Believing person w/conscience. WWYD? Proud of USA but not of racism, hatred, narrow mindedness & #DJT. #BLOCKwhoIfeelLike, especially fools, MAGAs. #TuckFrump
@VicMellorForRI@repmorgan Dumb! Voter ID is favored by a super majority of USA citizens, but it is the rest of the "SAVE America Act" that is horrible, including such things as proving that you are a citizen in order to vote. Not everyone has their birth certificate in their back pocket or a passport.
@warDaniel47 Coming from Elon, a guy who has never been elected in any election, and was born and primarily raised in apartheid South Africa.
For those needing some insight, apartheid South Africa was a society which was very pro-White and against Blacks, and was very extremely so!
@NancyMace No, people don't care for you and your ridiculous rants, including genital review, a trans woman in the House you didn't want to use the bathroom, etc.
You are shallow and sick.
Get a job where you don't post anymore BS.
@howardlutnick Lutnick, the Looney. You are one big suck up, and need to reveal what really has gone on (historically also, including POTUS #45) especially with the cost, plus painting the bottom twice as somebody (you? Trump?) initially had the wrong paint color!
@BasedMikeLee Hey, you jackleg fool, keep debating until it passes? That's outrageous that you waste the time and money of the Senate until you get what you and Trump desperately want. The Senate denied it, so END OF Story, except for your stupidity.
@AaronBlake During DJT's first term, the Mueller investigation and the Senate Intelligence Committee found over 100 contacts between Team Trump and the Russians in 2016. They also found that Manafort shared battleground polling information with the Russians. It was no hoax.
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
MAGA vets. Weigh in.
With the recent ICE funding, ICE now has more money that the entire United States Marine Corps. There are 204,000 marines and 28,000 ICE personnel. ICE now has 85 billion. The entire marine budget is 54 billion. This is absolutely insane.
What the holy hell is wrong with Congress. More importantly, what the hell did veterans vote for to give trump his own army?
@Surf4DC@StephenMetschan@JoeyMannarino@grok I am not inconsistent, and do not give a damn for people casting shades of impropriety or shaded judgment. That would be you, so back off if you will as that one be most appreciated.
@Shawn_Farash@Rightonrights Part of the problem is that Dear Leader Trump can NOT control Netanyahu who keeps bombing Lebanon for no damned reason. (Today, a residencial high rise. Thus, Iran is pissed, as they want a broad ceasefire from Israel, USA, and Iran!
@kL28959 "Patriot" at best is a Trumpster. At worst, White Nationalists. Any definition is a pile of poop, and not wanted near me to stink up my life or X feed, so I #BLOCK.