Trump's Second Term

Resume said:
The Toddler Administration.
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It's basically trolling on a state level. They know it'll piss off the libs and the Canadians, they know the MAGAT's love it, and they know they'll face zero consequences for doing it.
 
kookbreaker said:
Trump is reversing the order to fire so many Federal Employees.

www.cbsnews.com

Trump administration revises directive to federal agencies on mass firings

The Office of Personnel Management issued revised guidance to federal agencies Tuesday regarding the firing of federal probationary workers.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com

Of course the article notes that his DOJ was being utterly pounded in the courts by what were illegal firings. So this basically him following the court's orders.

Another "look I solved it!" moment when he is the one who caused the crisis.
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According to the FedNews Reddit, that's not what this is. This isn't undoing the firings, it's scrubbing the source of them from being OPM to being each individual agency. The agencies are allowed to fire their own employees. So the illegal orders were made (retroactively) legal. "Why, the agencies didn't have to follow the order. They chose to!"

Everyone fired is still fired, and more firings are proceeding.

eta: also now they are doing RIFs instead of just firings. Firings is "these individuals no longer have jobs here". RIFS are "this division of the agency has ceased to exist, and therefore it has no employees anymore".
 
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Trebuchet said:
He's not so far wrong on that one. Except that those investing aren't expecting to get rich quick.
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Or at all. This is a very important part of why Social Security is not a Ponzi scheme. Contributors to the program are not expecting to make a profit, nor are they told that they will. Literally the only part of Social Security that resembles a Ponzi scheme is the premise that payments to beneficiaries now are covered by contributions made now by people who cannot be beneficiaries.

Trebuchet said:
And just wait til it's privatized.
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Cue the South Park meme: "Aaaaand...it's gone."
 
It's been suggested (and I think it a wise one) that everyone should acquire their Social Security statement and payment history and save them in case, I don't know, some bunch of 19 year old goons happen to waltz in and destroy all the records. So you'll at least have a dollar figure to comfort you with, knowing what you could have had if things had gone differently!

my Social Security | SSA

my Social Security | Open a my Social Security account today and rest easy knowing that you're in control of your future.
www.ssa.gov www.ssa.gov


eta: they even give you a total dollar amount of how much you've paid in. I could have bought a house with what I've paid in so far.
 
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CBC news reporting that Howard Lutnick called Ontario Premier Doug Ford today and asked him not to retaliate to the tariffs. Ford told him a flat "NO"
 
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