Trump says on Joe Rogan podcast his biggest White House mistake was hiring ‘disloyal people’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/trump-joe-rogan-podcast?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
@realTuckFrumper
The fact is the only thing that saved us the first time was the few loyal, (loyal to their oath to protect the country and respect the constitution), folks that did the job we hired them to do.
The #GOP has made it clear that they are working hard to make sure that there is no one to save us the next time.
The #conservative are planning nothing less than the complete destruction of the institution of #democracy. The people will have no say in how to regulate the big corps.
@mral No, that's not how the federal government functions.
It was specifically set up to not have to rely on a few loyal folks. In fact it was set up with the assumption that people would not be particularly loyal, the checks and balances and the different branches of governments were set up so that personal incentives would have people reject others when they started trying to take more power than they had.
No, it's not about loyalty and it's critical to understand that if you want to understand current events.
The US government was designed specifically to keep disloyal people in check, and we saw that play out.
@mral except we don't.
Just to be real concrete, the two leading candidates for president, Trump and Harris, both of them have been promising to violate the rules. Both of them talk about doing illegal things. And yet they are the two leading candidates.
So no, it's not only a question of if they don't follow our rules we fire them, we go farther, we hire people to not follow our rules.
And in the end, that's okay because the government was specifically designed with full knowledge that the individuals that we hire will be jerks who don't want to follow the rules.
That's the entire point of checks and balances, and Hamilton laid that out for us.
@volkris @realTuckFrumper
You might be confusing the issue of loyalty to the country and the constitution with loyalty to a person.
It is critical that we understand the difference.
We are in a battle between the people and the #bigCorps; that is democracy and control by central committees.
We need to stop thinking of it as the people against the government. It is not "the government", it is "our government" we hire folks to operate OUR government.
If they dont follow our rules we fire them.