Politico: Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected

Oh my stars and garters, no! We can't have our Cherished Civil Servants and Deep State Operatives losing their precious careers as petty tyrants and Election Fortifiers

'They're so vindictive': Why some federal employees are fearing Trump 2.0
They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.

EPA employees are shuffling to "safer" agencies. An Interior Department worker is putting off buying a new car and poring over Project 2025. And civil servants across the government are worried they might soon get fired.
Federal employees throughout the executive branch are panicking at the thought of another Trump administration.
Former President Donald Trump has pledged to "demolish the deep state." His running mate, Ohio Republican Sen. JD Vance, has said Trump ought to fire "every civil servant in the administrative state." It's not just campaign-trail bluster. In the waning days of his first administration, Trump sought to make it easier to fire federal employees -- a move that was quickly reversed by the Biden administration.
Workers in some agencies are particularly distraught about a possible Trump return. The former president and his allies have singled out certain agencies -- including those that issue environmental rules -- as prime targets, should he return to office in January.

Climate, clean energy and conservation programs scaled up and burnished with cash during the Biden administration are certain to be lightning rods for Trump and his team. That's looming large over energy and environmental workers, who are feeling the pressure on a professional level as they're hustling to get Biden's priorities wrapped up in the coming months. It's also hitting them personally as they fear they might soon be out of a job.
The prospect of a Trump return is shaping how one Interior employee and their spouse -- another federal worker -- are handling their finances.
"We have stopped doing any money-spending things because what if we're without jobs in the next year?" the Interior employee said. "We need all the savings we can get."
That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said. "We're both feeling the heaviness of this right now."
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"They're so vindictive, I can see them going back through E&E News articles and saying, 'You're fired,'" the Interior employee said.
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It's "in the back of everybody's mind" that a Trump administration might purge the federal workforce, said one employee at the National Science Foundation.
"People are worried, but anybody who has half a brain is existentially afraid for the safety of democracy," that person said. At the moment, "people are very concerned with their day-to-day jobs" and are "working to make sure they can get a lot of good done now."
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Push to 'drain the swamp'
Feds' fears about Trump are justified, said Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Virginia Democrat whose district is packed with government employees.
"Federal employees are rightly concerned about what a second Trump presidency will mean for them and, by extension, for the American people they so dutifully serve," Connolly said.
Trump "has pledged to fire or relocate more than 100,000 federal employees who live and work in the D.C. region. He has repeatedly and shamelessly mocked the work of career experts and scientists, going so far as to scrub references to climate change from government websites. He has even promised to abolish entire government agencies that do not sufficiently bend themselves to his whims," Connolly said.
Trump and his allies, some of whom are still fuming over feds' pushback during his first administration, are eager to make changes. Senior energy and environmental appointees who served in the Trump administration have been vocal about their frustrations with civil servants when they were in office.

Apologies for the very light blogging today. I've had bad insomnia for five nights straight. I think I know the culprit: I was taking Afrin before bed, which causes insomnia and also dries my mouth out so much that sleeping is uncomfortable.

So I won't take that any more (or at least not later than 2pm).

But today, I am demolished.

Unrelated: Tim Walz cosplayed as a "normal guy:"

‘Out there with his boujee Beretta 8400, acting like he's one of us. Everything about him screams fake.’ - @DLoesch on Tim Walz’s attempt to appeal to unregistered hunters. pic.twitter.com/jWjQ05GLwa
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) October 15, 2024

He then showed off his Knucklehead Authenticity by attacking JD Vance for being successful, stupidly saying "I don't even know what a venture capitalist does!" as if being ignorant of basic things makes him a Manly Musky Masculine Manperson.

Walz: "JD Vance is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does."pic.twitter.com/5tN89dkFrW
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) October 15, 2024

I mean, even if I didn't see Silicon Valley, I would guess that a venture capitalist raises capital to invest into ventures they believe will be profitable in the future.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:40 PM

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1 Feel better, bro, insomnia is the worse

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at October 16, 2024 04:40 PM (YZhRl)

2 They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.

Yay!

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 04:40 PM (BkKar)

3 TUH. Worse-TUH. Goddamn autocorrect

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at October 16, 2024 04:40 PM (YZhRl)

4 That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said.

The first is reasonable, the second is dumb.

Especially if that means they stiffed the contractor who did the work.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2024 04:41 PM (hB7mE)

5 >>>Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected

I can only vote for him so many times before I need to harvest some more ballots.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (i24o9)

6 I feel good about things and that terrifies me.

Posted by: Blago at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (oNCcy)

7 Venture Capitalist is so Romney. They need some new material.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (Dm8we)

8 "I've had bad insomnia for five nights straight."

That sucks. Take a break.

Posted by: gp Gets A Kick Out Of You at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (pafXr)

9 From the article: * "We have stopped doing any money-spending things because what if we're without jobs in the next year?" the Interior employee said. "We need all the savings we can get."

That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said. "We're both feeling the heaviness of this right now." *

Good. That's what the easier-to-fire, less-well-paid people you're supposed to serve have been feeling for four damn years.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (J2vNu)

10 I can only vote for Trump once!

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (ewjUl)

11 Trump and his allies, some of whom are still fuming over feds' pushback during his first administration, are eager to make changes.

That wasn't "pushback". That was flat out insubordination. Which should've got them shot.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (BkKar)

12 "We have stopped doing any money-spending things because what if we're without jobs in the next year?" the Interior employee said.

We have stopped doing any money-spending things...

And these fucks mean to rule us.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (FAbrK)

13 I called the otters.

Posted by: Max Power at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (q177U)

14 A 90 percent firing level is not enough. Excluding our military.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

15 Politico: Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected
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Guys, I'm already voting for Trump, you don't have to sell me!

Posted by: WisRich at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (G0vdT)

16 2 They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.

They have homes and were considering new cars ? Definitely paid too much

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (IyPmt)

17 Maybe they should go start businesses. They will easily navigate all the paperwork etc, being in the know and all.

Or start a farm. Anyone can grow food. All you need is some dirt and a few seeds.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (0+MvU)

18 Nice to see Politico doing in-kind donations to Trump's campaign.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (lUFok)

19 >> Walz: "JD Vance is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does."
———
To be fair, he doesn’t even know what tampons do, judging from where Minnesota places them.

Posted by: electronic means at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (VV/8N)

20 WE'RE VINDICTIVE?!

To be fair, I would like a bit of vindictiveness edging towards extreme, prejuidicial.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (zf2Ot)

21 >>>I mean, even if I didn't see Silicon Valley, I would guess that a venture capitalist raises capital to invest into ventures they believe will be profitable in the future.

He pleads educator.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (i24o9)

22 If twitter works well after cutting what was it? 80 percent of it's workforce gone I hope Elon does take a job as the hatchet man for the administration. I'm betting there is a lot of fat in those agencies.

Get rid of whole depts. And get rid of baseline budgeting.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (tMjDM)

23 Is this the real Sifty Bones ?

Boones. Sifty Boones, like Boones Farm, the best wine in America.

Yeah, it's me.

Who would fake being me?
Posted by: Sifty at October 16, 2024 04:34 PM (1uZwg)

Welcome back. I have missed your prose here.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (NtVYv)

24 They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.
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In other words, they're just now discovering the Biden economy that's afflicted the rest of America for the last few years?

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (hjUY3)

25 Apparently Afrin is addictive.

Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (DRSnL)

26 Beware, Afrin works for shorter and shorter lengths of time and developes greater rebound that persists for days if you use more than 2-3 days.

Posted by: epador at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (TRnzq)

27 The FNM: Our civil servants are the smartest, most talented people in history. We should pay them more

Also the FNM: This is the best economy ever we can't find enough skilled workers!

Also, also the FNM: We government workers get fired they'll never find work again

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (oZhjI)

28 Jeebus, this makes me want to vote Trump over and over and over again like a ferral Demoncrat.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (c711F)

29 Christmas is not coming this year.

Posted by: J.D. Grinch at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (nS6qG)

30
They're trembling in fear, but four years ago they were perfectly happy promulgating policies that resulted in millions having their businesses shut down and bankrupted, jobs lost, children's education destroyed and families unable to say goodbye to loved ones. They suffered no consequences for doing this. My pity for them doesn't even exist.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (EsZUh)

31
Venture capitalist. Like adventure capitalist. He has adventures with capital. Like Space Daddy.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (w6EFb)

32 >>“delaying home repairs”
———-
Yes, we’re definitely talking about progressives.

Posted by: electronic means at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (VV/8N)

33 They're finalizing Biden priorities
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They're making oatmeal and changing diapers?

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (lX8VI)

34 Waltz is a boy touched. He’s been credibly accused by the standards the democrats have set.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (kwCuz)

35 An Interior Department worker is putting off buying a new car and poring over Project 2025.
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Whatever will we do when people who are NOT DOING THEIR JOB get fired?

Posted by: Axeman at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (krQz2)

36
Then there are the misadventure capitalists.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (w6EFb)

37 They're finalizing Biden priorities, dusting off their resumes and delaying home repairs as they fear losing their jobs.

I want them all living in cardboard boxes under the interstate overpass selling blowjobs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (/U5Yz)

38 HAHAHAHAHA

GOOD. BE AFRAID

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (JMAcK)

39 My feelings too don't matter.
I can't afford you. So bye bye .
Shut up. Never want to see you again.
Leave the country by sundown.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (J8LnB)

40 I mean, even if I didn't see Silicon Valley, I would guess that a venture capitalist raises capital to invest into ventures they believe will be profitable in the future.

Posted by Disinformation Expert Ace

Actually, when I hear "venture capitalist", my brain is primed to think "Mitt Romney, Bains(?) Capital, vulture capitalist, evil rich white dude laying off blue collar workers".

Thanks, unbiased MSM!

Posted by: Moron Analyst at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (JCZqz)

41 Once again, delusional projection. The Left have been firing right leaning federal employees for decades. I'm including the military /pentagon. How do they think the DoJ became a Commie clubhouse?

Mental breakdowns indeed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (D6PGr)

42 Tim's workin' man flannel cost $500.

Posted by: Ktgreat at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (33LJY)

43 Willowed: Maple Glazed Donuts are good all year round. Then there's Bourbon with Apple Cider and seasonings. Very Autumnal.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It is known the best way to deal with maple glazed donuts is to carefully pick them up, set them aside and then go straight for the Boston Creams.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (W/lyH)

44 Apparently Afrin is addictive.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024

***
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)

45 I prefer nemesis in the Bricktop mold.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (LkLld)

46 We have a federal workforce that is not only insulated from the effects of a bad economy, but who also profit from America's decay. The worse things get, the more dependent people become on government, the more job security, money and power they can demand.
On top of that, we have thousands and thousands of DEI highers making way more than they are worth with zero marketable real-world skills who would be thrown to the curb by any properly functioning government.
Trump threatens all of that. They would much rather see the country burn than have him win.

Posted by: 29Victor at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (TL7UX)

47 "People are worried, but anybody who has half a brain is existentially afraid for the safety of democracy,"
__________________

Yeah, because faceless useless bureaucrats are the heart and soul of democracy.

Srsly, get over yourselves.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

48 Romney wasn’t a venture capitalist. He bought distressed companies and sold off their assets.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (kwCuz)

49 Army of Hawaiian judges will make sure not a single federal government “worker” will be fired. If the right to have an abortion is constitutionally protected, why not the right to a lifelong paycheck?

Posted by: Settled Science at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (vA12x)

50
Federal employees should never have been allowed to Unionize.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (+oR7L)

51
"A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency’s philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and gas companies to brutal tactics employed by the ancient Roman army to intimidate its foes into submission.

"EPA’s 'philosophy of enforcement,' said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is 'kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.'

"'That town was really easy to manage for the next few years,' Armendariz added."

No pity for them.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (EsZUh)

52 Willowed:

If Trump wins Fuck-Joe-Biden will have him arrested. He said as much yesterday.

