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EPA Workers "Coming To Work In Tears;" Still Not Have Accepted Trump's Win
Environmental Protection Agency employees have not accepted Donald Trump's victory and are still "coming to work in tears" more than two months after the election. ... Trump's victory has been tough for bureaucrats. The State Department held stress workshops after the election so they would not "become paralyzed by fear." EPA employees were caught crying before, just after the election, as were White House aides. Energy Department employees were granted counseling. Sobbing staffers greeted Hillary Clinton on Capitol Hill a month after her loss.The facts mentioned in that last paragraph are hyperlinked to articles about the incidents. We have two cultures in this country: The first, which is traditionalist and Apollonian, maintains that it is quiet cool that should be valued. If someone maintains his equipoise in the face of adversity, that is more reason to trust his judgement and to think well of his character. This view leads to a competition among people to try to show the most reserve, restraint, and detachment, as, these attributes being prized, people naturally compete with each other to demonstrate the most of these attributes. The second culture, which is the new Cult promoted by the Adult Babies and is Dionysian in descent, maintains that performative, operatic displays of emotion indicate "authenticity" -- if your emotion is so vehement that you cannot suppress it, your feelings is therefore more "real." And your feelings are facts, and #Science. The evidence you present that your feelings are true is your unhinged emotional incontinence. Note this is true even if your "emotional" display is actually exaggerated and theatrical, or outright feigned -- you still get credit for signalling you're part of the garment-shredding tribe. In this view, the ability to dampen emotion to think coolly and without tantrums and baby-seethings is actually a mark of inauthenticity, and therefore pretense and deception, as the man who is not freaking out like a sugar-rushed child is suppressing one's true Inner Adult Baby nature and therefore not being true to one's true essential nature as a raving lunatic. In this regime, where emotion and shrieking are not signs that one is departing from truth but on top of it and inside it and grabbing it by the hips, spazzing out and freaking out are positively valorized, and people, being competitive and seeking to be "the best" in a field, attempt to top each other with even more amped-up displays of frantic fear and fury. The media is of course very much the cultural ringleaders of the infantile culture. They don't seem to appreciate that many in society are still Apollonian traditionalists, who do not view their daily freakouts as a sign that they are possessed of the truth, but instead take this as evidence that they have psychological problems and developmental disorders. Yet they continue pushing forward with the theory that because they are gibbering and wailing like lunatics, you should put more trust in their howlings, not less.
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 26, 2017 02:03 PM (ZKlDy)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 26, 2017 02:04 PM (ZKlDy)
Posted by: Roy at January 26, 2017 02:05 PM (VndSC)
BREAKING: Trump administration to seek big budget, staff cuts at Environmental Protection Agency - AP
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 26, 2017 02:06 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 26, 2017 02:06 PM (y3aQB)
Posted by: Jaqen H'ghar at January 26, 2017 02:06 PM (5fSr7)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:06 PM (sRFAL)
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I want to see this method of truth seeking applied to physics and mathematics, especially at the classroom/university level.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (7HtZB)
In other words, sod off, swampies.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: deplorable donna at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: John at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (2GTjP)
Let's just hope they don't poop in the hallways again or destroy any more rivers.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, mixing memes at January 26, 2017 02:07 PM (39g3+)
If you're gonna give me the climax, you might want to give me time to get a boner
Posted by: nsirchov at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (BGUo0)
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: IC at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Roy at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (VndSC)
Posted by: That Guy That Yells 'En Fuego' at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (8XRCm)
And I'll bet that beta-test lesbian cylon was a soothing balm to all.
Posted by: General Zod at January 26, 2017 02:08 PM (Bdeb0)
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So like they are crying before they even get there?
What time do the Trump tears begin?
I need details. Lots of details.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (qC1Sy)
Mark Steyn said that this would make it tough to fdrain the swamp, because the swamp is full of EPA employees' tears.
I gotta tell you - it moved.
Posted by: blaster at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (tewYv)
Like a BOSS.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (Om16U)
Trump ordered a communications black out at the EPA so someone is going to be doing some extra crying on the unemployment line.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (qC1Sy)
I'm not sure they ought to be allowed to continue to convert O2 and N into CO2 and etc.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Sunni LaBeouf at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (dargh)
Posted by: Roy at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (VndSC)
A Border Patrol Chief that doesn't believe in border control. Thanks Obama.
Swamp...draining.
Posted by: WisRich at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: JROD at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (A59VO)
Suck it up buttercup.
....and.... did you do an environmental impact study of your saline excretions.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Golfman at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (k0S3A)
I wonder how many of our problems would be solved by reestablishing the concept of maturity.
Grow up, seriously.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (mBnZE)
Posted by: Rick in SK at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (/CIN4)
Give it time. They are really, really trying to SJW-ize science and math. Don't say 'it can't happen' these are academics. Truth and logic are utterly irrelevant.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, mixing memes at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (39g3+)
............
I'm not surprised. Most of them aren't even house trained either.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: Dirty Randy at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (jjaLl)
Anyone remember this EPA guy?
Al Armendariz, the EPA administrator in the Region 6 Dallas office,
made the remarks at a local Texas government meeting in 2010. He relayed
to the audience what he described as a "crude" analogy he once told his
staff about his "philosophy of enforcement."
"It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean," he said. "They'd go in to a little Turkish town somewhere, they'd find the first five guys they saw, and they'd crucify them.
"And then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next few years," he said.
Armendariz went on to say that "you make examples out
of people who are in this case not complying with the law...and you
hit them as hard as you can" --- to act as a "deterrent" to others.
Posted by: FEMEN at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (92kX2)
I think the U.S. Border Patrol Chief is in the second group because he just resigned.
==
That guy?
SWEET
Chock full of win.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Sunni LaBeouf at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (dargh)
And you know what happens after that. A visit to Planned Parenthood.
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (qC1Sy)
======================
"I'm unable to work today, so I'm going to go color. You still need to pay me, though."
-EPA worker bee
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: eleven at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (fYChk)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Epicurean at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (BQ5O8)
I'm crying
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (IqV8l)
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Very much this. When does the Trump White House livestream of news get cranked up?
A broadcast perhaps even including periodic pundit roundtables led by fair minded broadcasters seeking to communicate useful information, rather than a panicked liberal editorial.
Posted by: MTF. Fire Julia Ioffe! at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (X4ZNp)
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (XWkhW)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (fDdVG)
My people of unemployment would be happy to have any job!
Unemployed lives matter!
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (Om16U)
Though I have to suggest that in the interest of environmental protection we don't need to solder the lids on the cans these days.
Just crimp them and ship them.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: BIG AL FREDO at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (iWo0u)
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (ONH2e)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: BIG AL FREDO at January 26, 2017 02:12 PM (iWo0u)
Wolfgang Putz recipe for Mexican nutsack with EPA tear sauce is delicious.
Posted by: nsirchov at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (BGUo0)
Posted by: Azenogoth (Freedom or TEXIT) at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (5G252)
Posted by: Lord Sir x at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: BIG AL FREDO at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (iWo0u)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor, mixing memes at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (ONH2e)
Posted by: ryukyu at January 26, 2017 02:13 PM (M9gZ2)
Like a BOSS.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (Om16U)
"He is the boss"
~ Guy who says "Grizzly Adams did have a beard"
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: USNtakim at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (hMqvx)
I have my differences with Dodd and what I stated is not verbatim, but in his sentiments I agree
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (llUHc)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (kTF2Z)
Posted by: Grimaldi at January 26, 2017 02:14 PM (V/f/L)
Don't worry little bureaucrat. We only want to cook your children in the Global Warming.
Posted by: Aggressive Micropenis at January 26, 2017 02:15 PM (S9nir)
Pruitt needs to open a serious can of whoop ass on the EPA
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 02:15 PM (lKyWE)
Megan: Dakota is really upset! She's sobbing in the back bedroom, right now!
Cloe: Oh, no. The poor thing, I'll go rub her back. Someone get the chocolate and we'll all show her our support. I know I'm going to cry too.
Bill: Steve is really upset! He's crying in the back bedroom.
Mike: Whoa, that's messed up. Did his mother die?
John: We'd better leave him alone, unless he just needs a shot of whiskey.
Tom: Well, I'm out of here.
Taylor: Carey is really upset! Ze's crying in the back bedroom...
Posted by: dagny at January 26, 2017 02:15 PM (RiIhf)
Even 2 year olds having a crying fit exhaust themselves after a while. The left has shown it can keep it dialed up to 11!!! for a while, but ordinary people just can't and have no wish to live in a state of constant outrage forever.
Hell, I was in a state of frequent, if not constant outrage over the past 8 years. You know what not living with that feels like? Pretty damn good.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 02:16 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: garrett goes LiveBlog at January 26, 2017 02:16 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: Billy Occam at January 26, 2017 02:17 PM (ihtYN)
Things are going to get very ugly very fast.
Posted by: Biergood at January 26, 2017 02:17 PM (v8Lx/)
BREAKING: Trump administration to seek big budget, staff cuts at Environmental Protection Agency - AP
Posted by: EVLINC! at January 26, 2017 02:06 PM
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.
.
Damn near anyone else besides Trump:
"Senator Schumer sir, do you think it might be possible if, down the line and not anytime soon, to theoretically consider a one-half of one percent reduction in the rate of growth of the EPA?"
Posted by: irright at January 26, 2017 02:18 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:21 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: Curby Graham at January 26, 2017 02:24 PM (IMv83)
It's just more fake news!!
Most government workers I know are cautiosly optimistic about the new administration. Hell, most of them are vets and were disgusted with obama and the America hating left. If anyone is freaking out, it's the sjw's and media because the government is still working just fine even though the lord obama isn't at the helm.
There are a lot of government agencies that were not allowed to do their jobs under the last administration.
That's all I'm saying on the subject.
Posted by: Subterranean JT at January 26, 2017 02:25 PM (qG0hz)
Posted by: Wow at January 26, 2017 02:26 PM (ia2he)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:35 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:37 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 02:37 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Lord Chancellor johnd01 at January 26, 2017 02:37 PM (ukNFU)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:37 PM (92kX2)
Especially at the EPA.
Posted by: Socratease at January 26, 2017 02:37 PM (FqHs5)
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 02:38 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:38 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: m at January 26, 2017 02:38 PM (3jGss)
were White House aides. Energy Department employees were granted
counseling. Sobbing staffers greeted Hillary Clinton on Capitol Hill a
month after her loss.
Fire them all.
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 26, 2017 02:38 PM (OzJeO)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:38 PM (Om16U)
Never trust an Ewok in a White Wedding Dress.
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (OhOyF)
/sarc
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (2x9LM)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks and his flaming boner of winning at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (18h+i)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (2x9LM)
BWA HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (7ZVPa)
[mumbling]
Well yeah, of course I can still tweet from my personal account, but nobody reads it when I post . How am I supposed to spread propaganda intended to push a political agenda and enrich my colleagues and me if it only looks like my personal view and not that of the Agency?
Posted by: EPA Worker at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (wx6iv)
The EPA's highest-paid employee and a leading expert on climate
change deserves to go to prison for at least 30 months for lying to his
bosses and saying he was a CIA spy working in Pakistan so he could avoid
doing his real job, say federal prosecutors.
John C. Beale, who pled guilty in September to
bilking the government out of nearly $1 million in salary and other
benefits over a decade, will be sentenced in a Washington, D.C., federal
court on Wednesday. In a newly filed sentencing memo, prosecutors said
that his lies were a "crime of massive proportion" and "offensive" to
those who actually do dangerous work for the CIA.
So I guess this is what the EPA workers do when they're not poisoning some community's drinking water.
Posted by: FEMEN at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (QM5S2)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (92kX2)
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Exactly right. The stoic culture is OBJECTIVELY superior to the crying baby culture. It isn't a coin toss.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (xeeHA)
The Rat Patrol
In Color.
Posted by: Deplorable Flyover 98ZJUSMC at January 26, 2017 02:41 PM (Pd7Sl)
Posted by: K-E at January 26, 2017 02:41 PM (vwioQ)
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2017 02:41 PM (wPiJc)
Posted by: Moron wo Survives on Liberal Tears at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (zSMr0)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (OhOyF)
Mark Steyn said that this would make it tough to fdrain the swamp, because the swamp is full of EPA employees' tears.
Posted by: blaster at January 26, 2017 02:09 PM (tewYv)
hahahaha
Posted by: m at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (3jGss)
Posted by: Never Sick Of Winning at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (ndGCC)
Weird, isn't it?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (KUaJL)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Jules at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (OzJeO)
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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It may regifted, recycled... or repurposed. I'm unclear regarding the distinctions, or the hierarchy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 02:43 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:43 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 02:43 PM (NOIQH)
Posted by: Jules
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Better than Eddie Haskell.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 02:43 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: brad at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (Ljubf)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 02:39 PM (r/0kC)
Which is a lie. If anyone had ever called him out- really called him a lying, incompetent, bullshit artist- to his face in front of the camera, he would have turned into a whining, petulant man child puddle of goo.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (92kX2)
Who bitch trufe is?
Posted by: Ponchius-P at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (zke7T)
Posted by: Moron wo Survives on Liberal Tears at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (Om16U)
That's good - there were a lot of pretzels this morning...
