edited 3rd May '18 4:55:43 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.Given what Charlesphipps told us about Kentucky on the previous page, this is relevent: This Democrat thinks she can win in “Trump country” Kentucky
. It's Amy Mc Grath.
I found this quote interesting: "The primary for the Kentucky Sixth essentially boils down to an intraparty debate about how Democrats can best compete in rural, red-leaning districts. It’s made up of the solidly blue city of Lexington, plus 18 other rural counties that lean conservative. The Sixth District has nearly 100,000 more registered Democrats than Republicans, but it’s voted solidly red in numerous past elections. Many counties in the Sixth overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2016, and the Cook Political Report rates the district R+9. Still, Democrats have won in the past; Democratic Rep. Ben Chandler was elected in 2004 and 2010, but was defeated by Barr in 2012."
How to approach potential swing districts is the question of the year, of course.
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.Re: Kentucky
Amy is a good egg.
Famously, she tried to get pot legalized in the state this year and more or less forced the Republicans to do Loophole Abuse. Basically, they're just refusing to take a vote on the subject and delaying over and over again because the entire state (notably, largely farmers) is for it and the Republicans can't break with their Party on it.
A large number of lower level Republicans (or just people with spines) were for it too, forcing the delay to prevent a break in the party.
It going blue would be AMAZING but not impossible.
edited 3rd May '18 5:12:28 PM by CharlesPhipps
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.![]()
It's basically a dedicated evangelical advocate on the Domestic Policy Council. The council only advises the President on policy issues so it doesn't really expand his authority, and the DPO is already heavily religious and Republican. It's just one more terrible human being potentially influencing the president.
edited 3rd May '18 5:11:29 PM by archonspeaks
They should have sent a poet.The Seven Deadly Sins come from a self-insert fanfic, not canon.
edited 3rd May '18 5:29:04 PM by RAlexa21th
Continue writing our story of peace.Hysteria over Jade Helm exercise in Texas was fueled by Russians, former CIA director says [1]
Michael Hayden, speaking on MSNBC’s Morning Joe podcast, chalked up peoples’ fear over Jade Helm 15 to “Russian bots and the American alt-right media [that] convinced many Texans [Jade Helm] was an Obama plan to round up political dissidents.”
Abbott ordered the State Guard to monitor the federal exercise soon after news broke of the operation. Hayden said that move gave Russians the go-ahead to continue — and possibly expand — their efforts to spread fear.
“At that point, I’m figuring the Russians are saying, ‘We can go big time,’” Hayden said of Abbott's response. “At that point, I think they made the decision, ‘We’re going to play in the electoral process.’”
Jade Helm 15 was a planned military training exercise that became a fascination of conspiracy theorists before it even began. The exercise, which spanned several states, began in Texas in Bastrop County in 2015 and was described by federal officials as routine. But some conspiracy theorists speculated that the exercise was a covert effort to institute martial law. Hayden was not CIA director at this time.
Weeks before the exercise began, Abbott wrote a letter to the State Guard asking them to keep an eye on the operation so “Texans know their safety, constitutional rights, private property rights and civil liberties will not be infringed.” In the letter, Abbott added that he had "the utmost respect for the deep patriotism of the brave men and women who put their lives on the line to fight for and defend our freedom."
Yet the move prompted significant criticism. Democrats questioned whether Abbott really trusted the military. Even some Republicans — including former Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst — spoke out in support of the exercise. Former state Rep. Todd Smith accused Abbott of "pandering to idiots."
“I think it’s okay to question your government — I do it on a pretty regular basis," former Gov. Rick Perry, who is now U.S. Energy Secretary, told reporters at the time. "The military's something else."
A spokesperson for Abbott did not immediately return The Texas Tribune’s request for comment Thursday, but Democrats are already seizing on Hayden's remarks to further criticize the governor for calling the State Guard to monitor the operation.
“It doesn’t take an intelligence expert to see that Trump Republican Greg Abbott calling the Texas National Guard on the U.S. Military was downright idiocy,” Manny Garcia, the deputy executive director of the Texas Democratic Party, said in a news release, misidentifying the Texas State Guard. “Abbott still owes the men and women of our armed forces, and every single Texan, an apology.”
edited 3rd May '18 5:45:46 PM by megaeliz

Can a new office be gotten rid of?