# "House Republicans Vote to Gut Independent Ethics Office" **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 3, 2017, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-vote-to-gut-independent-ethics-office/776207 "2017-01-03T04:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 9
**Author:** ![Banquet\_Bear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banquet_bear/32/373_2.png) [@Banquet\_Bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banquet_Bear)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2017, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-vote-to-gut-independent-ethics-office/776207/9 "2017-01-03T09:40:00Z")
…I said this in one of the pit threads shortly after the election was over. > [@I don't think I can say this in the Elections forum](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-dont-think-i-can-say-this-in-the-elections-forum/771297/173): > > At this very minute Trump is assembling a team of literally the worlds worst people to take control of the most powerful country in the history of the world. And he is literally re-writing the rulebook as he does it. They are going to steam-roll over all the fabled checks and balances unless people act now to combat it. Those people out on the streets protesting right now? They have figured it out. That 93% of black women who held their noses and voted Clinton? They had figured it out. Yes: Trump is going to be president of the United States. Its happened. Get over it. If we don’t all start doing something now it will be all over before we even know what is happening. It will be blitzkrieg. Shock and awe. > > -snip- > > But the Alt-Right now have control of the nuclear codes. They control congress and the senate. And they’ve got a fucking road map of what they are going to do. They have spent decades planning for this. Its going to happen quick. > > Get your head in the game or get out. We all can’t afford to be pointing the finger and examining what went wrong and planning for the next election because by then the Trump Empire will have just shifted gears and will be rolling over everyone again. I’m going to say it again in caps. THEY’VE GOT A FUCKING ROAD MAP OF WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO. THEY HAVE SPENT DECADES PLANNING FOR THIS. ITS GOING TO HAPPEN QUICK. In one flick of a pen the Independent Ethics Office is gone. If you were wondering why “Opposite People” have been selected by Trump to be in his Cabinet: well this is why. Their job isn’t to run their various departments. Their job is to gut them and then turn them into something else. Shock and awe. Blitzkrieg. The changes are going to happen so quickly that people are not going to notice. We don’t have a “24 hour news cycle” any more. We have “personally curated propaganda”. Trump and his team have figured this out. The rest of the world better catch up: and quickly. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-republicans-vote-to-gut-independent-ethics-office/776207)._