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Yep. It's using the power of the state to make dissent painful for their critics.

Holy Cow...

Anything related to inflation stopped mattering to Trump and his followers on 11/6/2025. It's really as simple as that.

Another earnest question: how does rescinding employment to medical professionals help improve the VA or "Make America Great Again" more broadly?

We agree on this....

Maybe it's because I'm a civil engineer, but I always remember the Surfside condo collapse.... not even a natural disaster, just a building that for a variety of possible explanations just collapsed. Literally something that could happen anywhere in the United States. FEMA needs to be there in all of these cases regardless of politics.

The most... charitable explanation (not charitable in anyway) is that he may be looking to treat FEMA like a protection racket, where people have to bend to his will in some way to get what they want out of the feds when a disaster hits. But stepping back for a minute, how does that make us, collectively, any better off as a country? Does letting California burn uncontrollably, or (hypothetical scenarios) leaving earthquake damage in Washington or damage from a tornado striking the Chicago suburbs unmanaged, do these things like this help our country in anyway? Do they help the economy, do they make us great again? Americans in different parts of the country approach politics differently and disagree on a lot. It's the way it's always been and the way it probably always will be. But when disaster strikes, the partisan **** shouldn't be a factor at all. We learned this with NC.... politicizing these disasters does nothing to help people on the ground. And it only divides us.

Along with that money comes the coordination of relief efforts as well. I really do not understand how getting a rid of FEMA and letting the states entirely handle all disaster relief "Makes America Great Again".... taken to it's logical end, it seems like it would end causing more pain and suffering

Love his concern for merit based hiring while cheering on the likes of Pete Hegseth to run the largest bureaucracy in government lol

Not clear how this "Makes America Great Again"...

As usual, misses the point entirely

Worth noting that the "A" in "DEIA" addresses Accessibility (ie. the disabled) Also speaks volumes.....

https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM Memo Initial Guidance Regarding DEIA Executive Orders.pdf Here you go

Another earnest question for the conservatives on the board: How does one act upon this in a way that doesn't specifically target employees based on their race, color, gender or other characteristics?

It wasn't a grievance, so unclear what Holic is talking about?

I have no idea whether this is engagement farming or serious, but if the latter... if you buy the ticket, you get to go for the ride

I appreciate that, was asking earnestly.

Elon gets to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us... Ultimately this is more of a distraction than anything, but it's pretty clear to me what happened here. And the fact that foreign outlets are willing to call it out while our media cowers is very very telling.

Trump’s Inauguration Ratings Down Bigly From Biden’s "Altogether, Trump’s triumphant return to the White House drew an average total viewership for the day (tracking from 10:30 am to 7:00 pm ET) of 24.59 million viewers, reported The Wrap. That figure is based on combining viewer numbers from fifteen networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, Merit Street Media, Telemundo, Univision, CNBC, CNN, CNNe, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, Newsmax, NewsNation, and PBS. That number of 24.59 million viewers was 27% lower than Biden’s 2021 inauguration (33.76 million viewers tracked from 17 channels) was 19.75% lower than Trump’s first inauguration in 2021 (30.64 million viewers across 12 networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, Univision, Telemundo, CNBC, Fox Business Network, Galavision, and HLN). The Wrap also analyzed the demographic breakdown of the viewers. Monday’s audience drew 1.43 million viewers ages 18-34, 4.67 million viewers ages 35-54, and 17.4 million viewers over 55, while the audience from 2021 was 2.85 million viewers ages 18-34, 8.21 million viewers ages 35-54, and 21 million viewers over 55."

Has Trump even uttered the word "eggs" since inauguration?

My thing is that you have actual news outlets that have reported on this particular gesture with the characterization she used in her posts. Reasonable minds can disagree, but I find it pretty troubling.

Do you believe it warranted her being fired? Assuming this was a personal account?

CBS 58 weather reporter Sam Kuffel is out after criticizing Elon Musk arm gesture Cancel culture run amok

Attacking her personally is all they have... because at the end of the day, she is right. And they all know it.

You willing to bet voters feel that way if inflation starts going up towards 4, 5, 6% again?