DOJ Lawyers "Terrified" of Trump's Return; Key Trump Lawyer Says Either Get on Board, or GTFO

Many in government are worried about Trump's return. At DOJ, they're terrified.
Trump blames DOJ for much of his torment over the past four years. Lawyers there fear what's next.

A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.
Some career attorneys at DOJ are already considering heading for the exits rather than sticking around to find out whether threats from Trump and his allies are real or campaign bluster. Those threats range from mass firings of "deep state" lawyers to expelling special counsel Jack Smith from the country.
"Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds," said one DOJ attorney, who like most of the people interviewed for this article was granted anonymity to speak freely about colleagues and avoid retribution from the president-elect and his allies. "The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they're going to be driven out."
While alarm over Trump's return is widespread throughout the federal bureaucracy, it is perhaps most acute at the Justice Department, which was at the center of many of the major controversies of his first term.
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"Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young, a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division who won an award from Barr in 2020 and is president and co-founder of the DOJ Gender Equality Network.

LOL.

It all adds up to a feeling of trepidation for many of the department's rank and file.
"We've all seen this movie before and it's going to be worse," said one former DOJ official who served under Trump and several of his predecessors. "It will be worse. It's just a question of how much worse it's going to be."
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Most of Mueller's top deputies have left government or returned to lower-profile jobs. But other lower-ranking lawyers with ties to the Mueller probe remain at the department. Staffers who offered even peripheral or routine assistance to either Mueller's team or Smith's team now harbor concerns that they will be frozen out by a president who campaigned on exacting revenge.
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Current and former employees said a more conventional pick -- like Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) or former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe -- would signal more upheaval than eight years ago but perhaps not tectonic changes. A more radical choice -- like Ken Paxton, the ultra-conservative Texas attorney general, or Kash Patel, a former Trump National Security Council aide and frequent Trump attack dog -- would portend extreme turbulence for the department, the veterans said.
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"It is absolutely a part of the calculus," one former senior DOJ official said. "If you have one of these type of extreme candidates ... you will see a significant amount of career staff say, 'I don't want to be a part of this. This is antithetical to who this department is. I think that will absolutely inform whether or not a good chunk of career staff -- whether people stay or go."

This is all worth reading, but I'll bold the most important parts for you slack-jawed yokels. Mark Paoletta is that "key Trump lawyer" I mentioned in the headline.

His message: Go get Daddy's belt.

Mark Paoletta
@MarkPaoletta
President Trump was elected by the American people to carry out his agenda, which includes:
Securing the southern border, mass deportations of illegal aliens (beginning with rapists and murderers), surging resources to process immigration/asylum claims to clear out backlog and end widespread abuse of the asylum system, ending automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens, and taking federal actions to prevent sanctuary cities from obstructing federal immigration enforcement,
Restoring law and order across our country, including rescuing our cities from mob violence and left-wing soft on crime prosecutors,
Immediately stopping the lawfare and persecution of political opponents that is unprecedented in American history and destroying our democracy,
Granting pardons or commutations to January 6th defendants and other defendants who have been subjected to politically-driven lawfare prosecutions and sentences,
Abolishing DEI in government and taking action against those companies and universities that engage in racial discrimination,
Protecting Americans' right to speech, religion, and the Second Amendment,
Protecting religious liberties, including investigating and prosecuting the horrific antisemitism ripping through this country,
Protecting parents' rights from irreparable transgender surgeries and procedures on minor children, and investigating those who have pushed this on minor children;
Paving the way for an energy boom and American Energy Golden Age,
And holding accountable those who weaponized their government authority to abuse Americans.
These are all positions President Trump campaigned on and that career DOJ lawyers may be working on to accomplish President Trump's lawful agenda that was approved by a landslide vote of the American People. DOJ career employees do not set the agenda. In fact, they are required to help implement this agenda.
Hopefully, they will be as committed to helping President Trump implement his agenda as they did for President Biden. Of course, political leadership welcomes feedback to help improve a project. But once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President's plan.
Of course, no one will push them to implement flagrantly illegal actions like President Biden did with his student loan plan, where he thumbed his nose at the Supreme Court's ruling and then tried to implement another illegal plan which was struck down. (In fact, the media was cheering on his law-breaking). I don't recall reading any stories about career attorneys being concerned about working on this blatantly illegal action.
If these career DOJ employees won't implement President Trump's program in good faith, they should leave. Those employees who engage in so-called "resistance" against the duly-elected President's lawful agenda would be subverting American democracy.
Finally, those that take such actions would be subject to disciplinary measures, including termination.
I look forward to President Trump's team Making America Great Again, especially at the Department of Justice and the FBI.

Yes, this is a great potential pick for AG, but Ed Morrissey thinks he might have to settle for a lesser, but still powerful, position overseeing the most corrupted parts of the DOJ.

Paoletta may not have a high enough profile to get nominated for Attorney General. That will most likely go to a governor or Senator with enough closeness to Trump to be trusted with the nod. However, there are any number of secondary positions where Trump can install Paoletta to be the AG's hatchet man, with Deputy AG being the most comprehensive and powerful. The next step down would be Associate AG, which would not have formal oversight over the FBI, ATF, or US Attorneys -- where much of the "Resistance" might form -- but still would have the Civil Rights Division and other interesting orgs in portfolio. Trump could keep Paoletta in the White House too as a means to keep an eye on the political appointees at DoJ.

As you know, the House was just called for Republicans. So that means that conservatives will control -- nominally, in the case of Congress -- all three branches of government, and both houses of Congress.

This leaves Democrats without a bastion of government power for their #Resistance efforts.

Thus, a new op begins: Convincing the public that the bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government, and has its own independent source of power enshrined in the Constitution, and is authorized to provide #Resistance to Trump despite being unelected bureaucrats who are part of the Executive branch, and therefore only have the power that the Chief Executive -- Trump -- has, and must use that power to act as the Chief Executive demands.

But no, the Constitution is like 100 years old, man, and the left needs to conjure up a foothold in government. So FusionGPS's favorite leak recipient and dogged defender of the Deep State tells us that Aksually Trump's inferior officers have a right to take action independently from him and impose their own agenda on the government:

NBC Propagandist "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a major pusher of the FBI's Russia collusion lie against Trump and enabler of DOJ lawfare against Biden's political enemies, says that the DOJ has a norm of not being political. https://t.co/kPiQdYjYm9
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 11, 2024

That's not how this works. That's not how any of this works. DOJ lawyers are Trump's employees and must act as he directs, so long as his orders do not involve law-breaking. But in all matters of policy and priority -- Trump's orders are orders, not suggestion.

What the left is trying to claim is that all the leftwing bureaucrats filling the government -- who have taken over the government just as they took over the media, only hiring their fellow travelers until the whole institution is subverted -- get to make their own policy, despite being completely unelected and without any independent power in the Constitutional scheme of government.

But this is the new op, insisting that bureaucrats may boss around the elected president.

This is exactly as asinine as insisting that a congressman's staffers have the right to countermand his decisions and cast their own votes in Congress.

Now yes, they did cast their own votes in the case of Dianne Feinstein, but that was illegal.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 05:45 PM

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1 Cue Gomer surprise surprise surprise

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:46 PM (+Dlv1)

2 I'll go fetch the others.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (O7YUW)

3 I mean, did you go to enough Didfy parties to ensure your legacy?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:47 PM (+Dlv1)

4 I slay myself. Bad dreams? Mommy issues, Counsel?

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (+Dlv1)

5 And Ratcliffe has just been names as the CIA director. Yesss!

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (unUNN)

6 Most of these guys will stay exactly right where they are, they aren't going anywhere. And most of them will do their very best to "resist" Trump's and the American people's desires.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (QNSds)

7 Reap as you sew. Oh wait. HIPAA

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (+Dlv1)

8 The DOJ dread is from the knowledge that if Trump had not won the election "they" would have sent him up the river for life" for having dated oppose " the Hilary she Beast". I say, kill all Dems and let God sort out the wicked

Posted by: Matthew at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (OdsgZ)

9 Endorrrrrrphins

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (+Dlv1)

10 Donald Trump names John Ratcliffe as Director of the CIA.

Posted by: JD-NW Ohio at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (d9roH)

11 Gee. If illegals self-deport, and the worst of the government employees self-fire, Trump will have made a difference just by getting elected.

Isn't that just too bad?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (VNX3d)

12 If the Trump Admin prosecutes NY AG
@TishJames
or Jack Smith, "that would violate five decades of norms post-Watergate, which said that the DoJ should be independent from the president"

"Wingman"

-- Eric Holder

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 05:49 PM (guGkK)

13 Gotta make sure there are criminal penalties for destroying evidence of their malfeasance

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (SSBCb)

14 Why you suppose he’s , maybe, making all these position announcements so soon??

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (PCK5/)

15 DOJ Gender Equality Network
......

"YOU'RE FIRED" - Elon Musk

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (v0R5T)

16 With Biden, I've seen enough fake norms to last a lifetime.

Posted by: huerfano at November 12, 2024 05:50 PM (DKIGo)

17 Even after a Judge said the Jack Smith 'appointment' was illegal... the DOJ continues to support his case.

They then signed off on Smith releasing evidence, the week before the election, because the people have a right to know... 'evidence' found with Public Funds, and the full power of the Fed gov behind it.

Then when the 'evidence' did not change the election, Smith is suspending or cancelling the case.

Blatant election interference... by Smith, with the DOJ in a Criminal Conspiracy, with Smith.

Its not revenge, its a reckoning.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (QAkQ3)

18 Some cabinet picks i am apathetic about. State, despite its historical importance, is one.

AG on the other hand...

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (wGun1)

19 Most of these guys will stay exactly right where they are, they aren't going anywhere. And most of them will do their very best to "resist" Trump's and the American people's desires.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2024 05:48 PM (QNSds)

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Then set up a "report a slug" line and name them and shame them.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (unUNN)

20 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young, a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division who won an award from Barr in 2020 and is president and co-founder of the DOJ Gender Equality Network.

