Trump Orders Senior FBI Officials to Retire, Resign, or Be Fired By Monday

JUST IN: Senior FBI officials have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday -- CNN.

Oh no. How terrible.

Also: Federal fake pronoun use to end at 5pm Eastern today.

Libs of TikTok
@libsoftiktok
BREAKING: Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today

Trump has imposed a further sanction on the Spies Who Lie: Not only are their security clearances stripped, but they are forbidden to enter any federal building.

They are national security risks and possibly traitors, and yes, they should not be permitted to meet with their fellow subversives on federal grounds.

The Daily Wire:

President Donald Trump is taking further action against the 50 former intelligence officials who falsely suggested Hunter Biden's laptop was "part of a Russian disinformation campaign," instructing agencies to also ban those individuals from stepping foot in secure U.S. government facilities, according to a memo obtained by The Daily Wire.
The Jan. 29 cabinet memorandum, first obtained by The Daily Wire, expands Trump's day-one executive order, which revoked the security clearance for the 50 individuals. Sent "on behalf of the President," it orders the country's top national security agencies to "revoke unescorted access to secure U.S. Government facilities from the 50 former intelligence officials named in the Executive Order."

Trump sent out a mass-email to federal workers with the subject line, "Resign."

He's telling them that if they resign voluntarily, they will get eight months of pay with no further work demanded of them.

And he's letting them know, as Vincent Coccotti said, that's as good as it's gonna get and it won't ever get that good again.

The White House will issue a memo Tuesday offering to pay federal workers who don't want to return to the office through Sept. 30, as long as they resign by Feb. 6, an administration official tells Axios.
Why it matters: It's an acceleration in President Trump's already unprecedented purge of the federal workforce.
What they're saying: "The government-wide email being sent today is to make sure that all federal workers are on board with the new administration's plan to have federal employees in office and adhering to higher standards. We're five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable," a senior administration official tells Axios.
The White House expects 5% to 10% of federal employees to accept the offer, which would potentially mean hundreds of thousands of people.
The administration projects the buyouts could ultimately save taxpayers up to $100 billion a year.
Zoom out: The offer applies to all full-time federal employees, except for military personnel, the Postal Service, and those working in immigration enforcement or national security.
Between the lines: Many federal workers are already feeling scared about the administration's crackdown on DEI, its return-to-office policy and the effort to reclassify civil servants.
That unease could increase take-up on this new offer.

Politico reports: The federal "work" force is in "panic."

"Chaos, mistrust, confusion," said one employee at the Department of Justice who, like others, was granted anonymity to speak candidly about the situation without fear of retribution. "There's also a deep suspicion, especially among people who think they may be on the chopping block, that this is the last lifeboat in town."
Trump, who spent years decrying the "deep state," has long wanted to reduce the government's footprint. Frustrated over what he saw as overly lenient work-from-home policies nearly five years after the Covid-19 pandemic began, Trump has empowered Tesla CEO Elon Musk to help streamline government. But the vague order has nearly ground the massive bureaucracy to a halt, and has the potential to create the kind of crisis that might backfire politically.
"The blanket approach, which is pure Elon Musk, is going to have unintended consequences down the road," said Elaine Kamarck, a government studies fellow at the Brookings Institution who oversaw President Bill Clinton's initiative to reform government in the 1990s. "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout? Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic? That's the risk with the way they've done it, sort of using a blowtorch for a very small issue."
The email, sent Tuesday evening by the Office of Personnel Management, offered recipients the option to resign and be paid through September but offered no guarantees about future employment if they chose to stay. Although it was sent unsigned by the agency's human resources department, many of the federal employees conferring about it over phone calls and group texts saw the fingerprints of Musk, who applied the same slashing approach after taking over Twitter.
In fact, the subject line was the exact same one he used in 2022 when giving staffers at Twitter a similar ultimatum to either become more "hardcore" or leave the company: "Fork in the road."

Mark Halperin says that his sources say that Kash Patel has the 50 Republican votes needed for confirmation. He also says that RFKJr. is on the bubble -- he doesn't have fifty votes yet, but he also doesn't have fifty votes against him yet. Note that liberal "Republican" Bill Cassidy of Louisiana basically declared himself a "no," of course, saying that he would vote "no" to, get this, protect Trump. He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump.

See? He's super-MAGA, everybody. He continues to work with the Democrats to thwart MAGA but he's really doing it all just to protect us, because we're too fucking stupid to think for ourselves and need arrogant leftwing bullshit artists like Cassidy to guide us.

Kennedy may have a single Democrat vote -- Sheldon Whitehouse, who is actually a personal friend of RFKJr.'s and who might, maybe actually put his venomous politics aside for the sake of friendship.

I doubt it, though.

Halperin said that Gabbard is in trouble. Which Josh Hawley confirms:

🚨JUST IN: Sen Josh Hawley says Tulsi nomination "may be in jeopardy."

Watters: "Do your Republican colleagues understand what will happen if they vote down Tulsi?"

Hawley: "I don't know. And I have to tell you, I'm worried by what I hear from some of my Republican colleagues.… pic.twitter.com/KR52lie8od
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) January 31, 2025

The Blaze is hearing the same.

While Gabbard may have cleared one hurdle, others sprung up during her hearing. Several senators, including Republican Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, pressed Gabbard over her past support of the NSA leaker Edward Snowden. Lankford and other lawmakers urged Gabbard to call Snowden a traitor, but Gabbard refused. That being said, she acknowledged that Snowden was a criminal and outlined a four-step plan to prevent any "Snowden-like" leaks in the future.
All things considered, Gabbard performed as well as she could have. The question is whether it was enough to pull herself across the finish line.
Although Lankford previously committed himself as a "yes" vote on Gabbard, he was "surprised" at the nominee's response to concerns about her Snowden stance.
"I was surprised because that doesn't seem like a hard question on that," Lankford said Thursday. "It wasn't intended to be a trick question by any means."
Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana also seems to be on the fence about Gabbard. Young pressed the nominee with a similar line of questioning, asking about her past introduction of legislation that called to pardon Snowden.
"He likely endangered American lives through his action," Young said Thursday. "As a leader of the intelligence community, how do you think you would be received on some of these past actions to support or even to pardon Snowden?"
While some lawmakers expressed hesitancy, Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas put out a statement that could only barely be described as an endorsement of Gabbard.
"Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 provides that the president shall appoint officers with the advice and consent of the Senate," Cornyn said. "Having won the election decisively, I believe President Trump has earned the right to appoint his own Cabinet, absent extraordinary circumstances. Therefore, it is my intention to consent to the appointment of Tulsi Gabbard as director of national intelligence."

Liberal Girlboss Feminist Joni Ernst also declared that she would support her fellow Girlboss, because, of course. She's about advancing the ladies and literally nothing else.

WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Senator Michael Bennet asked Tulsi Gabbard a question, and when she opened her mouth to answer, he immediately interrupted her and started SCREAMING.

Tulsi Derangement Syndrome is deadly. pic.twitter.com/Rzv0IIqHoC
— George (@BehizyTweets) January 30, 2025

JD Vance underlined the policy: The government is not a make-work program for DEI hires without skills. It exists to provide vital services to people:

I find it hard to believe this needs to be said, but since Democrats vehemently deny it, it needs to be said pic.twitter.com/2OENW8Hu0B
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) January 31, 2025

Must watch: Real undoctored video of the RFKJr. hearings from yesterday.

they CUT THIS PART OUT of the RFK hearing! pic.twitter.com/qeeS41ygxn
— Tyler Fischer (@TyTheFisch) January 31, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 04:40 PM

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1 Darn that Trum!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:42 PM (63Dwl)

2 1

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 04:42 PM (aBgBM)

3 Cornyn is a flaccid dick of a senator, but he's right about the president naming the cabinet.

Posted by: huerfano at January 31, 2025 04:42 PM (n2swS)

4 Not a scalpel or a hammer, but a flamethrower. This is amazing.

All those years we were told to be patient, that it's a process, and These Things Need To Be Done Delicately.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at January 31, 2025 04:42 PM (kpS4V)

5 Top 17?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at January 31, 2025 04:43 PM (pgwxJ)

6 2 1 Trump prevented me from getting the First!!! Reeeee!!!

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 04:43 PM (aBgBM)

7 First?

Posted by: Blackstone blackstonerocks.com at January 31, 2025 04:43 PM (9byfS)

8 It's like the "peace process" or processed cheese.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:44 PM (63Dwl)

9 Orange is now my favorite color.

Posted by: electronic means at January 31, 2025 04:44 PM (WVQot)

10 Is fuckme an acceptable pronoun?

Posted by: Stateless...28% - mental state clawing up from 10% at January 31, 2025 04:44 PM (jvJvP)

11 And he's letting them know, as Vincent Coccotti said, that's as good as it's gonna get and it won't ever get that good again.

