If the law establishing Inspectors General requires 30 days' notice and Congressional approval before they can be fired are these folks really fired or is this just another piece of performative perfidy? It's stupid anyway, but we need to be careful about reacting prematurely or we won't have the physical or emotional energy to respond when the need really arises. Pacing ourselves will become increasingly important as the wall of Xit keeps getting deeper.
That any Democrat voted for Noem is mind boggling. What are they thinking?
Whitehouse will vote for RFK Jr? My best friend is today an unthinking, Neanderthal Republican, but despite the fact that I love him (why? I have no idea), there’s no way that I would put him in a position of government authority. If Whitehouse any had any true regard for his friend, he wouldn’t put him in the Cabinet, as his friend is sure to make a mess of things and become the object of both popular and historical scorn. You don’t do that to your friends.
I didn't set out to create a substack, but did want to find a way to keep track of what's going on. So "kdsherpa's Substack" now exists. As you have done, I kept track of some of the most outrageous and horrifying events in the past five days, and headlined them. I came up with 28, and realize that I left out at least a half-dozen of those you listed. Within two hours last night, the totally ignorant and morally despicable pete hedgehog was elected as the Director of perhaps the most important department in our nation: the DOD. And then two hours later, the orange sadist purged 14 out of 74 Inspectors General -- all independent people who are tasked with monitoring fraud and waste,and each assigned to monitor a different department. Some IG's manage as many as a thousand employees. My husband became a naturalized citizen in 1998. If the orange sadist gets his way (and to hell with the Constitution as Project 2025 has made clear is one of its goals), he will be deported.
The fired Inspectors General need to begin writing their books and make a big show of having literary agents, one after another, show up for their pitches. Many of them were there during Plague 45 and know stuff. Now that ethics are impediments, not to mention unfashionable, get the best water cooler chatter out there. And on their way out they should destroy all the service manual updates and randomly move pages around in their binders. Loosen the screws on the door knobs. Tape peanuts under the radiator to lure in the other vermin. Lose the key to the supply closet. Scrub data from fedgov electronics. Do what military field operations do when enemy takeover is imminent. Finally, put the chair with the bad springs and odd odor behind the desk. And if they're feeling very frisky indeed, swap out the window plants with marijuana plants.
Of all the awful news you just reported, Tom, I am most disturbed by Sheldon Whitehouse not just being noncommittal but by still being a lifelong friend of JFK Jr.
I can understand. I have a lifelong friend of 50 years, who happens to be a "major name" in my field of military history. His support of me had a lot to do with being quickly established when I started writing. He's given me many introductions and back cover blurbs that have been very helpful. He's also a lifelong Republican who boiled himself in the pot into a Trumper. I like him a lot (in our field) and don't talk politics to him (his help is still very helpful), but boy would I never let him within shouting distance of any position of power.
Project 2025 is on target. Just a note. All these nominees are cretins who will destroy the agencies /departments that they will be responsible for. They wrote it down for us. Surely regret the money I donated for Whitehouse, not one Republican in DC today is a human worthy of donating 50 cents to. Double for Marko. The Dems who kumbaya with repubs are tainted to the bone. The first 100 days is right on schedule.
While P4547 is opening up the archives for Kennedy and King assasinations, he should let us see the investigation of the Miracle of the Ear before it ends up flushed down his office potty.
I saw that catturd was in the hospital this week with a bowel blockage. I sincerely hope he is in as much pain as my son was when this happened to him a few weeks ago.
Based on the entry describing how a U.S. flight carrying undocumented immigrants had to be canceled because no Mexico airport would allow it to land, isn’t the scenario developing that Mexico, and every Central American and South American country that does not want undocumented U.S. migrants sent back to them, will simply deny landing rights for any such flights?
It’s tough to deport when there are no available flight destinations. This was the logic offered to explain why a number of Guantánamo “detainees” (prisoners) could not be repatriated, since no country would accept them.
So, maybe ICE will have to buy a commercial airline ticket for each undocumented immigrant? But that would require an ID sufficient to pass airport security. Oops. Issue them U.S. passports good for 72-hours?
Or maybe the U.S. will have to create a league of anti-coyotes, to carry undocumented migrants from the U..S. back across the border into Mexico, in a mirror image of how these migrants arrived here. If this sounds like a good idea to Trump, he will order the military to do it, and Hegseth will comply. Or maybe Trump will order a fleet of small submarines to be built, to ferry undocumented workers to remote stretches of Baja coast. (The cartels tried out this idea - submarines.) Some Coast Guard Trump loyalist would love it. It’s not as crazy as you might think. Not with this crew in charge. No idiocy is off the table.
Skye Perryman reports that "Democracy 2025" has organized a "Response Center" that has contact information for "legal support"; "real time analysis" of the autocracy regime's "orders" (not) and other "resources".
