Thanks for the link and for highlighting this important point. (I couldn't bear to listen to it last night. Was just steeling myself this morning to sit down and read the transcript. )

All his lessons from Putin are sinking in.

He's spent a lifetime of being a bully and a con. Anything deeper than that comes from whoever pulls his strings.

This is the type of thing his enablers have been groomed for.

He and his cabal are a threat to our democracy.

My wife thought I was choking for a second. Easily the most disturbing thing said all night...

"EO 9835 facilitated the establishment of the highly publicized "Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations" (AGLOSO). Eventually, AGLOSO would become one of the central influences in the second American Red Scare, known collectively as McCarthyism. The list came into being after Truman signed EO 9835, both the order and AGLOSO established more than two years before Senator Joseph McCarthy's first allegations of Communist infiltration in the U.S. government in early 1950."

His famous quotation:

Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers Guild ... Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

And, apparently, that's why millions of Americans voted for him.

About how he's calling for a purge of the federal government to get rid of long-time dedicated public servants who the far right have labeled the "deep state." About how he's trying to establish an authoritarian model of government while clearly sharing the views of those, like Richard Spencer, who are anxious to establish a "white ethno-state." About how he's already broken the law regarding Russian sanctions by going against the overwhelming majority of both Congress and the Senate.

Instead, are we just going to hear endless discussions about how he was able to read a teleprompter well enough that they can call him "Presidential?" How many times do we have to hear "He finally became the president tonight." before it actually happens?

Spoilers: It won't.

pee in the other. See which one fills up first.

I'm afraid that a lot of people might hear this and have it seem to make sense on the surface. After all, why not reward "good workers" and get rid of "bad workers". Republicans have been using this to attack Teachers and Unions for years. However, for those of us whom are rightly suspicious of anything Trump/GOP says, here's what we are hearing:

"Good Workers"= Trump syncophants
"Bad Workers"= Everybody else, especially those with the spine to tell him "no".

Be afraid. Be very afraid.....

BTW was there a lot of applause to this line (for those watching)?

coming next.

And in at least one agency, workers were given a list of 5 words that will be scanned for in emails, including dump and selection 2020 (read between the lines). Of course, shouldn't be political activity at work but the intent to intimidate is clear.

A nonpolitical civil service is a bulwark against fascism. If the cabal remains in power long enough, they will do to every Federal employee what they are doing to FBI agents--check all social media activity, etc.

Fascism 101.

And many Federal workers voted for the goon. No bueno.

You are so right, and this is exactly why their push to politicize the civil service is so dangerous.

so trump wants to be a tinplate dictator now , eh

to remove ALL GOPs from the Congressional seats for enabling this illegitimate DOTUS

What the Orange Abomination was saying is that the administration should be able to fire any federal employee that is not sufficiently loyal to the OA - personally.

Before the professionalization (if that's a word) of the federal work force. We cannot return to those days. Federal workers, apart from appointees, are normally experts in their fields, whether they are lawyers, doctors and scientists at the CDC, biologists, engineers, computer scientists, etc. They have to be trusted to do their jobs and not have their work politicized or be trashed because they themselves may have political opinions contrary to the President. And their work has to be respected even if the results are contrary to what the Administration itself may want.

What Trump is calling for will have a chilling effect on all that work. And what will fill the gap? Partisan nonsense that will only serve to discredit the government (and all its various professions) in the eyes of people everywhere. This is incredibly damaging and among the worst things Trump is doing.