The Trump Presidency 2.0

[talonlm]

All presidents use EOs and Eos are an absolutely necessary part of presidential power--but even the president has limits placed on his power (Congressional oversight, judicial review, etc.).

Once the Democrats pull their heads out of their ass and finally figure out why they lost this election, the backlash could be epic. That will largely depend on just how successful Trump's policies are in the relative short term and (ironically enough) just how 'inclusive' those successes are.

 

[Florida173]

Why does the losing side always want to remove the consequences of a vote?

 

[AWP]

That's some Hamas war casualty-level death figures there.

The only thing that is keeping hundreds of thousands of foreigners alive is American corruption? LOL. No.

The first question I would have asked when someone tossed a figure like that out to me would be, "Were any of them Americans?" If the answer is "no," that's squarely in the "not our fucking problem" bin. Next.

About 6-7k less than the city of Pittsburgh? Yeah, nah. I'm all for helping out, but not when our people suffer and we have a side helping of rampant theft and corruption. Also, it is Bono so he can go die in a fire and his band sucks. Fuck Bono.
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4 questions for a Federal job?

It's four essay questions for anybody above GS5.


These questions seem like a to fish for political leaning before conducting interviews.

A GS6 BOP employee isn't applying to be a correctional officer because they were "inspired by the Constitution", they have no power to help implement EOs, etc; they're applying because its the best paying job in their area.

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I'm onboard with this. Now, asking a GS-13 and up, maybe a -12, these questions, I can get behind the requirement. Maybe tweak them a little, maybe have slightly different questions per pay grade, the concept is sound. Yeah, some GS-5 loggie and a GS-14 supervisor aren't looking at the world in the same light. Hell, only ask the questions for GS-12's, new hires and promotions alike.

 

[amlove21]

Why does the losing side always want to remove the consequences of a vote?

This is a very astute observation. +3

 

[Cookie_]

I'm onboard with this. Now, asking a GS-13 and up, maybe a -12, these questions, I can get behind the requirement. Maybe tweak them a little, maybe have slightly different questions per pay grade, the concept is sound. Yeah, some GS-5 loggie and a GS-14 supervisor aren't looking at the world in the same light. Hell, only ask the questions for GS-12's, new hires and promotions alike.

Questions 1 and 3 (Constitution/EO questions) are the ones that (as written) are fishing for political leanings; not a fan of that.

I might be a giant lab nerd and that’s why I want to work on radioactivity calibration equipment for NIST, not the Constitution or the "founding principles of the country".

I could dislike everything the President does but still do my job. I think the last time I looked fed employees were roughly ~40 ~35 ~15 D/R/I, so there's always plenty of people who don't like the current boss.

Both of those can still be effective lines of questioning with more generalized phrasing.

Why do you want to work in x role or y agency instead of a similar private sector role/employer?

How you would preform your job duties to support policies and regulations, even if you may disagree with them?

The other two questions (efficiency/work ethic) are basic board questions, which realistically is where all of these should be asked, not the initial application packet.

 

[ThunderHorse]

It’s more than just the essay part. What goes around comes around. Trump 2.0 is following what Biden did in moving swiftly without allowing for discussion at the legislative branch but he’s taken it a step further with his use of EOs. The next Democrat who becomes President will use the same way to “execute.” Right now you are okay with it because you agree with all the EO’s. You may have a different feeling when they start going against what you feel is good.

Eh, it's not as many as you think when you consider how many of the EOs were just reversals of Biden ones and reinstitution of his previous ones.

Executive Orders | The American Presidency Project

 

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• Forum: Modern Conflict

 

[Devildoc]

On why Trump should get rid of COCOMs:

Abolish AFRICOM, Then Keep Going

 

[AWP]

On why Trump should get rid of COCOMs:

Abolish AFRICOM, Then Keep Going

Even if you keep the COCOMs they need to be chopped by 80-90 percent, but I question if you need them at all.