All Republican governors need to review their personal security plans in advance of the election, on the assumption that Federal agents may attempt to take them into custody.

There is a non-zero chance that "Biden" will declare martial law, and start arresting political opponents, including prominent Republican office holders.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (uxCna)

53 I was taking Afrin before bed, which causes insomnia and also dries my mouth out so much that sleeping is uncomfortable.

I can't take these sniffy decongestants. They're addictive; make it feel like it's too hard to breathe without them.

Posted by: Nothing Sadder Than A Child NeoSynephrine Junkie at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (/JDDd)

54 43 Willowed: Maple Glazed Donuts are good all year round. Then there's Bourbon with Apple Cider and seasonings. Very Autumnal.
Posted by: Pudinhead

It is known the best way to deal with maple glazed donuts is to carefully pick them up, set them aside and then go straight for the Boston Creams.
---------------
Boston Creams are nice but they insist on themselves too much.

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (c711F)

55 Apparently Afrin is addictive.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024

***
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Yes. Nasal spray.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (BkKar)

56 What idiot campaign operative thought Walz's schtick as the Midwestern everyman was going to sell?

He should own what he is, a hyper-liberal, sexually confused, middle aged man and a phony marriage. Sell that to the suburban wine moms and hope for the best.

I guarantee you this act has repelled more men then whatever they hoped to bring in.

Posted by: Blago at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (oNCcy)

57 I think they called Romney a vulture capitalist.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (kwCuz)

58 Relocating 100,000 federal employees?

Well, I guess ya gotta start somewhere....

Multiply that by 10 or 100 and then you might make a dent...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (7fElN)

59 They're finalizing Biden priorities
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They're making oatmeal and changing diapers?
Posted by: ... at October 16, 2024 04:45 PM (lX8VI)

Don't forget the pudding cups and ice cream.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (VNX3d)

60 Trump will
Need to open up the mental health hospitals first day in the job.

All the Dems contemplating suicide and civil disobedience will need to be housed somewhere.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (fpVC1)

61 26 Beware, Afrin works for shorter and shorter lengths of time and developes greater rebound that persists for days if you use more than 2-3 days.
Posted by: epador at October 16, 2024 04:44 PM (TRnzq)

My doctor said I can use it three nights in a row then take a break. That stuff really works when you can't breathe.

Posted by: CaliGirl at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (tMjDM)

62 I can only vote for Trump once!
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (ewjUl)

Have you considered identifying as a Democrat?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

63 Apparently Afrin is addictive.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024

***
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)
________________

Yes. The active ingredient is oxymetazoline. It's not addictive per se, but causes rebound congestion if used for more than three consecutive days.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

64 Good.
"Civil servants" should be recycled every 4 years.
Like underwear...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (xcxpd)

65 The most memorable line after “Gort. Klaatu barada nikto.” …

Barnhardt: Tell me, Hilda, does all this frighten you? Does it make you feel insecure?
Hilda: Yes, sir, it certainly does.
Barnhardt: That's good, Hilda. I'm glad.

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (AypJH)

66
Jerry Stiller, Constanza's father, and who played the same character on Kings of Queens, on the latter show I think it was, got addicted to the nose spray.

He had hidden stashes. When it was time to squirt, he'd pull the shades down, and get his secret bottle out.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (w6EFb)

67 Romney wasn’t a venture capitalist. He bought distressed companies and sold off their assets.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe
___

He was in private equity. It's also a part of what's ruining America. I think both the Left and the Right are starting to see that

Posted by: Blago at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (oNCcy)

68 All the Dems contemplating suicide and civil disobedience will need to be housed somewhere.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (fpVC1)
________________

Forest Lawn?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (YqDXo)

69 "Politico: Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected "

Why? I've been told the economy is roaring, plenty of jobs and inflation has been tamed. There will be plenty of opportunities.

Don't worry, be happy.

Posted by: Ripley at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (GUOwU)

70 Walz: "JD Vance is a venture capitalist cosplaying as a cowboy. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does

What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (hWqy9)

71 Working Man's Flannel was one of the Lesser Dead Albums.

Posted by: Europe '72 at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (nS6qG)

72 **
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
*
Yes. Nasal spray.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024

***
Do they still make Sinex and Neo-Synephrine -- or are those sequestered Behind the Pharmacy Counter?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (J2vNu)

73 Interestingly enough probably won of the biggest villains in this country does happen to be a venture capitalist, one of the biggest, but he gives to only far left whack jobs like Harris. His name is John Doerr.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (LkLld)

74 62 I can only vote for Trump once!
Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (ewjUl)

Have you considered identifying as a Democrat?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (ExV1e)

Or member of the dead community.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (vA12x)

75 Afuera!!!

Posted by: Javier Milei at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (dAZHf)

76 Trump and his allies, some of whom are still fuming over feds' pushback during his first administration, are eager to make changes.

That wasn't "pushback". That was flat out insubordination. Which should've got them shot.
Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (BkKar)

Further, it's not the fucking job of the permanent bureaucracy to "push back" on the guy who actually got approved for the job by the citizenry.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

77 "I own no stocks. I don't even know what a venture capitalist does!" - Guy running for VP

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (KbCG3)

78 All the Dems contemplating suicide and civil disobedience will need to be housed somewhere.

Posted by: Czech Chick at October 16, 2024

***
Mexico. Guadalajara and Coahuila are nice and warm.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (J2vNu)

79 I'd like Trump to do a blood letting like it hasn't been seen since it was recognized as a valid treatment protocol in the 1600s & 1700s.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (N39Ws)

80 >> What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?
——-
You could almost say he’s a knucklehead.

Posted by: electronic means at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (VV/8N)

81 There is a non-zero chance that "Biden" will declare martial law, and start arresting political opponents, including prominent Republican office holders.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (uxCna)

If that happens, Rule 308 will be in effect.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 16, 2024 04:50 PM (RMjVS)

82 Unrelated: Tim Walz cosplayed as a "normal guay:"
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Fixed it

Posted by: Axeman at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (krQz2)

83 Good

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (fwDg9)

84 >> oxymetazoline.

That is good stuff in various brand and off-brand nose sprays. It will really open up the nasal passages.

But indeed, if you use it, you will get "addicted" in the sense that your nose will clog up really bad without it until things normalize again. So, you just have to keep squirting it to keep the nose holes open.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (w6EFb)

85 Please, please, please shitcan the Department of Education while Jimmy Carter is still alive.

Then the EPA. Others?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (YqDXo)

86 Walz is an idiot. It's obvious he doesn't know what a venture capitalist is. Hell, I doubt he can explain capitalism at all. Obvious to anyone he has never signed the front of a payroll check.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (W/lyH)

87 Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected

Fired hell.
GASSSSS THEM.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (dkPQq)

88 Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (hWqy9)

89
Needed home repairs around here will commence on or about January 23 of next year. If.

Posted by: The 'New Guy' at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (MwtZ5)

90 A venture capitalist dreams of hitting it big with a little company that grows to be a big company.

As opposed to a governor who twiddle his thumbs while his cities burn and his constituents run riot through the streets, looting companies, big and little alike.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (rj6Yv)

91 If that happens, Rule 308 will be in effect.
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Isn't that Rule .303?

Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (c711F)

92 Take it from a former Afrin user. Throw it away and use a Neti Pot with a saline solution. No side effects and no rebound.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (2UnvF)

93
Q: What did the janitor say as he jumped out of the custodial closet?

A: Supplies!

Posted by: Duncanthrax, who just owned TJM at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)

94 "I don't even know what a venture capitalist does!"

Well, heck, me neither!! Hyuk, hyuk hyuk!!

I can't wait for this dipsh*t and his whoredog running mate to go away. Far, far away.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (k9OZB)

95 It is known the best way to deal with maple glazed donuts is to carefully pick them up, set them aside and then go straight for the Boston Creams.

Pfffft! The first ones out of the box should be the old fashioned cake with chocolate frosting. Washed down with cold milk. It is known.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (3Ope8)

96 Trump will
Need to open up the mental health hospitals first day in the job.

All the Dems contemplating suicide and civil disobedience will need to be housed somewhere.

Why not just put them where the illegals are now? That real estate should open up fairly quickly.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (lUFok)

97 Maybe they should go start businesses. They will easily navigate all the paperwork etc, being in the know and all.

Or start a farm. Anyone can grow food. All you need is some dirt and a few seeds.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (0+MvU)

Has anyone suggesting coding?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (ExV1e)

98 Do they still make Sinex and Neo-Synephrine -- or are those sequestered Behind the Pharmacy Counter?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

No idea. I just buy the cheap Walmart knockoff brand.

Posted by: rickb223 Gold & Silver Spot Prices at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (BkKar)

99 Vulture capitalism is like free trade. It hurts at the micro level but is good in the macro long term. Gordon Gecko wasn’t a bad guy. He did shit that needed doing.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (vA12x)

100 Just in case anyone needed a reminder of how vapid, stupid, arrogant, and totally unfit for any public service position these people are.

“Pushback”?? WTFF is that? These drones have one job, to carry out the policies of the only elected federal official. Period.

The brain-dead, sub-mediocre, wannabe Soviet federal workforce - one more obstacle that renders prospects for any real sustained progress in restoring some intelligence, competence, and American spirit to our public life very dim.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (31AX4)

101 I hope 3/4 of government workers get slashed off the payroll

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (fwDg9)

102 Romney wasn’t a venture capitalist. He bought distressed companies and sold off their assets.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (kwCuz)

Anything but a fan of Romney's now but I don't question his business acumen. He turned around companies including Bain in addition to handling company liquidations. His handling of the Winter Olympics was unprecedented.

Still a douchebag and lacks self awareness about things outside his expertise.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (D6PGr)

103 Isn't that Rule .303?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM

Sadly, NZFrank would say so.

Posted by: Duncanthrax, who just owned TJM at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (a3Q+t)

104 "People are worried, but anybody who has half a brain is existentially afraid for the safety of democracy,"

I have a full brain.
I am not existentially afraid for 'muh democracy.'
However, I DO want our constitutional republic back.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (Rbu5d)

105 Relocating 100,000 federal employees?

The Bureau of Land Management does no business in the Eastern United States.

Trump tried to move BLM headquarters from Washington to Grand Junction, Colorado, and the screaming was truly epic.

Biden moved BLM headquarters back to Washington when he took office, of course.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (uxCna)

106 Start with everyone at the Marxist EPA. Then Dept. Of Education Dept. Of Labor. I can do this all day.

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (TN5A0)

107 Trump "has pledged to fire or relocate more than 100,000 federal employees who live and work in the D.C. region.
==
I'd prefer summary execution for any federal employee who thinks they're entitled to set policy according to their own opinion and preferences, but I guess I'll settle for their unemployment.

Posted by: Methos at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (Dnobf)

108 Home repairs? Why think about them? You'll be in the Trump camps soon enough. You can use your degrees to plug the drafty holes in the boards over your squalid, triple stacked bunks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (awTae)

109 OK... multiple stories today on MSN about Judges halting the purging of illegal voters from voter registration rolls.

Under what authority are Judges doing this? Who is suing to get this stopped? There is no standing for a voter to sue until they are purged, and can show its wrong... WHICH HAS NOT HAPPENED.

Voter Rights groups are suing... but are not damaged, so how do they have standing?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (QAkQ3)

110 Jimmy Durante died from Afrin addiction. He was up to two gallons a week.

Posted by: The Schnozzola at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (nS6qG)

111 iF yOu Do YoUr'E JoB WhY wOuLd YoU bE aFrAiD~? HURR-DURRRR~!!!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (IG4Id)

112 Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?
Posted by: Northernlurker
___

It's been such a gift to Trump. Him out there hunting, changing oil, pretending to be a farmer, saying he's a big idiot just like the voters he's trying to court.

I was just hoping for some (more) credible Denny Hastert type allegations that I was sure would be out there.

