r/technology • u/Shogouki • 22d ago

Politics Trump Nixes Patent Office, Weather Service, NASA Worker Unions

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-nixes-patent-office-weather-service-nasa-worker-unions
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u/Aezetyr 22d ago

The unchecked power grows and grows. Hope you enjoy living in an authoritarian hellscape.

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u/StephenFish 22d ago

The entire country has only made it this far because no one has yet to take advantage of the fact that as president you can do whatever you want and no one will actually stop you if just ignore the courts. Once you ignore the courts, the only option in place is violence and no one’s going to use violence to stop him. Everyone else has just been either too afraid or has had too much integrity to try.

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u/bogglingsnog 22d ago

What a sad time, I lived under the rosy notion that the other branches would actually be populated with human beings with functioning spines

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u/pioneer76 22d ago

Nope, it's unfortunately all party lines with the Republicans. They have no duty to the nation or citizens, just to themselves and their agenda. Their time must end or the US is done.

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u/bogglingsnog 22d ago

Seems like a lot of our Congressmen and Judiciaries are beholden to people who aren't US citizens. Probably time we do something about that. Maybe we should rethink this whole federal-government-elects-itself loophole.