Trump/Admin Policies

josevolution

Slavery never happened neither did the holocaust! Historical facts are fake 

gimmesometruth27

as an amateur historian, i fucking hate this fucking administration. 

sure, let's whitewash everything that has happened and see what happens in the world in 50 years.

HughFreakingDillon

Halifax2TheMax

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Just another media anecdote. All Dems’ fault.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/22/politics/affordability-crisis-trump-voters-pennsylvania-aotm

mickeyrat

AltNatParkService adbook post

Apologies for the lengthy post, but we feel this is important to highlight.

OPM is moving to finalize rules that will dramatically reshape the federal workforce, including a revived Schedule F–style classification that reclassifies tens of thousands of career employees into a “policy/career” category with sharply reduced civil-service protections. These changes directly collide with the post-Watergate framework Congress built in the 1970s. 

After Nixon’s abuses, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 overhauled the system to reinforce merit-based hiring, create the Office of Personnel Management and the Merit Systems Protection Board, strengthen the Office of Special Counsel, and embed whistleblower protections so civil servants could report wrongdoing without being purged for political reasons.

The Trump administration’s new rules go in the opposite direction. Draft final regulations on Schedule F describe existing civil-service protections as “unconstitutional overcorrections” born out of fears of returning to the old spoils system, and assert broad Article II authority to remove tens of thousands of career workers in “policy-related” positions. 

In a separate rule, the administration is moving to exclude senior, policy-influencing employees from statutory whistleblower safeguards (an estimated 50,000 positions) making it easier both to retaliate against those who speak up and to fire them outright. 

At the same time, OPM has injected a controversial “loyalty question” into thousands of federal job applications, asking would-be civil servants how they would advance the president’s executive orders and policy priorities, a move that unions and watchdogs say turns nonpartisan public service into a political loyalty test. 

Taken together, these steps chip away at the post-Watergate protections that were designed to keep federal agencies independent, professional, and insulated from partisan purges.

You might ask, “Why would Trump want these changes, and how could they come in handy?”

A president gains enormous power when they can hire, fire, or intimidate career officials who normally operate independently. The civil service protections created after Watergate were specifically designed to prevent this, to stop presidents from pressuring agencies to hide evidence, destroy records, stall investigations, or retaliate against whistleblowers.

So when a president pushes for Schedule F–style positions, massive reclassification of employees, weakened whistleblower protections, hiring based on ideological loyalty, firing career staff “at will”, shrinking appeal rights, and politically loaded hiring questions…it naturally raises the question, “What kinds of situations would a president want this control for?” That leads directly to high-stakes issues like the Epstein files.

Let’s think about this for a moment and detail it out. The Epstein records run through multiple federal agencies, including DOJ, FBI, the Bureau of Prisons, and FOIA offices, all staffed by civil servants who normally cannot be pressured, replaced, or silenced. If protections are weakened through Schedule F–style reclassifications, politically aligned hiring questions, or the removal of whistleblower safeguards, it becomes far easier for a president to shape how sensitive records are handled. 

Officials who manage evidence, redact documents, oversee FOIA releases, or maintain investigative files could be fired or pushed aside if they raise legal or ethical objections. The more vulnerable they are to political pressure, the more influence the president has over what gets released, what gets delayed, and what gets buried in bureaucracy. 

None of this means the Epstein files will be altered or hidden, but it explains why dismantling post-Watergate protections matters, and why presidents might want the power to hire and fire the very people responsible for safeguarding politically explosive information.

mickeyrat

After President Donald Trump signed an executive order backing the “Fostering the Future” initiative, Bloomberg quoted the President boasting that his executive order would help foster youth become “wealthy, productive citizens.” And yet Bloomberg didn’t include what Trump said just before that phrase. “Faith-based non-profits are the nation’s most trusted institutions interacting with the foster-care system and practicing Christians and more,” Trump said. “Yet radical left policies in states nationwide make it much harder, not easier, for those families to open up their homes,” he went on. “That’s why with the order that we’re doing today, we’re taking the ridiculous woke policies that discriminate against Christians and families of faith.”
Religious organizations already play a significant role in America’s child-welfare system—according to the Department of Health and Human Services, there are more than 8,000 faith-based foster-care and adoption agencies operating across the country. Trump’s order will protect the right of these organizations to receive federal funding, even if they work with foster parents who discriminate against queer and trans youth. “This is devastating, given that L.G.B.T.Q.+ youth . . . are overrepresented in the foster-care population,” Kristen Martin writes. Read the full story: https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/pfJd03

josevolution

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-comey-case-dismissed-judge-lindsey-halligan/

Fuckface gets rejected again! That hack lawyer gets her ass handed to her 😂

Gern Blansten

Going after Mark Kelley now....pathetic

josevolution

This is all just to make their lives difficult and to cost them money! Petty president 

mickeyrat

We identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines.