Posted by: Blago at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (oNCcy)

113 Yes. The active ingredient is oxymetazoline. It's not addictive per se, but causes rebound congestion if used for more than three consecutive days.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024

***
I suspect many of them do that. In the '80s I had a clogged nose a lot of the time, even in hot weather, and carried a spray bottle of Dristan. It would clear me up, but within a couple of hours I'd be congested again. I finally went cold turkey and kicked it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (J2vNu)

114 > Romney wasn’t a venture capitalist. He bought distressed companies and sold off their assets.

Yes and no.

A traditional venture capitalist invests in startups or near startups. Romney was a "private equity investor" given that he invested in or bought established companies.

But I don't agree he just sold off assets of distressed companies. Bain is well known for NOT slashing and trashing companies. They take companies private and work on improving them for a few years, then sell them.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (Odg76)

115 Relocating 100,000 federal employees?

Well, I guess ya gotta start somewhere....

Multiply that by 10 or 100 and then you might make a dent...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 04:48 PM (7fElN)

But where we relocate them, and which ones first, is important. I think it should be the DEI hires, and Venezuela or Afghanistan.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 16, 2024 04:53 PM (VNX3d)

116 Hope it starts with the Eff Bee Eye and works through secret departments

Posted by: Skip at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (fwDg9)

117 GASSSSS

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (dkPQq)

118 Elon Musk calls the FAA on Nov 6th morning.

"Helooooo...is anybody there?"

Posted by: pawn at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (QB+5g)

119 Walz is the typical teacher. An imbecile who has no clue how the world works.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (vA12x)

120 Did Dana Loesch just call Tampon Timmy "Hairy Balz" in that segment?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (kDIcw)

121 There is a non-zero chance that "Biden" will declare martial law, and start arresting political opponents, including prominent Republican office holders.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:47 PM (uxCna)
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Well, duh. The people will have voted democracy out!

Posted by: Axeman at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (krQz2)

122 105 Relocating 100,000 federal employees?

The Bureau of Land Management does no business in the Eastern United States.

Trump tried to move BLM headquarters from Washington to Grand Junction, Colorado, and the screaming was truly epic.

Biden moved BLM headquarters back to Washington when he took office, of course.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (uxCna)

BLM should not even exist. Its based on the premise that the US Government can own large tracts of land that it is not even using.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (QAkQ3)

123 Apparently Afrin is addictive.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024

***
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:46 PM (J2vNu)

Apparently it's heroin.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (ExV1e)

124 91 If that happens, Rule 308 will be in effect.
-----------
Isn't that Rule .303?
Posted by: Pudinhead

I'm pretty sure it's rule 0-0

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:54 PM (/U5Yz)

125 Has anyone suggesting coding?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 04:52 PM (ExV1e)

Coding requires an I.Q. above room temperature.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (0+MvU)

126 And now a secretly recorded conversation behind the scenes at the Harris/Walz Campaign HQ. Let's listen in ...

Tampon Tim: Kami can I take my Balls to the next rally in PA ??

Kami: No Timmy they stay in my lockbox until after the election !!!!

Tampon Tim: Come on Kami.... Trump takes his to all his rallies!!!

Kami: No Timmy.... Trump is a REAL MAN where you are a Wimpy Little Pecker Head Controlled by Me, A Stronger 0.5 Jamaican and 0.5 Indian Woman of Color.

Timmy: Can I Please...Please...Please.

Kami: No Timmy... Now stick that Tampon up your Ass and shut Up !!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (15lwl)

127 9...Good. That's what the easier-to-fire, less-well-paid people you're supposed to serve have been feeling for four damn years.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:42 PM (J2vNu)

Exactly what I thought.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (Rbu5d)

128 Would be a shame if all federal buildings nationwide were burned to the ground on election night.

A very strange win-win ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (uW67Z)

129
Mama Cass choked on an Afrin Sandwich.

Posted by: Ham Sandwich Commission at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (+oR7L)

130 “I have three pensions funded by taxpayers coming in. Why would anyone generate money any other way? Losers.”

-what Walz actually meant.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (7PziG)

131 Please, please, please shitcan the Department of Education while Jimmy Carter is still alive.

Then the EPA. Others?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (YqDXo)
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Considering the video that was released of Carter "voting," it's seriously questionable that he's still alive...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (7fElN)

132 I hope Rob Reiner keeps his promise to set himself on fire if Trump wins.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:56 PM (hWqy9)

133 When we start the mass deportations, there will be labor shortages. The laid-off feds will find work. It may not be as cushy as making Powerpoints at home for zoom meetings with other people "working" at home and may not pay as well, but it'll be honest work.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at October 16, 2024 04:56 PM (r5tfK)

134 Within every department and agency, establish task-forces dedicated to doing something that agency should be doing that recalcitrant employees will absolutely despise. Populate the task force with those government employees who are most resistant to supervision by the new administration. Give those task forces a deadline for a final report of Jan 19, 2029. A few examples:

FBI task force on Antifa, populated by the entire current 7th floor.
DOJ J6 prosecutor’s division task force on riots of summer of 2020
EPA task force on Gold King mine disaster, before, during, and after the event.
NOAA task force on manipulation of government weather data

Expect no results. The will do nothing, spin their wheels, or quit. What they won't be doing is effectively resisting from positions of authority in their agency.

Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 04:56 PM (ECSO8)

135 Between Walz making idiotic statements like this and Kamala demonstrating the intelligence and stability of your average street person, the question becomes has there ever been a dumber major party ticket? Can't think of one off the top of my head

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (YUtTn)

136 Afrin is sort of addictive. It's a mild stimulant. Your sinuses will swell up after awhile without it. But if you stop using it for a freakin' week, it'll go away.

My mom always just said "don't use it more than a couple days."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (awTae)

137 There are smart venture capitalists and venture capitalists who are dumb but had a billion dollars fall into their lap.

Mark Cuban is a venture capitalist.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (D6PGr)

138 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (63Dwl)

139 All the Dems contemplating suicide and civil disobedience will need to be housed somewhere.

I foresee the rebirth of urban terrorism in this country after the D's lose, like in the 1970s with the Weather Underground and others.

It will be like the rampant terrorism in Czarist Russia in the late 19th century - lots of young people from rich families participated, and a significant chunk of liberal Russian society supported the terrorists.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (uxCna)

140 132 I hope Rob Reiner keeps his promise to set himself on fire if Trump wins.

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:56 PM

The grease fire would burn for days, and the flame seen for miles.

Posted by: Frank Barone at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (+oR7L)

141 Isn't that Rule .303?
Posted by: Pudinhead at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (c711F)

The rule names may differ but the goal is the same.

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (RMjVS)

142 "Hello, 911? Yes, I wanted to report that there are now former federal workers eating the ducks in the park. One even fileted my neighbor's cat the other day. We need help with these refugees!" - Call I hope to hear about in six months

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (KbCG3)

143 Apparently Afrin is addictive.
Posted by: Jordan61 at October 16, 2024

***
Is it a decongestant? The name sounds familiar.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024
*
Apparently it's heroin.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024

***
"Afrin chic" will be the next NYC fashion look: Vogue will feature skinny non-feminine models with a spray bottle dangling from one nostril.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (J2vNu)

144
Arthur on King of Queen's nose-spray addiction:

https://tinyurl.com/25bf3av9

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (w6EFb)

145 and Kamala demonstrating the intelligence and stability of your average street person

You'll be hearing from Our Lawyers

Posted by: Average Street Persons Union # 48 at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (IyPmt)

146 14 A 90 percent firing level is not enough. Excluding our military.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:43 PM (/U5Yz)

I say identify all the non-essentials from the last government shutdown. (that was Obama's baby, wasn't it?)

Immediately get rid of them.

The remainder? cut 25%. If they go on 'slow down work' mode, well, if you can't get the work done, I guess you don't need to work here.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (Rbu5d)

147 Put them to work digging the new PanAmerican canal, right along the border wall.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (/U5Yz)

148 Mama Cass choked on an Afrin Sandwich.

Posted by: Ham Sandwich Commission at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (+oR7L)

An Afrin Pygmy once bit my sister.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM (i24o9)

149 Isn't The Shark Tank about venture capitalists?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:59 PM (hWqy9)

150 "EPA’s 'philosophy of enforcement,' said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is 'kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.'

The Romans didn't do that.

The towns in Anatolia were mostly Greek, the Turks were still in Central Asia at the time

And the Romans had a large amount of trouble in Asia Minor due to the Pontic Kingdom that was not easy to put down.

Posted by: 18-1 at October 16, 2024 04:59 PM (oZhjI)

151 I mean, even if I didn't see Silicon Valley, I would guess. that a venture capitalist raises capital to invest into ventures they believe will be profitable in the future.

------------

"It's vulture capitalist -- since all capitalists are vultures, h8r!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 16, 2024 04:59 PM (uW67Z)

152 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (63Dwl)

Neither does the current VP.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (W/lyH)

153 How many Federal employees do we know personally?? I’ve only known a couple of them… local postal workers.. they were okay, just grunts.

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

154 What did Clinton and Obama do to the Dod? Again? Beuller?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (QSrLX)

155 Ronald Reagan's 1981 RIF programs, on steroids.

First, eliminating NGO contracts with the Federal government.

Second, eliminating or severely cutting Federal departments.

Starting with the Department of Education.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (rj6Yv)

156 > Feel better, bro, insomnia is the worse

Pretty good movie though. Robin Williams does a great job as a creepy murderer.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (Odg76)

157 I hope 3/4 of government workers get slashed off the payroll

The most hilarious effect of doing that would be the sudden rash of stories about how companies were hiring illegals instead of citizens.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

158 I read a lot of EPA regulations in my line of work and they are clearly written by academics with only a passing familiarity with reality.

Also, they are poorly written and filled with errors. Then the later get to “interpret” the garbage they wrote to mean new and exciting things no one ever intended. SCOTUS ended this with Chevron, but I don’t think the government workers will abide by it until someone makes it hurt.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (kwCuz)

159 If your nasal congestion is caused by allergies use Asterpro which is now sold OTC. If you need to use a decongestant, only use in one nostril for only a couple of days and then switch to the other nostril if still needed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (D6PGr)

160 Flonase really helps with allergies used once a day.

I have no side effects from it. It seems to help even with a cold. I believe it is a steroid.

I also have good luck with Zyrtec taken before bed.

Both are available in generic form.

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (NtVYv)

161 Ace, have you tried Pure Sleep?

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (w6EFb)

162 153 How many Federal employees do we know personally?? I’ve only known a couple of them… local postal workers.. they were okay, just grunts.
Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

I know a higher up in the IRS.. The most liberal person you will ever see...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (IyPmt)

163 Q: What did the janitor say as he jumped out of the custodial closet?

A: Supplies!
Posted by: Duncanthrax, who just owned TJM at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)

Okay. I laughed.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (g8Ew8)

164 Executive orders:
No Work from home.
Ubiquitous key-stroke surveillance on government computers.
No non-government computers or phones on government networks.
No web-surfing on government devices. Work only.

This should get about 10-15% of the deadheads into Civil Service purgatory, meaning maybe fired by the end of the term.

Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (ECSO8)

165 "EPA’s 'philosophy of enforcement,' said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is 'kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.'

-------------

Wait, your promising crucifixions?

I mean, I was on the fence about Trump before, but not any longer -- thanks, Dude!

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (uW67Z)

166 Has Ace tried cuddling in bed?

Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (hWqy9)

167 The most hilarious effect of doing that would be the sudden rash of stories about how companies were hiring illegals instead of citizens.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024

***
We have that scenario now. Oh, you mean the MSM doesn't cover that fact, but they would once it starts hurting former fed employees? Gotcha.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (J2vNu)

168 As a Federal employee, I want to know where they are finding these employees fearing for their job and putting off buying things - I've yet to meet one. Of course, I work in the field and am as far away from the hellhole that is DC as I can get. My opinion, firing half of these DC based Federal employees would be a good start. All they do is make mu job more difficult.

