OMB freezes all disbursements / USAID shutdown / GOP begs for exceptions for their states

[Carolina Fever]

Can anyone find a precedent for a Fortune 500 company (a) issuing a directive that freezes payments indefinitely, and then (b) rescinds the directive THE FOLLOWING GODDAMN DAY because every person in the free world pointed out how stupid the directive was?

Giant companies have been sent straight to bankruptcy over far less incompetence than this. Godalmighty, anyone defending this train wreck of an administration must have no experience whatsoever with complex business decision-making.

Did they rescind the directive or just the memo for the directive?

 

[ChapelHillSooner]

The biggest indictment of the modern news media is that the most likely source of that headline is The Onion.

I've long thought that The Onion needs to add in a section that is just as ridiculous as their normal articles but are all absolutely true.

 

[SnoopRob]

I've long thought that The Onion needs to add in a section that is just as ridiculous as their normal articles but are all absolutely true.

Best April 1st edition idea ever.

 

[lawtig02]

Best April 1st edition idea ever.

The only challenge while Trump is in office will be coming up with stories absurd enough to be questioned.

 

[superrific]

I've long thought that The Onion needs to add in a section that is just as ridiculous as their normal articles but are all absolutely true.

They've done that.

Muscleman Put In Charge Of World's Fifth-Largest Economy

SACRAMENTO, CA—Political observers are struggling to understand exactly how, on Oct. 7, Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born, movie-star muscleman with no political experience, was elected to govern the state of California, the world’s fifth-largest economic region.

theonion.com

 

[zeuxis]

I've long thought that The Onion needs to add in a section that is just as ridiculous as their normal articles but are all absolutely true.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/

 

[altmin]

 

[Icky Mettle]

One of my only sources of hope for the next 4 years is that Trump & friends didn't learn enough from term 1 and the ineptitude will again be enough to stop a significant amount of the harm that Trump would like to do.

I'm not confident that it will happen, but I'd like to think I'm hopeful.

The problem is that this time around, the ineptitude appears to be staggering. And that can lead to all kinds of consequences.

 

[BlooVooDoo]

So the clown show has rescinded the freeze.

A bunch of total pussies.

 

[donbosco]

The problem is that this time around, the ineptitude appears to be staggering. And that can lead to all kinds of consequences.

Unfortunately they have a playbook.

 

[Carolina Fever]

Trump blinked.

 

[CFordUNC]

Trump blinked.

He is an enormous coward and has been his entire life. He is all bluster. Every single time someone actually decides to punch him on the nose, he folds like the cheap tent cuck pussy he is. Problem is, not enough people are willing to throw the punch, for whatever reason. Once Trump is gone and the Republican Party is in total ashes, they are one day going to look back and wonder why so scared shitless of a soft, obese, make up wearing, diaper shitting, girdle oh so scared shitless of a soft, obese, makeup caked, diaper shitting, girdle wearing wuss like Trump. There are going to be plenty of Republicans desperate to convince the rest of us that they were big, tough, strong, manly masculine men all along – but every single one of us is going to remember that they all got down on their knees over and over and over for Donald Trump.

It ain’t like Republicans have been soiling themselves in fear of an actual strong man tyrant like a Joseph Stalin. They’ve been doing so in fear of someone whose body composition is 86% double quarter pounder with cheese and 14% Cheeto dust masquerading as makeup.

 

[Healing]

Unfortunately they have a playbook.

And it’s an evil playbook, but the lingering hope, amidst the darkness, is that this is truly the most incompetent and backbiting bunch of sociopaths to ever populate the government. I think the darkness will get much deeper, for a while. But, sociopaths and the pathologically insecure eventually knife each other, unless they have rigid structure. There’s a reasonable probability the shear quantity of grift, corruption, and cruelty, causes a collapse, of its own weight. Trump is far too disorganized to maintain a lockstep drive towards every evil will of P2025. The ultimate danger lies in whether Trump can pass the maga fever on to Vance, or another charismatic, yet smart and organized, godhead.

I truly believe we’re witnessing our brush with Nazism. My touch of sanguine lies in the fact its figurehead is a man obsessed with wealth, who leverages racism and bigotry, and not the other way around.

 

[mpaer]

The danger lies in whether Trump can pass the maga fever on to Vance, or another charismatic, yet smart and organized, godhead.

I

The scary part

 

[1moretimeagain]

It’s wild how many things the Trump administration has issued and walked back over the past week. Dems seem pumped up that a lot of Trump’s actions have thus far been derailed. However, I’m not sure you get an electoral benefit without Trump actually making the mess he’s attempting to make,

 

[Zoo_View]

He is an enormous coward and has been his entire life. He is all bluster. Every single time someone actually decides to punch him on the nose, he folds like the cheap tent cuck pussy he is. Problem is, not enough people are willing to throw the punch, for whatever reason. Once Trump is gone and the Republican Party is in total ashes, they are one day going to look back and wonder why so scared shitless of a soft, obese, make up wearing, diaper shitting, girdle oh so scared shitless of a soft, obese, makeup caked, diaper shitting, girdle wearing wuss like Trump. There are going to be plenty of Republicans desperate to convince the rest of us that they were big, tough, strong, manly masculine men all along – but every single one of us is going to remember that they all got down on their knees over and over and over for Donald Trump.

It ain’t like Republicans have been soiling themselves in fear of an actual strong man tyrant like a Joseph Stalin. They’ve been doing so in fear of someone whose body composition is 86% double quarter pounder with cheese and 14% Cheeto dust masquerading as makeup.

Unfortunately, he has 10’s of millions of fanatical supporters.

 

[nycfan]

 

[Centerpiece]

 

[mpaer]

UNC had-maybe has-a 5million dollar a year AID contract

 

[nycfan]

“… The budget memo calling for a pause in federal spending on an unspecified number of programs effective the next day was issued without the knowledge of senior staff, people familiar with its release said, even though they were forced to quickly defend it.

A White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Office of Management and Budget memo was “poorly written” and “too vague, so it left everything up to interpretation.”

The memo wasn’t run by many top advisers in the West Wing, including deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, before it was issued, according to people familiar with what happened.

“Memos are supposed to offer guidance, and this was the opposite of guidance,” the official said. It suggested, for example, that $3 trillion in federal spending needed more scrutiny and that most programs could be on the chopping block aside from Social Security and Medicare.

Republican lawmakers immediately defended the spending freeze but they were hit with questions from constituents about veterans programs being halted as well as potential cuts to Medicaid, which provides benefits to low-income Americans and many with disabilities. …”

Trump, Facing Two Crises in His Second Week, Spreads the Blame Around

The second week of his second presidency shows how an administration moving at lightning speed deals with sudden challenges: by going on offense.

www.wsj.com