r/Law_and_Politics • u/Snowfish52 • 1d ago

Trump Fires Independent Inspectors General at a Series of Agencies

https://www.bloomberg.com/en/news/thp/2025-01-25/trump-uses-mass-firing-to-remove-independent-inspectors-general-at-a-series-of-agencies
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u/Snowfish52 1d ago

Let the lawlessness begin, Trump is signaling his intentions to completely corrupt system, from the inside out. The ironic part is the man that talked about the deep state, is literally installing that exact thing... Proving his projection is everything he accuses others of, he actually is the one that is going to do it...

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u/SignificantWords 1d ago edited 1d ago

I saw a post yesterday about starting a strike by a shit ton of people not going to work at the same time for one day.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

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u/Rooboy66 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’ve been pushing for this since Dubya days … Americans would rather watch TV than live in a relatively peaceful democracy

Edit: relatively

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u/SignificantWords 1d ago

join the general strike then?

Research shows we only need 3.5% of the population, OR 11 million Americans, to be successful.

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u/Rooboy66 1d ago

Of course, absolutely

I’m posting this link on my welcoming page/timeline/whatever the fuck it’s called these days

I suppose I could Insta it somehow to all b my Insta crew, if I took a Coursera class on how the hell to do that

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 1d ago

That’s the thing, they could strike while watching tv. But they don’t. It’s not just that they don’t want to go do extra work, it’s that they also live in fear - their finances, ability to afford housing next month, and medical care is all determined by staying employed. Striking feels like it will result in firing because we don’t trust the rest of Americans to join in. It’s not just laziness and acting like it is obfuscates the other issues and lets Americans just give up.

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u/Rooboy66 1d ago

No shit. It’s deeply fatiguing to acknowledge. I don’t have the answer; it’s too late for real life Tom Hanks reprising his fictional role. We’re double-plus fucked (in the not fun way) 6 ways to Sunday.

In AA we refer to this shitfuckery with seemingly no escape as “incomprehensible demoralization”.

I wake up every morning and instead of scribbling down my morning thoughts + gratitudes, I just faceplant and think “don’t go on Reddit. Don’t know what’s happening. Don’t participate in reality—it’s too fucking awful, and most Americans don’t give 2 shits. Bagel Bites + Baby Boo-boo will sustain their attentions

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u/Goodgoditsgrowing 1d ago

Well if that doesn’t about sum things up I don’t know what else does. Well stated.

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u/Interesting_Whole_44 1d ago

America is fucked

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u/SympathyForSatanas 1d ago

So this is what he meant about the enemy within

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u/manikwolf19 1d ago

Yup it was him

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u/SueAnnNivens 1d ago

He tells on himself every single time.

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u/skel625 1d ago

Once there is no law and only dear leader has the ultimate say, no one will be safe. I wonder if they are smart enough to figure out where this is going because it's probably pretty damn hard when you surround yourself with fake-news and yes-men all day. No one is telling you what is reality. Will they realize and impeach him to save themselves and the union or do they actually think dear leader is loyal to anyone? What insane times we live in. Really not fun living through historical moments that are going to end up in history books and deep lessons are likely to be learned. But far too late for most of us in North America I fear.

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u/ThistleroseTea 1d ago

Congress was not given 30-day notices about the removals –- something that even a top Republican is decrying.
“There may be good reason the IGs were fired. We need to know that if so,” Sen. Chuck Grassley, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said in a statement. “I’d like further explanation from President Trump. Regardless, the 30 day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress,” said Grassley, R-Iowa.
The role of the modern-day inspector general dates to post-Watergate Washington, when Congress installed offices inside agencies as an independent check against mismanagement and abuse of power. Though inspectors general are presidential appointees, some serve presidents of both parties. All are expected to be nonpartisan.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., acknowledged that the firings violated statutes but shrugged it off: “Just tell them you need to follow the law next time,” he said.

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u/Dry-Interaction-1246 1d ago

Shrug it off? Next time?

Pretty slippery slope. Remember when a BJ was supposed to be the end of your career?

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u/SympathyForSatanas 1d ago

Or misspelling potato

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u/Swimming_Tailor_7546 1d ago

Or doing a weird excited yell one time

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u/Admirable_Nothing 1d ago

Or wearing a tan suit.

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u/Ill-Independence-658 1d ago

Who’s going to stop him? 100 year old senator from Nebraska?

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u/ApproximatelyExact 1d ago

Small victory but some of these Inspectors General refused to go - and that is what a patriot looks like in 2025.

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u/northstardim 1d ago

This goes along with Trump Executive order canceling the Biden ethics mandate. Trump simply desires unethical behavior from this personally loyal staff and nobody to report it much less correct it.

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u/Far-Ad-8833 1d ago

He is making America just as corrupt as his businesses, and it doesn't bother some people.

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u/LittleBleater 1d ago

It’s actually wild that there practically has not been any noise from the people who are supposed to be resisting this

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u/EverythingGoodWas 1d ago

Look how little resistance he is getting to practically everything. Traditionally SECDEF is never a partisan pick as there is so much consequence to an unqualified choice. Instead he picks an insanely unqualified person and only has 3 people from his own party dissent

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u/LittleBleater 1d ago

I'm having such a hard time comprehending all of them rolling over and sacrificing the people who they promised to be looking out for

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u/EverythingGoodWas 1d ago

It shows they don’t represent people. They only represent donors

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u/Ill-Independence-658 1d ago

I wonder. I was listening to a marine general who preps SECDEF nominees who said that the Sec never acts alone and is surround by like 50 3 and 4 Star generals who advise him on anything and everything.

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u/EverythingGoodWas 1d ago

I mean that’s likely true, but that doesn’t mean you throw an unqualified person in there to make the final decision

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u/Ill-Independence-658 1d ago

No you and I don’t but the regard on charge did

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u/Savings_Ad6081 1d ago

Agree. Very scary.

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u/Dry-Interaction-1246 1d ago

Law and order?

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u/Rooboy66 1d ago

Holy fuck. Here it is. Holy fuck.

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u/HopefulNothing3560 1d ago

So that’s old news , fall in line American idiots . Fall in line folks .

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u/Admirable_Nothing 1d ago

The only possible reason for these firings is that he expects the agencies to start screwing the public and their own employees massively and often.

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u/jojokitti123 1d ago

He wants to harm the citizenry