Posted by: High Plains Deplorable at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (/e9CT)

169 This will just make Elon Musk's tasking easier.

Posted by: An Ordinary Citizen at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (rRscY)

170 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.

They're in charge of the nation's vices, which is why they (allegedly) found Kamalatoe's cocaine baggie in the White House.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (lUFok)

171 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (63Dwl)
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If Futurama is to be believed, they have a secret duty to protect and defend the space-time continuum. It's in the Constitution.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 05:02 PM (7fElN)

172 Isn't The Shark Tank about venture capitalists?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:59 PM (hWqy9)

It's about people searching for venture capitalists and the panel could be considered as such.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:03 PM (D6PGr)

173
I hope Rob Reiner keeps his promise to set himself on fire if Trump wins.

The grease fire would burn for days, and the flame seen for miles.

The eternal flamer.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 05:03 PM (63Dwl)

174 I don't know what criteria I would want more for the person second in line to the Presidency than not knowing what a venture capitalist is.

He's really going all out.

Posted by: Axeman at October 16, 2024 05:03 PM (krQz2)

175 Coding requires an I.Q. above room temperature.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (0+MvU)

See... I'm a software engineer and I've looked over way too many change requests to believe that anymore.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

176 > Mama Cass choked on an Afrin Sandwich.

Fun fact, Cass didn't die of choking on a ham sandwich. Her heart failed due to Cass being a massive fatty.

Maybe everyone's in on the joke, but I had always heard it was the sammy, so I was surprised when I learned this.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (Odg76)

177 Put them to work digging the new PanAmerican canal, right along the border wall.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 04:58 PM

Yes. The Great North American Dignity Canal could use a few hundred thousand Fed workers. I want the IC and FIBs first ones digging.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (WuJwx)

178 Q: What did the janitor say as he jumped out of the custodial closet?

A: Supplies!
Posted by: Duncanthrax, who just owned TJM at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)

Okay. I laughed.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (g8Ew

Hah I'm picturing an Asian janitor.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (D6PGr)

179 Anybody ever tried to fire a civil servant or a union employee? You've got to work around, assign them to rubber rooms. Accept that they will draw a paycheck, but at least stop them from interfering in your agenda.

Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (ECSO8)

180 I've only got so much blood.

Dr. Krieger again.

Posted by: DaveA at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (FhXTo)

181 70...What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (hWqy9)

Evidently he's not smart enough to know that's what he's doing.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (Rbu5d)

182
What's the joke, if Mama Cass had just given Karen Carpenter that ham sandwich, both would still be alive today.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (w6EFb)

183
Trump can start with the Pentagon and get rid of every officer and employee who cannot contribute to the one (1) mission that the armed forces have: the defense of the United States. Anything or anyone hamstringing that mission needs to be gotten rid of, pronto.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (EsZUh)

184 I find DC so repulsive that I would not shed a tear if it was completely dismantled, reduced by 90%, and spread exceedingly thinly across the 50 states…

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (PCK5/)

185 Posted by: Franklin Stein at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (15lwl)

This is obviously complete BS. At no point in your contrive dialog did Harris mention that she was raised in a middle class family OR mention Venn diagrams.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

186 153 How many Federal employees do we know personally?? I’ve only known a couple of them… local postal workers.. they were okay, just grunts.
Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

I know a former CIA employee. She's MAGA and an awesome sister in Christ.

Posted by: PA Dutchman at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (QyT5w)

187 4 That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said.

The first is reasonable, the second is dumb.

Especially if that means they stiffed the contractor who did the work.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2024 04:41 PM (hB7mE)

—————

These are highly paid government employees here. Their “needed repairs” are probably stuff like a new pool or room in their NoVA McMansion.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (Vh9CX)

188 The poor federal workers can always go with the Kamala plan.

Learn how to eat a load>Learn to Code.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (ewjUl)

189 The first targets should be DHS, DOJ, FBI, CIA and The National Archives.

Fire up The Wood Chipper of Rectification Boys.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (XV/Pl)

190 Mama Cass did a lot of drugs. Her house was a known location for having drug fuel parties.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (kwCuz)

191 Oh boy. I'm a software developer. If all those government people learn to code I'll be out of a job!

Bwahahahaha! I crack me up!

Posted by: Kevin Canuck at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (/xmMU)

192 Here's John Doerr's Wikipedia page to get an idea who he is connected. It's a who's who of the Democrat Party and Big Tech and far left causes. He's also one of the richest guys in the world.

If you are looking for a power behind the throne guy Doerr would be one of my top candidates.

https://tinyurl.com/4ep9rk2k

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (LkLld)

193 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

194 Anything effective can fuel addiction.
At my age, I could use the exercise.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (J8LnB)

195 The Regime and its sycophants, including the propaganda organs, are ludicrous at this point although dangerous and toxic. This Politico story is worse than over the top parody. Mitch and the Cuck Gang will try to maintain the status quo, but they likely are grifting like there is no tomorrow and accelerating the looting, too. For whatever reason, and it may be a very bad one, The Regime seems ready to accept results it has not previously approved.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (KSNKu)

196
I know a couple of people who worked for the Feds. My sister was a career IRS agent and my brother worked for the CIA.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (EsZUh)

197 176 > Mama Cass choked on an Afrin Sandwich.

Fun fact, Cass didn't die of choking on a ham sandwich. Her heart failed due to Cass being a massive fatty.

Maybe everyone's in on the joke, but I had always heard it was the sammy, so I was surprised when I learned this.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (Odg76)

Big Ham got to the Mormon kid.

Posted by: Nothing Sadder Than A Child NeoSynephrine Junkie at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (Idisy)

198 190 Mama Cass did a lot of drugs. Her house was a known location for having drug fuel parties.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (kwCuz)

Not meth, obviously, in her case…

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (PCK5/)

199 70...What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (hWqy9)

Evidently he's not smart enough to know that's what he's doing.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM

Well he figured it worked for Biden.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (ewjUl)

200 That couple has put off buying a new car and paying for needed home repairs, that person said. "We're both feeling the heaviness of this right now."

The same busy-bodies who have over-regulated the entire transportation system so that most cars are financially out of reach of many people are whining because they have won't be able to safely buy news cars; the same parasites who regulate the hell out of the housing industry and usher in tens of millions of illegal aliens both causing shortages of housing inventory are worried that they won't be able to remodel and update their DC area homes.

Phuque Ewe! You have always been on the grift simultaneously destroying wealth while trying to accumulate more for yourself at the expense of We The People.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (rHxhM)

201 I recall one colleague in particular, when I worked for the government - the guy lived in Maryland and called himself an "independent", which (in Maryland) is really just a RINO who's ripped the GOP label off because he doesn't want to embarrass himself among his inside-the-beltway friends - and his number one criterion for choosing which candidate to vote for was whether that candidate, as president, might somehow decide to eliminate his snug little government job. The candidate could have been a communist, a cannibal - even an actual Republican - as long as he, or she, posed no threat to his job security.

Posted by: Paco at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (njExo)

202 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (63Dwl)

In charge of supplying booze and hookers. It's in the name.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (ExV1e)

203 Canada will never do this to our civil service.

But, they're jabbed so things'll work out.

Posted by: Stateless at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (jvJvP)

204 Job security is Not democracy.

Posted by: look whats not at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (nakGR)

205 Um Laura sweetie, it's an A400, not an 8400.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (PiwSw)

206 Yup, and the DOJ is trying to keep ineligible voters on the Virginia rolls. That's not related...heh.

Posted by: Orson at October 16, 2024 05:08 PM (dIske)

207 Trump can start with the Pentagon and get rid of every officer and employee who cannot contribute to the one (1) mission that the armed forces have: the defense of the United States. Anything or anyone hamstringing that mission needs to be gotten rid of, pronto.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (EsZUh)

I'm getting a bit tired of the Vindman campaign begging ads.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 05:08 PM (rj6Yv)

208 The Big Thing for these government "servants" is their lavish sinecures and their self-claimed "Importance". All the Entitlements they feel they earned.

Some may work hard, but they will not buck the machine, and by now they are part of The Cabal. Any resistance has been purged and replaced with fellow communists. (maybe there are some holdouts, but not many)

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2024 05:08 PM (Cus5s)

209 Heck, I don't even know what a Vice President does.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 16, 2024 04:57 PM (63Dwl)

In charge of supplying booze and hookers. It's in the name.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:07 PM (ExV1e)
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Uh, the current VP has stolen all the booze and is basically a hooker...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 05:09 PM (7fElN)

210 These are highly paid government employees here. Their “needed repairs” are probably stuff like a new pool or room in their NoVA McMansion.

Nah, I'm sure they're putting in their new swimming pool full of money so they can swim.

You know what a "highly paid" government employee is called in the DC burbs? Middle class.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:09 PM (xCA6C)

211 > Big Ham got to the Mormon kid.

I'm honored to be known this way, though I'd like to be a much better Mormon kid.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:09 PM (Odg76)

212 Mama Cass did a lot of drugs. Her house was a known location for having drug fuel parties.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (kwCuz)

She was in love with John Phillips IIRC who of course didn't feel the same way . Buried her feelings in food and drugs.

Or was it the other male member of the Mamas and Papas ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:10 PM (D6PGr)

213 I want to get one of those Beretta 1301. The new one. I hear good things about them.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at October 16, 2024 05:10 PM (kwCuz)

214
Helicopter View:
Fuck 'em.

Diving Deeper:
Fuck 'em harder.

Why it Matters:
It doesn't. Go fuck yourself.

Posted by: ... at October 16, 2024 05:10 PM (lX8VI)

215 70...What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:49 PM (hWqy9)

Evidently he's not smart enough to know that's what he's doing.
Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM

He's smart enough to tell the world that it's time for a change.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

216 Later and Do not Let the door hit your Fat ass on the way out !!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: D. Trump at October 16, 2024 05:11 PM (/1UO6)

217 I hope Trump and Musk shut down the SLS project.
We might get a literal f^in' Epstein Drive instead
X.com/planefag/status/1846290808603136261
There is zeta pinch fusion coming, which is great at accelerating propellant at ridiculous speed.

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:11 PM (X873N)

218 Oh, so silly! There are protections. The only feds who should panic are those who definitely have something to panic about.

At mid-level to SES, of union &/or management group, most likely those caught in a trap between the very tiptop of their group and having knowledge of vetting or lack thereof, purchasing or lack thereof, illegal hiring, discrimination against vets, "strange" agency analyses & programs, etc. In other words, time and $ as one and the same. Never steal and don't sign anything not absolutely necessary and enforceable, i.e., health, life insurance...

Imagine sitting home for more than a year and being even a mid to upper level manager asked why didn't you appear on the job for that period of time, how your staff was managed, how were responses to FOIAs prepared and where is the log maintained, the accuracy of time and attendance sheets, verifiability & legality of inspections and cases, and so on. 😬

>The most recent significant "Reduction in Force" (RIF) within the federal government occurred as part of the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994 which mandated workforce downsizing across executive branch agencies.

USDOL lost a person, I believe.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:11 PM (NFX2v)

219 Federal Employees Are A-Scared
.......

A-skeered. It's a-askeered. Ask hillbully JD Vance.

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (v0R5T)

220 "They're so vindictive, I can see them going back through E&E News articles and saying, 'You're fired,'" the Interior employee said.

Says the sadistic parasites who masturbate while coming up with destructive and evil schemes, taxes, regulations, lawsuits harassment all while calling us racists, climate deniers, greedy, barbarians....

I would say that they are projecting their vindictiveness, but the government drones do it out of unprovoked hate and contempt for We The People.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (rHxhM)

221 An Interior Department worker is putting off buying a new car and poring over Project 2025.

Am I the only one that hadn't heard of "Project 2025" until these screeching harpies started caterwauling about it like its the Necronomicon?

