In The Land Of The Blind... This Guy Is Not A King. Not Even... A Fully-Functioning Adult.

So. . . in his first move toward greater "efficiency in government", Tangerine 2.0 proposes to pay federal workers. . . to NOT come to work.

But only if they are DEI employees.

Many of them have what amounts to full property rights in these federal jobs (that is, are immune from being demoted or fired, without a specific performance related issue -- well documented), and so, many will sue -- saying that targeting them alone, over all others is plainly a "suspect classification", under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [BTW, Tangerine cannot change Acts of Congress, via his silly black Sharpies.] Most of them are likely to win. That is, they will get both back- and front-pay, be reinstated and maybe even win some punitive damages -- for Tangerine 2.0's targeting of them. Yes -- that sure sounds. . . "efficient". Not.

On top of that, he attempts to "mandate" that each federal agency "identify" investigative targets for the DoJ, where it is suspected that private employers are. . . valuing people of diverse backgrounds. Putting aside that no one knows what that might mean, none of those terms appear anywhere in any of these agencies' grants of authority from the Congress. That is, this directive exceeds the charter the agencies hold, by statute. That will be enjoined in a matter of months if not weeks, from now. But here it is:

. . .As a part of this plan, each agency shall identify up to nine potential civil compliance investigations of publicly traded corporations, large non-profit corporations or associations, foundations with assets of 500 million dollars or more, State and local bar and medical associations, and institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars. . . .

Well. . . the low information voters who chose this guy. . . are already getting just exactly the expensive, silly chaos he promised. Charming.

[And in his signature "law and order" move, he's pardoned or commuted several hundred people who violently assaulted police officers on J6.] Charming, indeed. Onward -- to lobbying trends for Q4 2024 (just released), in life sciences / pharma -- up next.

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