MAKING us thirsty.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Ripley at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (sg5eZ)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: Lizzy
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*ponders an emergency air-drop of Squatty Potties*
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: Skandia Recluse at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (Wo6be)
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (E/DK1)
And just think of all of the cheap ammo he could be selling to private citizens as a gesture of goodwill.
Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (2Mnv1)
Don't believe them til they actually crap their drawers - then laugh at them.
Posted by: DaveA at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (8J/Te)
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (BQ5O8)
Hmm, you may be on to something here. I go with Dionysian!
Posted by: Nietzsche at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (hA1V+)
Posted by: MAC-SOG at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (QPdNE)
That's what it was started as, and then they kept tacking on more and more like "well this pond drains into a stream which drains into a river that merges with the Mississippi, so its our jurisdiction as well" and the courts went along with it. That's nonsense.
But a long as its international and interstate, okay. You have a job to do and it makes sense.
The question is at which point does a reasonable idea become unreasonable because it is so easily abused? Especially one that is by its nature going to attract the most mentally unhinged extremists to the position?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 02:46 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 02:46 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: USNtakim at January 26, 2017 02:46 PM (hMqvx)
Posted by: MAC-SOG at January 26, 2017 02:45 PM (QPdNE)
Indeed. Also: The EPA ain't never impounded a truck and boat for having a trout 1/2" too short in the cooler.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 02:46 PM (8hICw)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
Four days. I am really surprised, I had one week plus in the pool.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:46 PM (92kX2)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
Waiting for 9.6 percent unemployment to hit
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (2x9LM)
That there's some mighty fine wordsmithing, perfectly descriptive.
Posted by: West at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (1Rgee)
Yeah, Fritz, but that will mostly be just mountains of .40 ammo - who wants that??
(commence the caliber wars!)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (r/0kC)
This tells me the problem was Not on my end.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (BQ5O8)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (2x9LM)
93 million not working!!!!
~ MSM, likely next week
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (8hICw)
If the state department has money for that, they need their budgets cut. I know plenty of people who've lost jobs, they weren't given stress workshops.
Posted by: nerdygirl at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (+lVUW)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: eleven at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (fYChk)
MOAR PLZ.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (wtvvX)
It took years, lots of $$ and endless regulations to actually improve the land without harming a single snail darter.
Fuck you EPA.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (/tuJf)
Spock-like, psychopathic lack of emotional ability; six of one, half dozen of the other.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (39g3+)
That explains the heifer at the coffee shop who looks at the coffee which is so delicious. And the no boobies lady on the plane who got booted off. And my mom's crazy sister.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (nNdYv)
EPA Workers "Coming To Work In Tears;" Still Not Have Accepted Trump's Win
So quit already, you sniveling pukes.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (G03UX)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (r/0kC)
Posted by: eleven at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (fYChk)
Appolonia Kotero?
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (BQ5O8)
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (4ErVI)
Posted by: MAC-SOG
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That's bullshit. I just watched a PBS special on Rachel Carson. If it weren't for people like her, and the Federal Government, we'd all be dead.
Posted by: Smug, clueless Liberal at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (NBHj5)
This tells me the problem was Not on my end.
It's coming from inside the blog!
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (/tuJf)
It was at a site called messynessychic - you can find it. Just FYI.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (QDnY+)
Adults and emotionally stunted adults.
Afternoon all. Day 1 of bereavement leave. In and out as available.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (qbcrG)
[X] Lamentations of their women.
Posted by: Roland THTG at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (QM5S2)
Trump is doing it by the book.
Posted by: local news at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (1isJI)
In the student's case, I don't think she was being infantile. Her "friend" was.
Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (xVuS6)
Posted by: marky at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (yEAdf)
Posted by: steevy
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No.
Posted by: Zombie Piggy at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (NBHj5)
The freeze on grants have made a lot of phones ring as people who are applying don't know if they are wasting effort. Reasonable people can disagree on the necessity for these programs, but applying for anything from the government is not a trivial exercise for anyone.
Posted by: EPA Employee at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (rvgcl)
http://tinyurl.com/harkp7d
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (xVuS6)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtyCeyUdtbot=94s
Posted by: illiniwek at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (uFxPi)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (OhOyF)
I believe the style guide mandates this sentence be finished, "and their sh*ts are all retarded."
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (E/DK1)
Posted by: Zombie Piggy at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (NBHj5)
The lads. With fire hardened spears. In the jungle.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (BQ5O8)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 02:48 PM (r/0kC)
I lost an arm.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (WuRdh)
"Counseling" for fed employees after an election?
Folks, things are even worse than I thought.
Not saying there's no hope, but the hole we're in - the humans now playing the parts of "Americans", to a large extent - make me wonder.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Smug, clueless Liberal at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (NBHj5)
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Speaking of PBS, I hope they're going to be spun off soon. I saw the other day some GOPe senator (I think it was Hatch) complaining that there don't need to be any cuts to discretionary spending because it is under control and you need to target medicare and social security.
Fair point to be honest. But what they don't understand is that the left's sacred cows need to be slaughtered.
Posted by: Independent George at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (BDZWU)
I had a student come to class visibly upset the day after the election.
She had been dis-invited from visiting a dear friend with whom she had
always spent Christmas. The "friend" suspected that my student's
boyfriend had voted for Trump. In the student's case, I don't think she was being infantile. Her "friend" was. Posted by: Emmie at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (xVuS6)
Sorting is time-consuming and expensive. Send them both to the camp.
Posted by: General Zod at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (Bdeb0)
For the children...
Posted by: Tex Lovera at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (wtvvX)
Environmental Protection Agency employees have not accepted Donald Trump's victory and are still "coming to work in tears" more than two months after the election.
I think this callls for an evironmental impact report into the effect of toxic lefty tears in the work place.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: EPA Employee at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (rvgcl)
Nothing stopping them from applying for a Private Grant is there?
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (OhOyF)
QUIT MAKING FUN OF US!!!
Posted by: Your Dedicated Public Servants at the EPA at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (qJhUV)
It was at a site called messynessychic - you can find it. Just FYI.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 02:49 PM (QDnY+)
Cool, thanks!
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:52 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Weasel at January 26, 2017 02:52 PM (C8aCP)
Posted by: The Mouse that Roared at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (7N6ox)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (Om16U)
FIFY. Soylent Moyers.
Posted by: General Zod at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (Bdeb0)
Posted by: billygoat at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (x0jsg)
And yet, the least educated people in society manage to sponge up so many benefits.
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (O7MnT)
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Adults and emotionally stunted adults.
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Adults and WATBs
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (Om16U)
Obviously, yes.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 02:54 PM (xeeHA)
There's no way Trump's tenure is going to be anything less than war. There's no middle ground reaching out to these people.
I would just start firing as many people as I could and replacing, not just agency heads.
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 02:54 PM (RYUuq)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 02:54 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: Scott-High Plains Deplorable at January 26, 2017 02:55 PM (998Ee)
The freeze on grants have made a lot of phones ring as people who are applying don't know if they are wasting effort. Reasonable people can disagree on the necessity for these programs, but applying for anything from the government is not a trivial exercise for anyone.
Posted by: EPA Employee at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (rvgcl)
Uncertainty at work is nothing to be sneezed at. However, considering the actions of the agency over the past few years combined with how a lot of people in the private sector have been going through the same thing for 8 years (cost of living raises, no upward mobility at the company, etc) and you will understand that the tears of EPA employees fall on sodden ground.
As with anything, do your job, and if the worst happens find something else. Hopefully if Trump's plans succeed we will have more of 'something else' to go to.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:55 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: billygoat at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (x0jsg)
I say we dust off and nuke it from orbit, just to be sure. The fires from decades of environmental impact statements burning up should finish the cleansing.
Posted by: Conservative Crank's iPhone at January 26, 2017 02:55 PM (E/DK1)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 02:55 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (OVJcF)
At the time of the Gulf spill I did a rough calculation that the oil spilled would fill Yankee Stadium to the brim were the Stadium turned into an enclosed pool. That's a lot of spillage, but not so much in the huge Gulf of Mexico that has an average depth of 5,000 feet. Given that oil is organic, I expected the Gulf would self-clean in a couple of years, which it apparently has.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Bill Wynn at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (jjaLl)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (sRFAL)
QUIT MAKING FUN OF US!!!
Posted by: Your Dedicated Public Servants at the EPA at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (qJhUV)
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You know..... fuck you.
I have to consent to two of your fucking audits per year per state I do business in.
You have NEVER fined fined me for jobsite deficiencies. ALL of your fines were for "documentation irregularities". The amount of REVENUE GENEATION you fucknuts have levied would have funded another full time person on staff for a year.
Go.the.fuck.away.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (7HtZB)
weren't for people like her, and the Federal Government, we'd all be
dead.
Heh.
I caught part of that Rachel Carson special - uh, what was the deal with her neighbor? Were they trying to say something without really saying it or what?
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (NOIQH)
Do your job or get out.
Posted by: Moron Robbie at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (Halhc)
Posted by: Jaimo at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (9U1OG)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (sRFAL)
I read your mind like an open book
You lost the fire in your eyes
You turn to me with a different look
And then it's raining, looks like it's raining
Oh no, tears are falling
http://tinyurl.com/jsc4p94
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (OhOyF)
Comrades, we must double our efforts.
I want to see those bitches crying like Brett Favre.
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (O7MnT)
It was at a site called messynessychic - you can find it. Just FYI.
Posted by: rhomboid
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The Catalina video linked by Anna Puma is terrific. Worth the watch. I'm not sure when it was made, but it interestingly refers to the Aleutians as 'part of the Alaskan Territory'. So, pre-statehood.
The film segments of the Consolidated factory at work are especially gratifying. The way things used to be.
'tis here: http://tinyurl.com/j865tum
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (NBHj5)
Just do it in your damn closet at home. And don't come out until the puffy in your eyes goes down so nobody ever knows.
Posted by: TexasDan at January 26, 2017 02:58 PM (yL25O)
Posted by: Bill Wynn at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (jjaLl)
*ahem*
The AOSHQ style guide dictates a mention of exit poll results when Bill Wynn posts.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:58 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Weasel at January 26, 2017 02:58 PM (C8aCP)
Posted by: billygoat at January 26, 2017 02:53 PM (x0jsg)
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My wife works as a legal secretary and has stories about the EPA. If you're an average Joe and the EPA is after you, forget it. Doesn't matter how innocent the mistake is, or if the EPA is clearly mistaken in their accusation, the EPA will use the process as punishment. Not many people can afford the 6 figures, and up, it will cost for a legal battle.
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (sRFAL)
I'll play: You are what you eat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (jsWA8)
To me, this seems pretty healthy, under the current fucked up circumstances.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (Gh3fw)
#205
It's one of the more wonderful details of "Ghostbusters" that the antagonist was an EPA bureaucrat.
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And the target of one of Bill Murray's best lines in the movie.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (jsWA8)
I'm getting whiplash from these threads Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:56 PM (sRFAL)
Whipfap? Faplash?
Whatever it's called, it probably describes the chuckling "holy shit, did you hear what Trump did *today*?" nightly happy hour conversation between the Mrs. and Zod.
Posted by: General Zod at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (Bdeb0)
Things are going to get very ugly very fast.
Posted by: Biergood at January 26, 2017 02:17 PM (v8Lx/)
They'll get hired left and right to fill quotas and because they went to the "right" schools and crowd out serious, competent people.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Prayers the EPA will never speak at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (ndGCC)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 26, 2017 03:00 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: Dr. Smith at January 26, 2017 03:00 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 26, 2017 03:00 PM (Nwg0u)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (JBggj)
"Is this true?"
"Yes, Sir. It's true. This man has no dick."
"Well that's what I heard."
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:00 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Pious Agnostic at January 26, 2017 03:00 PM (cYuFu)
Posted by: Nevergiveup
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Well, Navy uniforms are a bit flashy.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (NBHj5)
I feel for anyone who is worried about their job. It's very stressful.
But perhaps this can be a learning experience for federal workers who cared not a wit about private sector workers, the folks who have been breaking our balls to pay for all these seemingly untouchable federal jobs forever. Maybe if the feds didn't treat us like an ATM they can shit on whenever they want, or whenever they weren't shitting in the hallways, there would be a lot more compassion shown to them.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (/tuJf)
Sorting is time-consuming and expensive. Send them both to the camp.
Posted by: General Zod
Both.
But the student got a quick lesson on the definition of "friend".
Posted by: rickb223 at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (qbcrG)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: The Fabulous D-Man at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (S97gV)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 02:59 PM (jsWA
We need a vending machine installed beside the barrel. It happens a lot here.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (92kX2)
Way too powerful of a federal agency that can conjure up so many regulations on a whim. It can completely shut down domestic commerce with bullshit science.
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (RYUuq)
Sort of like " Fundamentally Transform America".
How does that ass taste now, Progressives?
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (BQ5O8)
"Giant Dick Continues to Grow"
" A giant dick that was first discovered in the early morning hours of November 9th, 2016 has continued to grow, both in size and hardness. Today, the dick made landfall in Wales and now threatens the English countryside.
Scientists have traced the origin of the boner to a home in Roanoke, Virginia that is the residence of Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, who had an alias of "MrCaniac" for years.
Some scientists are attributing the giant boner to the election of Donald J Trump as President of the United States, but a consensus of 97% of scientist blame Climate Change. "
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 26, 2017 03:02 PM (1JnAL)
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EPA, KGB, pretty much the same thing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks. Laugh at a joke, get another joke free! at January 26, 2017 03:02 PM (Nwg0u)
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Republic. Feature, not flaw.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (jsWA8)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
...