Donny Two Scoops.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 04:45 PM (Vqx30)

12 Beep bop boop mfers

Posted by: NJ Class Traitor at January 31, 2025 04:45 PM (L0B+G)

13 Video of RFK hearing. LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 31, 2025 04:45 PM (MQJVv)

14 Also: Federal fake pronoun use to end at 5pm Eastern today.
_________________

So they've got ~15 minutes to lose the pronouns.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2025 04:46 PM (YqDXo)

15 Harris and Bass have the same pronouns: "has/been"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2025 04:47 PM (YqDXo)

16 >>Employees at multiple federal agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today
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I felt a great disturbance in the Workforce, as if a billion genders had cried out and been suddenly silenced.

Posted by: electronic means at January 31, 2025 04:47 PM (WVQot)

17 Holy fuck.

This dude ain't fucking around.

I mean they tried to kill him and they stormed his house and everything.

But this dude ain't fucking around.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:47 PM (fV+MH)

18 Obviously more punishment is needed, for Republicans. Make them suffer, Donald. They have chosen the Way of Pain…

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (PCK5/)

19 President Trump is taking questions.

Tariffs for the EU are incoming. Sweet. Socialist assholes.

Posted by: Stateless...28% - mental state clawing up from 10% at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (jvJvP)

20 Not only are their security clearances stripped, but they are forbidden to enter any federal building.

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

Does this include the post office?

please say yes

Lie to me if you have to

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (HYKHz)

21
Still waiting for Ace to use "gooners."

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (IswQ/)

22 PDT answering press questions in the Oval Office. Again.

How many times in 4 years did his predecessor answer policy questions while he was in the Oval Office? Besides saying, "No"?

Posted by: Gref at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (aBgBM)

23 Get fucked- The new normal.

hahahahaha

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at January 31, 2025 04:48 PM (NtVYv)

24 WHAT IS HAPPENING??? Senator Michael Bennet asked Tulsi Gabbard a question, and when she opened her mouth to answer, he immediately interrupted her and started SCREAMING.

Tulsi Derangement Syndrome is deadly. pic.twitter.com/Rzv0IIqHoC

- George (@BehizyTweets) January 30, 2025

Bennet is from vote-by-mail, California-colonized, run-by-Polesucker Colorado. Does he have an invisible "friend" like Schumer's?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 04:49 PM (Vqx30)

25 i updated with a report from Politico about federal "workers" in "panic."

Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:49 PM (KRtlO)

26 U.S. Attorney DC
@USAO_DC
1h
Former Senior Adviser for the Federal Reserve Indicted on Charges of Economic Espionage
----

Trump ran out of bubble gum.

Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2025 04:49 PM (G0vdT)

27 Any R that votes NO on Tulsi needs serious opposition come election time followed by woodchippering with prejudice (WWP).

Posted by: Ciampino - a solid wall of YES is needed at January 31, 2025 04:49 PM (KjLnc)

28 Did Tyler Fischer do those voices?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (63Dwl)

29 "They won't be able to walk the streets."

Posted by: Reforger at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (xcIvR)

30 >>>Still waiting for Ace to use "gooners."

does it mean masturbators? or is that coomers? I don't know, I'm not hip with Gen Alpha lingo, I'm almost 29 years old.

Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

31 JUST IN: Senior FBI officials have been ordered to retire, resign or be fired by Monday -- CNN.

Schadenboner is cutting diamonds right now.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (CT61Q)

32 >>How many times in 4 years did his predecessor answer policy questions while he was in the Oval Office? Besides saying, "No"?
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To be honest, most of the time Biden said something untranslatable into English.

Posted by: electronic means at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (WVQot)

33 I am always struck by how much Vance looks like the young Grover Cleveland (found on the Wiki entry for Cleveland)

Posted by: skywch at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (uqhmb)

34 >>28 Did Tyler Fischer do those voices?

no they're real

Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

35 They/Them is now Was/Were.

I fucking love it.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (FAbrK)

36 Daily Mail has the January cable ratings. Lowest in history in the coveted 25-54 demographic for both CNN and MSNBC.

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (Y1sOo)

37 jk yes it's tyler fisher

Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

38 36 Daily Mail has the January cable ratings. Lowest in history in the coveted 25-54 demographic for both CNN and MSNBC.
Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (Y1sOo)

=====

Moving Acosta from CNN to MSNBC will save MSNBC, though.

DU told me so.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

39 This is one of the most amazing press conferences I've ever seen.

This is the kind of entertainment I pay taxes for.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (LkLld)

40 The last video is hysterical.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (xCA6C)

41 >>>36 Daily Mail has the January cable ratings. Lowest in history in the coveted 25-54 demographic for both CNN and MSNBC.

sweet!

Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (KRtlO)

42 >>>Watters: "Do your Republican colleagues understand what will happen if they vote down Tulsi?"

What WILL happen?

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (v0TzN)

43 1. I saw a clip of a black woman grilling RFKjr about a statement he made, referring to a study that said blacks should get a different vax schedule due to their stronger immune response.

Senator said "that was racist." Video I saw compared it to a scene in House where a black patient refused a drug that was targeted to blacks because of a genetic difference.

2. I think many Federal employees doing WFH are at real risk that they will be investigated for taking other jobs. Many are also at risk for many other illegal things (taxes, expense account fraud,....) and Trump knows he can go after them there. They are still union protected, but the full weight of facts may change that since it is unconstitutional anyway.

So no, his offers will not get any better. He has a plan.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (qFOmp)

44 Not just senior FBI officials but he's also making list of FBI agents:
Those that worked with, for or on behalf of Jack Smith.
And any they think will work against Trump.

Said to drop by next Friday.

He really is daring someone, anyone to sue him.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (RPWCv)

45 If you're in a fcking panic because someone is asking you to DO YOUR JOB then maybe you ought to seek employment elsewhere.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (Vqx30)

46 Thunder us my senator and he always a RINO. He will not be able to get votes for Tulsi because he is a p#$sy and just wants to be loved by everyone. A younger, less intelligent, Mitch.

Posted by: Megthered at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (6M5v9)

47 They think they found the remnant of the Garden of Eden. There was a tee shirt wrapped in ancient papyrus. They think it was Adam's. Scientists unfolded it and it said:
There is only one gender.

Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

48 >>>He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump.

Somebody tell this person to COMPLETELY f off.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (v0TzN)

49 Although Lankford previously committed himself as a "yes" vote on Gabbard, he was "surprised" at the nominee's response to concerns about her Snowden stance.

Lankford is surprised every morning when he looks down and sees his willy.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (xCA6C)

50 "Trump sent out a mass-email to federal workers with the subject line, "Resign.""

Sounds like they'll be hiring. Maybe should send my resume.

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (7D76Q)

51 I don't understand why federal employees have a union. It baffles me.

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (lCppi)

52 It is good seeing the Trump administration do all the stuff we told him to last time, finally LOL. Don't get me wrong, he did a lot right last time but so much was left undone. Sadly I doubt he will get the pentagon cleaned out like he ought... although maybe the new defense secretary will get it done.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (2VST1)

53 51 I don't understand why federal employees have a union. It baffles me.
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (lCppi)

=======

To more effectively steal from taxpayers and to more seamlessly control elected officials.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (GBKbO)

54 Watters: "Do your Republican colleagues understand what will happen if they vote down Tulsi?"

What WILL happen?

Nicole Shanahan fires up her checkbook to fund primary challenges.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (xCA6C)

55 He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump.

How about the hundreds of thousands who have turbo cancers because of the fake vaccine asshoe?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (CT61Q)

56
i updated with a report from Politico about federal "workers" in "panic."
Posted by: ace

Politico posted, like, 3 of these stories BEFORE the election, too.

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (IswQ/)

57 "He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump."

==========

That is hilarious.

Posted by: Jay in PA at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (i7Q7S)

58 US border agents lining the southern border

https://tinyurl.com/4f78uyum

Posted by: Ciampino - a solid wall of NO WAY JOSE is needed at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (KjLnc)

59 There's that female billionaire threatening to go after pols that vote against RFK jr according to GatewayPundit.

Hopefully, this starts to terrorize these bastards and everyone can get confirmed.

Posted by: Stateless...28% - mental state clawing up from 10% at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (jvJvP)

60 "Get fucked- The new normal.

hahahahaha
Posted by: Hatari somewhere "

I love it.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (fV+MH)

61 46 Thunder us my senator
Posted by: Megthered at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (6M5v9)

Who?

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (v0TzN)

62 Gabbard is less important that RFK and Patel, imo.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (zZu0s)

63 Thunder=Thune. My phone loves autocorrect

Posted by: Megthered at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (6M5v9)

64 Unemployment skyrockets under Trump's first hundred days !!!

Posted by: Ben Had at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (mB6WH)

65 These Senators who are going against Trump's nominees, are too dumb for word. Trump can do so much much damage to them, and then on top of that send the whole kit and caboodle home, and install hundreds of his nominees in place. And he WILL do it.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (g47mK)

66 He likely endangered American lives through his action,

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

Snowden endangered the lives of deep state stooges?

