[laidoffamazon]

I’m aghast but numb to this now.

The biggest question for me now is how the usual defenders of this lawless administration will try to defend this or both sides it.

[scoofy]

This will continue until people actually get hurt. Trump is exactly what decadence looks like: people willing to vote for "their team" against any better judgement because nothing really every happens to hurt them.

[esalman]

Easy, he committed fraud by blowing up the renovation budget.

[LunaSea]

Could you point me to the East Wing of the White House please?

[luxuryballs]

The defense is that the status quo has become archaic and self-serving instead of serving the public so the current operations people doing some house cleaning and tossing a few rooms to see what’s going on in there is overdue, changes need to happen and power structures need to be shaken out a bit to make sure they are not getting in the way of the people they were created to act on behalf of, and scatter the ones who are “helping themselves” to the public coffers.

This just needs to happen every across all government, it’s like brushing your teeth to kick out the bacteria, but each individual institution needs a different kind of “floss” depending on the nature of the ways they have strayed from their original purposes.

[__loam]

It's a funny defense coming from the most corrupt administration since Nixon

[stetrain]

That sounds nice, but I don't think there is much evidence that the above is actually what the current administration is doing, or even attempting to do.

Having blatantly political messages blasted across websites for national parks and on airport security video screens during the shutdown, for example, doesn't seem like a move towards "serving the public", but rather a move towards consolidation of direct control to the politicians at the top of the executive branch.