The Transitioning......(no, not THAT Transition, the Trump one....)

[Wat_Tyler]

Lol, ever the nitwit. I have NO OTHER LIT ACCOUNTS, no matter how many delusions you use to try to convinced yourself otherwise.

But, you do you. The whole world is laughing at you and it's a beautiful thing to watch.

https://www.hunkemoller.com/dw/image/v2/BCHL_PRD/on/demandware.static/-/Sites-hkm-master/default/dwaa68c46a/images/large/205944_17.jpg?sw=453&q=100

No, it's just us. The Few, The Proud, The Sentient Life on the Lit PB.


If these choad lickers would stick to burgling boy-turds, they'd be much less triggered.

 

[ll74]

No, it's just us. The Few, The Proud, The Sentient Life on the Lit PB.


If these choad lickers would stick to burgling boy-turds, they'd be much less triggered.

Guy who posts primarily to a forum gives opinions of others who post less.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

https://media0.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcWk5Nm9td2JkeWk0YjNlb3VtcjhzZTFtazlid2ZiazR0NXFvMHVsMiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw/SJYl9iCIlqT5mJpDJC/giphy.gif

 

[Rebel5soul]

One aspect of the Executive Orders that I've directly seen so far is that people I know:
1. Have had their lives changed overnight without flexibility - one married couple, specifically, have relied on some work from home days to assist their parent who has Alzheimer's. Their ability to do that has reduced costs AND their entire medical scheduling has been built around it. Within a week, they have been scrambling to find a solution to a problem that does not make them more productive in any way.

2. Multiple parents of kids who have had programs scrapped without notice - one had a phD program and is no longer employed without notice. One had an internship with NASA who now has to find a new path forward in their college career when that is no longer a viable option for most colleges.

These are very real things for people that Chloe cheer squad doesn't seem to understand. Previous administrations have given flexibility in their decisions and changes so people would not be fucked over like this. American citizens.

So sad. It seems no one can survive without handouts from the government.

Anyone else see what's wrong with this picture?

 

[ChloeTzang]

Another one dragged out by the scruff of the neck and tossed onto the street....

We're probably missing a lot of detail
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...-office-after-defying-white-house-2025-01-29/

 

[ll74]

Another one dragged out by the scruff of the neck and tossed onto the street....

We're probably missing a lot of detail
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...-office-after-defying-white-house-2025-01-29/

She actually has valid reasoning in her dispute, as was relayed to the WH. Law states that IGs received 30 days notice of removal....I'm certain there will be lawsuits

The dismissals, handed out less than a week after Trump took office for his second term, appeared to violate federal law, the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency said in a letter to the White House on Friday.

My question is - why couldn't the administration just provide the required notice and the toss them out?

 

[ChloeTzang]

She actually has valid reasoning in her dispute, as was relayed to the WH. Law states that IGs received 30 days notice of removal....I'm certain there will be lawsuits


My question is - why couldn't the administration just provide the required notice and the toss them out?

Actually, I have the same question. The 30 days notice is required.

Unless it's being mis-reported? I mean you could surely stand them down on full pay for 30 days prior to effective termination? Guess we'll find out when it goes to court. Or they settle. Or it's a non-event.

 

[ll74]

Actually, I have the same question. The 30 days notice is required.

Unless it's being mis-reported? I mean you could surely stand them down on full pay for 30 days prior to effective termination? Guess we'll find out when it goes to court. Or they settle. Or it's a non-event.

It's the law
From pdf - https://crsreports.congress.gov/pro...over of most political appointees is the norm

The 30-day notice requirement was established under the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-409), and
the requirement that notice include a “substantive rationale” was added by the Securing Inspector General Independence
Act of 2022 (Title LII, Subtitle A, of P.L. 117-263).

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Employment should be At Will, coming or going, employer or employee.

 

[ll74]

Employment should be At Will, coming or going, employer or employee.

Feel free to lobby to change the law.

 

[HisArpy]

Actually, I have the same question. The 30 days notice is required.

Unless it's being mis-reported? I mean you could surely stand them down on full pay for 30 days prior to effective termination? Guess we'll find out when it goes to court. Or they settle. Or it's a non-event.

There's a SCOTUS case directly on point here. Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197 (2020)

Basically it says that almost everyone in the Administrative Branch serves at the pleasure of the President and can be terminated at any time for any reason.

The Court recognized that the president may generally remove officers at will. However, the Court stated there were two exceptions to this rule. First, the president's removal power may be constrained by Congress if the officer in question is a member of an agency that shares similar characteristics to the Federal Trade Commission as discussed in Humphrey's Executor v. United States (1935). Second, Congress may constrain the president's removal power over "inferior officers with limited duties and no policymaking" role as discussed in Morrison v. Olson (1988). The Court declined to extend the exceptions to "an independent agency led by a single director and vested with significant executive power."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seila_Law_LLC_v._Consumer_Financial_Protection_Bureau

I believe the Administration is saying that the IG's aren't within either of the 2 exceptions and thus can be terminated without the 30 days notice.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

There's a SCOTUS case directly on point here. Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 591 U.S. 197 (2020)

Basically it says that almost everyone in the Administrative Branch serves at the pleasure of the President and can be terminated at any time for any reason.




I believe the Administration is saying that the IG's aren't within either of the 2 exceptions and thus can be terminated without the 30 days notice.

Which should go both ways. The person could walk out at any time without explanation or punishment.

 

[HisArpy]

Which should go both ways. The person could walk out at any time without explanation or punishment.