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

anyway

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (HYKHz)

67 *words not word

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (g47mK)

68 US border agents lining the southern border

Are they border agents or military?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (xCA6C)

69 63 Thunder=Thune. My phone loves autocorrect
Posted by: Megthered at January 31, 2025 04:54 PM (6M5v9)

Aha.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (v0TzN)

70 Donald Corleone is taking care of some motherfucking family business bitches.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (fV+MH)

71 62 Gabbard is less important that RFK and Patel, imo.

agree but I still want her

Trump deserves to get his picks dammit

and btw Cassidy is full of shit with his rationalizing. did Pfizer write that nonsense for him?

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (Pv3Rg)

72 He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump.

***
Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (v0TzN)

Um, wut?

What the heck is his 'logic?" I guess he thinks RFK would ban vaccines- All vaccines? And then someone would die of polio or something? -It sounds like a fever dream where the dummy senator saves the world by thwarting the evil Anti Vax

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (lCppi)

73
One of feminist neil gaiman's victims: "I had to lick my own feces."

This perverted leftist "writer" is not only into "scat," he makes his girls touch and lick their own poo.

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (IswQ/)

74 Gabbard is less important that RFK and Patel, imo.

Racist!
(yes, I know Patel is Indian)

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (xCA6C)

75 Wrap this shit around your fucking news cycle.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (fV+MH)

76 Watters: "Do your Republican colleagues understand what will happen if they vote down Tulsi?"

What WILL happen?

Nicole Shanahan fires up her checkbook to fund primary challenges.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (xCA6C)

As an absolute minimum.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (FAbrK)

77 I think many Federal employees doing WFH are at real risk that they will be investigated for taking other jobs. Many are also at risk for many other illegal things (taxes, expense account fraud,....)

So no, his offers will not get any better. He has a plan.
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's ...

Especially the ones who continued to get the higher living allowance for being in VA but moved to lower locale.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (FxH7T)

78 More #winning: Over 1,100 probationary employees at the EPA received termination warnings, signaling potential mass layoffs and causing unrest within the federal workforce

se están cagando de miedo!

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (gKWVE)

79 17 Holy fuck.

This dude ain't fucking around.

I mean they tried to kill him and they stormed his house and everything.

But this dude ain't fucking around.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 04:47 PM (fV+MH)

++++

It looks like he brought cans of whoop-ass with him this time.
And when I say cans, I mean a train load of them

Posted by: washrivergal at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (C53IZ)

80 He can do it just to teach them a lesson. They are acting like Dems, so fuck them. Bush recess appointed over 170 of his people. Big deal.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (g47mK)

81
Now I want an Orange Julius.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (+oR7L)

82 I must have missed the part where Senator Michael Bennet starts "screaming" in that video. I mean he literally interrupts her 3 times when she tries to answer, but there was no screaming.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (2VST1)

83
If ever there was a TRUE misogynist, a man who hates women, it's neil gaiman.

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (IswQ/)

84 What if all the Space Force resigns and we're attacked by flying saucers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (63Dwl)

85 and btw Cassidy is full of shit with his rationalizing.

He's fooling precisely nobody.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (xCA6C)

86 The intelligence community can let Kash and RFK through. They can't let Tulsi through. They need one of their own there to mind the store

Posted by: jeff at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (3XkRz)

87 Is it me, or doe sit seem like these confirmation hearings have gone full retard compared to past ones?

I knew our senators were stupid but now Im convinced the clot shot has decreased their collective IQs even more

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (HYKHz)

88 I think many Federal employees doing WFH are at real risk that they will be investigated for taking other jobs

A more likely scam is WFH from a cheaper city while still receiving locality pay adjustments for an expensive city (NYC is a 38% increase over GS rate and DC is 34%)

Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (D0HYP)

89 >>> 55 He claims that if someone dies due to not getting vaccinated, this will "blow up" in the press and cause political damage to Trump.
==

How about the hundreds of thousands who have turbo cancers because of the fake vaccine asshoe?
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 04:53 PM (CT61Q)

Or those who couldn't get screening for cancer because of the sniffles.

Or those who couldn't visit dying loved ones because of the sniffles.

It's a pretty fcking long list...

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (Vqx30)

90 He likely endangered American lives through his action,

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

Snowden endangered the lives of deep state stooges?

OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

anyway
Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 31, 2025 04:55 PM (HYKHz)

I'll admit I didn't know much about Snowden but thought he was a traitor. Listening to Greg Greenwald yesterday, and knowing what I now know about our DS government, I'd say he was more of a whistleblower.

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (lCppi)

91 One of feminist neil gaiman's victims: "I had to lick my own feces."

I mean... did he hold a gun to her head?? She didn't HAVE to, she just wanted his approval and backing for her writing career, such as it is.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 04:58 PM (2VST1)

92 If you missed that presser look for a video. That was truly amazing.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 31, 2025 04:58 PM (LkLld)

93 and btw Cassidy is full of shit with his rationalizing.

He's fooling precisely nobody.

Well, possibly excepting James Lankford.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 04:58 PM (xCA6C)

94 I would have preferred something along the lines of:

"My name is Donaldus Magnus, you killed my prestige (and trust in your organization), prepare to die!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 04:58 PM (9cSl+)

95
Over 1,100 probationary employees at the EPA received termination warnings, signaling potential mass layoffs and causing unrest within the federal workforce

Are they going to join Hakeem out on the streets?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:58 PM (63Dwl)

96 Fire All They Asses And Let The Dollar Store Sort Them Out.

Posted by: Unemployment Is Your Friend at January 31, 2025 04:59 PM (R/m4+)

97 Um, wut?

What the heck is his 'logic?" I guess he thinks RFK would ban vaccines- All vaccines? And then someone would die of polio or something? -It sounds like a fever dream where the dummy senator saves the world by thwarting the evil Anti Vax

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM

My mother thinks that rfk is going to ban all vaccines if he gets confirmed and millions of children will die because of that. She refuses to turn off cnn.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2025 04:59 PM (Rcnd3)

98 Is it me, or doe sit seem like these confirmation hearings have gone full retard compared to past ones?

I haven't watched much footage of any confirmation hearings but all the ones I've seen through the years seem pretty equally stupid and annoying. Its grandstanding and hoping for some TV news face time or a viral video these days. Something they can clip from and use in a campaign or fundraising ad.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 04:59 PM (2VST1)

99 The Democrats have not looked good. They look scared and desperate. So sad that rino sellout are giving them aid and comfort. All of the controversial picks are change agents. This is the uniparty nightmare. These people get in and shit is going to change in a big way.

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 04:59 PM (RqHGp)

100 Does this mean General Milley can't get free airplane rides or shop at the PX or go get VA psychiatric care?

Posted by: torabora at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (otvYB)

101 91 Normally it is very difficult to persuade women to do things.

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (7D76Q)

102 Are they going to join Hakeem out on the streets?

And no longer pooping in the hallways or poisoning rivers.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (2VST1)

103 GoP delenda est….

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (PCK5/)

104 The only thing that can happen is that they all turn into obstructionist assholes like McConnell, and prevent vital legislation. But then they will be premiered, so that's that.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (g47mK)

105 When I die, let my pallbearers be 6 GOP quislings, so they can let me down one last fucking time.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (opZ1y)

106 Trump is slapping countries around all over the place and these limp-dick "Republican" Senators think they're going to fare better?

The phone call will go like this:
I got more votes in your state than you did.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (RPWCv)

107 He can do it just to teach them a lesson. They are acting like Dems, so fuck them. Bush recess appointed over 170 of his people. Big deal.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (g47mK)

How does one get them to recess? It seems to be trickier than it sounds.

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (lCppi)

108 82 I must have missed the part where Senator Michael Bennet starts "screaming" in that video. I mean he literally interrupts her 3 times when she tries to answer, but there was no screaming.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 04:56 PM (2VST1)

At around 0:55 ("the intelligence agencies OF THE UNITED STATES") he's raising his voice impolitely and not toning it down.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 05:01 PM (v0TzN)

109 Christopher R Taylor: on the one hand, you're right, these women had the choice of saying "no, YOU eat this poo, you disgusting slob".
But what kind of man gets off on telling women to do such degrading things for continued approval?
A disgusting slob of a man, that's who.

Posted by: gKWVE at January 31, 2025 05:01 PM (gKWVE)

110 I'll admit I didn't know much about Snowden but thought he was a traitor. Listening to Greg Greenwald yesterday, and knowing what I now know about our DS government, I'd say he was more of a whistleblower.
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (lCppi)
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I'm sure he made off with more stuff than he released to the public. That he wound up being sheltered by Putin's Russia is a sign, to me, of mal intent.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 05:01 PM (6K6Eu)

111 Obligatory, the Vincenzo Coccotti scene from True Romance, which I also call: The . . .

https://tinyurl.com/Yer-An-Eggplant-Scene

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 05:01 PM (/RHNq)

112 I feel the pronouns falling away.

Too bad.