Hey! What gives? These hobos don't even stink yet!
Posted by: Vintage Hobo Collector at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (zke7T)
If someone is right now worried about their job security, think about those of us in the real world.
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (RYUuq)
Posted by: The Fabulous D-Man at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (S97gV)
And yet Louis XVI went to the Guillotine with head held high in a regal manner.
Ace's two cultures again.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (92kX2)
I think it's his evil sock twin
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (qJhUV)
Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: Sunni LaBeouf at January 26, 2017 02:10 PM (dargh)
and although I don't support abortion I believe exceptions can be made
Posted by: the Butcher at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (AGJqR)
Posted by: Clint Eastwood at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (xiiES)
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You're welcome.
Posted by: Rachel Carson at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (NBHj5)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
...
Hey! What gives? These hobos don't even stink yet!
Posted by: Vintage Hobo Collector at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (zke7T)
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I wonder of Soros pays people to go to homeless shelters so they look fuller.
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (xeeHA)
Way too powerful of a federal agency that can conjure up so many regulations on a whim. It can completely shut down domestic commerce with bullshit science.
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (RYUuq)
I agree that it's out of control.
However....
People were being rather... flippant when it came to polluting. Turns out that if you don't take care of your $hit, someone is going to get the government to take care of it for you.
See also:
-OSHA
-Securities Exchange Commission
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: red speck at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (RcEOo)
Posted by: The Fabulous D-Man at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (S97gV)
They ran around like chickens without heads
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (sRFAL)
or
2. Shelly Duvall in the Shining
The left has chosen poorly.
Posted by: wooga at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (3I7wr)
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Buzzion at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (cAnNx)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (jsWA
*looks around*
We could put it between Ben and Amy's podiums over there. Might get kind of annoying with him shouting and her just repeating what he says.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (xeeHA)
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Well, I am a moron.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (xeeHA)
Just bearable.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.
*****
Are you thinking of Fozzie perhaps?
Ayyyyyyy!
Posted by: Muldoon at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (wPiJc)
Completely out of control screaming fanatics who want to rip you apart limb from limb?
Yeah, sounds like the left to me.
Posted by: Vanceone at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (KbgjX)
Fair point to be honest. But what they don't understand is that the left's sacred cows need to be slaughtered.
Posted by: Independent George at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (BDZWU)
++++
Cutting medicare and social security can never succeed as long as the federal government can find the money to fund stuff like cowboy poetry and PBS. You will never convince people that we just have to give grandma less while at the same time we are saying we don't need to cut the other stuff.
Yes, it is true that the size of medicare / ss is massive compared to the rest of it and that if you really want to make a dent in spending, you have to go to where the spending takes place. But, it has to start with the frivolous stuff. If we can't even muster the will to cut the frivolous stuff, we will never convince anyone that there is no choice but to make the harder cuts.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2017 03:05 PM (R+30W)
Posted by: Chuck Norris at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (xiiES)
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (1zARK)
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (OVJcF)
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (VIiRP)
His speech to DHS yesterday has finally given me the means to deliver us of crazy emo narcissist auntie. She has been here for decades, still hasn't been naturalized. All it will take is one phone call to Homeland Security to tell them the whereabouts of a known terrorist:
Me: Hello, Homeland Security?
Them: Yes, we must advise you this is a recorded line.
Me: I am calling to report a foreign terrorist. She may be tiny and petite and thin, but don't let appearances fool you; she'll stab you in the throat in a NY minute.
I really hope she hasn't renewed her green card.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (VIiRP
Heh.
We all know you're lying.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Adult Babies in Gub'mint at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (vtcmf)
-Securities Exchange Commission
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (8hICw)
Granted, but again, it does point out what happens when you create a government agency to work on a problem. You create it, the problem abates, and then leftists infest it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: HBO at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (zSMr0)
wut?
Posted by: m at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (3jGss)
Well said. I have sympathy with people worried about their future, but that sympathy is tempered by the behavior that led them to this place.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: El Presidente De Mexico at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (oVJmc)
*deep breath**
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!!
OH PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET THERE BE A VIDEO OF THEM CRYING!
So I can watch when I'm bored. Or I feel like laughing that hard again. Or maybe just put on a loop and watch 24-7.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (1zARK)
However....
People were being rather... flippant when it came to polluting. Turns out that if you don't take care of your $hit, someone is going to get the government to take care of it for you.
See also:
-OSHA
-Securities Exchange Commission
Posted by: DoublySymmetric
_________
I think you can still pass laws without creating such a huge, weaponized bureaucracy.
Sort of like HomeLand Security, sure we needed better security at airports, but look at what that's become?
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (RYUuq)
http://tinyurl.com/harkp7d
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:50 PM (7HtZB)
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The way I see it, as soon as Kelly got sworn in, he made the call and said "I want your resignation by Wednesday"
Posted by: WisRich at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (hdpay)
The left has chosen poorly.
Jo Ann Harris in The Beguiled.
I've got something to do now...
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Zombie Frank Sinatra at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (xiiES)
Posted by: Fritz at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (2Mnv1)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (xeeHA)
Her latest is that she now goes to work every day not sure if she'll still have a job at the end of the day. First of all, let's dispense with the obvious: YOU WORK FOR THE VA! Your department has performed miserably. If I worked for the Cleveland Browns, I'd also be worried if I'd still have a job at the end of the day, but at least give the Browns credit - They never killed anyone this year!
But on top of that, isn't that what all of us in the private sector deal with every day? You do your job to the best of your ability, and the rest of it is out of your hands. Emoting doesn't change anything; it just sort of makes you look like a teenager, and that's never a good thing.
Posted by: Ted K. at January 26, 2017 03:08 PM (seSmy)
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (LWu6U)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (92kX2)
Like roaches brought in with the potatoes.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (BQ5O8)
I can't wait to share the plan with my cousin!
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (zSMr0)
This. A thousand times this.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (92kX2)
-Securities Exchange Commission
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (8hICw)
Granted, but again, it does point out what happens when you create a government agency to work on a problem. You create it, the problem abates, and then leftists infest it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (92kX2)
I know. I'm not saying it's right. Just that self-control/governance/policing is necessary for our system of government. At least that it used to be.
Just because you can dump all that crap in the river doesn't mean that you should.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (PY9jH)
The video has some oddities (besides "Alaska Territory" - which may be as you say due to when it was produced). Dutch Harbor was not the target of the Japanese operation - duh - Attu and Kiska were. Also - "Japanese U-boats"?
Anyway, very interesting.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: Chuck Norris at January 26, 2017 03:06 PM (xiiES)
Yep. And the best part is, even of you warn them what's coming, they ain't a danged thing they can do about it.
Posted by: Billy Jack at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (92kX2)
Like roaches brought in with the potatoes.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:09 PM (BQ5O
Except the TSA came pre-infested for our convenience.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: garrett johnson at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (OhOyF)
Yes, it is true that the size of medicare / ss is massive compared to the rest of it and that if you really want to make a dent in spending, you have to go to where the spending takes place. But, it has to start with the frivolous stuff. If we can't even muster the will to cut the frivolous stuff, we will never convince anyone that there is no choice but to make the harder cuts.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous
__________
I just don't want to hear about MediCare or Social Security cuts a long as there are things like ObamaPhones and government housing.
Can we at least cut the parasites off first?
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (RYUuq)
30% of EPA staff probably deserves that level of consideration.
70% needs to be chased out of DC with flame-whips.
I think my previous comment on the success of a GOP Presidency was a 40% fall in Beltway real estate values, and that still holds.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (TppKb)
Remember every day for the last eight fucking years?
And the promise of an eternity of it under Hillary, then Castro, then Michelle, then Chelsea, then the other Castro?
Well Pepperidge Motherfucking Farm Remembers, Fucknozzles
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (VIiRP)
198 Yep. Privatize Big Bird.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 02:55 PM (JBggj)
We did.
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(Gary Oldman voice)
All of it!
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (JBggj)
JackStraw Johson is Right!
Posted by: garrett johnson at January 26, 2017 03:10 PM (OhOyF)
Garret Johnson is right about JackStraw Johnson being right!
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:11 PM (92kX2)
I lost it at my boss a few months ago and I'm still horribly ashamed. Mind you, I was correct about the underlying issue and it was mostly since he hadn't paid attention to me being professional, maybe acting like a screaming child will work. But I'm still ashamed because it was just wrong.
Sadly, it worked and he did finally do the thing after lecturing me (which I deserved!) for a bit so that was kind of mixed message there. But still. It was wrong and it was embarrassing.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (mf5HN)
I recall the public reaction here in the SF Bay Area. It was absolutely batshit insane irrational hysteria.
Every second reader comment at the _San Francisco Comical_ was about how the Gulf was permanently ruined, its biology and fisheries destroyed irrevocably, and would be a sterile azoic zone for all eternity, a monument to the foolishness of fossil fuels, and when will we ever learn that we must Go Green?
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (ONH2e)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (xeeHA)
So has NASA.
These people are calling themselves "The Resistance" like they're in a Star Wars movie. It's sad, really. They haven't yet realized they aren't outsiders, they're the cogs of the oppressive federal government, the rule enforcers.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (NOIQH)
Weird, isn't it?
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at January 26, 2017 02:42 PM (KUaJL)
It's a mistake to think all those SJWs will be working as baristas after graduation. Those are the ones who end up in the bureaucracy - or in the HR Dept. They want to draw a paycheck for bullying people.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (ZM2xo)
I forget, are you in MA? I have a friend in Peeeebuddy who wanted to berm up her backyard a bit to do something (what that was I no can longer remember) but she couldn't because doing so might cause some soil to fall into a slightly mucky strip of land that is 200 yards away from the back of her house.
You can't make this shit up.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (kqtMD)
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (xk+SM)
That's just a little taste of what most of the country has felt like for eight years as you dick stomped their liberties and future for your liberal cult.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (llUHc)
Rum, sodomy, and the lash?
Napalm them.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (TppKb)
We're going to win so much, you'll get tired of winning.
You'll literally time travel into the future just to skip past the winning.
Posted by: Donald J. TRUMP at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (4bKiB)
Posted by: Donald J. TRUMP at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (4bKiB)
... and they've evidently opened rogue Twitter accounts to snipe at Trump from their Towers of Pure Science (TM)
ZeroHedge: http://tinyurl.com/gwfxyrs
Forbes: http://tinyurl.com/j3ot9fk
Posted by: crisis du jour at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (+S0Qh)
Posted by: Annoying Fozzie da Bear at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (suO/a)
Yes, I agree. If you will not self-police and do what is right, eventually you'll be forced to by someone, even by force. This is the flaw in the free market and capitalism that some people absolutely refuse to admit to: it can get really ugly for a long time. Without the government forcing Rockefeller to break up his oil monopoly, in a totally free market he'd still control all oil and charge 18 bucks a gallon, because what the hell would we do?
The answer of course is a just and moral society, a people with virtue so that they have pressure from within them to do what is right even if it means less short term gain. However much you want to mock religion or think its awful, that hope of a better life and a reward at some future point can be stronger than an immediate reward, and produce very positive results on earth.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Shanks for the memory at January 26, 2017 03:13 PM (TdCQk)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
I totally called this, as did others. It's just what they do.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (0mRoj)
They collect business taxes for the state.
We've been tagged in a mafia-like shakedown. They insist we pay a state corporate income tax because we had a single employee in CA for less than a year. CA shares info among agencies, in this case the employee's paying CA personal income taxes got shared with the CA corporrate tax authority. They're very wrong on the law but we'd have to spend a lot to defend ourselves.
As I've looked into it, there are horror stories far worse than ours. You're especially at risk if you or your business leaves CA. Bank assets getting grabbed without notice, etc.
They don't go after the big guys the way they go after smaller businesses.
So I'm rethinking this California secession thing.
Seriously, the Trump folks should go after this.
Fuck Jerry Brown, hard.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (4bKiB)
Posted by: The Barrel at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (xk+SM)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (8hICw)
I was thinking about this yesterday, the left's histrionics. I think so much of it is misplaced bitter frustration that the fairytale fed to them by the media--namely, that all but a few backwater troglodytes subscribed to their fake feminism, social justice, and celebration of the bankrupting and Balkanization of the US--was proven to be a lie.
They are like children learning there is no santa and suddenly placed in the uncomfortable position of perhaps coming to terms with the worldview-altering implications: what else have my media betters lied to me about?
Rather than grapple with this cognitive dissonance to form better understanding, they've decided to chuck all their toys out of the proverbial pram.
Blame not the deceivers! Blame those who refused to make the make-believe true!
Posted by: circumlocutious at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (n2r4H)
So I can watch when I'm bored. Or I feel like laughing that hard again. Or maybe just put on a loop and watch 24-7.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (1zARK)
In the meantime, it is near certainty to be identical to the tree huggers crying.
To wit: https://youtu.be/tFUDEmMjC-c
Posted by: Billy Jack at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (JO9+V)
http://tinyurl.com/hddxxxc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (mf5HN)
So, finally, it puts the lotion on its's skin. Was that so hard?
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (BQ5O8)
Don't worry. I understand from the press that Trump is being handed an economy by Obama that's absolutely humming with activity and bursting with opportunity. So there ought not to be any lack of jobs for them on the outside. Why, prospective employers will be lining up and begging tearfully for their favor.
