Republican hopeful pledges to ensure the FBI and Department of Justice are full of loyalists if he wins the White House in 2024

  • RyanHakurei
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    02 years ago

    Can he just purge all of the alphabet agencies? Start with the FBI but follow right up with the ATF. Nothing of value would be lost.

    • ArtZuron
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      32 years ago

      The best possible choice for a purging is probably the NSA and the NRA.

    • @[email protected]
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      02 years ago

      Well, while I’d be happy to get rid of NSA and co. I’d not be happy to lose FDA. The world would be quite worse without it

        • riskableOP
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          12 years ago

          You’re bringing up a very specific problem with the FDA that can be easily fixed with the same sort of legislation that prevents congressmen from becoming lobbyists for a number of years and talking about it like it’s an existential issue. It’s not.

          The FDA does incredibly important work preventing disease outbreaks and unsanitary food for all Americans. Perhaps you yourself are a snakeoil salesman that hates how the FDA prevents you from selling bullshit like it’s real medicine?

          Not only that but the FDA has the most strict ethics body of any Federal agency. If there’s even a hint of something unethical going on with a clinical trial the whole thing is basically cancelled. Everything must follow not only the letter of the law but the spirit as well.

          There’s plenty of Federal agencies that have weak oversight (e.g. ATF, Secret Service) but the FDA isn’t one of them.

          • RyanHakurei
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            12 years ago

            You’re bringing up a very specific problem with the FDA that can be easily fixed with the same sort of legislation that prevents congressmen from becoming lobbyists for a number of years and talking about it like it’s an existential issue. It’s not.

            Lol, just fucking lmao. “Let’s add even more regulation to fix the issue caused, in large part, by regulation.”

            The FDA does incredibly important work preventing disease outbreaks and unsanitary food for all Americans. Perhaps you yourself are a snakeoil salesman that hates how the FDA prevents you from selling bullshit like it’s real medicine?

            Oh, you mean like the snakeoil salesmen that regulatory captured the FDA?

            Not only that but the FDA has the most strict ethics body of any Federal agency. If there’s even a hint of something unethical going on with a clinical trial the whole thing is basically cancelled. Everything must follow not only the letter of the law but the spirit as well.

            Laughs in the literal thousands of “Have you taken X medication, if so you may be entitled to compensation” commercials.