• ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 days ago

    I think she has to act through the Board of Police Commissioners, and I’m not sure she can fire them before their terms are up. She could definitely threaten to not re-appoint them, but I don’t know how much leverage that really buys her.

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      … so I tells him we got something for that, we got an unelected board of people that make all the decisions that actually matter and they don’t involve the public at all and no elected politicians can do anything about 'em neither.

      And the talent agent is just looking all horrified at all this, white as a sheet, and he squeaks out to me, “Dear lord, what do you call this system of government?”

      And with a big smile I says “The Aristocrats! Democracy!”