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History is replete with examples of why an effective government needs a professional and apolitical civil service to faithfully execute the laws and defend the Constitution. President Jackson's disastrous implementation of the spoils system of patronage is exactly why the Trump administration's desire to implement Schedule F's successor is a dreadfully dangerous idea at best... :(

The Great Writ of habeas corpus is a fundamental right derived from centuries of legal tradition and one that should not be taken lightly or suspended by fiat. The ability to challenge one’s detention by the state and force them to provide evidence as to why your liberties should be curtailed is a right no citizen of a democratic society should be deprived and we shouldn’t let the current administration even progress it past the informal proposal stage!

It should be the easiest speech a President ever delivers on a solemn occasion where we honour those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to our country. It is not a partisan political speech nor should it be self-aggrandising. Sadly, this was not the case... :(

If I wasn't allowed to offer an EPA employee a $15 lunch after mending their computers for ethics reasons, there's no way in hell President Trump should be allowed to accept a "gift" from the government of Qatar of a Boeing 747-8i Intercontinental "Palace in the Sky" massively upgraded at taxpayer expense that he couldn't possibly be allowed to fly as an Air Force One and would eventually end up as his personal property once his term ends. Some "gifts" like this one from a not-so-friendly regime should be flatly refused...just ask the Trojans what happened when they forgot that rule!

One down, several more need to go after National Security Advisor Mike Waltz walks the plank over to a cushy job as ambassador to the UN. How about Whiskeyleaks Hegseth next, eh?

Secretary of Defence Loose Lips is at it again posting military operational plans on Signal. But at least he didn't have a journalist seeing those details...this time, it was his wife who I'm pretty sure has less of a security clearance than the Pentagon janitors. It's man overboard and he clearly needs to go but it seems clear his boss has other ideas... :(

The Secretary of Defence tries to defend the indefensible and fails miserably! There's no way a SecDef that no defence minister in the world can ever trust again can stay in the job after a scandal in which not only actionable intelligence of a sensitive nature was compromised, it was done in the most silly and stupid way which just beggars belief. Any junior officer or official would have already been cashiered out of the service...it's time for the "warfighter's SecDef" to actually do the honourable thing for once and resign for the good of the service.

Get ready for another rendition of that dance we all know as "The Potomac Two-Step". Cabinet officials discussed classified military operations details on a commercial and insecure platform called Signal and willfully violated OPSEC (operational security) if not the Espionage Act in the process...and that was before the National Security Advisor added a journalist to the chat. This is *WHY* we need people who know what they're doing minding our national security... :(

The Uhmerican House of Representin's "budget blueprint" tells you all you need know about how stupid they think the American people are. The truly sad thing is that their view of the electorate's stupidity is probably more optimistic than it ought to be which will allow them to get away with complete dereliction of their duty to protect America's most vulnerable citizens... :(

Last Friday, the American people and the world were witnesses to the most unabashedly savage political hit job ever seen in the Oval Office when President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was ambushed by VP Vance and President Trump. In so doing, they proved themselves to be disgraceful and weak cowards who have sold every shred of honour of this country and are perfectly content to do Vladimir Putin's dirty work in destroying the most successful alliance this world has ever seen.

President Trump's hiring criteria for senior positions seems to boil down to one essential skill: how well can they stick their nose up the bum of the boss? You'd think the Senate who is supposed to use the "advise and consent" prerogatives in the Constitution would weed out the worst and most unqualified of them but you'd be utterly wrong. "Abdicate and cower", more like... :(

President Musk through the Office of Personnel Management pulled one of his old HR tricks out of the bag of stupid management practices when he sent a "justify your existence in five bullet points" EMAIL to the entire Federal civil service. Stupidity this blatant and contemptible really deserves only one possible answer...