Until Trump clumsily ruins the Obama economic miracle, that is.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (noWW6)
Went seven years without a job, due in no small part to her efforts. I doubt that I'm alone.
Posted by: t-bird at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (2z74n)
That's where my parents farm was, yep.
In few hundred years MA has gone from the seat of liberty to just the seat.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (/tuJf)
EPA Core Values:
1) Regulate
2) Litigate
3) Confiscate
..for the chirrens.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (ty7RM)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (NOIQH)
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They are the ultimate insiders. They can literally reach out and destroy people's lives.
I feel like at the end of the Starship Troopers movie when Dougie Houser reads the mind of the bug and says gleefully, "It's afraid!"
The EPA is afraid. Good. They all should be. Now they know what it's like when THEY come knocking.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (xeeHA)
The last thing I remember was Trump endorsing torture and the liberals going crazy over it. All the blood rushed to my schadenboner and I passed out.
Posted by: jwest at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (Zs4uk)
OK, the place I'd like to be eavesdropping today (it varies each day) - the Mexican president's inner circle of advisors.
I've tried to explain for years the part mass illegal migration to the US played in *delaying* Mexico's long-overdue reforms to be a more modern open economy and society. To clueless amnesty supporters and race-baited coastal clueless idiots - who of course are troubled, since "oh no! something bad for nice brown people! eleventy!".
Anyway, in Mexico's case, upheaval is a good thing. Trump may end up materially advancing the cause of modernization and justice in Mexico by crimping one of their main safety valves that has helped the oligarchy continue to keep the country in the past.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (QDnY+)
-Securities Exchange Commission
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (8hICw)
Granted, but again, it does point out what happens when you create a government agency to work on a problem. You create it, the problem abates, and then leftists infest it.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:07 PM (92kX2)
The government way:
1. There is a problem
2. Citizens ask politicians to fix problem
3. Politicians create government program to fix problem
4. Problem gets fixed
5. Head of program starts to panic because job could go away
6. Head of program goes to politicians to get more money to make sure problem doesn't come back
7. Politicians give program more money
8. Citizens give government more money
9. Wash. Lather. Rinse. Repeat
In almost every case, once the results have been achieved, the program could die, but then the politician would be accused of wanting to go back to the problem time.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: Weasel at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (C8aCP)
That one thing in the corner tried to bite me last time. It's evolving.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (s/EUv)
Two factions in this country; the Business Club, and the Drama Club.
We've just had eight years of Drama Club.
And although he certainly gets kinda flamboyant at times, President Trump, I think, has shown us over the last week that it's Business Club all the way from here on in.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (nd1zx)
Posted by: Sponge at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (xttKs)
Posted by: ALH at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (uLuPn)
Posted by: R. DUKE at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (ONH2e)
Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (GX63o)
http://tinyurl.com/hddxxxc
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (fDdVG)
I thought Drew Carey was a conservative?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (ZM2xo)
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (RYUuq)
What is this "job" of which you speak?
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (0mRoj)
Apollonian and Dionysian?
Have you been reading Paglia again?
*swat*
Bad Ewok!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 26, 2017 02:11 PM (XWkhW
Thread winner.
...sorry.
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (xk+SM)
[mumbling]
Well yeah, of course I can still tweet from my personal account, but nobody reads it when I post . How am I supposed to spread propaganda intended to push a political agenda and enrich my colleagues and me if it only looks like my personal view and not that of the Agency? Posted by: EPA Worker at January 26, 2017 02:40 PM (wx6iv)
I KNOW RIGHT?!?!
Posted by: Ex National Parks Employee that hacked their twitter to spread climate data info at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (xk+SM)
Welcome to the AOSHQ. This is Ben and Amy. Carlos is around here somewhere. He has your membership packet.
Posted by: Greeter Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (92kX2)
Posted by: Independent George at January 26, 2017 02:51 PM (BDZWU)...
'Gzactly.
"Oh, sweetie, the last thing you'll ever hear me say is 'You're fat. ..." (car cranks in the distance)
Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (zke7T)
Well, my CA business is down to basically me at this point, but I'll keep my eyes and ears open.
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:17 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 26, 2017 03:15 PM (1JnAL)
I'd love to make the process:
1)There is a problem
2) People who's problem it is FIGURE IT OUT WITHOUT COERCION OF THE GOVERNMENT
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:17 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (JBggj)
So, finally, it puts the lotion on its's skin. Was that so hard?
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (BQ5O
Once I calmed down and fell all over myself apologizing and the boss got done very nicely lecturing me, he said okay now let me look at this and I was all oh ffs do not even tell me that this worked because no.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (mf5HN)
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 26, 2017 02:57 PM (sRFAL)
This drink recipe (which was posted on a sports board that I frequent) for an authentic Ole Miss Hotty Toddy would explain it:
2oz Nyquil
1/2 Bottle of Zima
1 1/2 Xanax
1 tsp Liquid Estrogen
Serve in glass shaped like a flaccid penis
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (s/EUv)
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 03:12 PM (NOIQH)
The new Disney Star Wars, where they fight Darth Emo & Snookie.
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (/tuJf)
The slanted approach to the world for a few posts was me. Think someone else tidied it up before I closed-tagged it, but it was gone quickly...
Posted by: JEM at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (ZM2xo)
Who can tell with all the Careys out there. They are almost as bad as the Johnsons.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (92kX2)
How is it stated in the real world?
"If you're not happy with job here you can resign and seek employment elsewhere."
Posted by: YIKES! at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (yfObW)
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The EPA was primarily a rationalization project to consolidate environmental regulation previously scattered about X agencies in Y departments with Z(ero) people really understanding "what the hell is going on."
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (SsblQ)
I have the tags/brackets things in my nic, so hopefully not?
I ain't goin' anyway, mind you, but I don't think it was moi.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (kqtMD)
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (s/EUv)
out that if you don't take care of your $hit, someone is going to get
the government to take care of it for you.
And yet you have authorities who look the other way when when "new Americans" treat their new home like one big dumpster. See VDH's "Two Americas" columns about how his state's regulators and authorities stringently enforce laws when it comes to regular citizens who show up to court, pay fines, get building permits, etc. and completely ignore immigrants who live in shacks with crazy, homemade wiring that is not up to code, who dump trash on the highway, who collect no sales taxes on their unlicensed burrito truck sales, etc.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (NOIQH)
Non-lead ammunition was almost entirely declared "armor piercing" under the California law.
This was a glimpse of the future under Hillary, the way they were gonna get around the 2nd amendment. And when challenged? The crazy broad Hillary put on court would swing it to just ignore the constitution anyway. Once its precedent well... hello America, everywhere.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at January 26, 2017 03:18 PM (mf5HN)
Ah. But you had to go all screamy. And boil a rabbit.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (BQ5O8)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (hJrjt)
Ha - I thought it was me, too (wearing a Trump sock).
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (10LGw)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (ZM2xo)
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Doctrinaire libertarian?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Northernlurker at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (hJrjt)
Not if we can help it!
Posted by: HR at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (92kX2)
It actually was pretty funny. The Golden Scalp Weasel has a life of its own.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (PY9jH)
I do understand that how we got these vast bureaucracies however was because the local and state bureaucracies had been co-opted by the local power structure to do their bidding (no show jobs, nepotism, corrupting the intended mission etc.).
So either solution presents its own set of negative consequences.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (u/p7K)
dealt with them over the past decade in the field of waste (sewage)
management. Aside from a handful of people who practiced common sense,
the majority were true bureaucrats with absolutely zero common sense and
limited knowledge beyond their books and rule sets. That place could
use a thorough and comprehensive house cleaning.
.
.
.EPA's stupid run off water rules cost me an extra $6 Grand when I had some work done to alleviate some drainage issues we had on our house in Kentucky.
Who would have thought you can't adjust the rain water that falls on your yard to run off into the road.......
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (le7jz)
Posted by: DaveM at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (WFjXF)
Anti-Trump Twitter accounts spoofing govmint agency accounts are popping up, supposedly from people in those departments. Resist we much...by tweeting! That'll show them.
https://twitter.com/AltNatParkSer
https://twitter.com/RogueNASA
https://twitter.com/AltHHS
Note the image at the top of the HHS one. They think they are the rebels, they don't realize they actually helped build the Death Star.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (hvf9s)
Unceasingly.
In the rain...
Posted by: OSCAR WILD MAN HEMMINGWAY at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (xiiES)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (xeeHA)
............
I still don't get it.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (HgMAr)
Ha - I thought it was me, too (wearing a Trump sock).
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at January 26, 2017 03:20 PM (10LGw)
Heisenberg Barrel Uncertainty? Observation of the embarreling changes the results?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (92kX2)
Yes, well, his kids may not be. In fact, given the schools and culture they grew up in, and the wealth and lack of hard work their father didn't enjoy, its almost certain that they are lefties.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (39g3+)
LOL! I have spent seemingly half my life on I-40, so I deeply appreciate that!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (kqtMD)
Who would have thought you can't adjust the rain water that falls on your yard to run off into the road.......
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (le7jz)
Or build a pond on your property.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (PY9jH)
===
"Rogue 5 standing by at Starbuck's"
"Roger, Rogue 5. Rogue 9, where are those Cheetos?"
"Sorry , Rogue Leader, was tweeting 'Trump is Hitler' on the Rogue Twitter, Cheetos on the way!"
"Roger, Rogue 9. and may the force be with you."
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (toH8T)
Posted by: steevy at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (r/0kC)
When you get some free time read about how Rockefeller got bum rushed. The Standard Oil breakup is not what liberal history writers have made it out to be.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (OVJcF)
They imagine themselves as lil' Jyn Ersos and Cassian Endors.
Dude, you work for the federal government and you're tweeting climate change stats that are taught in every college and repeated by Al Gore, Neil Degrasse Tyson, and the UN. You're not resisting anything.
Posted by: Lizzy at January 26, 2017 03:23 PM (NOIQH)
I know, I know, Anglo-Saxon Protestants are so five minutes ago.
Posted by: Beverly at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (bKEfx)
Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (cOHS7)
Posted by: Maritime at January 26, 2017 03:03 PM (RYUuq)
What is this "job" of which you speak?
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (0mRoj)
I'm actually waiting for the ax to fall. I was informed my job is going away.
You're welcome, people in Hungary who are now doing my job.
Today I saw the guy at the company next door doing their landscaping so I went and asked him if they were hiring. I told him I was one of the American casualties that got Trump elected. He said "talk to the receptionist".
So here we go.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (nNdYv)
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (ZKlDy)
Hah-It's because I've had Little Feat's "Willin'" stuck in my head today.
I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Driven the back roads so I wouldn't get weighed
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (s/EUv)
Posted by: Rogue 2 at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: HR at January 26, 2017 03:21 PM (92kX2)
I toiled in an office setting at a University ( I know), and let me tell you there were vendettas there that went on for years.
The drama was a large part of what made me leave.
That and Women's and Gender Studies Departments.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (BQ5O8)
323 oops
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:14 PM (xk+SM)
Welcome to the AOSHQ. This is Ben and Amy. Carlos is around here somewhere. He has your membership packet.
Posted by: Greeter Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (92kX2
...thanks. Actually, I've been around since ...oh gawd ...I dunno, 2001? Earlier?
...just haven't commented as a regular for years ...old name "davisbr"
Posted by: brdavis9 at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (xk+SM)
One of the most annoying things about living in SoCal was going to the store and having to dodge all the dirty diapers that had been tossed into the parking lot.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (uiwCw)
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I was looking for a Chinaman. Oh well.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (SsblQ)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (JBggj
Oh man. When you read her you expect the pages to light on fire. What a loss.
Posted by: alexthechick - all your caps are belong to me at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (mf5HN)
And no, sorry, dead birds and fish, on the scale in question, are hardly permanent damage.
Believe we'll find the same with the Gulf spill.
Of course this didn't stop many people from getting a massive pay-day out of Exxon Valdez, and probably from the Gulf. And it's not just racist authoritarians ("liberals") who are scientifically illiterate - lots of other folks reliably go apeshit with any oil spill, and are happy to support the shake-downs that follow.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Larry Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (IqV8l)
Too much like real work, plus the added bonus that nobody cares. Obamawho?
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (VIiRP)
Drew Carey
Tucum Carey
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? Taking My Time on my Ride at January 26, 2017 03:19 PM (s/EUv)
Hey!
Posted by: Harry Caray at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 03:26 PM (O7MnT)
Posted by: kallisto
===
I am sorry to hear it. It's really harsh. But you are going to be better than okay. Just like Insomniac and all the other between jobs folks.
Hang in there. The wave of winning has just begun.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:26 PM (toH8T)
You have excellent taste in music!
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (kqtMD)
Bwahahaha of course they did! Love it. Lefties are nothing if not lemmings.
https://twitter.com/altUSEPA
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (hvf9s)
http://tinyurl.com/kb9fxxp
Posted by: Iblis at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (9221z)
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I was looking for a Chinaman. Oh well.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (SsblQ)
...
Hey.
Hey!
HEY!
This! Is! Barrerl!
Posted by: Brave Library Chinaman at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (zke7T)
The only thing missing is rending of garments.
