Author Topic: Trump’s Second Week: A Turning Point in American Governance By Clarice Feldman  (Read 409 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Online mystery-ak

  • Owner
  • Administrator
  • ******
  • Posts: 401,768
February 2, 2025
Trump’s Second Week: A Turning Point in American Governance
By Clarice Feldman

In his second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to effectively manage the Executive Branch. He has blindsided -- even gelded -- his detractors in the media and Congress, and issued an astonishing array of executive orders which reveal how tax funds have been flowing out of the Treasury to the benefit of the Deep State and its friends without regard (and often even being inimical) to the national interest. So much has happened that I cannot cover it all, but I will try to hit briefly and in no particular order some of the most significant developments this week.

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/trump_s_second_week_a_turning_point_in_american_governance.html
Proud Supporter of Tunnel to Towers
Support the USO
Democrat Party...the Party of Infanticide

“Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.”
-Matthew 6:34

Online Bigun

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 34,269
  • Gender: Male
  • Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God
    • The FairTax Plan
February 2, 2025
Trump’s Second Week: A Turning Point in American Governance
By Clarice Feldman

In his second week of his second term in office, President Trump has asserted the right of the Chief Executive to effectively manage the Executive Branch. He has blindsided -- even gelded -- his detractors in the media and Congress, and issued an astonishing array of executive orders which reveal how tax funds have been flowing out of the Treasury to the benefit of the Deep State and its friends without regard (and often even being inimical) to the national interest. So much has happened that I cannot cover it all, but I will try to hit briefly and in no particular order some of the most significant developments this week.

more
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/02/trump_s_second_week_a_turning_point_in_american_governance.html

A+
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien

Offline jafo2010

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,117
  • Dems-greatest existential threat to USA republic!
Not A+!!!

I hate to sound negative, but Trump is making some rather huge errors which will be catastrophic in 2026.  Everyone knows the federal government is bloated.  I can say with great confidence that 40% across the board could be whacked, and the result would be a greater output of work than with the current staffing levels.  I know this because I have gone into many operations and done just that.

It is Trump/Musk's bull in the China shop that will have his legs cut out from under him.  And the backlash of what he and Musk are doing will have serious consequences come November, 2026. 

The latest idiocy of the Trump nonsense is claiming the union contracts signed by the prior administration are invalid.  That will NOT stand up in the courts. 

There are 2.4 million federal workers, not counting the US Postal Service and the military.  Trump has managed to alienate just about every one of the 2.4 million federal employees with his daily threatening emails.  Talk about making enemies!  The next election is now just 21 months away.  The American voter has a short memory, but the federal employees being harassed by Trump will be reflected with their votes come November, 2026.  I see the Republicans losing both houses of Congress.

Then what?  How long will it take them to impeach Trump a 3rd time, and this time remove him from office?  How long?

There is a way to reduce the size of the federal workforce, and Trump is approaching this in a foolish way.

There are literally thousands of boutique management consultants completely displaced from the workforce by the election of Barack Obama.  These people could be installed to fill appointee positions and get to work determining the exact resource requirements for every department within the government.

Trump's Fork in the Road email was idiotic and juvenile.  Yes, it will have people that are eligible for retirement taking advantage of it to add another year to their formula for their pension, but had he made it a friendly communication versus a threatening communication, he would have achieved a higher number of folks to take advantage of the buyout.  He also put parameters on it that reflect he does not know what he is doing.  They have one week to decide to take advantage of the offer.  Plain *ss dumb. 

Musk has to go.  I suspect it is his ideas that embrace this antagonistic approach.  One gets more with honey than vinegar.  Trump is taking actions that will end up in the courts, and he will lose.


Offline IsailedawayfromFR

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 13,894
You almost sound like you want the same old way of doing things back.

The takedown must be immediate and decisive.

It is why we elected Trump, or at least most of us on this board.

Those who chose not to vote him in did so as they repeatedly told us he was not following through the last time with his promises.

Now he is and some are castigating him for it.

To have TDS makes some illogical
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” Thomas Sowell

Offline jafo2010

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,117
  • Dems-greatest existential threat to USA republic!
I want Trump SUCCESSFUL! His present approach will NOT generate that success.  I think you will agree with me that the ends does not justify the means if it means the Republicans lose control of Congress in 21 months. 

I have gone into over 100 enterprises and streamlined them, reducing resources, improving productivity and eliminating problems of all kinds.  This approach Trump/Musk is using is foolish.  I know what I am talking about.  You do not alienate 2.4 million Americans, who are VOTERS...

    V   O   T   E   R   S   !


...and who happen to be working for you.  Plain *ss stupid, and mark my words, will not accomplish much.

Canceling the union contracts that Biden agreed to, you think that will stand up in the courts?  Get f***ing real!!!

We as a nation are squandering so much money every day, the list is long for reducing our spending.  And the federal workforce in my eyes could readily be reduced 40%, and done without alienating a single person. 

Again, I want Trump to be successful, but he is being either poorly advised on how to reduce a workforce, or he is an idiot.  Either way, in order to accomplish results that stick, and do not go away with the election of the next Democommie, or the ascension of the next Democommie when they impeach and remove Trump, and find a reason to dump Vance with him, thus making the newly created Democommie Speaker of the House the 48th POTUS.  Yeah, it can happen, so think about it.