So sad.

He, She, They, It, Damn.
Pronouns dropping like feces.
President Trump rules.

Posted by: Stateless...28% - mental state clawing up from 10% at January 31, 2025 05:01 PM (jvJvP)

113 I would have preferred something along the lines of:

"My name is Donaldus Magnus, you killed my prestige (and trust in your organization), prepare to die!"

My name is Donaldus Maximus, commander in chief, loyal servant to the American people, father to a very tall son, husband to an ultra-hot wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next, but probably this life.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (xCA6C)

114 If not Tulsi, then who?

Posted by: Cheri at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (oiNtH)

115 No.. that is not a new flagpole at my house..new no fly zone though. Winning!

Posted by: A dude in MI at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (/6GbT)

116 >>> 88 I think many Federal employees doing WFH are at real risk that they will be investigated for taking other jobs
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A more likely scam is WFH from a cheaper city while still receiving locality pay adjustments for an expensive city (NYC is a 38% increase over GS rate and DC is 34%)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (D0HYP)

Embrace the power of ~~and~~ all of the above. Some are only doing one thing they shouldn't, others more than one... I would not be surprised to find there are some *illegal* side jobs for the benefit of the derp state that wfh gives more flexibility to do.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (Vqx30)

117
I think I heard that Whitehouse was in RFK's wedding and were college roomates and were close friends or something close to that.

Could you imagine seeing your close life long friend get raked over the coals and joining in?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (+oR7L)

118 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout? Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic?

If air traffic controllers are WORKING FROM HOME.... we get DC Airport shit.

If CDC Scientists are working from home... like, their chinese homes? We get Covid.

Posted by: Romeo13 at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (QAkQ3)

119 But what kind of man gets off on telling women to do such degrading things for continued approval?

Oh he is a discusting scumbag, no question. I just find these hysterical 11th hour claims a bit difficult to defend. He seems guilty of nothing other than being a loser and sleazeball.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (2VST1)

120 It's Friday at 5. Let poor ace retire to his gooncave in peace.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (opZ1y)

121 last chance to post my fake pronouns!

Posted by: ace
It/they at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (KRtlO)

122 They think they found the remnant of the Garden of Eden. There was a tee shirt wrapped in ancient papyrus. They think it was Adam's. Scientists unfolded it and it said:
There is only one gender.
Posted by: Diogenes at January 31, 2025 04:52 PM (W/lyH)

It's Adam and Eve, Not Adam and Steve!

Posted by: Rev. Billy Ray Collins, The Sword Of Joshua Independent Full Gospel Pentecostal Assembly at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (R/m4+)

123 The Federal DEI work force = Muppets in panic mode.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (qrbVb)

124 Oh he is a discusting scumbag, no question. I just find these hysterical 11th hour claims a bit difficult to defend. He seems guilty of nothing other than being a loser and sleazeball.

...and a scientologist! that part upset me

Posted by: Black Orchid at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Pv3Rg)

125 Snowden thing is bullshit. Democraps leak classier shit all the time.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Fx63G)

126 Trump ran out of bubble gum.

Posted by: WisRich

Note to senators: just put on the sunglasses.

Posted by: Grudge Harbor at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (4DY5T)

127 mother thinks that rfk is going to ban all vaccines if he gets confirmed and millions of children will die because of that. She refuses to turn off cnn
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Does she know that there has been a national vaccine injury program in the US since 1986? If they are so safe why have a compensation board for injuries??? People should get informed consent. You probably won't get hurt from a conventional tax, but does happen to somebody...

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (RqHGp)

128 >>If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (xk5j8)

129 What the heck is his 'logic?" I guess he thinks RFK would ban vaccines- All vaccines? And then someone would die of polio or something?
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This is brought to you by the same class of retards that swore Trump was going to lose the election because of his support for the Covid vax.

That the Dems were going to nuke his campaign with all the Covid vax adverse effects deaths.

Followed by "and I will never vote for Trump."

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (RPWCv)

130 A more likely scam is WFH from a cheaper city while still receiving locality pay adjustments for an expensive city (NYC is a 38% increase over GS rate and DC is 34%)

Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (D0HYP)

This is nearly impossible.

Locality pay adjustments are made based on your mailing address, not your work address. If an employee got to stay remote and then moved, their pay was adjusted.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (FAbrK)

131 What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout?
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I suppose you could replace them with the white guys in the law suit who could actually do the job.

Posted by: Methos at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (Dnobf)

132 If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (xk5j

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If not where, what?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (6K6Eu)

133 I called Senator Moran's office and talked to a nice young man. Told him I was unhappy with the Senator's line of questioning and that I wanted the cabinet nominees confirmed. No idea if it helps but I don't think I'm the only person that called.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (EV2jz)

134 If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?

And who lost China?

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (xCA6C)

135 128 >>If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (xk5j

We're livin' on Tulsi time.

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (v0TzN)

136 I saw a Snowden documentary interview. He puts a blanket over his head when he's doing really serious secret stuff.

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (7D76Q)

137 Not only are their security clearances stripped, but they are forbidden to enter any federal building.

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Sen. Kennedy brought up yesterday Hillary's lawyer Sussman had access to the FBI building to Kash Patel and was very comfortable in that building. WTF?

Posted by: Cheri at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (oiNtH)

138 Trump has imposed a further sanction on the Spies Who Lie: Not only are their security clearances stripped, but they are forbidden to enter any federal building.

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Can he extend that to grocery stores, restaurants, healthcare facilities, bathhouses, and whorehouses?

/Ah, screw it -- put them all on a plane to North Korea, throw them out with a 100-year-old parachutes, and officially exile them. UNLESS New Guinea still has cannibals ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (NBKwX)

139 does it mean masturbators? or is that coomers? I don't know, I'm not hip with Gen Alpha lingo, I'm almost 29 years old.
Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)
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My understanding is that the pedos got tired of being called "groomers" and tried to create names for heterosexuals, and use these to imply that men who appreciate attractive women are somehow sexually deviant.

Also, any man who would rather have curvy Lara Croft rather than a hulking dude in her clothes, is a compulsive self-abuser.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (ZOv7s)

140 > The federal "work" force is in "panic."
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Horseshit.

A bunch of near or at retirement feds just came in their pants.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 05:06 PM (Q4IgG)

141 Courious they bring up Snowden.
How about a Seth Rich. Fibbies are still stonewalling on that information.

Posted by: Reforger at January 31, 2025 05:06 PM (xcIvR)

142 How does one get them to recess? It seems to be trickier than it sounds.
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 05:00 PM (lCppi)

The Adjournment Clause in Section 3, Article II.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:06 PM (g47mK)

143 121 last chance to post my fake pronouns!
Posted by: ace
It/they at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (KRtlO)

You're not a fed.
Are you?

>>>BREAKING: Employees at multiple *federal* agencies were ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 05:06 PM (v0TzN)

144 Just say no to RFK. I wouldn't cry for Tulsi, either. Patel or bust!

Can we wait to fire the FBI leadership until there is a new director confirmed?

Also, is anyone concerned that Trump's Tariffs are going to cause inflation, because you know, common sense economics here? If he is just bluffing to get good negotiation position, great, but...

Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (WE1WX)

145
Could you imagine seeing your close life long friend get raked over the coals and joining in?

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 05:02 PM (+oR7L)

You mean like every lib has been doing since at least 2016?

Posted by: Just Lily at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (Wez/Q)

146 last chance to post my fake pronouns!
Posted by: ace
It/they at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM

We should start posting caliber pronouns. For example, CBD's are 9mm/11.45mm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax (.41 Mag/.45 ACP) at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (a3Q+t)

147
Still waiting for Ace to use "gooners."
Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators

Sooth! This combination and phrasing raises questions. Lots of questions.

Smash update. Triage, blood work complete. Cooling our heels waiting for an ER room. They're gonna run a CT of her abdomen to check the pancreas and other stuff.

Posted by: BifBewalski at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (YAoGK)

148 >>If not now, when?

See. That gets a 5 o'clock Margaret look.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (LkLld)

149 My nipples are hard.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (c71FC)

150 Moving Acosta from CNN to MSNBC will save MSNBC, though.

DU told me so.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at January 31, 2025 04:51 PM (GBKbO)

Did he end up there?

Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone ? Night Gallery where a ship finds a Titanic lifeboat with a live man in it with the right uniform. Turns out the ship was the Andrea Dorea which sank when it collided with another ship.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (n7h9X)

151 My understanding is that the pedos got tired of being called "groomers" and tried to create names for heterosexuals, and use these to imply that men who appreciate attractive women are somehow sexually deviant.