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Oh wait - he's serious. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (WXNFJ)

21 My election erection has lasted 7 days now.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (gUzGB)

22 And Ratcliffe has just been names as the CIA director. Yesss!
Posted by: Decaf
.......

So no more assassination attempts on Trump?

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (v0R5T)

23
Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Whatever Trump does will be generous compared with what everyone else here would do.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (j4U/Z)

24 Old and Busted: The Deep State Civil Service Bureaucracy

The New Hotness: The Spoils System

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (SNhtc)

25 Have Joe and Hunter pay off your student loans. You’ve served valiantly.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (+Dlv1)

26 What are the odds Mitt Romney will vote against most Trump nominees?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (kTd/k)

27 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,"

I got a good laugh out of that one, too.

Is it complete lack of self-awareness or supreme confidence that the press will never call them on their hypocritical bullshit?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (6ydKt)

28 President Trump, I only have one question:

What is best in life?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (IYA3L)

29 Some cabinet picks i am apathetic about. State, despite its historical importance, is one.

AG on the other hand...
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (wGun1)

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The important thing for Sec of State is to purge the department down to the roots. Letting themselves be taken over by foreign fanatics is over the line. More that one set is absolutely crazy.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (n7h9X)

30 If they were ACTUALLY terrified they would already have silently packed their bags and skeddaddled out of the country and left no forwarding address.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (RLLZj)

31 Some cabinet picks i am apathetic about. State, despite its historical importance, is one.

AG on the other hand...
Posted by: Shenanigans at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (wGun1)

I keep wavering here. I could see AtC in this role, or on the Surpreme Court. Insomniac with his brand of tire irons might fit also nicely in this role. I know there are other attorneys in the Horde as well, but I don't remember who they are or how effective they might be.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (VNX3d)

32 The UNELECTED fourth branch of our precious Democracy.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (i0F8b)

33 "We've all seen this movie before and it's going to be worse," said one former DOJ official who served under Trump and several of his predecessors. "It will be worse. It's just a question of how much worse it's going to be."

We'll be lucky to live thru it!

Posted by: fd at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (cuqfS)

34 And remember Wicked, a negress painted green. Thanks, Obama.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (+Dlv1)

35 I want every bureaucrat in every executive department agency to be terrified.

Actually, no, I take that back. I want a bureaucracy that doesn't need to be terrified of an "America first" president because they have always working for the good of the people instead of furthering the woke agenda.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (K2HbW)

36 Memo to DOJ:
RE: FAFO

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Trump
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (Aqu9a)

37 My election erection has lasted 7 days now.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028

The Paolo, how you say, has no room for more staff.

*SWPDT?*

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (WXNFJ)

38 Not a fan of Little Rubio but getting him out of the Senate is akshually some 3D chess.
You know FL is gonna get a Super MAGAnaut Senator to replace him.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (gUzGB)

39 Reckoning can refer to:

The time when your actions are judged as good or bad and you are rewarded or punished.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (QAkQ3)

40 Good
PURGE DOJ

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Vote but also buy ammo at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (xcxpd)

41 My election erection has lasted 7 days now.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028
.......

The only cure is more Pelosi.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (v0R5T)

42 They might be the first leaving the country to places without extradition treaty

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (fwDg9)

43 It's a crime syndicate.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (dR6yv)

44 Trump blames DOJ for much of his torment over the past four years. Lawyers there fear what's next.

No one said Trump was stupid, the Lib DOJ apparatchiks should not stop checking their 6.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (9eHkC)

45 semi-willowed...

306 Rubio as SoS gets him out of the Senate, into a position he can be fired from at the whim of Trump, and lets DeSantis appoint a MAGA Senator.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (i0F8b)

46 I don't want Trump to drain the swamp. I want Trump to go full-blown, scorched earth on the swamp.

Posted by: JD-NW Ohio at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (d9roH)

47 I want every single one of those jackasses charged under 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law, prosecuted, then tossed in jail.

They tried to get PDT under made up law, let's see how they fare under a real law with real consequences.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (tT6L1)

48 Yes, there's a good deal of firing that needs to be done. Kristen Clark, the madwoman of the Civil Rights division has to go.

I feel we are enjoying all the winning again.

More!

Posted by: PJ at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (RRCAT)

49 Im getting the vague sense Trump isnt going to pick a pussy whipped Jeff Sessions to head the DOJ this time

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (M7vhK)

50 When use of the terms "terrified" and "losing their minds" are used in a large Fed.Gov department, I think that I can see where the problems are. If you are operating apolitically and lawfully, those terms should never be used.

Posted by: Cheri at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (oiNtH)

51 Don't fear the Reaper.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (wcIbG)

52 The left thought it was just fine and wonderful that THE PENTAGON defied Trump

Posted by: steevy at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (YbbtK)

53 His message: Go get Daddy's belt.

Not to be a suck up or anything, but you're brilliant, Ace.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (0Htd1)

54 Did Trump announce what Ric Grenell is going to be doing yet?

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (K2HbW)

55 Gender Equality? Fire them all.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (t8vHj)

56 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,"

Hahaha, in your face mfrs

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 12, 2024 05:56 PM (NtVYv)

57 >>> Thus, a new op begins: Convincing the public that the bureaucracy is the fourth branch of government,

What are WE, chopped liver!!!

Posted by: Journalists, the REAL fourth branch of government! at November 12, 2024 05:56 PM (wcIbG)

58 Some cabinet picks i am apathetic about. State, despite its historical importance, is one.

Posted by: Shenanigans at November 12, 2024 05:51 PM (wGun1)

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Foggy Bottom really needs dredging and draining but I don't think Marco Rubio has what it takes to do it. I would like to be proven wrong but I doubt it.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 05:56 PM (unUNN)

59 Im getting the vague sense Trump isnt going to pick a pussy whipped Jeff Sessions to head the DOJ this time
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 05:55 PM (M7vhK)

zzzzzzzz

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at November 12, 2024 05:56 PM (NtVYv)

60 Fusion Ken made a point of the post-Watergate era demarcation: the press hated Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, but they loved it when JFK picked his little brother to be his AG.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (SNhtc)

61 Would Trump choose Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley as A.G.?
I wonder.

If he wants to pick a senator I'd go with Hawley.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

62 Fire the whole lot and let them re-apply...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (IyPmt)

63 Yeah you take your shot at the king, and all that. But the Department of Justice is no less part of the executive branch than any other department. They all serve the president, and he's their boss.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (Hh1ER)

64 Note that ALL of Trump's legal problems - which were all coordinated with Garland's DOJ sprang up only after Trump announced he was running again.

What did you sacks of dog shit in the DOJ think would happen when you took political swings and missed?

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (Da7Vv)

65 A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.
++++
Collective action.
Collective dread.

Seems reasonable.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (HnUIn)

66 Good news! The Kiffness said he'll perform "They're eating the cats" at the inauguration ball, if they donate his fee to the Springfield SPCA

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (gfViB)

67 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists..."

Or, Many partisan loyalists fear they will be replaced by partisan loyalists.

Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (i0F8b)

68 Trump also needs an executive order to force all Federal Agents to ALWAYS Record all interviews with prospective lawbreakers.

None of this Gen Flynn entrapment BS.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (QAkQ3)

69 I bet Trump pardons Eric Adams as part of his rectification agenda.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (UWHd5)

70 45 semi-willowed...

306 Rubio as SoS gets him out of the Senate, into a position he can be fired from at the whim of Trump, and lets DeSantis appoint a MAGA Senator.
Posted by: davidt at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (i0F8b)

Yes.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (SNhtc)

71 61 Would Trump choose Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley as A.G.?
I wonder.

If he wants to pick a senator I'd go with Hawley.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (6yd

I like Hawley but Cruz has argued cases before SCOTUS and won...

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 05:58 PM (IyPmt)

72 does this mean no more FBI gay orgies in the rented u-haul truck trying to set up and arrest preachers for protesting the naked tranny show for kids in Coeur d' Alene? they should be terrified, good

Posted by: Jay in CDA at November 12, 2024 05:58 PM (F1XbI)

73 "The fear is that career leadership and career employees everywhere are either going to leave or they're going to be driven out."
++++
Good.

"Career" or "experienced" are good only depending on context.

"Career criminal" isn't good. "Experienced rapist" isn't exactly a good thing.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 05:58 PM (HnUIn)

74 ... we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,"
++++
Where is that, exactly?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (HnUIn)

75 I don't want Trump to drain the swamp. I want Trump to go full-blown, scorched earth on the swamp.
Posted by: JD-NW Ohio
......

If he reduces the federal gubmint by 50% we may survive the debt.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (v0R5T)

76 Hell No! We won't go! We defy orange cheetoh!

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (KAi1n)

77 ***Many in government are worried about Trump's return. At DOJ, they're terrified.***
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Oh, Donny, Oh Donny, Oh Donny, be good
Oh, Donny, Oh Donny, Oh Donny, be good to me

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (2RQO4)

78 What happened to Gen Flynn was an abomination but I think anyone paying attention learned from that case to never talk to the Feds w/out a lawyer no matter what they tell you.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (gUzGB)

79 Heading for the exits?

Some high-profile lawyer for several of PDT's persecutors said they're looking at fleeing the country.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (hovnC)

80 f he wants to pick a senator I'd go with Hawley.

I'd go with Ken Paxton, like Trump he has felt the sting of false Democrat accusations.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (Da7Vv)

81 Keep in mind that the Left believes low-level employees in a company have the right to boss around the CEO if they don't like what he's doing.

It's the exact same mentality--the inmates should have complete control over the asylum.

Ask Musk how that turned out when he took over Twitter and renamed it "X."

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (BpYfr)

82 DOJ career employees do not set the agenda. In fact, they are required to help implement this agenda.
++++
Employees do what the boss tells them to do.

If they don't, they stop being employees and start being "former employees."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (HnUIn)

83 And Ratcliffe has just been names as the CIA director. Yesss!
Posted by: Decaf
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So no more assassination attempts on Trump?
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (v0R5T)

Sometimes they get ya, years after the fact.

