Trump admin seeks to reclassify federal CIOs, opening door to political appointees Chief Information Officers across the US federal government face increased job uncertainty as the Trump administration recommends agencies reclassify these positions, potentially making them political appointees. In a memo issued yesterday, the acting director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Charles Ezell, said …
The idea is old. To quote Wikipedia: "In the Red Army, a political commissar was a high-ranking functionary at a military headquarters who held coequal rank and authority with the military commander of the unit. The Bolshevik Party established political commissars in 1918 to control and improve morale in the military forces."
You guys might want to start a political sub forum. There is no way to separate the modern world from the circus. It's going to be a very long number of years of felonies and corruption.
I see we are quoting the 14th amendment now. If the 14th amendment meant anything, king frumpy would be in The Hague literally right now. There are no more laws.
It's the purge. Anarchy.
Nah, the action ain't at the 14th, invading Canada or Greenland or annexing Gaza. Not at this time and possibly not ever.
It's here, in the trenches. Fire any one in the government that disagrees with him and cow the rest into submission. Defund any departments that stand in his way - wait till next budget. Tariffs to bully nations into not opposing him. "Reform" the electoral system so the next election will have the "correct" results. Make sure SCOTUS is staffed with younger conservatives so that Trumpism endures.
Maybe, later, we'll see Hague-relevant stuff. But American democracy would be lost long before it gets that far.
Keep the Dems too busy chasing their tails decrying things that he'll never do at this time. Keep them from pushing back on the actual levers of power. So far, working rather well.
And don't forget, edit the Constitution without the authority or verification of changes that mere "history" used to require. This is the modern Mein Fuhrer Drumpf World - Der Hoemland! What Der Fuhrer says GOES, and any dissenters will be SHOT. Or their papers confiscated while they're added to the expulsion queues at the concentration camps for the "illegal aliens" guilty of the truly horrendous crime of having incomplete paperwork...
Regardless, any "term limits" will soon be overridden and a thing of the past... same as they were in Nazi Germany.
Then things get "interesting" in term 3 of the nightmare from the armpit cesspool of the Buggblatter Beast of Traal...
Yes, have a political forum would be a great idea so we don't have to listen to the mass hypocrisy.
Unless you think sending tax payers money to Guatamala for sex change operations is valid use of US taxpayers money.
Or Elizabeth Warren speaks the truth, and has never received PAC money or been honest about her heritage.
Or Politoco receiving 8 milion dollars from USAID. Thats not "International Development".
But yeah, yell at the messenger (Musk) and not address the corruption.
But in the context of the last few days, this CIO BS directive is just a little detail.
Wonder what film is playing in Trump's head right now ...
He seems to intentionally weaken the US internally as well as ruining its international standing as fast as he possibly can...
Either he never intended to work for the American People or he simply went insane.
(OK, Hanlon's Razor and all that, but nobody can be _that_ dumb and still find a way into their trousers in the morning ...)
In either case, still sane people around him should finally start to act ...
Very Stable Genius 2.0 is playing. He's incredibly thin skinned, drunk on power and adulation and thinks he is right in everything and can do no wrong.
And, for all that the Dems should have been stopped Biden from running due to his age, Trump is really, really, old. He was never that great a person to start with, but now you can probably add serious cognitive decline to the mix. Since he's a naturally gifted genius at campaigning and manipulation that decline didn't matter that much on the campaign trail. Governing is another thing entirely.
Keep in mind too that the Reps used the 4 years in the wilderness to gather all sorts of fellow travelers. He may senilitize himself into oblivion but there will be the angry Bannons of the world to pick up the banner.
> Keep in mind too that the Reps used the 4 years in the wilderness to gather all sorts of fellow travelers. He may senilitize himself into oblivion but there will be the angry Bannons of the world to pick up the banner.
I don't think this will play out, as this is not how a personality cult works.
The cult leader has to do everything to convince his followers that only he is worthy - everyone else is just there, because he himself allows it.
There's no #2 or #3 in the Trump cult. Just a #1.
Underlings are endorsed while they are useful, or letting be fallen into the dust when they are not.
Therefore, as a cult member, you follow the leader, not an ideal or an idea that can be taken up by someone else.
