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Trump Is Firing Hundreds and Hundreds of DOJ and State Department Lefties and Layabouts
The State Department is laying off 1,300 bureaucrats in a "massive restructuring plan."
* Layoff notices are going out to more than 1,300 employees of the U.S. State Department Friday. * The firings are part of a dramatic reorganization and a push by the Trump administration to drastically downsize the federal government. The State Department is laying off more than 1,300 employees Friday, a move that critics say will make us less safe abroad and hurt America's leadership across the globe. The Trump administration has pushed to reshape American diplomacy and worked aggressively to shrink the size of the federal government, including mass dismissals as part of moves to dismantle whole departments like the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Education Department.The pinkslips are coming for DOJ lawyers who participated in the political persecution of the right.
State Dept. layoffs By the numbers: The department is sending layoff notices to 1,107 civil servants and 246 foreign service officers with domestic assignments in the United States, a senior State Department official told The Associated Press. Foreign service officers affected will be placed immediately on administrative leave for 120 days, after which they will formally lose their jobs, according to an internal notice obtained by The Associated Press. For most affected civil servants, the separation period is 60 days, it said.
ClandestineCBS "News" whines that all of their sources and traitors are being fired.
@WarClandestine Interesting. WaPo claim anonymous sources are telling them that the Trump admin are currently "firing and pushing out employees" at the DOJ/FBI, with zero explanation or warning. Sounds like a purge is going on. Perhaps bad actors are being drawn out and eliminated. But one thing is for certain, that much is going on behind the scenes. There's plenty going on that we do not get to see.
A 17-year former Justice Department official is warning of a wave of retribution inside the agency. Patty Hartman, who served as a top public affairs specialist at the FBI and federal prosecutors' offices, told CBS News, "The rules don't exist anymore." Hartman, who was fired Monday via a letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi, is the fourth person connected to the agency's work on the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots to be terminated in the past month. "There used to be a line, used to be a very distinct separation between the White House and the Department of Justice, because one should not interfere with the work of the other," Hartman told CBS News. "That line is very definitely gone." Hartman isn't a prosecutor, but worked on the District of Columbia U.S. Attorney's Office public affairs team that distributed news releases about the more than 1,500 Jan. 6 criminal prosecutions. "I am not political. I do not serve a president or a party," she said. "I serve the American people, the Department of Justice and its mission and the citizens in the district where I work. I've been doing that for almost 20 years."Julie Kelly says that's a lie.
The purge of Justice Department employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases began shortly after President Trump's second inauguration, when he installed a former Jan. 6 defense attorney, Ed Martin, as the acting top prosecutor in Washington, D.C. Multiple prosecutors were promptly terminated. The latest wave of firings included Hartman and three more prosecutors who helped handle some of the Jan. 6 cases. She said those firings appear to be a form of retribution from the administration. ... She characterized her dismissal as an indication of a broader destabilization inside the Justice Department and Trump administration. In a social media post this week, she wrote, "We appear to be driving straight into an abyss that holds no memory of what democracy is, was, or should be." "The people in charge who are supposed to protect us -- our fellow Americans who we elected, along with those who were appointed, and swore an oath to protect this nation and our Constitution -- now use the Constitution as a weapon to suit their own ends. And the most terrifying fact is, their road map is very long," Hartman also wrote. She told CBS News she had been fired without due process and said she's considering a legal challenge over her termination.
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2 WashPo reporting fabulous news out of DOJ as employee purge continues. "Widespread, abrupt terminations have left Justice Department and FBI employees wondering if they will be next, people familiar with the matter say." This makes me especially happy: "Patricia Hartman, a veteran spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in D.C., was notified Monday that she was fired." Hartman routinely refused to answer any of my media inquiries as she ran cover for Matt Graves and J6 prosecutors. "I wish I HAD an explanation," Hartman told WashPo. More: "At least three attorneys who worked on the prosecutions of rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan 6 and had been demoted to roles elsewhere also were removed." DOJ already fired several temp J6 prosecutors but many career prosecutors who worked on J6 cases remain but "fear they may be next to receive a termination letter." I can GUARANTEE some will very soon.
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(Jump to bottom of comments)Thus endeth the Gospel of Saint Ronald, peace upon him.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:16 PM (gKWVE)
also I was 1st because as I filled out the comment box, there were 0 comments displayed
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:17 PM (AOsQT)
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Posted by: Reforger at July 11, 2025 02:21 PM (SJnNf)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2025 02:20 PM (mlg/3)
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The people who care about feds losing their jobs are the feds themselves and...just about no one else.
Can thousands and thousands of them. It'll be like hearing that some factory 1000 miles away from you shut down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (pMi6S)
Wut? Are government employees guaranteed hearings in front of a judge before they can be fired?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (lIio7)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (PMtkd)
GOOD! Behave.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (hOOi9)
GOOD! Behave.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:23 PM (TwZXH)
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Or don't. It doesn't matter.
They're fired too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (+qU29)
Wut? Are government employees guaranteed hearings in front of a judge before they can be fired?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (lIio7)
They think Government Employment is a permanent Right that they have been granted, because they are so much better than the rest of us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (uWKK8)
Oh Lord, please, don't let me be misunderstood
Minnesota Star Tribune Labels Illegal Alien Child Predators as "Misunderstood," DHS Fires Back
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Same with Heinrich Himmler.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (CWTWj)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (FIXtj)
They can put up a shingle and defend drunks sleeping under the overpass.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (ufFY8)
But what about the black people that these hardworkin Americans protect from white people!!!
WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO NOW!!!!!!
BLACKS WILL BE KILLED!
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at July 11, 2025 02:25 PM (et1vG)
Posted by: teh Wind at July 11, 2025 02:25 PM (l+V04)
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Well, honest work is out of the question.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:25 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:25 PM (1m82a)
Wut? Are government employees guaranteed hearings in front of a judge before they can be fired?
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:22 PM (lIio7)
They think Government Employment is a permanent Right that they have been granted, because they are so much better than the rest of us.
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (uWKK
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There's caselaw making federal employment termination a due process thing. However, there's competing caselaw that says that the president as the right to fire anyone.
Eh...her threats will probably go nowhere. There might be a need for some level of compensation, which is probably already included in any kind of severance package, but that should be about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (GBKbO)
hardy har har har
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (CWTWj)
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These people make me sick with their fake "public servant" bullshit.
You're a servant? Then you don't get paid. Do it for your love of the public. LOL
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (CueAq)
Oh you poor thing, you'll have to polish your resume and get a job working for a change.
Enjoy your "funemployment" as "an employee surplus to requirements"
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (a+4eV)
Cutting journalism.
Posted by: Orson at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (dIske)
There is NO LEGAL RIGHT to any job. Private or public sector.
Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (2sMLA)
YES!!!!
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (jL6lQ)
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She must have missed the DOJ fabricating a false pretext to investigate the President and his staff in Trump I and to harm the President and the GOP electorally.