Homosexuals have been doing this for ages. The left in general is pushing as hard as they can to de-normalize ordinary human behavior, and normalize perversion and aberrant sexual activity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (2VST1)

152 134 If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?

And who lost China?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (xCA6C)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE

Posted by: Roy at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (z+ik4)

153 Senator Fauxahuntus... Miss Gabbard what is Your Favorite color?

Yo bitch we live in a world that has walls, and walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who's gonna do it? You? You, Schiff? I have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Homo's, and you curse MAGA. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know -- that Biden's is brain dead & gone, while tragic, probably saves lives; and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives.

You don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me at DNI Office, you need me there

We use words like "honor," "code," "loyalty." We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punch line.

I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a cunt who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide and then questions the manner in which I provide it. I would rather that you just said, "thank you" and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon and stand the post. Either way, I don't give a DAMN what you think about Homo at ATC.

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (WKgpm)

154 My pronouns are the contents of the null set. I'm sure I won't miss them.

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (7D76Q)

155 51 intelligence leaders careers dead, DEI , FBI corruption, ESG, Wokeness all dead. Today RINOs I settled all family business so don't tell me you're innocent. It insults my intelligence. Now who approached you RINOs was it Schumer?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (6v8aM)

156 Horseshit.

A bunch of near or at retirement feds just came in their pants.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 05:06 PM (Q4IgG)
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Yep. The ones in a panic are corrupt three-letter types who know their days are numbered. The whole ecosystem of the Deep State is collapsing, and they won't be able to wander through with their badge and go through classified material they can trade on for fun and profit.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (ZOv7s)

157 138 Trump has imposed a further sanction on the Spies Who Lie: Not only are their security clearances stripped, but they are forbidden to enter any federal building.
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Hope he doesn't have a PO box. Oy, what am I saying, of course he has a PO Box.

Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (G0vdT)

158 Im willing to give Snowden the benefit because everything we know about what he did comes from the media and the deep state

So my feelings about it includes the words: zero, fucks and give (not necessarily in that order)

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - China is Assho And Void of Freedom Loving Wagshambas at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (HYKHz)

159 152 134 If not Tulsi, then who?

If not now, when?

And who lost China?
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (xCA6C)

THEN WHO WAS PHONE
Posted by: Roy at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (z+ik4)

; )

Posted by: m at January 31, 2025 05:08 PM (v0TzN)

160 Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic?

Let's pretend these are scientists doing good work in the medical field- quit laughing, I said let's pretend!- then they'll be snapped up by the private sector and do the same work.

But, being serious, I bet you can't have a tuberculosis epidemic without the CDC.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (FrKFd)

161 Here is what to do… send them home recess appoint the hell out of things… cut DC budgets as much as humanly possible, then resubmit anyone not confirmed… wash, rinse, repeat, if needed.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (PCK5/)

162
We should start posting caliber pronouns. For example, CBD's are 9mm/11.45mm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax (.41 Mag/.45 ACP)

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (YAoGK)

163 I'd say he was more of a whistleblower.
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (lCppi)
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I'm sure he made off with more stuff than he released to the public. That he wound up being sheltered by Putin's Russia is a sign, to me, of mal intent.
Posted by: Captain Obvious,

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I never dug deep on this, but his first trip was to China (where all the hard drives were copied) and then Russia.

It is hard for me to excuse that. If you want to be a "patriot" "whistleblower" and do what is best for the USA, then you have to be prepared for the consequences and not become an enemy agent.

So I still don't know but Glenn Greenwald is not going to sway me.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (qFOmp)

164 The federal "work" force is in "panic."
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Horseshit.

==
Exactly. FFS only 6% of them show up for work. 94% of them have better things to do.

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (RqHGp)

165
These federal employees have been "working from home" (many are working other jobs) and getting paid for it for 5 + years.

Fu*k them and their feelings.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (+oR7L)

166
Smash update. Triage, blood work complete. Cooling our heels waiting for an ER room. They're gonna run a CT of her abdomen to check the pancreas and other stuff.
Posted by: BifBewalski

Poor kid.

Posted by: Soothsayer likes gladiators at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (IswQ/)

167 Gabbard is less important that RFK and Patel, imo.

Gabbard is small potatoes.

Posted by: Hiram Roth, Retired Investor Living On A Pension at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (R/m4+)

168 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout? Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic? That's the risk with the way they've done it, sort of using a blowtorch for a very small issue."
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The CDC didn't cover itself with glory during the COVID pandemic. What makes anyone think they would do better with a tuberculosis epidemic?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at January 31, 2025 05:10 PM (7fElN)

169 THERE ARE FOUR PRONOUNS!

Posted by: fag Picard at January 31, 2025 05:10 PM (fV+MH)

170 Also, is anyone concerned that Trump's Tariffs are going to cause inflation, because you know, common sense economics here? If he is just bluffing to get good negotiation position, great, but...
Posted by: A man afraid of the LGBT lobby at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (WE1WX)
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Inflation is a monetary issue, has nothing to do with wages or tax rates.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:10 PM (ZOv7s)

171 Snowden pointed out some very inconvenient shit… other matters notwithstanding.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:10 PM (PCK5/)

172 Hope Smash comes through okay.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (EV2jz)

173 Senators who voted for complete garbage like AUstin, and Buttifcuk, and who knows who, have problems with Lt COl Tulsi. Give me a fkng break.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (g47mK)

174
They newly unemployed Fed employees can now pronoun as "Were/Was".

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (+oR7L)

175 84 What if all the Space Force resigns and we're attacked by flying saucers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (63Dwl)
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Can we counter with teacups? Confuse them with coffee mugs?

Posted by: Ciampino - Hail to the Chief at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (KjLnc)

176 COVID was created by Trump to kill Homo's and Transgenders because they have a weaker immune system the rest of us.........

Posted by: CNN Breaking News at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (RXgJO)

177 172 Hope Smash comes through okay.
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (EV2jz)

These words I do not understand…

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (PCK5/)

178 The ones in a panic are corrupt three-letter types who know their days are numbered. The whole ecosystem of the Deep State is collapsing, and they won't be able to wander through with their badge and go through classified material they can trade on for fun and profit.
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Also, who was that pudgey bastard that worked for Clinton and snuck into the national archives and stuff a file in his pants and crawled under a fence to get out without going through security... Sandy something...

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (RqHGp)

179 We should start posting caliber pronouns. For example, CBD's are 9mm/11.45mm.

Posted by: Duncanthrax (.41 Mag/.45 ACP)
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (YAoGK)
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So are we doing singular/plural or handgun/longarm?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (ZOv7s)

180 "Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector "

Lots of cool govt laboratory gear goes up for auction, pennies on the dollar. I want a scanning electron microscope. (To burn ants with.)

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (7D76Q)

181 Fed employees panicking remind me of those Zoomer tech employees making tik toks about how they can far around, drink free wine, and cry in their cry booth all day long then got fired and are panicking.

I get it, it sucks to be fired, I've been fired, and guess what, it sucked. But you've been doing phoney baloney jobs for years, decades in some cases, overpaid and underworked even working to undermine the very constitution you swore to uphold. Deal with it. I did. Millions of people before you have.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (2VST1)

182 Snowden thing is bullshit. Democraps leak classier shit all the time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Fx63G)

Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

183 What if all the Space Force resigns and we're attacked by flying saucers?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (63Dwl)
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Can we counter with teacups? Confuse them with coffee mugs?
Posted by: Ciampino - Hail to the Chief at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (KjLnc)
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Comfort them with apples?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (6K6Eu)

184 Politico reports: The federal workforce begins to understand how non-government workers feel.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (ExV1e)

185 172 Concur.

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (7D76Q)

186 182 Snowden thing is bullshit. Democraps leak classier shit all the time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Fx63G)

Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

187 This is nearly impossible.

Locality pay adjustments are made based on your mailing address, not your work address. If an employee got to stay remote and then moved, their pay was adjusted.

"nearly Impossible"?

"Mom (or some friend), would you mind if I used your address to receive my mail?"

Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (D0HYP)

188 My pronouns were Active Cost/Real Cost but then I couldn't use them any more and it was like being killed as bad as when Net Neutrality was ended.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (2VST1)

189 Also, who was that pudgey bastard that worked for Clinton and snuck into the national archives and stuff a file in his pants and crawled under a fence to get out without going through security... Sandy something...
Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:11 PM (RqHGp)
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Sandy Berger and the slap on the wrist he got proved that if you are part of the Deep State, you can do whatever you want.

