Trump is set to fulfill the Project 2025 vision for destroying the civil service: “The point of having a protected cadre of career civil service employees is to preserve expertise within government. It’s clear that doesn’t matter to this administration.” open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... - ThreadSky

joycewhitevance.bsky.social • 14 hours ago

Trump is set to fulfill the Project 2025 vision for destroying the civil service: “The point of having a protected cadre of career civil service employees is to preserve expertise within government. It’s clear that doesn’t matter to this administration.” https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/the-week-ahead-5f6?r=5n3e

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grandpadavid.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I'm beginning to think Russell Vought and Curtis Yarvin seriously thought all government employees were fungible drones, easily replaceable with loyalists. Not researchers with decades of hard-won skills.

jpacek.bsky.social•13 hours ago

"We can just replace them with AI" #TraitorTrump

dm-author.bsky.social•14 hours ago

😡 🖕🏻Trump

schactrolee-75.bsky.social•12 hours ago

This mad king wannabe couldn’t spell expertise

zferrell.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Civil servants are low-hanging fruit.

They're bureaucrats, sitting around doing nothing all day. Paper pushers. An easy target for both a nihilist hatred of government, and the jesters who like to poke fun at civil servants.

It's like lawyer jokes. Funny, until you need one.

alienjawdee.bsky.social•14 hours ago

So, does this sick old man believe that he is appointed by God?
If he does, he is very, very sick.

coltsfan62.bsky.social•9 hours ago

He’s so corrupt and insane. 😡👎🔥

etocrm.bsky.social•12 hours ago

I know we have the power, but currently, Congress does so they need to put their big panties on and get their control back.

shopgirl2694.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We need to rid ourselves of the traitorous Trump and hos band of authoritarians. We are in deep peril, and about half the country are still lala-ing through their days. End of times.

martwest.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Expertise is considered a threat apparently.

cardiffsurf.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Realizing his funeral will be as empty as King Lear's!

kathyjs.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The key word is "expertise ".

bjmcgee.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Thank you for linking project 2025 to one of his manufactured crisis. We need more of the from the pundits.

fog627.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Off with his head…

itsabbottime.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Sort Of reminds me of a Disney movie. Is there an apple on the table beside him?

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Just read an excellent article in the Guardian with this observation:

“There are currently people in America who are racist, not because they actually think other races are inferior, but because they think it will advance their careers” 🙁

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/20/american-dream-trump-canada

lebt.bsky.social•14 hours ago

The question is still in the room. How can the courts and congress remove this scourge on our nation and constitutional democracy.

demsaregoodpeople2.bsky.social•7 hours ago

what i don't get is in 3 years this will all be a bad nightmare...

kefarodz.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The toad

coreheadlines.com•14 hours ago

victorytwin.bsky.social•13 hours ago

The attack on one is an attack on all!!

We ride at dawn!

American Way, UNITED🇺🇸🥁🇺🇸🥁

thealextrifier.bsky.social•11 hours ago

#StopProject2025 #VoteAgainstTrumpsWishes #VA41 https://secure.actblue.com/donate/flip-the-41st

lotsagrands.bsky.social•14 hours ago

🤬😔

tbirdlady67.bsky.social•1 hour ago

The "deep state" is a man named Russell Vought. He has the real levers of powers as the acting director of OPM and the Senate-confirmed director of OMB.

danamasse.bsky.social•10 hours ago

It's an attack engineered by enemies to America.

poetdevotee.bsky.social•10 hours ago

If he continues with this bullshit, he will have fired and caused consulting firms to lay off millions of people.

How is our economy going to handle that? There are no OTHER jobs for these people. KC, MO gov't employees lost their jobs and there are NO MORE JOBS. Not in KC. And contractors there?

amstermom.bsky.social•7 hours ago

California may introduce its own agency to fund health research. Mabe blue states need to get together and figure out how they can keep health, climate, and even weather expertise going if the feds will limit themselves to what pleases Trump and the oligarchs.

cvilletownie.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Institutional and historical knowledge is an underrated aspect whether in government or private business. If retained it creates efficiency and you don’t have to start from scratch for everything.

saqz007.bsky.social•14 hours ago

I doubt if trump sees sagging jowls below his fantasy of himself as king.

bbow75.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Civil service workers are -
*finding new cures for diseases
*keeping food safe to eat
*making sure our Social Security checks are sent
*keeping airports safe
*fixing infrastructure
*taking care of our parks
*keeping an eye on the weather
*making sure there are safety rules at work
( too long 😧)

jrfree.bsky.social•13 hours ago

bozone23.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Sign this petition.

https://ImpeachTrumpNow.com

bozone23.bsky.social•14 hours ago

These non-profit organizations are resisting Project 2025.