By "missed" I mean "fully participated in."
Posted by: Alec Leamas at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (ssz2a)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (/U5Yz)
Heavens no, not that!
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (y+qgR)
Posted by: The Donald at July 11, 2025 02:18 PM (jGGMD)
we have been informed by Reliable Source and Regular Commenter "It's Go Time Donald" that you are only following orders and that's why you throw us red meat like ICE raids and this DOJ purge, yet did not release epstein list.
But we are on to you, Mr. DoritoChip-OrangeManBad!! Don't think for a moment that you are fooling US!!
*shakes fist*
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (dCxaZ)
There is NO LEGAL RIGHT to any job. Private or public sector.
Prove me wrong.
Posted by: Joe Mama at July 11, 2025 02:26 PM (2sMLA)
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Yeah, in terms of federal employment, there's a lot of caselaw that says termination without due process is a violation of the employee's rights.
However, when it comes to reorgs and RIFs, none of that applies.
So, this threat should go nowhere.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (GBKbO)
They can put up a shingle and defend drunks sleeping under the overpass.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (ufFY
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HA!
Too good for them.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (PMtkd)
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Well this one is right up there with "The check is in the mail" and "Don't call me, I'll call you".
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (wBaIH)
Who is she? Rumplestiltskin? Just now wake up?
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (TwZXH)
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The rules were, "Do anything they want as long as it aligned with the Democrat establishment's wishes."
Why can't those rules come back?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lampposts Local #86 at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (2sMLA)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)
Then you do so at the pleasure of the Executive as delineated in the Constitution. Or else you're an embezzler of taxpayer funds.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (CWTWj)
Eh...her threats will probably go nowhere. There might be a need for some level of compensation, which is probably already included in any kind of severance package, but that should be about it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:2
I thought the trade off for working for the government was lower pay and job security but I was wrong.
And government employees should not be allowed to unionize but that's just me I guess.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Tom Servo at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (uWKK
Yeah, like who told Strozk and Page about the "insurance policy"?
Comey, Brennan, Clapper, and all of those arrogant, vicious SOBs were some sort of Knights Errants defending "democracy" and the honor of Hillary Clinton?
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (j/vBG)
Then you do so at the pleasure of the Executive as delineated in the Constitution. Or else you're an embezzler of taxpayer funds.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (gKWVE)
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The bureaucracy must serve the people by severing all feedback from the people so that the bureaucracy can do whatever it wants in service to the people whether the people like it or not.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (ImXfC)
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Now is everyone absolutely certain we can't vote for him in the 2024 election again?
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:29 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (g8Ew8)
Die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (ufFY8)
"helico-" (meaning spiraling or curved)
"-pter" (meaning wing)
...hence it means "spiraling wing."
Other words based on "pter" include "pterodactyl" ("fingered wing") and pteropus (the genus of bats, meaning "foot-wing").
Slaps forehead.
Now I always pronounce it "helico-pter," just to start conversations.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)
Bureaucrats face what private sector employees do every day. World ends.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)
Some stupid Hawaiian judge is going to say no standing and you can't fire anyone, ever.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (CueAq)
The press is the enemy of the People.
Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (KtOUo)
But of course she's a do-nothing and about to be jettisoned.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (1m82a)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (GBKbO)
The pinkslips are coming for DOJ lawyers who participated in the political persecution of the right.
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'Bout time. What's it been? Nearly six months? When it should have been six minutes.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (HZi96)
Bureaucrats face what private sector employees do every day. World ends.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2025 02:28 PM (HZi96)
Some stupid Hawaiian judge is going to say no standing and you can't fire anyone, ever.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (CueAq)
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This action is in response to the 8-1 process ruling from SCOTUS saying that Trump can make plans for RIF.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
MSNBC about to be blessed with a bunch of new "regular commentators."
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (UmB+t)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Brometheus at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Mch+H)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (VWPYG)
Let me lay it all on the line
Let me put my restructuring plan into you
Let me cut your jobs with my knife!
Posted by: Mo at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (qC9Le)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (TwZXH)
Rip Van Winkle?
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (Qr870)
But of course she's a do-nothing and about to be jettisoned.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (1m82a)
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Hiring new career lawyers at the DOJ just happens Day 1 automatically without even waiting for political appointees, right?
Right?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:31 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: torabora at July 11, 2025 02:32 PM (KtOUo)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (pMi6S)
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Yeah, no.
Everyone in the executive branch works under the President, who we voters choose. No one, and no agency of the federal government is entitled to any independent authority.
Posted by: Methos at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (zLwRl)
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The U.S. government posted a surplus in June as tariffs gave an extra bump to a sharp increase in receipts, the Treasury Department said Friday.
With government red ink swelling throughout the year, last month saw a surplus of just over $27 billion, following a $316 billion deficit in May.
That brought the fiscal year-to-date deficit down to $1.34 trillion, a 1% decline from the same period a year ago. In June 2024, the deficit totaled $71 billion. There are three months left in the current fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30.
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How'd those words taste coming out your mouth, huh NBC? Bitter?
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (VWPYG)
*sigh* Why am I not surprised? We should slip something in BBB2 to end that.
Posted by: bonhomme at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (lIio7)
This action is in response to the 8-1 process ruling from SCOTUS saying that Trump can make plans for RIF.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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He could MAKE plans. Whether he can EXECUTE them is up to the next judge.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (UmB+t)
Just IN 🚨: LA Mayor Bass announces 'cash assistance' program to immigrant families affected by ICE raids. The idea is to begin handing out 'cash' debit cards families by next week.
She mentioned the program would be funded via 'philanthropists', not city taxpayer money. -LAT
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I really need to figure out how to apply for this.
Just because I don't live in CA, they can't deny me because that's racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
No it won't. It will hurt the wallets of these 1,300. All this drama about minimally reducing headcount is a mere correction. Government jobs are not a hospice. A real layoff is what happened in 1993 with IBM laid off 60,000.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (NXz8h)
Learn to Swallow Choad, Patty.
Posted by: garrett at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (Bi+MU)
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at July 11, 2025 02:34 PM (jL6lQ)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (pMi6S)
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LOL
"But they are public servants, they work for us!" "Hard and daily (in the ass)."
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:34 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:34 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (R4SAT)
Cruise has improved many, many movies in his career (Edge of Tomorrow could not have starred anyone else) but he was wasted in War of the Worlds. Anybody could have been in that role. Maybe Will Smith.
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (gKWVE)
Reassignment to Antarctica is always an option. Be there Monday 8AM or be fired.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (a+4eV)
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Yeah, boy, if there were ever two downtrodden people, it's Elain and the Mooch.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:35 PM (L/fGl)
How stupid do you have to be to keep voting for this shit?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:36 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: nurse ratched at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (W2Pud)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:34 PM (XeU6L)
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There are problems with that.
Hiring thousands (NPR says it was 59,000 at the start of June) back in shuttered or reorged departments isn't...easy.
