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"All the little nasty things" included Trump sacking the WH head usher and sending regular staff home as he left.

That cute photo of the Bidens embracing by the closed door of the White House North Portico? Yeah, but see the head usher is who ensures that protocols are observed.

It's definitely not protocol for the prez to approach a closed door in the White House. That pose before the door was fine if the Bidens or their staffers wanted that arranged, but then when they were done with the photo, they shouldn't have had to knock on the damn door to be let in by some regular Biden staffers. The ushering staff that was sent home early by Trump would have let the Biden group know how to let them know it was time to open the door...

Just another instance of Trump keepin' it as classy as one might expect.

 

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"All the little nasty things" included Trump sacking the WH head usher and sending regular staff home as he left.

That cute photo of the Bidens embracing by the closed door of the White House North Portico? Yeah, but see the head usher is who ensures that protocols are observed.

It's definitely not protocol for the prez to approach a closed door in the White House. That pose before the door was fine if the Bidens or their staffers wanted that arranged, but then when they were done with the photo, they shouldn't have had to knock on the damn door to be let in by some regular Biden staffers. The ushering staff that was sent home early by Trump would have let the Biden group know how to let them know it was time to open the door...

Just another instance of Trump keepin' it as classy as one might expect.


The Trumps: What disgusting and horrible human beings, no, what absolute shits, petty, unprofessional, truly disgusting people.

Uncultured, uncouth, uncivilised, lacking class, decency, grace or dignity.

As my dear old dad used to say, "as God made them, he matched them."
 
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"All the little nasty things" included Trump sacking the WH head usher and sending regular staff home as he left.

That cute photo of the Bidens embracing by the closed door of the White House North Portico? Yeah, but see the head usher is who ensures that protocols are observed.

It's definitely not protocol for the prez to approach a closed door in the White House. That pose before the door was fine if the Bidens or their staffers wanted that arranged, but then when they were done with the photo, they shouldn't have had to knock on the damn door to be let in by some regular Biden staffers. The ushering staff that was sent home early by Trump would have let the Biden group know how to let them know it was time to open the door...

Just another instance of Trump keepin' it as classy as one might expect.

What a freaking toddler that Individual-ONE is.
 

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Nothing too petty for him to stoop to, I guess. It's astonishing really, the depth of narcissistic rage.

It is astonishing, well, to me, anyway, it is astonishing to see the depth of that narcissistic rage, and thta there is nothing to this awful man but that narcissistic rage, nothing, that is, apart from corruption, cruelty, petty spite, and pathological mendacity.
 
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It's hilariously petty. Like this is gonna hurt Biden on any level?:) Ruin his experience?!:D Considering all the shit going on this is like a toddler throwing themselves on the floor anticipating that everything will stop if they do so.
 

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It's hilariously petty. Like this is gonna hurt Biden on any level?:) Ruin his experience?!:D Considering all the shit going on this is like a toddler throwing themselves on the floor anticipating that everything will stop if they do so.

But it also further demonstrates - as if this needed to be said (and it does) - is just how miserably small, mean, petty, and vindictive Doald Trump's tiny little mind is, and how - with over 400,000 dead from Covid - his entire focus is still on feeding his entitlement and his narcissistic rage.
 
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But it also further demonstrates - as if this needed to be said (and it does) - is just how miserably small, mean, petty, and vindictive Doald Trump's tiny little mind is, and how - with over 400,000 dead from Covid - his entire focus is still on feeding his entitlement and his narcissistic rage.
Yup. Screaming of a personality disorder. But we all knew this even before he got elected.
 

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Yup. Screaming of a personality disorder. But we all knew this even before he got elected.

What - to me - is completely inexcusable (and incomprehensible) is the number of deplorable people (and I use that term advisedly and deliberately), who - knowing this - still chose to cast a ballot for him (again) in 2020.
 
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What - to me - is completely inexcusable (and incomprehensible) is the number of deplorable people (and I use that term advisedly and deliberately) who - knowing this - still chose to cast a ballot for him (again) in 2020.

And so many still defending their choice of Trump, even after the further revelations of his core character deficits during the months after the 2020 elections.
 
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What - to me - is completely inexcusable (and incomprehensible) is the number of deplorable people (and I use that term advisedly and deliberately), who - knowing this - still chose to cast a ballot for him (again) in 2020.
And so many still defending their choice of Trump, even after the further revelations of his core character deficits during the months after the 2020 elections.
Some of it is shared psychosis (folie à deux), some if it is shared personality disorder(s). I'm looking forward to learning the actual facts about WTF was going on within the Trump admin. I suspect we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.
 

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Some of it is shared psychosis (folie à deux), some if it is shared personality disorder(s). I'm looking forward to learning the actual facts about WTF was going on within the Trump admin. I suspect we've only seen the tip of the iceberg.

