Redstate.com has an article about President Trump that shows his real character. Link
President and Mrs. Trump held a private dinner for the widow of Shinzo Abe, the Japanese prime minister who was a strong ally of Trump, and who was assassinated.
It seems Trump has called Mrs. Abe periodically to keep tabs on her and make sure she was doing well.
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Trump regularly calls Mrs. Abe to check in on her, a source close to the president-elect confirmed, and the dinner was scheduled through direct conversations between the two, not government channels, as is often the case with diplomatic figures.
Some Hitler.
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Another superb VDH GBNews interview. I hope this series of interviews continues. Perspective on the MAGA movement, which is counterrevolutionary in nature, postmortem clarity on the election, and more, well worth the investment of an hour.
Hanson says Hegseth, RFK and Patel will be confirmed. Gabbard's confirmation, he says is a bit iffy.
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I just watched this yesterday. An excellent interview!
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Originally posted by parabellum: Another superb VDH GBNews interview. I hope this series of interviews continues. Perspective on the MAGA movement, which is counterrevolutionary in nature, postmortem clarity on the election, and more, well worth the investment of an hour.
Hanson says Hegseth, RFK and Patel will be confirmed. Gabbard's confirmation, he says is a bit iffy.
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Well considering federal employees are not allowed to unionize or strike, as President Reagan had to point out to the Control Tower employee union, I think somebody is about to get a lesson in federal employment:
Trump will fight Biden remote work deal; union vows to fight back
President-elect Trump on Monday indicated that he plans to push back on President Biden's move to reach an agreement that would allow tens of thousands of federal workers to remain in a hybrid work arrangement with telework through 2029.
"We're talking about a friendly takeover, a friendly transition as they like to say, this is a friendly transition, and it is," Trump said at a press conference. "But there are two events that took place that I think are very terrible."
"One is that if people don't come back to work, come back into the office, they're going to be dismissed, and somebody in the Biden administration gave a five-year waiver of that. So that for five years, people don't have to come back into the office," Trump said. "It involved 49,000 people for five years. They don't have to go. They just signed this thing. It's ridiculous. So it was like a gift to a union, and we're going to obviously be in court to stop it."
Trump's comments come after a deal was reached earlier this month between the largest federal workers' union, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), and the Social Security Administration (SSA) that "places current levels of telework into our National Agreement through October 25, 2029."
The deal, which was first reported by Bloomberg, covers roughly 42,000 Social Security employees around the country. Under the agreement, requirements for workers range from being in office from two to five days per week, the outlet reported, citing people familiar with the matter.
AFGE National President Everett Kelley responded to Trump's comments about the remote work deal in a statement that the union supports telework "where it delivers for both the taxpayers and the workers who serve them. Telework and remote work are tools that have helped the federal government increase productivity and efficiency, maintain continuity of operations, and increase disaster preparedness."
"Rumors of widespread federal telework and remote work are simply untrue. More than half of federal employees cannot telework at all because of the nature of their jobs, only 10% of federal workers are remote, and those who have a hybrid arrangement spend over 60% of working hours in the office," Kelley said.
"Collective bargaining agreements entered into by the federal government are binding and enforceable under the law. We trust the incoming administration will abide by their obligations to honor lawful union contracts. If they fail to do so, we will be prepared to enforce our rights," Kelley added.
Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with leading the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which will focus on finding ways to cut government spending and improve the efficiency of federal initiatives.
Musk and Ramaswamy have indicated that they want to end remote work and view the requirement that federal workers return to the office as a way of spurring voluntary layoffs.
"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome: If federal employees don't want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn't pay them for the COVID-era privilege of staying home," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in an op-ed published in The Wall Street Journal last month.
Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, the leader of the Senate's DOGE caucus, said after the deal between AFGE and the SSA was announced that it was "unacceptable" and she'll work with Musk, Ramaswamy and DOGE to "fix this ASAP and get bureaucrats back to work."
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Lately it feels like everything is in a holding pattern, nothing is changing for the better, nothing is getting fixed, nothing, nada. But I know that Trump and his people are prepping the ground for an invasion of common sense, competence, and a little ass kicking where needed. I hope he can stay as safe as possible in his travels and meetings until he can occupy the White House again.
While working on all that I hope he can get the USA out of the nasty business of opposing Israel and Netanyahu in the middle of their most important task at hand, put the kibosh on certain of Israel's enemies, and help that great ally once again.
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Originally posted by wrightd: Lately it feels like everything is in a holding pattern, nothing is changing for the better, nothing is getting fixed, nothing, nada.
You must be looking at a different United States.
And even if things were as you say (which they are not), for God's sake! Biden is still POTUS for another month.
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