"For Trump, it’s explicitly about retribution. It’s about the people that he felt were frustrating and obstructing him last time, and now he is going to settle the score." -- @donmoyn.bsky.social
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He learned how to make people believe his lies from the wrestling movement. They started faking moves and everyone loved it even though they knew it was fake. They faked/acted bad and good guys and people believed it. Trump is doing the same.
He can remove the people that were political appointees, but he can't remove civil servants, they are protected by some pretty strong rules regarding removal.
That’s what Schedule F does - it redefines all Executive Branch staff as political appointees so he can fire them at will. Stop thinking that Trump is dumb - he’s spent four years planning for this moment, and he now knows where the guardrails aren’t and how to defeat the ones that are still there.
We knew this; he's said as much and so have his supporters. This will be about two things: amassing as much money as possible, and getting revenge for every slight, grievance, or punishment he suffered forever. The rest will be icing on the cake for him and his followers.
I’m wondering if the supporters will balk at the revenge agenda when they can’t afford anything. Like maybe demand he do his job instead of being the playground bully who’s feelings got hurt.
If you are truly innocent, there is nothing to fear. So tell me, why do you raise your shield for those who may have broken the law? Do you stand for justice or against it?
I'm outraged knowing our lawmakers never had common sense & decency enough to enact laws making it illegal for convicted felons, serial sexual abusers, and those indicted on insurrection and/or theft/obstruction of highly classifed materials (treason) FROM RUNNING FOR POTUS UNTIL FULLY EXONERATED.
Love the picture. Putin would be in the ring, shirt off, with a manufactured spectacle. Trump is happy not to have to take his shirt off and thinks that sitting ringside gives him some weird cred. Both are fantasists.
Ah yes, the "Trump Revenge Tour 2024"—because nothing says leadership like turning the presidency into a personal vendetta. It’s less about progress and more about pettiness, but hey, who needs a functional government when you’ve got a score to settle? 🙄
Yeah, I think we all understand this... so how do we stop/fight it? That's what I need to see, some concrete steps on what we can do to make it hard/impossible for retribution to occur?
And please don't say vote, cause that shits two years away. I need action items now.
i feel the best thing to do is to just ignore his ass the next 4 years. no watching him on tv or listening to him online. if 1/2 the country tunes him out, his RATINGS will go to shit.
nothing he loves more than ratings. lets take that away from him!!
Only obstacle…..civil servants have laws protecting them. There is a thing call Wrongful Termination lawsuit…….these will flow freely if folks are fired as retribution……costing American taxpayers billions…..
And just got into it with a family member who unfortunately I have to live with who insists the economy sucks, was better under trump, that P2025 is nothing, prices will go down, yada yada yada. Told them better keep receipts!!
If the republic survives this next four years, we need to once again reign in the power of the executive and put some real teeth into checks and balances.
The next four years will be tough, and Trump will push the boundaries of not just legality but our humanity.
All the executive orders need to stop. Seems a president could executive order himself right up to complete power; a king. Oh wait, is that what he’s doing? 👑
Yes, Start the #resistance in your city, gather friends and family. Organize a march or a protest.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen. Everyone needs to start now.
It's another "Meet Donald Trump Day".
We have NO idea WHAT he'll do 🤷♂️
Well, except maybe all the horrible things a deranged career criminal SAID he would do, but other than that....
Keep an Open Mind/ Give him a chance.
You sure?
“I believe that the president has learned from this case. The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Senator Collins, Impeachment ONE, 02/2020.
Any MAGA 'loyalist' who gets a job after someone has been fired for no reason will be fired in the next Democratic administration. Seems like a bad precedent for a multitude of reasons.
Now Musk is publishing names of federal employees that he is saying should be fired. One of those workers had to shut down her social media because of negative attention. This is how the next administration is going to be running things. Disgusting.
There will inevitably be a person or persons that will lose their job and near-retirement pension in this 'retribution'. And the events of the fictional world of "Falling Down" will play out.
Trump is having trouble filling cabinet positions. Civil Service employees do the every day work to keep the government running. They aren’t partisans. Unless, Trump wants to destroy the federal government? 🤔 Be careful what you wish for cult.