Posted by: Zombie William Colby at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (IeDI0)

84 Trump: Remember when I said I would kill you last?

I LIED

DOJ: OOOH LAAA LAAAAAAAA ***falls to death***

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (M7vhK)

85
That would be like the commenters running their own ONT.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (NMT5x)

86 I hope some on the GOP side are terrified, too.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (tT6L1)

87 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (V13WU)

88 The best thing that could happen is for PDTS to expose the J6 committee and the subsequent lawfare operation for what it is, in front of the entire world. Let the chips fall where they may.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (3Ope8)

89 As you know, the House was just called for Republicans. So that means that conservatives will control -- nominally, in the case of Congress -- all three branches of government, and both houses of Congress.
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And like last time - and the time before that, and the time before that, and so on - little will come of it.

If I'm wrong, nobody will be happier than me.

But I have realistic expectations on this front, I think.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (HnUIn)

90 What are the odds Mitt Romney will vote against most Trump nominees?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM

He retired before he got beaten like a rented mule and will not get anymore anti Trump votes.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (QNSds)

91 @ 47 - we could legitimately charge half or more of the bureaucracy under that statute, and should.
applied creatively we could nail every one of the scum.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (gY0JQ)

92 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with ~~partisan loyalists~~ crash test dummies..."

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (v0R5T)

93 end widespread abuse of the asylum system, ending automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens,

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This has got to end, make a priority for the new congress.

Is it even applied across the board? If a tourist gives birth while on holiday in the US is that child automatically a citizen?

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (unUNN)

94 Ratcliffe is such an unfortunate name.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (IG4Id)

95 87 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (V13WU)

He fired Comey didn't he so that's a yes

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM (IyPmt)

96 NBC Propagandist "Fusion Ken" Dilanian, a major pusher of the FBI's Russia collusion lie against Trump and enabler of DOJ lawfare against Biden's political enemies, says that the DOJ has a norm of not being political.
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And he's right.

Absolutely, positively, 100% right.

Posted by: Eric "Wingman" Holder at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (HnUIn)

97 Employees do what the boss tells them to do.

If they don't, they stop being employees and start being "former employees."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (HnUIn)
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Well, Democrats do have the example of the DNC being taken over by the clinically insane. Look how well the last election went.....

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (tT6L1)

98 Be nice to the rented mules.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (v0R5T)

99 There's no official word on Rubio or Noem

Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (gfViB)

100 I will happily donate my Amex points to anyone who wants to leave the country.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (gUzGB)

101 I say, kill all Dems

Gas?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (tET31)

102 If they can't be easily fired, drop them to the bottom of the pay scale, give them a shovel (government property), send them to a field, and they have to dig a hole from 9-3, and fill it back in from 3-5. 5 days a week, 50 weeks a year, no matter the weather. Ok, they get federal holidays off.

If the lose or break the shovel, they have to pay for the replacement.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (VNX3d)

103 Clearly what needs to be done is the DOJ needs to have a grief session with Legos, coloring books, hot chocolate and counselors

Then, whoever shows up, at the end, gets fired

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (ig8VZ)

104 If they all run away crying what will the Golden Scalp Weasel feast upon?

Posted by: DaveA at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (FhXTo)

105 @87

>> I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?

Yes, he fired Comey.

He’s the Unitary Executive, per the constitution, meaning he’s chief, cook and bottle washer in the executive branch.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (UWHd5)

106 If Trump nominates folks and they underperform, he needs to fire them. QUICKLY.

And no mercy for those DoJ slobs. Out! Out! FIRE THEM ALLLLLLLLLL

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage deplorable, uneducated woman at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (W2Pud)

107 end widespread abuse of the asylum system, ending automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens,

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

This has got to end, make a priority for the new congress.

Is it even applied across the board? If a tourist gives birth while on holiday in the US is that child automatically a citizen?

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:01 PM

And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (QNSds)

108 Dept of Justice may finally get some Justice.

Posted by: Cosda at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (USJFV)

109 99 There's no official word on Rubio or Noem
Posted by: Notsothoreau at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (gfViB)

Does that surprise anyone?

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (PCK5/)

110 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (VNX3d)

One more thing: The field they get sent to is in Deadhorse, AK.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (gUzGB)

111 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?

****************

Likely he resigns before Trump shitcans this wormy fucking traitorous little bitch ass

Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (M7vhK)

112 Trump blames DOJ for much of his torment over the past four years. Lawyers there fear what's next.

Gosh, do you think that will teach them to not maliciously prosecute people for things which aren't actually crimes?

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (hB7mE)

113 I think about Pence during these appointments. I wanted to like him, just never could. He always seemed so wound up and ill at ease. I often thought I was being too critical but as it turned out he was only trying to mask a deceitful dishonest character.

Posted by: washrivergal at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (mzoqX)

114 87 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (V13WU)

He fired Comey didn't he so that's a yes
Posted by: It's me donna
......

I expect this within the first hour of his presidency along with Mayorkas, Granholm and Garland.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (v0R5T)

115 Q: What's the difference between Kristi Noem and Barack Obama?

A. At least she didn't eat the dog.

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (pMi6S)

116 To the DC bunker dwellers:
Your home town
Yourrr hometown
These jobs are leaving boys
And they ain't comin back.

-The New Boss

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (0uEnu)

117 Well, Democrats do have the example of the DNC being taken over by the clinically insane. Look how well the last election went.....
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:02 PM (tT6L1)
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They're doing what their bosses told them to do.

It all comes down to who - in the mind of the employee - the boss is.

In the business world, people with influence - or even formal authority - who thwart the boss's wishes because he thinks he is the boss (or because he listens to someone else he perceives as the boss, or whatever) is often described as having or using a "pocket veto" by using his influence to disobey orders or cause a project to fail (intentionally or not).

When people use "pocket vetos," the boss often views that as a reason to fire them. It's the surest way to demonstrate to his former followers just who, exactly, the boss actually is.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (HnUIn)

118 Would anyone else laugh if Liz Cheney were charged under 18 U.S. Code § 242 - Deprivation of rights under color of law?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (tT6L1)

119 I don't remember who they are or how effective they might be.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

If appointed, i will not testify at confirmation. If confirmed, i will do a huge bong rip and exhale with "But first you will blow me."

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (KAi1n)

120 TL

R synopsis: His message: Go get Daddy's belt.

That's a great line Ace.

I like the final big gray box... a lot. Those sentiments need to be pressed upon the Puzzle Palace as well. They are NOT in charge of policy and answer to their CIC.
I certainly didn't enjoy the CICs while I served; but, their orders were legal and implemented as required.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (9eHkC)

121 Can we lay off Noem in wake of the P'Nut/Frank fiasco?

I mean, I don't really care about her, but fair is fair.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (gUzGB)

122 "Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young,
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Merit based.... HAHAHAHAHA

Stacey Young is lying piece of shit.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (17s+e)

123 Beyond accountability for the abuses against Trump, and I can't wait to see all the evidence of collusion between the DOJ and the National Archives, Fulton County, NYC DA (the No. 3 DOJ who hopped to a lower job to get Trump), NYS AG, and on and on, there's a whole 'nother list of abuses (and pardons) to get to:

*The lawfare against Musk by multiple fed agencies
*Sentencing peaceful grannies with medical issues to prison time for protesting abortion clinics
*No-knock 6 am raids on families
*The school board moms as terrorists and Catholic targeting memos/policies
*Withholding evidence, unconstitutional detention without bail, and excessive sentencing (on BS charges) against J6ers
*The James O'Keefe raid over Ashley Biden's diary
*All the documents that were withheld from Congress and got Garland held in contempt with no result

I'm sure I'm forgetting a few but hopefully there's someone incoming with a list.

Posted by: the dandy at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (L+5ng)

124 have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (V13WU)

He fired Comey didn't he so that's a yes
Posted by: It's me donna
......

I expect this within the first hour of his presidency along with Mayorkas, Granholm and Garland.

The last 3 will resign before the inaugural.

Trump should start his inaugural speech off by firing Wray

Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (ig8VZ)

125 26 What are the odds Mitt Romney will vote against most Trump nominees?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at November 12, 2024 05:52 PM (kTd/k)

As the sole Rep Senator to vote for finding Trump guilty in the first impeachment, I'd say quite high.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (SSBCb)

126 Likely he resigns before Trump shitcans this wormy fucking traitorous little bitch ass
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (M7vhK)
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Hire him back, fire him then frog march him out in leg irons and handcuffs.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (tT6L1)

127 87 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (V13WU)

The good news: Yes.

The bad news: He is not allowed to use a flame thrower to do so.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (K2HbW)

128 Wray, Comey, and Mueller all deserve jail.
Or at least disbarment.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (gUzGB)

129 Ratcliffe to head CIA. Goood. Very good.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (/U5Yz)

130 He’s the Unitary Executive, per the constitution, meaning he’s chief, cook and bottle washer in the executive branch.
Posted by: Thomas Bender

And if he wants two scoops of ice cream or catsup on his steak, he gets it!!

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (WXNFJ)

131 Dear DOJ Lawyers:

FAFO.

That is all.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:07 PM (yKhjs)

132 What happened to Gen Flynn was an abomination but I think anyone paying attention learned from that case to never talk to the Feds w/out a lawyer no matter what they tell you.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (gUzGB)

In a truly free country it wouldn't be illegal to lie to anybody.

Especially law enforcement.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 12, 2024 06:07 PM (QOpc8)

133 If the Trump Admin prosecutes NY AG
@TishJames
or Jack Smith, "that would violate five decades of norms post-Watergate, which said that the DoJ should be independent from the president"

Funny because there was a norm of not trying to arrest the opposition political opposition too. Maybe the DOJ should have kept THAT norm going

Posted by: 18-1 at November 12, 2024 06:07 PM (oZhjI)

134 fappity fap fap fap

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at November 12, 2024 06:07 PM (sJHOI)

135 He likes his steak well done, with ketchup.

Posted by: tubal at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (PCK5/)

136 The good news: Yes.

The bad news: He is not allowed to use a flame thrower to do so.
Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 06:06 PM (K2HbW)

Pretty sure there's no limitation in the actual Constitution....

