Lucille Forrest

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

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[Bishop 🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇦 @KBP9a91]

Congress approved someone in a literal cult to be at the highest level of the USIC.

I promise you, you don’t hate them enough.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This looks like an abandoned theme park!

[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

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

Trump just fired the entire National Science Foundation board. His continual war on science shows he’s a “very low IQ” person.

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@NoGettinPastIt @ProudSocialist Then why aren’t the J6 “protesters” still in jail? People died from that one!

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@ChrisLangdonow @ProudSocialist Well then why aren’t the J6 “protesters” still in jail? They were anything BUT peaceful.

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@vilaaout @JonLemire @dd_chip Let us all remember the words of the inimitable Rex Tillerson, “Trump is a fucking moron.”

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@BadJournalism @allenanalysis @grok My REAL ID doesn’t indicate I am a citizen. My birth certificate is not in my married name. My option is to buy a passport, which is a poll tax. Last time I heard poll taxing is not legal.

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@BasedMikeLee If you really want to reform things, get rid of the electoral college.

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@EndWokeness @AnnCoulter Trump already pardoned the Honduran guy who was actually convicted of drug trafficking. And a dealer from Baltimore. He’s such a hypocrite. Venezuala is all about the oil, not “narco-terrorism. “

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Two minutes in and we’ve already hit 11 on the bonkers scale

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@EricLDaugh She’s a nude model and he”s a conficted felon who lies like a rug. How is that “class?”

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@BrittanyinTexas 👏

[Lucille Forrest @Lucyp64]

@richdecamp @BillKristol Its only a misdemeanor. Doesn”t call for this kind of violence against citizens.

[Sibylle @AHaschi]

This was the Biden christmas decoration
Including the East Wing
We had it all 💔

[American Veteran @amvetsupport]

I realize that I am just a general contractor. Not a big city developer who has never brought in a project on budget and many of his projects have gone bankrupt. But here is what I know.

Never in the history of any public works project has any legitimate contractor neglected to deal with the National Registry of Historic Properties before demolishing a property. Never in the history of such projects has any contractor not submitted, plans, for permits and approvals. Never in recent history has any project like this not been cleared through environmental agencies who would make sure that asbestos and lead were not in a very old building. Finally, it is unbelievable that in less than a week he has literally doubled the budget for the project.

And since contractors have to be licensed who is the contractor?

This is egregious. This man needs to be reminded that he is one year into a four year lease and he did not even consult the building owners before he destroyed history.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump is calling Reagan’s words in this video “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad. Watch this clip and read the full transcript:

Throughout the world, there's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and free competition. Now, there are sound historical reasons for this. For those of us who lived through the Great Depression, the memory of the suffering it caused is deep and searing. And today, many economic analysts and historians argue that high tariff legislation passed back in that period, called the Smoot-Hawley tariff, greatly deepened the depression and prevented economic recovery.

You see, at first when someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American products and jobs. And sometimes for a short while, it works, but only for a short time. What eventually occurs is, first, homegrown industries start relying on government protection in the form of high tariffs. They stop competing and stop making the innovative management and technological changes they need to succeed in world markets.

And then, while all this is going on, something even worse occurs. High tariffs inevitably lead to retaliation by foreign countries and the triggering of fierce trade wars. The result is more and more tariffs, higher and higher trade barriers, and less and less competition. So soon, because of the prices made artificially high by tariffs that subsidize inefficiency and poor management, people stop buying.

Then the worst happens. Markets shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shut down, and millions of people lose their jobs. The memory of all this occurring back in the 30s made me determined when I came to Washington to spare the American people the protectionist legislation that destroys prosperity. Now, it hasn't always been easy. There are those in the Congress, just as there were back in the 30s, who want to go for the quick political advantage, who risk America's prosperity for the sake of a short-term appeal to some special interest group, who forget that more than 5 million American jobs are directly tied to the foreign export business, and additional millions are tied to imports.

Well, I've never forgotten those jobs. And on trade issues, by and large, we've done well.

[Concerned Citizen @BGatesIsaPyscho]

Humans are being systemically poisoned across the years all in the pursuit of large corporation profit.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Colombian President Gustavo Petro calls for a full CRIMINAL investigation into Donald Trump during a United Nations speech, citing his illegal and murderous military strikes on ships in the Caribbean.

The world is fed up with MAGA fascism…

“Criminal proceedings must be opened against those officials, who are from the U.S., even if it includes the highest-ranking official who gave the order: President Trump,” Petro said during his speech before the U.N. General Assembly.

To date, Trump has carried out three such strikes that we know about. He alleges that the targets were narcotics smugglers working for drug cartels but has failed to provide evidence for his claims. Even if they were drug smugglers, Trump had no legal right to unilaterally murder them. They should have been arrested and tried in a court of law.

Petro said that Trump’s victims were not Tren De Aragua gang members as claimed by the White House but were “simply poor young people from Latin America who had no other option.”

“They said that the missiles in the Caribbean were used to stop drug trafficking. That is a lie stated here in this very rostrum,” said Petro.

“Was it really necessary to bomb unarmed, poor young people in the Caribbean?” he added.

A just world would hold Trump accountable for his crimes. These strikes are not designed to stop drug deaths in the United States, they’re designed to make Trump look like a militaristic strongman to his MAGA base and terrorize the people of the Global South.

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