Posted by: Decaf at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (WrEuY)
Posted by: jasonjtyler@yahoo.com at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (jgmPg)
One of the most annoying things about living in SoCal was going to the store and having to dodge all the dirty diapers that had been tossed into the parking lot.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (uiwCw)
Don't worry, that has spread nationwide thanks to our progressive immigration policies.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (1JnAL)
Posted by: V the K at January 26, 2017 03:26 PM (O7MnT)
..............
Watching TV. Experimenting with new chocolate chip cookie recipes.
Posted by: Gary Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (HgMAr)
Oh he was jobbed by his enemies, using the government no question. But... the point remains: he'd still control the entire oil industry in the USA (and possibly elsewhere, he was richer than.... anyone, everywhere, most of them combined). And he was not willing to give people a break on anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (jsWA8)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (VdICR)
I feel for anyone who is worried about their job. It's very stressful.
But perhaps this can be a learning experience for federal workers who cared not a wit about private sector workers, the folks who have been breaking our balls to pay for all these seemingly untouchable federal jobs forever. Maybe if the feds didn't treat us like an ATM they can shit on whenever they want, or whenever they weren't shitting in the hallways, there would be a lot more compassion shown to them.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:01 PM (/tuJf)
This one reason why the military has such adifferent culture from the rest of the government, even law enforcement.
Your career depends on your striving for promotion, because its up or out. And even then over your career you may be canned because of a RIF, or a reorganization, or a change in technology, no matter how great a job you do.
Posted by: Minuteman at January 26, 2017 03:29 PM (xiiES)
Yep. 2nd Amendment gives you the right to bear arms. Don't say shit about bullets.
What's that you say about penumbras. Sheeeeetttt, that only works one way.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:29 PM (SIY7D)
Lunatics. They can't fire enough of them.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:29 PM (xeeHA)
http://tinyurl.com/kb9fxxp
Posted by: Iblis at January 26, 2017 03:27 PM (9221z)
"Dude, let's never piss Cartman off again!"
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:29 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Falaise HotPocket at January 26, 2017 03:29 PM (dLkkp)
Oh man. When you read her you expect the pages to light on fire. What a loss.
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Yes.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (JBggj)
I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari
Tehachapi to Tonapah
Driven every kind of rig that's ever been made
Now I've driven the back roads
So I wouldn't get weighed
And if you give me weed, whites, and wine
Then you show me a sign
I'll be willin' to be movin'
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:26 PM (toH8T)
Thanks Mort! I'm actually not real torn up about this. I didn't see myself at this company forever, no room for promotion. My only concern is about the health benefits. I have no issue with temping until something permanent shows up, however temps don't get health bennies until they clock in a lot of hours.
Another reason why that shittin' mandate eats a big BOD.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (nNdYv)
One of the categories they have is thinking/ feeling.
Most women are in the feeling category.
Most men are in the thinking category.
There are exceptions of course. Like gay men. And conservative women.
There are also degrees within each category.
So naturally, 50% of the population are going to react emotionally. We now have a culture that does not discourage that, so there are tantrums that society has now shows on a daily basis on the news and YouTube.
Then add in decades of "the self esteem movement" which has resulted into "special snowflakes" in the workforce.
So yeah, there's going to be problems and lots of histrionic emoting from narcissists.
That's what our society has given us: Histrionic Narcissists.
/yeah, those are personality disorders that cannot be cured. long on pharmaceutical stocks...
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (J5mC3)
The Sherman anti-trust act was originally a few paragraphs. The only standard, the only thing it was designed to prevent, was harm to the CONSUMER - not to other businesses. Funny, those guys back then, the ones famous for drawing the line against evil monopolies, seemed to actually understand the point - protecting the consumer, nobody else.
But now all that's lost in the gauzy mythology supporting the cultural bigotry about large companies.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: jasonjtyler@yahoo.com at January 26, 2017 03:28 PM (jgmPg)
Crush the snowflakes, see them melt in a puddle before you, and hear the lamentations of the trigglypuffs!
Posted by: MAGA Conan at January 26, 2017 03:30 PM (hvf9s)
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We need to start our own fake alt govt account on twitter
Posted by: @votermom's phone at January 26, 2017 03:31 PM (xb3Ae)
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at January 26, 2017 03:31 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 03:31 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at January 26, 2017 03:16 PM (ZM2xo)
++++
Drew is a conservative in a NeverTrumper sort of way.
https://twitter.com/DrewFromTV
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (R+30W)
I actually went to Ace's link to read the article, and there's a sidebar piece on TFG being offered $20 mil as an advance on his memoirs.
Jeebus.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (PY9jH)
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I believe that it is an outstanding idea for these noble public servants to post their every
And termination for cause. But mostly posterity.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (toH8T)
And none of them seem to care these days about entertainment monopolies. Like 3 megacorps control all the entertainment and internet. They just kept buying and buying and nobody ever tells them "no."
You will wear the mouse ears and like it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (39g3+)
Jeebus.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (PY9jH)
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It's basically a book about golf.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (+r2J4)
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Volume 3!
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (SsblQ)
You're welcome, people in Hungary who are now doing my job.
Today I saw the guy at the company next door doing their landscaping so I went and asked him if they were hiring. I told him I was one of the American casualties that got Trump elected. He said "talk to the receptionist".
So here we go.
Posted by: kallisto at January 26, 2017 03:24 PM (nNdYv)
Gah. Sorry to hear it.
Posted by: Insomniac at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (toH8T)
Oh for crying out loud.
I actually went to Ace's link to read the
article, and there's a sidebar piece on TFG being offered $20 mil as an
advance on his memoirs.
Jeebus.
Posted by: Jane D'oh
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
He wrote 2 autobiographies BEFORE he was even President.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (u/p7K)
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (0AwCy)
Trump's style in his remarks - and in the excerpts I've heard of his interview with Hannity - is so funny and refreshing. It's obvious why he connects with voters whose minds are open, and/or not filled with NPR lunacy. Direct, common-sensical, very little of the mindless pro politician's mediocre circumlocution.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (QDnY+)
I still don't get it.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:22 PM (HgMAr)
It would make sense if it was all caps
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (lKyWE)
FIFY
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (nd1zx)
That's what was said to the American people as the govt grew in mass.
This is how YOUR questionable leadership thinks of your JOB.
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (JBggj)
My contribution:
I guess a Dad with a block of wood, nail, hammer, bbq lighter, cotton swab, alcohol, and a bandaid is out of the question? ;-)
'Rub some dirt on it' or 'Walk it off' are also probably out then.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (JO9+V)
SCOAMF ON GOLF
It's going to be a series, like DORF.
The first one is on Golf, the second Foreign Policy.
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (OhOyF)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (u/p7K)
And won a Nobel Peace Prize (well right at the start of being President, anyway)! And Time Person of the Year*!
* - Note, I'm a former Time POY myself.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (2x9LM)
..............
Memoirs Of A Clown. Probably won't even sell as good as MeAgains blockbuster.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (QDnY+)
I hear ya. My dad was military before going into business. My uncle was lifer in the Air Force. I watched it happen.
I'm just having a really hard time welling up a lot of sympathy for government workers who have been weaponized against us over the last few decades. Most of them don't have the skills or work ethic to last a minute in the private sector yet they have no problem looking down their noses at us.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (/tuJf)
At the time of the break up he controlled only 60 % of the refineries. His trust also lowered the prices of oil through a number of factors. Even one of the trust busters admitted that the trust kept prices low but commented something to the effect ' even if the price of oil went to one cent a barrel , Standard still needed to be busted because it was just wrong'
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (OVJcF)
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company recently finally died.
As it developed it essentially invented the idea of the supermarket and in its heyday peak during the 1930s was the equivalent of Wal*Mart before there was a Wal*Mart.
Laws were enacted at the local and federal level to stop its cheap low prices for the everyday consumer.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (OhOyF)
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So, like, playing golf in other countries?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:37 PM (xeeHA)
And termination for cause. But mostly posterity.
Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at January 26, 2017 03:32 PM (toH8T)
A Forbes article noted all of these sites are in violation of logo policies for government agencies, which tend to be extremely strict. I would laugh so hard if they have to modify their account logos because of that!
http://preview.tinyurl.com/hm9gatg
Posted by: MAGA Conan at January 26, 2017 03:37 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:37 PM (nQgx9)
(snorts)
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 03:37 PM (R7cwD)
for certain values of "write." Its even worse though, particularly if you're an author.
He was approached and given a 40,000 advance for a book he had not even written and had never written any book in his life and then when he told the publisher he couldn't write that book but wanted to do an autobiography at the age of 30 something, they said "OK keep the advance and do that instead."
This is mob-style machine work. Its just giving someone they want to advance money and a leg up. As an actual author that's infuriating.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:37 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 03:38 PM (OhOyF)
Play pretend government men who are waiting for the dems to get back in the White House. They might accidentally help the conservative candidate.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2017 03:38 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:38 PM (BQ5O8)
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Volume 3!
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:33 PM (SsblQ)
Reggie and Michelle will serve as inspiration for the composite FLOTUS?
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:39 PM (hvf9s)
Potato, ice and a needle is all you really need.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:39 PM (kqtMD)
Of course this didn't stop many people from getting a massive
pay-day out of Exxon Valdez, and probably from the Gulf. And it's not
just racist authoritarians ("liberals") who are scientifically
illiterate - lots of other folks reliably go apeshit with any oil spill,
and are happy to support the shake-downs that follow.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:25 PM (QDnY+)
That's pretty much the entire reason we have the recycling "industry" today. A garbage barge couldn't find a parking place, the photos made the news, and now we burn through billions of dollars propping up businesses that transport and recycle things that, unlike metals, are worthless after recycling.
Ka-ching!
Posted by: Moron Robbie at January 26, 2017 03:39 PM (Halhc)
hopefully more and more people will start to question who's getting paid when where and how for what.
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 03:39 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (nQgx9)
LOL. Consider that stolen.
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.
.That is most certainly going in the book.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (le7jz)
146 Fritz: "And just think of all of the cheap ammo he could be selling to private citizens as a gesture of goodwill."
Yeah, Fritz, but that will mostly be just mountains of .40 ammo - who wants that??
(commence the caliber wars!)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 02:47 PM (QDnY+)
I'll open bidding for the lot. 10 quatloos. Throw in all the firearms and l'll double to twenty.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (FtrY1)
What follows after that is why I come here. Snark is nice, red meat tastes good and the big guns are cool, but being exposed to a new idea, or an existing idea worded in a new way, is why I invest my time. Carry on, Ace.
Posted by: CJ at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (9KqcB)
What is the Spanish word for schadenfreude?
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (hvf9s)
Bar of soap, rubbing alcohol, needle. Easy peasy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: Harry Caray at January 26, 2017 03:41 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (hvf9s)
I don't think there is. It's a German word for a reason.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:41 PM (8hICw)
Hm, what has Gary Johnson been doing since the election? Apart from getting baked every day.
Hard to believe it hasn't been a week since the inauguration, what with all the stuff that's been done by the new crew.
Remember, the new gang that was in total disarray as far as staffing goes? According to the MSM?
It's like the press was so tired of their jobs they just decided to commit mass seppuku and get it all over with at once.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 26, 2017 03:41 PM (nd1zx)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:41 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:39 PM (kqtMD)
Thanks, I'll add that. lol
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Ewww, people do that?
Posted by: Woman with a plate in her lipin NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (uiwCw)
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: red speck at January 26, 2017 03:04 PM (RcEOo)
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Here's what's gonna happen - because it happens all the time, DoD does it on a regular basis.
They'll hire them all back as contractors. Contractors don't count as actual Federal employees, plus you can fire them, lay them off, move them around, and there's not one thing they can do about it because it's part of their contract.
Other than quit, of course, and they won't do that because then they'd have to actually WORK somewhere.
Posted by: antisocialist at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (W2wn0)
Right?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Ewww, people do that?
Posted by: Woman with a plate in her lip in NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (uiwCw)
You tell him, sister!
Posted by: Woman with 47 rings stretching her neck in NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (uiwCw)
I don't get it, either. My ears are not pierced, nor is anything else.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (kqtMD)
In fact, they were fired.
/drain.the.swamp.
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 02:43
My wife is currently reading that book. She is just horrified. It has already turned her very anti-abortion.
Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2017 03:44 PM (4bBUU)
Posted by: Geronimo Stilton at January 26, 2017 03:44 PM (10LGw)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 03:36 PM (2x9LM)
Trump needs to go too! Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth then!
Posted by: Iblis at January 26, 2017 03:44 PM (9221z)
Things are going to get very ugly very fast."
Oh, certainly. But as an IT contractor, works for me- I don't have sadz and timeouts on the job, nor do I need safe spaces.
These snowflakes are my job security/prosperity. Keep it goin', SJW diploma mills!
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - slip slidin' away at January 26, 2017 03:44 PM (kVX3W)
What is the Spanish word for schadenfreude?
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (hvf9s)
Puto cabron
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 03:44 PM (lKyWE)
And don't even get re started on plastic grocery sacks, jeez.
I talked to her about cost effectiveness, but no dice.
Or recycling bin is half the size of the garbage, but it should be reversed.
Sometimes, When she's out of town, I throw plastic jugs and glass bottles in the trash.
Yeah, I'm a rebel.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (BQ5O8)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44 PM (qJhUV)
I totally called this, as did others. It's just what they do.
Posted by: Insomniac
And to the complete surprise to absolutely nobody, the Homeless arrive in the headlines!! Next, the True Unemployment Numbers!!
