I guess technically giving a thorough report is just to give Congress all the info and rationale they may need. In 30 days this will come before Congress who will say, " Trump wants them gone, that's all the rationale we need"
Immunity relates to whether he has criminal liability for anyone unlawful act.
But if it is unlawful because it is unconstitutional (ie bc a President cannot revoke a Law passed by Congress & signed into law, as here) then the attempted firing has zero legal effect.
Every opportunity to obstruct, refuse, hinder or otherwise make their lives difficult needs to be job one. Instead of protests and riots ( I think Trump WANTS that) we stop. Throw rods in the spokes, and wrenches in the gears. Bring it all screeching to a halt no matter the circumstances.
Just keep in mind that Donnie DGAF. He defends unconstitutional acts with your TAX DOLLARS, & puts federal prosecutors in the moral dilemma of defending the f'ckwad or quitting. Constitutional violation is a deliberate feature, not a bug or accident. Watching the destruction of our Constitution.
Biden couldn't fire him. Please resear h for to fire him. He can only be fired by the board of the USPS. They are the ones who refused to fire him despite Biden urging them to do so.
All these people are pushing back against Donold Skunk are true American heroes, and Donold will never achieve anything in White House if all these true American stand together and fight back, RESIST.🌊🌊🌊🌊💙💙💙💙
100% great fightback, but is the saccharine cliché 'please reach out to me' intentionally ironic? If not, then the dark is truly upon us and all is lost. Whatever happened to 'please contact me'?
Check out RESISTBOT. It lets you send multiple messages to multiple people and agencies within seconds. Streamlines everything it makes it a lot easier to be part of the force.
Holy crap… the dems actually passed a law to secure the inspector generals positions!? Somebody was paying attention to the p2025 playbook and maneuvered a substantive change through congress to obstruct…
I remember hearing in 2022 that Congress had pushed through a range of measures specifically aimed at preventing Trump or anyone else from being able to repeat his most-egregious offenses. I didn't know this was one of the scenarios they anticipated for, but thankful they did
It was probably pretty hard for Biden and his team to think like the cruel, grifting blowhard we all know Trump to be, and they were able to anticipate a lot, but I don't think anyone dreamed he would rescind Lyndon Johnson's EO protecting against workplace discrimination. Still blows my mind
To be honest we see that kind of shit in Poland every time the government changes. Sometimes is more offensive, sometimes less but the bottom line is: top public servants, top admin positions are being swept completely. That’s a life cycle of people working in public administration.
I'm so sorry you have that happening with every transfer of power. Biden tried to make it harder for Trump to break our system. Trump seems intent on destroying everything in order to make his billionaire friends and himself richer. And of course, power. Even his voters are having second thoughts.
Here in the UK our largely unwritten system relies on our elected representatives being fundamentally honourable... When we had a government that wasn't it was virtually impossible to hold them to account. However our justice system is at least free of direct political interference.
Ours used to be somewhat honorable until the orange turd was elected, and I have hopes our judiciary can hold up. As far as accountability...well, the Supreme Court hasn't been helpful giving the idiot immunity.
Many of his voters are, but not all, I think. Some people feel so disenfranchised from their government and representatives that to them, the means justify the end. But they have different ends envisioned than Trump and the GOP party. One wants an larger slice of the pie. The other wants it all.
Then do get more professional administrators and bureaucrats, and less politically appointed administrator and bureaucrats. Not always good to have policies too close to the US pattern. Look around your neighbouring countries for reference. 👍🏻
I don’t exactly see how we can get those more professional ones. The mechanism is simple. All the people helping somehow in the election campaign are later promoted and appointed to various administrative roles as a token of gratitude of their involvement. It goes in circles.
I work for an IG, and this makes me proud. We have had a pretty rough week with all the threats to take away maxiflex and telework , and loyalty oaths has been a real gut punch
100% real. I've not been asked yet but I have heard other agencies employees have been asked to sign them and to tell on thier coworkers if they perform dei, environmental, or similar activities. Some supervisors are changing PD, position descriptions, to make them more generic to protect employees.