Posted by: Defenestratus at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (lviej)

222 He's smart enough to tell the world that it's time for a change.
Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 05:10 PM (rj6Yv)

Killed the Czar and his Ministers?

Posted by: Sassy Fred at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (RMjVS)

223 Is this the Afro thread?

Posted by: Zombie Link from Mod Squad at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (mH6SG)

224 The Fed Workforce is like Hollywood. If you lean Right you just keep your opinions to yourself while your Leftist colleagues scream their views from the top of their lungs.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

225 > Uh, the current VP has stolen all the booze

If Kamalala managed to abscond with Pelosi's stash, the entire news media would mysteriously turn against Kamalala.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:13 PM (Odg76)

226 For being demolished, you're doing damn good.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (2ghg9)

227 A friend and I were looking at a map of Alaska for where to relocate these bastards. The idea is it must be over 20 miles from anything remotely like civilization. Let them fight the bears for salmon.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (1bNHn)

228 163 Q: What did the janitor say as he jumped out of the custodial closet?

A: Supplies!
Posted by: Duncanthrax, who just owned TJM at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (a3Q+t)

Okay. I laughed.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (g8Ew

You die Joe!

Posted by: Cato in the refrigerator at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (PiwSw)

229 Drugs killed Mama Cass and Chris Farley, and that worthless jerkoff Al Jourgenson still shares my oxygen. Ugh.

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (X873N)

230 How many Federal employees do we know personally?? I’ve only known a couple of them… local postal workers.. they were okay, just grunts.

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

I'm a former Federal employee. Supervisory GS-14 in a law enforcement agency.

I got fired for refusing to target a particular group and for refusing to order my subordinates to target that group.

Conservatives have been getting cut out of the government for years. It's about time that pendulum swung back.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (FAbrK)

231 175 Coding requires an I.Q. above room temperature.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (0+MvU)

See... I'm a software engineer and I've looked over way too many change requests to believe that anymore.

got ya covered.

Posted by: copilot at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (sGtp+)

232 >> What is the advantage to Walz admitting he's he's dimwitted?
——-
He is trying to make Kamala look smart, a nearly impossible task

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (AFudc)

233
Epstein drive, unlike a lot of Star Trek handwaving techno babble, is actually possible with known physics. It's just the engineering is well beyond anything currently.

But a boy can dream. 1g sustained thrust. Earth to Mars in 2 days. Jupiter in 5. Pluto in 15. (and Moon in 2 hours).

Couldn't get off the earth with such. One would vaporize the launch pad and everything around it. Not to mention all the lethal radiation flux.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

234 175 Coding requires an I.Q. above room temperature.
Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 04:55 PM (0+MvU)

See... I'm a software engineer and I've looked over way too many change requests to believe that anymore.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:03 PM (ExV1e)

Good point.

At this point is there a single industry where competence is required?

Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (0+MvU)

235 For Sale......

One pair of brand new, unused pair of balls............

Will accept offers............. Ask for Timmy....

Posted by: E-Bay at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (/1UO6)

236 Fed Gov employs about 4.5m people. They're the largest employer in the country, sadly.

About half of that is military. A lot of them could stand to find other work, but let's assume every one of them is vital and must retain his position.

That leaves 2.25m civilian FedGov employees. I'd argue that all of those could be hurled into enormous pits full of rape dogs, and the nation would be better for it.

But let's be very generous and assume 25% of those serve some barely discernible fuckin' purpose. That leaves Kamala Harris + 1,685,999 people.

Normally, losing about half a percent of your population would be a world historical tragedy... Except in this case.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (awTae)

237 There is zeta pinch fusion coming, which is great at accelerating propellant at ridiculous speed.

Will the zeta pinch the large Hardon Collider?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (dkPQq)

238 As noted, the Democrat women are the one's who demand these rites of cosplay from their politicians.

But also, the "stupid man can't do nuthin' right" so prevalent on TV?
Also Democrat woman.

They don't know any real men in their lives.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (rNE21)

239 The people who should fear Trump are diversity/equity departments in corpos. But they'll probably find some related grift.

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (X873N)

240 He has even promised to abolish entire government agencies that do not sufficiently bend themselves to his whims," Connolly said.
_______
I am now getting hard as a rock. The Mrs has a busy night ahead.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (1bNHn)

241
Epstein Drive (this was 100 year history in the time of the series) clip:

https://tinyurl.com/27qx9sex

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (w6EFb)

242 L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too

has it right. Pipe dream to think these Federal Civil Servants are getting RIF'd or fired. Task forces, rubber rooms, contain their damage.

Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (ECSO8)

243 I know a higher up in the IRS.. The most liberal person you will ever see...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 16, 2024 05:01 PM (IyPmt)

-------

Old college friend -- who was very libertarian-conservative (anti-Comminist Latvian) back then like me -- went full lefty loon after getting hired as an IRS corporate auditor.

Posted by: ShainS -- Assassination is The Ultimate Form of Censorship at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (HSgjL)

244 African aspirin?

Posted by: look whats not at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (nakGR)

245 Am I the only one that hadn't heard of "Project 2025" until these screeching harpies started caterwauling about it like its the Necronomicon?
Posted by: Defenestratus at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (lviej)

I know which one he's looking at. I've posted this previously, whenever this comes up but it gives context to know why the Left freaks out about it so much - there are TWO Project 2025'. The first was done by the Heritage foundation and contains the kinds of things we talk about here every day. The second one was written by Marc Elias this summer and put up on a website of his, and it contains things like "use federal troops to shoot unarmed peaceful protestors". So guess which one the MSM and everyone else quotes from every damn time.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (wyMQY)

246 If they thought Trump was tough, wait until they see what Elon Musk will do to them.

Posted by: Eternity Matters at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (8GIFn)

247 Normally, losing about half a percent of your population would be a world historical tragedy... Except in this case.

GASSSSS THEM

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (dkPQq)

248 A friend and I were looking at a map of Alaska for where to relocate these bastards. The idea is it must be over 20 miles from anything remotely like civilization. Let them fight the bears for salmon.
Posted by: Eeyore at October 16, 2024 05:14 PM (1bNHn)

In "Rainbow Six", Tom Clancy dropped the disarmed baddies in their birthday suits deep in the Amazon rainforest.

Posted by: mrp at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (rj6Yv)

249 Ah, YD… I did not include the military… they’ve run the gamut, as human beings… some stellar, some loathesome…

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (PCK5/)

250 But a boy can dream. 1g sustained thrust. Earth to Mars in 2 days. Jupiter in 5. Pluto in 15. (and Moon in 2 hours).

Couldn't get off the earth with such. One would vaporize the launch pad and everything around it. Not to mention all the lethal radiation flux.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (w6EFb)

3 million mph ?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (D6PGr)

251 183
Trump can start with the Pentagon and get rid of every officer and employee who cannot contribute to the one (1) mission that the armed forces have: the defense of the United States. Anything or anyone hamstringing that mission needs to be gotten rid of, pronto.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at October 16, 2024 05:05 PM (EsZUh)

I read somewhere (here?) that Mark Milley is afraid DJT will have him courtmartialed.

Oh please oh please oh please

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:17 PM (Rbu5d)

252 Oh, they are worried about their phony baloney jobs?

Good!

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ufFY8)

253 Anybody ever tried to fire a civil servant or a union employee? You've got to work around, assign them to rubber rooms. Accept that they will draw a paycheck, but at least stop them from interfering in your agenda.
Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 05:04 PM (ECSO

Simple. You eliminate their job. It's hard to fire them and replace them with someone else, it's a tiny bit simpler to eliminate the position of Second Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

254 I read somewhere (here?) that Mark Milley is afraid DJT will have him courtmartialed.

Oh please oh please oh please

He's retired.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (xCA6C)

255 USPS Informed Delivery system has been down for six weeks now. Six. Weeks.
This service is currently unavailable.
This service is currently unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience this might cause.

Go To USPS.com

Fire all of them.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at October 16, 2024 05:19 PM (/U5Yz)

256 We need to do what Milei’s been doing in Argentina:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lessons-from-milei/

Posted by: Whoopdy Do at October 16, 2024 05:19 PM (ZPagi)

257 He's retired.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (xCA6C)

He can be recalled to active service.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at October 16, 2024 05:19 PM (FAbrK)

258 " Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected"

Let me know when they're fleeing the country and seeking asylum elsewhere. That's the sweet spot.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (pIfcn)

259 I think Mama Cass was hot for Denny Doherty but he ignored it . So Mama did drugs and ate . Sometimes at the same time. Until she didn't

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (YUtTn)

260 He's retired.

Posted by: Archimedes

He can be recalled to service. Plus treason is a federal crime.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (HbvSG)

261 193 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Newest Trump Resort, just outside of Lincoln!

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (Rbu5d)

262 224 The Fed Workforce is like Hollywood. If you lean Right you just keep your opinions to yourself while your Leftist colleagues scream their views from the top of their lungs.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

100% true.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (exHjb)

263 Simple. You eliminate their job. It's hard to fire them and replace them with someone else, it's a tiny bit simpler to eliminate the position of Second Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ExV1e)
--
Universities do this all the time to get rid of someone troublesome. They don't fire senior administrators. They just remove the department, which then cuts that administrative job as a side effect. Even if that person has tenure.

Of course, that also eliminates the subordinates, who might be doing amazing work--they just have terrible leadership that needs to go.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (7fElN)

264 Speaking with Tucker Carlson, political journalist Mark Halperin believes if Donald Trump wins back the presidency in three weeks, it will “cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”

Near the end of their two-hour discussion (which is well worth listening to), Carlson says, “Let’s say Trump wins three weeks from today. What happens? … As you said, a lot of Democrats believe that Trump becoming president is the worst thing that could ever happen.”

“I say this not flippantly,” Halperin explains before adding: ”I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”

Posted by: SMOD at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (AFudc)

265 I'll give you such a Z-Pinch!

Posted by: Professor Besser at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (63Dwl)

266 Simple. You eliminate their job. It's hard to fire them and replace them with someone else, it's a tiny bit simpler to eliminate the position of Second Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

Score one for Romney's vulture capitalism.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (i24o9)

267 >> 3 million mph ?

What a fusion rocket with Epstein Drive capability would be, roughly:

Exhaust velocity, ~ 6 - 10% c, and a specific impulse (using the thrust per mass flow in lbs/s) of a few million seconds (best chemical rockets are a few hundred seconds).

Power output (kinetic energy generation) 10s of terrawatts.

But very little reaction mass consumption. You're throwing particles out the ass end at 10% the speed of light.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

268 our larger corporations get into some shady shit to evade US taxes. If I worked for the IRS I would probably turn Leninist in a few weeks.
Unfortunately I suspect the IRS teases new employees with what (say) Pfizer do, and set them loose on Herb's Auto Parts in Bungholio, Pennsylvania.

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (X873N)

269 Someone needs to ask Elizabeth Warren to define what a Squaw is?

Howie Carr Chump Line

Posted by: Mister Ghost at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (TGPs7)

270 We need to do what Milei’s been doing in Argentina:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/lessons-from-milei/
Posted by: Whoopdy Do at October 16, 2024 05:19 PM (ZPagi)

And Bukele in El Salvador.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (D6PGr)

271 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 05:15 PM (awTae)

Total Fed, State, and Local Government Civilian employees?

23 Million.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (QAkQ3)

272 193 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

Posted by: Glitch McConnell at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (/U5Yz)

273 265 I'll give you such a Z-Pinch!
Posted by: Professor Besser at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (63Dwl)

The Forgotten Stooge.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (PiwSw)

274
Side benefit of continuous thrust trajectories is nice, linear acceleration artificial gravity.

Humans can only take 1g for any length of time, but you could get cargo even faster, which could take higher constant g's.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:22 PM (w6EFb)

275 Call it the Jeffrey Epstein Drive, just for fun…

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:22 PM (PCK5/)

276 There will be thousands and thousands just waiting to rat the higher echelon, and any co-workers who screwed them in the past, out.

