Trump Executive Action thread

[Winehole23]

Big ins utions deliver big benefits, particularly in medical research

Trumplandia wants to wreck those ins utions because they have big feelings about "DEI people"

“The government’s support of facilities and administrative costs allows medical research to happen,” said the leadership of the Association of American Medical Colleges, which represents all the medical schools in the country, in a statement. The cut, they said, means “Americans will have to wait longer for cures and our country will cede scientific breakthroughs to foreign compe ors. These are real consequences – slower scientific progress, longer waits for cures, fewer jobs.”

This move, though shocking, was telegraphed ahead of time like most of the gleeful teardown taking place these last three weeks. “Congress should cap the indirect cost rate paid to universities so that it does not exceed the lowest rate a university accepts from a private organization to fund research efforts,” reads one section of Project 2025. Its existence in that do ent should help the media covering the move uncover the purpose here, but alas — places like the New York Times insist on letting the arsonists describe the point of the fire, saying the policy change is “aimed at saving $4 billion.”

No it isn’t. Not really; these people aren’t interested in saving taxpayer money, they’re interested in making the government incapable of functioning, and in this case undercut universities in general, perhaps with a soupçon of gleeful punishment for supposedly “elite” ins utions. Per Project 2025: “This market-based reform would help reduce federal taxpayer subsidization of leftist agendas.” Leftist agendas like, say, curing cancer, or Alzheimers, or Parkinson’s, or whatever the next pandemic virus is.

https://www.splinter.com/destructive...could-kill-you

[Winehole23]

DOGE is wasteful and destructive

DOGE is vandalizing the US government

It's all illegal

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

Inside, it's DOGE trying to wipe out foreign aid entirely vs Trump people trying to wipe out USAID and migrate activities to the State Dept. Neither doing it in ways that would avert massive loss of life and waste of taxpayer dollars. And all of it is unlawful.

[Winehole23]

chainsaw cuts on a healthy economy will cause considerable social pain

[Winehole23]

“The ac ulation of all powers, legislative, executive & judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elected, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” - James Madison

[Winehole23]

Trump's promises are worthless, he's screwing the people he said he would spare

Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from Trump that his federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...unding-frozen/

[Winehole23]

"I've been told to hate something I know nothing about" could be a MAGA slogan

Reporter: Why do you want to be chairman of Kennedy Center board?

Trump: Some of the shows were terrible. They were a disgrace.

Reporter: Have you seen any shows there?

Trump: No, I didn’t go.

[Winehole23]

will Trump go to war with states that do not comply?

https://www.ag.state.mn.us/Office/Op...a-20250206.pdf

[Winehole23]

don't we have laws that forbid the federal government from commandeering state and local authorities?

Jade Helm tinhats, where are you now?

[Blake]

don't we have laws that forbid the federal government from commandeering state and local authorities?

Jade Helm tinhats, where are you now?

States rights!!!

(Unless Trump)

[Winehole23]

[Blake]

DOGE is wasteful and destructive

DOGE is vandalizing the US government

It's all illegal

Department of Government exploitation

[Blake]

"CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A third federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante in New Hampshire comes after two similar rulings by judges in Seattle and Maryland last week..."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-bir...f28c4bfb5326b6

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"CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A third federal judge on Monday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of people who are in the U.S. illegally.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Joseph N. Laplante in New Hampshire comes after two similar rulings by judges in Seattle and Maryland last week..."

https://apnews.com/article/trump-bir...f28c4bfb5326b6

Let the court system work.

Keep the fires banked.

Give them nothing...take from them everything.

If they move, fire 'em.

"Don't leave Horry, Chris. Not for a second. Please, Chris."
tee, hee.

[Yonivore]

CBS conducted a poll...

Seems America is on board with Trump's agenda.

CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised

[Blake]

CBS conducted a poll...

Seems America is on board with Trump's agenda.

CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid "energetic" opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised

Just admit already that you don't really care about policy and that it's all just team sports for you

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Just admit already that you don't really care about policy and that it's all just team sports for you

Duly admitted. I want your side face down>>>in the dirt. No quarter asked, Blake. Nary given.

[Blake]

"..President Donald Trump's waded into the contentious debate over paper versus plastic straws with an executive order Monday favoring the plastic variety.

The president ordered federal agency and department heads to stop buying paper straws and make sure they aren't offered in their buildings. Agencies also must work to eliminate policies that "disfavor plastic straws" and Trump is tasking the head of his Domestic Policy Council with creating a "national strategy to end the use of paper straws."......

......"I don't think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they're eating as they're munching their way through the ocean," he said.

During his 2020 reelection bid, the Trump campaign sold Trump-branded plastic straws because "liberal paper straws don’t work,” the campaign's online store said at the time....."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...r/78387817007/

This old geezer doesn't even use a straw. He uses two hands like a 5 year old.

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"..President Donald Trump's waded into the contentious debate over paper versus plastic straws with an executive order Monday favoring the plastic variety.

The president ordered federal agency and department heads to stop buying paper straws and make sure they aren't offered in their buildings. Agencies also must work to eliminate policies that "disfavor plastic straws" and Trump is tasking the head of his Domestic Policy Council with creating a "national strategy to end the use of paper straws."......

......"I don't think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they're eating as they're munching their way through the ocean," he said.

During his 2020 reelection bid, the Trump campaign sold Trump-branded plastic straws because "liberal paper straws don’t work,” the campaign's online store said at the time....."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...r/78387817007/

Big plastic must have sent a nice donation. This old geezer doesn't even use a straw. He uses two hands like a 5 year old.

He's owned ya since '15. 10 years he's run roughshod over ya's.

He's a hero, Blake. A genuine American hero.

God did that.

God

[Winehole23]

utterly unsurprising that Trump is pro-bribery

ttps://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/pausing-foreign-corrupt-practices-act-enforcement-to-further-american-economic-and-national-security/

[Winehole23]

[Winehole23]

Texas v Becerra

are y'all really down with removing accommodations/protections for disabled people?

accessibility is the -A in DEIA

[Winehole23]

fired ethics watchdog Hampdon Dellinger gets his post back -- temporarily -- and his day in court

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fired ethics watchdog Hampdon Dellinger gets his post back -- temporarily -- and his day in court

I'd test it if I were that old man. He'd stay fired and we would see.

[Winehole23]

“We are in the midst of a cons utional crisis right now. There have been so many uncons utional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.”—Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school.

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^^^See ya in the street, old friend.