Amending the Constitution requires a 2/3 majority in both houses and a 3/4 majority across the States, so I don't see it happening in a Constitutional fashion.
I'm so disgusted by what you've been put through! Please know that the majority of Americans support you! And are glad you are keeping the bastards accountable! There are still federal labor lawyers within DOJ that can assist you. But, I'm sure they'll have to do it "off the record," which sucks!
I'm retiring in 2 months, I just need to get though the next few weeks. I can not be part of this shit show and I am tired of beliw inflation cost of living adjustment, no raise for 4 years now and the constant threats to shut down the government. I am tired.
This is good and necessary, but I don't think there will be a peaceful resolution to what is happening to the United States. We're going to have to start doing things we never thought we would do.
Haha well seems fitting doesn’t it? Kinda started by the same discourse.. aka electing a known fraud and bankruptcy professional let’s not forget getting reporters journeys ending in consulates..
There are numerous lawyers in federal & state courts who are suing Trump, musk, Doge etc. Courts have frozen Trump’s EOs on USAID, federal workers, data access, etc. Keep an eye on the courts.
#ferxactly no law of ours will stop them & soon no
Law of theirs can be violated with out work camp penalty.
The skies will then be filled with ashes from incinerators, in your small town, "that appear as snowflakes on structures and the ground"- from the work camp in Dachau video documentary
With Trump having had complete immunity granted to him by SCOTUS, for anything he does ‘in his official capacity’, there is absolutely nothing anyone can do to stop him or to punish him afterwards.
SCOTUS bears full responsibility for enabling this monster to act upon his worst desires.
He May Have Immunity But The People Around Don't So I Say Go After People Like Stephen Miller Or Tom Homan
Believe me They'll Get Tired Of The Bullshit Real Quick
#GoAfterThePeopleAroundTrump
#MAGAareFascist
As a practical matter there's the SCOTUS ruling & no one can argue Presidential appointments aren't an official act
There's also the embarrassing, stubborn logic stating he can't be a democracy ending tyrant trampling the laws if every judge can "tie him up in court forever" as some suggest
Please don't just share on this forum. Tell your reps in DC what you think. Resist. It only takes a few minutes and best of all..it doesn’t cost any money.
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
Just in case no one remembers, donny fired them all in the first 4 years of hell on earth. Looking back on his first term, I'd have to say the pandemic was definitely the high point of his presidency.
Thanks for sharing this. My frustration and anxiety is stemming from the fact that the Convicted Felon in the White House thinks that a less than 2% plurality election win has given him a mandate and no one will stop this insurrection through EO’s.
That’s a great idea. @aoc.bsky.social It would be great if Congressional Dems held a regular (weekly? Two days a week?) news conference like the White House press briefing, but with the truth.
I honestly think it’s time to start a new party. The Dem is a shell of itself and feels like they have barely any fight left in the tank and there’s just a feeling of helplessness when they try to go the high road just to constantly be railroaded by underhanded tactics. Why not restart and rebrand?
Kick out the old and in with the new. The old lawmakers are set in their ways and times have changed and we new lawmakers with fresh ideas that align with the new times.
Call your Congressman/women, Senators, State representatives. You can also write and email them but a call is most effective. Tell them in no uncertain terms what you expect of them. You hired them through your vote. You can also fire them. And stay on them. It does work! Volunteer if you can.
We have not yet reached that degree of fascism but we definitely have nazism. Our choices are to resolve this lawfully or a messy revolution. Some want that violence but the majority of us don’t. But we will deal with that should it come to that.
But HOW can it be resolved lawfully if democracy is now over? Has he not been re-elected? Were we not told that, in itself, would be the end of democracy?
Are we in Schrodingers' fascism where simultaneously in fascism [so we don't have to walk back what we said] & not [so DNC can still raise $$$]
Don't fall into their all or none thinking. It's a slide into fascism. We must resist and fight back lawfully. It ain't over. I hate the endless fundraising, but here we are.