He had documents in his socks, IIRC, so should have gone to jail, but instead only had his clearance temporarily suspended.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (ZOv7s)

190 "Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector "

Lots of cool govt laboratory gear goes up for auction, pennies on the dollar. I want a scanning electron microscope. (To burn ants with.)
Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (7D76Q)

I seem to recall a pandemic where a certain CDC did nothing but lie about it

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (n7h9X)

191 You have to read the comments

"Smash update. Triage, blood work complete. Cooling our heels waiting for an ER room. They're gonna run a CT of her abdomen to check the pancreas and other stuff.
Posted by: BifBewalski"

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (EV2jz)

192 "...The White House expects 5% to 10% of federal employees to accept the offer, which would potentially mean hundreds of thousands of people.

The administration projects the buyouts could ultimately save taxpayers up to $100 billion a year. ..."

What are they paying these people? $100B/yr divided by 100k is $1M/yr.

'Cause ... math.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (hOOi9)

193 I suspect many of these orders, like "no pronouns" are traps.

1. Tell them not to do something.
2. Let them post pronouns in email
3. fire them for doing it. (or, at least it gives you another point to argue when it gets adjudicated.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:13 PM (qFOmp)

194 So Smash is a person??

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (PCK5/)

195 Trump needs to play hardball with the likes of Cassidy . He is no good. Never was. Trump gave them time to engage in theatrics, but some are idiots who actually think that they have a say in who his staff will be.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (g47mK)

196 Homosexuals have been doing this for ages. The left in general is pushing as hard as they can to de-normalize ordinary human behavior, and normalize perversion and aberrant sexual activity.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:07 PM (2VST1)

We have called heteroweirdos "Breeders" for years. Yes, us homosexuals are full of hate.

Posted by: Big Homo, Hollywood and The democrat party at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (R/m4+)

197 >> Republican" Bill Cassidy of Louisiana basically declared himself a "no," of course, saying that he would vote "no" to, get this, protect Trump.

He’s also a no on Gabbard and is apparently actively ginning up the opposition so her nomination fails. This guy needs to be trebuchet’d into the sun with Collins, Murkowski and McConnell.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (L9/32)

198 'Cause ... math.
Posted by: MrExcitement

I was told there would be no excitement on this blog

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (2VST1)

199 I want a scanning electron microscope. (To burn ants with.)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A S.E.M. REQUIRES A VACUUM SO THE ANTS WILL ALREADY BE DEAD

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (D0HYP)

200 Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)
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It was under Obama, so no one cared. Remember, he was scandal-free!

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (ZOv7s)

201 Bif's wife

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (EV2jz)

202 182 Snowden thing is bullshit. Democraps leak classier shit all the time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Fx63G)

Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

its been a while, I don't have a citation. Just that op security sucks especially when Dems are in power.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (n7h9X)

203 187 This is nearly impossible.

Locality pay adjustments are made based on your mailing address, not your work address. If an employee got to stay remote and then moved, their pay was adjusted.

"nearly Impossible"?

"Mom (or some friend), would you mind if I used your address to receive my mail?"
Posted by: Chuck C

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It is also impossible to vote without a legitimate address!!!!!!

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (qFOmp)

204 More #winning: Over 1,100 probationary employees at the EPA received termination warnings, signaling potential mass layoffs and causing unrest within the federal workforce
......

In protest they all took a shit in the hallway.
In other words: a day ending in "y".

Posted by: wth at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (v0R5T)

205 197 >> Republican" Bill Cassidy of Louisiana basically declared himself a "no," of course, saying that he would vote "no" to, get this, protect Trump.

He’s also a no on Gabbard and is apparently actively ginning up the opposition so her nomination fails. This guy needs to be trebuchet’d into the sun with Collins, Murkowski and McConnell.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (L9/32)

He has to be ruined… someone needs to get on it…

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

206 So Smash is a person??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (PCK5/)
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Bif's wife.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (6K6Eu)

207 Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic?
_______________

Does this nitwit realize that the CDC basically compiles statistics on disease, but does not itself conduct any research (IIRC)?

Tuberculosis epidemic? From our dusky friends from south of border? Or from vagrants? We still have the antibiotics to combat tuberculosis, numb skull.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (YqDXo)

208 199 I'm humane. Did you think I would burn LIVE ants?

Posted by: gp Steps On Cusp Barefooted at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (7D76Q)

209 Yeah, but what if the entire EPA resigns? They don't make celebrations bigger than that.

Posted by: t-bird at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (HG3pl)

210 Former constituent of Cassidy here. AFAIK he has had nothing to say on the subject of Fauci's pardon. He's swallowed that particular camel.

I don't care what he says about the gnat.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (gHSfI)

211 Posted by: Duncanthrax (.41 Mag/.45 ACP)
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (YAoGK)
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So are we doing singular/plural or handgun/longarm?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM

Should we be limited to two?

Posted by: Duncanthrax (.35 Whelen/.41 Mag/.45 ACP) at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (a3Q+t)

212 206 So Smash is a person??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (PCK5/)
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Bif's wife.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (6K6Eu)

Ah… get well, Smash!!

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (PCK5/)

213 they CUT THIS PART OUT of the RFK hearing!

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That was great -- which is why I stopped watching that stupid shit decades ago.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:17 PM (eyfAu)

214 Sen. Kennedy brought up yesterday Hillary's lawyer Sussman had access to the FBI building to Kash Patel and was very comfortable in that building. WTF?
Posted by: Cheri at January 31, 2025 05:05 PM (oiNtH)

———

Hell Perkins Coe had a damn office in the building.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at January 31, 2025 05:17 PM (Vh9CX)

215 Senator Fauxahuntus take heap big wampum from big pharma.

Posted by: RED CLOUD at January 31, 2025 05:17 PM (Vrdez)

216 Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??
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Hillary Clintons bathroom server with special acces programs on it that got hacked by chicoms....

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:17 PM (RqHGp)

217 Shanahan has stated she’s ready to fund a primary candidate. Scott Pressler already has resources in Louisiana. Cassidy will go, and Murkowski will be next. Somebody should smother McConnell with a scarf in the cloak room.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (L9/32)

218 He had documents in his socks, IIRC, so should have gone to jail, but instead only had his clearance temporarily suspended.

Yeah another example of someone doing something that would jail you until Marvel puts out another good movie and instead he got winked at.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (2VST1)

219 Also about leaks: remember when the entire database from the Office of Personnell Management was offshored to a Chinese company?

Remember how noone was disciplined or fired for this?

Remember how the usual idiots made noises about "We're working to get the data back!"

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (gHSfI)

220 Trump needs to play hardball with the likes of Cassidy . He is no good. Never was. Trump gave them time to engage in theatrics, but some are idiots who actually think that they have a say in who his staff will be.
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM (g47mK)
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I'm sure conversations are being had.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (ZOv7s)

221 I want a scanning electron microscope. (To burn ants with.)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A S.E.M. REQUIRES A VACUUM SO THE ANTS WILL ALREADY BE DEAD

Pussies.

Posted by: Tardigrades at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (xCA6C)

222 >>Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??

Oh, it happened. Didn't kill them all. Burned them all.
Killed just about everyone in their networks, tho.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (xk5j8)

223 Posted by: Big Homo, Hollywood and The democrat party at January 31, 2025 05:14 PM

* nodding approvingly in unison *

Posted by: Big Penguin at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (a3Q+t)

224 The administration projects the buyouts could ultimately save taxpayers up to $100 billion a year.

So if $5B was too much to spend on a wall, Congress and the Dems must be leaping at the option to save 20X that much right?

Posted by: 18-1 at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (t0Rmr)

225 199 I want a scanning electron microscope. (To burn ants with.)

IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A S.E.M. REQUIRES A VACUUM SO THE ANTS WILL ALREADY BE DEAD
Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER

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How the hell did I never think to test that?
First you have to gold plate them, so that might be a problem though. I don't think they would survive the gold sputtering, which is also vacuum but involves gold atoms raining down until they are conductive.

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (qFOmp)

226 @189 a lot of people think Sandy Berger took documents which showed Clinton knew more about Bin Laden than anyone suspected. Surprised that there aren't copies of those documents somewhere.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (6v8aM)

227 222 >>Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??

Oh, it happened. Didn't kill them all. Burned them all.
Killed just about everyone in their networks, tho.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (xk5j

Maybe… very sceptical.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (PCK5/)

228 "But the vague order has nearly ground the massive bureaucracy to a halt"

My SchadenBoner threatens to become sentient and invent faster than light interstellar drive and yo take a victory tour around the Galaxy.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (/RHNq)

229 REEEEE

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (rmmrE)

230 >>> "Chaos, mistrust, confusion,"

Shouldn't they be used to that having served under the last "administration"?

Posted by: DJ at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (uosPt)

231 Oh no if everyone at the EPA resigns it would be terrible. Just awful.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (vFG9F)

232 IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE A S.E.M. REQUIRES A VACUUM SO THE ANTS WILL ALREADY BE DEAD

I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest this might not actually be Ben

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (2VST1)

233 This reminds me of the bad old days after the big Reagan Defense Build-up. The first round of layoffs was voluntary - here's some money for you if you leave.

