Similarly, the firing is only real if someone actually stops them from going back to work. If they show up on Monday, then some individual person is going to have to obey an illegal order to stop them from entering their office. Make individual people legally responsible for implementing the order. I’m sure someone will, but don’t comply in advance and don’t excuse the people who implement it. Underlings also have a lot more risk of legal exposure and you want them as a group to worry about themselves when they’re tasked with making the fascism happen.
The order is pretty blatantly illegal. There’s no real interpretation, just a straightforward law, passed very recently, that says you need to fire them in this way. So they’ll probably get their pay and get officially confirmed to be still employed eventually. Presumably the people who are inspectors general aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. The important thing is to not give Trump the additional power to just say illegal things and then everyone else just accepts them.
Cool so what are they going to do, sue? Bring a gun?
This is what people mean when they say “might equals right.” The person with the biggest army/most power, and the willingness to flex it, gets what they want, period.
This is the system that we have now. This is not a new system. Very very old in fact. So luckily for you, there’s tons of shit to read about in order to educate yourself.
It’s only illegal if someone enforces it
Similarly, the firing is only real if someone actually stops them from going back to work. If they show up on Monday, then some individual person is going to have to obey an illegal order to stop them from entering their office. Make individual people legally responsible for implementing the order. I’m sure someone will, but don’t comply in advance and don’t excuse the people who implement it. Underlings also have a lot more risk of legal exposure and you want them as a group to worry about themselves when they’re tasked with making the fascism happen.
Or if they just stop getting paychecks.
The order is pretty blatantly illegal. There’s no real interpretation, just a straightforward law, passed very recently, that says you need to fire them in this way. So they’ll probably get their pay and get officially confirmed to be still employed eventually. Presumably the people who are inspectors general aren’t living paycheck to paycheck. The important thing is to not give Trump the additional power to just say illegal things and then everyone else just accepts them.
Cool so what are they going to do, sue? Bring a gun?
This is what people mean when they say “might equals right.” The person with the biggest army/most power, and the willingness to flex it, gets what they want, period.
This is the system that we have now. This is not a new system. Very very old in fact. So luckily for you, there’s tons of shit to read about in order to educate yourself.
Ok so you really don’t understand how fascism works, do you?
Fascism means you dont go to work?
not even a good straw man.
What
I really do not know how that comment could have been more clear without defining “straw man,” which holy shit I really hope that wasn’t necessary.