'Bonkers crazypants': American diplomats shaken by reports of possible cuts
Source: Politico
U.S. diplomats were shaken and even panicked during the weekend as a document purporting to be a draft executive order that would radically reshape the State Department circulated and boosted their fears of massive job cuts.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio dismissed reports of the document as fake news, but the jitters underscored how alarmed many are about the lengths the Trump administration will go to to reshape the State Department as part of a so-called efficiency drive.
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Diplomats sharing the draft with each other said they were puzzled by the logic undergirding it. One U.S. diplomat described the draft to POLITICO as bonkers crazypants.
The diplomat added: Theres a lot that could be reformed, but you could give infinite monkeys infinite typewriters, and they would come up with something better than that.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/20/bonkers-crazypants-american-diplomats-state-department-00300029
Since TFG is calling it fake, I am pretty certain its probably accurate

dchill
(42,080 posts)SonOfNebanaube
(15 posts)While Trump sets U.S. up as a Soviet Vassle State.
UpInArms
(52,630 posts)(a bit late)
May you post long
ETA:
It is spelled
vassal
vassal /văs′əl/
noun
A person who held land from a feudal lord and received protection in return for homage and allegiance.
A bondman; a slave.
A subordinate or dependent.
Irish_Dem
(68,464 posts)We don't need any US presence overseas when the US belongs to Russia.
Shipwack
(2,610 posts)Totally irrelevant.
Irish_Dem
(68,464 posts)Make it dead in the water on the global stage.
And to make sure it never comes to life again.
Marthe48
(20,504 posts)Anyone who travels outside the U.S. please remember to be a representative of your country, a diplomat. Be sure to maintain the ties you have. Don't let the abuser get away with isolation!
flamingdem
(40,372 posts)They assume most Americans don't care about other countries..
nilram
(3,156 posts)But they make up for it by being really, really stupid.
Javaman
(63,652 posts)Hes the easily programmed sycophant
More please.
How much does it take until the majority recognizes how bad this is getting?
There should be a way to stop this insanity without bloodshed but I'm having doubts.
Old Testament Libera
(75 posts)Without a functioning State Department the U.S. is blind and deaf to everything going on in the world.
Trump will only learn what is going on when random 3rd world dictators come to kiss is fat ass. He will not get a very balanced viewpoint form that.
atreides1
(16,628 posts)And he's lying!!!