Did anyone think the hits would be coming this hard, this many, and this quick? It might have been better had the Democrats just let Trump have his 2nd term back to back, because he and his people had plenty of time to get this ready
Trump Ends 1965 Executive Order from Lyndon Johnson that Began Affirmative Action in U.S. Govt
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday rescinding President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, which mandated government contractors take affirmative action.
The order more broadly ceases diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) “discrimination in the federal workforce, and in federal contracting and spending,” the White House noted.
The federal government’s hiring practices will now be merit-based, with employees being rewarded for “individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work.”
Would he have done this if he had back to back terms? Most likely not. It really wasn’t on the radar. Now you have Godzilla in the china shop
Millions of federal DEI employees placed on leave as Trump’s administration dismantles programs
One of President Trump’s first executive orders targets millions of federal employees working on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives.
“Our country is going to be based on merit again,” said President Trump.
A memo from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management ordered leaders to place all staff working in DEI roles on paid leave by 5 p.m. on Wednesday.
In President Trump’s order, he says that DEI policies violate Federal civil rights laws and “undermine the traditional American values of hard work, excellence, and individual achievement in favor of an unlawful, corrosive, and pernicious identity-based spoils system.”
For the most part, these are people who really do not do anything to help American citizens nor the mission of the agency. Would Trump have gotten to this in a back to back 2nd term? BTW, the rumor is that they were all fired, but, no, most reports show they were put on paid leave, and we’ll have to see what happens with them now.
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UPDATE: a source at State Department tells me the federal workers there are totally melting down after @secrubio ordered an end to remote work and ordered all employees back to work in person https://t.co/Zv9UsTcyuL
— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) January 22, 2025
In the 2003 decision Grutter v Bollinger Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor said that Affirmative Action plans had to come to an end, that the ‘exception’ the Supreme Court allowed to the 14th Amendment required an end date, and that the Court anticipated that, 25 years from then, they’d expect to see all accomplished, and Affirmative Action ended.
Well, we’re 3½ years early in general terms, but the Court ended Affirmative Action in colleges, including private colleges, in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College, in June of 2023. If 45 years of Affirmative Action — 25 from Bakke to Grutter and twenty from Grutter to Students for Fair Admissions — didn’t ‘fix’ the problems, how much more time would?
The Federal Government is prohibited by the Constitution from treating people differently based on race. More, in one of his last acts, former President Biden — and I do so love typing former President Biden, or, to paraphrase the Munchkins, “Ding, dong, the dunce is gone!” — tried to declare the Equal Rights Amendment ratified, even though it wasn’t. But, to declare that means that the dummkopf from Delaware was saying that any sex-based advantages being given in DEI were also gone.
The Federal government, and all of the government-based institutions need to follow the requirements of the 14th Amendment and treat people equally. Candidates for admissions and employment should be treated based upon their qualifications and abilities, not to which Accredited Victim Group™ they belonged.
All people are equal, just some are more equal than others.
The poverty rate among Blacks is 18 percent, for whites it’s 8 percent.
White: In 2022, the median wealth of white households was $284,310
Black: In 2022, the median wealth of Black households was $44,100
Hispanic: In 2022, the median wealth of Hispanic households was $62,120
Median householder income: white, non-hsipanic – $89,050; Black – $56,880; Hispanic – $65,560
If you don’t understand ‘median’, please look it up. It’s different than ‘average’.
4Q 2024: Black unemployment rete was 5.8%, white unemployment rate was 3.5%
Conservatives want to continue to discminate against Blacks, Hispanics, women, gays etc.
Caucasian, christian, conservative, straight males are privileged and entitled to rule.
The distinguished Mr Dowd wrote:
Yes, all people should be equal under the law, but that does not mean some people will not be more successful than others.
Non-Hispanic white women have a 21.9% illegitimacy rate, while non-Hispanic black women have a 69.3% illegitimacy rate. Children born to single women are going to be poorer than those born to married couples. There are no restrictions at all on non-consanguineous marriages adult in this country, so black women not choosing to get married before having children are contributing to their own and their children’s poverty. That’s not a matter of “Conservatives . . . discminat(ing) against Blacks, Hispanics, women, gays etc,” but their own lousy economic choices.
