Donald Trump is considering a right-wing media personality and people who have served on his US Secret Service detail to run the agency that has been plagued by its failure to preempt two alleged assassination attempts on Trump this summer, sources familiar with the president-elect’s thinking tell CNN.
I mean, that's already what it is in reality. It's why I get (maybe irrationally?) angry when anyone defends its existence. Like I'm not objecting to some baseline security for "important" officials... but that security in the case of the president comes directly at the expense of everyone not covered by secret service protection. It's just such a clear and obvious as fuck trampling of any idea of liberalism to allow a goonsquad to have unlimited authority to remove people, arrest them for speech (and not speech that is normally disallowed- evaluated protections), extrajudicially murder citizens on a whim... it's just the praetorian guard for modern times in every way. They can do that job without stomping rights, btw. Maybe that means more risk for the big guy... ok. That's a risk every leader is supposed to accept. Why the fuck does one person get a personal small army that is immune to consequences?
Just one of my personal "Things that piss me the fuck off, and I feel compelled to constantly rant to an unhinged degree IRL and online because too many people just blindly accept it as "fine and ok."" No one has ever provided me with a valid reason within law or just "liberal thought" to excuse its existence as such though. But, whatever. Many things to rant about for which people have no answer other than "why do you care...?"
Trump, please rename the secret service to the "praetorian guard", it would be cool and based and roman and there are no other secret reasons.
I mean, it's literally called the SS rn, naming it Praetorian Guard might actually make it sound less Hitlerist.
E tu Bongino ?
I mean, that's already what it is in reality. It's why I get (maybe irrationally?) angry when anyone defends its existence. Like I'm not objecting to some baseline security for "important" officials... but that security in the case of the president comes directly at the expense of everyone not covered by secret service protection. It's just such a clear and obvious as fuck trampling of any idea of liberalism to allow a goonsquad to have unlimited authority to remove people, arrest them for speech (and not speech that is normally disallowed- evaluated protections), extrajudicially murder citizens on a whim... it's just the praetorian guard for modern times in every way. They can do that job without stomping rights, btw. Maybe that means more risk for the big guy... ok. That's a risk every leader is supposed to accept. Why the fuck does one person get a personal small army that is immune to consequences?
Just one of my personal "Things that piss me the fuck off, and I feel compelled to constantly rant to an unhinged degree IRL and online because too many people just blindly accept it as "fine and ok."" No one has ever provided me with a valid reason within law or just "liberal thought" to excuse its existence as such though. But, whatever. Many things to rant about for which people have no answer other than "why do you care...?"