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (yKhjs)

137 Would Trump choose Ted Cruz or Josh Hawley as A.G.?
I wonder.

If he wants to pick a senator I'd go with Hawley.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 12, 2024 05:57 PM (6ydKt)

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I like Matt Whittaker. Leave the senators where they are.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (unUNN)

138 My Lefty sister is a PhD-level epidemiologist for the CDC.

She says she is now worried about losing her job.

She used to talk about what the CDC was doing with family members while I was also included. She quit when I kept POLITELY pointing out all of the flaws in their scientific methodology, their obvious ideological biases, etc.

She could have asked me how to improve the CDC, prior to the election. She did not, because she was perfectly happy working for an ideologically-driven agency - as long as her ideology was in charge.

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (HlyYF)

139 36 Memo to DOJ:
RE: FAFO

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Trump
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored
He has loosed the fateful lightening of His terrible swift sword
His truth is marching on
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 05:53 PM (Aqu9a)

====================

Some adjustments iffin' you don't mind:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Trump.
He is trampling on the shitbags in DC where it is a swamp.
He has lifted high the garbage and the snakes are getting stomped.
Because MAGA is marching on.

Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (NMT5x)

140 The last 3 will resign before the inaugural.

Trump should start his inaugural speech off by firing Wray
Posted by: Mallamutt, RINO President for Life at November 12, 2024 06:05 PM (ig8VZ)

OH, I like that ! but maybe uz are right, he will leave before 1/20

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (V13WU)

141 Huckabee picked for Amb. to Israel

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (gUzGB)

142 Dear DOJ lawyers:

Ask your friends in State which countries don't extradite, and to help with getting your passports.

RUN!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (VNX3d)

143 I like Matt Whittaker. Leave the senators where they are.
Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (unUNN)

Yes

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (IyPmt)

144 The old one not Sara

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:09 PM (gUzGB)

145 Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young,

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Which is why you have to go. Pack up your desk contents and security will escort you out.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 06:09 PM (RLLZj)

146 Remember when the CHAZ in Portland was changed to CHOP? Here is why that happened: according to federal law everyone involved in the CHAZ - by setting up an autonomous zone inside the United states lost their US Citizenship and are subject to deportation. Just one of the high crimes the Garland DOJ failed to prosecute.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 06:09 PM (Da7Vv)

147 I can't recall who said it but, these stories infuriate me.
How we're supposed to be worried about poor, poor government workers might lose their jobs!

WTF!?

How about Americans the last 4 years?
Where every one of us that wasn't in a government or government-reliant job got further and further behind?
While billions and billions were sent to ... governments.

When in the fuck do we get a sympathetic media report?
One that doesn't state the one and only solution is more fucking government?
You know why we're cheering Trump? Why our only concern is that we fear he's not going to go hard enough?
Because of decades of this bullshit from the left: "fuck the little guy, the Democrats need to get paid!"

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 12, 2024 06:09 PM (wkmJg)

148 I have one question, can Trump fire Wray ?

****************

Likely he resigns before Trump shitcans this wormy fucking traitorous little duck lipped bitch ass
Posted by: The Unmasked and Unvaxed Ranger - Certified Trump Justice Warrior and Wagshambas Expert

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:10 PM (v0R5T)

149 Is it even applied across the board? If a tourist gives birth while on holiday in the US is that child automatically a citizen?
Posted by: Decaf

According to the Chinese, yes.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at November 12, 2024 06:10 PM (hB7mE)

150 some of the entrenched insurrectionists and resisters, will not quit, they will stay behind to leak to what remains of the MSM .

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:10 PM (V13WU)

151 Let’s just leave Dan Patrick where he is.

Texas And Liberty!

Posted by: Eromero at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (LHPAg)

152 What I really want to see on Day 1 is several members of Congress getting their security clearances revoked.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (K2HbW)

153 Rick Scott is making his case around the media, the NEW media. Good for him if he wants the job.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (V13WU)

154 ***"Many federal employees are terrified that we'll be replaced with partisan loyalists -- not just because our jobs are on the line, but because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service," said Stacey Young, a trial attorney in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division who won an award from Barr in 2020 and is president and co-founder of the DOJ Gender Equality Network.***

You see, "Democracy" means rule by government officials who can never be replaced by the electorate or their elected representatives. That's "apolitical", right?

Posted by: Hippogryph at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (R1Eqe)

155 January 20, 2025

*Trump steps up to the podium *

“My turn”

*Trump turns and walks away*

Posted by: Duke Lowell, MAGA Viking at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (u73oe)

156 That grinding, popping, rumbling sound you hear?

That's the world re-aligning under Trump -- gears stripping, axles snapping, every engine reversing directions.

The usurpers who were driving Mecha-USA into a ditch on purpose are gobsmacked that Trump wrested the steering wheel from them and is guiding it back onto the smooth asphalt.

No no no, that was not the plan.

Fear-soaked piss dribbles out of their estrogen-soaked micro-penises.

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (pMi6S)

157 150 some of the entrenched insurrectionists and resisters, will not quit, they will stay behind to leak to what remains of the MSM .
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:10 PM (V13WU)

Speaking of the MSM looks like some heads are gonna role and Jake Tapper might be one

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (IyPmt)

158 One more thing: The field they get sent to is in Deadhorse, AK.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (gUzGB)

Why you always send these crapweasels to Alaska? We like our state a little more pure, thank you.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (yKhjs)

159 "If these career DOJ employees won't implement President Trump's program in good faith, they should leave."

--

It grew, developed the capacity for speech, and demanded fresh blood.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (Uc8km)

160 Obama and Hder cleaned house at the DoJ.
J Christian Adam’s, who was pushed out, wrote about it and had covered the rebuilding of the DoJ into a progressive shop extensively.

So yeah, I have no problems with Trump doing the same thing in reverse now.
Clean
House
Or face the certainty that they will remain a woke, aggressive tool of the DNC.

Posted by: Lizzy at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (Hkcdp)

161 I really get tired of government workers whining because they might lose their jobs.

Try that with every worker who's experienced layoffs and job loss because of an economic slowdown or their jobs were sent overseas.

I worked blue collar and wound up laid off more than once. It's no fun. Lean to deal, jackasses.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (tT6L1)

162 146 Remember when the CHAZ in Portland was changed to CHOP? Here is why that happened: according to federal law everyone involved in the CHAZ - by setting up an autonomous zone inside the United states lost their US Citizenship and are subject to deportation. Just one of the high crimes the Garland DOJ failed to prosecute.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 06:09 PM (Da7Vv)

Pssst. That was in Seattle.

Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (qQ7Xj)

163 JT Marlin advises, GO LONG on Acme Bankers Box Mfg. Co.

Posted by: JT Marlin at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (guGkK)

164 Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (yKhjs)

Well, I'd say send them to Guam, but it might tip over.

Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (gUzGB)

165 Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh 10h
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray is currently preparing to be fired when President-elect Trump takes office - NBC

Catturd ™ @catturd2 10h
One of the most corrupt people in U.S. History.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (hovnC)

166 Pssst. That was in Seattle.
Posted by: nurse ratched, garbage at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (qQ7Xj)

Forget it. He's rolling.

Posted by: Eric Stratton, Rush Chairman at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (guGkK)

167 My Lefty sister is a PhD-level epidemiologist for the CDC.

She says she is now worried about losing her job. ...
Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (HlyYF)
++++
After COVID, I am not at all convinced that epidemiology should exist at all as its own profession and specialty.

Epidemiology is a branch of statistics, when you get right down to do it. Why bother? The profession as a whole did not show itself to be competent. We have statisticians left, right and center who prove themselves competent every day of the week. Most of them work in finance.

If there's a potential epidemic or pandemic, tell the insurance companies you're drafting their best actuaries for a few months.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (HnUIn)

168 Most of the FBI's special privileges stacked on over the years by well-meaning "law and order" types need to be ripped away. No more asset seizure. No more illegal to lie to feds. No more remembering stuff and taking notes instead of tapes.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (Hh1ER)

169 One more thing: The field they get sent to is in Deadhorse, AK.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028 at November 12, 2024 06:03 PM (gUzGB)

Why you always send these crapweasels to Alaska? We like our state a little more pure, thank you.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (yKhjs)

Send them to Puerto Rico, then grant Puerto Rico independence. Kills two birds with one stone.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (VNX3d)

170 We had to watch this video as kids in history class called "The Man Without a Country." I thought it was about a real guy, found out later it was fiction, but it left an impression.

For those who hate the US and are fleeing now they've been exposed, can a judge revoke their citizenship before they leave, and then leave them without a country until someone else pities them and takes them in?

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (wcIbG)

171 This is really good news, the career Democrats at the DOJ are scared.

Please, please pick out a few of the worst offenders and make legal examples of them. Draw their reputations through the mud as the new AG sends them to prison.

There are so many examples of their corruption, the difficult part is to decide which ones should go first.

Only prison time will cull this abhorrent behavior.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (2ds6i)

172 "Many in government are worried about Trump's return. At DOJ, they're terrified."

If they've done nothing wrong, they've got nothing to worry about, right?

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (VGRuw)

173 I expect this within the first hour of his presidency along with Mayorkas, Granholm and Garland.
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (v0R5T)

Just have every singe person submit a signed resignation Jan 20 . Accept the ones you like.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (n7h9X)

174 @EricLDaugh 10h
BREAKING: FBI Director Christopher Wray is currently preparing to be fired when President-elect Trump takes office - NBC ...
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (hovnC)
++++
If Wray hasn't been preparing to beat a swift retreat for *years,* he's as stupid as he is corrupt.

If you play the game he's been playing without an exit strategy, that's on you.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM (HnUIn)

175 I'd go with Ken Paxton, like Trump he has felt the sting of false Democrat accusations.
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Thune or the other Dem in RINO clothes tweeted back then that he was looking forward to Paxton's conviction. [paraphrasing]

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM (hovnC)

176 Employees do what the boss tells them to do.

If they don't, they stop being employees and start being "former employees."
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:00 PM (HnUIn)

Oh now that is just pure bullshit.

Avenge me!