Americans United for Separation of Church and State
@americansunited.bsky.social

Freedom From Religion Foundation
@ffrfaction.bsky.social

American Civil Liberties Union
@aclu.org

Please consider joining and/or donating.

karlnintendostar.bsky.social•13 hours ago

If we left-wingers die, it will be up to Canada, UK, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Europe, Asia, Africa to invade the USA and liberate it from Trump...! They can rebuild when the penis-testicle white male MAGA regime is dead...

de24.bsky.social•1 hour ago

He has Hegseth at the helm.

sobrietyshared.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Sickening!

pyoter.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Exactly, an expert Civil Service wld interfere with all their plans to turn the country into a white, male, right-wing, Christian theocracy. Or in short, the Handmaid's Tale...

Not without one hell of a fight, tho!

sampaine.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Project 2025 is a blue print for tyranny. The question is, will Americans tolerate a Tyrant?

spanymom.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Unmoored, civil war, dark place, alone, fearful, naive, digital era, autocracy: I don’t know what to call this moment. My disappointment lies in the voters and all elected representatives. How can so many people abandon the constitution and our country.

womenwhovote.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I’d love for reporters to start asking the self proclaimed Christian administration what biblical doctrine is guiding whatever decisions they make. And be prepared with scripture that pertains to the subject.

woreally.bsky.social•2 hours ago

Good thing he didn't know about it

Wow, dodge that bullet

Unfortunately, it ricochet off republican stupidity & got us in the backside

truthteller54.bsky.social•4 hours ago

The strategy was to REPLACE anyone who would tell the KING that he has no clothes.

nycrogue.bsky.social•14 hours ago

When you are an idiot everything seems simple.

None of them have any idea of the complexity of a large organization or how to run it.

blackskymonkey.bsky.social•13 hours ago

It's the Dunning-Kruger effect. The vast majority of stupid people don't know they're stupid.

classicnal.bsky.social•14 hours ago

He doesn't care, but even if he did, he's too stupid to understand the impact of what he's doing.

kellihammer.bsky.social•14 hours ago

https://youtu.be/u5gFRe24kFU?si=hBOJrz2J1aEmG7p1

ggl25.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Understatement! Expertise is not valued.

jchedj.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Here's another lie they push and for the life of me I cannot understand why people obey. There are people who thrive on having a "BOSS",others ARE to stupid and useless who must have another person tell them how to live aka HOA neighborhoods! You want me to believe People are not just plain stupid ?

usasocal.bsky.social•7 hours ago

The burger king!

hockey5.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Get ready for religious control if they complete their Project 2025! White Christian Nationalists political power!

lesleych.bsky.social•13 hours ago

47 hates experts. They have been known to question his innate genius and to insist on providing factual evidence that discourages his brilliant, shoot from the hip style. Another good reason to smack down Harvard—we need to create fewer wonks!

idummkopp.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Correct.

freefran.bsky.social•13 hours ago

🇺🇸 Get Rid! ✊

chubbyavocado.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It’s stunning watching his remaining supporters twist themselves into knots defending his wanton destruction of the very governmental infrastructure they depend on.

beetsbluecheese.bsky.social•13 hours ago

I have an 83 yr old Trump supporting neighbor, a disabled widow with a disabled son that 100% survives thanks to federal/state services. She remains firm on Trump and says "in the end things will all work out". I've stopped trying to convince her that The End will not be kind to her, or her family.

lesleych.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Interesting watching the faces of his toadies. Sometimes it’s really hard to keep the mask on.

mayhem2.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Trump Russia regime would never be King.Trump look in the mirror and all he see is an empty vessel of rot

blogforiowa.bsky.social•14 hours ago

More than "doesn't matter" their actions show they are in active opposition to preserving expertise and in general, oppose anything that works. I think our messaging should move to "actively oppose" instead of the more benign "doesn't matter" or "they don't care." They care about destroying things.

cometsolar.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Tyrants hate academics and believe they know everything that is needed to run society. They believe in their own infalibility and seek to remove any evidence to the contrary. Americans need to recognize they are heading into tyranny.

blandcru.bsky.social•14 hours ago

And when things fall apart (depts don't work, projects don't happen, payments aren't made), the gop can point and say "oh look the govt doesn't work, we need to privatize this program! I know a guy that can help..."