Posted by: Puddleglum, #NotMySuperBowl at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (Gj3Mx)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (QK70D)
Right?
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (xeeHA)
Yeah, I figured that out in grade school when my brother explained to me what Iron Maiden's "Two Minutes to Midnight" was about. That was the conclusion i reached. He actually thought it was something to be afraid of. He's 10 years older than me, BTW.
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (7HtZB)
talking about Trump's win and Congress
magna carta
the bill of rights
haibius corpus
trial by jury
and the English common law
find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence
value of liberty
dignity of work
family
patriotism
economic prudence
power in the hands of the people
Trump's win and Congress:
"achieved in defiance..."
"swept all before you"
"great victory"
jeebus
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (nQgx9)
BTW, Hannity just came out and said the WaPo story about the state department honchos resigning was Fake News.
In fact, they were fired.
/drain.the.swamp.
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (J5mC3)
Oooh, that's even better! "Get your shit and get out!"
Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (nQgx9)
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Ronald and Maggie
Donald and Theresea
Echoes of history??
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Dr. Sevrin at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (HgMAr)
Posted by: The Political Hat at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (OzJeO)
Posted by: Fake at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (7Ov+c)
tear a hole in my body to dangle jewelry from!" Where the hell did that
come from originally??
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Ewww, people do that?
Posted by: Woman with a plate in her lip in NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (uiwCw)
You tell him, sister!
Posted by: Woman with 47 rings stretching her neck in NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (uiwCw
Yes we do and we love it! It is an expression of our authentic selves and individuality!
Posted by: Snowflake whose mish looks like it had a headon with the fishing lure bin at Cabelas at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (JO9+V)
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*ahem*
Posted by: Military Casualty Grim Milestones at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (QK70D)
EPA workforce- about 15K.
Average hourly salary is... what, $25-40? Let's be conservative and say $30.
Trump has been in office for a little over five working days now. Let's just call it 40 hours.
40X30X15,000= That's $18 million dollars it's costing taxpayers, so these muffins can have their crying fits.
What, you say? It's not all of them? Ok, 2/3 of the workforce would still be $12 million for sobbing. In one week.
And of course, that's just the EPA. Let's not yet talk about the melting l snowflakes who work at DoD. Because, yes. They do.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (Gh3fw)
Donald and Theresea
Echoes of history??
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (8XRCm)
said only the US and UK increase defense, military
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: Fake News LLC at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (TppKb)
Posted by: IC at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (a0IVu)
Shelters Under Pressure As Homeless Numbers Soar
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 02:44
See, another great Trump accomplishment...he's made the media discover the homeless after they forgot about them for 8 yrs.
Posted by: Farmer at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (4bBUU)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:34 PM (nQgx9)
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Ronald and Maggie
Donald and Theresea
Echoes of history??
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:46 PM (8XRCm)
Now if we can just work in another JPII....
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (7HtZB)
My contribution:
I guess a Dad with a block of wood, nail, hammer, bbq lighter, cotton swab, alcohol, and a bandaid is out of the question? ;-)
'Rub some dirt on it' or 'Walk it off' are also probably out then.
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (JO9+V)
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When Oldest Daughter was about 4 years old, she wanted her ears pierced. We went to the mall, started to walk into Claire's Boutique to get it done, and her daddy (my ex), casually mentioned that "you do know they do it with a roofing nail, right?" She stopped dead in her tracks, wouldn't budge, we had to carry her back out of the store and she didn't get her ears done until she was almost 13.
Of course, her step-daddy took her to get her belly button pierced as a graduation present, so I guess she got over the whole phobia thing.
Posted by: antisocialist at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (W2wn0)
It's all I've ever done. Mostly retired now.
Posted by: Mathers at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (3myMJ)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (u/p7K)
Posted by: Twin Cities Daydrunk - slip slidin' away
Dammit! I thought I was the only one using this "strategy".
Posted by: Puddleglum, #NotMySuperBowl at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (Gj3Mx)
Ha!
Also, Trump looking at 20% tariff on Mexican imports to fund the "wall".
Hilarious!
Let's see how long before Presidente Nieto cries "tio!".
This really is even better than I expected, though I was pretty serene that things would be pretty good.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (QDnY+)
Our garbage and recycling get picked up by mechanized trucks, so nobody sees what's actually in them.
If one if full and I need to get rid of the other, it goes in the other bin.
Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at January 26, 2017 03:48 PM (mgbwf)
Posted by: Woman with 47 rings stretching her neck in NatGeo at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM (uiwCw)
Pikers.
Posted by: Crow Indian Chief at January 26, 2017 03:48 PM (Halhc)
............
I'm in. Should I dress up like a giant sperm?
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:48 PM (HgMAr)
Right? Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:42 PM (xeeHA)
Yeah, I figured that out in grade school when my brother explained to me what Iron Maiden's "Two Minutes to Midnight" was about. That was the conclusion i reached. He actually thought it was something to be afraid of. He's 10 years older than me, BTW. Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:45 PM (7HtZB)
Does anyone remember the children's book "The House with the Clock in its Walls?" All the Doomsday talk makes me want to reread it.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM (7HtZB)
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Word.
Im not even Catholic and that man was my Pope.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (8XRCm)
I'm more of the garment-shedding tribe-type girl.
Posted by: Lena Dunham at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (DMUuz)
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:48 PM (HgMAr)
Go for it. Just don't step on your flagellum.
Posted by: tubal at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (BQ5O8)
Posted by: Fake News LLC at January 26, 2017 03:47 PM
Cried themselves to death no doubt
Posted by: Skip at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (0AwCy)
In fact, they were fired.
So, who wants to bet that one of those jagoffs called up their FAVORITE Washington Post reporter with the 'We quit!' baloney, and they got it on the air without bothering to check it because "JOHNNY SCOOP ACE REPORTER!"/echoplex.
Fake news, ba-bay! You're soaking in it!
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (nd1zx)
Trump proposing a $60 billion a year tax on Mexican imports into this country to not only pay for the wall, but pay for upkeep and operation, as well.
That probably wouldn't be my approach. I like the tax on sending money to Mexico better for a big reason:
Mexico continues to be a corrupt 3rd world craphole because it has a release valve for anger and discontent: send them to the USA illegally. Illegals mailing money back home to family makes the discontent lower there, and pumps money into the Mexican economy for bribes, etc.
If we don't shut that safety valve off, Mexico will never, ever have to deal with the government and crime cartel corruption.
This is the argument that Razorfist makes in that great video someone linked a couple days ago: the wall, and immigration control, is good for Mexicans.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: IC at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (a0IVu)
Making OEs, fast as you please
Posted by: Count de Monet at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (JO9+V)
the people of the other EU states are probably drooling. Not the "leaders", but the people. She also talked about borders and reigning in immigration.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:40 PM (39g3+)
Me, I'm not on board with the word "grok." I had to look it up just now, I see it has a nerd origin.
To me it sounds so... 2002 internet.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (TOk1P)
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Now is the time to stockpile stuffed frogs and plaster of Paris burros
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (QK70D)
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (hvf9s)
Yes! John Bellairs was great. I got a lot of his books - plus, they all have Edward Gorey illustrations!
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:51 PM (7HtZB)
In fact, they were fired.
Meh, its basically the same thing. He can't fire them, he can only ask that they resign (forcefully) and they did. They're both right.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:51 PM (39g3+)
Back when I was a cook at a restaurant the chef had hired a new busboy. Said busboy had about twenty facial piercings.
The owner walks into the kitchen and the chef introduces the new busboy to him. The owner stares for a few seconds and then asks new busboy if he fell face first into a tackle box. New busboy was kept as an employee, but not bussing tables. He wasn't allowed out on the dining room floor if any customers were present, so he became a dishwasher/kitchen bitch.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (uiwCw)
... I can only assume that "quiet cool" is what he attributes to Conservatives. And, of course, the emotional shrieking is the Progressives.
But what we've had ... for as long as I can remember ... is Shrieking Banshies at the perimeter, with this monotone drone of "Let's not be hasty" from those that are supposedly the adults in charge.
That's not "quiet cool". That's fucking denial.
We're way past "quiet cool". That luxury is long, long gone.
Hence. Trump.
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (fiGNd)
I like the idea of a remittance tax for starters, then see about taxing.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (kqtMD)
I don't generally support these types of things but I'm wondering if that might get them to the negotiating table.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (xeeHA)
............
I'm in. Should I dress up like a giant sperm?
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:48 PM (HgMAr)
Maybe the Eraserhead baby. That would be quite the look.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (TOk1P)
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:49 PM (hvf9s)
Yes! John Bellairs was great. I got a lot of his books - plus, they all have Edward Gorey illustrations!
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:51 PM (7HtZB)
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I read all his books as a teen. Even as I approach the big three oh, I still get tempted at times to to read them all again.
Posted by: Independent George at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (BDZWU)
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 03:50 PM (QK70D)
..........
and Chiclets.
Posted by: wth at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (HgMAr)
This is the case with all federal agencies. Military commands do not automatically change, but on the civilian side it's utterly, boringly, routine.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (VIiRP)
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The price of avocados will skyrocket. This will just destroy American consumers.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (SsblQ)
I don't generally support these types of things but I'm wondering if that might get them to the negotiating table.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:52 PM (xeeHA)
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15% tax on all outbound wire transfers and money orders to Mexico.
Thats my suggestion anyway.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (8XRCm)
Still more ragestroke-inducing is how Prince Chooming then, as President, had the State Department buy up enormous numbers of "his" ghosted books, for free distribution abroad under U.S. government auspices.
You have to assume that most of those books sent at our expense to Third World countries ended up as fire kindling, toilet paper, or hut wall insulation. But Obama still profited personally from every copy thus dispatched.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:51 PM (7HtZB)
Jealous! Looks like my local library has it in, I'll have to go snag it this weekend.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (57R5r)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: EPA guy at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:43 PM
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Same here.
Totes deviant NOT to be pierced. Or tattooed.
/also, saving big $$ on inevitable dangly palm tree/cartoon/ chandelier earrings that I'd wear
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (J5mC3)
she's almost quoting Trump
the days of britain and america intervening in sovereign countries to remake the world in our own image are over...
but cannot stand by when we are needed to intervene
Israel = ally
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: Slowpoke Rodriguez at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (Halhc)
Very nice.
Posted by: Mega at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (VIiRP)
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It really was pretty exciting!
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (xeeHA)
Judging by who's working in public service these days I don't know how you even avoid that crap now. Neck tattoos used to be a sign of someone badass, not a snowflake with daddy issue and a security blanket. The haircuts and piercings and tats and all the rest, its a freakshow. I would have a hard time hiring.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: IC at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (a0IVu)
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The price of avocados will skyrocket. This will just destroy American consumers.
Posted by: RioBravo at January 26, 2017 03:53 PM (SsblQ)
No guac for my Doritos? Not cool, dude!
Posted by: Gary Johnson at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (7HtZB)
the days of britain and america intervening in sovereign countries to remake the world in our own image are over...
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:55 PM (nQgx9)
I like this. Turns out, you can't force people into a democratic republic. It has to be made by them. If it doesn't happen organically, you get despots and dictators.
People get the government they deserve.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (8hICw)
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But the relevant measure of success is how many korans were saved.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (QK70D)
Thats my suggestion anyway.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (8XRCm)
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This is my preferred method. Actually, I'd go much higher than 15%.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (xeeHA)
I do too.
The peso has fallen by over 50% during the Obama years. This makes US earnings by Mexican Illegals more valuable back home. (Drug profits too).
Trump might be able to require withholding without going to Congress (it's not about adding a tax, but about collecting an existing tax).
Cutting the value of remittances will be more incentive to self-deportation.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: garrett at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (OhOyF)
It's striking that reporters who claim to be super duper knowledgable about the government don't know how this works.
Politically appointees routinely submit their resignations when a new administration takes over. Sometimes they are retained and sometime their resignations are accepted.
This is a fart in a windstorm.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (/tuJf)
Oh hell yes, I'd have some gaudy, blingy monstrosities that could be seen from space and drag my earlobes past my knees.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (kqtMD)
One ironic story that of course will get no coverage in the "press" - the effect on companies that moved some of their activities to Mexico mostly because of predatory, destructive regulation ("environmental" and work "safety") in the US, esp. CA. There are many - from that small manufacturing sector that CA seems determined to exterminate.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (QDnY+)
The estimated cash revenue of the _narcotraficantes_ is larger than remittances, agriculture, tourism, and the oil and gas operations of PEMEX, all combined.
Mexico's gonna disintegrate financially when Trump's wall goes up and the drugs can't get to the USA as conveniently as they have been doing for fifty years' time.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (noWW6)
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (dKiJG)
Really? How did Trump insult the President of France?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (fDdVG)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (xeeHA)
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So...16.5%?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (/prE6)
I do too.
The peso has fallen by over 50% during the Obama years. This makes US earnings by Mexican Illegals more valuable back home. (Drug profits too).
Trump might be able to require withholding without going to Congress (it's not about adding a tax, but about collecting an existing tax).
Cutting the value of remittances will be more incentive to self-deportation.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (SIY7D)
We also give them Billions in foreign aid each year. We can just deduct it from there, too...
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (JBggj)
I'd withhold at the highest marginal rate.
"Que? You paid the tax already? Prove it."
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:35 PM (xeeHA)
You too? 2003 POY here.