Posted by: Former Noodle Shop counterman at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM (Aqu9a)

177 I hear Portugal is nice.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM (t8vHj)

178 Yeah, defund several cabinet departments, sell “national monuments” raid certain endowments, all while wide awake. Which departments? DHS, Education, Urban Development, Energy, Housing. Get rid of entitlements for fatherless children and their mothers. The usual suspects.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (+Dlv1)

179 I'd go with Ken Paxton, like Trump he has felt the sting of false Democrat accusations.
Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 05:59 PM (Da7Vv)

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

Paxton needs to be the next governor of Texas when Abbott's term is up.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (unUNN)

180 >>>5 And Ratcliffe has just been names as the CIA director. Yesss!

Niiiice.

Posted by: the Cops from South Park at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (KRtlO)

181 Dear DOJ,

You got 10 years of fuck around. Enjoy the find out.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (ExV1e)

182 We had to watch this video as kids in history class called "The Man Without a Country." I thought it was about a real guy, found out later it was fiction, but it left an impression.

For those who hate the US and are fleeing now they've been exposed, can a judge revoke their citizenship before they leave, and then leave them without a country until someone else pities them and takes them in?
Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (wcIbG)

Always liked that story - the guy mapping the expansion of the US as they cut new areas off the maps in books he was reading

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (n7h9X)

183 Huckabee picked for Amb. to Israel
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028
.......

Plenty of Relaxium to go around.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (v0R5T)

184 Speaking of the MSM looks like some heads are gonna role and Jake Tapper might be one
Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM (IyPmt)

REALLY ?!! REALLY ?!!

LOLOLOL!!

*I did say post election that they all will be tossed aside since they did not deliver as was expected by their bosses, and that the bosses will use the freed up $$$$M to jump into new media and compete with the likes of Rogan, Tucker and Megyn Kelly . LOL ! They tried to unseat Rush with air america... that went as well as expected !

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (V13WU)

185 I saw Wormy fucking traitorous little duck lipped bitch asses open for the Sex Pistols at CiBi GiBis in 84'

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:15 PM (0uEnu)

186 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)

187 41 My election erection has lasted 7 days now.
Posted by: Iasonas for Vance/Anna Paulina Luna 2028
.......

The only cure is more Pelosi.
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 05:54 PM (v0R5T)

I got nothin' for that ...

Posted by: zombie Bob Dole at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (TTAGa)

188 My Lefty sister is a PhD-level epidemiologist for the CDC.

She says she is now worried about losing her job. ...

She should be more worried about her blood turning into tapioca from the jab.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (/U5Yz)

189 177 I hear Portugal is nice.
Posted by: Ben Had

Until you get "1755, Part 2: The Re-Flattening."

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (pMi6S)

190 AOC said she's going to hate being in the minority party when the House changes over. She has no idea. They play the dumbest little political games in congress when there's a new regime and a new pecking order. The littlest things like scheduling a conference room becomes a pissing contest between the parties. That's a long held tradition going back decades. She's in for a reckoning.

Posted by: LizLem at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (wcIbG)

191 All of these people will be fine.

Americans are notorious savers who never live beyond their means. And public servants especially so since they are the best and brightest amongst us,

Posted by: Stateless at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (jvJvP)

192 I hear Portugal is nice.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM (t8vHj)

I was thinking more along the lines of giving them work in the Chinese-owned lithium mines in Senegal.

But Portugal is good too.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (guGkK)

193 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)

Projection.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (VNX3d)

194 >5 And Ratcliffe has just been names as the CIA director. Yesss!

hey Dems.. Elections have consequences.. neener, neener, neener.. Feel the sting

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (IyPmt)

195 Tax on money sent to Mexico and points south, Pakistan, Gaza, the West Bank, Afghanistan, Iran. You get the picture.

Posted by: See? Nobody cares at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (+Dlv1)

196 I hope all the rats do GTFO

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (CpRK8)

197 The senate is vital to this administration, we need reliable Senators

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (fwDg9)

198 A collective sense of dread has taken hold at the Department of Justice, which drew Donald Trump's rage like no other part of the federal government during his campaign.

I picture these people watching the election results and saying, "Oooh, Fuuu*k".

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (0Htd1)

199 And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision.

==

SCOTUS may need to revisit this.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (V13WU)

200 172 "Many in government are worried about Trump's return. At DOJ, they're terrified."

If they've done nothing wrong, they've got nothing to worry about, right?
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (VGRuw)

Huh. Who'd a thunk? Suddenly they all will be pure as the driven snow, until one springs a leak.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (yKhjs)

201 A child born to an illegal is illegal.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (V13WU)

202 Andycanuck,
It was senator cornyn.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (ctrM5)

203 DOJ is 110,000 people I believe read in an earlier thread.

Lets make that 50,000 for starters.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (DTn4s)

204 Gosh wouldn't you think if these people truly did nothing wrong, they'd have nothing to worry about?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (tT6L1)

205 I worked blue collar and wound up laid off more than once. It's no fun. Lean to deal, jackasses.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)
......

Black Jack?

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (v0R5T)

206 Some adjustments iffin' you don't mind:

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Trump.
He is trampling on the shitbags in DC where it is a swamp.
He has lifted high the garbage and the snakes are getting stomped.
Because MAGA is marching on.
Posted by: haffhowershower at November 12, 2024 06:08 PM (NMT5x)

I don't mind. Not one bit. +1

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (Aqu9a)

207 156 That grinding, popping, rumbling sound you hear?

That's the world re-aligning under Trump -- gears stripping, axles snapping, every engine reversing directions.

The usurpers who were driving Mecha-USA into a ditch on purpose are gobsmacked that Trump wrested the steering wheel from them and is guiding it back onto the smooth asphalt.

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What they didn't get is that you can't actually grab the steering wheel in the back seat of a limo.

But, thanks to them he rode to Washington in a garbage truck.

"Smooth move Ex-lax", as the kids used to say.

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (RLLZj)

208 197 The senate is vital to this administration, we need reliable Senators
Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (fwDg9)

Just enough to make Murkowski and Snowe irrelevant.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (yKhjs)

209 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)
++++
Their guy assassinated American citizens with drones.
Their guy locked up American citizens in dungeons for years without due process.
Their guy started wars on a whim.
Their press tells them the President has unlimited authority.

If they think the President does whatever he wants without limit, they have reason to think that.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (HnUIn)

210 It moved.

Posted by: You're terminated, fucker at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (Mi9O7)

211 If Wray hasn't been preparing to beat a swift retreat for *years,* he's as stupid as he is corrupt.

If you play the game he's been playing without an exit strategy, that's on you.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:14 PM

--

He's thinking about a title for his memoirs, and "You Can't Fire Me Because I Quit" doesn't sing.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (Uc8km)

212 I cannot tell you how many stories I heard of birth tourism - momma comes to US as a tourist, specifically to give birth on US soil.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (V13WU)

213
Just enough to make Murkowski and Snowe irrelevant.
Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (yKhjs)

Snowe ? You probably mean Collins

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (IyPmt)

214 113 I think about Pence during these appointments. I wanted to like him, just never could. He always seemed so wound up and ill at ease. I often thought I was being too critical but as it turned out he was only trying to mask a deceitful dishonest character.
Posted by: washrivergal at November 12, 2024 06:04 PM (mzoqX)

Agreed. I was surprised at how in the Globalist tank Pence truly was/is. I thought he was somewhat honorable.
Boy, was I wrong!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (2ds6i)

215 204 Gosh wouldn't you think if these people truly did nothing wrong, they'd have nothing to worry about?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (tT6L1)

See FAFO memo above.

Posted by: tcn in AK at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (yKhjs)

216 Step one: fire every U.S. Attorney. All of them. No exceptions.

It's been done before (Billy Jeff Clinton, among others).

Step two: remove every officer who made field grade under Obama or Biden. Again, no exceptions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (W5ArC)

217 Lizlem, the Dems lost the house in the 2022 elections.

Posted by: whig's phone at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (ctrM5)

218 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)

Why would we even want to when tens of thousands of acres are right here in the U.S. that could accommodate the YUUUGEST and most luxurious of camps?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (guGkK)

219 This bikini brunette on a boat hope their fears are realized:
http://tiny.cc/gr0vzz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (HnUIn)

220 As I've said before, Trump needs to include the following in every pardon of the J6ers, a finding as Chief Law Enforcement Officer of the United States that:

The judge, the Assistant US Attorney and every FBI involved did knowingly and with malicious intent conspire to deprive those persons of the civil rights under color of law.

Make an official government finding that waives official and judicial immunity for every single one of those assholes.

Let them twist in the wind upon the storm they sought to inflict upon America.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (wkmJg)

221 199 And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision.

==

SCOTUS may need to revisit this.
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:17 PM (V13WU)

And dual citizenship. And voting in the US if out of the country, like a Ex Pat.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (QAkQ3)

222 Pence's wife...she seemed a bit of a shrew.

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (V13WU)

223 152 What I really want to see on Day 1 is several members of Congress getting their security clearances revoked.

Posted by: tankdemon at November 12, 2024 06:11 PM

I want a Senate Majority Leader that will remove Schiff's security clearances on Day 1.

Thune and Cornyn ain't going to do that!

Posted by: Pillage Idiot at November 12, 2024 06:21 PM (HlyYF)

224 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)

Yeah, everyone knows it's better to drone them, right Barack?

Posted by: Just Lily at November 12, 2024 06:21 PM (RLLZj)

225 And dual citizenship. And voting in the US if out of the country, like a Ex Pat.
Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 06:20 PM (QAkQ3)

whatever

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:21 PM (V13WU)

226 I expect this within the first hour of his presidency along with Mayorkas, Granholm and Garland.
Posted by: wth

I wish he could fire Granholm's gal pal Whitmer.

Posted by: nerdygirl at November 12, 2024 06:21 PM (0Htd1)

227 Every person employed by the CDC,NIH,FDA should be tried for crimes against humanity.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:22 PM (/U5Yz)

228 If there's a potential epidemic or pandemic, tell the insurance companies you're drafting their best actuaries for a few months.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:12 PM (HnUIn)

CDC already uses outside people.

I recall the CDC used some dope's program at a university in Washington State that was so badly written it never gave the same answer twice. And the answer they gave of tens of millions dead in a country with houses, running water, sanitation and medical care was absolute garbage.