This is playing out just as we feared it would, first he released all of the fellow felons, they and the maggot hordes are now threatening any elected repugnantkin with all manner of harm from physical to primaries, to do what the insipid orange turd wants, consequently the Dept of Defense head is now a white supremacist drunk, and they want to put putin's buddy in Intelligence which is the last thing she is, as well as a vaccine denier in as head of Health. As brilliant a visionary as Orwell was, he would have thought this was preposterous and never written it down. Whatever your worst case scenario is, magnify it by 10X and get ready. He just stopped all federally funded cancer research mostly because a lot of money is being spent and he can't figure how to get his hand in it He's doing this in a country with 30 million assault weapons, does he really think that they will never be turned on him like one was last summer? I know he's not very bright, but it does make you wonder.
Yep, bad - Worse-WorseR - WORST. What else did we expect? Any chance we can learn the names of those weak-kneed Democrats - or at least which States they represent?
Well Fetterman is on my shit list ever since he kissed the ass ring on trump. I am truly dismayed that the two Michigan Senators joined this disreputable half dozen, I expected more courage. So glad Padilla and Schiff held strong.
I wrote emails to every one of them telling them how disappointed I am with their votes. Possibly wont do any good, but I think it needed to be done! Fetterman has already lowered my opinion with his bended knee to Florida. But the other five I really do not understand.
Noem would have had enough votes from Rs - so WHY!
My opinion (without evidence) money. There are Democratic legislators who feed from the same trough as the rethuglicans do. And money can become just as addictive as herioin
Like isnt exactly the right comment! I just feel Kaine, Peters, and Slotkin mainly never struck me that way - dont know the other 3 (other than Fetterman, but his actions regarding djt? Disgusting.
What is the rotation by the whisperers who send new “laws” into Felon34’s ears to suggest to the demented mind of what the next act against the American people should be??? Do they need a breathing apparatus to be able to stand the STINK?
I wonder if Mississippians eager for the bounty realize they will have to wait years to collect. The expedited deportation tRump is yowling about applies to only a very narrow number of immigrants who have not been otherwise admitted to the US. All others have to go through immigration court and be afforded due process—and we all know the backlog there. Few of those eligible for expedited deportation will show up in Mississippi as it has no border with Mexico. By the time they get anything for reporting someone new, the thousands will likely buy a dozen eggs.
If the law establishing Inspectors General requires 30 days' notice and Congressional approval before they can be fired are these folks really fired or is this just another piece of performative perfidy? It's stupid anyway, but we need to be careful about reacting prematurely or we won't have the physical or emotional energy to respond when the need really arises. Pacing ourselves will become increasingly important as the wall of Xit keeps getting deeper.
Statutory battle dead ahead. One remedy is mandamus Court order.
That any Democrat voted for Noem is mind boggling. What are they thinking?
Whitehouse will vote for RFK Jr? My best friend is today an unthinking, Neanderthal Republican, but despite the fact that I love him (why? I have no idea), there’s no way that I would put him in a position of government authority. If Whitehouse any had any true regard for his friend, he wouldn’t put him in the Cabinet, as his friend is sure to make a mess of things and become the object of both popular and historical scorn. You don’t do that to your friends.
Where are your ethics, Sheldon. No excuse, none, traitor…
"With friends like these..."
RFK Jr. will be the blamed . . . the fall guy and he will deserve it.
I didn't set out to create a substack, but did want to find a way to keep track of what's going on. So "kdsherpa's Substack" now exists. As you have done, I kept track of some of the most outrageous and horrifying events in the past five days, and headlined them. I came up with 28, and realize that I left out at least a half-dozen of those you listed. Within two hours last night, the totally ignorant and morally despicable pete hedgehog was elected as the Director of perhaps the most important department in our nation: the DOD. And then two hours later, the orange sadist purged 14 out of 74 Inspectors General -- all independent people who are tasked with monitoring fraud and waste,and each assigned to monitor a different department. Some IG's manage as many as a thousand employees. My husband became a naturalized citizen in 1998. If the orange sadist gets his way (and to hell with the Constitution as Project 2025 has made clear is one of its goals), he will be deported.
Let’s hope not!
“Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system.” That’s what Putin wants—to undermine the whole system.
Vlad is the puppet master
The fired Inspectors General need to begin writing their books and make a big show of having literary agents, one after another, show up for their pitches. Many of them were there during Plague 45 and know stuff. Now that ethics are impediments, not to mention unfashionable, get the best water cooler chatter out there. And on their way out they should destroy all the service manual updates and randomly move pages around in their binders. Loosen the screws on the door knobs. Tape peanuts under the radiator to lure in the other vermin. Lose the key to the supply closet. Scrub data from fedgov electronics. Do what military field operations do when enemy takeover is imminent. Finally, put the chair with the bad springs and odd odor behind the desk. And if they're feeling very frisky indeed, swap out the window plants with marijuana plants.
Love it!
Of all the awful news you just reported, Tom, I am most disturbed by Sheldon Whitehouse not just being noncommittal but by still being a lifelong friend of JFK Jr.
I can understand. I have a lifelong friend of 50 years, who happens to be a "major name" in my field of military history. His support of me had a lot to do with being quickly established when I started writing. He's given me many introductions and back cover blurbs that have been very helpful. He's also a lifelong Republican who boiled himself in the pot into a Trumper. I like him a lot (in our field) and don't talk politics to him (his help is still very helpful), but boy would I never let him within shouting distance of any position of power.