When O & Joe came in, O had a no leaking policy that was firmly enforced. FOIAs were not responded to in a timely manner, and certain whistleblower protections in the executive branch agencies, IIRC for contractors, only appeared & went into effect at the end of their 2nd administration, ready & waiting for when Trump began his 1st.

Remember a "Trump whistleblower" or two? Remember the Biden WH firing the two employees caught using pot?

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (NFX2v)

277 She was in love with John Phillips IIRC who of course didn't feel the same way . Buried her feelings in food and drugs.

He was concentrating on his family at the time. Mostly his daughter, Mackenzie.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (lUFok)

278 He can be recalled to active service.

You could bring him back, just to court-martial him? Consider me skeptical.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

279 272 193 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Posted by: Glitch McConnell at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (/U5Yz)

Why Nebraska? Florida and Mar-A-Lago is the perfect spot...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)

280 Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

Epstein Drive... did they name it that because Epstein proved Space Warps must exist, because of the total disappearing act of his Files?

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (QAkQ3)

281 What I don't understand is why they are so afraid of Bernie. They could steal for him, too. And let's not pretend he's pure and committed to the cause.

Posted by: Eeyore at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (1bNHn)

282 But very little reaction mass consumption. You're throwing particles out the ass end at 10% the speed of light.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

10% would be 67 million mph. Yes that would vaporize just about anything.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (D6PGr)

283 Doesn't Milley still appear in cosplay in uniform? If he wears the uniform he should still be under USMJ.
Smart military blog, help me out here

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (X873N)

284 I'd like all the employees locked out and publish every email and all files to the internet.

Really show the world what these bastards are like.

Posted by: Stateless at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (jvJvP)

285 and set them loose on Herb's Auto Parts in Bungholio, Pennsylvania.
Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (X873N)

I think it's time I visited this town. In an official capacity, of course.

Posted by: Pete Buttigieg at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (PiwSw)

286 A significant portion of federal workers during covid WFH bought house in the south and yet were still receiving a stipend for DC locale cost rates.

That's really what they're afraid of. Come back to the office mandate. And here I thought they liked mandates.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (JkCto)

287 has it right. Pipe dream to think these Federal Civil Servants are getting RIF'd or fired. Task forces, rubber rooms, contain their damage.
Posted by: Candidus at October 16, 2024 05:16 PM (ECSO

Milei has recently reported that the Peronists in the last 50 years have been raping the economy for their own benefit and to pay off their friends.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (D7oie)

288 282 But very little reaction mass consumption. You're throwing particles out the ass end at 10% the speed of light.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:20 PM (w6EFb)

10% would be 67 million mph. Yes that would vaporize just about anything.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (D6PGr)

Launch pad in DC…

Posted by: tubal at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (PCK5/)

289 Mama Cass had a fairly good-sized nose. Are we sure it wasn't the Afrin that killed her?

Posted by: The Death Spray at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (nS6qG)

290 F em. My firm had layoffs this year and last year. 10% get me in less than 12 months. Hell one girl on my team was a new mom maternity leave...dept eliminated she got paid until the end of her leave.... tough shiat feds.

Posted by: Mishdog at October 16, 2024 05:25 PM (MIg38)

291 254 I read somewhere (here?) that Mark Milley is afraid DJT will have him courtmartialed.

Oh please oh please oh please

He's retired.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (xCA6C)

Well... he did admit to not only NOT following Lawful orders, but pretty much admitted to Treason as well.

Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 05:25 PM (QAkQ3)

292 If they can't be fired then change their job descriptions. You could go for the traditional put them in a windowless room with no communication devices and they quit of lack of pron and boredom. I'd assign them to capturing and Polar bears naked.

Posted by: Beartooth at October 16, 2024 05:26 PM (WuJwx)

293 "Biden announces $425 million security aid package for Ukraine"

FEMA is out of money but money for Ukraine?

Posted by: m at October 16, 2024 05:27 PM (/U5Yz)

294 **should be 10% gone....not get me. Stupid thumbs

Posted by: Mishdog at October 16, 2024 05:27 PM (MIg38)

295 Well... he did admit to not only NOT following Lawful orders, but pretty much admitted to Treason as well.
Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 05:25 PM (QAkQ3)

What he did was infinitely worse than what any of the J6 trespassers did.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:27 PM (D6PGr)

296 Trump will bring Milley and Vindmann back to active duty, have them court-martialed and sent to Gitmo.

Posted by: Just Desserts at October 16, 2024 05:27 PM (nS6qG)

297 I'd assign them to capturing and Polar bears naked.
Posted by: Beartooth at October 16, 2024 05:26 PM (WuJwx)

Is ANYONE here for the hunting? Anyone?

Posted by: The polar bear at October 16, 2024 05:27 PM (X873N)

298 "Federal employees are rightly concerned about what a second Trump presidency will mean for them and, by extension, for the American people they so dutifully serve," Connolly said.

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If they served the American people then why are they so afraid of them and their votes?

Posted by: Decaf at October 16, 2024 05:28 PM (unUNN)

299 Xlear Max is effective and not habit forming.

After Musk fired the ones identified as poor coders, he let the employees know it was going to be long hours at the office. They could stay or let him know they wanted out. If they left, they got three months severance.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at October 16, 2024 05:28 PM (gfViB)

300 You're taking Afrin for too long, Ace. And right, it's a stimulant. Don't take it at night. Take Benadryl. It dries you up and will also knock you out for sleep... Sudafed (or Afrin) for the day, but shouldn't take either more than 3-4 days... I also do well with Neti pots... Wife's an ER doc and fixed my bad habits... Feel better

Posted by: bearski at October 16, 2024 05:28 PM (Bhsk7)

301 Mama Cass

It's a ham sandwich not an asthma inhaler.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 05:28 PM (dkPQq)

302 KamalaHQ tried to make a gotcha point by posting two side by side news screenshots, with their own comment, "Oh." Her own side is savaging her in the comments.

The first is from CBS News saying, "Trump campaign has spent millions on anti-trans ads"

The second from NYTimes saying, "Under Trump, U.S. Prisons Offered Gender-Affirming Care"

http://tiny.cc/evqqzz

Example comment: "can you not give into GOP framing on trans issues bc it is just blatantly wrong and transphobic...

we expect BETTER from YALL"

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (Odg76)

303 I just to happen to have some sub atomic particles on me.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (J8LnB)

304 Trump Schedule F for removing bureaucrats. He's done it once he can do it again.

This was one of the very first things Biden overturned after being sworn in and it's why government unions are lining up behind Harris.

https://tinyurl.com/4mhtdcsf

Posted by: JackStraw at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (LkLld)

305 Afrin is sort of addictive. It's a mild stimulant. Your sinuses will swell up after awhile without it. But if you stop using it for a freakin' week, it'll go away.

My mom always just said "don't use it more than a couple days

Your mom said that because she read it on the actual product label. I don't think it's "addictive" in the usual medical sense but it's certainly habit-forming. You squirt it up your nose and suddenly you can breathe again and it's awesome. And then it wears off and you can't breathe and it sucks. Rinse, repeat, etc and each cycle gets shorter. And supposedly causes some kind of tissue damage over time.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (/y8xj)

306 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.

Posted by: Dr Spank at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (ANH3w)

307 Trump and his allies, some of whom are still fuming over feds' pushback during his first administration,

----------------

There you go, they know they did wrong. How would this go if they tried it in a leftie corporation?

Posted by: Decaf at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (unUNN)

308 It never stops:

Inside the Russian plot to create ‘controlled chaos’ and disrupt the US ahead of the presidential election

@NYP

Posted by: Don Black reminds you to never travel to Tijuana at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (/7KEl)

309 Another response to KamalaHQ from a lefty, "You do not get to implicitly attack offering gender affirming care"

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (Odg76)

310 “I say this not flippantly,” Halperin explains before adding: ”I think it will be the cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”
Posted by: SMOD

Yeah, you should check out this smart military blog called Ace Of Spades who just posted that an hour ago.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (IG4Id)

311 I just to happen to have some sub atomic particles on me.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM

Can I borrow a cup? Like fucks to give for fed employees. I am fresh out.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (ewjUl)

312 254...He's retired.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (xCA6C)

Yes. Recall him to duty.

Posted by: Question Authority bumper sticker at October 16, 2024 05:30 PM (Rbu5d)

313 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Find the single most red county in the country and run it from there. Any time a "journalist" gets snotty, charge them with insurrection and try them in the new capital.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:31 PM (ExV1e)

314 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.

They're all drama queens because it makes them feel important. I really doubt he's worried.

Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:31 PM (xCA6C)

315 So, EPA employees are assaulting each other instead of harassing citizens? Well, that's a damn shame.

Posted by: nerdygirl at October 16, 2024 05:31 PM (0Htd1)

316 Well... he did admit to not only NOT following Lawful orders, but pretty much admitted to Treason as well.

He skirted that issue.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at October 16, 2024 05:31 PM (dkPQq)

317 I just to happen to have some sub atomic particles on me.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 05:29 PM (J8LnB)

Is this just a random quark, or is it something bigger?

Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2024 05:31 PM (D7oie)

318 LEARN TO CODE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Franklin Stein at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (Mig/N)

319 Posted by: Romeo13 at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (QAkQ3)

I'm just counting FedGov. They (outside of the military, and often inside it) are the very most useless eaters. Then state employees, then local.

Think about it: the local building inspector is a pain in the ass when he red flags your septic system, and you hate him for that, because of the horrible fines. But he did make sure it was up to code when you bought it in the first place.

But the Federal guy? All he does is take your money and use it to cut your kid's dick off.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (awTae)

320 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.
Posted by: Dr Spank

Draft him and Walz and bust them both to Pvt.
They should be real popular in their unit.

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (X873N)

321 Even if PDTS recalled Milley to AD, Millley wouldn't report.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (3Ope8)

322 Am I allowed to say "Cry harder" to these whiny babies?

Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, Texas - Ace of Spades Ladies' Brigade plucky comic relief at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (SRRAx)

323 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.

So are we.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (ewjUl)

324 The Fed Workforce is like Hollywood. If you lean Right you just keep your opinions to yourself while your Leftist colleagues scream their views from the top of their lungs.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

Except that also means allowing the government to fuck over conservatives while doing nothing so as to protect your pension.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:33 PM (ExV1e)

325 Draft him and Walz and bust them both to Pvt.
They should be real popular in their unit.
Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (X873N)

send them both to be forward observers in the Ukraine. In January.

Posted by: Tom Servo at October 16, 2024 05:33 PM (wyMQY)

326 Trump "has pledged to fire or relocate more than 100,000 federal employees who live and work in the D.C. region.

-----------------

Relocate? The hyperventilation is amusing. Why are little towns in Ohio OK for Haitians and illegals but totally unacceptable for these delicate flowers? I bet they wouldn't have any problems being relocated to Hollywood or Paris.

Posted by: Decaf at October 16, 2024 05:33 PM (unUNN)

327 88 Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?
Posted by: Northernlurker , wondering where his phone is at October 16, 2024 04:51 PM (hWqy9)

Can I get me a gun license here?

Posted by: John Kerry at October 16, 2024 05:34 PM (oAKMq)

328 Let them hate, so long as they fear.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at October 16, 2024 05:35 PM (hacCH)

329 You could bring him back, just to court-martial him? Consider me skeptical.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

One of the benefits of having a commission, I believe.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:35 PM (ExV1e)

330 Draft him and Walz and bust them both to Pvt.
They should be real popular in their unit.
Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:32 PM (X873N)

send them both to be forward observers in the Ukraine. In January.
Posted by: Tom Servo at October 16, 2024 05:33 PM

Don't forget Lt. Bearclaw! He love him some Ukes! And the graft. Mostly the graft. Miley and Walz can slice him open like a Ton-ton and stay warm.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:35 PM (ewjUl)

331 Simple. You eliminate their job. It's hard to fire them and replace them with someone else, it's a tiny bit simpler to eliminate the position of Second Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

How dare you belittle the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom. They work tirelessly every day to be the best non-essential worker in the government.