Can't think of one thing the CDC has done to control disease in Covid or any other outbreak. Kill it, and put anything useful in some other department.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:22 PM (n7h9X)

229 212 I cannot tell you how many stories I heard of birth tourism - momma comes to US as a tourist, specifically to give birth on US soil.
Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:19 PM (V13WU)

Especially from Communist China... there are actual tour companies that do this.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 12, 2024 06:22 PM (QAkQ3)

230 This bikini brunette on a boat hope their fears are realized:
http://tiny.cc/gr0vzz

Lemme guess...

Trump's new Secretary of HHS?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 06:22 PM (guGkK)

231 The time to get on board was 4 years ago, if you didn't then you should be fired and investigated.

Posted by: Rbastid at November 12, 2024 06:22 PM (zgdXM)

232 I hope some on the GOP side are terrified, too.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing

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Feeling terrified, perhaps. Shaking their heads and muttering "This is not who we are", definitely.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 12, 2024 06:23 PM (Vyll1)

233 Black Jack?
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (v0R5T)
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Standing on their feet dealing with the unruly and unwashed masses while having to do a job which requires 6th grade math? They'd crumble within a week.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:23 PM (tT6L1)

234 Any updates about the R Senate leader "secret" vote?

The "secret" vote that Benny Johnson ratted out and showed the list of backstabbers who begged for Trump's endorsement and then are seemingly screwing him at their first chance?

Oh, and FUCK that corrupt bastard Mitch McConnell, and his two leashed globalist puppets, Cornyn and Thune. They will absolutely slow-roll Trump nominees as bad as Schumer ever could.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at November 12, 2024 06:23 PM (2ds6i)

235 193 Where the f*ck do these retards get the idea that a president can expel a U.S. citizen from the country?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (d9fT1)

Projection.
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:16 PM (VNX3d)

I would respond, asked and answered: retards

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:23 PM (SSBCb)

236 This bikini brunette on a boat hope their fears are realized:
http://tiny.cc/gr0vzz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Looks like she's already having a good laugh about it.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:24 PM (v0R5T)

237 Can't think of one thing the CDC has done to control disease in Covid or any other outbreak.

To be fair, the Center for Disease Control has been right on top of the major health hazards caused by climate change and the free exercise of Second Amendment rights.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 06:24 PM (guGkK)

238 Black Jack?
Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:18 PM (v0R5T)
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Standing on their feet dealing with the unruly and unwashed masses while having to do a job which requires 6th grade math? They'd crumble within a week.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1)

They can staff the lefty cruise ships? All of the positions that don't require explicit certifications/licenses.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:24 PM (VNX3d)

239 There are so many examples of their corruption, the difficult part is to decide which ones should go first.
Only prison time will cull this abhorrent behavior.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

A friendly little game of cornhole will do wonders...

Posted by: You're terminated, fucker at November 12, 2024 06:24 PM (Mi9O7)

240 > everyone involved in the CHAZ - by setting up an autonomous zone inside the United states lost their US Citizenship and are subject to deportation. Just one of the high crimes the Garland DOJ failed to prosecute.

Hmm... if that's the case I don't think you'd even need to prosecute them. Just frogmarch them to the border and kick them across it.

Let them find out first-hand how Mexico deals with illegal aliens.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:25 PM (W5ArC)

241 because we know that our democracy and country depend on a government supported by a merit-based, apolitical civil service,"

98% of whom are Democrats, purely coincidentally.

Posted by: DOCTOR Jill Biden! at November 12, 2024 06:25 PM (uxCna)

242 239 There are so many examples of their corruption, the difficult part is to decide which ones should go first.
Only prison time will cull this abhorrent behavior.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

I want the truth to come out about the Jan 6th "Committee"

Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:25 PM (IyPmt)

243 Trump putting these names out early helps Scott in the Senate.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (2RQO4)

244 Most of the FBI's special privileges stacked on over the years by well-meaning "law and order" types need to be ripped away. No more asset seizure. No more illegal to lie to feds. No more remembering stuff and taking notes instead of tapes.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 06:13 PM (Hh1ER)

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

Yes, bring the FBI into the 21st century, every interaction to be recorded. Every agent must always wear a body-cam and every interrogation or interview to be recorded.

Most cars now have cameras to show what goes on in traffic or parking lot yet those liars think we must take their word for it. No more.

Posted by: Decaf at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (unUNN)

245 Pence needs the Michael Corleon treatment. Jazz one of his Arnold Palmers with ba rt situated then have him wake up in a low rent motel bed stinking of whiskey with a dead hooker in bed with him.
Yeah that's the ticket..Mr I never am alone with any woman but my wife.

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (0uEnu)

246 The Capital Police needs a giant Trusk enema. Every one of them should be made to reapply for their jobs.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (/U5Yz)

247 I want the truth to come out about the Jan 6th "Committee"
Posted by: It's me donna at November 12, 2024 06:25 PM (IyPmt)
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I'm open to water boarding, trial by water, flogging and stocks.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (tT6L1)

248 "199 And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision."

iirc, that is The Ann Coulter Argument.

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (Cus5s)

249 In case you were wondering, this battle has only just begun. The Democrats in the House and Senate plan to go back to the resistance playbook. They are going to try and derail the American people’s agenda because they are opposed to the citizens. The senate republicans have become a snake pit of establishment types and Democrats Lite. You’ve seen what Cornyn and Thune have done and said publicly over the past few years. There are at whole bunch more of them who will be hiding behind a secret vote tomorrow to elect one of those two subversives as Majority Leader.

It’s going to be time to sack up, look forward to the midterms where we can collect a bunch of new seats and then look to clean these old, corrupt, mothball smelling geriatric establishment assholes out of the senate.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (YqiVX)

250 And the response to the howling from the left when Trump waives immunity for all involved in imprisoning the J6:

If you did nothing wrong, if you followed the law--then you have nothing to worry about and a jury will free you.

You'll get a more fair trial than you offered a single one of the J6 defendants.
You should be thanking me.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (wkmJg)

251 "Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds."

Gee, this ...wouldn't be a problem if you hadn't politicized the justice department, now, would it? Which is...why doing this was such a stupid idea.

Easy enough - everyone involved in illegal persecutions/persecutions gets canned.

I don't think it is as bad as everyone assumes. Look at Jack Smith, illegal appointee as special prosecutor. Why didn't Merrick Garland submit his name to a democratic senate for approval? Why didn't he make Jack Smith second in command of a District Attorney lead? Because NOBODY wanted to touch this with a 10-foot pole. Why? because they knew this was bull shit loaded with blowback.

Time to show everyone why not being involved was a wise choice.

Posted by: El Mariachi at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (nLFEI)

252 Oh, and that Congressional order to the Biden administration to preserve all records applies to the Department of JustUs too.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (Da7Vv)

253 lol

"trepidation"

You betcha

Posted by: eleven at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (fV+MH)

254 But this is the new op, insisting that bureaucrats may boss around the elected president.

Remember, Trump was impeached for opposing the "interagency consensus" - i.e. the bureaucrats.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (uxCna)

255 revoke their citizenship before they leave, and then leave them without a country until someone else pities them and takes them in?
Posted by: LizLem

Musk needs people for both Moon Base and Mars... just saying...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (9eHkC)

256 DOJ ratlines to Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Bolivia, ...

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (Aqu9a)

257 Pence needs the Michael Corleon treatment. Jazz one of his Arnold Palmers with ba rt situated then have him wake up in a low rent motel bed stinking of whiskey with a dead hooker in bed with him.
Yeah that's the ticket..Mr I never am alone with any woman but my wife.
Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:26 PM (0uEnu)

It doesn't even have to be a dead hooker. Kamala or Whitmer would be even more effective - even alive, but equally drunk. With video evidence.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (VNX3d)

258 barbituate (sp)

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:28 PM (0uEnu)

259 If a tourist gives birth while on holiday in the US is that child automatically a citizen?

Were I in charge, I would change that rule. Mere geography ought not determine citizenship.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 06:28 PM (Hh1ER)

260 There are so many examples of their corruption, the difficult part is to decide which ones should go first.
Only prison time will cull this abhorrent behavior.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg

A friendly little game of cornhole will do wonders...
Posted by: You're terminated, fucker
.......

Chain gangs in the lettuce fields.

Posted by: wth at November 12, 2024 06:28 PM (v0R5T)

261 253 lol
"trepidation"
You betcha
Posted by: eleven
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It's the new dance rage in DC.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:30 PM (2RQO4)

262 I would like to see Brandon Herrera as head of the ATF.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:30 PM (/U5Yz)

263 Come on, come on, do the "trepidation" with me.

Over the gunnels fool.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (2RQO4)

264 Musk needs people for both Moon Base and Mars... just saying...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (9eHkC)
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The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (tT6L1)

265 "Most cars now have cameras to show what goes on in traffic or parking lot yet those liars think we must take their word for it. No more."

Right, just as Satan promised Eve "you shall be as god(s)".

Nope, we put the power in the hands of the people, not arrogant ego driven FBI "gods" that can lie with impunity (as Satan does, and his servants follow).

Posted by: illiniwek at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (Cus5s)

266 In case you were wondering, this battle has only just begun. The Democrats in the House and Senate plan to go back to the resistance playbook. They are going to try and derail the American people’s agenda because they are opposed to the citizens. The senate republicans have become a snake pit of establishment types and Democrats Lite. You’ve seen what Cornyn and Thune have done and said publicly over the past few years. There are at whole bunch more of them who will be hiding behind a secret vote tomorrow to elect one of those two subversives as Majority Leader.

Posted by: Vengeance at November 12, 2024 06:27 PM (YqiVX)

This isn't 2016. Even the RINOiest person has to know that the people aren't going to forget any overt resistance to Trump's policies. And the Democrats are hollowed out and weak, so working with them is risky and likely to fail. Better to join the parade than get run over by it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (n7h9X)

267 It's the new dance rage in DC.
Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:30 PM (2RQO4)
++++
The Trepidation Tango is wildly preferable to the Deleterious Disco they've been dancing for so long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (HnUIn)

268 "And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision."

