What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[HisMajestyBOB]

Not the CPSC! They have the best social media feed. 

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Not the CPSC! They have the best social media feed. 

At least he can't touch the NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.

[Syt]

There is generational damage being done here, in almost all fields. Voting in Democrats next time will not undo this.

Just restoring funding of various services to near pre-Trump levels will be a struggle.

LegalEagle has an update on Project 2025 status.

[Syt]

Not the CPSC! They have the best social media feed. 

At least he can't touch the NE Ohio Regional Sewer District.

Yet.

[DGuller]

What makes me hopeful (maybe desperately so), is that when federal government will be restored, it would be coupled with a far more efficient administration.  Let's not kid ourselves, the government has always been grossly inefficient, so the level of spending alone doesn't define what it does.  It wasn't necessarily corruption, it was just extreme risk aversion that in attempt to prevent doing something wrong made it impossible to do something right.

[Valmy]

What makes me hopeful (maybe desperately so), is that when federal government will be restored, it would be coupled with a far more efficient administration.  Let's not kid ourselves, the government has always been grossly inefficient, so the level of spending alone doesn't define what it does.  It wasn't necessarily corruption, it was just extreme risk aversion that in attempt to prevent doing something wrong made it impossible to do something right.

Depends on the department. The Loans Program Office was doing a rather ridiculously large amount of good work with a tiny staff. And actually made money.

Still got gutted by Trump and his cronies though.

I also fail to see how rebuilding departments with inexperienced people without institutional memory will make them more efficient.

But hopefully some day we will see how it goes.

[Admiral Yi]

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has suspended the judge who was charged by the DOJ with obstruction.

[Zoupa]

ICE slammed a teenager to the ground yesterday in Massachussets, giving her a concussion. Local police was assisting ICE. A group of people were swarming them. Today the mayor of Newark got arrested protesting another ICE arrest.

Just looking at more and more videos of ICE's methods, it's only a matter of time before these agents get lynched. Maybe that's the point.

[frunk]

Depends on the department. The Loans Program Office was doing a rather ridiculously large amount of good work with a tiny staff. And actually made money.

Still got gutted by Trump and his cronies though.

I also fail to see how rebuilding departments with inexperienced people without institutional memory will make them more efficient.

But hopefully some day we will see how it goes.

Also staffing isn't the major cost in the federal government, only like 5%.  So you could cut every employee other than the ones handing out money and you'd still have a huge deficit (probably even worse since the IRS would stop collecting anything).

[viper37]

WATCH: Stephen Miller says Trump administration is 'actively looking at' suspending habeas corpus

[Admiral Yi]

footage of ICE in Massachusetts.

FYI the town is pronounced Woostah.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

WATCH: Stephen Miller says Trump administration is 'actively looking at' suspending habeas corpus

Getting ready to invoke Article 66.

[Jacob]

Looks like ICE is taking the role of the SA in the Trumpist putsch.

[Admiral Yi]

To me it looks nothing at all like ICE is taking the role of the SA in a Trumpist putsch.

[Jacob]

To me it looks nothing at all like ICE is taking the role of the SA in a Trumpist putsch.

So noted. We can check back in in... say, four years, and see how things play out.