Being a fed who lost their job in 2025 and had to move to Missouri to find work for the next few years makes going back to DC harder.
It wouldn't exactly be an overnight thing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (GBKbO)
Elaine Benes' net worth is north of $250M. For being a TV actor.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (/U5Yz)
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FFS, Obama has grifted his way to hundreds of millions and Dreyfus is heir to the Dreyfus fund worth billions.
These insufferable bitches. STFU.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (ufFY
The FX were excellent. But the kids were a couple of whiny little bitches. By midway through the movie I wanted them to be dusted.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: four seasons at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (3ek7K)
Any thoughts if Cruise would have improved Prometheus?
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (NXz8h)
Disconnecting dozens of foreign state espionage channels prolly.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I just hope they all move to the utopian progressive paradise of California to pick marijuana so that the weed market doesn't get a bad price shock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)
hardy har har har
Posted by: gnats local 678 at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (CWTWj)
The people elected Donald Trump as President so they could get rid of the likes of her.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 02:38 PM (R4SAT)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:38 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 02:36 PM (iFTx/)
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I just hope they all move to the utopian progressive paradise of California to pick marijuana so that the weed market doesn't get a bad price shock.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:38 PM (GBKbO)
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LEARN TO WEED
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (iFTx/)
And then came Trump.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (pMi6S)
Die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
Why is it a contest? And anyway the Epstein thing is worse in terms of what was done to people and kids.
What is this crap, are we all worried the Epstein stuff is somehow hurting Trump or something?
It *should* hurt him if the truth can't come out. Who the fuck gives a shit?
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram
Maybe if, after reading that roll of toilet paper Ridley Scott was calling a script, Cruise had stormed into the office and done his Les Grossman impression to Scott's face
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (gKWVE)
Elaine Benes' net worth is north of $250M. For being a TV actor.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:37 PM
I read she was the kid of a billionaire.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (CueAq)
As I said to a good buddy after the election, I was mostly relieved, not ecstatic. Mostly because I realized it would no longer be a thing of waiting, almost every day, to see what new idiocy or horror was being unleashed by the cretinous aliens in power. Having new positive morsels or main dishes dropped every day is of course better than just relief.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (1m82a)
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Well this one is right up there with "The check is in the mail" and "Don't call me, I'll call you".
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (Qr870)
For freeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Lolol
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 02:40 PM (OA79/)
Just IN 🚨: LA Mayor Bass announces 'cash assistance' program to immigrant families affected by ICE raids. The idea is to begin handing out 'cash' debit cards families by next week.
She mentioned the program would be funded via 'philanthropists', not city taxpayer money. -LAT
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:33 PM (GBKbO)
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This is going to backfire. Those philanthropists probably aren't all domiciled in the US. It wouldn't surprise me if various Central and South American governments aren't using cut outs to process this money. Hell, it might even be attached to the Cartels.
Posted by: Orson at July 11, 2025 02:40 PM (dIske)
I thought Fanning did a great job at looking genuinely frightened. Better than average kid actor performance.
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:40 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: McDonald's at July 11, 2025 02:40 PM (Bi+MU)
As I said to a good buddy after the election, I was mostly relieved, not ecstatic. Mostly because I realized it would no longer be a thing of waiting, almost every day, to see what new idiocy or horror was being unleashed by the cretinous aliens in power. Having new positive morsels or main dishes dropped every day is of course better than just relief.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (1m82a)
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Assume $100 each month on average.
That's $700 million more in revenue for the feds. Not a lot considering the size of the deficit and debt, but every little bit helps!
Be patriotic, 20-something barista! Pay your student loans back! Do it for Uncle Joe!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (bvNHo)
So where in your job contract were you guaranteed a job for life and that the 'people in charge' where always going to 'protect you'??
Quick someone! Get Ms. Hartman a fainting couch, some smelling salts, an unemployment benefits application, and the book 'Coding for Dummies' STAT!
Posted by: Cheri at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (oiNtH)
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (YwEeS)
WTF does that mean? She works at DOJ and she basically wants due process?
We had due process. You weren't invited. We duly processed you should be fired.
"I work for the American people." Eff that. You work in government. The CEO of the government said you should be fired. Next.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (FxH7T)
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I'm starting to think Mooch is an op. Like maybe she hates Obama so much for banging the chef she secretly wants to help conservatives.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (Qr870)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (t0Rmr)
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Elric came up with one better (no surprise consdering how how Blade-y he is) at 118.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
So leave. Go where it's easier for women.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (y+qgR)
Also it dissuades people from pursuing degrees that will never pay back their cost so in the long term it is very helpful
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)
Is the follow up question, "are you Dutch? Belgian?"
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (YwEeS)
Also it dissuades people from pursuing degrees that will never pay back their cost so in the long term it is very helpful
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (t0Rmr)
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OBBB had a section for that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't know if it is true, but I've seen several lefties pissed that their student loans are being paid by wage garnishment.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: MrExcitement at July 11, 2025 02:19 PM (hOOi9)
And a 3 month longer hiring freeze til Oct 15...so all these folks are going and no one is coming in...and they are fighting Dem lawfare.
Aka - don't expect a lot of proactive out of DOJ. But unlike the Biden admin, they won't be destructive, so that's a huge win...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (tOcjL)
https://tinyurl.com/4t6jsv3t
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (2GCMq)
We know where the missing 2B in homeless money went.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Sayomara at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (Ku6NF)
Die in fire.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (viF8m)
The thing with the Epstein clients, beyond the outrage at what they did to children, is that if they have the influence to tell (apparently) Trump's DoJ that the law doesn't apply to them, even in (speculated) exchange for favors like the BBB, it is certain they're continuing to use their influence in less obvious ways elsewhere.
Which means we do not, and cannot, have a representative government. Which is a bigger deal than the peons currently being fired.
Posted by: Methos at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (zLwRl)
Rip Van Winkle? Thanks
Posted by: doug at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (Hy+R4)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:38 PM (TwZXH)
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Her family owned numerous companies trading commodities, mainly food and energy, under the name Louis-Dreyfus Group. Her father was estimated by Forbes to be worth $3.5 billion at his death in 2016.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (qyaCV)
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Appearing on the cover of magazines is hard. That nude thing for Rolling Stone was exhausting!
Posted by: Julia Louis Dreyfus at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (XeU6L)
I don't know if it is true, but I've seen several lefties pissed that their student loans are being paid by wage garnishment.
Posted by: Seems Legit
LOL Credit rating 100.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (t0Rmr)
As I said to a good buddy after the election, I was mostly relieved, not ecstatic. Mostly because I realized it would no longer be a thing of waiting, almost every day, to see what new idiocy or horror was being unleashed by the cretinous aliens in power. Having new positive morsels or main dishes dropped every day is of course better than just relief.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (1m82a)
I know right. During the lock downs they quit accruing interest on student loans and said you could take a pass on payments. I doubled up my payments and dropped some one time 10 k payments and it all went to principal for about three years. Got my kids out of college with no debt in their name.
