cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/8171943
Bear with the slightly extreme wording of the copy-paste below from Reddit - it’s actually very similar energy to the actual Executive Order if you want to read the direct source instead.
This Executive Order does the following:
❧ All federal agencies, including independent regulatory commissions, are now subject to direct White House control.
❧ Regulations cannot be issued without presidential approval.
❧ The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) can now withhold funding from independent agencies if they don’t align with White House priorities.
❧ All federal employees must follow the President’s and Attorney General’s interpretation of the law, eliminating legal independence.
❧ A White House Liaison is to be installed in every independent regulatory agency to enforce direct presidential control.
⚠️ This is the biggest executive power grab in U.S. history. ⚠️
This formally ends the concept of an “independent” regulatory agency, dismantling one of the last barriers to absolute executive power.
📍 This order effectively erases the last major restraints on executive power. 📍 The federal government no longer operates with checks and balances. 📍 Regulations and laws are now dictated solely by the President. 📍 If left unchecked, this is the moment the U.S. ceases to function as a democratic republic.
1️⃣ The President Now Controls All Regulatory Agencies
✅ The SEC, FTC, FCC, and FEC are no longer independent.
The Stock Market is now subject to White House control, enabling insider trading, favoritism, and targeting of political opponents. Antitrust laws can be selectively enforced, allowing administration-friendly monopolies to expand unchecked. Political opponents in the tech sector, media, or finance can be targeted with regulatory action while allies are protected. Elections are now influenced by direct White House oversight of the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
✅ The FDA, EPA, and consumer protection agencies are fully politicized.
Drug approvals, food safety regulations, and environmental policies can be rewritten for political or corporate interests. Climate change regulations can be erased overnight. Scientific research is now subject to White House approval before public release.
🚨 Implication: There is no longer any neutral enforcement of economic, environmental, or election laws. Everything is now dictated by political loyalty.
2️⃣ The White House Can Block Agency Budgets or Direct Funds Elsewhere
✅ The OMB can now adjust funding allocations for independent agencies.
This gives the President the power to defund agencies without needing Congress. Regulatory agencies that challenge presidential policies will be quietly strangled of resources. Agencies loyal to the President will receive full funding—even illegally. 🚨 Implication: Congress no longer controls federal spending on regulatory enforcement. The executive branch can choke out opposition agencies and reward allies.
3️⃣ The President & Attorney General Have Final Say on All Legal Interpretations ✅ All federal employees must follow White House interpretations of the law.
The Attorney General’s opinions override agency lawyers, inspectors general, and independent counsel. Agencies cannot adopt their own interpretations of legal statutes—everything must align with the President’s views. The President can rewrite federal legal interpretations overnight. 🚨 Implication: Legal consistency is gone. Agencies cannot push back against corrupt, illegal, or unconstitutional directives because the President’s interpretation is the only interpretation allowed.
4️⃣ Installing White House Liaisons in All Regulatory Agencies ✅ A “White House Liaison” will be placed in every independent agency.
This ensures constant presidential oversight of daily operations. These liaisons will report agency actions back to the White House and enforce political compliance. Agency directors will no longer have the ability to act without White House approval.
🚨 Implication: There is now a direct enforcement arm inside every regulatory body. Even agencies that resist presidential control will be internally monitored and controlled.
📍 Every regulatory body—from financial markets to environmental protections—is now politicized. 📍 Congress no longer controls federal funding—agencies must obey the White House or risk defunding. 📍 The President’s legal interpretations override all agency autonomy, eliminating independent enforcement of federal laws. 📍 The federal bureaucracy, once designed to be resistant to corruption, is now completely subject to presidential loyalty.
Can’t happen unless others let it happen
Those who have the power to actually do anything about it are letting it happen.
It’s already happening.
So it will totally happen? 😅
Looking at congress…sobbing
More commonly known as a dictatorship.
Thanks for the summation.
Just like playbook of communists of russia 😂 I wonder how reps are going to tell this for themselves? US has become 47th oblast of russia. Nice, two hundred years of democracy ruined just in two months.
I think you are correct. Especially the thing about “liaisons,” reminds me of the political officers in the Soviet Union. They were the pillars of a reign of terror.
Hey I saw this in a movie.
The citizens did not have a good time, and (spoilers) >!it didn’t end well for the president or his staff either.!<
I think about this movie on a daily basis. I’m fucking scared. I don’t know what else to say.