Project 2025 is on target. Just a note. All these nominees are cretins who will destroy the agencies /departments that they will be responsible for. They wrote it down for us. Surely regret the money I donated for Whitehouse, not one Republican in DC today is a human worthy of donating 50 cents to. Double for Marko. The Dems who kumbaya with repubs are tainted to the bone. The first 100 days is right on schedule.
While P4547 is opening up the archives for Kennedy and King assasinations, he should let us see the investigation of the Miracle of the Ear before it ends up flushed down his office potty.
I saw that catturd was in the hospital this week with a bowel blockage. I sincerely hope he is in as much pain as my son was when this happened to him a few weeks ago.
????
To note, it’s DEIA so too bad if you need accommodations in your workspace for that wheelchair.
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/22/nx-s1-5270721/trumps-crackdown-on-deia-programs-within-the-federal-government-is-underway
Based on the entry describing how a U.S. flight carrying undocumented immigrants had to be canceled because no Mexico airport would allow it to land, isn’t the scenario developing that Mexico, and every Central American and South American country that does not want undocumented U.S. migrants sent back to them, will simply deny landing rights for any such flights?
It’s tough to deport when there are no available flight destinations. This was the logic offered to explain why a number of Guantánamo “detainees” (prisoners) could not be repatriated, since no country would accept them.
So, maybe ICE will have to buy a commercial airline ticket for each undocumented immigrant? But that would require an ID sufficient to pass airport security. Oops. Issue them U.S. passports good for 72-hours?
Or maybe the U.S. will have to create a league of anti-coyotes, to carry undocumented migrants from the U..S. back across the border into Mexico, in a mirror image of how these migrants arrived here. If this sounds like a good idea to Trump, he will order the military to do it, and Hegseth will comply. Or maybe Trump will order a fleet of small submarines to be built, to ferry undocumented workers to remote stretches of Baja coast. (The cartels tried out this idea - submarines.) Some Coast Guard Trump loyalist would love it. It’s not as crazy as you might think. Not with this crew in charge. No idiocy is off the table.
He has the perfectly incompetent yes man in Hegseth to assist him.
Skye Perryman reports that "Democracy 2025" has organized a "Response Center" that has contact information for "legal support"; "real time analysis" of the autocracy regime's "orders" (not) and other "resources".
Fight Back!
This is playing out just as we feared it would, first he released all of the fellow felons, they and the maggot hordes are now threatening any elected repugnantkin with all manner of harm from physical to primaries, to do what the insipid orange turd wants, consequently the Dept of Defense head is now a white supremacist drunk, and they want to put putin's buddy in Intelligence which is the last thing she is, as well as a vaccine denier in as head of Health. As brilliant a visionary as Orwell was, he would have thought this was preposterous and never written it down. Whatever your worst case scenario is, magnify it by 10X and get ready. He just stopped all federally funded cancer research mostly because a lot of money is being spent and he can't figure how to get his hand in it He's doing this in a country with 30 million assault weapons, does he really think that they will never be turned on him like one was last summer? I know he's not very bright, but it does make you wonder.
That would be a silver lining in an otherwise dreary day !
Yep, bad - Worse-WorseR - WORST. What else did we expect? Any chance we can learn the names of those weak-kneed Democrats - or at least which States they represent?
Democratic Senators who backed Noem:
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia
Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey
Senator Gary Peters of Michigan
Senator Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
What is shocking is they are all on anybody's "good guy" list.
Well Fetterman is on my shit list ever since he kissed the ass ring on trump. I am truly dismayed that the two Michigan Senators joined this disreputable half dozen, I expected more courage. So glad Padilla and Schiff held strong.
I wrote emails to every one of them telling them how disappointed I am with their votes. Possibly wont do any good, but I think it needed to be done! Fetterman has already lowered my opinion with his bended knee to Florida. But the other five I really do not understand.
Noem would have had enough votes from Rs - so WHY!
My opinion (without evidence) money. There are Democratic legislators who feed from the same trough as the rethuglicans do. And money can become just as addictive as herioin
Like isnt exactly the right comment! I just feel Kaine, Peters, and Slotkin mainly never struck me that way - dont know the other 3 (other than Fetterman, but his actions regarding djt? Disgusting.
Agreed Maggie
How many more chapters of
Project 2025 do we have left?
Ugh.
What is the rotation by the whisperers who send new “laws” into Felon34’s ears to suggest to the demented mind of what the next act against the American people should be??? Do they need a breathing apparatus to be able to stand the STINK?
Just askin’. 🤷♂️
I wonder if Mississippians eager for the bounty realize they will have to wait years to collect. The expedited deportation tRump is yowling about applies to only a very narrow number of immigrants who have not been otherwise admitted to the US. All others have to go through immigration court and be afforded due process—and we all know the backlog there. Few of those eligible for expedited deportation will show up in Mississippi as it has no border with Mexico. By the time they get anything for reporting someone new, the thousands will likely buy a dozen eggs.