Chaos, Vengeance, And Incompetence Reign In Trump's Dystopia

 

Let's take a quick run through a few news items to see how chaos, vengeance, and incompetence reign in the moron madman's dystopia.

President Elon "Dick" Musk's dick-tat to federal workers

Elon Musk, President Donald Trump's point person to root out what he says is government waste, on Monday renewed his threat to fire federal workers who do not comply with his demand to justify their jobs, even after the Trump administration said workers did not have to respond.

The U.S. agency that oversees federal employees said on Monday they could ignore a weekend email from Musk that required them to summarize their work or face losing their jobs. The directive sparked widespread confusion across the federal government and raised questions about how much actual authority Musk, the world's richest man, possesses within the administration.

 

As the deadline for response grew near on Monday, Musk, whom Trump appointed to head up a newly named Department of Government Efficiency that Trump has tasked to radically downsize the government, seemed to acknowledge that his plan had run aground.

 

"The email request was utterly trivial, as the standard for passing the test was to type some words and press send!" Musk posted on X, the social media site he owns. "Yet so many failed even that inane test, urged on in some cases by their managers."

 

Musk went on to say, "Subject to the discretion of the president, they will be given another chance. Failure to respond a second time will result in termination."

 

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Musk's remarks.

 

It was unclear whether Musk was aware of the guidance the U.S. Office of Personnel Management released earlier on Monday telling human resources officials at federal agencies that employees would not be let go for not replying to Musk's email - nor were staff required to respond to it...  (our emphasis)

The unelected, ketamine-crazed oligarch is running the executive branch because of the ignorance, weakness, and sloth of the golf- playing Malignant Fascist.  One agency had to warn that the information provided could be read by "malign foreign actors" (not including Musk, we presume). The fool even sent his emails to employees of the judicial branch, over which he has less than zero authority.  Apparently, Dick wants to use AI to "read" the employee responses, for his own self- serving ends, no doubt.  But don't count on him being reined in soon.

 

"God has a plan" for fired workers!

Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO) gave cold comfort to federal workers who have been laid off under President Donald Trump by telling them that the loss of their jobs is part of God’s plan.

After taking office last month, Trump named billionaire Republican donor Elon Musk to lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” which has been laying off scores of workers and freezing spending appropriated by Congress. Musk has claimed the pseudo-agency has “saved” $55 billion, but an analysis by The Washington Post found that this number is wildly inflated.

On Monday, Alford became the latest lawmaker to get an earful.

“Just because you have a government job doesn’t mean it’s a lifetime appointment like a Supreme Court,” Alford said at a town hall in Belton, Missouri, according to The St. Joseph News-Press. “So I would encourage anyone who finds themselves in this situation to realize that we are going to get this economy turning again. There are jobs available. God has a plan and purpose for your life.”

The line did not go over well with the crowd.

“We don’t want your God!” a woman yelled while another exclaimed, “Our God is Christian!”...

Alford's god is a Golden Calf (or, more precisely, a Golden Ass).

The Associated Press and the Gulf of Mexico

A tweet posted by Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee and the current interim acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, raised alarms among observers across the partisan political aisle Monday afternoon for his comments about the president’s ongoing dispute with the Associated Press.

Among Trump’s first-day flurry of executive orders was one that purported to rename the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America and to change the name of North America’s highest peak from Denali back to Mount McKinley, but the AP is only on board for the latter, citing the scope of U.S. presidential authority and its status as an international news organization as the rationale behind how it would identify both places.

The Trump administration has continued to bar AP reporters from the Oval Office, Air Force One, and other official White House events.

On Friday, the AP filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against three Trump administration officials: White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles. The complaint specifically objected to the White House ordering the wire service to use specific words in its reporting and stated that it had filed suit “to vindicate its rights to the editorial independence guaranteed by the United States Constitution and to prevent the executive branch from coercing journalists to report the news using only government-approved language.”

Martin’s tweet, posted by the official account for the U.S. Attorney in D.C., included the following statement:

As President Trumps’ lawyers, we are proud to fight to protect his leadership as our President and we are vigilant in standing against entities like the AP that refuse to put America first.

Martin is another one of those MAGAt cultists like Bondi, Patel, and Bongino who are soiling the Department of Justice.  He'll be in charge of prosecuting anyone or anything under his purview who is exercising their Constitutional rights (or not, if you're a Republican who likes to assault women).

Trump forgets his lines, will have to clarify

President Donald Trump was incorrect when he said that Russia will accept European peacekeeping troops in Ukraine, the Kremlin signaled Tuesday.

While Trump said Monday during a White House meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron that he had "specifically asked" Russian President Vladimir Putin about peacekeepers and that Putin "has no problem with it," the Kremlin contradicted those comments early Tuesday.

When asked about Trump's remarks in a media call, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters that "the Russian foreign minister has already said everything about it, I've got nothing to add."

Peskov was referring to comments Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made last week in a news conference following talks in Saudi Arabia with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Lavrov said that “the deployment of troops ... [from] NATO countries, but under a foreign flag, under the flag of the European Union or under national flags ... is, of course, unacceptable to us.”...  (our emphasis)

He needs a teleprompter feed from the Kremlin in future meetings so as not to bungle his/Russia's position.  Putin might need to get another Charlie McCarthy if this keeps up.