Lol “potentially”? Dude, it’s happening undefended. There’s no “potentially.” It’s here.
the Enabling Act already?
Well, when the IRS says I owe taxes, I’m going to ask to see the notes that Trump used to work that out.
Back to monarchy!
We ran out of noble blue blood. You get greedy-green blood, dollar tree discount “royals”. Sorry!
LOL, this is going to get tossed out by the courts as quickly as the funding freeze was.
Putting “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered” in front of something unconstitutional doesn’t magically make it constitutional.
LOL, this is going to get tossed out by the courts as quickly as the funding freeze was.
You still believe in something, huh?
The alternative is to feign cynicism while surrendering.
“Nothing can be done, the courts can’t do anything, we should just stop trying” is actively harmful in this situation.
"The courts can do something’ is a bigger barrier to effective action than doomerism, especially if it isn’t true
‘If it isn’t true’ has yet to be determined.
Until then, we support the system and power structures that are part of our country and call out the people who violate the rules.
We don’t just say ‘oh obviously the system doesn’t work anymore’, that’s accepting the framing of the enemy and surrendering.
The system does work, it works perfectly for the rich. This country had a bunch of rules protecting free speech, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, etc., and now those are being taken away. And your proposal is to let the enemy change the rules, while following the rules, and hope that, what?
My proposal is to organize for resistance, which is how workers and everyday Americans got these rights in the first place. The extent that idealism prevents your action is the extent to which the enemy has already dominated your thinking. We live in a real world of real consequences, and no one is coming to save us.
“Just let it happen and hope it isn’t too bad” is literally what they want. Regardless of how you voted, you are vocally signed on to the trump/musk agenda because they know people have these illusions about politics. So good luck with that, I’ll be organizing resistance, even if it becomes illegal to do so.
Laws which make peaceful resistance impossible make violent resistance inevitable. Which is also what they want. So we will need a little more political education than what we learned in a week in high school about checks and balances or whatever mythological lies the rich tell to stay in power.
I can’t even make an exaggerated joke here about trusting the checks and balances because this is as crazy as it gets
It’s blatantly illegal and unconstitutional. The courts will order them to stop, and those court orders will be ignored.
It’s funny that the supreme court didn’t consider that consequence of telling the president that he’s immune to the courts.
Yeah… they definitely didn’t consider this happening. Certainly wasn’t the plan /s
The funny thing is they said he was immune to all courts except the supreme Court.
One of the primary roles of the Chief Justice is to guide the court to make decisions that project the illusion of power without being easily challenged by the executive.
Throwing out a case is easier than compelling a bureaucrat to act, for instance. Giving a state friendly to a decision permission to act is more effective than telling a hostile state to undo a sweeping change.
The power of the appeals court is most visible when it gives an individual or agency or business permission to do something they were trying to do anyway.
those court orders will be ignored.
What happened with the funding freeze, though? And birthright citizenship? And the DOT incursion?
More importantly, why is everyone just ignoring that the judiciary is, in fact, doing a pretty good job of reversing these power grabs?
As I understand it, the funding is still mostly frozen, they just deny that what they are doing is violating the court orders.
And they are going to appeal birthright citizenship all the way to the Supreme Court, but how much that decision even matters will depend on just how much due process people get before being shipped off to gitmo.
Not sure what the latest is on the DoT situation. But the overall trend of taking over agencies, shutting down operations, firing people and accessing restricted data has mostly been happening fast enough that the courts can’t prevent it, they can only tell them to fix it after the fact.
I’m not trying to shit on the courts. It’s vital that they keep pushing back and keep applying the law. The problem is that they can only do so much if the executive branch won’t cooperate. They are dealing with an administration that is hostile to the very notion of the rule of law, and which is dismantling every mechanism that exists to keep them honest and accountable. Trying to apply the law to Trump has always been like nailing jelly to the wall. And that was before he was declared above the law by the Supreme Court, before the purging of anyone with a shred of ethics at the DoJ, and before declaring that he and his AG have the sole power to interpret law in the executive branch (which would of course include decisions about what it means to comply with a court order).
Like trump gives a fuck what happens in the courts at this point. He’s just going to do it. The scotus gave him ultimate power and they are so busy sucking his balls dry they won’t stop this. Not to mention all the lower courts where the path is being set to replace all the judges with his loyal subjects.