In the next round, they recognized that some of the people who were especially useful, and hard to replace, took them up on it, so there were quotas for various departments (for my department the quota was zero).

After that, they started to pick and choose who was going to go, and the severance was less generous.

This is just of the beginning of DOGE throwing these less-than-useless people out on the street. Good luck trying to find somebody in the private sector to pay you for the BS you've made a career out of.

Posted by: MrExcitement at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM (hOOi9)

234 Hope Smash comes through okay.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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These words I do not understand…
Posted by: tubal

Smash is my bride of 43 years. We're in the ER.

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (YAoGK)

235 >>> 202 182 Snowden thing is bullshit. Democraps leak classier shit all the time.
Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:03 PM (Fx63G)

Think there was a leak that had every one of our spies in China killed.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (n7h9X)

According to who??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

its been a while, I don't have a citation. Just that op security sucks especially when Dems are in power.
Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (n7h9X)

istr the Clintons being involved with that fiasco. Maybe fallout from the bathroom server?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (Vqx30)

236 No point keeping around unloyal personal who would be stabbing in the back when they can

Posted by: Skip at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (fwDg9)

237 234 Hope Smash comes through okay.
Posted by: Notsothoreau
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These words I do not understand…
Posted by: tubal

Smash is my bride of 43 years. We're in the ER.
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (YAoGK

Hope and pray she gets well.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (PCK5/)

238 I'm gonna go out on a limb and suggest this might not actually be Ben
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:19 PM

I'm not a Steeler, so I wouldn't know.

Posted by: Ketanji Onyika Brown Jackson at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (a3Q+t)

239 According to who??

Oh, it happened. Didn't kill them all. Burned them all.
Killed just about everyone in their networks, tho
===
You don't hear about it at all, because it was Hillary Clinton fault.

Posted by: Seriously at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (RqHGp)

240 >> Smash is my bride of 43 years. We're in the ER.
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (YAoGK)

Prayers coming your way.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (L9/32)

241 Should we be limited to two?
Posted by: Duncanthrax (.35 Whelen/.41 Mag/.45 ACP) at January 31, 2025 05:16 PM (a3Q+t)
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I'm going to hit the text limit if I list all of mine. I guess I could just list the 9s.

(9mm: Parabellum, Kurz, Makarov, Steyr, Largo)

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (ZOv7s)

242 According to who??
Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM (PCK5/)

In 2010

The CIA falsely believed it was 'invincible' in China — here's how its spies were reportedly discovered and killed in one of the biggest blows to the agency

https://www.businessinsider.com/
how-china-found-cia-spies-leak-2018-8?op=1

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (n7h9X)

243 Hillary Clintons bathroom server with special acces programs on it that got hacked by chicoms....

Server with no security updates.

Also, there was a chinese national who was a sysadmin for the OPM database.

Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (D0HYP)

244 What a great way to end Trump's second week in office: He's going to can the seditious/ traitorous FBI leadership and he's going to thin out the herd at the federal worker.

I am aroused.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at January 31, 2025 05:21 PM (WAV/y)

245 @234 hope she's doing better But, continuing to send prayers

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:22 PM (6v8aM)

246 Snowden went to the press because if had whitleblower'd to the government agency he would have been "disappeared" and nothing would have been fixed.

Posted by: Frank Barone at January 31, 2025 05:22 PM (+oR7L)

247 So are we doing singular/plural or handgun/longarm?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd

I did longarm, hand gun

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:22 PM (YAoGK)

248 >>Hell Perkins Coe had a damn office in the building.

Other way around. The FBI had a SCIF at Perkins Coie.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 31, 2025 05:22 PM (LkLld)

249 "Smash is my bride of 43 years. We're in the ER.
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:20 PM (YAoGK)

Prayers coming your way.
Posted by: Marcus T"

Ditto Bif. Keep us posted.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 05:22 PM (vFG9F)

250 Sir, it's too much winning! Too much winning! We can't handle any more winning!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (2UnvF)

251 In the next round, they recognized that some of the people who were especially useful, and hard to replace, took them up on it, so there were quotas for various departments (for my department the quota was zero).

After that, they started to pick and choose who was going to go, and the severance was less generous.

Do you mean to suggest that EVERY Fed isn't a worthless pos?
How radical.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

252 He has to be ruined… someone needs to get on it…

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:15 PM (PCK5/)

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Paging Elon Musk, Nicole Shanahan, and Peter Theil ... please pick up the white privilege billionaire primary-their-asses courtesy phone.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (eyfAu)

253 Two words. Recess appointments. Trump is settling all family business.

Posted by: Heavy Meta at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (GTqXr)

254 Posted by: Duncanthrax (.41 Mag/.45 ACP)
Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:09 PM (YAoGK)
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So are we doing singular/plural or handgun/longarm?
Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:12 PM

Should we be limited to two?

Posted by: Duncanthrax (.35 Whelen/.41 Mag/.45 ACP)

Wait, what about those of us who won't limit ourselves to sidearms?

Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (OUMaO)

255 Also, there was a chinese national who was a sysadmin for the OPM database
==
It was Clinton. In the bathroom. With the special access programs on a server.

Posted by: Clue at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (RqHGp)

256 Oh, it happened. Didn't kill them all. Burned them all.
Killed just about everyone in their networks, tho.
Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:18 PM (xk5j

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Yeah, and the media made sure the story died a quick death.

Trump should go back and dig into that, reminding people about it.

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:24 PM (ZOv7s)

257 Do you mean to suggest that EVERY Fed isn't a worthless pos?
How radical.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

or they were worthless pos with blackmail info.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:24 PM (n7h9X)

258 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout?"

Since when do ATC's work from home?

Posted by: RonF at January 31, 2025 05:24 PM (l8nW6)

259 Sir, it's too much winning! Too much winning! We can't handle any more winning!

Posted by: Duke Lowell at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (2UnvF)

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If your schadenboner lasts longer than 400 hours ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:24 PM (eyfAu)

260 >>> Still waiting for Ace to use "gooners."

does it mean masturbators? or is that coomers? I don't know, I'm not hip with Gen Alpha lingo, I'm almost 29 years old.
Posted by: ace at January 31, 2025 04:50 PM (KRtlO)

Ace is sigma

Posted by: banana Dream -- OHIO! at January 31, 2025 05:25 PM (Y6IkP)

261 Fuck Snowden.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:25 PM (L9/32)

262 >>Hillary Clintons bathroom server

Huma had many talents

Posted by: one hour sober at January 31, 2025 05:25 PM (Y1sOo)

263 Scanned the Business Inside article re the China/Spy debacle… the CIA, generally, figures prominently.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:25 PM (PCK5/)

264 The RFK video is must see. and I loved it.

As far as Snowden goes, it is obviously killing Tulsi's nomination and whatever she thinks I admire her for her unwillingness to dance on demand to Michael Bennet's tune.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 05:26 PM (VZLTt)

265 I wouldn't be surprised to see Murkowski be a solid yes vote on nominees going forward. She might make noise to the contrary, but she knows without her Federal grants to hand out in Alaska, she's not useful to the state. Trump made it clear that the stoppage on the Federal Grant and loan system was temporary, but he, also, said they would be evaluated on merit.

Alaska receives, by far, more than any other state in these programs. About $8,300 per resident annually.

Posted by: Orson at January 31, 2025 05:26 PM (dIske)

266 Two good articles at NY Post. The head of the TVS left his $10.5 m job. Also the Episcopal church is getting $53 m a year to bring migrants in.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (6v8aM)

267
Committee Democrats are demonstrating the Michelle Obama "They go low, we go high" dictum.

High here meaning whatever uppers the pharmaceutical reps included in the suitcase of money they last dropped off for them.

Posted by: Auspex at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (j4U/Z)

268
Turns out the ship was the Andrea Dorea which sank when it collided with another ship.
Posted by: Oldcat

Night Gallery - Lone Survivor

https://youtu.be/RCGyXc0iTQs

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (63Dwl)

269 261 Fuck Snowden.
Posted by: Marcus T at January 31, 2025 05:25 PM (L9/32)

Nah, thanks… I don’t give a damn about the guy, but because of him I was made aware of our damned government spying on every one of us.

Posted by: tubal at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (PCK5/)

270 Moran voted for impeachment so I doubt he'll come around. He's from Kansas--you'd think he could tell the way the wind is blowing.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (EV2jz)

271 Tomorrow's headlines Today : "Trump is a DICTATOR!! Forced Congress to Adjourn!!"

Response : Fk you, it's in the Constitution of the United States.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (g47mK)

272 >>Hillary Clintons bathroom server

Could be worse. Could be Neil Gaiman's protegee.

Posted by: garrett at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (xk5j8)

273 I'd care about Snowden if I didn't know a goodly number of our congresscritters are bought and paid for Chinese spies.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (tT6L1)

274 Scanned the Business Inside article re the China/Spy debacle… the CIA, generally, figures prominently.
===
That article is the cover story.