My hope is the people in congress love power as much as he does and won't hand over thier power over the purse to him. Make no mistake, most are there for the money and influence and self enrichment. They won't give that up. We'll Liz Cheney did, she is a true American Hero.
My dad fought in WW2 and we aren’t anywhere near that level yet. Democracy isn’t dead yet. A lot of people are just buying into that negative rhetoric. Most of us aren’t. But it is in danger. This is but one battle in the war. There will be more but you keep fighting if you want to win.
We didn't stop anyone. The father of this shitshow is Berlusconi and in spite all of his trials, he brought back the fascist in parliament - he said so, proudly. They are governing now.
The Brits had a mini version of a vile, power crazed maniac conning everyone and shaking things up - Dominic Cummings. An insipid little man who thought he was the cleverest of them all. Not as rich but really thought he was a genius. He made us all poorer and then turned on liar Johnson
In "The Wind in the Willows," the stoats were removed from Toad Hall by a surprise attack from Toad, Badger, Rat, and Mole, who used a secret tunnel to sneak into the hall while the intruders were having a party, essentially driving them out by force in a "Battle of Toad Hall.".
His lawyers are TERRIBLE. They get destroyed over & over in uncaptured courts. SCOTUS is a MAGA-controlled disaster, but they can't help him unless/until a case is kicked up to them, and they already created a bonkers new immunity doctrine that nobody asked them for.
I'm no lawyer, but the law is pretty clear and I would think the case will be heard in DC not in Florida with Aileen Cannon. I think the IGs will get to stay in office until the law as written is followed or the case is resolved. Need a lawyer to explain this. I may or may not be correct.
Should/Can citizens email this IG to thank him for his rightful stand against this administration's illegal & unconstitutional EO's by ConvictedFelon45??
IMO WE Must stand by all Public Servants who are upholding their Oaths to the US Constitution. They/WE must not obey in advance. ILLEGITIMATE45
Get ready for a rubber stamp from the Supreme Court. Our lifetime serving unelected panel of mostly religious fundamentalists, who get to determine what is and isn’t constitutional by a power never delineated in the constitution or granted by Congress.
Or just burden him with court cases. Problem is leftists love to pick poor lawyers to fight their cases. Getting good lawyers like Jack Smith makes it much harder for Trump.
Your point? You did see his legal brief he had for Trump if it went to trail right? You know with that judge that did everything to delay it to no end and even took the case when she had no legal authority to.
Obviously not. But given all the lawyers the left/dems had going after Trump only one Jack Smith was able to get to Trump to the extent he was only able to "win" with a judge he planted who took the case as payback for her seat.
I think it's already time for SCOTUS to revisit their decision which appears to give Trump immunity from anything he does as President. We were concerned about personal things he might do while POTUS, but this (and other) is an example of governmental decisions which are blatantly self-serving.
And again, as I wrote before addressing Senate Republicans, SCOTUS had more than enough to conclude that THEIR power is in jeopardy too from this adminstration, and heaviliy incentivised to check that.
This gives me hope. They may not care about us. They certainly care about themselves.
This will be the first of many tests of the SCOTUS decision that grants a President "full immunity". Especially since the IG dismissals were blatant violations of law.
This has nothing to so with Immunity. Immunity doesn't mean that whatever he says goes, it means he can't be prosecuted for misuse of the power he has.
Here, he's trying to do something he doesn't have the power to do, and he's being told that he doesn't have that power.
You know that, and I know that, and the affected IGs know that. But he’ll still try to convince the courts otherwise, and this SCOTUS might side with him.
You're right about that, but it won't be a test of the immunity decision, it will be some brand new awful precedent treating the president like a monarch.
Complete waste of time. Trump has everything he needs to do anything he wants. The House, the Senate, the Supreme Court, all in his pocket at his beck and call.. and the DOJ in just a matter of time.
America is dead.
Yep. Stiiiiill waiting. Your ideas on how to save this country from becoming the new Nazi Germany, being that the new Adolf Hitler is in the White House.
