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— raised questions about national security gaps from one administration to the other that may have contributed to the U.S. being underprepared for the September 11 attacks the following year.
The “36-day delay cut in half the normal transition period,” which constituted a “loss of time that hampered the new administration in identifying, recruiting, clearing and obtaining Senate confirmation of key appointees” the commission’s report stated in 2004.
It also talks about congress critters needing to vote on appointees who have not--and cannot be--properly vetted.
No, #45 wants to make recess appointments.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/newswire/pay-play-trump-delays-signing-presidental-transition-documents-keep-political-bribes-secret/
CelestialSea
Yes, I'm sure that was more relevant than Georgie getting intel reports of an urgent nature and saying, "Yeah, but it's summer time, I wanna go out and play!" So they ignored them for months.
VinnyVeritas
Listen to what I say (FFS don't watch what I actually do)
walnutbreath
Even if he signed it, I still would refuse to work with his transition team one bit. I'd also make sure to leave a ticking bomb like Trump did with Afghanistan. Maybe put U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine or something else which will be impossible to unfuck.
But Biden won't do any of that because he's a weak ass bitch who'd rather pretend the last 30 years of GOP bullshit hasn't happened then give them even an iota of it back.
dontrike
Why? Even if he signed it he wouldn't show that shit anyway.
UnluckyLunkhead
Recess appointments allows the rapist to directly appoint another criminal into a cabinet position without Congress having a say for two years. He's starting as he intends to continue.
Birdnose
wait…. Trump is corrupt ?
nimeton0
EstellaOsoka
At this point fuck all of the politicians. The GOP for doing it and the Dems for sitting to the side and letting it happen. Biden still has all his presidential powers and could use them if he wanted, but he doesn't; so everything that happens makes him and his party complicit by default.
ANightAtTheCocksbury
You could give them double the normal transition time and they wouldn't do it well anyway. They don't care. National security, continuity of government programs, none of it matters to them. That is not the stuff they came here to do.
isszuSparkleBandit
Calling bs. He's untouchable why would he care?
KAPTKipper
Don't call him 45, call him the Crook
fartharder
See, if he'd collected them after the fact he could say they were tips
nation543
It's all a money grift, as it always was and will always be. They give him money, he makes executive orders that give them even more money (and possibly hurt/kill people). There's no loss in it for them - because he's POTUS, and he can do what he wants.
crossingdynasty
I’m surprised he doesn’t just sign them, I mean - why not? He’s already proven the law won’t stop him.
cytherians
If you have Trump sit down to play a game with you and you explain the rules, the very first thing he thinks of is "how can I break the rules?"
Trump loves to jam things up. Make a mess. Create tension. Elicit conflict. That's what he lives for. He most definitely has a "Rules for thee, but not for me" mentality.
RockKickass
We’ll see these stories for 4 years
DJOldguy
No we won't, how long do you think the 1st Amendment is going to remain in place? Project 2025 has outlined a complete plan to subvert it, and that is what we are facing today.
RockKickass
I’m “trying” to be as optimistic as I can be. I don’t see the people that voted for him to make things better putting up with a wrecked economy, bad response to whatever crises takes place and unemployment across the board. If it gets as bad as I think it will either senators will impeach or they’ll be voted out for senators that will. He’s got a much better chance if we give up, which I don’t intend to do
MacAlba1314
LuminoZero
Will there be consequences? No? Then why should we care?
BloodLoveRhetoric
There won't be legal consequences, but practical ones. Without the transition documents, incoming staff will not get vital briefings and trainings. They'll be crippled for months while they figure out basic shit.
Cytos
It's a lot harder to seize power during times of peace. Just sayin'...
Tumescentpie
Seems pretty easy. The dems are rolling over for him.
bory513
So there is an admission fee for the swamp
trippingthelightfantastic
ArthurT
He thinks that getting more convictions this term, than the record setting number of convictions will aid in the prison lobby access. His lawyer, his fixer called him "A liar, a cheat and a con."/
ArthurT
This is the cheat part, and the con part. Let him hang by his balls for it.
rubypilgrim
#45 wants to demolish democracy and the US federal government. His Supreme Court said he can do whatever the fuck he wants as president.
cytherians
Sadly... this is true.
He doesn't just want to bend US democracy to his will... he wants to be savage. He's angry that anyone tried to hold him accountable. He wants to have Jack Smith put on trial. He wants anyone who participated in the Jan 6th Select Committee (which he childishly called the "Unselect Committee") to be thrown in prison. He wants to take away any and all communications licenses from news outlets he hates.
