Donald Trump Just Signed an Order
Gutting Seven More Federal Agencies
The order targets the funding for Voice of America, which has been in the Trump administration’s crosshairs in recent weeksIn an executive order signed late Friday, !@#%^ effectively dismantled seven more federal agencies, this time with cuts that will impact work on homelessness, libraries, support for minority-owned businesses, and the US Agency for Global Media, which funds Voice of America (VOA) and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Radio Free Asia. The cuts are expected to leave thousands more federal workers unemployed; in the case of VOA, it furthers a specific vendetta djt has had since his first term.
The order will affect the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, the United States Agency for Global Media, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in the Smithsonian Institution, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness, the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, and the Minority Business Development Agency. It instructs the head of each agency to submit a report to the Office of Management and Budget “explaining which components or functions of the governmental entity, if any, are statutorily required and to what extent.” In practice, as has happened with other federal agencies in recent weeks, it’s expected to leave these agencies a shell of themselves and fundamentally nonexistent; in the case of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness, it destroys the only federal agency solely focused on addressing the homelessness crisis.
Welp, I thought he was gonna convert the VOA to a MAGA lies & demagoguery agency. But maybe he will just get rid of as much of it as he can. I knew something like this was coming. I wonder about NPR and PBS, also on my list of predicted !@#%^ targets.
SF Gate reports about gutting of the US Forest Service: 'There is literally no one': The fallout coming to Lake Tahoe after forest service gutted -- The U.S. Forest Service manages 78% of the land in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Yet, a hiring freeze on seasonal workers and recent firings of key staff have gutted an already-stretched-thin agency, putting on hold critical work in water quality, environmental restoration and forest fuels reduction projects while also diminishing the forest service’s capacity to manage the millions of visitors who come to Lake Tahoe every year — especially on the Fourth of July.
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Thunder Box
Everybody is reporting that !@#%^ has invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 1798 law that gives a president authority to detain, restrain, secure, and remove non-citizens from countries deemed hostile during times of war or when there is an "invasion or predatory incursion" against the US. The alleged invasion is by a Venezuelan criminal gang called Tren De Aragua.
Although #!@*%'s EO claims to target members of TdA, we all know the blunderbuss ("Thunder Box") will sweep up all kinds of non-Venezuelans and non-TdA Venezuelans. Mexicans, Guatemalans, 4th generation Californians, etc., will all be captured, boxed up and mailed back to wherever blunderbuss thinks they might have come from, e.g., Africa, Siberia, Mars, Greenland, etc. Claims of TdA badness seem to be exaggerated.
I guess we're in the midst of an invasion or predatory incursion!
MAGA patriot going after the TdA's
predatory incursion
Some insightful commentary from the peanut gallery:
Peanut 1: Oh man, Chuck Schumer is going to do so much approving of this!!
Peanut 3: "Susan Collins’ brow is furrowed, 'Trump has learned his lesson', she says." And Chuck Schumer is opposed yet supportive. Though he would like to say first how bad of an idea it is!
Peanut 4: Not just noncitizens. Sure, it’s non-citiczens ON PAPER, but if you have no lawyer and no trial and no civil rights, how exactly do you even begin to prove you're a citizen after they arrest you? You don’t. You just get disappeared. In general, that’s why it's a good idea to defend everyone’s human rights, even if "it is the right thing to do as a decent member of the human race" isn’t a compelling enough argument to you.
Peanut 5: It’s OK, democrats have our back. They’ve got their next set of paddleboard signs on standby!
Peanut 6: What is a Democrat? Isn’t that some kind of floor mat? Nah, can't be. That's offensive to floor mats that actually have a purpose.
Peanut 7: Wow, Schumer is truly a master politician outsmarting Trump at every turn. /s
Peanut 8 (Wizzle Stick) Regarding Weimar Democrats and clueless Americans: I have so many stories of encountering people who had no basic knowledge. Someone I knew in school who when given an extra credit assignment on a country and she randomly was assigned Vietnam exclaimed, “wait! I thought Vietnam was a war, not a country?!?!”. .... Getting into a drawn out fight with a coworker at the time who said that the higher you go up a mountain, the warmer it gets because you get closer to the sun!!!! .... I once had a discussion with one of the managers in a company I used to work for. WW2 came up. She had no idea Italy was a belligerent in the war, and never heard of Benito Mussolini. So yeah, something like a reference to the Weimar Republic, they will not get it at all. No wonder it’s so easy to fool these people.
Peanut 9: Well, thank goodness he’s not shutting down the government or anything, right Schumer?
Peanut 10: “At least I don’t have to cancel my book tour!” -- Chuck Schumer
Hm, seems that some folks are unhappy with Schumer.