Jeff,
Do you ever stop to think that black unemployment might be due to the fact that only a few of them can compete due to lacking in intellectual capacity. There are a number of things that I can’t due as I am short and somewhat small, so not good material for football and basketball. Yet, most I am far superior to you in intellect. For that matter, everyone here is superior to you.
Teach chortled: Now you have Godzilla in the china shop
Actually, a good description of Big Donnie! Even Teach recognizes the threat.
Mr Teach tries to make the argument that Big Donnie would have been less horrible if America had allowed him to stay in the White House for 2021-2025.
Of course, there is no legal mechanism for allowing a bigly defeated candidate to stay in office for four more years. It’s an especially weak argument that if the defeated candidate wins four years later that he would be more vindictive and selfish than he was their first four years!!
Blue Lives Matter! Nope, not in TrumpWorld!
Call the little White Christian wifeyy, Rimjob has just dropped another load in his nappies.
Call your little white christian daddy, Pissant has just shit his panties.
Most government agencies still have their EEO offices and those function just like DEI. They are mostly established by statute though, so not going way right away. Have to leave something to work on for next year.
Best comment of the day.
Sure, especially the uber vaxed, mask wearing goldbricks who find it troubling that they may have to pretend to work under actual supervision instead of faking it from Starbucks.
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“Trump Merit Based Hiring And Rewards In Government…”
Government service has the reputation that it does because many of the government agencies don’t do anything and don’t need to do anything, so assessing employees based on merit is a fantasy of HR people and they start grading things like “support of agency values” which is code for “supports DEI”
What I mean to say is that “merit based” is a ridiculous standard for employees at an agency that does nothing, like VOA, Department of Education, 85% of the USDA. We don’t really want government employees being very meritorious except at jobs that are fully needed.
Before we created the Department of Education, America had schools. Children got educated. Since then, every metric of education has declined. It’s not because the employees at the DoE are not “working hard enough”. It’s because they are.
It will be interesting to see what he does with these DEI employees he placed on leave. Most are tokens who are unable to do any real work, as described in the agency mission statement. I remember one who was a coordinator, another was a facilitator, and another who planned meetings. The workhorses, who carried the real workload, had to wait for promotions until these slugs were promoted first. I’m sure there are a lot of federal employees who are secretly cheering Trump’s actions.
Absolutely. The productive people have always resented the dead wood, and the reverse is true also.
The administration lawyers, working to eviscerate the 14th Amendment, are questioning whether Native Americans are citizens, since they also have allegiance to their tribes.
If Trump’s Supreme Court rules in his favor, does that rescind the citizenship of the hundreds of thousands citizens born to foreign parents? Would you have them deported?
It’s unlikely that even the Trump Court would rule to gut the 14th, but what if Fat Donnie appoints a handful of far-right wackos EXPANDING the Court. He has the Senate. 13 justices with a huuuge far-right majority sounds pretty good doesn’t it?
Nice try-it was the the libs who talked about expanding the court.
And again, how is 3 out 9 justices Trump’s SC”. Good luck
The 14th amendment didn’t cover Indians. The didn’t receive citizenship till 1924.
“Born to foreign parents”. Children of diplomats that are born here don’t receive citizenship, either
Would you oppose Trump expanding the Supreme Court to make them more Heritage/Federalist ‘friendly’?
Trump’s 3, plus Thomas and Alito and Roberts (usually) is a solid MAGAt majority.
Unfortunately for MAGAts, Roberts and Barrett sometimes leave the reservation.
Another nice try-Alito and Robert’s weren’t appointed by Trump, so not part of “Trump’s court”. But you already knew that. “Would you oppose Trump expanding the SC..”
How about you show where Trump ever wanted to expand the court?
I very much support the retirement of Justices Thomas and Alito by the end of their 2025-26 term, so that President Trump can appoint similarly conservative Justices who happen to be in their forties.
There are 13 appellate courts districts in the United States, so it would be reasonable to expand the Supreme Court to 13 members. The Democrats mused about doing that, hoping to have a Democratic president to appoint four new far-left whackos, but they f(ouled) up on that. It would be good to expand the court to thirteen justices if they are conservatives appointed by a conservative President.
No 9 is better, it has stood the test of time. But one strong requirement would be to interpret the law via the Constitution. The liberals on the court do not seem to understand that concept.