I just noticed a MAGA conservative meme consuming you tube vlogs and some blogs. Basically some loathsome nut jobs sit crowing about Trump’s next move in the shutdown. The secret reason for the shutdown they say is Trump’s going to terminate 380,000 “non-essential” government workers as soon as they have been furloughed more than 30 days. This all based on some obscure Federal regulation that supposedly gives him that power.
Whether or not that idea has any validity, making the government so small it can be drowned in a bathtub has been a conservative wet dream since Reagan fouled the White House. Even worse is the repulsive way this is presented. Imagine the ignorant smirking expression of that Kentucky teen who was harassing the Indigenous American elder on the Washington Mall yesterday and let that ferment for another 40 years and you get the old, white male mentors to all the 4Chan butt heads with approving comments about ridding the government of useless bureaucrats costing billions of dollars a year.
I was going to dive back into that cesspool and determine which laws they think they are quoting but Cleveland just had a snowpocalypse and I don’t have enough anti-emetic to protect my keyboard and haven’t plowed my driveway yet to go get more. Is there any shred of truth to their mad ravings?