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Regardless of your thoughts about the size of the federal government, there is zero oversight to this "transition." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-federal-inspectors-genera...

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I'm surprised they have learned to be efficient as the private sector is in mass purges

Let's be sure to have a meeting to consider staffing a committee to plan appointing a board to oversee a transition. Who would have the authority to have this meeting and appoint it? Congress. Who is in power in Congress? Oh right. If Democrats didn't want {x} to occur, they should have used their majority to get what they wanted done. The reason this is happening, is because those in power want this capability to exist.

When the Republicans eventually lose power, a more refined version of this playbook will be executed by the next team.

There's no way to have unbiased oversite. It was tried that way during his first term with limited sucess. Give this method a shot and if it breaks then it breaks and they try something different. This is the same "he's going to break twitter" crowd when 80% of the people were fired. Guess what, it kept running. The government will be fine. And the Chinese already have all our data.

He’s not fucking around with a social media website; this is the federal government with responsibility for trillions of dollars of spending. A small group of people were annoyed when Twitter was down for a few hours. I think the reaction will be much stronger when millions of US citizens miss a social security check or two.

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