In the past week or so, the courts have begun to try to set some boundaries on the Musk–Miller–Trump administration’s early blitz of recklessness.
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This judicial review provides at least a small reprieve, hope that some of the administration’s most destructive impulses will be stopped. Or at least pared back. But even with the courts stepping up, and even with the reality of the administration’s ineptitude sinking in, this early Musk–Miller–Trump blitz remains very—maybe irreparably—damaging. Of course, there are a lot of moles to whack: the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are being dismantled at an alarming rate, and the court system is not known for being nimble. The administration is betting, perhaps rightly, that at least some of its thoughtless, lawless efforts will slip through the cracks.
But even if the courts caught them all—and even if every court facing each lawless escapade said, “Nope, that’s not a thing”—still the entire process would be doing serious damage to our institutions. Think of it as someone spoofing your identity and going on a shopping spree with your credit cards. Even if the goon gets caught, you still have to go store by store to argue that the fraudulent purchase wasn’t legitimate and hope the debt is forgiven. And all the while, perhaps long after all the debts are dealt with, the torrent of uncertainty kills your credit score.
Did he really get rid of remote work for no reason?
I know a very nice family with three kids and both parents do remote work for the government. I think one an auditor and the other in IT.
They got a bomb dropped on them a couple weeks ago something along the lines of “show up in person at an office within X days or you’re gone.”
There are not offices anywhere near us. The parents world basically have to move to two different states to keep their jobs.
To get people to quit, they’ve just started firing large swathes of people now though.
So exactly what Project 2025 said. Replace non political federal workers with loyalist.
Reason: Attrition
You don’t have to fire them if they quit.
You gut those departments and put the money into things that benefit tax cuts on the rich, or you hire friends and loyalists into those seats and pay them all the money to do nothing.
It’s a gift, Everything they’re doing is a different length of gift to make the rich richer.
Yup.
Americans literally just voted to gut what was left of the middle class.
Super, almost unbelievably, stupid society we live in.
When there’s a critical mass of hopeless people, they’ll be drafted, given a rifle, and marched somewhere with the full intention of never letting them return alive or otherwise.
Today children, we’ll learn about the great Canadian - American War of 2027.
Or as they know it in the US the American - Canadian War