Trump / Musk (other than DOGE)

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Trump announced Friday that he was removing Biden’s access to classified information by revoking his security clearance and stopping his daily intelligence briefings, a move that Biden took against Trump after January 6. In the social media post announcing the move, Trump recalled a tagline from his reality television era, saying, “Joe, you’re fired.”

In an interview with the New York Post published Saturday, the president said he intended to target other political rivals with the same measures, restricting New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, a symbolic move that Trump warned would “take away every right they have.”

Trump initiated a number of dismissals Friday night that also appeared to focus on revenge.

He announced aggressive plans to gut the board of trustees of the Kennedy Center, removing multiple members who he said “do not share our Vision for a Golden Age in Arts and Culture,” as well as ousting its chairman, the billionaire philanthropist David Rubenstein, an ally of Biden.

And the administration announced it had dismissed the archivist of the United States, Colleen Shogan, at Trump’s direction. While Trump had said he wanted to replace the archivist, it still amounted to a shocking move targeting Shogan, who had largely been loyal to Trump. …”
 
Tulsi Gabbard, Hegseth, RFK Jr - all fine candidates to GOP. This woman however, wholely unqualified for the job. Good thing Republicans are the party of the working man now.

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Senate Republicans cast a wary eye on Trump's nominee for labor secretary

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., said he predicts Lori Chavez-DeRemer will “lose 15 Republicans" due to her union-aligned views. Some business lobbyists are unhappy and mystified by the pick.
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“I’m not going to support her,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a senior member of the committee that will oversee her nomination, told NBC News on Monday. “I’m the national spokesman and lead author of the right-to-work bill. Her support for the PRO Act, which would not only oppose national right to work but would pre-empt state law on right to work — I think it’s not a good thing.
"And it’d be sort of hard for me, since it’s a big issue for me, to support her. So I won’t support her. I think she’ll lose 15 Republicans,” Paul said, predicting she would win some Democrats because “she’s very pro-labor.”


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The stark opposition from a Republican senator who is otherwise aligned with Trump points to the challenges ahead for Chavez-DeRemer, an unorthodox GOP pick who supported the PRO Act, which would beef up labor protections for employees to collectively bargain and expand the scope of what counts as an unfair labor practice. She has also earned qualified praise from traditionally Democratic-aligned labor groups, including the AFL-CIO.

For the same reasons, Chavez-DeRemer has drawn deep skepticism from the business lobby, which has had a strong relationship with Republicans for many years.

“My biggest concern going into a new Trump administration is the dramatic shift on labor unions, traditionally a large Democratic fundraising base,” a veteran business lobbyist said. “The nominee for labor secretary has shown previous support for anti-employer rights legislation, and there is no reason to believe that she won’t put people and policies in place to enact new employment regulations that restrict employer’s rights.
 

Trump’s acting chief of federal financial watchdog orders staff to pause activity​

Russell Vought is now acting head of CFPB, created in wake of 2008 financial crash to supervise financial companies

“Russell Vought, Donald Trump’s newly installed acting head of the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, announced on Saturday he had cut off the agency’s budget and reportedly instructed staff to suspend all activities including the supervision of companies overseen by the agency.

… In his Saturday missive, Vought ordered staff to “cease all supervision and examination activity”, going a step further than a directive issued last week by the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, whom Trump had briefly put in charge after firing Rohit Chopra.

The CFPB, which Congress created in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, supervises consumer-facing financial companies like banks, title lenders, mortgage originators and cash transfer services to prevent unfair, deceptive and abusive practices and other predatory conduct.

Vought’s order leaves much of that business activity without federal government oversight. …”
 
The USAID purge is halting vaccinations against Ebola in Africa and other pandemics increasing the likelihood of another pandemic reaching the US...not to mention the purge on NIH.



As Trump shuts down USAID missions, officials warn Ebola outbreak in Uganda will spread



Also, farmers in the Midwest are losing customers as the US Breadbasket feeds the world, in part through USAID



Shuttering of USAID could mean the end of millions in income for Midwest farm operations



Naturally, our Village Idiot (aka THE FELON) continues the raping of the US Constitution and security of the US at the behest of Pres. Musk, VP Steve Bannon, and the Board of Directors (Project 2025, Heritage Foundation). He doesn't GAF about the destruction and peril that our citizens' health, safety, and fiscal security have been placed in.
 
ChapelHillSooner said:
I know that politics is a dirty business but this goes way beyond that and is right out of an authoritarian playbook.

The thing that makes me sick at my stomach is that I know it will work against their base.
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MOAR for him and the Billionaire Bros while the country is more susceptible to pandemics, terrorism, planes falling out of the sky, inflation, financial security, and compromised health care.
 
Someone posted this to me on Facebook. Just pure propaganda without one shred of real evidence.

The part that is personally upsetting to me is that the lady who posted this is a remarkable person whom I love dearly. She has autistic twins which is how I met her. She is of mixed race and mostly liberal so when she posts stuff like this (also posts pro Tulsi Gabbard stuff) it really hits me hard.

 
Duke Mu said:
DEMS need to fight back harder. Something beyond pearl clutching. Flood the Zone with lawsuits, take out advertisements to inform citizens about the consequences on health care, terrorism, pandemics, inflation, job security.
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I dont think there is one single damned thing that Democrats or Republicans can do. This monster has a life of its own.
 

White House Criticizes Judge for Blocking Musk Team’s Access to Treasury Data​


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Trump to Impose Tariffs on All Steel and Aluminum Imports on Monday

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“… The situation could pose a fundamental test of America’s rule of law. If the administration fails to comply with the emergency order, it is unclear how it might be enforced. The Constitution says that a president “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” but courts have rarely been tested by a chief executive who has ignored their orders.

Federal officials have sometimes responded to adverse decisions with dawdling or grudging compliance. Outright disobedience is exceedingly rare. There has been no clear example of “open presidential defiance of court orders in the years since 1865,” according to a Harvard Law Review article published in 2018.

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In a statement on Saturday, Harrison Fields, a White House spokesman, called the lawsuits “frivolous” and said they were “akin to children throwing pasta at the wall to see if it will stick.”

“Grandstanding government efficiency speaks volumes about those who’d rather delay much-needed change with legal shenanigans then work with the Trump administration of ridding the government of waste, fraud and abuse,” he said. “This activist judge has resorted to locking the Senate-confirmed secretary of Treasury out of his role.”

Although the court order mandates an immediate halt to the Musk employees’ access to the Treasury Department’s payment system, it was not immediately clear when or if they would fully comply. Nor was it clear how the attorneys general would monitor the administration’s actions. …”
 
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