The way to oppose birthright citizenship is very simple - start a legal case where a Chinese woman flew to the United States specifically to give birth in the United States, and then flew back to China a week later.

Make a ruling that her kid is not a US citizen, despite having been born in the United States, and having spent a whole week in the US.

Let the "birthright citizenship" people defend that.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (uxCna)

269
Pence is too poisonous for the Bulwark to hire.

Plus, lunch arrangements with female staff are right out.

Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (j4U/Z)

270 262 I would like to see Brandon Herrera as head of the ATF.
Posted by: Maj. Healey
---------

Aren't they going to eliminate that redundant bureau?

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (2RQO4)

271 It's the new dance rage in DC.
Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:30 PM (2RQO4)
++++
The Trepidation Tango is wildly preferable to the Deleterious Disco they've been dancing for so long.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I'm hoping for the Hulk Smash.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (VNX3d)

272 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 1h
I am pleased to announce that I have appointed Steven C. Witkoff to be Special Envoy to the Middle East. Steve is a Highly Respected Leader in Business and Philanthropy, who has made every project and community he has been involved with stronger and more prosperous. Steve will be an unrelenting Voice for PEACE, and make us all proud…

Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 44m
I am pleased to announce that William Joseph McGinley will serve as my White House Counsel. Bill is a smart and tenacious lawyer who will help me advance our America First agenda while fighting for election integrity and against the weaponization of law enforcement. He served in my first term as White House Cabinet Secretary and played a major role in our election victory as the RNC's Outside Counsel for Election Integrity…

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (hovnC)

273 Plus, lunch arrangements with female staff are right out.
Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (j4U/Z)
---------------

The Bulwark likes women? When did this start?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (tT6L1)

274 Pence is too poisonous for the Bulwark to hire.

Plus, lunch arrangements with female staff are right out.
Posted by: Auspex at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (j4U/Z)

Female staff at the Bulwark??

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:33 PM (n7h9X)

275 I wouldn't doubt these Deep Staters had no plan they could be on the chopping block.

Posted by: Skip at November 12, 2024 06:33 PM (fwDg9)

276 > Aren't they going to eliminate that redundant bureau?
Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (2RQO4)

As someone said (Foxworthy?) ATF should be a convenience store, not a federal agency.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:33 PM (W5ArC)

277 Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump · 43m
I am pleased to announce that former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe will serve as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

From exposing fake Russian collusion to be a Clinton campaign operation, to catching the FBl's abuse of Civil Liberties at the FISA Court, John Ratcliffe has always been a warrior for Truth and Honesty with the American Public. When 51 intelligence officials were lying about Hunter Biden's laptop, there was one, John Ratcliffe, telling the truth to the American People…

https://tinyurl.com/44bhut77
full statement IMAGE

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:34 PM (hovnC)

278 Aren't they going to eliminate that redundant bureau?
Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:32 PM (2RQO4)

As someone said (Foxworthy?) ATF should be a convenience store, not a federal agency.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:33 PM (W5ArC)

With mail order service.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:34 PM (VNX3d)

279 "Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds."

Gee, if even one of you lawyer folk had the courage to stand up and say "Ya know, we shouldn't be doing this."
But no.
Cowards.
Reap what you have sowed, assholes.

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 06:34 PM (W/lyH)

280 And the Hordemind immediately questions when the Bulwark decided women were no longer icky.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:34 PM (tT6L1)

281 "And birthright citizenship isn't even an actual codified law, it started as a footnote in a SCOTUS decision."

The way to oppose birthright citizenship is very simple - start a legal case where a Chinese woman flew to the United States specifically to give birth in the United States, and then flew back to China a week later.

Make a ruling that her kid is not a US citizen, despite having been born in the United States, and having spent a whole week in the US.

Let the "birthright citizenship" people defend that.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:31 PM (uxCna)

So Pass a Law. Then they can't defend it.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (n7h9X)

282 Most of the Republican Senate leadership is dogshit. Old, putrid, crusty slippery than dogshit on wet grass, dogshit. I say this knowing some of the staffers. The senate is going to be the major obstacle to achieving the American people’s desires and agenda. Bank on it.

Posted by: Marcus T at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (t64lJ)

283 > "that would violate five decades of norms post-Watergate, which said that the DoJ should be independent from the president"
----
that's laughable
the AG is often the President's consigliere/hitman/enforcer/cleaner

and Watergate is when this shit really took off

imo ymmv

Posted by: Don Black at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (/7KEl)

284 There's so much ass kicking to do at the DOJ and FBI that I might need a scorecard to keep up with the headrolling.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (I90LY)

285 It was senator cornyn.
---------
Thanks, Whig. They all look alike to me.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (hovnC)

286 Elon Musk appointed Secretary of Department of Redundancy Department Secretary

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 06:36 PM (b2/S2)

287 "Trump is Hitler -- literally!"

"OK, then, Trump want to follow the Constitution and calmly and legally enact the agenda he was elected to enact."

"B-b-b-but --that's unpossible! It's an abuse of power!"

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:36 PM (pMi6S)

288 As someone said (Foxworthy?) ATF should be a convenience store, not a federal agency.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:33 PM (W5ArC)

A paramilitary operation that regulates three LEGAL products. Wonderful.

Turn them into a home for kittens, puppies and bunnies.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:37 PM (n7h9X)

289 Pence is a chump and a backstabber, but his principle is wise and men should heed it.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at November 12, 2024 06:37 PM (Hh1ER)

290 Want a treat? Go look up Stacey Young's 'achievments' at DoJ.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 06:37 PM (XeU6L)

291 There's so much ass kicking to do at the DOJ and FBI that I might need a scorecard to keep up with the headrolling.
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at November 12, 2024 06:35 PM (I90LY)

put the faces on a deck of cards.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (n7h9X)

292 "that would violate five decades of norms post-Watergate, which said that the DoJ should be independent from the president"

Because nothing says "independent from the president" like coordinating lawfare against your leading political opponent out of the White House.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (uxCna)

293 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

294 How, exactly does Cocaine Mitch get to say who the nominees for Senate Majority leader will be for the next congressional term? Why can't the next Senate ignore what ever he said as Minority Leader and select their own leader? Fuck that Turd.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (Da7Vv)

295 Many federal employees are terrified...by a merit-based, apolitical civil service.

FIFY

Posted by: Tom Perry at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (MX0bI)

296 Elon Musk appointed Secretary of Musk ooo-OOO The Missing Link Between Animal and Man.

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (pMi6S)

297 Musk needs people for both Moon Base and Mars... just saying...
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron
-------------
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.
Posted by: blake
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Hmm... let's see if I can give an obscure reference... ahhh!

Never go out on the Red Planet without your sunbeam flashlight.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (9eHkC)

298 Trump is Hitler
Hitler killed himself
Therefore Trump killed Hitler
Works for me

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (b2/S2)

299 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

Great news Jim in K!

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (n7h9X)

300 >>>and Watergate is when this shit really took off

imo ymmv
Posted by: Don Black
---

A milestone along the way.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (2RQO4)

301
The lawyers are afraid of Trump. Best news from DC since the IRS told me I had overpaid and sent me a check.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's office at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (T3es0)

302 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

Yippee!!! Wonderful News!

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (VNX3d)

303 So who will be the director for the Ministry of Silly Walks? Maybe Jerry tight cheeks Nadler if Joe stumble bum Biden

Posted by: I'm Gumby Damn It! at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (0uEnu)

304 An election day morning thread for lolz:

I’m not sure about Kamala Harris and her chances in Texas, but I think Ted Cruz is in real trouble.

I would be so happy to never see his ugly smug face again! Sadly, Fox or CNN would probably hire him.

The high light of my day! First to vote for Harris and to also vote for Allred. We've got this!

I sure hope Allred can pull it off, but not counting any chickens yet. We are voting in a totally corrupted gerrymandered State so it’s not possible to win without at least 5% margin, and Allred is so close but not over by even 2%.

If Beto can come within 2 points, Colin can close that gap! Particularly when you add in things like Dobbs, the insurrection, and six more years of Ted's idiocy.

People HATE cruz, so it's not surprising. That said, it kind of seems like Allred was left to fend for himself without a lot of support from the party.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (ycI94)

305 "Everyone I've talked to, mostly lawyers, are losing their minds."
----

Uh...if they have been responsibly executing their appropriate duties, why should they be worried?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (XeU6L)

306 How about John C. McGinley for something? He's one of the Bobs.

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (KAi1n)

307 ***Trump critics worry he'll target them for retribution***

He'd better.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:41 PM (2RQO4)

308 There's so much ass kicking to do at the DOJ and FBI that I might need a scorecard to keep up with the headrolling.

The hilarious part is that someone noted that the mandatory FBI physical fitness standards have been waived for the FBI leadership.

Make them show up on a training field at 0600 to see if they can meet the mandatory standards.

That would work on the Vindemans in the officer corps as well.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:41 PM (uxCna)

309 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

Oh come on Jim.
Go clothing optional discharge.
Do it! You know you want to.
Hospital gown flapping in the breeze!

Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (W/lyH)

310
Never go out on the Red Planet without your sunbeam flashlight.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:39 PM (9eHkC)
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Dejah Thoris laughs.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (tT6L1)

311 Lara Trump may replace Rubio. You heard it here first.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (/U5Yz)

312 FAFO--finding out can be a poke in the rear.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (cB7nX)

313 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (ycI94)

Heh. Good times, man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (guGkK)

314 Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)

Freedom!!!!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (9eHkC)

315 302 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia)
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Super. Remember, no jalapenos and sign in as soon as you get home.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (2RQO4)

316 I suppose terminating the bastards is something. But I'd be happier if their positions, too, were terminated. And the DOJ lawyers? Hanging.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (1bNHn)

317 That would work on the Vindemans in the officer corps as well.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:41 PM (uxCna)

Vindy prime already retired.

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (n7h9X)

318 298 Trump is Hitler
Hitler killed himself
Therefore Trump killed Hitler
Works for me
Posted by: Smell the Glove

Trump is Hitler
Hitler liked dogs.
Barack Obama ate dogs.
Therefore Hitler is Trump's Obama.

I'm getting the hang of this logic thing.