If it didn't cause so much damage you'd almost say "right magats, do your worst get everything you want!!" And when it turns sour after 4 years you could say see, told ya so, now let the adults take charge
Because I got caught doing bad things I’m going to gaslight my way in to the presidency again and make a bigger mess for holding me accountable! (As he applies more tanning cream on his face)
If you remember one of Trump's lawyers said Trump had be impeach by the Senate in order to be charged with a crime.
Well he's President can they impeach him then?
Makes me wonder if posting in #bluesky is preaching to the choir - we yelled about #Project2025 on Xitter for a full YEAR before msm picked it up. Clearly it wasn’t enough to make enough people care about our civil services/workers ! I fear it’s going get ugly and I feel pretty powerless now…. 🫤
Read my second comment above. How specifically can we act? Schumer and Jeffries are both my district but I’ve joined many protests outside Schumer’s bldg- he’s never once come out to speak and our calls get nowhere either. Frustrated 😣
Y'all gotta remember, trump has almost lost EVERY single battle he has fought (accept winning the presidency twice, and thats solely on the fact that idiots voted for him)i kinda have my doubts about him getting revenge, the dude is dumb as fuck.
His billionaire cabinet members aren't half as smart as they think they are and know nothing about running massive government departments. If the senior civil service people are fired, absolute chaos will result. (Then again, maybe that is precisely the plan.)
Hopefully just two if we can regain the House, anything through Congress can become gummed up, and EO's can be negated when a new President takes office.
People acting like this guys going to live to 120,how many 6'3,300 pound 80 years olds do you see walking around .Trump dies ,Maga dies.Its a house of cards.
Probably right. However, filling those tens of thousands of jobs with trumpets is one huge step towards making America a fascist dictatorship and that is his goal
Former Commissioner Roosevelt will be rolling in his grave with this going in. He did so much to turn the CS around, make it merit-based instead of favor-based, etc. I hope Trump gets haunted by him. TD loved to hear himself talk.
This lays out what’s coming pretty well. After the first round of cuts, there will be a lot of pressure on remaining employees to become loyalist Maga’s, or no job.
I've seen Elon make a similar face and lick his lips before a lapdance & is bummed me out. Hypothetically, possibly, in a video game, don't arrest me in the future.
Look at Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dumb admiring a pro wrestler, fantasizing about being like him. After the attempted assassination, Trump2Old realized he had peed his Depends and looked pathetic, quickly pumping his fist and chanting "fight" because ConOld is ever vigilant about image. Reality TV.
It's about starting a fire, fanning the flames and stepping back to gleefully watch the ensuing chaos. This pattern of behaviour is disturbing, and quite frankly, indicative of a sick mind.
I agree, yet somehow repeating these things over and over generates high anxiety. Can we start looking at next steps people can follow, such as calling or writing senators to push for the FBI to vet all cabinet nominees.
I'm hoping that he wastes 2 years doing nothing but trying to get even. Hopefully he will piss off more people, and we can win back the House and Senate. Then we'd better get to work!
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https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2024/04/opm-issues-final-rule-schedule-f-protections/395463/
How weak and impotent must they be?
Just a guess...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/11/05/fact-check-theodore-roosevelt-partially-blinded-boxing-match/6280451001/
And please don't say vote, cause that shits two years away. I need action items now.
nothing he loves more than ratings. lets take that away from him!!
I can see why that must bother him.
#meme #satire
The next four years will be tough, and Trump will push the boundaries of not just legality but our humanity.
Remember to remain NON-VIOLENT.
Use your voice and your pen. Everyone needs to start now.
We have NO idea WHAT he'll do 🤷♂️
Well, except maybe all the horrible things a deranged career criminal SAID he would do, but other than that....
Keep an Open Mind/ Give him a chance.
“I believe that the president has learned from this case. The president has been impeached. That’s a pretty big lesson.”
Senator Collins, Impeachment ONE, 02/2020.
At least Gabbard is taking a picture for later.
Well he's President can they impeach him then?
Bully says, "Hey, they hurt me first!" It's meant to justify all further violence (or whatever).
We need to take down those pillars.
"What can you do for ME?"
"What have you done for ME lately?"
and now
"I'm coming after you. Unless..."