Meanwhile, it's already making moves to carry out another common aspect of autocracy,

subjugating the federal legislature.

Issuing a truth social command to the Republican senators who will be vying for leader

by demanding that they agree in advance to recess appoint his cabinet

and that they approve no more Biden judges to the federal courts.

You can presume that all three aspiring Russian Republican leaders, I should say,

John Thune of South Dakota, Rick Scott of Florida, and John Cornyn of Texas will all meekly

promise to comply. Apparently Rick Scott already has.

Let's Trump play the Putin daddy ship forward

by humiliating them to the cheers of his oligarchs

and his base.

He's gonna have a Republican-controlled Senate.

They will confirm his appointees no matter who they are.

So why is Trump now telling the Senate to go into recess, to shut themselves down so they can't vote to

confirm his appointees? Why is he doing that? He's doing that so the Senate won't have to vote to

confirm his appointees. If the Senate isn't recess, he can make recess appointments.

He can just install people in their positions without the Senate ever voting for them.

Even though the Senate would definitely vote for them if they took a vote,

he's telling the United States Senate to shut itself down so he can operate independently and on his own.

Even though they don't have any intention of stopping him, he doesn't even want to give them a say.

I draw your attention to this because of all the discussion we have had as a country about Trump's, you know, dictator on day one promises, his, you know, authoritarian values and promises and threats.

One of the things that hasn't been talked about very much is that we have a three-part system of government, right?

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