Posted on 02/20/2024 6:55:26 AM PST by MtnClimber
The “resistance” is at it again.
President Joe Biden’s allies are getting antsy about his administration’s pileup of unfinished environmental rules — especially with the threat that a second Trump presidency could undo them all.
Biden’s agencies are facing a deadline this spring to finish some of their most important regulations to ensure that a Republican Congress and White House can’t erase them next year, including a crackdown on power plants’ climate pollution, protections for endangered species and a bid to protect federal employees from politically motivated firings.
That last one is an understandable priority for federal bureaucrats and appointees worried that they’ll be fired.
This obviously raises the question of who actually runs the federal government, but if you still don’t know the answer to that, try running for office and actually passing a law. The folks who actually run things are busy insulating themselves from being subjected to the rigors of democratic change in the name of protecting democracy from the people who vote for things that they shouldn’t.
The scramble to finish the regulations is crucial to determining how much of Biden’s ambitious legacy may survive past the November election, as the two likely nominees promote sharply contrasting views on climate change, green energy and the power of federal agencies.
The Biden administration has promised action on a lot of fronts, and how soon it rolls those rules out could determine how easy they are for a future administration to unravel. Policy insiders and Biden administration allies are urging agencies’ rule writers to keep their eye on the clock.
The polite fiction is that the feds are supposed to write rules objectively and impartially. This is a press release stating that the opposite is true and that the rules are being rushed out for purely partisan reasons.
Considering that this was the exact claim used to undermine the Trump administration’s executive orders and other decisions in court, including those that involved setting aside executive orders and other debris from the Obama administration which had somehow acquired the force of law by the mere fact that Obama wanted them done, it ought to be an important argument used when challenging some of these same rules in court.
On the table is Biden’s car ban.
EPA rule writers are hustling behind the scenes to wrap up work on a suite of big Biden regulations on climate, water and chemicals this year…
Closely watched climate rules, such as revamped tailpipe pollution limits for cars and trucks, are expected in March as well. Those rules, under review at the White House, could lead to electric vehicles making up two-thirds of car and light truck sales as soon as 2032, the EPA has estimated.
Nah, they won’t. It’ll just mean that the majority of Americans won’t be able to afford to buy new cars.
But the real meat of it is the bureaucratic resistance protecting itself from the consequences of its coup.
Last year, the Office of Personnel Management proposed stronger guardrails for the civil service. The regulation says career employees keep their civil service protections unless they voluntarily accept a political appointee job and adds requirements when reclassifying career positions as political appointments.
The rule could serve as a vital defense for federal employees if Trump wins in November.
That allows Dems to protect the activists they’ve embedded into the federal government and allow them to continue undermining America from within.
Of COURSE they are…
Suppose, for some odd reason, that Trump actually can overcome the steal in 2024 and wins the election..
Do we REALLY think they’re gonna just back off, roll over and say - “okay.. we lost..”???
They are shoring up EVERY last agency they can to make his (possible) Presidency absolutely null and void. They plan on keeping him so busy with nonsense (as they are doing now) that he will get nothing accomplished.
Fire them anyway
This should be considered Treason.
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Of course, it’s treason, but where is the recourse? Once tyranny gets a hold of a country, the slope into the dark abyss gets steeper and grows swifter by the day. Given the backdrop of the Communist Left’s persecution of Trump and their near-total control of the country, there is no way in hell that Trump will be recognized as having won the coming election. By hook or crook, they will nullify the results, fraudulently claim Trump stole the election, and the courts will go along with it. Abject chaos will ensue. There is a better way to restore normalcy and that is through a carefully planned and executed declaration of martial law with court-martials before the election. Some have indicated that Trump planned for this contingency before leaving office by signing executive orders that presently give him the power to declare martial law.
This is because the definition of “democracy” has changed.
Mike Benz makes this quite clear in his interview with Tucker Carlson.
“Democracy” is now consensus-building within elite, government sponsored intuitions. If they spend a lot of energy coming up with an idea then the public is to rubber stamp it in the next “election”.
If not the public is destroying “democracy”.
“Democracy” is now consensus-building within elite, government sponsored intuitions. If they spend a lot of energy coming up with an idea then the public is to rubber stamp it in the next “election”.
Just as it was in the German “Democratic” Republic.
That’s something they would bury or explain away as an ‘accident’. They don’t want the ‘little people’ aka proles getting ideas and then have a bunch of copycats join in. That would be unmanageable.
The figureheads/front-men aren’t the ones plotting this out, since they’re not that bright (an example is BiteMe), the staff and outside ‘agencies’ are who are causing this attack on the constitution and the Republic
The hysteria can stop. You can always undo a rule. Easiest way is through personnel. People will just not enforce, plus courts will eradicate.
After a while the doomers just get ridiculous.
That makes complete sense.
Those who shoot at the king...
The polite fiction is that the feds are supposed to write rules objectively and impartially. This is a press release stating that the opposite is true and that the rules are being rushed out for purely partisan reasons.
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One of my favorite movies! Ha!
This case is more than likely why they are trying to get this done. They may be seeing the writing on the wall..
I’ll have what you’re having.Sounds like good stuff.
what’s it’s title?
Mars Attacks. Here’s a link to a short YouTube clip, ack ack! https://youtu.be/7vSCJ9vKICQ?si=1q-g4nI6mSudnVm4
No surprise here
I’ve seen it, but didn’t remember the scene.
Any rule that one party can make, the next one can find a way around it.
Plot thickens
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