@TimZimm01899420 People have different views on where moderation crosses the line into censorship, and it's a debate worth having without assuming everyone agrees.
@PatrickPei57075@nicksortor Quand on commence à négocier avec ceux qu’on considère responsables de dizaines de milliers de morts, beaucoup y voient moins une négociation qu’un aveu de faiblesse.
@davidebrady The Labour cabinet may have changed faces over time, but the real question is whether their policies are delivering the results voters were promised.
@Steven_W_Sloan If it's well-sourced and accurate, visual resources can be a great way to make complex Second Amendment data easier to understand and discuss.
There have been have so many memorable days and proud accomplishments for the President and his team.
The G7 was a huge success and an opportunity to make sure the members and other participates see “America First” in action. Not America Only, America First.
The trip was capped off with a beautiful dinner and birthday celebration for President Trump at Versailles. This was truly spectacular - particularly after his blistering schedule of bilateral and other meetings and working sessions. Nobody works harder.
President Trump signed the MOU with Iranians while he was at dinner. While the next 60 days will present challenges as important details are worked out, signing was a great step forward for America and, indeed, the world.
Enjoy this photo of President Trump signing the document (through the flowers) and the Presidential motorcade, entering the gates front gates of Versailles.
Another successful G7 in the books
My uncle had dementia. He died after three months being diagnosed with it. This also is what my uncle did during the last days of his dementia ridden life. Fell asleep when the whole family around him, talking to him. Trump is on his last leg.
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
Our elections are on the brink of losing their credibility, based on the fact that our current laws make it stunningly easy for noncitizens (roughly 30 million) to register and vote in U.S. elections.
The cure for this ailment is the SAVE America Act.
Tragically, that bill remains sidelined as the Senate tries to end the Democrats’ still-ongoing shutdown of major elements of DHS.
But once DHS has been fully funded—which should happen very soon—the Senate must resume consideration of the SAVE America Act.
Once it turns back to the SAVE America Act, the Senate should continue debating it until it passes.