Which is the case in most situations other than military service or imprisonment.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Which is the case in most situations other than military service or imprisonment.

They closely resemble each other.

 

[HisArpy]

They closely resemble each other.

One and the same. Along with voluntary commitment in a mental health institution.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

One and the same. Along with voluntary commitment in a mental health institution.

Which kind of resembles many work "environments" in the 13th decade of the 20th century:

 

[ChloeTzang]

Whoever they have on the White House digital team, they're not paying them enough.

 

[ChloeTzang]

He didn’t kick them out. They will be on rotation to allow other media outlets access to the Pentagon. Would be nice if the FAA Director kicks CNN out of US airport terminals. No idea why we still allow a media outlet advocating left wing extremism, conspiracy theories and violence to be the face of America in all our airline terminals.

 

[ChloeTzang]

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Trump Train is rolling.....altho I wouldn't go so far as to say fixes, so much as problems identified and frozen...with fixes underway

 

[Politruk]

He didn’t kick them out. They will be on rotation to allow other media outlets access to the Pentagon. Would be nice if the FAA Director kicks CNN out of US airport terminals. No idea why we still allow a media outlet advocating left wing extremism, conspiracy theories and violence to be the face of America in all our airline terminals.

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Breitbart.com is a far-right news site which operates out of the U.S., London, and Jerusalem, and Conservapedia's main source of information nowadays. Well, we say news; it's more like the unwanted love child of Fox News and /pol/ who serves as an American Pravda for Donald Trump and others like him. "Screaming hateful absurdities" might be more appropriate. It was founded by Andrew Breitbart, whose death launched a bunch of idiot conspiracy theories among people who lost the ability to debate coherently a long time ago. Breitbart is basically a Nazi version of BuzzFeed.

It is inadvisable to use Breitbart as a source. Wikipedia editors have agreed to not allow Breitbart to be used as citations for facts,[2]In September 2018, Wikipedia banned the use of Breitbart as a source, as much of its news coverage was found to be unreliable, misleading and false.[3] similar to how Daily Mail was blacklisted, though it does help when discussing how horrifying Stephen "Lenin" Bannon is.[4][note 1] It's called Breitbart because the name Bannon would be too telling: Steve is basically David Duke with a little more smarts, a Goldman guy with Seinfeld money who bought the outlet to push his agenda. There is no doubt that he will be successful — in destroying the Republican Party.


New York Post:

The New York Post (or the New York comPost) is an American daily tabloid newspaper that has operated continuously since its founding by Alexander Hamilton in 1801.[1] It is the oldest continuously-published daily in the US,[2] and the 13th oldest newspaper in the country. Throughout its history, the Post has switched political leanings several times; for much of the 20th century, it was a liberal, actively pro-labor paper. Then, in 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought the paper and turned it into New York City's voice of wingnut yellow journalism. (Similarly, his British paper The Sun was originally a left-wing paper which evolved out of the trade union-affiliated Daily Herald.) It is a favorite for anti-libertarian big government conservatives of the North who support gun control for black people.

Today, the paper is known for its racy front pages, which include screaming headlines[3] and juxtapositions that would be considered inappropriate in other papers.[note 1]


OANN:

One America News Network, also abbreviated as OANN or OAN News,[note 1] is a far-right, pro-Trump, ultraconservative propaganda media outlet founded by Robert Herring Sr., the founder and owner of American Wealth Entertainment.https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png

The idea behind OANN came directly from AT&T executives who wanted a second right-wing network to compete with Fox News.[3] Ninety percent of OANN's revenue stream comes from AT&T-owned television platforms, especially DirecTV.[3] OANN's lawyer, Patrick Nellies, stated in court, "If Herring Networks, for instance, was to lose or not be renewed on DirecTV, the company would go out of business tomorrow."[3]

OANN is like Fox News but more unhinged: on-air personalities have flirted with the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, and the network even used QAnon emojis in one of their promotions.[4][5] Conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec, best known for pushing Pizzagate, was a reporter at OANN from 2018 to 2021.[6] In July 2019, one of OANN's reporters, Kristian Rouz, was reported to be simultaneously working for the Russian state propaganda outlet Sputnik.[7] They proudly proclaim that they know the difference between an apple and a banana.[8]

OANN was launched on July 4, 2013 and "provides an independent source of credible national and international news around the clock." They are a redundantly self-proclaimed "dependable and reliable source of credible news reporting."[9] OANN says that it delivers "just the facts, empowering you to form your own beliefs" and has been praised for their reporting on current events.[10] However, they fail with political news, promoting extreme conservative causes and engaging in constant liberal and left-wing smearing and bashing to draw a more far-right conservative audience.

 

[Politruk]

Isn't the Senate going to reject any of Trump's kakistocrats?!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Isn't the Senate going to reject any of Trump's kakistocrats?!

Nope. Any GOP senator who votes no will be primaried, and with Trump and Musk's backing. Their political careers will be kneecapped, as they should be.

Murkowski is on the hit list. Mitch is going anyhow. Collins probably escapes, altho she shouldn't, but without her we get a Democrat, so whatever. Tillis is safe until the runup to his next election, when he will be primaried. Let's see if anyone else dares to go against American voters

 

[ChloeTzang]

The Census head wasn't the only one. The Utilities CEO, and Acting Head of Treasury Abruptly Resign

https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/202...ptly-resign-after-trump-takes-office-n2185063

 

[Politruk]

Actually, I have the same question. The 30 days notice is required.

Trump is . . . impatient.