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Trump's Second Term

dudalb said:
And what, pray tell, do you suggest they do?
Introdcue an impeahcment measure/ That would be even more useless then a resolution.
Guy, you have to bring something to the table other then snark if you want to be taken seriously.
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Take me however you like. Pointing out the silliness of a comment (like yours) is bringing something. And you are more than welcome.
 
Proving once again that there's no level too low if you want to show your loyalty to trump, the FCC has ordered CBS News to hand over the unedited transcript of their interview with Kamala Harris. Y'know, the one that got trump's depends in such a twist he sued CBS for $10 billion alleging they unfairly edited it to boost Harris' campaign?

www.cbsnews.com

CBS News to comply with FCC demand for "60 Minutes" transcript and video

The FCC sent a letter of inquiry demanding the "full, unedited transcript and camera feeds" from an interview with Kamala Harris.
www.cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com
 
Aridas said:
And... looks like Musk's going for control of the GSA. With that control, he's apparently already putting government buildings up for auction, with promises of many more to come.

Yeah, this looks like what could be a textbook example of idiots trying to run the government like a business, ripping off the public for a quick buck, and the public likely having to pay lots more after to fix the problems that are likely to arise.

Oh, and Musk also seems to be working to gain access to the federal government's computers and to install what rather sound like likely rather insecure tools onto them.
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Reports that he's locking some senior beurocrats out of systems already.
 
TragicMonkey said:
Optics, schmoptics. The unelected crony of the president, in charge of a non-government entity, has already seized control of OPM, OMB, and now the Treasury. Actual federal employees have been overridden, literally kicked out of the building. Musk's employees --not US government employees-- just Musk's own people are literally camping in the formerly-secured offices (brought in sofa beds so they can work around the clock). They've locked out actual civil service from their own systems, and taken control of them. They're not even legally authorized to be in the building, much less in control of them! And yet they are. Because their boss is the president's crony.

The president is above the law, he can create new laws, he can overturn existing laws. And he's letting his favorites do whatever they want, in his name. I doubt Congress, even if it wanted to, could stop it now.
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I'm aware. And this won't end well for them. Eventually.
 
Blue Mountain said:
Did you read the article? The email is targeted at people who have been at their job for less than one year and are considered to be on probationary status:



This is not the same as "mothballing" the EPA.

What the Trump administration is doing overall is bad, but we don't need misinformation coming from our side of the debate.
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The EPA will survive. But it will not do anything. The feds will not fund its main spending which is lawyers. Superfund clean ups stalled for 4 years. It's mothballed.
 
Random said:
It's the "eventually" that's always the problem. Fascist regimes are inherently unstable and doomed to collapse, but they can do incalculable damage before that happens.
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Even after just a week or so, this is now a given. There's plenty of solutions, of course. For example, the next plane crash could be Muskrat in the middle of the Atlantic. But that's just my wishful thinking. ;)
 
Tero said:
The EPA will survive. But it will not do anything. The feds will not fund its main spending which is lawyers. Superfund clean ups stalled for 4 years. It's mothballed.
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Won't do anything? I seem to recall something rather different happening in Trump's first term. The Trump Administration worked to change the Environmental Protection Agency into an agency to pave the way for big business to exploit the environment, nigh inverting its official purpose.

As it stands, already - EPA dismisses clean air, science advisory boards. Their stated reasons are an exercise in up is down level lies, of course.
 
Tero said:
Who knew? Woke astronomy.
www.propublica.org

The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go

The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera Rubin was edited to omit any recognition of the fact that science remains a male-dominated field or that the observatory was working to be more inclusive.
www.propublica.org www.propublica.org
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Men at some time are masters of their fates.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings.
 
Aridas said:
Won't do anything? I seem to recall something rather different happening in Trump's first term. The Trump Administration worked to change the Environmental Protection Agency into an agency to pave the way for big business to exploit the environment, nigh inverting its official purpose.

As it stands, already - EPA dismisses clean air, science advisory boards. Their stated reasons are an exercise in up is down level lies, of course.
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They are going to tear it apart. For these fanatics it's just one more instance of the work of Satan.
 
Elon thinks it's Awesome!

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

Awesome

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DEFENSE: Secretary Pete Hegseth has EVICTED the New York Times, NPR, NBC, and Politico from their Pentagon offices to make room for One America News Network, the New York Post, Breitbart News Network, and HuffPost.
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I wonder, who's going the be the first person in the Administration to blather 'Why isn't there a White History Month?" I also wouldn't be surprised if steps were begun to eliminate the concept of Black History Month.
 
Trump to make Cuban Face Sandwiches for the Leopards

Cuban-Americans voted heavily for Trump. Now some of their family members will get their reward.

The Trump administration is preparing to revoke the legal status of many of the migrants who were allowed to come to the U.S. legally from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela under former President Joe Biden, according to internal government documents reviewed by CBS News.

The proposal by the Department of Homeland Security, spelled out in an unpublished notice, would fully terminate a Biden administration program that allowed more than 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans to fly to the U.S. if American sponsors agreed to help them financially.

The Biden administration argued the policy, known as CHNV, discouraged illegal immigration by people from these four Latin American countries by offering them legal means to come to the U.S., but President Trump froze the initiative hours after being inaugurated. Trump officials have specifically argued the program was a misuse of immigration parole, the legal authority which the Biden administration used to admit those under the sponsorship initiative, and to allow them to apply for work permits.

Under the new move, the Trump administration would revoke the parole status of those allowed into the U.S. under the CHNV policy and place them in deportation proceedings if they have failed to apply for, or obtain, another immigration benefit, like asylum, a green card, or Temporary Protected Status, the internal proposal shows.

It's unclear how many of the over half-million people allowed into the U.S. under this initiative have applied for other immigration programs. When the Trump administration's plan will be finalized also remains unclear.
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"¡Pero los leopardos nunca se comerían mi cara!"
 
Elon justifies his DOGE goons actions.

Elon Musk
@elonmusk

The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups.

They literally never denied a payment in their entire career.

Not even once.
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TragicMonkey said:
Optics, schmoptics. The unelected crony of the president, in charge of a non-government entity, has already seized control of OPM, OMB, and now the Treasury. Actual federal employees have been overridden, literally kicked out of the building. Musk's employees --not US government employees-- just Musk's own people are literally camping in the formerly-secured offices (brought in sofa beds so they can work around the clock). They've locked out actual civil service from their own systems, and taken control of them. They're not even legally authorized to be in the building, much less in control of them! And yet they are. Because their boss is the president's crony.

The president is above the law, he can create new laws, he can overturn existing laws. And he's letting his favorites do whatever they want, in his name. I doubt Congress, even if it wanted to, could stop it now.
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It is a coup, and they succeeded.
 
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