[arunabha]

From the article

> Noem also said "there is an increasing trend of replacing legitimate oversight activities with circus-like publicity stunts, all of which creates a chaotic environment with heightened emotions."

Wow, just wow! The sheer brazenness of calling legitimate congressional oversight 'circus-like publicity stunts' is on a whole new level. Apparently, the administration at it's sole discretion can decide that congressional oversight is a 'publicity stunt' and disallow it.

Forget doing what is right for the country. At point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing, except for causes they don't agree with when they cheer on such blatant authoritarian behaviour.

[quantified]

When a future Democrat enters, they'll rally around Democrats being hypocrites if the D's do go that way. Judges could choose that point to say "government overreach has gone too far." You are correct that a precedent is available. I think D's would rather a less totally partisan and authoritative environment so they'll probably steer the other way for the most part but not entirely.

[JumpCrisscross]

> The sheer brazenness of calling legitimate congressional oversight 'circus-like publicity stunts' is on a whole new level

Is it? I feel like the mud slinging has been in vogue for a few decades.

The willful lawbreaking is new. But the rhetoric feels familiar.

> point do the MAGA folks realize that they are enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing

None of them do. (To be fair, administrations have been expanding the Presidenxy since WWII. We never had a Constitutional discussion of strategic nuclear command or a standing superpower’s army.)

My pet projects are shredding federal student loan records, tearing the turbines out of coal plants and ceasing enforcement on tariffs and duties on all imported food on day one.

[nullocator]

Possibly they don't think there will be any future Democrats in the white house because of the work they are doing now.

[sjs382]

> enabling a future Democrat in the White House to do the exact same thing

Assuming there will be a future D in the white house, I don't believe they will do the exact same thing.

I don't think the current administration does either.

[wat10000]

Go look at @DHSgov on Twitter. They’re leaning into the fascist rhetoric. There’s no pretense anymore.

It’s obvious that they don’t plan on a future Democrat ever occupying the White House again.

[SilverElfin]

It is really crazy the kind of things they are posting openly on social media now. I’ve seen them, several times, repeat lines that are mass posted by supremacist accounts on X. The most flagrant one was the call to deport 100 million Americans - a third of the country - which is another way for saying, “get rid of all non white people”. This is a constitutional crisis, a humanitarian crisis in the making, and also an economic crisis in the making. What is going to happen to HN’s tech ecosystem without all those talented workers coming to America?

[tastyface]

HN userbase: doesn’t look like anything to me.

The sad fact is that many of our colleagues, friends, and neighbors have been closeted white supremacists and are actively enjoying this.