Aaaaaaand Go...
Congress, by doing nothing about this, cedes their power not only on these issues but many more. I am especially interested in what the Republicans in Congress who voted for these measures have to say about them being openly flaunted.
The courts take forever. Pitchforks. Somebody needs to force Donnie to read a detailed description of the last days of several of history's most notorious 'dictators'. Mussolini and Ceausescu's were especially instructive.
You’d have to play it on a speaker with him tied to a chair with toothpicks in his eyes to get him to listen. My teenagers, who admittedly do not connect with history, show more of an interest than he does (my constant harping to them about finding information on your present in your past helps too)
He can't read. I don't even think he knows what he's signing. They're just putting the 2025 playbook pages in front of him and he gets out his sharpie.🤬
You seem to assume Donnie has the capability to understand what he reads. Unfortunately I believe he lacks that and several other rather common abilities like rational thinking, common sense, basic understanding of right and wrong etc.
That’s really nice. Pressure must be put on Trump & GOP allies - whoever they are - to make them see that the rule and law work in America, whether they like it or not. We need to pray for them to lose in the face of all Americans. Also, there should be a warning to the SCOTUS justices’ help.
💙I am extremely proud of this pushback against Felon47‼️He’s going to witness countless acts of the American people not sitting back and taking his bs anymore. We are fighting to take our country back, and we will RESIST‼️💙🇺🇸🔥💙🇺🇸🔥🦋
I know and it looks bleak at best. All I am hoping for is that there are enough people willing to stand against the Fanta fascist. A whole bunch of complacent people out there though not really understanding what's really happening.
one by one, people are starting to tell him to fk himself in his own face. Women and men both can easily take his power away just by telling him "shut up stupid" in whatever way they need to. I prefer taking the low way, lol. #jail4trump #blockbarrontrump #socalledpresidenttrump #boycotelon
I'll never give up fighting for our country. My gfather came here at 13 to make a better life. My father ran away at 16 to join the navy during ww2. The recruiter knew he was lying about his age and sent him to the merchant marines. Our family always supported the grand idea of America.
It does not seem to matter whether the Buffon gets pushback or not.
No one has enforced the laws for that freak show going back to 2016.
This lawless shit show ends when American start hitting back.
Trump will lock them out, revoke their access, & stop their pay. When they sue, the Supreme Court will uphold him. This may be why he's issuing these absurd EOs, so someone will sue and SCOTUS will declare Trump a Caesar.
And again, as I wrote before addressing Senate Republicans, SCOTUS had more than enough to conclude that THEIR power is in jeopardy too from this adminstration, and heaviliy incentivised to check that.
This gives me hope. They may not care about us. They certainly care about themselves.
Absolutely. Trump wants only sycophants in every branch of government. In the mind of the orange felon, congress is really unnecessary. If they can't be brought into tow, they need to be replaced or their jobs eliminated.
Yeaaaaah that's not gonna do anything. Dump has factored lawsuits into the cost of doing business. Dems need to stop whining about him not following the rules. We need to actually get in the way, likely physically.
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Immunity relates to whether he has criminal liability for anyone unlawful act.
But if it is unlawful because it is unconstitutional (ie bc a President cannot revoke a Law passed by Congress & signed into law, as here) then the attempted firing has zero legal effect.
Seems to inspire him to double down on his destruction.
#pedantsagainstTrump
Somebody named their kid Hannibal?
we need to talk about that guys parents 😅
Maybe Hannibal will have the orange dicktater for lunch.
The oath of office is mandated in the Constitution to "support this Constitution," not no president.
Way way past due.
Law of theirs can be violated with out work camp penalty.
The skies will then be filled with ashes from incinerators, in your small town, "that appear as snowflakes on structures and the ground"- from the work camp in Dachau video documentary
SCOTUS bears full responsibility for enabling this monster to act upon his worst desires.
