Latest posts tagged with #SpoilsSystem on Bluesky
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.
โ[C]onsideration of partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.โ
Defendantsโ proposed stipulation (quoted in plaintiffsโ filing), City of Saint Paul v. Wright, D.D.C. (15-Dec-2025)
โA lot of good can come down from shutdownsโฆ [w]e can get rid of a lot of things we didnโt want, and theyโd be Democrat things.โ
Donald Trump, quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)
โIt really undermines the idea that youโre passing neutral laws thatโฆ are supposed to apply equally to everybody.โ
Dan Farber (UC Berkeley law), quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wnhlwfb44kfyi4gb6yc2tvbz/bafkreiehhmgtmmd6bsqvrr2j2todko4fft2swu6jgrzlh2d2xlbogpbnaq)
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. โ[C]onsideration of partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.โ Defendantsโ proposed stipulation (quoted in plaintiffsโ filing), City of Saint Paul v. Wright, D.D.C. (15-Dec-2025) โA lot of good can come down from shutdownsโฆ [w]e can get rid of a lot of things we didnโt want, and theyโd be Democrat things.โ Donald Trump, quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025) โIt really undermines the idea that youโre passing neutral laws thatโฆ are supposed to apply equally to everybody.โ Dan Farber (UC Berkeley law), quoted in The Washington Post (17-Dec-2025)
Blue-state energy grants? Cut. Motive? โConstitutionally permissibleโ partisanship (their words). ๐คกโก๏ธ๐งพ #SpoilsSystem #PartisanPayback #RuleOfLaw #FAFO
Liz Oyerโs 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. โTrumpโs pardons are licensing elected officials, at all levels of government, to profit off the powers entrusted to them by the American people.โ โToday, wealthy and powerful pardon hopefuls are funneling their requests straight to the presidentโs desk by way of well-connected intermediaries.โ โPardons can serve as an inexhaustible supply of currency that he can print with his own hand and dispense as easily as signing a check.โ โIt undermines public trust in government.โ Liz Oyer, The Atlantic, 15-Dec-2025
Trumpโs ๐โ ๐ฐ pardon spree for crooked officials isnโt just โmercyโ ๐ค๐ธ๐: itโs a transactional signal. If clemency rewards loyalty and money, the rule is simple โ ๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐, ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. #PayToPlay #RuleOfLaw #SpoilsSystem
Screenshot of the Wikipedia article for โSpoils Systemโ of politics/government including the line, โit contrasts with a merit system.โ
Boy, does it ๐
#spoilssystem #MAGA #Trump
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Spoils System Drop New Album โThe Nope Outโ โ Shoegaze Power-Pop With Teeth #music #indiemusic #spoilssystem
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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
โDisaster funds to be distributed directly from White House.โ
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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 โnew and improved and worse than everโ.
But SC(R)OTUS said itโs 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
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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In flagrant violation, need one even add, of the Civil Service Act.
#Coup
#Corruption
#SpoilsSystem
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#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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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 Muskโs numerous tech companies." #TrumpDictatorship #FederalGovernment #ElonMusk #SpoilsSystem
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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 โincriminatingโ 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
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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