Well and Trump had a bunch of advisors with their own agendas, too, and he himself was not an attentive manager so who knows what all has been going on. Meanwhile the media counted Trump's obvious lies and relayed his tweets and we looked at those shiny objects, a process that surely delighted acting agency chiefs and their under-radar maneuverings.

There was a piece in the Washington Post today about examination of Trumps "conversion" appointments, i.e. the ones where he moves a loyalist political appointment into career civil service, where among other things it's harder to fire them, although such a person can be moved around in hopes that a posting to say the upper peninsula of Michigan in winter proves too daunting and provokes a resignation.

It's common for all presidents to make a few of these appointments (the practice is called "burrowing") and common for some to be shunted aside later on. But in the case of Trump, there's now a full blown investigation of his conversions, not least because the hiring agencies didn't always even announce the hires to begin with so it's not certain who or where the conversions may have occurred.

Saving grace: "The hiring of a political appointee for a career job must be scrutinized by the federal personnel office for five years after the person left the partisan job." That's to determine whether hiring practices evaded or just skipped matters of merit, politicization, etc. Meanwhile though the challenge in Trump's case is figuring out who the burrowed appointees even are.

“There’s a great irony here,” said Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), who leads a House oversight panel on federal government operations, referring to Trump’s efforts to place his appointees in government. “The crowd that didn’t believe in government and called its agencies the deep state now wants to work for them.”

Connolly has asked the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s research arm, to tally all of Trump’s conversions over four years.
 

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Well and Trump had a bunch of advisors with their own agendas, too, and he himself was not an attentive manager so who knows what all has been going on. Meanwhile the media counted Trump's obvious lies and relayed his tweets and we looked at those shiny objects, a process that surely delighted acting agency chiefs and their under-radar maneuverings.

There was a piece in the Washington Post today about examination of Trumps "conversion" appointments, i.e. the ones where he moves a loyalist political appointment into career civil service, where among other things it's harder to fire them, although such a person can be moved around in hopes that a posting to say the upper peninsula of Michigan in winter proves too daunting and provokes a resignation.

It's common for all presidents to make a few of these appointments (the practice is called "burrowing") and common for some to be shunted aside later on. But in the case of Trump, there's now a full blown investigation of his conversions, not least because the hiring agencies didn't always even announce the hires to begin with so it's not certain who or where the conversions may have occurred.

Saving grace: "The hiring of a political appointee for a career job must be scrutinized by the federal personnel office for five years after the person left the partisan job." That's to determine whether hiring practices evaded or just skipped matters of merit, politicization, etc. Meanwhile though the challenge in Trump's case is figuring out who the burrowed appointees even are.
Considering how poorly Trump treated career employees, I have a very strong feeling the best way to find such ”burrows” dug by Trumpers will be to ask their coworkers.
 

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Well and Trump had a bunch of advisors with their own agendas, too, and he himself was not an attentive manager so who knows what all has been going on. Meanwhile the media counted Trump's obvious lies and relayed his tweets and we looked at those shiny objects, a process that surely delighted acting agency chiefs and their under-radar maneuverings.

There was a piece in the Washington Post today about examination of Trumps "conversion" appointments, i.e. the ones where he moves a loyalist political appointment into career civil service, where among other things it's harder to fire them, although such a person can be moved around in hopes that a posting to say the upper peninsula of Michigan in winter proves too daunting and provokes a resignation.

It's common for all presidents to make a few of these appointments (the practice is called "burrowing") and common for some to be shunted aside later on. But in the case of Trump, there's now a full blown investigation of his conversions, not least because the hiring agencies didn't always even announce the hires to begin with so it's not certain who or where the conversions may have occurred.

Saving grace: "The hiring of a political appointee for a career job must be scrutinized by the federal personnel office for five years after the person left the partisan job." That's to determine whether hiring practices evaded or just skipped matters of merit, politicization, etc. Meanwhile though the challenge in Trump's case is figuring out who the burrowed appointees even are.

Great post. One such burrowed person who needs to be investigated and removed is Louis Dejoy at the USPS. I actually think it should be a priority for the Dems to investigate his role in the election and the mass changes happening at USPS resulting in delivery delays never before seen. It's ridiculous how back-logged the mail is right now.
 

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Great post. One such burrowed person who needs to be investigated and removed is Louis Dejoy at the USPS. I actually think it should be a priority for the Dems to investigate his role in the election and the mass changes happening at USPS resulting in delivery delays never before seen. It's ridiculous how back-logged the mail is right now.

