Executive Orders Part 3

I know I missed a couple of days on these. I got a little overwhelmed and had to play stupid computer games to unfuck my mind. But here we are, the final Executive Orders from Day 1 of the Trumpocalypse. 
Holy crap, there are a lot of these. More than 50 total. Plus all the non-executive-order-fuckery that's gone on in the first few months days of the new administration (has it really only been 5 days? It already feels like so much longer...). These are the final Executive Orders from 20-Jan-25. I'm at the point of just being cynical and rage-filled now, so it may be difficult for me to maintain the level of impartiality that I would like, but I'm gonna try. At least until the red words.

• Securing our borders
• This one is straightforward. Build a wall. Increase law enforcement presence at the border. Detain anyone suspected of entering illegally. Deport anyone who enters or remains in the country illegally. Charge anyone who violates immigration laws, or who assists in that violation. 
• Remember the whole kids-in-cages thing? Families being separated at the border? Welcome to that, version 2.0. Please note that the order states, explicitly, that anyone apprehended on suspicion of violating laws, should be detained ",,,until such time as they are removed from the United States." Under this clause, citizens can be jailed and deported all because someone suspects that they're here illegally.
  Wait, actually...I suspect that the South African Nazi is here illegally. Can he be jailed and deported next?
• Protecting the meaning and value of American citizenship
• This order begins by claiming that the 14th Amendment "has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United States." As such, it seeks to remove birthright citizenship. If the person's mother was illegally in the US and the father was not a citizen or lawful permanent resident, or if the mother's presence was legal but temporary and the father not a citizen or permanent resident, that person will not be granted citizenship. In other words, one or both parents must be citizens or lawful permanent residents at the time of birth. It also implies that this will be made retroactive.
• Ignoring the fact that this is trans-exclusionary, it seeks to invalidate the citizenship of hundreds of  thousands, if not millions, of people. People who have never set foot outside this country may be at risk of deportation to a country they've never seen. I'm sure some people will be thrilled to have no more "anchor babies," but all it's going to do is tear families apart.
  Can someone explain to me why we're so afraid of letting other people live alongside us? Is it just because they're different, and we don't like change? Are we really convinced that other people are less-than? I just don't get it. 
• Realigning the United States refugee admission program
• This order starts off by stating that the US lacks the ability to absorb large numbers of migrants and refugees in a manner that doesn't overburden American citizens and cause scarcity of resources. This order suspends entry of refugees as of 12:01am EST on 27-Jan-25, not to be reinstituted until a report submitted by the Secretaries of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services states that resumption of refugee entry would be in the interests of the US. A new report must be submitted every 90 days to continue allowing refugees in. It also revokes The February 2021 Executive Order, "Rebuilding and Enhancing Programs to Resettle Refugees and Planning for the Impact of Climate Change on Migration".
• "Give me your tired, your poor,
  Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
  The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
  Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me,
  I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
  I guess we should change that poem (the one on the Statue of Liberty) to just read, "Fuck off!" Which is pretty absurd, considering the fact that white people murdered the crap out of the indigenous people. You want illegal immigration? I'm gonna go ahead and say that wholesale slaughter is way worse than people wanting to hold onto their positive traditions.
  I'd also like to point out that the state of emergency declared by NY was in response to large quantities of asylum-seekers being bussed into the state and overwhelming shelters. If those people had been bussed out to more areas, spread out across the country instead of dumped into one spot, it's extremely unlikely that such a state of emergency would be necessary.
• Unleashing American energy
• This order "encourages" the exploration and production of energy on Federal lands and waters. It also eliminates the "electric vehicle (EV) mandate" to "promote true consumer choice", which includes the removal of state emissions waivers. It seeks to remove environmental constraints on consumer goods like light bulbs, toilets, and gas stoves. It also states that no federal funding can be used "...in a manner contrary to the principles outlined in this section, unless required by law."
  
