The Trump Presidency - Part 2
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The man bankrupted casinos in Atlantic City, his business acumen is in the negative.
How many days did Trump spend golfing this week?
He’s such an idiot.
An excellent idea to cut unnecessary bureaucracy.
MAGA are slowly learning the hard way, keepi it coming but don't expect anyone to do anything more than laugh at you
They’re experiencing. I very much doubt they are learning.
They'll learn soon enough, this is only the start
It's insane when you think about it, working for the government is seen as the most stable and reliable thing you can do in basically any country in decent shape, you never have to think about possibly looking for another job unless you want to, and most just see their time out until they retire. Then along comes a president that just starts rinsing thousands of people with basically no notice like he's a predatory investor stripping a company for parts.
Elon what did you do this week. “Well I was high on Ketamine and waved a chainsaw around. Then I ignored messages from the mother of my child that he was unwell.”
Also not all Government workers sit at a desk, eg manual jobs and outside. Will they be fired for not responding?
You can only hope.
Think what it covers.
Government employees include workers at national parks, the director of the FBI, and the guy that mows the lawns at the white house.
There are 2.4 million of them, and they have to report every week? No half arsed AI is going to make sense of that data, so rule out grok. musk will need to hire thousands of people just to read them.
Then you get into the security risk of having the details and activities of every current state employee floating around just waiting to be stolen.
My federal govmnt working wife's been on vacation for 2 weeks and hasn't logged in as we're overseas and she's not allowed to do that. Presumably she'll get the email when she gets back but her response may be later than Elon would like.
They're not constitutionalists. Well, some may be, but the core guys, like Trump and currently Musk, are authoritarians that will use any argument to get done what they want. I don't believe for a second that Trump cares about democracy and due process, or anything else. He just thinks he has infinite wisdom and is a blessing to the US - and that alone will justify (to his mind) whatever he can come up with to stay in power. And I wouldn't be surprised if he will find tricks at the next presidential elections to stay in power (including postponing the elections or declaring their results invalid), and possibly also to rig the mid-terms.
Overall, I'd also say that it's really not useful to look for or point out contradictions or hypocrisies in what Trump and his people say and do. (At least when trying to understand them. It might be useful in discussion with others.) Ultimately, anything he says serves to further whatever he thinks is right at the moment. How that relates to anything else he's said and done (or to the truth, proven theory, or anything else outside of his own mind that sensible people would think is important) is simply irrelevant to him.
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He probably slipped something thru that said if you take a vacation your fired!
When the dust settles you d have to wonder how many people s lives have gotten destroyed or at minimum been seriously negatively affected by all this. I don't think many realize how integral the continuance of federal government is to the health of this country. Everyone will see consequences one way or another.
I need to fly again this week and I've never been more scared to do so than I am now. I know we still have lots of good people working on the ground and in the air but you d have to wonder how they been emotionally affected by this at the very least.
Yeah if it's as bad as they say and true about the worry about job security added with the loss of workmates, so fewer staff for extra hours and shifts. That all leads to Immense tiredness and unnecessary extra pressure imho.
Doesn't matter how good the person is when they are burnout and under constant stress. The NHS has never recovered from the burnout during Covid and chronic understaffing.