Trump's DERP State

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Confirmation Hearings for the Trump's incredibly bad choices for cabinet leadership positions.  Traitors, drunks, rapists, pet killers and television personalities were the first choice of the mentally ill old man.  

My Senator, Dan Sullivan is all over his social media singing the praises of these folk so we should expect most of them to be confirmed.   

Hegseths hearing should be starting about now.  

 

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toomuchbaloney said:

So? 

So?

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toomuchbaloney said:

So? 

Exactly.  Why not talk about the subject of the thread (Trump and his derp state) rather than once again repeating your thoughts about my style of discussion?  Why not stay on topic?  We all know, having heard it before.  

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-federal-employees-document-work-resign/

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Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don't reply would risk losing their jobs.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, had the subject line, "What did you do last week?" It instructed recipients to reply with five bullet points of what they accomplished last week, excluding any classified information, and asked workers to include their supervisor in their response.

My veteran friend received this email.  He asked his active duty supervisor if he should go to the office to complete this official request and if he was going to be paid for the OT this created.  

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The deadline to reply is Monday at midnight, according to the email. However, at least two agencies told workers to ignore the request and not to reply, raising doubts about the enforceability of Musk's threat. Federal workers outside of OPM do not report to the agency, and it cannot dismiss employees directly.

Uh oh. I wonder if there will be consequences for that disobedience to Musk. 

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Washington — Federal workers received an email on Saturday instructing them to document five things they accomplished in the past week, and Elon Musk said those who don't reply would risk losing their jobs.

The email from the Office of Personnel Management, or OPM, had the subject line, "What did you do last week?" It instructed recipients to reply with five bullet points of what they accomplished last week, excluding any classified information, and asked workers to include their supervisor in their response.

Musk, who is overseeing the White House's Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, said in a post on X that "Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation." He said the directive was "Consistent with President [Trump's] instructions." The email itself did not include the threat of forced resignation.

The deadline to reply is Monday at midnight, according to the email. However, at least two agencies told workers to ignore the request and not to reply, raising doubts about the enforceability of Musk's threat. Federal workers outside of OPM do not report to the agency, and it cannot dismiss employees directly.

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In a follow up post, Musk wrote that "the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write." 

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Newly sworn-in FBI Director Kash Patel told his employees in an email Saturday that they should "pause any responses" to the OPM memo.

"FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information," Patel wrote in a message obtained by CBS News. "The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes, and will conduct reviews in accordance with the FBI procedures. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses."

 

Oh no, there's dissent within the ranks.  

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toomuchbaloney said:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-doge-federal-employees-document-work-resign/

My veteran friend received this email.  He asked his active duty supervisor if he should go to the office to complete this official request and if he was going to be paid for the OT this created.  

Uh oh. I wonder if there will be consequences for that disobedience to Musk. 

 

Oh no, there's dissent within the ranks.  

Oh no. Looks like Patel isn't such a evil fascist after all!! 

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Crusades said:

Oh no. Looks like Patel isn't such a evil fascist after all!! 

Hahahaha

https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/02/23/g-s1-50398/usaid-employees-leave

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The Trump administration is putting nearly all of USAID's 4,700 full-time employees on paid administrative leave at midnight Sunday and will subsequently terminate 1,600 of those positions as part of a "reduction in force," according to a memo that was widely distributed to agency staff Sunday afternoon and later published on the USAID website.

The memo says that the terminated positions will be U.S.-based.

In addition, it states that there will be a "voluntary" program for full-time employees stationed abroad to return to the United States.

Our brand new department of government efficiency is tiny but consuming $10 million dollars per week creating chaos and economic uncertainty.  They have decided, without providing a speck of evidence that this agency is full of fraud and waste. 

Putin is glad to have that USAID assistance to Ukraine shut down.  Trump delivered for Putin again.  

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https://apnews.com/article/pentagon-hegseth-firing-chairman-lawyers-6bead3346b1210e45e77648e6cbc3599

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Monday that he was replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he didn't think they were "well-suited" to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

I'm guessing that Trump loyalists rather than attorneys loyal to the constitution and rule of law are better suited to provide that guidance, in the eyes of the unqualified DUI hire that's running the DOD.  Hegseth is also pretty sure that the military promotes people just because they are black and feels a need to fix that so that readiness isn't harmed.  LOL

 

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 Trump is proposing selling access to citizenship. He plans to create a "gold card", similar to a "green card" that would serve as a pathway to citizenship. It would cost around $5 million.

Who has that kind of money? Professional criminals and oligarchs. 

The guy yucking it up with Trump is the Commerce Secretary. 

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nursej22 said:

 Trump is proposing selling access to citizenship. He plans to create a "gold card", similar to a "green card" that would serve as a pathway to citizenship. It would cost around $5 million.

Who has that kind of money? Professional criminals and oligarchs. 

The guy yucking it up with Trump is the Commerce Secretary. 

I guess tweets by professional Trump  critics now pass as reliable news sources.

You may want to read a news article that provides context to the Gold Card idea and about the program it'd be replacing.

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Helping AN members with immigration info, I've frequented U.S. immigration law website periodically.    The EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program has existed since 1990's to stimulate the U.S. economy through job creation and capital investment by foreign investors able to apply for green card. Minimum was $1 million + $800,00 for job creation. Must pass  biometric and FBI background check. At one time, limited to rural areas or those with 150% unemployment.

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Under this program, investors (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) are eligible to apply for lawful permanent residence (become a Green Card holder) if they:

  • Make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States; and
  • Plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.

 

Trumps upping it to $5 million. 

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Beerman said:

I guess tweets by professional Trump  critics now pass as reliable news sources.

You may want to read a news article that provides context to the Gold Card idea and about the program it'd be replacing.

The two clips I posted showed Trump speaking about his new gold cards. 

It seems you are saying Trump is not a reliable news source. Now that is something we can agree on. 

I found this news article. 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/here-s-what-to-know-about-trump-s-5-million-immigration-gold-card/ar-AA1zQYhv?ocid=BingNewsSerp

According to the article and Commerce Secretary Lutnick, the Trump plan would replace the EB-5 program. There were no details about vetting. 

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Beerman said:

I guess tweets by professional Trump  critics now pass as reliable news sources.

You may want to read a news article that provides context to the Gold Card idea and about the program it'd be replacing.

Is that an example of dismissing a citation without discussion of the content of the citation?  Telling a member to look something up is not discussion.  

I think that a member recently complained about that sort of thing. 

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toomuchbaloney said:

Is that an example of dismissing a citation without discussion of the content of the citation?  Telling a member to look something up is not discussion.  

I think that a member recently complained about that sort of thing. 

A tweet isn't a citation worthy of discussing, in my opinion.  

 

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