• Remember that time that everybody thought the Biden administration was gunning for gas stoves and looking to ban them? You know, the thing that was just categorically false? (In case you're wondering, they were looking to find ways of making all products that use natural gas, including but not limited to gas stoves, safer for use with fewer emissions.) And you know how some states offer a toll relief for EV cars or cars that produce significantly less greenhouse gas emissions? These things weren't trying to stop/remove the purchase of gasoline-powered cars or natural gas-powered appliances. They were just looking to offer benefits to people who opted to go for the more energy efficient items. But because Trumpletoes takes anything related to the environment as a personal slight. All this is going to do is promote the use/purchase of less environmentally-friendly options, because they're less expensive, and let's face it, fucking everything is getting out of control price-wise.
• Clarifying the military's role in protecting the territorial integrity of the United States
• This order requires that, within 10 days, the Secretary of Defense must provide a new plan to "seal the borders and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities."
• This order basically mobilizes the military to the border and allow for the murder of countless would-be immigrants under the guise of national security. Whatever your opinion on immigrants, legal or otherwise, surely we can all agree that nobody deserves to be gunned down for the crime of trying to make a better life for themselves.
• America First trade policy
• This order demands the investigation of the causes of the country's annual trade deficits in goods, a look at the economic and national security implications, and requires a plan to remedy the deficits. The plans may include "a global supplemental tariff". It also calls for the United States Trade Representatives to review and identify "...any unfair trade practices by other countries and recommend appropriate actions to remedy such practices..." It goes on to make specific demands regarding all types of trade-related issues, including export markets, counterfeit products and contraband drugs, and trade agreements with other countries (specifically China, to include physical goods and "technology transfer, intellectual property, and innovation"). There's a lot of technical explanations of the requirements.
• There's a lot of detailed information and addendums and technical jargon. I'm not the most adept at translating it into English, if I'm being honest. From what I understand, the idea is to make sure the US has the upper hand on all trade deals. A lot of it seems to be rather unrealistic, and like it's implying that we're going to sue the crap out of other countries because someone doesn't think the agreements we have are good enough. It also strongly indicates that the current administration doesn't understand how tariffs work. Somehow, tariffs are supposed to decrease trade deficits. Except...we'd be the one paying the tariffs, not the other country...
• Memorandum to resolve the backlog of security clearances for Executive Office of the President personnel
• This requires the White House lawyers to provide "a list of personnel that are hereby immediately granted interim Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) security clearances for a period not to exceed six months..." to the WH Security Office and Acting Chief Security Officer. Those people will then be immediately granted access to, well, everything. It also allows the WH Counsel to add to or remove from the list at will.
• "You get a security clearance! And you get a security clearance! Everyone who I want gets a security clearance! But not him. Fuck that guy." It seriously just allows for all his cronies and ass-kissers to get security clearances. Whether they pose a threat to national security or not. But go ahead and say we have nothing to worry about. I double dog dare you.              
• Declaring a national emergency at the southern border
• This order allows the mobilization of the military to the southern border, complete with additional physical barriers, unmanned drones, and a requirement for all organizations to provide a plan regarding their actions to the President.
• This is 100% just a way to allow this bloviating xenophobe the ability to murder brown people at the border. I'm pretty sure my stance on this is apparent.
• Restoring accountability to policy-influencing positions within the federal workforce
• This basically makes some edits to existing documentation regarding being a supervisor in the Federal workforce. It does explicitly state that no person is required to support the President personally or politically, but that they must "faithfully implement administration policies to the best of their ability, consistent with their constitutional oath and the vesting of executive authority solely in the President.  Failure to do so is grounds for dismissal."
• This is simultaneously a threat to fire anyone who doesn't do exactly what they're told by Cheeto Benito, and gives anyone an out. The phrase "consistent with their constitutional oath" means that if a person finds that a command is illegal, they can refuse to act upon it. It's tricky to uphold, but it's something.
• Delivering emergency price relief for American families and defeating the cost-of-living crisis
• After making some claims regarding costs on the American household, this order demands that all executive departments and agencies "...deliver emergency price relief, consistent with applicable law, to the American people..." Among those demands are actions to "...lower the cost of housing and expand housing supply...", "...create employment opportunities for American workers...", and "...eliminate unnecessary...rent-seeking practices that increase healthcare costs..."
• 😹😹😹😹😹😹💀This is a joke, right? Surely he's just fucking with us now. Housing is so expensive right now because rich assclowns are buying up tons of properties and either hoarding them or flipping them and selling them at obscenely high prices. There are so many corporations snapping up any house they can get their hands on just to resell it or rent it out at rates that nobody with fewer than 2 full time jobs can hope to afford. He's demanding we create employment while simultaneously firing anyone involved with DEI practices, to the extent of having a snitch line for people to report anyone who is trying to avoid being fired by adjusting their job title/responsibilities (which, how would you even do that? Federal positions are pretty well set in stone without months of approvals and retooling efforts).  And can you please explain how rent-seeking practices are increasing healthcare costs? I can't really see the connection there. But you know what I can see? I can see where the Affordable Care Act, which this bloated buffoon is trying to scrap, is helping provide lower costs of healthcare. And I can see where he's already rescinded policies from the previous administration that capped the cost of drugs like insulin.
  If this shit wasn't so mindbogglingly stupid and thoroughly depressing, I might actually be laughing right now.
• Regulatory freeze pending review
• This order demands that no new rules be submitted until it has been reviewed and approved by a department or agency head that the President appoints. Any rules that have been approved but not yet published in the Federal Register must also be withdrawn and submitted for review. Any new rules that have already been published should be considered for postponement so that they may be reviewed for factuality, lawfulness, and compliance with policy.
• This is another way of trying to stack the deck to his favor. Basically, any rules that affect the federal government in any way need to be reviewed by one of this administrations cronies to determine if it's something that pleases the almighty pissbaby.
• Ending the weaponization of the federal government
• This order states that the prior administration misused Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community to investigate, prosecute, and perform civil and/or federal actions against people that disagreed with the administration, including jailing "an individual for posting a political meme." It does not provide context for this claim. The order states that the administration prosecuted "more than 1,500 individuals associated with January 6, and simultaneously dropped nearly all cases against BLM rioters." The order seeks to review the activities of "...all departments and agencies exercising civil or criminal enforcement authority..." as well as "...the Intelligence Community..." for the last 4 years, and come up with remedial actions for any perceived overreach. It also demands compliance with document retention policies.
• First off, source needed for that individual jailed for posting a political meme. Because all I can find is a guy who actively spread disinformation regarding Hillary Clinton, calling her a "warmonger," claiming she cheated Sanders out of the spot, claiming that she wanted to draft women (while she did say she wanted women to have to register for the draft, she did not intend to activate the draft), and various other misleading or outright false claims.
  The 1,500 people involved with the insurrection of January 6 were prosecuted for various crimes that they were caught committing, many of them on camera. This includes inciting violence, assault (including the assault of law enforcement), and property damage, among other things. The BLM "rioters" (read: protestors) who had their charges dismissed were those who were arrested for things like failure to disperse and open container violations, "crimes" for which most people get nothing worse than a fine, especially on their first arrest. And there were plenty of people arrested (over 10,000), with many receiving fines, hundreds facing charges of looting and burglary (which typically results fines, probation, community service, and/or short stays in jail), and several receiving jail sentences upwards of a year. Those people who were convicted of crimes were given sentences that aligned with the severity of their crimes. I don't know what Agolf Shitler expects to happen here. You can't re-try people who have already been tried or had their cases dropped, and he's already freed the insurrectionists. so...?
• Restoring Freedom of Speech and ending federal censorship
  