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (uiwCw)
Hell ... you can't give 'em Freedom.
Example A ... here.
Posted by: ScoggDog at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (fiGNd)
Pshaw, only Trump can have conflict of interest!
Buying up multiple copies of a politician's books to get around campaign finance laws is an old game. I can never remember the name of the guy in 1993 that got busted storing crates of his book in the capitol building; purchased just to get him money and parked. It was one of the Democrat corruption stories that ruined them in the 94 election.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (39g3+)
I think Trump should exempt fruit flavored soft drinks of Mexican origin. That is MY red line.
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (u/p7K)
Thats my suggestion anyway.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (8XRCm)
That's my view. Tax the money going down, not consumers coming up.
Posted by: WisRich at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (hdpay)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (nQgx9)
Really? How did Trump insult the President of France?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 26, 2017 03:57 PM (fDdVG)
Apparently she was the only person who knows about that. She was clearly an ill-prepared democrat plant.
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (7HtZB)
* - Note, I'm a former Time POY myself.
Who wasn't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (IqV8l)
That's not "quiet cool". That's fucking denial.
We're way past "quiet cool". That luxury is long, long gone.
Hence. Trump.
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1. Not everyone knows how to handle screaming children.
2. RE: denial, I never meant to imply there weren't issues on the Republican side. For example, John McCain...
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (J5mC3)
You to good for Purple Drank?
Drank 'merican!
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (/tuJf)
But that's for the final deal.
Right now, it's "no, Senator, my offer is nothing. You will pay for the gambling license."
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (QDnY+)
* - Note, I'm a former Time POY myself.
Who wasn't?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (IqV8l)
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I have a friend who keeps that on his resume.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (/prE6)
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I'm tempted to peg it to the exchange rate in such a way as they are better off just staying in Mexico. So, whatever that percentage would be.
Being that this would mostly effect non-citizens, I don't have any ideological issues with it.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (xeeHA)
Thats my suggestion anyway.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 03:54 PM (8XRCm)
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This is my preferred method. Actually, I'd go much higher than 15%.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (xeeHA)
I agree, went to a Mexican store and the line was long with people waiting to send money back.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (dKiJG)
But that's for the final deal.
Right now, it's "no, Senator, my offer is nothing. You will pay for the gambling license."
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (QDnY+)
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Godfather Part II!
What do I win?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (/prE6)
Well... Fact check says - TRUE
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (8hICw)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_(Time_Person_of_the_Year)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 03:59 PM (IqV8l)
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Shhhh... you're making me seem less impressive.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (xeeHA)
If not, quench yourself on their tears.
http://tinyurl.com/hdklzuw
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (2x9LM)
A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. Our arms must be mighty, ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction.
Our military organization today bears little relation to that known by any of my predecessors in peacetime, or indeed by the fighting men of World War II or Korea.
Until the latest of our world conflicts, the United States had no armaments industry. American makers of plowshares could, with time and as required, make swords as well. But now we can no longer risk emergency improvisation of national defense; we have been compelled to create a permanent armaments industry of vast proportions. Added to this, three and a half million men and women are directly engaged in the defense establishment. We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations.
This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience. The total influence -- economic, political, even spiritual -- is felt in every city, every State house, every office of the Federal government. We recognize the imperative need for this development. Yet we must not fail to comprehend its grave implications. Our toil, resources and livelihood are all involved; so is the very structure of our society.
In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.
Akin to, and largely responsible for the sweeping changes in our industrial-military posture, has been the technological revolution during recent decades.
In this revolution, research has become central; it also becomes more formalized, complex, and costly. A steadily increasing share is conducted for, by, or at the direction of, the Federal government.
Today, the solitary inventor, tinkering in his shop, has been overshadowed by task forces of scientists in laboratories and testing fields. In the same fashion, the free university, historically the fountainhead of free ideas and scientific discovery, has experienced a revolution in the conduct of research. Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. For every old blackboard there are now hundreds of new electronic computers.
The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present and is gravely to be regarded.
Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific technological elite.
It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old, within the principles of our democratic system -- ever aiming toward the supreme goals of our free society.
Posted by: David Windsor at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (e8kgV)
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (57R5r)
This ties in with my comment the other day about Keith Olbermann presenting himself as El Commandante of the Resistance not with a manly broad chest gazing to the future with a steely glare, but hiding under a flag blanket looking as if he's about to sob uncontrollably. It's so bizarre, yet here we are.
Posted by: J. Random Dude and His Amazing Phone at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (yKSCs)
Being that this would mostly effect non-citizens, I don't have any ideological issues with it.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:00 PM (xeeHA)
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How would that work? The stronger the peso the larger the tax?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (2x9LM)
True, and definitely something to address, but that money doesn't help the Mexican people any, so cutting it off wouldn't shut off that safety valve and push them to fixing their government.
For crying out loud, Mexico is practically floating on oil, has tons of natural resources, exports lots of tasty stuff, and has a big, ready work force. I've worked personally with a lot of Mexicans and they are some hard working mothers.
The only reason they aren't a major world power, a 1st world force like the rest of North America is massive, systemic, historical corruption that never has to fear revolt.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (39g3+)
If not, quench yourself on their tears.
http://tinyurl.com/hdklzuw
Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (2x9LM)
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Oh. Snap.
New sherrif aint playing Homey.
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (8XRCm)
Cookies and fingers in shape of water pistols hardest hit.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (57R5r)
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Same places. Except now they have to pass a wall.
Which is apparently a human rights violation, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:03 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: David Windsor at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (e8kgV)
Whelp, so much for that...
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:03 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: Under Fire at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (57R5r)
Los Angeles?
Posted by: Country Singer at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (uiwCw)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (QK70D)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (/prE6)
Wouldn't the opposite make more sense? At least, if you're trying to be punitive to the people sending the money back.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not seeing an issue with any of this.
Posted by: Nobel Laureate Michael Mann at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (10LGw)
Cookies and fingers in shape of water pistols hardest hit.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (hvf9s)
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I wouldn't care if we hadn't just gone through 8 years where doing this to the sitting president was proof positive of racism and treason.
Let progressives eat the fruit of their labors.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (/prE6)
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Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (QK70D)
He's just quoting, Ike. He's fine.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (oVJmc)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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Jim Wright (D-TX)? Unions and 'friends' bought thousands and thousands of his books, which no one ever read. It was a money laundering scheme.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (NBHj5)
By my kitchen table arithmetic, you'll net about $3.75B/yr.
In under ten years, you'd have Trump's wall paid off.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 04:06 PM (noWW6)
Wouldn't the opposite make more sense? At least, if you're trying to be punitive to the people sending the money back.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (8hICw)
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I hadn't thought it through and was genuinely asking how it would work best.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:06 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Not seeing an issue with any of this.
Posted by: Nobel Laureate Michael Mann at January 26, 2017 04:04 PM (10LGw)
It's all good.
Posted by: Nobel Laureate Barack Obama at January 26, 2017 04:06 PM (7HtZB)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (7HtZB)
I'm guessing... ENGLISH major
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:06 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (/prE6)
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My initial thought (not well-researched or planned) was the opposite of that.
Ultimately, my serious point is that I'd support what would otherwise be confiscatory rates on that.
The thing is, my biggest problem is NOT with the Mexican family that moves to America for a better life and stays here. It is with the economic opportunists that know they can get away with it living 12 to a house sending 70% of their income back home.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.
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Rephrasing; "... disgraced/resigned Speaker of the House Jim Wright..."
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (NBHj5)
By my kitchen table arithmetic, you'll net about $3.75B/yr.
In under ten years, you'd have Trump's wall paid off.
Posted by: torquewrench at January 26, 2017 04:06 PM (noWW6)
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*Price is Right losing sound*
"Looks like you've done some static tax analysis. Behavior will change."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (/prE6)
The Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face, representing a countdown to possible global catastrophe (e.g. nuclear war or climate change). It has been maintained since 1947 by the members of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who are in turn advised by the Governing Board and the Board of Sponsors, including 18 Nobel Laureates.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (IqV8l)
One ironic story that of course will get no coverage in the "press" - the effect on companies that moved some of their activities to Mexico mostly because of predatory, destructive regulation ("environmental" and work "safety") in the US, esp. CA. There are many - from that small manufacturing sector that CA seems determined to exterminate.
Posted by: rhomboid
Bet they won't be moving back to Cali, Texas bound
Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (2RVmA)
storing crates of his book in the capitol building; purchased just to
get him money and parked. It was one of the Democrat corruption stories
that ruined them in the 94 election.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor
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As a book, it would offend you even more than Obama's autobiographies. A lot of empty pages (to make notes?).
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (u/p7K)
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (/tuJf)
It's like Ben Stiller in Dodgeball.
"It's me taking the bull by the horns. It's a metaphor....But that actually happened, though."
Posted by: broseidon being a capitalist pigdog (yknow, working) at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (oZ6kz)
Yesterday, in response to the Trump EOs, he issued a written statement that is breathtaking in its idiocy - something you'd expect to be read at a city council meeting by a suburban airhead NPR-listening activist. "We want to build bridges, while others build walls" and garbage like that.
Today? Actual interview response in which he emphasizes that SD is "not a sanctuary city", and that SDPD cooperates with the feds as prescribed by law.
Heh. The guy is sad - seems to think he's got anywhere up to go, politically, in a CA that has become Venezbabwe - and here he is flopping around trying to sound as stupid and racist as a Democrat one day, and reasonable the next.
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (nQgx9)
of his books, which no one ever read. It was a money laundering scheme.
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That was quick, Sir.
IIRC, Jim Wright was Speaker of the House at the time, and the scandal was a contributing factor leading to the Gingrich Revolution.
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:02 PM (/prE6)
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My initial thought (not well-researched or planned) was the opposite of that.
Ultimately, my serious point is that I'd support what would otherwise be confiscatory rates on that.
The thing is, my biggest problem is NOT with the Mexican family that moves to America for a better life and stays here. It is with the economic opportunists that know they can get away with it living 12 to a house sending 70% of their income back home.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (xeeHA)
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I get that. I'm just having problems figuring out which way would generate more revenue without using pen and paper.
I haven't thought about exchange rates in years, and when you add on tax rates as well, I just go a little loopy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (/prE6)
"Looks like you've done some static tax analysis. Behavior will change."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:07 PM (/prE6)
I HATE it when people go over on the showcase showdown.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (VdICR)
True, and definitely something to address, but that money doesn't help the Mexican people any, so cutting it off wouldn't shut off that safety valve and push them to fixing their government.
Hard for the narcos to buy off the Federales and politicions if you cut off the money from drug sales.I'd say that might help the Mexican people
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (lKyWE)
How weird that the doomsday clock moves towards midnight after Trumps election and the other way after obamas. Its as if this is all political or something.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (nQgx9)
Posted by: josephistan
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It's a metaphor, but I am literally minutes away from moving to Canada.
Posted by: Cher at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (NBHj5)
And, to re-iterate from yesterday, Liz Claman needs to take a tranquilizer, and she still has a great rack.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (8iiMU)
I don't know how they afford it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (8cEQL)
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So.... for some.... instead of 15% staying in the US.... 100% will stay in the US??
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: Madonna at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: josephistan
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It's a metaphor, but I am literally minutes away from moving to Canada.
Posted by: Cher at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (NBHj5)
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What happened to Jupiter, Cher?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (/prE6)
And, to re-iterate from yesterday, Liz Claman needs to take a tranquilizer, and she still has a great rack.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (8iiMU)
She quoted Reagan.
Went all out.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (nQgx9)
Hueso de alegrķa perversa.
"Bone of perverse joy."
Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (zke7T)
Posted by: Madonna at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (NBHj5)
"Me, you dumb bimbo."
~ Sandra Fluke
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (8hICw)
About the tax on Mexican goods
Im not panicking. Trump is negotiating. He is better at that than any of us. He is slapping Mexico around a little bit
Posted by: ThunderB at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (O3DC5)
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (SIY7D)
Posted by: Madonna at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (QK70D)
Posted by: ginaswo at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (O+zHO)
I think this "Doomsday Clock" needs it's own thread. The woman being
interviewed said that "it's a metaphor. But we are literally minutes
away from the end of the world."
Was she "literally shaking" when she said it? Because if she wasn't, it doesn't count.
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (qJhUV)
I haven't thought about exchange rates in years, and when you add on tax rates as well, I just go a little loopy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:08 PM (/prE6)
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I'm with you. I'd need to write it down and do some examples to get the idea straight in my head. Ideally, it would reward Mexico for having a stronger currency overall so the closer they got to parity, the lower the tax would be.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at January 26, 2017 03:58 PM (u/p7K)
Let me help you out. Go to Walmart, buy a bottle of Oakleaf Merlot for $2.94 and a bottle of Twist for $.88. Mix to taste. (Or spend a few more cents and get Sierra Mist made with real sugar instead)
You're welcome.
Posted by: blaster at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (tewYv)
Went all out.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (nQgx9)
My goodness. We live in interesting times.
Posted by: IC at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (a0IVu)
What happened to Jupiter, Cher?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
It's not the kind of place to raise your kids.
In fact, it's cold as hell.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk
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It's because I reset the clock.
Posted by: Hillary, with a red button at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (NBHj5)
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So.... for some.... instead of 15% staying in the US.... 100% will stay in the US??
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (8XRCm)
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Yup...and none of that will get collected by the federal government.