Almost done.
Winning.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (OA79/)
As I said to a good buddy after the election, I was mostly relieved, not ecstatic. Mostly because I realized it would no longer be a thing of waiting, almost every day, to see what new idiocy or horror was being unleashed by the cretinous aliens in power. Having new positive morsels or main dishes dropped every day is of course better than just relief.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM
I feel the same way rhomboid.
Cretinous aliens in power would be a cool death metal band name.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Joefrombako at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (tAiFZ)
Posted by: mrp at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (rj6Yv)
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:44 PM (Qr870)
!!! Too much winning for one day !!!
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (TwZXH)
Now I always pronounce it "helico-pter," just to start conversations.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)
An ornithopter flies by flapping its wings.
You don't want to know how a pornithopter flies, do you?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (R4SAT)
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (AOsQT)
Choppah.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (g8Ew8)
Gray headed bowl cut hair, very northern Virginia type woman you would see screaming at a school board meeting.
Posted by: Redenzo at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (4VaIk)
Posted by: TJ Jackson at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (bXvrr)
Then go to all the angry baristas and tell them they can get out of part of their debt if they vote R...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (t0Rmr)
I did have one colleague who volunteered to go on TDY to prosecute the J6 cases. She retired voluntarily to take a better job. Too bad she quit before Team Orange got around to firing her.
Posted by: mnw at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (kd60y)
Oh yeah? Well, maybe we the people didn't like those "old rules."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Hokey Pokey at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (QSrLX)
The State Dept employs 80,000 enemies of the state. I'll let you know when the plan is "massive"!
Posted by: t-bird at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (4Nep/)
Can thousands and thousands of them. It'll be like hearing that some factory 1000 miles away from you shut down.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not talking about comforting the feds. I'm talking about basic, root level messaging. Just fucking say "REFORM" every single time a camera is on. That's it.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (mlg/3)
That should get some dancing going at the White House.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (qyaCV)
Blonde bowl cut (with bolter) > grey bowl cut (with RBF)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (t0Rmr)
There's caselaw making federal employment termination a due process thing.
*sigh* Why am I not surprised? We should slip something in BBB2 to end that.
Posted by: bonhomme
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- Declare an indefinite holiday and send them all home.
- Delete their accounts.
- Sell the equipment (to whoever wants cocktail napkin floppy disks).
- Lease or sublet the buildings.
- No raises or promotions for the rest of their employment, ever, but sure, fine, here's your salary for doing absolutely nothing, which will be searchable along with your name via public OPM data.
Some will keep collecting. Others, who have ambitions and who got into government to help effect a fun-duh-mental transformation of the nay-shun, will look elsewhere.
That is my dream.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 02:47 PM (UmB+t)
We can't have commoners parading through the capitol like the own the place, can we? That is a line that must NEVER be crossed.
Posted by: Ripley at July 11, 2025 02:47 PM (PTDkx)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 02:47 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (tOcjL)
There are plenty of tall buildings in Washington
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (+qU29)
akshually, dee cee has a relatively low height limit.
Bawlimer and Richmond aren't that far away though, and you could probably find nice tall buildings in the suburbs too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (ULPxl)
That line was burnt during Trump's first term.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (8v2yu)
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I'm starting to think Mooch is an op. Like maybe she hates Obama so much for banging the chef she secretly wants to help conservatives.
Posted by: ... at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (Qr870)
You can literally advertise a p-oderant product targeted at women's schnitzel sacks and describe how to rub it in the folds between their legs.
Rough life.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (OA79/)
A bank can determine if your degree will provide an opportunity to pay back a loan.
Or make universities provide loans or grants from their endowments.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (PMtkd)
New hotness: Learn to food truck.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (NXz8h)
Which means we do not, and cannot, have a representative government. Which is a bigger deal than the peons currently being fired.
Posted by: Methos at July 11, 2025 02:43 PM (zLwRl)
Agreed. "Hey guys, it seems like much of our establishment in business, academia and government may be actively being blackmailed by the Intel agencies both domestic and abroad, and our deep state, and if we could just get some more info on Epstein, we could prove that and potentially even start to clean house on both the blackmailers and the blackmailees."
"Why are we still talking about Epstein? That was like six years ago! We have more important things to focus on like the price of a dozen eggs at Walmart!"
Like... huh?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (uCjyK)
Those onions won't pick themselves.
Posted by: t-bird at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (fL/bX)
I’m pretty sure there’s no DOJ exception for Article II. Probably wise to have some level of separation, but we’re being forced back to tit-for-tat rules of engagement.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (TJLr1)
Then go to all the angry baristas and tell them they can get out of part of their debt if they vote R...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:45 PM (t0Rmr)
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Interesting bit from Sec 85001 of the OBBB:
"If an educational program of an institution of higher education subject to this subsection does not meet the cohort median earning requirements, as described in paragraph (2), for one year during the applicable covered period but has not yet failed to meet such requirements for 2 years during such covered period, the institution shall promptly inform each student enrolled in the educational program of the eligible program's low cohort median earnings and that the educational program is at risk of losing its eligibility for funds under this part."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (tOcjL)
There are plenty of tall buildings in Washington
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 02:24 PM (+qU29)
akshually, dee cee has a relatively low height limit.
Bawlimer and Richmond aren't that far away though, and you could probably find nice tall buildings in the suburbs too.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket
Washington Monument is 554 ft tall.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 11, 2025 02:46 PM (mlg/3)
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I think "pain" would work better, to be honest.
People don't like feds.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (IeSZF)
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this line has never existed
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (AOsQT)
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Don't they know he's a lying dogface pony soldier?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM (L/fGl)
Like... huh?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (uCjyK)
It's so important, it would literally collapse governments and the global economy!
Which should give you complete confidence in both governments and the global economy.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (j/vBG)
>>Curious about the State cuts, sounds like all domestic
The total headcount for state is 80k employees world wide.
These firings are a good start but they got more work to do.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: steevy at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (YwEeS)
Ocean tide monitor in Sitka, AK.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (g8Ew8)
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
These firings are a good start but they got more work to do.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (XV/Pl)
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This is the beginning of the RIFs that Trump has been trying to implement since day 1.
There's definitely more to come.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Gref at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (aBgBM)
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yeah but the windows don't open
I went up to the top once- very tiny room
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
(Insert joke about libertarians and weed here)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (TJLr1)
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (snZF9)
I’m pretty sure there’s no DOJ exception for Article II. Probably wise to have some level of separation, but we’re being forced back to tit-for-tat rules of engagement.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 02:49 PM (TJLr1)
Can someone point to me where the Department of *Justice* is listed at all? I thought State, War and uhhhm, maybe Interior were the only authentic departments.
...ok, I cheated:
https://shorturl.at/pkfpC
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (ULPxl)
That line was burnt during Trump's first term.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:48 PM (8v2yu)
How soon they forget!