Unfortunately removing DeJoy could be more problematic than it might seem. There are lawsuits and investigations ongoing related to mail slowdowns and alleged interference with handling of mailed ballots. But unless those matters resolve adversely for DeJoy, Biden's probably stuck with him until 2022


The cited piece is a good read... here are the issues in a nutshell.

Only the Postal Service Board of Governors, which oversees USPS, can hire and fire the postmaster general. The president, instead, nominates people to the Board of Governors, and the Senate confirms them. The six governors currently sitting on the board were all nominated by Trump; a Senate standoff in 2015 and 2016 made it such that the board was vacant when President Barack Obama left office.

The earliest that any of Trump’s Republican picks will leave is in October 2022, when two of their terms will end. If Democrats do manage to eke out a Senate majority, they could theoretically rush through three of Biden’s nominees, since the board can have up to nine members. However, industry experts and congressional aides told ABC that they wouldn’t expect Biden to prioritize spending his political capital on the Board of Governors.
 

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Unfortunately removing DeJoy could be more problematic than it might seem. There are lawsuits and investigations ongoing related to mail slowdowns and alleged interference with handling of mailed ballots. But unless those matters resolve adversely for DeJoy, Biden's probably stuck with him until 2022


The cited piece is a good read... here are the issues in a nutshell.
Trump may have done a lot to destroy America, but it was Mitch’s obstruction for many years that burned it all down to allow Trump to replace it all with dilapidated vacant casinos. McConnell is one of the most destructive forces in American political history. Based on his absurd amount of power wielded compared to how many votes he got, I think there is a chance we see a day when the Senate is abolished.
 

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Trump may have done a lot to destroy America, but it was Mitch’s obstruction for many years that burned it all down to allow Trump to replace it all with dilapidated vacant casinos. McConnell is one of the most destructive forces in American political history. Based on his absurd amount of power wielded compared to how many votes he got, I think there is a chance we see a day when the Senate is abolished.

I'm not a fan of unicameral legislatures, and I do like the idea that the Senate is able to put the brakes on "hothead" bills passed by the house closer to the people. The people today in my humble opinion are often short on comprehension of policy proposals, due to ignorance combined with social media plus big money in politics.

But I wouldn't mind if the Senate's power to obstruct (even as a minority) got some study and suggestions for permanent revision. I mean a formal study by an independent commission with examples of where obstruction can in retrospect be seen to have damaged the national interests. Should of course include examples from behavior in both parties. It's not like Democrats don't have their laundry list of policies they have robustly made efforts to delay or prevent altogether, and far be it from me to say that that hasn't harmed our interests. I'm just asking that we ask the question... formally.

A good time to commission the study is when both houses of Congress are pretty evenly divided, since both major parties would then be highly motivated to help research and propose what they separately regard as "glaring" examples of bad outcomes caused by obstruction of government at hands of their opposition.

Of course the Dems would have to have the gavel in hand to empower such a commission, because the last thing on earth the Republicans want is some independent body looking at reasons to make the Senate at least somewhat more responsive in timely fashion to the will of the people.

So obviously this is one of those opportune moments, with the Dems holding both houses and the WH as well. And just as obviously, the outrage Republicans in both houses would experience at the very idea of any independent group having a look at obstruction as a disservice to Americans --after all they've been the party of NO in both majority and minority situations-- probably means such a commission is a pipe dream.
 

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I'm not a fan of unicameral legislatures, and I do like the idea that the Senate is able to put the brakes on "hothead" bills passed by the house closer to the people. The people today in my humble opinion are often short on comprehension of policy proposals, due to ignorance combined with social media plus big money in politics.

But I wouldn't mind if the Senate's power to obstruct (even as a minority) got some study and suggestions for permanent revision. I mean a formal study by an independent commission with examples of where obstruction can in retrospect be seen to have damaged the national interests. Should of course include examples from behavior in both parties. It's not like Democrats don't have their laundry list of policies they have robustly made efforts to delay or prevent altogether, and far be it from me to say that that hasn't harmed our interests. I'm just asking that we ask the question... formally.

A good time to commission the study is when both houses of Congress are pretty evenly divided, since both major parties would then be highly motivated to help research and propose what they separately regard as "glaring" examples of bad outcomes caused by obstruction of government at hands of their opposition.

Of course the Dems would have to have the gavel in hand to empower such a commission, because the last thing on earth the Republicans want is some independent body looking at reasons to make the Senate at least somewhat more responsive in timely fashion to the will of the people.

So obviously this is one of those opportune moments, with the Dems holding both houses and the WH as well. And just as obviously, the outrage Republicans in both houses would experience at the very idea of any independent group having a look at obstruction as a disservice to Americans --after all they've been the party of NO in both majority and minority situations-- probably means such a commission is a pipe dream.
This is a good idea.
 
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