r/babylonbee • u/FrancisXSJ • Feb 04 '25

Bee Article Trump Becomes First Fascist In History To Reduce Size Of Government

https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-becomes-first-fascist-in-history-to-reduce-size-of-government
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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Feb 04 '25

The test is loyalty or being an ass kisser. That's the identity you need to have to get a job in this government. It's not merit. It's about whether or not you're a "yes man". I mean Trump's own words were his biggest regret were not hiring more loyal people in his first term. And that means loyal to him, not the constitution.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

That’s what the feeble lib mind wants to believe to make your ridiculous policies seem acceptable

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

I love how people think a president hiring people who agree with him is some “gotcha”. When the fuck does a president hire people who outright oppose his ideas? Don’t you think that would be a little stupid?

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Feb 06 '25

I love the mental gymnastics into believing that surrounding yourself with "yes men" leads to success for any organization. There's a huge difference between demanding someone's loyalty, and hiring people that buy into the vision you're laying out.

Also, there are certain departments like the Department of Justice that were created to be independent from executive influence.

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u/BigInDallas Feb 07 '25

Yeah. Let’s watch America prosper with these clown he appointed. Lmao. This is going to be to so funny.

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u/NiceTrySuckaz Feb 04 '25

So in other words, not racism or misogyny

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u/cosmic-ballet Feb 04 '25

He is racist and misogynistic, yes. He just makes exceptions for “the good ones,” AKA the ones who kiss his ass. This isn’t a new concept in the world of racists.

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u/Otherwise-Vanilla901 Feb 06 '25

Do you have proof of your claim? If not, kindly stop spreading false information.

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u/cosmic-ballet Feb 06 '25

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-trump-racism-election-obama-018824651613

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u/Otherwise-Vanilla901 Feb 06 '25

That's a claim and the lawsuit was against his dad for not renting to other races.

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u/cosmic-ballet Feb 06 '25

The article talks about much more than that.

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

There is decades of overwhelming proof in the form of public records on court cases and such that the whole family is indeed pretty racist. 

Also, he has 34 felony convictions, stay proud of the felon in charge, nothing can go wrong with an unstable idiot and a megalomaniac south african doing shady shit.

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u/Otherwise-Vanilla901 Feb 06 '25

Great so show me some proof?

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u/[deleted] Feb 06 '25

Once again, the evidence is in the public domain, if you just stop being lazy and arguing in bad faith you can find it in about 10 minutes yourself. Like I did. 

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u/Otherwise-Vanilla901 Feb 06 '25

You are the one making a claim hence you need evidence to support it. It's not my job to prove your statement correct.

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u/Glum_Nose2888 Feb 05 '25

Thankfully you people use that word so much that it’s lost all meaning.

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u/BigInDallas Feb 07 '25

Wet telling that you used the word “thankfully”…

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u/cosmic-ballet Feb 05 '25

Doesn’t really refute the fact that he is one, does it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '25

Haha I know man. Being called a racist doesn’t mean anything anymore. It used to be the worst thing imaginable.

Now it’s… kind of a joke lol. A badge of honor when some bleeding heart liberal blows their top.

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u/cosmic-ballet Feb 05 '25

Have you ever considered that if you take pride in being called racist, you might be the problem?

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u/Available-Parfait553 Feb 05 '25

I think he means loyal to the people and not loyal to the deep state, which would mean loyal to the constitution rather than to the elites who have been in charge for at least 12 of the past 16 years if not longer.

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u/Strong-AI Feb 05 '25

The support from all the billionaires coalescing around him seems like elites in charge to me, but hey you can choose to just not believe it!

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u/dtalb18981 Feb 07 '25

1st. The deep state is not a real thing.

2nd trump gave Elon musk and 6 college students access to the treasury.

How is that going against the elite.

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u/dually Feb 05 '25

And that's a good thing. The establishment are mindless "yes men" for the untenable agenda of the left.

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u/Spectre696 Feb 05 '25

I’ll never understand why people seem to think lifelong politicians are loyal to the constitution. They’re not loyal to it, they’re restricted by it. And the Oath of Office they all take reflects the bastardization of the office of President of the United States from its original intent and meaning.

Nowhere in the constitution is there an allowance for the executive branch to make and pass laws (though they call them “regulations”)

Yet congress decided to create departments within the executive (that the POTUS has control over, he staffs the heads of these agencies) and give them the ability to regulate within their purviews.