Posted by: Chinless Bastard Eric Holder, Obama's Wingman, Held In Congress' Contempt at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: bearski at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (Bhsk7)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (L/fGl)
Some will keep collecting. Others, who have ambitions and who got into government to help effect a fun-duh-mental transformation of the nay-shun, will look elsewhere.
That is my dream.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 02:47
You mean there isn't a database of federal employee salaries and retirements now?
There's one for California, transparent California.com and it's eye-opening.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (77rzZ)
Ummm, that's not true.
The Washington Monument is actually the current highest building (excluding radio towers) at 555 ft.
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:53 PM (tOcjL)
Local 5,000 watt AM station. Also, recipes and bake sale announcements.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc
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Early morning trade/sell/or give away. Listeners call in with those options.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 02:53 PM (Ri+6K)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:53 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: Going deep. Out. at July 11, 2025 02:54 PM (vt7xw)
Posted by: Fritzty at July 11, 2025 02:54 PM (T5dpv)
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But then Hunter came.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beav
Pretty sure that ended when they went to a fisa court to get a chance to spy on Trump based on that bullshit meeting they orchestrated with their stooges in england.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 02:54 PM (OA79/)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:54 PM (tOcjL)
Fuck you, Lindsey Graham.
I know this is how deals are made, but I'm effing sick of it.
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (PMtkd)
Or is that off limits too?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (Tv15w)
The Height of Buildings Act of 1910
The new height restriction law was more comprehensive than the previous law, and generally restricts building heights along residential streets to 90 feet (27 m), and along commercial corridors to the width of the right-of-way of the street or avenue on which a building fronts, or a maximum of 130 feet (40 m), whichever is shorter.[3]
basically, buildings in DC can't be taller than the street in front is wide
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Fire All The Scum! at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Nova Local
TY.
I think the problem is the first word.
I get it. It's called HR. But if you're not needed. You're not needed.
Welcome to AI. Not just for the private sector.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (FxH7T)
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (TwZXH)
So the ways the dems do this stuff is...
Negotiating: Sure we'll give all the money to Lil Z you want
Delivering: Oops, we meant we'll give you none of that money...sorry!
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at July 11, 2025 02:50 PM
They use old flower growing greenhouses and the whole are will reek like weed on warm days when they open the vents.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: Nova Local
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I have often wondered about abbreviations used by government agencies (particularly the armed services). Could there possibly be a compendium of such? Probably would be the size of the Encyclopedia Britannica...if you know what that is.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (+qU29)
Joe Biden was so good at international diplomacy and the rest of the world was glad to see him. Now what we got? this just gets worse every single day. Fuck Trump and his stupid DOGE agency!
Is the message here to Americans is don't travel? This is actually like an abusive relationship. Don’t talk to the neighbors! They’ll fill your head with LIES!
Tourism is way down here because no one knows what in the hell might happen to them here. I hate to sound paranoid but it’s like they are walking us in and everyone else out.
I guess that's why there's absolutely no diplomacy in this administration. Trump thinks diplomacy is for losers and winners just piss off everyone in the world apparently.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (JCZqz)
There's one for California, transparent California.com and it's eye-opening.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:52 PM (CueAq)
China most certainly has all that data now, from "hacks" and "leaks" of OPM systems
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (wVcYX)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (/U5Yz)
"his" HQ? The plans for that were started long before him. But I saw that and was glad. There's plenty of dead office space from Biden's america to put the FBI bits into far from DC.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Sandra Fluke's great great great grandmother at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (XeU6L)
My dad had the World Book Encyclopedia when I was a wee one...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (tOcjL)
Which should give you complete confidence in both governments and the global economy.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at July 11, 2025 02:51 PM (j/vBG)
Right, there is simultaneously nothing to see here, and also if we saw what there wasn't was to see, calamity would strike the country.
Makes sense.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (JCZqz)
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*looks up curiously from the rubble*
-Ukraine
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (GBKbO)
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did they describe the assistance, or are we just throwing money at them
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (gKWVE)
Nothing says "I care about the little people" like complaining that budget cuts might make it slower to get embassy help when abroad.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (/U5Yz)
"his" HQ? The plans for that were started long before him. But I saw that and was glad. There's plenty of dead office space from Biden's america to put the FBI bits into far from DC.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (8avO+)
I thought Patel already announced his plan to move to a different DC building, the one USAID used to have. That's what had MD blow a gasket...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (tOcjL)
That's some pretty weak sauce out of DU
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (Tv15w)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (JtH6i)
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yeah but the windows don't open
I went up to the top once- very tiny room
Posted by: Don Black
If we are throwing out government employees, those windows will be broken out.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (PMtkd)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (gKWVE)
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 02:56 PM (CueAq)
I wonder if a formation of jet fighter aircraft overflew those pot greenhouses at Mach 1.5, would the sonic boom smash all the glass? Would be worth a try, for shits and grins.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (R4SAT)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
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this is lunacy
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (IeSZF)
Tom Brady Makes His Move With Sofia Vergara After Viral Photo Sparks Rumors of a “Summer Romance”
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 02:27 PM (/U5Yz)
"his" HQ? The plans for that were started long before him. But I saw that and was glad. There's plenty of dead office space from Biden's america to put the FBI bits into far from DC.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025
Prolly knows it's completely shot through with listening devices owned by chynaise and Russia
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (OA79/)
Tom Brady Makes His Move With Sofia Vergara After Viral Photo Sparks Rumors of a “Summer Romance”
I just want her to deflate my balls man.
Posted by: Tom Brady at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (tOcjL)
Last I heard, the FBI was moving to a new building because their current building is "absolute garbage" and is "very old" (as per Kash on Rogan), having been built in the 1970's.
Of course, my apartment building was built in the 1940's and my office building in the 1920's, but hey. I guess the FBI cannot possibly exist in a building from the 1970's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)
It's here to stay. The pace of development and adoption is torrid. People have to get prepared for a whole new definition of 'working.'
Posted by: Hacked gp's Feed Off The Bird at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (TwZXH)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (dIske)
Or is that off limits too?
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 02:55 PM (XV/Pl)
Not much to talk about, really. When the arms were coming before Ukraine was losing. With them stopped Ukraine was losing. With them resumed Ukraine will lose.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: Don Black
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Goes to a numbered account, followed by transfer to another numbered account...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (XeU6L)
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did they describe the assistance, or are we just throwing money at them
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:57 PM (AOsQT)
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"The NDAA, passed by the Senate Armed Services Committee with a vote of 26-1 on July 9, 2025, includes a provision to extend the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative through 2028, increasing authorized funding to $500 million from $300 million in 2025...The draft of the bill will make its way through the legislative process in the coming months. The lower House of Representatives kept Ukraine support at $300 million in its version."
Just for added context.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Darth Randall at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions
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this is lunacy
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (AOsQT)
Lol. The dummies dont know they were laughing at him not with him.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (OA79/)
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But we’re getting spending cuts guyzzzz!! No really we are.