To stay in your picture: I think there _is_ no banner to be taken up.
As soon as Trump is gone, the Trump movement will be dead, too.
Until the next good mass manipulator shows up.
And there was I thinking that the great 2015 breach of the OPM was due in part to a politically-appointed director who failed to implement US Inspector General recommendations:
https://www.theregister.com/2015/06/25/opm_sackings_data_breach_breach/
Placed in modern context there is some obvious flamebait I won't mention. [Lights blue touch-paper, retires behind concrete-faced earth berm]
Is it really a coup d'état when the person elected to be in charge is the one causing the trouble? The checks and balances work on the supposition that the guy in charge is (mostly) honourable and generally acting in the best interest of the country (insofar as the two sides view "best interests"). But when the person in charge is a felon who's a moral vacuum that doesn't give a shit, has been granted legal untouchability, and doesn't understand anything other than currency symbols (certainly not compassion, comradeship, and "soft influence"), things are quite different.
I fear were into uncharted territory here, and there may well be important lessons for democracy regarding how much power is actually given to very few people - or in the case of the US, effectively one person - and how easily they can cause unmitigated chaos.
> Is it really a coup d'état when the person elected to be in charge is the one causing the trouble?
If the person elected acts against the law to dismantle checks and balances, that are expressively in place to limit their power, yes, it's called a coup.
Germany 1933 reloaded.
Checks and balances?
Thats what the US are getting now when they are examining the payments made by USAID.
You think people unearthing years or misuse of billions of dollars are the problem, not the actual problem itself?
Its the people looking? LOL You've lost the plot.
Funding the coup in Ukraine, which is why there are people dying is a good use of their funding?
https://www.zeit.de/politik/ausland/2015-05/ukraine-usa-maidan-finance/seite-2
That article is from 2015. $5 Billion provided by USAID. Totally the right thing to do by pulling USAID down. But sure, Musk/Trump are the bad guys, and its a "coup".
You posters are lost in personal hate and have lost all objectivity.
Herr Drumpf would not be the first despot who attained power via the ballot box, and he won't be the last. Fortunately, Orange Julius Caesar is getting on in years, has a terrible diet, and is visibly unhealthy, so even if there's not a Night of the Long Knives, the Hamburglar in Chief will hopefully not survive to "reelection."
Not sure if they like to do it any more than Kennedys, Trudeaus, Ghandis etc do.
The more famous ones weren't very dynastic. Herr Hilter was not exactly Idi Amin with the ladies, and Franco, Mussolini, Stalin, Pinochet didn't leave dynasties.
The Kims seem to be more the exception than the rule.
Dynasties don't necessarily have to be to children. A dictatorship can work when the dictator hand-selects their replacement. Hitler did that. Franco did it too, but his replacement didn't do what Franco expected. Mussolini and Pinochet didn't get a chance to decide who would come after them because their dictatorships ended before they did, or nearly simultaneously for Mussolini. We might not label that a dynasty, but it can have similar effects.
His has children, and grandchildren. Dictators like to start dynasties.
I'm reminded of what happened when Oliver Cromwell died - his son took over for a short while then was forced to resign by the army (aided by some of Parliament) and spent most of the rest of his life in exile - fearing (rightly) that if he went back too soon he'd be in the Tower before he could say "it's not my fault!"
None of Trumps' offspring have the charisma or chutzpa to lie to peoples faces and get them to accept that lie. The only reason people take any notice of them is because of who their father is and, once he's out of the way, they'll quickly get forgotten except by a tiny even-more-lunatic fringe.
True but, although we all massively dislike the orange idiot. You can tell for some fucking reason his follows like his TV presence. I don't think any of his kids have it the same. So when hamburgler finally crushes his heart, hopefully it all starts to die down and the GOP will be finished. As everyone has seen them for what they are, cunts.
Sure he has children and grandchildren, and his current wife for that matter, who were almost all rather conspicuous in his first administration, and while most were active on the campaign trail last year all are now are conspicuously absent in this one, except where absolutely necessary (Melania, at the inauguration under a hat that shielded a bit of her face from view) or on a fool's errand like Don Jr's visit to Greenland. Jared, Ivanka, Lara, and Eric all have submerged either after 2020 or this winter after the November election.
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