rbrown5518.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The newest "Shameful Figure" in history is Lard-Butt DJT, whose actions, decisions, or policies are widely condemned as immoral, unethical, or harmful, often leading to widespread suffering or injustice

vulgarfreudian.bsky.social•14 hours ago

“Better Red than Expert” - Trump’s Great Lumpenproletarian Cultural Revolution.

comen-tator.bsky.social•5 hours ago

With the new revelation on hegseth, the GOP has another chance to put a stop to trump's reign of abuse of them, the government, and OUR Country ... this could be their last chance to keep themselves from a humiliating defeat and fall from any chance of maintaining themselves as a political force!

comen-tator.bsky.social•5 hours ago

His obvious Obstruction of Justice, Abuse of Power, acceptance of Bribes is more evident than ever before, as hard as it is to imagine that they couldn't see that, all the way back in his 1st term in office!
Last chance to NOT go under the bus, GOP!
He won't think twice about doing it to you!

axelfish.bsky.social•13 hours ago

jimsamuel.com•13 hours ago

Expertise gets in the way for people like Trump.

michiganf4n.bsky.social•8 hours ago

Expertise absolutely does matter to them. It matters because experts will say no and tell them (and the public) things they don't want to hear.

So, from their point of view, all experts must be purged because experts are an enemy.

ottawadad.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It doesn't matter damage is done! Before he dies he will communicate he pulled the biggest con on USA, bigger than religion! Even if he dies today he's won. That's why doesn't care and golfs everyday. Funny part is he told everyone. Education and critical thinking is not the USA's forte. Just saying

shoebillstork24.bsky.social•11 hours ago

Trump cannot bear to acknowledge anyone else in the world knows more than he does. So he fires smart, experienced people and installs ignorant sycophants. As bad as this is damaging the US, what happens when he clashes with other malignant despots?

magafree.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Not only to create and preserve expertise within government but to make government administration non-partisan and fair to all citizens. Trump means to corrupt government to benefit himself and other oligarchs. He’s already done it.

wrennco.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Let’s kick him to the curb before he can fulfill the vision.

wrennco.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Of ya, the PROJECT 2025 that he said numerous times that he had NO KNOWLEDGE. Seems that is an impeachable offense right there. Add it to the list!!

japulver.bsky.social•13 hours ago

#DOGEIsTheFraud

dand-ri.bsky.social•14 hours ago

For an authoritarian, the civil service exists only to give him the opportunity to reward and/or punish people. It’s an extension of his power.

dwood1026.bsky.social•14 hours ago

It’s not an administration it’s a regime! Just a small correction we can’t normalize cheetolini he’s a dicktator flat out and he has destroyed our rights and constitution it’s a regime!

biterabbit.bsky.social•12 hours ago

We got 10 million signatures to force Congress to impeach him before so it's doable.

This one has the best language thus far:

https://www.change.org/p/impeach-trump-2025-1bf4b352-848c-4bc0-9b5d-078a7b62605c?source_location=search

rob-reiner-fan.bsky.social•14 hours ago

We do indeed have a "deep state". It is a testament to the enduring strength of the U.S. government—deep in expertise, commitment to stability, and in safeguarding democracy. It’s built on institutional knowledge and resilience. A pillar of our society, not a nefarious force.

pampalmeresq.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Make this, “We HAD a Deep State,” with impeccable expertise in their relevant areas.

jamaco.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Regime.

gotfactswiththat.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Lack of respect for expertise is dangerous. It sounds good (to some) to question all expertise in favor of our own “research”. The trouble is, would you trust a doctor w/o an MD? Then why would you want them for HHS Sec or CDC Dir? Trust a fin. advisor w/o a degree? How about to head the FED?

pghseth.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Get ready for institutional amnesia

angrypnwer.bsky.social•13 hours ago

Hmm, let me try this line: “King bless God”, I kind of like it!

fermented-baker575.bsky.social•14 hours ago

REGIME.

leafer1.bsky.social•14 hours ago

How do you spell "general strike" in American? 🇨🇦

daydreamdisaster.bsky.social•14 hours ago

grammy2006.bsky.social•14 hours ago

He’s a VERY WEAK president who should be removed from office by his own party.

psgoddard.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Republican MAGA Party has always considered the Civil Service as "Deep State". The anonymous People who ACTUALLY keep Government Running & the lights on. Literally. Trump Voters will soon find out!

minniebee.bsky.social•14 hours ago

He's gonna have to do something about that turkey-neck...

salbr29891.bsky.social•14 hours ago

What do you suggest that we do?

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