In 2017 I knew enough to know Trump could be a dictator and he admired Putin. I just couldn’t put it all together. I didn’t imagine the rapid dismantling of the federal government bringing chaos & Elon’s hackers handing the keys to the CIA to Putin.

WE ARE WITNESSING  DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT’S END & MONARCHY BEGINNING IN OUR COUNTRY 

James A Pitcherella

at his crane, Lukens

Steel Company

"Republicans want to take away Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, and public education. I don't believe that is possible in a democracy. I believe only a feared dictator can make the Republican Plans happen.” - James J Pitcherella January 9, 2017

My dad said "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was our greatest president."

He was correct. 

Trump collected rent from Vory v Zakone (Thieves in Law, Russian Mob KGB) at his dad’s Brighton Beach properties. In the wreckage of the collapse of the Soviet Union Putin united his KGB Vory v Zakone oligarchs, who bought Russian businesses cheap, and made Putin’s Russia a government of thieves. 

Now Trump is likely a Russian asset.  The Manchurian President  

Steve Bannon told us that Trump would declare war on the administrative state if Republicans had full control of the federal government. 

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When, early in Donald Trump’s presidency, senior advisor Steve Bannon promised that the administration would fight every day for the “deconstruction of the administrative state,” most Americans probably weren’t even sure what this meant. High school civics students hear that the Constitution creates a three-part government structure—Congress, the president, and the courts—but learn little about the other institutions that have always done most of the daily work of government.

These are the administrative agencies that make up Bannon’s reviled “administrative state.” They currently number 400 or so departments and offices—from the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Postal Service, and the Securities and Exchange Commission to the Food and Drug Administration, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Federal Election Commission—with over 3.5 million civilian and military employees, budgets totaling more than $1 trillion, and legal responsibilities covering the gamut of daily life. These agencies are created, funded, overseen, and given directions by Congress. Anyone who eats food, drinks water, breathes air, drives a car, takes medicine, receives mail, collects retirement benefits, or owns publicly traded stock—to name a tiny set of examples—has crossed paths, even if unwittingly, with the work of an administrative agency.

Since its very first legislative session in 1789, Congress has often chosen to delegate power to administrative agencies in broad terms, imbuing them with particular missions but leaving enough room for discretion to act in light of varied, complex, and changing circumstances. To take one modern example, the Clean Air Act of 1970 instructs EPA to set national air quality standards for harmful air pollutants at a level that allows “an adequate margin of safety” and is “requisite to protect the public health.” Lacking the kind of scientific expertise necessary to set such standards—and desiring to create a regulatory program that would address air pollution problems that were poorly understood or even completely unknown at the time—Congress chose not to set the standards itself but to direct EPA to set them and update them within the parameters Congress specified. In many cases Congress has also found that the substantive work of an agency requires some independence from political pressures. It has therefore structured the processes for the appointment and removal of agency officials in such a way as to provide a buffer zone between agency personnel and the politics of the presidency.

The Supreme Court long policed these kinds of legislative choices with a light touch, understanding that Congress was in a better position than the Court to identify the appropriate breadth of delegations of authority to agencies and the appropriate degree of political independence for them. But this long period of legislative hegemony and judicial restraint with respect to the powers and structure of federal agencies appears to be coming to an end.

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How Government Ends

Lisa Heinzerling

September 28, 2022

Through an assault on administrative agencies, the Supreme Court is systematically eroding the legal basis of effective governance.

I wrote this  Monday, January 9, 2017. I didn’t consider that the “feared dictator" would be linked with Putin’s Russian GRU and that the keys to the CIA would be handed to Vladimir Putin by Elon Musk:

"Republicans want to take away Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, and public education. I don't believe that is possible in a democracy. I believe only a feared dictator can make the Republican Plans happen.”

Monday, January 9, 2017

FDR, a brilliant leader with a big heart. Republicans plan to unravel all that Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt did.