@SpeakerJohnson - We, the People have paid into these funds involuntarily for decades! They are NOT entitlements! Do that and both Congress and YOU personally will be sued. And we won’t stop until you are bankrupt!
@Kesthecollie Hahaha…my 5.5 month old puppy tinkled on me in bed this morning. I let him out of his crate and said “good morning” in a happy sing song voice and he got excited 🤣. Oops!
@bwaltens OMG…a PAST romantic relationship?!?! How horrific 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This reporting while you overlook so many more heinous relationships by others in government! Stop the BS propaganda!
Time to take a seat and STFU!
Sincerely, a moderate independent
@JetSetGent@Angry_Staffer “And their friends and family”
IOW, “you” donate X to the ballroom fund, “you” get XYZ in return. That is enrichment/quid pro quo (corruption).
Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.
Here's what happened:
He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.
These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.
Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.
A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).
The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.
But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.
With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.
And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.
The threat does all the work.
By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.
Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.
If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.
Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR
@eddie9691@gtconway3d@ejeancarroll Not his cup of tea?!? He confused her photo with that of his ex-wife!! Don’t look at her now, look at pix of her from the time period of when he assaulted her!
https://t.co/3BuFWtj0ao
@Scottfu90305281@JoJoFromJerz “Brain dead Biden” is still more mentally aware and better functioning than Trump. Get some help and deprogramming.
Sincerely, a moderate independent
@DogturdUSA1@Angry_Staffer 1 - Biden is NOT the current president, so the whataboutisms are ridiculous
2 - even now, Biden is more mentally there than Trump
Sincerely, a moderate independent