Posted by: zombie at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (pMi6S)

319 Oh come on Jim.
Go clothing optional discharge.
Do it! You know you want to.
Hospital gown flapping in the breeze!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (W/lyH)

And put it on backwards. Give the ladies a show.

Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (MGB5H)

320 This is all worth reading, but I'll bold the most important parts for you slack-jawed yokels.

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Hey!

Posted by: Dr Pork Chops & Bacons at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (g8Ew8)

321 Ah, yes. The old 'gerrymandered a statewide vote' gambit.

Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (hovnC)

322 Vindy prime already retired.

Still a lot of Vindy-like types still in the service, I bet.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (uxCna)

323 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

Good news!

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (dR6yv)

324 Congresswoman Luna would be a perfect replacement for Rubio

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (b2/S2)

325 How about John C. McGinley for something? He's one of the Bobs.
Posted by: SFGoth

What is it you say you do here?

You see, what we're actually trying to do here is, we're trying to get a feel for how people spend their day at work... so, if you would, would you walk us through a typical day, for you?

Posted by: Tonypete at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (WXNFJ)

326 A big piece of chocolate cake. mmm

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (2RQO4)

327 RIP Roy Haynes.

Posted by: gp Cast Ballot, Republic Is Saved! at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (Q8V7a)

328 I intend on keeping Melania's dirty undies for future sniffs !!

Jill's smell like a rotting Water-Buffalo Carcass on the Serenghetti.....

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (h8Giw)

329 309 Imma gettin' out! Putting on my clothes, waiting for son & discharge papers. 5 1/2 days this stint.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:38 PM (SSBCb)

Oh come on Jim.
Go clothing optional discharge.
Do it! You know you want to.
Hospital gown flapping in the breeze!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (W/lyH)

What's that holiday song? But baby, it's cold outside.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (SSBCb)

330 Vindy prime already retired.
Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (n7h9X)

He can still be recalled and court martialed. .

Pray...

Posted by: I'll choose a new nick later-Certified Dangerous Radical at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (89Sog)

331 Rawdog the DOJ lawdogs!

Posted by: Duncanthrax at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (NlwkK)

332 Ah, yes. The old 'gerrymandered a statewide vote' gambit.
Posted by: andycanuck (hovnC) at November 12, 2024 06:44 PM (hovnC)

they are hazy on the details of this democracy thing

Posted by: Oldcat at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (n7h9X)

333 Glad to hear it Jim in Kali. Good luck and God bless

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 12, 2024 06:46 PM (b2/S2)

334 Tonypete - yep

Posted by: SFGoth at November 12, 2024 06:46 PM (KAi1n)

335 Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at November 12, 2024 06:40 PM (ycI94)

this is very therapeutic !

Posted by: runner at November 12, 2024 06:46 PM (V13WU)

336 Federalist attorneys should brighten up their CVs. There will be a lot of opportunities for federal work in the months ahead.

Another area for the gimlet eye's focus are our illustrious Ivy League law schools - the ones that churn out fresh-face Marxist attorneys by the bucket loads every year.

Posted by: mrp at November 12, 2024 06:46 PM (rj6Yv)

337 Trump is Hitler
Hitler liked dogs.
Barack Obama Haitians ate dogs and cats.
Therefore Hitler is Trump's Obama.

Haitians eat dogs and cats.
You can't spell Haitian without hate.
You are what you eat.
Trump's a hateful pussy?

Posted by: Confused Moron at November 12, 2024 06:46 PM (ycI94)

338 nood

Posted by: gp Cast Ballot, Republic Is Saved! at November 12, 2024 06:47 PM (Q8V7a)

339 Has Fat-Ass Goldberg and the Hideous Joy Behar left the country yet ????

Posted by: Franklin Stein at November 12, 2024 06:47 PM (H8ppk)

340 Dejah Thoris laughs.
Posted by: blake

I always wondered if her voice was squeaky do to her being a princess.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at November 12, 2024 06:47 PM (9eHkC)

341 "Reap what you have sowed, assholes."

Ahem...sewn.

Posted by: eleven at November 12, 2024 06:48 PM (fV+MH)

342 It's about time we started kicking butt and taking names.

TRUMP!!!!!

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at November 12, 2024 06:48 PM (+HzbQ)

343 Has Fat-Ass Goldberg and the Hideous Joy Behar left the country yet ????
Posted by: Franklin Stein at November 12, 2024 06:47 PM (H8ppk)

Suitable trebuchets are still being constructed.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at November 12, 2024 06:48 PM (VNX3d)

344 321 Ah, yes. The old 'gerrymandered a statewide vote' gambit.
Posted by: andycanuck

Tricksies Republicans! Lies and scheming!

Posted by: Democrat Gollum at November 12, 2024 06:48 PM (ycI94)

345 .
NOOD

Clooney Complains of Being Made a "Scapegoat" for Kamala's Loss; Will "Step Back from Politics"
CNN to Axe HUNDREDS of "Workers," Including Top "Talent"

NOOD

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 12, 2024 06:49 PM (O7YUW)

346 If a tourist gives birth while on holiday in the US is that child automatically a citizen?

Here is the operative part of the 14th amendment:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

See that second clause? If you are a citizen of another country not here on a green card, you are not subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. Period. End of discussion.

Posted by: An Observation sez China Joe not my president at November 12, 2024 06:49 PM (Da7Vv)

347 327 RIP Roy Haynes.
Posted by: gp Cast Ballot, Republic Is Saved!
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He was a heavy hitter, RIP.

Posted by: Braenyard says men overboard first, women next. at November 12, 2024 06:49 PM (2RQO4)

348
Can we end the silly fiction that bureaucrats are "apolitical civil servants"? And we didn't have a civil service for 100 years and the country did just fine.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 12, 2024 06:51 PM (EsZUh)

349 F5 updates are hanging up. Blog gone wonky.

Posted by: Count de Monet at November 12, 2024 06:51 PM (Aqu9a)

350 300 >>>and Watergate is when this shit really took off

imo ymmv
Posted by: Don Black
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A milestone along the way.

it says "nodnol 182 selim", doesn't it?

Posted by: new $.83/gal gas tax at November 12, 2024 06:52 PM (v3pYe)

351 We’re going to fuck you up!

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at November 12, 2024 06:53 PM (Vh9CX)

352 Babylon Bee:

Devil: "Hitler hates it when we compare him to Trump." LOL

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 12, 2024 06:53 PM (u82oZ)

353 319 Oh come on Jim.
Go clothing optional discharge.
Do it! You know you want to.
Hospital gown flapping in the breeze!
Posted by: Diogenes at November 12, 2024 06:42 PM (W/lyH)

And put it on backwards. Give the ladies a show.
Posted by: BruceWayne at November 12, 2024 06:43 PM (MGB5H)

I'm sure that would get laughs and chuckling.

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:54 PM (SSBCb)

354 President Biden do have anything to say about Melania Trump turning down Jill's invitation???

Biden: Jill my darling Jill don't feel blue

Biden: I have a 67 vette and tank full of gas

Biden: And a mouth full of Melania's pussy and a hand full of her ass

Posted by: Joe Biden at November 12, 2024 06:55 PM (i3HeT)

355 341 "Reap what you have sowed, assholes."

Ahem...sewn.
Posted by: eleven at November 12, 2024 06:48 PM (fV+MH)

Or just button it up?

Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:56 PM (SSBCb)

356 We are getting the ole gang back together to relive the good ole days of Nixon....

Posted by: Woodward and Bernstein at November 12, 2024 06:57 PM (i3HeT)

357 This has been what they have been pushing for awhile

Posted by: Don at November 12, 2024 06:57 PM (Wlnxc)

358 > What's that holiday song? But baby, it's cold outside.
Posted by: jim (in hospital in Kalifornia) at November 12, 2024 06:45 PM (SSBCb)

If it's the bare-butt style, it would be handy for mooning any communist protests you happen to pass.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 06:59 PM (W5ArC)

359 Shaking their heads and muttering "This is not who we are", definitely.

Posted by: Curly Shuffle at November 12, 2024 06:23 PM (Vyll1)
__________________

Employed?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at November 12, 2024 07:00 PM (YqDXo)

360 The current "merit" (lol!) system replace the old "spoils" system, where essentially all federal government employees were replaced when a new administration took office.

While it had its own problems, the "spoils" system did have the advantage that you didn't have a massive corps of unfireable career bureaucrats.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at November 12, 2024 07:01 PM (W5ArC)

361 Hegseth Secretary of Defense!

Posted by: Moonbeam at November 12, 2024 07:13 PM (rbKZ6)

362 A First Sergeant I had said UCMJ was so every other soldier in the unit could see joe-shit the ragpicker suffering and think to himself "there but by the grace of God go I."
Every govt employee should think that multiple times a day.
Every lawyer, special agent and judge involved with J6 cases should be imprisoned.
Every one involved in suppressing free speech...prison.
Everyone imprisoning peaceful abortion protesters...
Everyone passing along orders to not assist Trump voters in FEMA...
I want them to be afraid, very afraid.

Posted by: Fra Fillipo at November 12, 2024 07:17 PM (S5asJ)

363 I just had a memory.

A long while ago, before something crawled into his brain and nested there, Patter-swatted-rico's blog had a series that I seem to recall was named "Deport the Criminals First". Deportation of criminal elements, moreso than just the first crime of improper entry into the country.

Wonder if he nuked his blog, rather than admit he agreed with Bad, Bad, Orange-Man Bad. Not going to check, because of how bad the TDS was.

Posted by: Another Anon at November 12, 2024 09:43 PM (QNMaY)

364 REMOVE. SECURITY. CEARANCES. FROM. 95%. OF. FEDERAL. EMPLOYEES.

NOW.

That is the source of the grift and mayhem.

Posted by: Danimal28 at November 13, 2024 09:29 AM (klw0w)

365 So this admin is going to prosecute Americans who don't like Israel? How? On what grounds? How much time in the clink for saying Netanyahu is overweight? Two years seems fair for such an anti-semitic remark.
Maybe people can get social credits for pro-semitic remarks?

Posted by: creep at November 13, 2024 02:08 PM (QHiot)

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