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 16, 2024 05:36 PM (g8Ew8)

332 Lincoln Project has thoughts (not thots)
X.com/tomselliott/status/1846310895401517292#m

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:36 PM (X873N)

333 I know several fedgov “workers”. All below average intelligence and lazy.

Posted by: Settled Science at October 16, 2024 05:36 PM (vA12x)

334 Climate, clean energy and conservation programs scaled up and burnished with cash during the Biden administration...
-----
You know. Money laundering.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at October 16, 2024 05:37 PM (hovnC)

335 >>Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?

Obama, missing his 11th Free Throw in a row.

Posted by: garrett at October 16, 2024 05:37 PM (w89Af)

336 Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?

Obama, missing his 11th Free Throw in a row.
Posted by: garrett at October 16, 2024 05:37 PM

Or on his bike replete with ghey helmet and mom jeans.

Posted by: Minnfidel at October 16, 2024 05:37 PM (ewjUl)

337 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 05:06 PM (Dm8we)

Find the single most red county in the country and run it from there. Any time a "journalist" gets snotty, charge them with insurrection and try them in the new capital.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
_________

Trump in Harlan, Ky.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at October 16, 2024 05:38 PM (Dm8we)

338 I've had bad insomnia for five nights straight.
.......

So have I. But it may have been the 25 stitches I got last Friday having two skin cancers removed from the top of my head.

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2024 05:38 PM (v0R5T)

339 Doesn't Milley still appear in cosplay in uniform? If he wears the uniform he should still be under USMJ.
Smart military blog, help me out here
Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (X873N)

You are entitled to wear the uniform, along with any awards earned, provided that you do not represent yourself as still being active and, I believe, that you're still not "technically" permitted to do any of the things that you weren't permitted to do when you were active - like campaign for someone (although Democrats would never be charged).

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:38 PM (ExV1e)

340
Literally, firing literal Federal employees will literally destroy our democracy, literally.

Posted by: Auspex at October 16, 2024 05:38 PM (j4U/Z)

341 WTH, ow! Prayers up

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:39 PM (X873N)

342 Mexico. Guadalajara and Coahuila are nice and warm.

Guadalajara won't do.

Posted by: Steely Dan at October 16, 2024 05:39 PM (yOPBE)

343 If you can land Airforce1 there you can run the gov. Easy peasy.

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 16, 2024 05:39 PM (Z8Yh2)

344 Milei has recently reported that the Peronists in the last 50 years have been raping the economy for their own benefit and to pay off their friends.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 16, 2024 05:24 PM (D7oie)

The same can be said for every high level government person in every country on Earth.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:39 PM (ExV1e)

345 I don't get it - do these government workers not recognize they have 100% done this to themselves? each act of overreach, each time they made rules that harmed normal people. Each time they put their own ideals and designs ahead of what is best for the American people.

THEY. SERVE. US.

About time they realized that.

Posted by: El Mariachi at October 16, 2024 05:39 PM (nLFEI)

346 anyone besides me remember barky talking about shooting with a picture of him not knowing how to hold a shotgun

https://reason.com/wp-content/ uploads/2016/01/14526619342018.jpg

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (CWTWj)

347 Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected
......

But...but... pooping in the hallways and surfing the web for kiddie porn is essential work!

Posted by: wth at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (v0R5T)

348 The Fed Workforce is like Hollywood. If you lean Right you just keep your opinions to yourself while your Leftist colleagues scream their views from the top of their lungs.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:12 PM (D6PGr)

Except that also means allowing the government to fuck over conservatives while doing nothing so as to protect your pension.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:33 PM (ExV1e)

Yeah like I said. Just like Hollywood.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (D6PGr)

349 323 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.

He should be.
If I were doing a 15-6 Preliminary Investigation into what he has said, I could make a very good case for violation of several Articles under UCMJ.
Conduct Unbecoming
Uttering contemptuous words and phrases
Disrespecting a senior officer, to wit, the Commander in Chief.

Posted by: Diogenes at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (W/lyH)

350 Thought that was public school teachers.

A lot of the managerial class of federal employee/union mahoff groups live outside of their assigned "region' and still receive locality pay for area to which they're specifically assigned/ attached for payroll purposes.

Example, Region 9, USDOL-OSHA: *Alaska, American Samoa, *Arizona, *California, Guam, *Hawaii, Idaho, *Nevada, Northern Mariana Islands, *Oregon, *Washington. San Francisco is the Regional Office.

*OSHA-approved State Plans.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (NFX2v)

351 "EPA’s 'philosophy of enforcement,' said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is 'kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.'
__________________

Exactly my philosophy of how to deal with the EPA.

Starting with young Armendariz. (WTH kind of name is that, anyway?)

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 05:41 PM (YqDXo)

352 Handles his gun better than that FUPA with the SS

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 16, 2024 05:41 PM (wBaIH)

353 No queer quarks.
Strange quarks ok but no entanglement.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at October 16, 2024 05:41 PM (J8LnB)

354 >>anyone besides me remember barky talking about shooting with a picture of him not knowing how to hold a shotgun

He didn't mean 'shooting skeet'.

He meant, catching it.

...on his chin.

Posted by: garrett at October 16, 2024 05:42 PM (w89Af)

355 336 Has anyone, anywhere ever looked stupider in red flannel than Tim Walz?

That pajama soyboy schilling for Obamacare or whatever. So Walz only gets honorable mention, like the fucking loser he is.

Posted by: Nothing Sadder Than A Child NeoSynephrine Junkie at October 16, 2024 05:42 PM (zUe/H)

356
A two day color tour of coastal Lake Michigan communities from Harbor Springs down though Traverse City to Frankfort showed us a massive number of Harris yard signs up as opposed to Trump, like 3 to 1.

The advantage was most pronounced in the richest neighborhoods. The parties have flipped identities.

Posted by: Auspex at October 16, 2024 05:43 PM (j4U/Z)

357 bureaucrats at places like the epa never run out of work because they just keep raising the goals. we eliminated 99 percent of pollution? that's what you think

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2024 05:43 PM (CWTWj)

358 Where all the white runny noses at?

Posted by: Afrin American at October 16, 2024 05:43 PM (vcOmj)

359 I dedicate TSOL, Nothing For You to our poor poor feds

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (X873N)

360 358-nice one

Posted by: Tech Sgt. Chen at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (Z8Yh2)

361 279 272 193 If he wins, Trump himself should set up shop somewhere other than DC. Run the presidency from Nebraska.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
Posted by: Glitch McConnell at October 16, 2024 05:21 PM (/U5Yz)

Why Nebraska? Florida and Mar-A-Lago is the perfect spot...
Posted by: Nova Local at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM (exHjb)

Put DeSantis in charge of security.

Posted by: Roy at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (z+ik4)

362 So have I. But it may have been the 25 stitches I got last Friday having two skin cancers removed from the top of my head.
Posted by: wth

Doc should have pulled all the skin up and tied it in a knot on top of your head. Awesome face-lift a bonus!

Posted by: 10 Years Younger at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (nS6qG)

363 Under the Angzarr administration, Washington D.C would be completely depopulated. No one would be allowed to live within the limits. All workers would have to be residents of a neighboring state. This would not be a problem with regards to traffic, as the workforce would be reduced by 99%.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (XMwZJ)

364 Milley himself has stated he's afraid he'll be recalled to service.

They're all drama queens because it makes them feel important. I really doubt he's worried.
Posted by: Archimedes

Well, he's some kind of queen, that's for sure.

Posted by: Dr. Peter Venkman at October 16, 2024 05:45 PM (vcOmj)

365 Taken care of. The federal 'pension system' changed years ago. Yeah, if in before the change, could remain within the pension system - which turned out to be not as lucrative as the newer program.

"Congress created the Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) in 1986, and it became effective on January 1, 1987. Since that time, new Federal civilian employees who have retirement coverage are covered by FERS.

FERS is a retirement plan that provides benefits from three different sources: a Basic Benefit Plan, Social Security and the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Two of the three parts of FERS (Social Security and the TSP) can go with you to your next job if you leave the Federal Government before retirement. (much more) "

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:45 PM (NFX2v)

366 I saw TSOL open for The Offspring at The House of Blues in Las Vegas back in 2003!

Posted by: garrett at October 16, 2024 05:45 PM (w89Af)

367 re 356: as per lenin: the capitalists will fight to hire the cheap labor we will use to kill them with

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2024 05:45 PM (CWTWj)

368 “ Politico: Federal Employees Are A-Scared of Being Fired if Trump is Re-Elected”

AMF, douchebags. You chose, poorly.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 16, 2024 05:45 PM (Nhvp0)

369 362 So have I. But it may have been the 25 stitches I got last Friday having two skin cancers removed from the top of my head.
Posted by: wth

Doc should have pulled all the skin up and tied it in a knot on top of your head. Awesome face-lift a bonus!
Posted by: 10 Years Younger at October 16, 2024 05:44 PM (nS6qG)

After it heals, you can have the local mohel remove the knot.

Posted by: Roy at October 16, 2024 05:46 PM (z+ik4)

370 Your mom said that because she read it on the actual product label. I don't think it's "addictive" in the usual medical sense but it's certainly habit-forming...

Posted by: Oddbob at October

This sounds correct. My mom always had the sense we boys we didn't. Stuff like "reading product labels" and that kinda crap.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 05:46 PM (awTae)

371 "USPS Informed Delivery system has been down for six weeks now. Six. Weeks.
This service is currently unavailable."

I went to the main page, and logged in from there this morning, it worked. The regular link from the email they send did not work. 401 or some such code.

Or maybe it is a regional thing, idk.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 16, 2024 05:46 PM (Cus5s)

372 "I don't even know what a Venture Capitalist does!"

So now we know. The meme with pictures of Obama, Biden, Harris, and Walz with the first three all saying "I need to pick a VP dumber than me," is true.

Posted by: reason at October 16, 2024 05:46 PM (Td4RB)

373 Lol this punk station. Dead Kennedys "MTV Get Off The Air" up now

Posted by: gKWVE afield at October 16, 2024 05:47 PM (X873N)

374 Obama riding the bike wearing his mom’s high water jeans and goofy bike helmet, bowling an 89, throwing out one of the top three worst first pictures, doing a lay up like a gay guy who never touched a basketball and doing curls with the 8lb dumbbells.

And yet the MSM framed him as the greatest Presidential athlete in our time.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at October 16, 2024 05:47 PM (D6PGr)

375 Continuous 1-gee thrust (9.8 m/s^2 or 32.2 ft/s^2) would not only be quite comfortable, but would obviate things like Hohmann transfer orbits with their long travel times and delays waiting for the planets to “line up” for the transfer. You could go anywhere in the solar system in a matter of days. It’s a technology something like the “torch ships” Heinlein used in some of his juveniles (before it was replaced with FTL drives derived from the physics of instantaneous telepathy - don’t ask me - Heinlein never explained it - read Time for the Stars).

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at October 16, 2024 05:48 PM (ZVgZ4)

376 Off topic but if any of you wouldn't mind praying for my Stepdad, I'd appreciate it.

He went to the hospital yesterday, with arm and chest pain, and slightly elevated levels of whatever blood chemical that signals "You're having heart problems!" which shot up over night (he was feeling fine despite that), and they're doing an angiogram on him now and maybe having stents put in, I don't know.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at October 16, 2024 05:48 PM (hB7mE)

377 264 Speaking with Tucker Carlson, political journalist Mark Halperin believes if Donald Trump wins back the presidency in three weeks, it will “cause of the greatest mental health crisis in the history of the country.”
**
Either that or an actual insurrection. Or both.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 16, 2024 05:48 PM (E4hRh)

378 anyone besides me remember barky talking about shooting with a picture of him not knowing how to hold a shotgun

https://reason.com/wp-content/ uploads/2016/01/14526619342018.jpg
Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2024 05:40 PM (CWTWj)

He probably had a good cry after that

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at October 16, 2024 05:48 PM (NtVYv)

379 Your mom said that because she read it on the actual product label. I don't think it's "addictive" in the usual medical sense but it's certainly habit-forming...

