> want to stop everyone in America from being poisoned and becoming all fucked-up
The preexisting fucked-up: “Noooo this is Eugenics, #LiterallyHitler, a manifesto against the disabled!”
@nyanide @eriner @sun
One side sees batshit insane things, the other doesn't see past the careful wording of high-profile legal experts. That executive order has nothing to do with eugenics of course, but nothing about stopping the poisoning either — it's about creating a new body with functions similar to those of the FDA, and for come reason having the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (wut? 😲) on board.
@nyanide @eriner @sun
I won't call it a power grab per se, but it does look like a move to shift some power away from a well-established (albeit often criticised by Trump supporters) federal agency and to bring more loyal people on board. This means more relaxed checks and balances and more power to the president — those who do not support Trump are perfectly reasonable to be worried in this case IMO 🤷
@sun @nyanide @eriner
Yeah, precisely! On the surface it doesn't look that bad, it even has an obligatory point about not influencing the operation of federal agencies and departments, but AFAIK DOGE was created with a similar executive order and look!
And of course I'm no expert on US government and can't tell how this might unfold, but being Russian I know all too well where this "he means well, but they prevent him from acting, he just needs more power" line of thinking might take 😏
@m0xee @nyanide @sun “checks and balances” lmao. Sir, this is an Executive branch.