Does anybody #rememberthealamo anymore? Related: I think I was the last child in America to be taught about Jackson's #spoilssystem: "to the victor go the spoils" of government. So many lessons of history we repeatedly fail to learn and apply. Probably time to pull that guy off the $20. #tdwo50K

The reporting (and the court record it cites) suggests the administration is no longer pretending the grant cancellations were purely technocratic: partisan alignment is being defended as an acceptable decision factor, raising a straightforward retaliation problem for any blue-state grantee with a lawyer and a pulse. ❝[C]onsideration of partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.❞ Defendants’ proposed stipulation (quoted in plaintiffs❜ filing), City of Saint Paul v. Wright, D.D.C. (15-Dec-2025) ❝A lot of good can come down from shutdowns… [w]e can get rid of a lot of things we didn’t want, and they’d be Democrat things.❞ Donald Trump, quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025) ❝It really undermines the idea that you’re passing neutral laws that… are supposed to apply equally to everybody.❞ Dan Farber (UC Berkeley law), quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)

Blue-state energy grants? Cut. Motive? ❝Constitutionally permissible❞ partisanship (their words). 🤡⚡️🧾 #SpoilsSystem #PartisanPayback #RuleOfLaw #FAFO

Liz Oyer’s claim is that Trump is using clemency unusually often to protect (and incentivise) public officials who breach public trust, shifting pardons from a merit-vetted relief mechanism into a transactional, access-driven tool. She argues this corrodes deterrence and public confidence by signalling that influence and loyalty can outrun accountability. ❝Trump’s pardons are licensing elected officials, at all levels of government, to profit off the powers entrusted to them by the American people.❞ ❝Today, wealthy and powerful pardon hopefuls are funneling their requests straight to the president’s desk by way of well-connected intermediaries.❞ ❝Pardons can serve as an inexhaustible supply of currency that he can print with his own hand and dispense as easily as signing a check.❞ ❝It undermines public trust in government.❞ Liz Oyer, The Atlantic, 15-Dec-2025

Trump’s 📝✅💰 pardon spree for crooked officials isn’t just ❝mercy❞ 🤝💸📝: it’s a transactional signal. If clemency rewards loyalty and money, the rule is simple — 𝖘𝖙𝖊𝖆𝖑, 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖞 𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖋𝖚𝖑, 𝖌𝖊𝖙 𝖕𝖆𝖗𝖉𝖔𝖓𝖊𝖉. #PayToPlay #RuleOfLaw #SpoilsSystem

Screenshot of the Wikipedia article for “Spoils System” of politics/government including the line, “it contrasts with a merit system.”

Boy, does it 😆

#spoilssystem #MAGA #Trump

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Spoils System Drop New Album ‘The Nope Out’ — Shoegaze Power-Pop With Teeth #music #indiemusic #spoilssystem

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The Nope Out, by Spoils System 10 track album

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Trump says FEMA to be wound down after hurricane season President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he planned to start "phasing out" the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the hurricane season and that states would receive less federal aid to respond to natural disasters.

States must now bow and scrape and bend the knee to the chief executive to receive aid. This will be used as a weapon. #fema #corruption #spoilssystem

“Disaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.”

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"To the victors belong the spoils." -Andrew Jackson

The hiring policy that trump has put in place for the US government.
#SpoilsSystem

A screen shot of the Wikipedia entry for the Spoils System.

This system was changed in 1883. Even way back then people figured out it was a bad way to run an effective government. We however after 150 years have decided to go backwards.
#government #spoilsSystem
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#DemocraticNorms #PoliticalStrategy #TrumpAdministration #ElonMusk #SpoilsSystem #Impoundment #CongressionalPower #SelectiveImplementation #IdeologicalTargeting #Cronyism #GovernmentOversight #PublicServices #PoliticalLoyalty

Meet the new spoils system. Different from the old #spoilssystem.

Or, what grandma used to call “new and improved and worse than ever”.

But SC(R)OTUS said it’s okay to accept gratuities!!! $100 million is basically the same thing as giving a gift basket to your favorite teacher for a job well done, right?

#snydervunitedstates #lawless #spoilssystem

Trump order limits agency hiring, puts DOGE leads in decision-making roles The executive order continues the president’s push to slash the federal workforce, with sweeping actions that include large-scale RIFs.

The #DOGE Plan: Burn out the remaining federal government workforce left after the 'buyouts' and replace them with political stooges. #TrumpDictatorship #PresidentMusk #FederalGovernment #SpoilsSystem #Resist

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Trump Orders Plans for ‘Large Scale’ Work Force Cuts and Expands Musk’s Power The latest executive order by the president made clear that the billionaire’s cost-cutting team will have continuing oversight of the Civil Service.

In flagrant violation, need one even add, of the Civil Service Act.

#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem

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Donald Trump & his cabinet of clowns really think they deserve their jobs. This delusion has a name. — LGBTQ Nation Fasten your seatbelts, everyone. Sunday, February 09, 2025 A demonstrator holds a handmade sign protesting actions taken by President Donald Trump in his first few weeks in office on Wednesday, Feb. 5...

#ABitOfHistory #AndrewJacksons 1829-37 #pretense of #merit #scrapped favoring #populist #spoilssystem #hiredfriends #others #loyal #Jackson based his #candidacy #representing #thecommonman only #whitemen could #vote #opposing #power #privilege #wealthy #eliteclasses

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Top hires in Trump’s Office of Personnel Management reportedly include a 21-year-old and a freshly graduated high-schooler The Gen Z hires represent sweeping efforts by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to overhaul federal bureaucracy and bring in “loyal, trustworthy” workers.

Elon Musk is a problem.

"The fresh blood at #OPM have more in common than just their new place of work; some also count themselves as former employees of Musk’s numerous tech companies." #TrumpDictatorship #FederalGovernment #ElonMusk #SpoilsSystem

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Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty Incoming senior Trump officials have begun questioning career civil servants serving on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for, their political contributions in the 2024 el...

The Trump team has begun questioning the loyalty of career civil servants! Actually asking them who they voted for, what political contributions they've made, and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered “incriminating” by Trump!

#Project2025 #SpoilsSystem #politics

Exponential increase in number of recent screw-ups w/ USPS package delivery. Have talked to multiple people experiencing the same thing. Hate to suggest it, but I question whether it's intentional to justify privatizing the USPS. Whether it's intentional or not DeJoy is failing. #SpoilsSystem

Statue of Andrew Jackson on a pig, which is over "fraud," "bribery," and "spoils," eating "plunder." Harper's weekly, April 28, 1877. #SpoilsSystem

To the victor go the spoils The history of the spoils system and why we don't want it

I have a new post over at @newsracket.bsky.social about the supercharging of the spoils system during the Jackson administration, and what lessons that teaches us to prepare for the chaos as Trump emulates the seventh President.

#Politics #SpoilsSystem #Patronage #AndrewJackson #DonaldTrump

#SpoilsSystem poison. #AmericaFirst Jacksonianism is such a weak kneed petty small world shitty existence.

Scorch the earth of these demonspawn #EnemiesWithin, the republic cannot bear it, such facile small farts.

My money is on the ShamWow and SlapChop Infomercial guy for head of the Small Business Administration. #Idiocracy #SpoilsSystem #Doomed

Che epilogo indegno per @EnelGroup.
Perde @starax, che l'ha trasformato
nel leader mondiale delle #rinnovabili
e guadagna #PaoloScaroni,
grande amico della #Russia di #Putin
e sorvegliato speciale del mondo libero.
#vergogna #spoilssystem
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