Others will find different ways to send money. Cash in an envelope is possible, although much riskier, of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: ThunderB at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (O3DC5)
It was run by partisans, and went forward when a Republican won the White House, and back when a Dem won.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (VdICR)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: J. Random Dude and His Amazing Phone at January 26, 2017 04:01 PM (yKSCs)
The vid Olberdumb put out of why Trump must resign is HILARIOUS. His bathtub must be full of tears by now.
Posted by: LizLem at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (8XRCm)
Posted by: fixerupper at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (8XRCm)
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Excellent point.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (xeeHA)
How weird that the doomsday clock moves towards midnight after
Trumps election and the other way after obamas. Its as if this is all
political or something.
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2017 04:09 PM (ODxAs)
Different visions of doom maybe.
Posted by: local news at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (1isJI)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (nQgx9)
a sanctuary city", and that SDPD cooperates with the feds as prescribed
by law.
Heh. The guy is sad - seems to think he's got anywhere up to go,
politically, in a CA that has become Venezbabwe - and here he is
flopping around trying to sound as stupid and racist as a Democrat one
day, and reasonable the next.
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He's keeping everyone happy. Lie to the progs to keep them from getting violent and protesting.
Lie to the government to keep them off his doorstep.
Tell everyone what they want to hear.
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (J5mC3)
Yeah, that's the ticket.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (xeeHA)
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I thought that would be a sub element of it.
Maybe it could be a carrot that would get Mexico to improve itself somewhat.
Hey...why do I suddenly want chili?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (/prE6)
About the tax on Mexican goods
Im not panicking. Trump is negotiating. He is better at that than any of us. He is slapping Mexico around a little bit
Posted by: ThunderB at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (O3DC5)
646 There are a lot of things we want to negotiate out of Mexico. "paying for the wall" is actually trivial in the scheme of things, but the optics are now important.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (SIY7D)
I think, right now, Trump is the guy at the poker table with the largest pot - using it to its full potential, forcing everyone around to go all in or fold.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (8hICw)
Was she "literally shaking" when she said it? Because if she wasn't, it doesn't count.
Posted by: tu3031 at January 26, 2017 04:11 PM (qJhUV)
+++
LOL
Posted by: washrivergal at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (Ivjge)
I trust Trump
Posted by: ThunderB at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (O3DC5)
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I believe in Harvey Dent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (/prE6)
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All of that stuff is meh next to the femboys with manbuns. Where I live is a little on the redneck side and to see these sunken chested effeminate boys is a bit startling. Of course, the femboys I've seen tend to be asking if I want a coffee refill or how I want my steak.
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (qC1Sy)
When Obama gave Iran, the world's largest state sponsor of terrorism, nukes, the world became a safer place.
It's science.
Posted by: JackStraw at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: Madonna
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Now, if she had said; "... somebody should get some gasoline and dynamite and, like , blow that fucking White House to smithereens."
Then it would have been a simile.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (NBHj5)
Kinda disappointed in Trump. What a pussy.
Posted by: blaster at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (tewYv)
No, they help adult children and elderly parents. One guy that works for us, his daughter is a nurse. He paid for her tuition and still sends her money because the wages are lower there but the prices of goods are the same as here.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (8cEQL)
Others will find different ways to send money. Cash in an envelope is possible, although much riskier, of course.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:12 PM (/prE6)
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Well, obviously SOME of it would find its way into the coffers via other taxes, actually being reported on income tax, etc.
But yes, the actual revenue would go down after the tax was in place.
Sending it in envelopes feels like one of those things that would have a lot of unintended consequences in lawless Mexico.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (xeeHA)
TV?
Posted by: Jean at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (2RVmA)
Ace if you keep up this terrific and amusing as hell writing, we may consider letting you comment as well.
May.
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (kfcYC)
And boy is it entertaining to see - finally.
And in case anyone missed it up above, this little mini-nuke from Banno, as reported by AP:
"The media has zero integrity, zero intelligence and no hard work."
Everyone here is always on about the schadenboners, but I just can't stop laughing (think Vincent Price, maniacal laughter).
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (QDnY+)
Then it would have been a simile.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (NBHj5)
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Hey...no one said that there would be grammar.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (/prE6)
is a little on the redneck side and to see these sunken chested
effeminate boys is a bit startling. Of course, the femboys I've seen
tend to be asking if I want a coffee refill or how I want my steak.
----
Femboys.
Great term.
Also... pretty sure femboys can come in a variety of ages.
Posted by: shibumi, frequent Warrior Princess and kitty cat fan at January 26, 2017 04:16 PM (J5mC3)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:16 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Skeptical Voter at January 26, 2017 04:16 PM (Sda6L)
Posted by: Infidel at January 26, 2017 04:16 PM (ByNzS)
Well, obviously SOME of it would find its way into the coffers via other taxes, actually being reported on income tax, etc.
But yes, the actual revenue would go down after the tax was in place.
Sending it in envelopes feels like one of those things that would have a lot of unintended consequences in lawless Mexico.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (xeeHA)
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My only point is that simple predictions of collected tax from remittances will be as accurate as predicted tax revenue from any other type of tax.
It will be less than we expect as behavior will change.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: Dirks Strewn at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (kfcYC)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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The reason they use Western Union is because 90 percent of the cash in the mail is stolen by Mexican postal workers, the other ten percent is just what they miss.
Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (7ZVPa)
In a school district with zero tolerance policy: no guns, no toy guns, no gun-shaped things no pictures of guns, etc, etc.
How weird that the doomsday clock moves towards midnight after Trumps election and the other way after obamas. Its as if this is all political or something.
A few years back they started adding "global warming danger" into the calculation. It was always pretty political, but its gotten much, much more so. They've been threatening doom for nearly 40 years, always seconds away. After a while you would think people just get tired of hearing that cry of "wolf."
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (39g3+)
Kinda disappointed in Trump. What a pussy.
Posted by: blaster
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I am concerned that only EPA employees are crying.
Posted by: Art, newbie with three letter name at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: Jeff E. at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (1yOGV)
Great term.
Also... pretty sure femboys can come in a variety of ages.
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Not original with me, unfortunately. I'm not that clever.
Posted by: Blake at January 26, 2017 04:17 PM (qC1Sy)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (/prE6)
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This thread has had grammar AND math. It's just too much.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:15 PM (/prE6)
Grammar Nazis are EVERYWHERE
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (8hICw)
Yeah, that was the guy. Man the Dems were packed with some crooks back then. I mean they are crooked now, but back then they were basically just criminals without even hiding it.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (39g3+)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Please
Posted by: Mail handlers Union at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (2RVmA)
Posted by: irright at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (pMGkg)
Posted by: Vashta Nerada
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The USPS will not sell insurance on items sent to Mexico.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (NBHj5)
Posted by: rhomboid at January 26, 2017 04:16 PM (QDnY+)
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Cook em, Banno!
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: josephistan at January 26, 2017 04:05 PM (7HtZB)
English, do you speak it?
Posted by: rickl at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (zoehZ)
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (xeeHA)
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I need my safe space.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (/prE6)
Posted by: irright at January 26, 2017 04:18 PM (pMGkg)
See, in parenting, what you're proposing is not a bribe. It's a consequence.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (8hICw)
Different visions of doom maybe.Posted by: local news at January 26, 2017 04:13 PM (1isJI)
No, North Korea and Iran, you can't drop nuclear bombs today, the clock does not have its hands at midnight! Don't you seeeeee the clock!!
*north Korea and Iran laugh, push the launch buttons anyway*
Oh crap.
Posted by: SJWers pointing at the doomsday clock at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (hvf9s)
I'd like to announce the rate for a coyote to bring you to America is now over $10,000 per person. I don't know how they afford it.
Posted by: CaliGirl at January 26, 2017 04:10 PM (8cEQL)
By carrying 40lbs of heroin across the border or by escorting a young girl or boy across to be delivered to sex trafficers
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at January 26, 2017 04:19 PM (/prE6)
No safe spaces will be afforded to anyone for any reason.
~ AoSHQ style guide
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: garrett goes LiveBlog at January 26, 2017 02:16 PM
Ceci n'est pas un comment.
Posted by: zombie rene magritte at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (lJXY3)
I agree, but for me its less about the revenue than about pressuring Mexico to change. The people of Mexico deserve better.
Here's the video that states it better than I do. He looks kind of douchey but hold on to your seats and listen
https://youtu.be/UOOBlcOIcLs
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (39g3+)
Not a clock though.
Posted by: @votermom @vm at January 26, 2017 04:21 PM (Om16U)
Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2017 04:21 PM (hJamr)
Posted by: zombie rene magritte at January 26, 2017 04:21 PM (lJXY3)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (ODxAs)
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (8hICw)
Not a clock though.
A jail cell you add bars to?
Posted by: no good deed at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (hJamr)
Then it would have been a simile.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 26, 2017 04:14 PM (NBHj5)
Eons ago, when she released that silly sex book, she was a guest on Nightline with Koppel. At the time I was too dumb to know better, so I was ready for her to squish some wisdom onto the old foop.
Instead, it was a fawning attempt by Koppel to give her room to explain how her oh-so-modern ideas about sex would force the rubes into the future.
The word she used more than any other: "Like."
As in: "Like, I wanna show the people, like, how they can, like, you know, be all sexy and stuff. You know?"
I can't think of anything that ruins a boner worse than a stupid chick, opening her mouth.
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (TOk1P)
https://youtu.be/UOOBlcOIcLs
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 04:20 PM (39g3+)
--
Kind of?
He should have Masengil patches all over his jacket like a NASCAR driver.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (xeeHA)
Posted by: Green Nazi at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (0dmP2)
Posted by: KGB at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (DVa+U)
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 04:23 PM (R7cwD)
Here we go again!
A new fake poll is now being pushed by Fake News says President Trump's approval rating in now at 36%, lower than last week's fake poll showing 40% approvals for Mr Trump.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 26, 2017 04:23 PM (2Glrq)
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 04:25 PM (R7cwD)
Posted by: mrp at January 26, 2017 04:25 PM (JBggj)
Posted by: BurtTC at January 26, 2017 04:22 PM (TOk1P)
As the french gal in Braveheart said:
"The English don't know what a tongue is for."
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at January 26, 2017 04:25 PM (8hICw)
Posted by: willow at January 26, 2017 04:25 PM (R7cwD)
See, that fake poll last week didn't have its intended affect -- to put a scare into the Trump admin and make the Republicans run away from the Trump agenda.
So what does the Fake News do to remedy this? They publish and push a new fake poll that shows an even worse approval rating! Because that's all they know: fake propaganda.
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 26, 2017 04:26 PM (2Glrq)
Little girls, playground equipment accidents also very common. I've never seen an entire ear come off, but I've seen some nasty tears.
Posted by: Tammy al-Thor at January 26, 2017 04:27 PM (kqtMD)
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 26, 2017 04:28 PM (Mb+1L)
nobody says nood anymore?
Posted by: Soothsayer at January 26, 2017 04:28 PM (2Glrq)
Posted by: vivi at January 26, 2017 04:31 PM (11H2y)
Judging by who's working in public service these days I don't know how you even avoid that crap now. Neck tattoos used to be a sign of someone badass, not a snowflake with daddy issue and a security blanket. The haircuts and piercings and tats and all the rest, its a freakshow. I would have a hard time hiring.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 26, 2017 03:56 PM (39g3+)
I have to agree. Hell, these days, somebody stands out more if they DON'T have any facial piercings or a hipster haircut.
I never got any tattoos or piercings, because my father would have broken every damned bone in my body if I ever did.
Parents need to be allowed to make their children afraid of them again.
Posted by: Hikaru at January 26, 2017 04:31 PM (CMbMd)
Posted by: andycanuck at January 26, 2017 04:31 PM (lJXY3)
I like that - truth with rhythm.
Emotional incontinence
Emotional incontinence
Emotional incontinence
Stealing it.
Posted by: scoville unit at January 26, 2017 04:32 PM (hWh8W)
Posted by: ting hung lo at January 26, 2017 04:51 PM (xZc4z)
Posted by: saf at January 26, 2017 05:14 PM (+zN6H)
Printing this out for the kid- who's feeling her Appolonian reserve means she's an uncaring bitch in the face of the two month's long meltdown of her friends.
Posted by: Sal at January 26, 2017 06:32 PM (hA4a+)
I volunteered to go because I knew all of the crews and wanted to spare my comrades of having that sad task. I didn't shed a single tear until I got home and cried myself asleep.
I was taught that part of being a man is being strong, dispassionate and in control of one's emotions at all times.
When I hear about these pussies crying and whining like spoiled bitches because their candidate didn't win. It makes me want to slap them upside the head.
I hope Trump fires all of these drags on the oxygen supply. The tears will really start flowing when they find out the private sector wants results, not excuses.
Posted by: Grizzledcoastie at January 26, 2017 07:24 PM (GV08/)
Posted by: Darrin Cook at January 27, 2017 12:40 AM (DDqKJ)
Posted by: Case at January 27, 2017 02:47 AM (rb1zT)
Posted by: Stephen K at January 27, 2017 04:06 AM (xSBLK)
In this regime, where emotion and shrieking are not signs that one is departing from truth but on top of it and inside it and grabbing it by the hips, spazzing out and freaking out are positively valorized, and people, being competitive and seeking to be "the best" in a field, attempt to top each other with even more amped-up displays of frantic fear and fury.
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