😂😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (tOcjL)
Last I heard, the FBI was moving to a new building because their current building is "absolute garbage" and is "very old" (as per Kash on Rogan), having been built in the 1970's.
Of course, my apartment building was built in the 1940's and my office building in the 1920's, but hey. I guess the FBI cannot possibly exist in a building from the 1970's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)
To be fair, there are literally nets on the outside of the building to keep folks from getting hurt by chunks falling off the current FBI building. Giving them the USAID building, which is now empty, is smart and cheap...
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (tOcjL)
How stupid do you have to be to keep voting for this shit?
Posted by: JackStraw
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So you don't have to, I watched the #WalkAway gang enter the lion's den of UC Irvine yesterday, the whole 2+ hours. Dip in literally anywhere (there's a blip of sanity towards the end, around 2:12:00 to 2:17:00 from a girl who doesn't like transing kids) and you'll find out how stupid.
https://youtu.be/Eq9NGuZbsqU
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (UmB+t)
Posted by: Bill Clinton at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (dIske)
Old and busted: This is standard operating procedure for a new president.
New hotness: This is literally an attack on democracy!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (TJLr1)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (PMtkd)
If OrangeManBad were the super duper evil they claim, he would dump all the things except the Departments of State, Treasury and WAR.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (ULPxl)
Of course, my apartment building was built in the 1940's and my office building in the 1920's, but hey. I guess the FBI cannot possibly exist in a building from the 1970's.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)
I think I heard that they don't get a new building but are moving to other office space emptied and idle.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (PMtkd)
"shut up" they explained.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:00 PM (uCjyK)
They are taking over another building, and demo-ing the Hoover building, and in part that is because the FBi is moving most of the staff out of DC
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (D7oie)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (PMtkd)
The funds the US sends to the Ukraine helps to slow human trafficking and the sexual exploitation of minors, especially by older, flaccid men who have money and power.
What? Don't look at me like that!
Posted by: Lindsey Graham, Closeted Homosexual at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (R/m4+)
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Nova Local
Did many a book report/foot note backup during fourth grade history with those.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (8v2yu)
The moment I saw Patty Hartman on video, I immediately thought, "Nope, she's lying. She must have done something to deserve getting canned."
And I was right.
Posted by: Pete in Texas at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (hMOER)
Posted by: gKWVE at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (gKWVE)
Maybe she just liked The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly?
Posted by: Methos at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (zLwRl)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (XeU6L)
Minus 10% for the big guy.
Posted by: Reforger at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (SJnNf)
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But we’re getting spending cuts guyzzzz!! No really we are.
😂😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (ImXfC)
Only 500 million? Har.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (8avO+)
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But we’re getting spending cuts guyzzzz!! No really we are.
😂😂
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (ImXfC)
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Relying on the CBO to tell you that the OBBB explodes the debt is silliness. They count keeping tax cuts as lost revenue.
The OBBB's only increases were in ICE and towards Alaska. The cuts were the 31 rescissions, including all unspent funds from the Inflation Reduction Act, and the first welfare reform in 20 years.
Remember, we can't really touch the debt unless we do welfare reform. Wait...not that welfare reform. It won't do anything. Can only cut in ways that hurt sick people.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (AOsQT)
Fuck you. Die in a fire.
You don’t serve the American people. You serve the people trying to undermine it and the constitution.
Burger King is hiring. But that probably work out. So
Stake out your space behind a 7-11, biotch.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (Ybx9r)
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Nerrrk.
The less meddling State does the better of we are.
No more color revolutions.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (Ri+6K)
Posted by: Nova Local at July 11, 2025 03:01 PM (tOcjL)
I'm not too worked up about it either way, but on general principle, an office building should last longer than 50 years.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Sorry. They're really focused on immigration raids at the moment, so I didn't have many comments to work with. But c'mon, the "Biden was a beloved/respected diplomat" at least got a chuckle out of me!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (JCZqz)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:30 PM (pMi6S)
Heli-couture
Posted by: haffhowershower at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (03kKB)
Posted by: Kindltot at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (D7oie)
Simply moving all the equipment, and office furniture, and phone lines, etc. will carry a heavy price. Probably all has to be done by union slugs, too.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (R4SAT)
but depleted uranium as I called them, is only one kevin bacon deviation from what the Times or the Post publishes
see that fairy tale, Bob Woodward coughed up right before the Election,
Posted by: miguel cervantes at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: ErikInTexas at July 11, 2025 02:59 PM (IeSZF)
A friend of mine used to work for one of the flower companies and they said that NAFTA and some other trade agreement put the flower industry out of business. They can't compete with the growers in South America.
The fields of flower seeds were gorgeous. Maybe Trump will make flowers possible in America again.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:03 PM (GBKbO)
Gore EVERYONE’S ox. It’s the only way.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 03:05 PM (TJLr1)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot
Sorry. They're really focused on immigration raids at the moment, so I didn't have many comments to work with. But c'mon, the "Biden was a beloved/respected diplomat" at least got a chuckle out of me!
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (JCZqz)
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"My neighbor's gardener, who my neighbor assures me has lived in America for 50 years despite barely speaking any English, got deported. They're deporting American citizens!"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:05 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (g47mK)
Posted by: JackStraw
At this point you have to assume we’re down to the people who openly support dismantling our democratic republic for something else.
Posted by: Vengeance at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (Ybx9r)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:04 PM (uCjyK)
______________________
No. You wrong!!! Nets keep 8 year olds from jumping.
Posted by: Anonymous Chinese I-phone minor at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (dIske)
Much like the millions of eligible voters supposedly stopped by voter disenfranchisement I suspect the millions of citizens deported by Trump will soon become a leftwing staple. Even if they can't find one actual case of either
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:07 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Seems Legit at July 11, 2025 02:58 PM (PMtkd)
"shut up" they explained.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:02 PM (uCjyK)
I presume this was in exchange for the BBB deal. It doesn't matter much, in real terms. Trump and his team are not interested in trying to destroy Russia, and trickling in of arms won't change anything.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:07 PM (8avO+)
You mean there isn't a database of federal employee salaries and retirements now?
There's one for California, transparent California.com and it's eye-opening.
Posted by: CaliGirl
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I don't think there's a single database, but we'd make sure that OPM makes all the sit-at-homes easily accessible.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:07 PM (UmB+t)
She told CBS News she had been fired without due process and said she's considering a legal challenge over her termination.
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She serves at the pleasure of the Chief Executive, and is fired at the further pleasure of the Chief Executive.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at July 11, 2025 03:07 PM (QwK6F)
Just heard a Local AM radio announcer reporting on the outcome of senior softball games -- and one of the teams that got beat is named "We've Got The Runs."
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 03:07 PM (idUt2)
Posted by: miguel cervantes at July 11, 2025 03:08 PM (bXbFr)
Just heard a Local AM radio announcer reporting on the outcome of senior softball games -- and one of the teams that got beat is named "We've Got The Runs."