After seeing what the stinking Democommies are willing to do, willing to tolerate to have their way with the Biden fiasco, they are fully capable of doing anything.  Can you imagine the nightmare of Hakeem Jeffries being the 48th POTUS?  Well, this male version of a Kamala Harris may well end up the next POTUS if things unfold as I am imagining it.

Things we know:

1.  The media is 100% anti Trump and will seize on anything to sink his presidency

2.  The Democommies are dishonest, unethical, insane, actually extremely insane, and power hungry

3.  The Democommies are doing everything they can to drag out the nominations for the appointees to Trump's
     Administration, same as in 2017.  Same stinking Democommie playbook.

4.  Courts are not friendly to Republicans and Trump, even the Supreme Court.  Trump is taking actions that will
     fail in the courts.   How many failed endeavors by Trump in the courts will have people turning against him?

I want results, but not be any means possible.  I want smart approaches that produce results.

If Trump was smart about reducing government resources, he would take a different approach.  Yes, he has done some good things in this effort.  He has implemented a hiring freeze.  Absolutely necessary.  His next step should be to cancel contracts for contractors in every branch of government including the military for resources.  High cost, and many of the contractors are actually doing the work that would normally be done by full time employees.  I know for fact that this is the case.  Eliminate all contract workers across the entire government.  Many billions being spent.

The whole working at home mindset.  Fact is, higher skilled federal workers were working 2-3 days from home prior to the pandemic.  This has been a trend in the USA for workers for decades now.  Forcing the federal workforce to return to the office 5 days a week will piss off every person of the 2.4 million federal workforce that is being subjected to this decision.  It is idiotic. 

I know many folks, not federal workers, working 5 days a week from home.  Particularly system development folks.  As someone that has focused a lifetime on making folks more productive, forcing them to spend 2-4 hours each day driving to /from an office 5 days a week does not increase productivity.  I think it would boil down to the person.  Yes, some people will be more productive, but I am not sure that would hold true of an entire workforce. 

Fact is, I know one agency that does not have the office space to house all of their employees 5 days per week.  They do not have the office space, because even before the pandemic, they had folks working 2-3 days from home each week.  The federal government will have to secure more office space, spending billions to house all their employees 5 days per week.  So you as taxpayer, how does that save you money exactly?

I tell you, when it is all said and done, Trump will not reduce spending.  The bottomline, he will  end up spending more yet.  I do not think he has the stones to genuinely reduce spending on a large scale.  It is not in his wheelhouse to do it.

« Last Edit: February 02, 2025, 12:27:39 pm by jafo2010 »

Offline jafo2010

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8,117
  • Dems-greatest existential threat to USA republic!
And more importantly, he cannot reduce spending by himself.  Congress decides what is spent on what, and I have

                        0 %     C  O  N  F  I  D  E  N  C  E

...in Congress reducing spending.  Republicans spend like Democommies do, without control, totally unchecked.

Online oldno7

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 104
 There should be NO Union's in public service!
All merit is lost when one only answers to a union and not the one who employs them!

Online Bigun

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 34,269
  • Gender: Male
  • Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God
    • The FairTax Plan
Not A+!!!

I hate to sound negative, but Trump is making some rather huge errors which will be catastrophic in 2026.  Everyone knows the federal government is bloated.  I can say with great confidence that 40% across the board could be whacked, and the result would be a greater output of work than with the current staffing levels.  I know this because I have gone into many operations and done just that.

It is Trump/Musk's bull in the China shop that will have his legs cut out from under him.  And the backlash of what he and Musk are doing will have serious consequences come November, 2026. 

The latest idiocy of the Trump nonsense is claiming the union contracts signed by the prior administration are invalid.  That will NOT stand up in the courts. 

There are 2.4 million federal workers, not counting the US Postal Service and the military.  Trump has managed to alienate just about every one of the 2.4 million federal employees with his daily threatening emails.  Talk about making enemies!  The next election is now just 21 months away.  The American voter has a short memory, but the federal employees being harassed by Trump will be reflected with their votes come November, 2026.  I see the Republicans losing both houses of Congress.

Then what?  How long will it take them to impeach Trump a 3rd time, and this time remove him from office?  How long?

There is a way to reduce the size of the federal workforce, and Trump is approaching this in a foolish way.

There are literally thousands of boutique management consultants completely displaced from the workforce by the election of Barack Obama.  These people could be installed to fill appointee positions and get to work determining the exact resource requirements for every department within the government.

Trump's Fork in the Road email was idiotic and juvenile.  Yes, it will have people that are eligible for retirement taking advantage of it to add another year to their formula for their pension, but had he made it a friendly communication versus a threatening communication, he would have achieved a higher number of folks to take advantage of the buyout.  He also put parameters on it that reflect he does not know what he is doing.  They have one week to decide to take advantage of the offer.  Plain *ss dumb. 

Musk has to go.  I suspect it is his ideas that embrace this antagonistic approach.  One gets more with honey than vinegar.  Trump is taking actions that will end up in the courts, and he will lose.

I'm sorry but I vehemently disagree with you on this @jafo2010
"I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.

"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien