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Cheezoholic

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Mon Jun 29, 2026, 02:01 PM Jun 29

IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND!! SCOTUS says the Executive can now fire nearly the ENTIRE GOVERNMENT at will. [View all]

The chaos this is going to cause is insane. They tossed an "apparent" bone in by keeping the Fed independent. Why? To protect those that are buying the court $500k RV's, taking them on extravagant world tours in private jets and to protect their own bottom lines because make no mistake, the conservatives on this court are rich as hell and getting richer (you can hide money everywhere these days).

This SCOTUS, with this ruling, gives the Executive the power to dismantle any and all (except the Fed) agencies created by Congress over the last 80 years. The FDA, NOAA, NSF, EPA pick your acronym. If a Democrat wins in '28 reverse all of his appointees or fill his vacancies? Sure, but as soon a s a repuke gets elected they get flipped again. From the agency head to the janitors if they so desire WITHOUT CAUSE!! More power than any head of any business in this country over their company's employee's!!

By enabling this potential for constant flip flopping in these agencies they lose any regulatory power, any teeth, they had. This fulfills Projekts '25's goal of dismantling the entire federal regulatory, education, science and research, environmental labor, banking, I could go on. It's EVERYTHING!! Congress just got pushed to the side. Congress was meant to be the peoples voice to counter the Executive, to check the Executive, to prevent a King and a high Supreme Court of Kings from ruling. This was done to TAKE AWAY POWER FROM A PROBABLE INCOMING DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY IN CONGRESS!! As Sotomayor said in her searing dissent, this is a power even the Crown didn't have. I cant tell you how devastating this going to be.


This single ruling has possibly, probably pushed us off the cliff of Democracy into a pit of authoritarianism. We better hope theres a thin branch poking out on the way down to grab ahold of or it's over. The peoples check on the Executive was just gutted.

Your fired will be the words that finally take this country down to the joy of every Jerry Springer era child in this country. It may be fucking over people. Revolution is starting to look like the only answer IMHO.


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Jim Crow John Roberts and His Antebellum Five strike again... appmanga Jun 29 #1
Disgusting, anti Democracy, and anti Constitutional Joinfortmill Jun 29 #16
Fall of Rome II The Madcap Jun 29 #2
It was always going to. ananda Jun 29 #3
SO, as a kid watching TV, I thought quicksand was going to be a big problem.... Bettie Jun 29 #4
You like Jon Mulaney? mr715 Jun 29 #15
Yes, I do like him and there were so many things Bettie Jun 29 #19
There is a horse in a hospital!! mr715 Jun 29 #20
That is literally what my DH and oldest son say to me Bettie Jun 29 #21
this train is speeding off the tracks SamuelTheThird Jun 29 #5
I sincerely believed this is aimed at taking power away from a probable incoming Democratic Congress Cheezoholic Jun 29 #7
President MUST do the firing - In Person - See shitstain slink away cause it can not deal with one on one interactions dave99 Jun 29 #6
I don't believe that is what the ruling says Fiendish Thingy Jun 29 #8
The court being expanded in 29 is extremely unlikely SamuelTheThird Jun 29 #9
I count nearly 40 "independent" agencies. Sounds pretty all encompassing to me....... Cheezoholic Jun 29 #10
Any department with a cabinet secretary is not an independent agency Fiendish Thingy Jun 29 #11
Of course and those are NOT what was in question here. What was in question were 2 things Cheezoholic Jun 29 #13
Like I said... Fiendish Thingy Jun 29 #23
This is the issue... appmanga Jun 29 #24
John Tyler spoke the best about this ITAL Jun 29 #12
Thank you for this. Joinfortmill Jun 29 #17
This is a very dangerous and far-reaching decision. SCOTUS out of control. Martin68 Jun 29 #14
maybe the next democratic president can fire the drumpf supreme court picks + clrence. pansypoo53219 Jun 29 #18
The billionaire robber barons are making the same mistake robber barons have PatrickforB Jun 29 #22
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