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day'
LOL
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 03:09 PM (/U5Yz)
Posted by: ShainS -- Two Days To 'FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! Day' at July 11, 2025 03:09 PM (idUt2)
It’s like someone trying to lose weight and eating just one cookie. Yeah that shit don’t work. Because the one cookie turns into 2 cookies and then into the whole box.l
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:09 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 03:09 PM (L/fGl)
Just because I don*t live in CA, they can*t deny me because that*s racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Step one, knock it off with all this speaky the english. Fill out that application in spanish. Or better yet, mandarin.
Posted by: Clay at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (wLj9Q)
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (Ri+6K)
https://is.gd/itpnT8
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (L/fGl)
Nice! Dude even added his own sound effects...Bang! Bang! Bang!
Like 1960s Batman.
Posted by: Beat That Ass at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (R/m4+)
War;
State;
Treasury;
Interior.
That’s it. And the they should be specified in the Constitution.
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (77rzZ)
"I serve the American people"
My ass.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (BjH5D)
Posted by: runner at July 11, 2025 03:06 PM (g47mK)
A lot of the money supposed to go to the Ukraine war was actually orders to US arms makers to build weapons going forward. I suppose this might be that, in which case we can just keep them for ourselves.
It also might be a 'relabeling' of arms already sent by Biden in the pipeline.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (8avO+)
"If an educational program of an institution of higher education subject to this subsection does not meet the cohort median earning requirements, as described in paragraph (2), for one year during the applicable covered period but has not yet failed to meet such requirements for 2 years during such covered period, the institution shall promptly inform each student enrolled in the educational program of the eligible program's low cohort median earnings and that the educational program is at risk of losing its eligibility for funds under this part."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I love it. But just to note, they'd better spell out font size, color, prominence on website and in printed materials, etc.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (UmB+t)
Just because I don*t live in CA, they can*t deny me because that*s racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Step one, knock it off with all this speaky the english. Fill out that application in spanish. Or better yet, mandarin.
Posted by: Clay at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (wLj9Q)
Have someone fill it out in spanish and you're illiterate, just make your mark on the line.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 11, 2025 03:10 PM (CueAq)
Posted by: rickb223
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Meh...theres an app for that now, AI dude.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 11, 2025 03:11 PM (XeU6L)
Posted by: Maj. Healey at July 11, 2025 03:11 PM (/U5Yz)
2025: If we stop paying for the war it will end. War what's it good for? $500,000,000 in cold hard cash!
/Special thanks to Anonosaurus Wrecks
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:11 PM (t0Rmr)
https://bipartisanpolicy.org/
report/deficit-tracker/
Some months seem to traditionally run a surplus, usually April (obviously), but mostly it's just different degrees of up. June's behavior based on the 4 years of previous data in the chart seems to be largely just continuing the trend up.
An actual jump down in June seems ahistorical and significant.
We'll see if anything continues into July.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:12 PM (GBKbO)
That's the way to do it.
Heck, even paying the usual minimum with no interest accrual would have helped people get ahead.
But apparently a whole bunch were of the "if it's not mandatory right now, I'm not doing it" mindset.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (a+4eV)
Maybe next year….
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (FCPbW)
A) Because he's twice as big as you
B) Generally if someone is calm in this kind of situation he's been in fights. And won them.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: eleven at July 11, 2025 03:14 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:09 PM (ImXfC)
Especially if they're fig newtons. You can never eat just one.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:14 PM (uCjyK)
Maybe next year….
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (FCPbW)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
things somebody said
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:15 PM (R4SAT)
Or it's something different. Epstein's clientele included world leaders including allies. That's a mighty powerful bargaining chip for a guy who likes doing deals.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 03:15 PM (viF8m)
Posted by: Seamus Moon at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (Ab/3c)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 02:41 PM (t0Rmr)
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Elric came up with one better (no surprise consdering how how Blade-y he is) at 118.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 02:42 PM (GBKbO)
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The Blade-ist!
Posted by: Elric The (One and Only) Blade at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (iFTx/)
The Chief Executive's voters find her firing quite pleasurable as well.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (2ocoG)
Maybe next year….
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (FCPbW)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
things somebody said
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:15 PM (R4SAT)
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Everyone who took the buyout is still considered an employee until the time on their employment runs out which will be the end of September.
That's gonna be a lot suddenly gone, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)
I accidently messed up Brave and now I can't re-install it.
Posted by: eleven at July 11, 2025 03:14 PM (fV+MH)
Uninstall it completely. Then try and scrub any registry entry and any directory it made on the system. That might let you reinstall.
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
... so they're only denying student loans for programs within a university? So, you can pay for some of the credit hours with student loans directly, as you do now, but the rest you'll have to wait to pay for until you get the remainder of your student loan disbursement from the university Accounts Payable, and then you pay for the rest of your credits?
That will certainly sow chaos and disorder on the Student Accounts side of things.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (a+4eV)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2025 03:15 PM (viF8m)
You think the CIA / Deep State would turn that client list over to Trump, then he would use it as blackmail against the people diddling kids? And that's what's going on behind the scenes?
Color me dubious.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (uCjyK)
That will certainly sow chaos and disorder on the Student Accounts side of things.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (a+4eV)
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The OBBB really changed the student loan game. A lot.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Inogame at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (53oGX)
Posted by: Seamus Moon "
Yup.
Ms Hartmann doesn't like it apparently.
Posted by: eleven at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (fV+MH)
At least to this point the likely Epstein clients are American/British elites.
You could certainly be correct, but it would certainly be a different cast of villains then we currently know about.
Could explain how Fred Mertz went from an anti-socialist to Fuhrer of the Fourth Reich though I guess
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Inogame at July 11, 2025 03:17 PM (53oGX)
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Other rumors indicate that he cuts his hair with a cheese grater.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:18 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 11, 2025 03:18 PM (HFcKg)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 03:18 PM (bvNHo)
A Michigan deacon who used his pickup truck to stop an armed gunman outside a church last month received a new Ford F-150 from a local dealership on Thursday.
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Well, his old one had scumbag guts all over it.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 03:18 PM (L/fGl)
Posted by: Oldcat"
Yeah...it's definitely detecting some stray remnants.
Posted by: eleven at July 11, 2025 03:18 PM (fV+MH)
Posted by: Diet advice from Sandra Fluke at July 11, 2025 03:19 PM (t0Rmr)
I think this is first I've ever heard of anyone paying attention to monthly surpluses.
Makes me wonder how Congress is going to use it as an excuse to ask for more money.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 03:19 PM (a+4eV)
Or it's something different. Epstein's clientele included world leaders including allies. That's a mighty powerful bargaining chip for a guy who likes doing deals.
Posted by: JackStraw
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This begins to freak me out a bit about the state of humanity. Like, everyone who can molest an underage girl with impunity, does so?