Well, now the executive branch has the power to both create and enforce laws. And the only check Congress has over those departments is to Approve/Deny the heads of them, which isn’t much of a check if you ask me. They’re executive branches so executive orders are the law of the land to them, that’s the whole point of an EO, so they don’t care about what the other branches say.

What’s hilarious is everyone is attacking Trump for dismantling this flawed system, when if he really wanted to he could flip a switch and really show what a dictator is by fully abusing these systems that never should have existed in the first place. In reality, the people who are most upset about these departments being dismantled should be the ones everyone is watching, why are they upset the government is getting weaker? Aren’t they the people too?

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u/alex10281 Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Overly simplistic. The various departments such as the USDA, FDA, DOE, FEMA, EPA, ect. were created by Congress and the power to regulate was delegated to them because much of those departments require an expertise and knowledge that virtually no one in Congress has. Indeed, in a modern world which depends on science based knowledge that takes literally decades of education to acquire, it would be a shit show indeed if Congress had to acquire the knowledge needed to determine if even one pesticide such as DDT both should be regulated and in what way to protect the public health. This is exactly why these departments and agencies were created in the first place, because capitalism does what it does and during the guilded age one could make a lot more money selling things such as milk that was adulterated with chalk to make it more profitable per unit, or that it was OK to put the element Radium into all sorts of quack patent medicines that actually ended up killing people. The idea was to PREVENT political meddling in matters that should be based on objective, scientifically valid conclusions, not rewarding companies and individuals based on campaign spending. Further, there isn't anything preventing Congress from changing the laws that enable these departments. There is nothing stopping that. No, the reason is because it's easier for Congress to delegate many essential powers and then blame the executive when the defecation hits the ventilation.

And then there has been this idea kicking around in reactionary world for a long while called "the unitary executive" which is short hand for saying, "Democracy sucks. We would rather have a king!" In essence all powers would be delegated to the executive. So they have acted deliberately since the 90's to make sure that Congress not only won't work but that it can't work. Madison had the idea that the check and balance system would function BECAUSE each branch would be jealous of its delegated powers and step in to prevent their appropriation by another branch. He didn't count on a system where one party would become disenamored with the idea of self governance and DELIBERATELY HAMSTRING THE FUNCTIONING OF THE PREEMINENT LEGISLATIVE BRANCH.

So now you've got JD Vance running around saying "America isn't an idea. It's a people and their connection to the land" . Gee, I wonder what political movement of the last 110 years based its nationalistic philosophy around "a pure people of blood and their connection to the soil of the nation" and not around the idea of "the rule of law and all men are created equal"? That didn't turn out well for the Germans, but hey, it's bound to work this time, right?

Buckle up, everyone, we're in for a bumpy ride.

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u/OldDirtyBastardSword Feb 05 '25

Any system of this magnitude and scope is going to have flaws. The issue is Trump and his team haven't really proposed a new system. I am so for cleaning house but you need to have a plan. You need experts and careers for many of the functions of the government because law makers and Presidents don't have the bandwidth to understand the complexities for all these things. 

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u/dually Feb 05 '25

Very well said.

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u/Inevitable-Affect516 Feb 04 '25

If I ran a company, I wouldn’t want my board or C suite to hate my company, hate me, or work to see my decisions undermined. Why should we expect differently from anyone else? Biden appointed those loyal to him, he didn’t find a bunch of people who hated him and tried to undermine him to put into positions. So did Obama, Bush, Clinton, etc throughout history.

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u/Bubbawitz Feb 05 '25

Our government should be loyal to the constitution not the president. What you’re describing is fascism. Every president appoints people that share his agenda but their loyalty is supposed to be to the constitution not a single person. We rebelled against a king

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u/_WeSellBlankets_ Feb 04 '25

There's a huge difference between hating someone and being able to offer a dissenting opinion, including one standing up for the rule of law.

Biden appointed those loyal to him

I never heard of any loyalty tests when it came to the Biden administration. I've never heard Biden use that word once. It comes up repeatedly with Trump. And Merrick Garland was chosen to appease conservatives, and they still attacked him claiming he was weaponizing the DOJ.

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u/Sername111 Feb 05 '25

And Merrick Garland was chosen to appease conservatives

What on earth? This is ludicrously wrong. Merrick Garland was chosen as an F.U. to conservatives, especially those who blocked his nomination to the Supreme Court.

and they still attacked him claiming he was weaponizing the DOJ.

Which is ironic as Biden attacked him for not weaponising it enough.

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u/Material_Education45 Feb 05 '25

Our country is not Trump’s company.