Trump Second Term Tracker
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Creeper
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Trump needs to get this under control quickly. He has so many more important things to deal with than this Epstein nonsense and a employee feud over it. I never thought Bondi was a good choice but she was second choice. At the same time, she is the boss and underlings cannot undermine her the way Kash Patel and Dan Bongino are. There seems to be an undercurrent to bring Gaetz back into the picture, but that's not what Trump needs. If he replaces Bondi, then he needs to find a seasoned bulldog prosecutor to take over. He needs a guy who isn't looking for a career in politics, someone who won't be concerned with the media or Democrats attacking him.
Creeper
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Scenes like this one show once again that government employees believe they are special and more superior to their private sector counterparts. When citizens get laid of there are no scenes like this. Just people walking out of the building with boxes of personal items in hand. But government employees, especially those in the state department, think they are somehow better than everyone. else. They think their jobs, no matter how menial, are more important than the work every one else does. Think of all the people who lost their jobs during COVID. Or lost their jobs in the coal industry.. Or lost their jobs when factories moved overseas. Where was the sympathy for them? They were told to learn new skills and blame for their circumstances.
The people clapping for the newly unemployed make me sick, and so do the Democrats that are tweeting all the negative nonsense about what is happening.
The only thing that upsets me about these layoffs is I am betting most of the people getting laid off are probably actual workers and not cronies who got their jobs by knowing someone.
yimyammer
Pro Bowler
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WTF is this BS?
Just GTFO and savor all the time you got paid to sit on ass with your "high-stress", less than bankers hours (not to mention every possible day off imaginable) "job" paid for by inflation, working stiffs & small businesses owners who are on the clock 24/7/365 with zero applause, no guaranteed days off, maternity leave, etc, etc
F-off already!
Dodger12
Super Moderator
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I'd venture to guess that most federal workers get paid under a similar pay structure. What's funny is that my first paycheck was similar to what a dishwasher would make at a family business. Over the years, the scales tipped in favor of the government employee and that divide continued to grow to the point the average American was making 30k a year and a federal employee was making 6 figures after a few years of service. I never thought that was a good idea but I also benefited from it.
I had read somewhere that these State Department employees that were terminated worked in a unit where they dumped all the slugs so my guess is that the administration is getting rid of the freeloaders. The government is full of bloat but make no mistake about it, all agencies with the exception of DHS and FBI, for the most part, are getting gutted. And it will affect operations but the average citizen won't see it.
Creeper
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They could also get defined benefit pensions when they retire. So we will be paying them after they retire even though they were fired, depending on how long they worked there and what their roles were.
Creeper
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Honestly, 1300 layoffs is nothing. the company I retired from announced 20,000 layoffs last year. And 10% budget cuts were common in my 35 years working in the corporate world. We would often get orders from above to reduce budgets by 10% or more and for us it was just part of the process. Government has a sense of entitlement.
My question is, all this protesting against cuts, does this mean we can never lay off government workers? We just keep growing the government workforce forever? This rationale is not sustainable.
Creeper
UDFA
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I agree with Trump on trade, but I disagree on the military. We have our military everywhere because we want it there not because anyone is ripping us off. Take NATO. NATO is not ripping us off. We are gleefully spending nearly a trillion dollars on the military. We have troops all over the world for a reason. And it is a reason I don't necessarily disagree with. We could cut military spending just like NATO countries have. We don't want to.
We have haven't fought a foreign invader on the US mainland since the war of 1812. We want to keep it that way. We put troops overseas to fight our enemies over there instead of here. We build the most advanced weapons systems which cost so much for one reason, survivability.
Like it or not the US want to influence events all over the world in our favor. Projecting force is one way we do it.
touchdown
Defense Wins Championships
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- 5,864
Britain's largest misinformation monitor and "fact-checker" went into bankruptcy, according to a report in the Times of London last week.
The Times said the collapse of Logically comes as the "fact-checking industry is facing a backlash driven by President [Donald] Trump's second administration."
In the U.S., left-wing groups like NewsGuard and GDI have come under fierce criticism as de facto tools for censorship.
dbair1967
Administrator
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- 12,220
The pie chart that shows what countries in NATO pay vs what we pay towards the organization speaks for itself.
The military complex is obviously massive and in some ways is its own "economy", but Trump's issue revolves around the fact that NATO itself is lopsidedly funded by American tax payers.
The original reasons for founding NATO don't really exist anymore either.
On another note, I am pretty disappointed that apparently Trump has done a 180 on support for Ukraine. There is absolutely no reason whatsoever we should be giving them anything and he ran on that.