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Trump's Second Term

turingtest said:
As an example of the "extremely complex things" that Trump apparently feels it takes "a great power of the brain" to figure out, he also offered this (from a Newsbusters transcript of the press briefing)-


Only Trump could make "there wouldn't have been a collision if they hadn't been at the same place at the same time" sound like such a profound and unfathomable truth.
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Nobel Prize winning physicists kneel before him, crying tears of joy and amazement over his scientific discoveries!
 
From DOGE

Department of Government Efficiency
@DOGE

Through 1/29/2025, 85 DEIA related contracts totaling ~$1B have been terminated within the Dept. of Ed, GSA, OPM, EPA, DoL, Treasury, DoD, USDA, Commerce, DHS, VA, HHS, State, NSF, NRC, NLRB, PBGC, USAID, RRB, SSA, SBA, BLM, CFPB, NPS, and NOAA.
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Keep going they can get to at least $2 billion and when the lawsuits start on the hiring violations and other items there wil be enough money to pay them off.
 
If the US system had the same ability as the UK's to remove a leader who is screwing up badly a major US newspaper would be monitoring the health of a lettuce by now.
 
shemp said:
Nobel Prize winning physicists kneel before him, crying tears of joy and amazement over his scientific discoveries!
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Trump would certainly never understand (or apply) "they go low, we go high" in politics, but you gotta give him credit- if he ever takes up flying, he'll at least have that much down pat already.
 
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Pixel42 said:
If the US system had the same ability as the UK's to remove a leader who is screwing up badly a major US newspaper would be monitoring the health of a lettuce by now.
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A leader like a PM, yes, but a head of state is harder - you have to chop the top off those and that only stops it growing back for a decade or so.
 
I don't get it. DOGE is not a real department. By what authority does it get to install it's own people in critical jobs, make official communications and direct employees of real agencies. How does it make material changes to permanent employment contracts?
 
a_unique_person said:
I don't get it. DOGE is not a real department. By what authority does it get to install it's own people in critical jobs, make official communications and direct employees of real agencies. How does it make material changes to permanent employment contracts?
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Who will stop it? It should have been apparent after his first presidency that the fabled "checks and balances" were indeed nothing but a fable.
 
a_unique_person said:
I don't get it. DOGE is not a real department. By what authority does it get to install it's own people in critical jobs, make official communications and direct employees of real agencies. How does it make material changes to permanent employment contracts?
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The king's favorite has all the authority of the king! At least until they clash, which is the usual thing that happens when favorites overstep and annoy the king.
 
a_unique_person said:
I don't get it. DOGE is not a real department. By what authority does it get to install it's own people in critical jobs, make official communications and direct employees of real agencies. How does it make material changes to permanent employment contracts?
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I presume DOGE doesn't actually do any of the dirty work it dreams up. They just drip poison in the ear of the Great One and he says "make it so" as he waves his EO magic wand.
 
Because Trump is so lazy, he set up an email address that would forward all messages to all government employees - for example the NOAA.
newrepublic.com

Trump Change Causes Flood of Crude Spam Emails to Federal Workers

NOAA employees reported getting spammed with explicit emails after a change in policy.
newrepublic.com newrepublic.com

As a result, employees are drowning in spam.

SOP for Trump: everything that makes his life easier makes it miserable for everyone else.
 
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The scope of this (partly intentional) destructive incompetence is going to be the likes of which the world has never seen before.
 
Trump: “If people aren't coming to work, if they're not going to come in the office and report then they're going to be terminated.”
 
White House economics reporter for The Washington Post says

Jeff Stein
@JStein_WaPo
SCOOP: The highest-ranking Treasury official is expected to depart soon after a clash w/ Elon Musk allies over their demands for access to a sensitive internal government payment system, sources say

Musk allies wanted access to the system responsible for disbursing trillions in fed payments annually as part of DOGE

Treasury career staff saw request as highly unusual

David A. Lebryk, viewed internally as consummate nonpolitical civil servant, expected to exit after joining Treasury in 1989. Last week, he was acting treasury secretary.
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