Robert Nelson

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[Robert Nelson @robert_nelson1]

Oh frabjous day! Callooh, Callay!!

[michael831 @michaelwhi5465]

@DisavowTrump20 @BarackObama

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Since Trump doesn't want this portrait of President Obama displayed in the White House, let's make this photo of our President go viral here!

RETWEET if you love @BarackObama!

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly furious after historians officially added the Iran War to the list of wars America has lost.

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

How does the country survive when the head of the other party has such contempt for the American creed and the Constitution and public intellectuals and TV hosts get rich pretending it’s patriotism?

[David French @DavidAFrench]

"In their arrogance, Trump and Netanyahu defied their predecessors in all the worst ways, and now they court a profound defeat when, not long ago, a meaningful victory, however partial, was well within their grasp." https://t.co/ua3ByowXno

[Robert Nelson @robert_nelson1]

Versailles II: Orange Boogaloo https://t.co/6XiGSRQik8

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is an astonishing document. Not a single war aim has been achieved, but Iran receives enormous financial incentives, and even Hezbollah gets some benefits. What an absolute disaster. https://t.co/uj3990eh6q

[CPC @CPComm]

@Martina Hate the 77 million people who voted for him twice. Hate the business leaders who finance him. Hate the Republican leader enablers and bystanders who make this debasement of democracy possible, putting the US within a hair's breadth of becoming an authoritarian kleptocracy.

[Dr. Marcus Bell @OfficeHoursDrB]

@davidfrum You would think by this late date in history that Israel would have figured out that genocide and ethnic cleansing are wrong, no matter how you justify it. And don’t get me started on what on what one David Frum should know.

[Freer Press @FreerPress]

@davidfrum The Left needs to fully denounce political violence and the embrace the peaceful coexistence represented by Israel.

[Jeffrey Evan Gold @jeffgoldesq]

@Timodc @BarakRavid Even in their "75%" MOU about a possible deal, Iran keeps Uraunium (for them alone to destroy, ok right 👌) and pallets of cash to Iran will be provided (albeit cloaked in tranches and/or 3rd parties,) and the 25% not done is that Iran wont agree to the 75%.

[Alex Granger @AlexGran1978]

@Timodc @BretBaier Bret Baier is a joke! He’s off but @johnrobertsFox filled in for him today on the supposed “news” show. Guess how much time he devoted to the awful inflation report - 15 seconds! And completely ignored Trump saying he “loves inflation” & they were “great numbers”. Fox isn’t news!

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

One time loretta lynch was on the same tarmac as Bill Clinton and went into his plane to talk.

@BretBaier has done 176 segments on that outrageous breach of Justice Department norms.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Mark Zuckerberg’s $300 MILLION yacht arrived in Seattle the same day Meta cut 1,400 jobs—part of a larger round of 14,000 job cuts.

Nothing says our economy is broken like billionaires sailing around on yachts while workers are left out to dry.

[Robert Nelson @robert_nelson1]

ON THE CALIFORNIA VOTE COUNT, DEMOCRATS SHOULD GO ON OFFENSE https://t.co/MY2bDbill0

[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