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:19 PM (UmB+t)
That's gonna be a lot suddenly gone, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (GBKbO)
Another thing to consider: suppose Trump had fired 40,000 Feds as soon as he took the oath of office? Aside from a few well-known miscreants, how does he even know the bad from the merely useless? Doing it more slowly keeps the fuckers on tenterhooks for months. I'll bet the sales of Pepto-Bismol in the Swamp area have skyrocketed.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:20 PM (R4SAT)
That's the way to do it.
Heck, even paying the usual minimum with no interest accrual would have helped people get ahead.
But apparently a whole bunch were of the "if it's not mandatory right now, I'm not doing it" mindset.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (a+4eV)
I overpayed each payment from the start on mine in the 90s. Thus a chunk of principal was being gone every month
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:20 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: Don Black at July 11, 2025 03:20 PM (AOsQT)
I think they're going to turn it over, but probably not willingly. And only after more of them have been fired.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2025 03:20 PM (2ocoG)
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at July 11, 2025 03:20 PM (McrHD)
Its more you get invited to parties with escalating kompromat activities.
The activity you stop at determines how far you go.
Hookers and blow? You get to be a run of the mill congress-critter. Epstein Island stuff? Hello Senate!
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:21 PM (t0Rmr)
To be fair, there are literally nets on the outside of the building to keep folks from getting hurt by chunks falling off the current FBI building. Giving them the USAID building, which is now empty, is smart and cheap...
Posted by: Nova Local
At least they are not anti-suicide nets.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2025 03:21 PM (63Dwl)
Posted by: Seamus Moon
Yup.
Ms Hartmann doesn*t like it apparently.
Posted by: eleven
She*s a federal employee. She probably thinks it doesn*t count because we only voted once. Hell, we*re not even dead.
Posted by: Clay at July 11, 2025 03:22 PM (wLj9Q)
>>At least to this point the likely Epstein clients are American/British elites.
It's obvious that Epstein was a IC/Deep State Western/Anglosphere Kompromat generator to gain and maintain control of Western/Anglosphere politicians, tech titans, and other sundry actors.
None of this activity was directed at supposed enemies.
This was an internal op directed perpetrated against We The People.
Again, the anger over this is never going away.
Posted by: Thomas Bender at July 11, 2025 03:22 PM (XV/Pl)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:19 PM (UmB+t)
The Conservative Case For Pimping Out Minor Children to the "Elite" for Blackmail Purposes
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2025 03:22 PM (uCjyK)
Posted by: Oldcat at July 11, 2025 03:16 PM (8avO+)
Windows and Linux systems usually have a "system restore" function that can roll back the system to a date before the offending software was installed. And it does this without risk of destroying non-executable files.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:23 PM (R4SAT)
I think they're probably using the DOGE method to find the actual bad guys. For instance, when Bondi claimed to have the Epstein list, Big Balls could have been watching whose email/Slack/etc lit up like a Christmas tree. That's how I'd do it.
Posted by: Ian S. at July 11, 2025 03:23 PM (2ocoG)
One of the first things he did when a woman wanted to join was demand proof of something he could black mail her over - affairs, drugs, abortion, theft, etc.
Because it made sure one he let them in they wouldn't go off the reservation.
Same thing with Epstein and the US government...
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2025 03:24 PM (t0Rmr)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 03:24 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Boss Moss at July 11, 2025 03:26 PM (bvNHo)
Posted by: Thomas Paine at July 11, 2025 03:26 PM (Vfq+S)
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2025 03:19 PM (UmB+t)
The Conservative Case For Pimping Out Minor Children to the "Elite" for Blackmail Purposes
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Burn the pimps and the elites.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2025 03:26 PM (8v2yu)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at July 11, 2025 03:28 PM (TJLr1)
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Saw a homeless guy once with a sign that said It’s either your generous donation or sucking dick.
I wish I had some cash on hand I would have given it to him for the chuckle.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at July 11, 2025 03:28 PM (ImXfC)
Posted by: Bulg at July 11, 2025 03:28 PM (77rzZ)
Maybe next year….
Posted by: Voter theater. at July 11, 2025 03:13 PM (FCPbW)
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
things somebody said
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at July 11, 2025 03:15 PM (R4SAT)
Well, next year *is* the (too lazy to look up the correct word) 250th anniversary of 'Murica. So, Trump firing thousands of feralgov employees out of dee cee from trebuchets could make a nice start on the big day.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 03:29 PM (ULPxl)
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NTTAWWT
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Living In a Beaver Cleaver World, at July 11, 2025 03:29 PM (L/fGl)
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Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 11, 2025 03:30 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at July 11, 2025 03:32 PM (wBaIH)
And then came Trump.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2025 02:39 PM (pMi6S)
120 This is way more important to me that the
Living in Michigan we had a similar thing. If you lived in Grosse Pointe you owned the car company, if you managed the car company, you lived in Bloomfield Hills.
Posted by: Chillin the mist at July 11, 2025 03:41 PM (Ofe5D)
_ The DOJ released footage from Epstein’s cell was edited with Adobe Premiere Pro, stitched from 2 clips
— WIRED
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 03:41 PM (Ri+6K)
_ AG Pam Bondi To Take The Blame For The Epstein Case Whitewash Political Firestorm Before Her Ultimate Removal, According To FBI & WH Intel Sources
PLUS, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino Will Resign Soon, But Kash Patel Will Stay On Head Of Agency
"Pam Bondi Will Be Trump's Sacrificial Lamb On This"
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Is it real or is it just really Alex?
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 03:48 PM (Ri+6K)
2h
Sources confirm to me the blow up between Dan Bongino and Pam Bondi is very real. This has been brewing for four months and came to a head at the White House on Wednesday.
He has not been in the office since.
Most of the frustration at FBI relates to her handling of Epstein disclosures and disputes between FBI and Bondi about how to proceed.
Bongino appears ready to resign imminently if Bondi remains in office
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at July 11, 2025 03:51 PM (Ri+6K)
How? I mean that's a pretty bold claim.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 11, 2025 04:12 PM (gDhA9)
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 11, 2025 04:12 PM (gDhA9)
Any of these smucks put up their hand and say "gee, you think we might be going a little...hard on these people?"
Nope - these are career prosecutors, meaning they do whatever the people in charge tell them to do.
And now you want...what? mercy? You're just losing your job. You held people incommunicado for years. Over ginned up charges.
I can't muster up a whole lot of sympathy. And seriously - the J6 people should have been punished. But it went way way too far.
Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at July 11, 2025 04:16 PM (gDhA9)
No visas for people who landscape corporate lawns or private mansions in Illinois or are nannys or gardeners for matrons on Martha's Vineyard, though. Those are not essential jobs.
Posted by: RonF at July 11, 2025 05:24 PM (l8nW6)
"The Executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America."
Seems clear to me. I don't see an exception for the Department of Justice.
Posted by: RonF at July 11, 2025 05:28 PM (l8nW6)
Posted by: Mr. Barky at July 11, 2025 06:27 PM (CvfjE)
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