First, from Politco.com:
Trump victory provokes crises in foreign policy
by Michael Crowley
From the Middle East to Eastern Europe to Asia to Mexico, countries brace for major changes.
Donald Trump’s stunning election victory will provoke immediate tensions across several continents, and force Republican foreign policy elites to make quick decisions whether to work for a man most strongly opposed as unqualified, according to foreign policy experts and GOP insiders.
The mere fact of Trump’s election will produce political instability in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America, experts say, as world leaders scramble to prepare for potentially radical shifts in American foreign policy and brace for global financial panic.
Aaaargh, the sky is falling! Where are our My Little Ponies, our safety pins, our diapers, our safe spaces, our coloring books, our Play-Doh?
Oh wait. The sky wasn’t falling; in fact, the stock market completely rallied around Donald Trump and produced its first Dow of 18,000.
The sky isn’t falling. Unless you’re Iran.
That agreement was already under pressure in the run-up to Iranian elections early next year and Trump’s victory could deal a blow to moderate supporters of Obama’s signature foreign-policy agreement.
“I don’t actually think he’ll rip up the deal, but I also didn’t think he would win this election,” a senior Obama administration official said late Tuesday night.
Good news. Trump is going to rip the Iran deal a new arshole.
Foreign policy veterans may be in especially high demand at the State Department, where career foreign service officers have talked for months about whether they could serve under a President Donald Trump—a debate many considered academic but which now presents them with a grueling choice between their values and their country.
The prospect of mass resignations “is a real thing,” according to one career diplomat who has had several such conversations with State Department colleagues.
Note to Leftist State Department personnel: don’t let the door smack your betraying asses on the way out. You’re as replaceable as oil filters in a Yugo. There are young bucks who can’t wait to take your spots because, if for no other reason, your federal salaries are grand. Make your hashtag #StateResignationsRUs.
Further — and I simply cannot contain my glee — people at the EPA are likewise coughing up phlegm and new life forms entirely.
From BizPacReview.com:
Americans cheer as Trump destroys the EPA without even trying
EPA staffers were in panic mode at the news of Donald Trump’s election victory.
In the wake of the president-elect’s promises of sweeping reforms at the bloated federal agency, employees were in tears and were offered counseling, E&E News reported.
“People are upset. Some people took the day off because they were depressed,” John O’Grady, president of American Federation of Government Employees Council 238, said. The union represents thousands of employees of the Environmental Protection Agency.
“People were crying,” O’Grady, who works in EPA’s Region 5 office in Chicago, added. “They were recommending that people take sick leave and go home.”
Your federal tax dollars at work, paying for those amoebic pussies to take time off work. On the other hand, EPA employees taking time off work = saving jobs for ranchers, farmers and people who actually labor for a living.
Trump had vowed to repeal many of the agency’s far-reaching rules enacted under President Obama, including the Clean Power Plan which cuts power plants’ greenhouse gas emissions. Trump’s EPA transition team will be lead by Myron Ebell of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a top climate change skeptic.
“If you look at the seven stages of grief, I’m still in denial. I will not look at the news. I will not read the news,” one EPA employee said, according to E&E News.
“I think it’s a sadness and a worry about just how far someone will go, especially when you never believe anything he says,” an Energy Department staffer said. “Many of us have worked in both the Bush and the Obama administrations, and I don’t think that we feel like it will be like just going back to Bush again.”
Right. Because the EPA needs to regulate each and every rain puddle. It needs to regulate who can catch water in a barrel. It needs to regulate everyone for everything.
Uh, not.
BZ
Most of us have seen the maps showing the blue counties and the red counties in the past election. All these federal employees have been aligned with the blue counties while their impact has been disproportionately falling on the red counties. They have good reasons to be scared.
Now what was that saying? “A new broom sweeps clean”.
Yes indeed.
BZ
there are five stages of grief for those of us that don’t work at the EPA. i think the two extra are coloring books and pet a puppy, but i’m not sure on that.
didn’t the sky fall when BREXIT passed? if it fell again, is it back in place?
Well, I suppose perhaps if you freeze-dried it first.
BZ
Agree, there will be one helluva change in the leadership and that will force them into getting their act together!
“Losing” employees at Dept of State = no problemo whatsoever. LET them leave.
BZ
Both agencies need a housecleaning from top to bottom. EPA needs to be dissolved. States can easily regulate clean air and water.
Yes. Push down as many responsibilities as possible to the states.
BZ