• According to this order, " Under the guise of combatting “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation,” the Federal Government infringed on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate." It goes on to say that taxpayer resources should not be used in any conduct that would "unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen" and demands that the federal government find previous instances of this happening and "take appropriate action to correct" the situation.
• Since when is ensuring that false, very likely harmful information isn't spread around? Also, nobody was saying you couldn't write such things, only that they wouldn't be hosted on certain (PRIVATELY OWNED) websites without a fact-check. That's how the right to free speech works. You have the right to say whatever you want, but it doesn't free you from the consequences of saying those things. In this case, the consequence of saying something that is provably false was that your post either got a warning label that it was false, or was removed from the platform. I'm not aware of any federal expenditures to this effort. This is literally people being butthurt that their (often wild, speculative, or just completely wrong) takes on certain topics were not allowed to be as widely disseminated as they would like.
• Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions
• After another set of jabs at the previous administration, this order revokes the following, previously existing, executive orders:
• Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
• Ensuring a Lawful and Accurate Enumeration and Apportionment Pursuant to the Decennial Census
• Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government to Provide a Unified and Effective Response to COVID-19 and to Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security
• Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation
• Ethics Commitments by Executive Branch Personnel
• Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis
• Revocation of Certain Executive Orders Concerning Federal Regulation
• Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities
• Ensuring an Equitable Pandemic Response and Recovery
• Establishing the COVID-19 Pandemic Testing Board and Ensuring a Sustainable Public Health Workforce for COVID-19 and Other Biological Threats
  
• Improving and Expanding Access to Care and Treatments for COVID-19
• Protecting Worker Health and Safety
• Supporting the Reopening and Continuing Operation of Schools and Early Childhood Education Providers
• Economic Relief Related to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Protecting the Federal Workforce
• Enabling All Qualified Americans to Serve Their Country in Uniform
• Reforming Our Incarceration System to Eliminate the Use of Privately Operated Criminal Detention Facilities
• President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
• Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
• Strengthening Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
• Creating a Comprehensive Regional Framework to Address the Causes of Migration, To Manage Migration Throughout North and Central America, and to Provide Safe and Orderly Processing of Asylum Seekers at the United States Border
• ...You know what? I was going to list them all, but there are just too damn many of them.
• Yeah, that's about half of the orders that are being rescinded. The gist of what I'm getting from this is that the Covfefe Commander is trying to undo every. single. one. of Biden's executive orders and picking it back up from where things were when he was ousted last time. We're rolling back all kinds of protections, committees intended to prevent another pandemic, policies that would simplify the immigration process and make it easier for people to enter the country legally, and a whole mess of other things. So don't be shocked if you're fired for being in the Alphabet Mafia in any way, or if climate change accelerates uncontrolled, or we return to separating children from their parents at the border and subsequently losing track of them.
• Flying the flag of the United States at full-staff on Inauguration Day
• This one is probably the fluffiest. Currently, flags are being flown at half-staff in recognition of the death of former president Carter. As is tradition, the flag is to be flown that way for 30 days after his death. However, "...in honor of Inauguration Day and everything good and noble that it represents...I hereby order that, on this and all future Inauguration Days, the flag of the United States shall be flown at full-staff."
• Look at me, look at me! I'm special!
  That's it. That's the whole order. I have nothing more to say on the matter.

Well, there you have it folks. That's the whole list of executive orders made on Day 1 of the second term of the worst president in US history. I was planning to put the Cabinet picks here, too, but that's its own level of Hell to wade through, so that'll be tomorrow's fiasco. Then there are more orders that he made after Day 1, some extremely problematic hand gestures made by his crony partner in crime puppeteer er...by the elongated muskrat (thanks to Richard Jeter for that one), and who knows what other insanity to get through to catch up. But here we are for now.