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GHGN-GreatestHappinessGreatestNumber-Jeremy Bentham. #ConvictTrump, Facts matter but propaganda has been winning....

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

America isn’t in financial trouble because we have to help the poor. We’re in financial trouble because we can’t satisfy the rich.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

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

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Watch as Trump starts drifting off into La La land again. This is happening daily now and his Administration just tries to ignore it. It’s not only embarrassing,but dangerous for the Country because we look weak.

[Cyndi..🌻🌹💙🩵🎶 @cyndiwanek]

Damn straight...

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

This tee probably started 3 arguments and 2 Facebook posts already 💀
Not gonna lie… kinda legendary 😂

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I can only imagine what President Harry Truman would say today if he was alive about what Donald Trump has done and is still doing as the President of the United States of America!

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what’s left isn’t just disappointment,it’s total embarrassment.
The man you invested your faith in wasn’t a savior at all, just an empty act stitched together with arrogance, noise, and relentless self-promotion.
All that confidence, all those grand promises, all the swagger,it collapses into something painfully small the moment it’s tested against reality.

There’s no hidden genius, no bold disruptor underneath it all.
Just a loud, impulsive figure flailing through responsibilities he clearly wasn’t equipped to handle, drowning incompetence in a flood of bluster.

In the end, what once looked like strength turns out to be nothing more than cheap theatrics.
Not leadership,just a gaudy performance.
A caricature.
A spectacle.
And the real sting isn’t that it was absurd,it’s realizing how long it took to admit you were taken in by his bullshit...

[Ellen Barkin @EllenBarkin]

The Bishop is never wrong

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

YES 💯💯💯 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

[Elissa Slotkin @ElissaSlotkin]

We know how President Trump has personally enriched himself by milking the cow that is the U.S. government. But what he's done to our democracy is corruption the likes of which we've never seen. It's fundamentally un-American.

[Steve Guest @SteveGuest]

Dr. Cornell West uses the news of the $1.8 billion DOJ fund to compensate victims of unfair lawfare on CNN NewsNight to advocate for TRILLIONS of dollars in reparations…

“There's just no ground for justification of this unless you open the gates and you got trillions of dollars for ex-slaves and ex-Jim Crow people… Now tomorrow is Malcolm X's birthday, he's 101. What is it about Malcolm? Well, what we're talking about is just, this is just the peak of an iceberg…. There is no integrity in justifying $1.8 billion of people who engaged in criminal activity, actually killed some policemen and they get compensated, they get reparations. And black folk, indigenous folk, other folk, unfair, even white brothers and sisters who have gone to jail innocent who deserve some kind of some kind of accountability. There's no way you can justify this, but this is just one peak of an iceberg.”