The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues

I’ve already reported the series of nominees who clearly owe those positions to race and gender rather than ability.

I’m not expecting them to get back to me anytime soon; they never did respond to the report I filed during the first Chump circus to the “crimes committed by aliens” tip line about the laundry thief who surely should have been easy to find given the distinctive mechanical-rice-picker ear damage…

The administration has abruptly shut down the National Institute of Health – no meetings, no reviews, no travel, no communications, no hiring:

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-hits-nih-devastating-freezes-meetings-travel-communications-and-hiring

I wonder- if there were a concerted effort to have millions of citizens email trolling “reports,” could that email be rendered useless? Fill the inbox to capacity in a matter of hours? Might be a good way to fight back.

As if the reporting wasn’t just cover for firing the people they want to regardless of any actual complaints.

Yeah, but you gotta remember the MAGAs think Fauci used NIH money to create the COVID virus at the Wuhan lab and make millions for himself.

It’s all about payback, not what’s good for the country.

Could people be persecuted for it? I’m not doing much lately; I could probably send sternly worded emails all the live long day.

I can’t imagine how. You have a right to petition the government.

They’d throw the book at you for “filing a false report”.

I’m not entirely sure which rights I still have, tbh.

Is Q-anon still a thing and is it making a resurgence? Just curious if the craziest part of the crazy party is coming back.

Well, I can’t think of a way it would be illegal to send an email. I’m pretty sure that if, for instance, I had the email Warren Buffet shares with his family, I could not be prosecuted for sending him one.

MAYBE they could say you were harassing, but in my vision, it would be millions of people sending in one or two emails, and I doubt any one individual could be nabbed for harassment then.

I’d be interested in a lawyer’s opinion, but as I said, I think right to petition and freedom of speech would protect nearly any communication with the government (threats aside, of course)

Maybe not specifically banned by law, but under this regime I’m a little leery of playing the “I’m not touching you” game.

Persecuted or prosecuted? Not that there is any difference now.

Conspiracy.

And can you, can you imagine fifty people a day, I said fifty people a day sending an email. And friends they may thinks it’s a movement.
And that’s what it is, the Straight Dope Anti-fascism Freedom Movement, and all you got to do to join is sing it the next time it come’s around on the guitar. And send an email.

(note the poster is not encouraging this nor is it a call to action. All rights reserved, void where prohibited)

The friend being referred to in this tweet was a federal employee.

ETA: There is some speculation that this could be malicious compliance on the supervisor’s part - stating an explicitly illegal reason for termination to give the employee grounds to serve. If this is legit I hope the media picks up on it.

Hell, I knew the bad sh*t was going to happen but not this quickly. If any Native Americans voted for Trump….well…I hope they understand.

So, they’re just going to ignore the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 which made Elk v. Wilkins moot?

Silly Crow! Like you don’t know the answer to that!

It’s like one of those sitcom scenes:

“Get out of my house!”
“But this is MY house!”
“Fine, then get out of YOUR house!”

Trump is taking aim at dismantling FEMA.

He wants states to deal with disasters themselves.