Posted by: Oddbob at October

This sounds correct. My mom always had the sense we boys we didn't. Stuff like "reading product labels" and that kinda crap.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice

LEAVE MEDICINE TO MEDICAL MEN!!

Posted by: Dr. Leonard McCoy at October 16, 2024 05:48 PM (vcOmj)

380 Look, you hired a bald tans gender LBGTQ activist asshole who steals luggage to be the Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the Office of Nuclear Energy.

Every single person who signed off on that decision should be shitcanned. Were they? Nope?

What the fuck did they think would happen when we found out? For every asshole like that, there are 10 worse assholes flying under the radar. We know it, and they know it.

Time for some hard choices.

Again, the federal government employees have, over and over, abused their positions and our trust. There is a very long list of people who have no business in any position of power, lurking the halls of the government. It is going to be very tough weeding them out. But it has to be done.

Again, it is their own selfishness and ineptitude that brought us to this moment.

Posted by: El Mariachi at October 16, 2024 05:49 PM (nLFEI)

381 USPS Informed Delivery system has been down for six weeks now
I get it every day.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 16, 2024 05:50 PM (XMwZJ)

382 After saying nothing for four years about the babbling senility of Biden, the media is cranking up the narrative that Trump is too old and has high cholesterol.

Posted by: Ordinary American at October 16, 2024 05:50 PM (E4hRh)

383 Nood thread.

Posted by: Flyguy at October 16, 2024 05:51 PM (HA1lM)

384 The "Chief Strategist" for Mitt Romney's 2012 campaign says Republicans will violently disrupt counting centers where high percentages of black voters vote, possibly even burning some down.

http://tiny.cc/sxqqzz

Posted by: bonhomme at October 16, 2024 05:52 PM (Odg76)

385 BIG OLD NOOD!!!!

Posted by: Max Power at October 16, 2024 05:52 PM (q177U)

386 331 Simple. You eliminate their job. It's hard to fire them and replace them with someone else, it's a tiny bit simpler to eliminate the position of Second Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at October 16, 2024 05:18 PM (ExV1e)

How dare you belittle the Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of Stocking the Third Floor Breakroom. They work tirelessly every day to be the best non-essential worker in the government.
Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at October 16, 2024 05:36 PM (g8Ew

--------

Imagine being 17 years into soul crushing boredom and quiet desperation, only to find our your job is being eliminated and the people you despise every single day of your miserable existence will have to stock their own snacks.

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh as they clean out their employee locker.

Posted by: Just Lily at October 16, 2024 05:52 PM (RLLZj)

387 Case in point: when I was fourteen, me and my best friend took some horse tranks we found in his dad's barn.

After we got really sick, we read the big book of reasons you shouldn't take horse tranks. Buried in the middle of a multi-page list of side effects and contra indications was just the word "death."

It was like "...hives, respiratory malfunction, death, renal failure, dry skin ..."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at October 16, 2024 05:53 PM (awTae)

388 Trump should just take Cromwell's address to Parliament, rephrasing a bit to apply to federal employees, and make it an executive order.

Posted by: Angzarr the Cromulent at October 16, 2024 05:53 PM (XMwZJ)

389 slightly elevated levels of whatever blood chemical that signals "You're having heart problems!"
________________

Troponin.

Best wishes for your stepdad.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 05:53 PM (YqDXo)

390 >> but would obviate things like Hohmann transfer orbits with their long travel times and delays waiting for the planets to “line up” for the transfer.

Yes, total game changer for spaceflight. Trajectories would be thrust forward for half the distance, then turn around and decelerate at 1g, arriving at destination with the correct matching velocity.

It would be so fast, you can almost ignore the orbital mechanics for the calculations. Just pretend your target planet is moving in a straight line at constant speed. It would be exact but you can ballpark travel times based on that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at October 16, 2024 05:53 PM (w6EFb)

391 re 372: i remember that from when i was a kid: syndicated cartoon where the mouth just moves in strange geometric shapes when the character speaks, like 'astro boy' and 'petticoat prefecture'

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 16, 2024 05:54 PM (CWTWj)

392 Beware, Afrin works for shorter and shorter lengths of time and developes greater rebound that persists for days if you use more than 2-3 days.
Posted by: epador

Yeah that OTC nasal spray can be trouble if you don't follow the instructions. Ask me how I know.

Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2024 05:54 PM (oaGWv)

393 Sorry Ace, I hope you feel better. I had chronic insomnia for decades until I started taking a 10mg THC/CBD edible 1 hour before bed. Sleep like a baby, have interesting dreams, and wake up with energy and refreshed. You may not want to venture in to THC for your own personal reasons - it just works for me. Not taking Afrin before bed should really help.

Posted by: Cheri at October 16, 2024 05:54 PM (oiNtH)

394 158. Posted by: sniffybigtoe

Now, if anything is written it's usually in conjunction with the aid of stakeholders such as, but not limited to, non-profits, think tanks, and a few always present federal contractors (which I believe were never really 'contractors').

It turns into a nonsensical, piled on mess because of completing interests. To make sense, everything must be stripped back to the very beginning. Even with the National Archives, not easy to understand and do.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:55 PM (NFX2v)

395 'They're so vindictive'
_________________

This said by members of the Deep State, who spent the last seven years trying to hamstring Trump's policies and ultimately prosecuting him for tearing the tag off of a mattress.

But HE'S vindictive.

Oh. OK.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at October 16, 2024 05:56 PM (YqDXo)

396 What a maroon. I keep seeing articles where 100+ venture capitalists are backing Harris/Walz. We'll see if that actually happens. Ask Mark Cuban what a VC is you big dummy.

Posted by: Cheri at October 16, 2024 05:56 PM (oiNtH)

397 With X, this blog stands no chance if you don't change the commenting functionality. Add the ability to filter and follow to help winnow out the sycophants and wingnuts. There are a lot of decent folk here.

Posted by: Name at October 16, 2024 05:57 PM (MwJLQ)

398 Rub some arnica(re) cream on the heels or soles of your feet and it'll help you sleep for a few good hours.

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 05:58 PM (NFX2v)

399 Feds afraid of being fired? Lefties having mental health meltdowns?

This should be a Trump ad!

Everyone I know has been tightening their household budgets and swapping penny-pinching tips. The charity shop where I donate has lots of empty shelves and clothes racks because no one can afford retail or Amazon prices.

We have had to deal with meltdowns every time we use the wrong pronoun, don't adapt our behavior to someone's trauma-drama, and push back on leftist behavior. What's a little more lunacy in the mix?

Posted by: NaughtyPine at October 16, 2024 06:00 PM (fxCK2)

400 397 With X, this blog stands no chance if you don't change the commenting functionality. Add the ability to filter and follow to help winnow out the sycophants and wingnuts. There are a lot of decent folk here.

#twoweeks

Posted by: anachronda at October 16, 2024 06:00 PM (sGtp+)

401 USPS Informed Delivery system has been down for six weeks now. Six. Weeks.
Posted by: Maj. Healey

They still send me the email every day. Maybe you have something weird cached. Try a different browser.

Posted by: Chuck C at October 16, 2024 06:01 PM (yOPBE)

402 Reiner doesn't need to set himself on fire. That's what the La Brea pits are for

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at October 16, 2024 06:05 PM (wBaIH)

403 255 USPS Informed Delivery system has been down for six weeks now. Six. Weeks.
This service is currently unavailable.
....
Posted by: Maj. Healey

The government knows what's going in and out via "informed delivery."

There must be pages of a script to refer to for mailed ballots, i.e.,

I'm so sorry you didn't get your official ballot. We'll investigate and get back to you.

You received two ballots so we'll investigate.

The envelop is glued shut for the ballot to be mailed back? We'll investigate.

Sorry, we can't currently account for missing or lost ballots including those being transported by truck or train.

yada, yada

Posted by: L - If they'll do it with you, they'll do it to you, too at October 16, 2024 06:09 PM (NFX2v)

404 Did Fox call Arizona for Kamala yet ?

Posted by: jsg at October 16, 2024 06:10 PM (hBlxk)

405 378 anyone besides me remember barky talking about shooting with a picture of him not knowing how to hold a shotgun

Oh I remember that well and the memes...Obama with that shotgun hanging out the window of the "General Lee" from Dukes of hazard or inserted into the painting aiming the shotgun at the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

I almost got kicked off a gun forum for posting those (violated no politics rules). Good Times

Posted by: The Walking Dude at October 16, 2024 06:10 PM (cCxiu)

406 You could bring him back, just to court-martial him? Consider me skeptical.
Posted by: Archimedes at October 16, 2024 05:23 PM

"In September 2018, Larrabee filed a petition for his conviction to be overturned on appeal based on the argument that he should have been tried as a civilian. However, the Supreme Court has denied that appeal, upholding the past standard that retirees are still subject to the UCMJ"- Military Times

Posted by: Chuck C at October 16, 2024 06:11 PM (yOPBE)

407 Anybody remember the quote from Obama when pictured with his shotgun?

Wait for it........

"I go shootin all the time". Tee Hee

Yep, ole spaghetti arms vs 12 gage. It would have knocked ole mom jeans flat on his cum sipping ass.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at October 16, 2024 06:17 PM (cCxiu)

408 Ace now identifies as Afrin-American.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at October 16, 2024 06:17 PM (DsA2n)

409 Yeah that OTC nasal spray can be trouble if you don't follow the instructions. Ask me how I know.
Posted by: Tuna at October 16, 2024 05:54 PM (oaGWv)

Join the club. Used Dristan back in the 70's. Was hooked on it for a long time. Panic would set in if I left the house and realized I didn't have my Dristan, actually causing the nasal membranes to swell. Finally kicked it by using a saline solution.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at October 16, 2024 06:24 PM (iODuv)

410
"De-how-de-how-de-how-de! Check out my flannel garb!"

-- Tampon Tim, Urbane, Sophisticated and Manly

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 16, 2024 07:46 PM (xG4kz)

411
Yep, ole spaghetti arms vs 12 gage. It would have knocked ole mom jeans flat on his cum sipping ass.
Posted by: The Walking Dude

"Cum sipping with my pinkie finger up, thank you very much!"

-- Barky O'Fookstick

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 16, 2024 07:50 PM (xG4kz)

412
Ask Mark Cuban what a VC is you big dummy.
Posted by: Cheri

"The name is Cong, Viet Cong"

-- Tampon Tim, Urbane, Sophisticated and Manly

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at October 16, 2024 07:54 PM (xG4kz)

413 Those Federal employees that mandated I be fired for not getting the clot shot?

Yeah, sucks to be you with your fancy VA mansions.

Posted by: Texican ette at October 16, 2024 08:13 PM (SNf74)

414 Hey, EPA! Toilets that flush? Dishwashers that wash dishes? Too much to ask? Get a job!

Posted by: Lincoln Milford at October 16, 2024 09:11 PM (kBawx)

415 They offer a broad choice of precious metals, that includes cost-free
shipping on orders over $199.

Posted by: web site at October 16, 2024 10:58 PM (UkNR6)

416 Carried Afrin as aircrew in the AF. It was approved only as a "get down" tool if you had a painful sinus blockage and couldn't handle the pressure change. Would clear the sinuses toot-sweet, but you were grounded as soon as you landed.

Posted by: Formerly known as Skeptic at October 17, 2024 03:26 PM (xqcFU)

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