Experts say the changes will cost lives. "The regulations are written in blood," one former official warned.

Read more: https://propub.li/4pp7yvh

OnWis97

mickeyrat said:

We identified dozens of instances in which the Trump administration’s Department of Transportation has moved to cut, weaken or delay safety regulations for cars, trucks, planes, trains and even oil pipelines.

Experts say the changes will cost lives. "The regulations are written in blood," one former official warned.

Read more: https://propub.li/4pp7yvh

Yeah, but Duffy wants the important stuff to be better.
Transportation chief offers advice to increasingly angry Americans: ‘Let’s maybe go back to an era where we didn’t wear our pajamas to the airport?’ | Fortune

Gern Blansten

So the trumpcare plan is a no go...GOP members saying they won't vote for it

I'm sure curious what was in there. My guess is that stupid proposal to pay taxpayers instead of paying subsidies.

This admin is the absolute stupidest in history. Off the chart stupidity.

mickeyrat

adjacent to the admin but hilariously ironic

https://www.wosu.org/news/2025-11-24/drugs-sneaked-into-ohio-prison-soaked-into-the-pages-of-hillbilly-elegy?fbclid=Iwb21leAORwiVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR77bnXxqg2QxJKvPOd5FEriVliVTyfh2IKiOGgNpy9EBI_YQh83rPuc_25S-Q_aem_edujg8KEKbc8sbtCLfSx9A

Vice President JD Vance's memoir, “Hillbilly Elegy,” has a storied history as a New York Times bestseller, as the then-31-year-old's introduction to the nation as a “Trump whisperer,” as a divisive subject among Appalachian scholars, and, eventually, as a Ron Howard-directed movie. Its latest role? Secretly transporting drugs into an Ohio prison.

mickeyrat

via pbs newshour..... adbook

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food.

The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

mickeyrat

Twisting military code, the Trump administration says “all orders” from the president are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to question him. https://trib.al/pWSDF7A

The comments come as Hegseth weighs court-martialing a Democratic senator for his part in a video reminding troops to follow the law.

Gern Blansten

Kegsbreath is putting himself in a hole if he takes this much further...SecDef punishing someone for mentioning "unlawful orders"....not a good look

josevolution

What a bunch of pricks every single one of them that make up the circus administration! Specially Hegs he wants so bad to start a war 

gimmesometruth27

mickeyrat said:

Twisting military code, the Trump administration says “all orders” from the president are “lawful orders,” and troops have no right to question him. https://trib.al/pWSDF7A

The comments come as Hegseth weighs court-martialing a Democratic senator for his part in a video reminding troops to follow the law.

oh the dear leader cannot be questioned, and every order from the 34 time convicted felon is legal. sounds like north korea.

Halifax2TheMax

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Bahahahahahahaha! Seems Ka$h may not be long for CCOOTWHville.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded to MS NOW, saying, “President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive Administration in history and they are doing an excellent job carrying out the President’s agenda. FBI Director Patel is a critical member of the President’s team and he is working tirelessly to restore integrity to the FBI.” 

On Tuesday, Patel was present at the White House for the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys where Trump publicly commended him, adding that he was “very busy doing a great job.” When several people applauded, the president added, “see, you’ve got a following, Kash.” 

https://apple.news/AmwAO8kYZQH2zNfNqblhKzQ

gimmesometruth27

Halifax2TheMax said:

* The following opinion is mine and mine alone and does not represent the views of my family, friends, government and/or my past, present or future employer. US Department of State: 1-888-407-4747.

Bahahahahahahaha! Seems Ka$h may not be long for CCOOTWHville.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson responded to MS NOW, saying, “President Trump has assembled the most talented and impressive Administration in history and they are doing an excellent job carrying out the President’s agenda. FBI Director Patel is a critical member of the President’s team and he is working tirelessly to restore integrity to the FBI.” 

On Tuesday, Patel was present at the White House for the annual pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkeys where Trump publicly commended him, adding that he was “very busy doing a great job.” When several people applauded, the president added, “see, you’ve got a following, Kash.” 

https://apple.news/AmwAO8kYZQH2zNfNqblhKzQ

the bigger questions are:

1. did these turkeys participate in 1/6?
2. how many millions did they give trump in exchange for the pardon?