That doesn’t matter. The only reason the law has the ability to stop anyone from doing anything is that if you refuse for long enough, eventually, someone will show up with a gun to force the issue. If he knows that won’t happen, he can act with impunity.
They can make their decision, but who will enforce it?
Ultimately we the people
Exactly. If you tell me the law isn’t respected then it’s bullets on the battlefield
Or just cops at the door.
The only department Trump seems to respect is DHS. Republicans and Dems alike have been cranking up the police state since Nixon.
Even then, he’s expecting a lot of big red states to buy in. This isn’t a country you can run directly out of DC. You need a large network of regional allies to project power that does anything.
Imposing tariffs at the scale he’s advocating means tens of thousands of inspectors and bureaucrats towing the line. It’s not something you can do with an EO in between golf games.
Sure, just like I heard about Roe v. Wade. Just like I heard would happen if Trump started creating concentration camps.
How? They have the military. Our cute little guns and hunting rifles won’t do shit.
Guess you should just roll over dead then huh
Exactly as expected and foretold.
Yeah, as of Feb. 12 2025 no U.S. federal body can be accepted as credible. All information flowing from the CDC, department of education, energy, health and human services, EPA, FDIC, DOJ and on and on and on. All federal bodies should be IGNORED until credibility is returned.
All of the employees should just go home at this point and let it all collapse so the courts and legislature are forced to act.
All federal bodies should be IGNORED until credibility is returned.
Sounds of planes crashing into one another
I mean why imagine? It’s already happening
I never expected a country like the US to become a Nazi state. I’m amazed the American people aren’t more out raged.
There is no “American people” ideologically. We’re very much a nation at war with itself. Not enough of the decent people voted, so the assholes won control of the government.
Really? I feel like the writing has been on the wall for quite some time.
The Nazis took many notes from the Race Science and White Supremacy of America
https://www.democracynow.org/2020/8/12/caste_isabel_wilkerson
Ford Motor Company was the primary vector for distribution of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
The company was flush with 19th century Groypers.
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The Americans, in ww2 times LOVED nazis. They supplied stuff to nazi Germany. The only reason they got involved is because of Hawaii.
Eh… We got involved to back our friends in Britian and France. FDR had been Lend-Leasing our Navy on the cheap and blockading German sea traffic years before Pearl Harbor.
Japan bombed Hawaii to discourage the US from continuing support to the KMT in China and Taiwan. Also necessary prior to inseating McArthur from the big US base in the Philippines and prevent any reprisal for the Japanese invasion of Vietnam.
That’s not why the US got involved
It’s only words on paper…until they read the words. Something will happen…soon
Yeah but like Poland shouldn’t have started a war with Germany
I was thinking more along the lines of Franco, Pinochet, Park, Barista, or Noriega, tbh.
How far away are we from a DOGE Team breaking into the IRS and just machine gunning all the computers like the Chilean military did with Cybersyn?
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Can you explain some steps you have taken to prepare?
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Yeah man, since the 2nd term, I have been so motivated to raise my physical baseline. Thanks for the feedback. Are there any essential items/supplies you feel are critical that you have acquired?
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Stock up on canned goods and other non perishable foods. Try to have at minimum 3 months but that won’t be realistic for everyone. If you haven’t already armed yourselves do it yesterday. Practice until you are sick of practicing. Have planned places to meet in case of events. Have a community plan that does not involve cell phones if you can. Teach your community how to do these things.
Even that appears to have more credibility, as it was voted on by the representatives. Not saying the people wanted it… Just that it wasn’t 1 man demanding it
Wolf-PAC, we might need that constitutional convention sooner rather than later…
https://www.gregabbott.com/texasplan/
Governor Greg Abbott Calls for an Article V Convention of States to restore our Constitution
Fucking Greg Abbott of all people…
This makes me highly suspicious of it. I think it could be a good idea, but I do not trust him as far as he can run.
Since the GOP controls Congress, could they amend the Constitution to give Trump specifically, absolute power? Like they basically say Trump is no longer subject to checks and balances?
70% control required of congress to amend the constitution
yeah? who’s gonna enforce that
Taking a sharpie to the Constitution is predicated on people acknowledging the changes.
We barely give a shit about the document in its current state. I’m hard pressed to imagine a Unitary Executive’s rewrites would matter since it’s been Calvinball Rules since Marbury v Madison.
Welp, time to gear up for war.
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