Another fun one to look at are US Defense Attache's. Most are O-6's but Saudi has a 1-star and the UAE has a 2-star! The UAE was a 2-star position when I was there a decade ago and still when I left in '21. Even Llyod Austin's incompetent ass moved some positions back to O-6.
https://www.gomo.army.mil/public/Biography/usa-11135/richardj-quirkiv
https://www.nationalguard.mil/portals/31/features/ngbgomo/bio/2/2200.html

We have an O-6 in Germany, but an O-8 for the UAE?

There are also some commands run by an O-6, but with an SES-1 as the civilian deputy. Why do we need a GO equivalent as the deputy to a military O-6? People screaming that a GS-9 loggie is wasteful and should be RIF'ed, but this other shit flies under the radar.

 

[Totentanz]

Even if you keep the COCOMs they need to be chopped by 80-90 percent, but I question if you need them at all.

Another fun one to look at are US Defense Attache's. Most are O-6's but Saudi has a 1-star and the UAE has a 2-star! The UAE was a 2-star position when I was there a decade ago and still when I left in '21. Even Llyod Austin's incompetent ass moved some positions back to O-6.
https://www.gomo.army.mil/public/Biography/usa-11135/richardj-quirkiv
https://www.nationalguard.mil/portals/31/features/ngbgomo/bio/2/2200.html

We have an O-6 in Germany, but an O-8 for the UAE?

There are also some commands run by an O-6, but with an SES-1 as the civilian deputy. Why do we need a GO equivalent as the deputy to a military O-6? People screaming that a GS-9 loggie is wasteful and should be RIF'ed, but this other shit flies under the radar.

Not COCOM-related but this is going to make a cut: https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/...RECTOR-OF-OPERATIONAL-TEST-AND-EVALUATION.PDF

Roughly 100 personnel down to 30. If my memory is correct, 5-6 SES positions just became 1.

 

[amlove21]

On why Trump should get rid of COCOMs:

Abolish AFRICOM, Then Keep Going

You had me at deleting AFRICOM. I had a mentor say something pretty prescient that changed my whole view of AFRICOM.

"Aaron, all the best leaders go to CENTCOM, not AFRICOM. AFRICOM is the minor leagues, and the talent reflects." Completely unnecessary layer of bureaucracy where it doesn't need to exist.

 

[Devildoc]

You had me at deleting AFRICOM. I had a mentor say something pretty prescient that changed my whole view of AFRICOM.

"Aaron, all the best leaders go to CENTCOM, not AFRICOM. AFRICOM is the minor leagues, and the talent reflects." Completely unnecessary layer of bureaucracy where it doesn't need to exist.

I have a friend who said AFRICOM is where good careers go to die.

Some good things came out of the Goldwater -Nichols Act but I think the COCOMs are an example of good initiative, poor judgment. The need for joint this and that exploded staffs and skewed the curve to a top-heavy bureaucratically cumbersome inertia.

 

[amlove21]

I have a friend who said AFRICOM is where good careers go to die.

Some good things came out of the Goldwater -Nichols Act but I think the COCOMs are an example of good initiative, poor judgment. The need for joint this and that exploded staffs and skewed the curve to a top-heavy bureaucratically cumbersome inertia.

We fought the battle of the bulge off of like 1 telegram. To think that we need 2k personnel staffing a command for Africa is ridiculous.

 

[Box]

Its even more ridiculous considering that AFRICOM Headquarters is in Germany.

Just another example of us not being serious about being aMErikans anymore.

 

[Muppet]

Beitrag von The Babylon Bee

Accurate

 

[ThunderHorse]

Its even more ridiculous considering that AFRICOM Headquarters is in Germany.

Just another example of us not being serious about being aMErikans anymore.

AFRICOM is like FUTURES Command, it was creates to give another 4 star a reason to exist, even though it had no raison d'etre. I'm wondering how this whole transfer merging of TRADOC with FUTURES and stuffing them into that Austin high rise. It's not like we didn't have real estate on some random base...as I said previously. ARCIC existed, so why did they create a 4 star command to not exactly replace it.