Believe me They'll Get Tired Of The Bullshit Real Quick
#GoAfterThePeopleAroundTrump
#MAGAareFascist
As a practical matter there's the SCOTUS ruling & no one can argue Presidential appointments aren't an official act
There's also the embarrassing, stubborn logic stating he can't be a democracy ending tyrant trampling the laws if every judge can "tie him up in court forever" as some suggest
We don’t need money in politics. We just need people to participate.
https://www.nationalfinancialplan.com
He thanked the reporter and said, “If you hadn’t asked, I probably wouldn’t have found this for months!”
He doesn’t work.
"Tyrants hate this one trick!"
I guess American fascist-nazis just built different, more polite & law-abiding while definitely, totally breaking...the...law???....
Are we in Schrodingers' fascism where simultaneously in fascism [so we don't have to walk back what we said] & not [so DNC can still raise $$$]
In "The Wind in the Willows," the stoats were removed from Toad Hall by a surprise attack from Toad, Badger, Rat, and Mole, who used a secret tunnel to sneak into the hall while the intruders were having a party, essentially driving them out by force in a "Battle of Toad Hall.".
Good for them for taking a (legal) stand
This is how it's done!
IMO WE Must stand by all Public Servants who are upholding their Oaths to the US Constitution. They/WE must not obey in advance. ILLEGITIMATE45
“Land of the Free”
Hopefully people are noticing how certain world leaders aren’t playing Donni’s game and have been telling him to go fuck himself!
That’s how you handle a bully!
Ask me how I know 😉
I'm ready for a story, if you're wanting to share one!
This gives me hope. They may not care about us. They certainly care about themselves.
Here, he's trying to do something he doesn't have the power to do, and he's being told that he doesn't have that power.
Trying to get @bluesky to add Spheres (Circles or Groups) to become more organized for political activism
Contact @bluesky thru their Feedback portal and let them know that adding Spheres will streamline organization
#LetsGetOrganized
#BeTheMovement
We are not sheep or Lemmings that can just be pushed or bullied.
Push Back!
America is dead.
Aaaaaaand Go...
File lawsuits, delay, deny, ignore, and report illegal orders.
Exactly.
https://youtu.be/PVH0gZO5lq0?si=s2WoBjrOmmY249GM
Everyone taking the regime to court will paralyse the system and accelerate the appearance of the pitchforks.
The scum fascists are.
Luckily, I do not think “not #MAGA enough” is appropriate justification.
In addition I would ask what are the changing priorities that the White House is using and were they approved by congress?
There is no opposition of any substance to the incoming shitshow. All we can do is find our communities and prepare to receive the enemy.
File lawsuits, delay, deny, ignore, and report illegal orders.
Huh
Must be the new kid on the block
For him!
When is enough going to be enough for Congressional Republicans to say STOP, NO MORE!
His name is actually Hanibal!?!
Government spending & corruption is way too much and almost all govmt should be eliminated
Made me chuckle!
Don’t take his shit
Rule of Law SHOULD be the fundamental requirement supported by every citizen based on instincts for self preservation.
Without Rule of Law, your documented rights are just useless paper.
Do not obey in advance
I certainly hope so.
Through multiple impeachments and indictments.
When McConnell stole Supreme Court seats.
We had our chances. We snoozed.
Too late by 20 years.
Acting defeated is equal to obeying in advance.
Never obey in advance.
Folks acting surprised is no answer. Understanding how the system works and playing the long game is an answer.
Stopping incrementalism is an answer.
I agree with you about resistance. But we need to learn along the way.
No one has enforced the laws for that freak show going back to 2016.
This lawless shit show ends when American start hitting back.
Gonna have T-Rump's arse with some fava beans and a nice chianti.
That is perfect, Matrix, chef's kiss.
FIGHT EVERY INJUSTICE NOW!!!
This gives me hope. They may not care about us. They certainly care about themselves.
He is overwhelming the system with his flood of EOs.
After SCOTUS immunity decision, the worst that could happen to him would be that some are invalidated.
Nobody is going to be hurt for following an illegal EO, quite the opposite actually.
Supreme Court Reigning Over The United Mess.
This is clearly illegal