He's going to Make America Weaker Again
sadurdaynight
Wreck the economy, push all the paycheck to paycheck folks to riot in the street. Declare martial law. Open up all those wonderful war time powers he was hoping to get last time, sick the military on the citizens. And then never give power back.
MenloPart
I guess that answers what he will do about the homeless.
TogepiSnow
"the FBI cannot screen his rush of picks for the Cabinet and other key posts."
I'm pretty sure this is the reason
cytherians
Just because someone gets a cabinet position should not make them exempt from the rules. No person appointed to top positions should get FBI investigation exceptions.
TogepiSnow
I agree, just quoting the article.
Trump might not give the FBI enough time and then pull some other shenanigans
cytherians
Yes, I was also just speaking in general. Trump is obsessed with putting extreme loyalists in all important positions. He doesn't care if they don't know how to do the job. He figures they can just fudge it. That people beneath will just bear the burden. The top person is a hollow figurehead that says "YES" to Trump under all circumstances.
I still can't believe how stupid our population is... that people didn't understand the consequences of putting this lunatic back into the White House.
MenloPart
They plan on firing all of the competent underlings.
dafrey
He should get access to *nothing* until he signs. He should also be arrested for negotiations with foreign countries immediately. Too bad Biden has no spine, I'll miss the good he did for us that's about to be undone
cytherians
Biden's biggest mistake was not understanding that the problem doesn't begin and end with Trump. It's the whole Republican party. They want to take a wrecking ball to the US constitution. No, Biden still thought bipartisanship was alive. It's dead.
The SCOTUS gave the POTUS more power. Biden should freaking use it. But he won't...
MenloPart
President Biden would need take a wrecking ball to the Supremes, every republican in power, etc., and then we would have a dictator even earlier.
DarkRedCape
It’s not just Biden, it’s the whole Democratic Party. It drives me fucking insane that they always want to play by the rules when the other side has openly abandoned the rule book.
meskarune
Now you get why republicans like trump
Hatsodoom
It is my belief that rules are to be discarded or changed if they are actively preventing you from doing what the rules were made to do. The motive behind the rule is paramount.
EmeRgencyDrD
Its almost like the two party's are in cahoots, but that cant be according to this site.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
This might disturb you but you just saw people agree with what you just said on this site that supposedly doesn't have this point of view on this site.
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
Believing in the rule of law is what makes one side the good guys.
ThatGuyInTheMountains
Being the good guys is a shitty thing to be when you're being oppressed. Have to become ruthless and angry. Lots of people are done being good guys when the bad guys are trying to steal everything from them. And as someone pointed out, following the law can make you a terrible person aka slavery.
Hextator
slavery was legal
porcinechoirmaster
Following rules when your opposition is not following rules *and* you're not enforcing them on your opposition doesn't make you moral, it makes you a fucking idiot.
Consider the war metaphor: Two parties have a disagreement. One party wants to have a discussion about it, and the other party pulls out a gun and shoots the first party. It doesn't matter that the first party wanted a discussion; the second party wanted violence, and so there is violence.
thepeenisbehindthetrenchcoat
The entire lot of these cunts will never let us see how the political sausage is made, even tho we all know its loaded with ecoli & cancer.
freakdiablo
All I can think of is a toddler caught with chocolate on their face. "Did you eat the candy?" "Nooo..." "You're holding the wrapper." "But you didn't see me eating it."
cytherians
The 3 separate but equal branches is an immense inconvenience for Republican plans. Particularly Project 2025 that Trump had emphatically disavowed knowing anything about and actually said it's all some radical brainstorming stuff... until now. Well, now he thinks it's all a great idea. Yeah, he's a damned liar. He made that perfectly clear before. For people to vote him back into office... shows how the USA is truly f'ed up.
MenloPart
Dictators don't need Supremes and he doesn't want a congress, either.
Goldensands
Drumpf could take a shit on live TV, proclaim it his official political views and tell you americans to eat it. You'd be loud for a half week then bk at the grind shouting usa usa
thepeenisbehindthetrenchcoat
That's what we do here. We eat our shit sandwiches like we're told to do. What flavor nationality shit sandwich are you eating these days my friend.
Goldensands
None, tyvm. It is perfectly possible.
thepeenisbehindthetrenchcoat
Oh wow, where can this utopian hoagie possibly be?
Goldensands
Someone's not been outside the US huh? There are many countries who's culture don't glorify stupidity nor revere wealth and fame. Places that value welfare, education and public health. The shithole reality of america and its fascist future is not somehow an inescapable norm, that's nothing but a copium vape with a defeatist flavouring.