Posted by: Clue at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (RqHGp)

275 "Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector "

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I hear that biolabs in Ukraine are hiring.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (FpuhH)

276 OT: Spouse is saying his social media is reporting all J6 prosecutors in DC were fired just now...now, my spouse's track record sucks and I can't confirm yet, so not putting as breaking...this again could be wishcasting, but someone should go looking...I haven't seen it yet...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:29 PM (exHjb)

277 Praying for smash, Bif

Posted by: Moki at January 31, 2025 05:29 PM (94bib)

278 >>Since when do ATC's work from home?

In normal times this would be ironic.

Now it's an open question.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 31, 2025 05:29 PM (LkLld)

279 Two good articles at NY Post. The head of the TVS left his $10.5 m job. Also the Episcopal church is getting $53 m a year to bring migrants in.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:27 PM (6v8aM)

stupid bishop exposed a nice little racket they had going.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:29 PM (n7h9X)

280 You don't hate GOP Senators enough

Posted by: blaster at January 31, 2025 05:29 PM (QfvaV)

281 OT: Spouse is saying his social media is reporting all J6 prosecutors in DC were fired just now...now, my spouse's track record sucks and I can't confirm yet, so not putting as breaking...this again could be wishcasting, but someone should go looking...I haven't seen it yet...

https://is.gd/EZ9fK7

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:30 PM (xCA6C)

282 If your erection lasts for more than four years please see a doctor immediately.

Posted by: torabora at January 31, 2025 05:30 PM (otvYB)

283 "Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector "

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I hear that biolabs in Ukraine are hiring.
Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (FpuhH)

Pick the ones in the Russian occupied zones.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:30 PM (n7h9X)

284 Gaiman was married to Amanda Palmer, a singer/performance artist nutbag. Wonder how much she knew. Gaiman thought at Bard across the river and had a house in Woodstock just up the road. Probably could sit up interesting stories from people I know

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:32 PM (6v8aM)

285 Guys, I keep seeing Adam Schiff in an orange jumpsuit. AGAIN.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:32 PM (g47mK)

286 281 OT: Spouse is saying his social media is reporting all J6 prosecutors in DC were fired just now...now, my spouse's track record sucks and I can't confirm yet, so not putting as breaking...this again could be wishcasting, but someone should go looking...I haven't seen it yet...

https://is.gd/EZ9fK7
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:30 PM (xCA6C)

Okay, FBI is not DOJ, but this one at least says spouse wasn't completely out to lunch (I still think he's probably wrong, but it is after 5pm Friday, and that's when you deliver bad employment news).

Thanks for this one...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:32 PM (exHjb)

287 I hope he hasn't bitten off more than he can chew.

Posted by: javems at January 31, 2025 05:33 PM (8I4hW)

288 Looks like James Woods is on board with recall for Newscum and Bass. There is already a petition started to recall Newscum.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:33 PM (EV2jz)

289 Snowden is small potatoes. Most of the "damage" has been rectified.

His life in Russia, or wherever he's hiding, is probably a lot less cushy than it was.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at January 31, 2025 05:33 PM (Q4IgG)

290 Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes

https://youtu.be/YN01AzxGLq0

This song is hilariously egotistical "do you still lust for me baby?" but I like how it flips the usual breakup thing on its head. Not "I still miss you" but "I bet you miss me"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:34 PM (2VST1)

291 I wonder how much input Milei had with Trump on some of these tactics to get rid of Federal employees.

Posted by: Beartooth at January 31, 2025 05:34 PM (3Ev2O)

292 >Do you mean to suggest that EVERY Fed isn't a worthless pos?
How radical.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

Found the guy whose rice bowl is threatened.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen at January 31, 2025 05:34 PM (opZ1y)

293
My mother thinks that rfk is going to ban all vaccines if he gets confirmed and millions of children will die because of that. She refuses to turn off cnn.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at January 31, 2025 04:59 PM (Rcnd3)

Block it. 4 digit code. It's for her mental health. And yours.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at January 31, 2025 05:35 PM (iODuv)

294 Do you mean to suggest that EVERY Fed isn't a worthless pos?
How radical.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:23 PM (xCA6C)

Found the guy whose rice bowl is threatened.

I'm retired, you halfwit.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:35 PM (xCA6C)

295 Former senior advisor to the federal reserve, John Rogers, has just been arrest, arrested for leaking secrets to China.

From Rawsalerts on X.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:35 PM (CT61Q)

296

Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 participants in the insurrection by President Donald Trump.

“Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 05:36 PM (63Dwl)

297 He's right. They're fired

https://tinyurl.com/mry33af8

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (EV2jz)

298 Did Snowden ever hook up with Anna Chapman, who offered herself to him?

Lucky dude, if so.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (77rzZ)

299 Washington Nearsider, how are you?

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (rmmrE)

300 295 Former senior advisor to the federal reserve, John Rogers, has just been arrest, arrested for leaking secrets to China.

From Rawsalerts on X.
Posted by: rickb223

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Holy shit.
If he starts arresting commie spies, half of DC is at risk. Maybe that is what the Gitmo re-up is all about!

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (qFOmp)

301 “Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

I guess this isn't good news for Hakeem Jeffries.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (xCA6C)

302 Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes

https://youtu.be/YN01AzxGLq0

This song is hilariously egotistical "do you still lust for me baby?" but I like how it flips the usual breakup thing on its head. Not "I still miss you" but "I bet you miss me"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:34 PM (2VST1)
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There are lines about how much he needs her. I always took the egotistical lyrics to be code for how much he hopes she still thinks about him, because he’s still caught up in her.

Posted by: Elric Blade at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (Fx63G)

303 Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 participants in the insurrection by President Donald Trump.

“Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I have expected him to burst into flames when he said that.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:38 PM (CT61Q)

304 Okay, FBI is not DOJ, but this one at least says spouse wasn't completely out to lunch (I still think he's probably wrong, but it is after 5pm Friday, and that's when you deliver bad employment news).

Thanks for this one...
Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:32 PM (exHjb)
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I think your spouse is right.

Mike Davis 🇺🇸
@mrddmia
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Trump 47 Justice Department fires January 6th federal prosecutors in the DC U.S. Attorney’s office.

Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2025 05:38 PM (G0vdT)

305 *mumbling*burn the capitol down*mumble*
--FBI employees

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:38 PM (2VST1)

306 Did any of Biden's picks fail nomination?
Did any of the dogeater's picks fail nomination?

Honest questions as I don't know.

Posted by: Ciampino - no standing at January 31, 2025 05:38 PM (KjLnc)

307 Too bad about Tulsi... I like her...

Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)

308 I always took the egotistical lyrics to be code for how much he hopes she still thinks about him, because he’s still caught up in her.

That is a reasonable interpretation. Great album overall, then I have heard nothing else from the band. Man they were huge for lie a year, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (2VST1)

309 Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 participants in the insurrection by President Donald Trump.

“Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 31, 2025 05:36 PM (63Dwl)

This is from a guy who eliminated cash bail and let rapists, and murderers roam freely.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (g47mK)

310 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout?"

Maybe hire all the people who were turned down because they were white?

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (25QY+)

311 Looks like James Woods is on board with recall for Newscum and Bass. There is already a petition started to recall Newscum.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:33 PM (EV2jz)

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He'd be a great Governor, but I can't imagine him wanting to.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (VE/4w)

312 “Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

I guess this isn't good news for Hakeem Jeffries.
Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (xCA6C)
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So how many BLM activists is he firing? Antifa supporters?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (ZOv7s)

313 307 Too bad about Tulsi... I like her...

She's not dead yet. I don't think she wants to get on the cart.

Posted by: Archimedes at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (xCA6C)

314 >>> 303 Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 participants in the insurrection by President Donald Trump.

“Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

I have expected him to burst into flames when he said that.
Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:38 PM (CT61Q)

That would be harder to put out than an EV fire.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:40 PM (Vqx30)

315 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout?"

Maybe hire all the people who were turned down because they were white?
Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (25QY+)
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Ronaldus Magnus fired ALL of them back in the day.

Cool your tits, okay?

Posted by: Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd at January 31, 2025 05:41 PM (ZOv7s)

316 Too bad about Tulsi... I like her...
Posted by: It's me donna at January 31, 2025 05:39 PM (VE6XX)

it isn't over and she could be put in another slot and do the same work.

More than one way to skin this cat.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:41 PM (n7h9X)

317 @306 his FAA nominee was withdrawn. AA restaurant owner who knew nothing about anything and was exposed by Ted Cruz's questioning

Posted by: Smell the Glove at January 31, 2025 05:41 PM (6v8aM)

318 I don't know if I would trust Snowden, but...he unearthed some crazy shit, no? I mean , we ALL benefited from it.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:41 PM (g47mK)

319 Night Ranger - When You Close Your Eyes

https://youtu.be/YN01AzxGLq0

This song is hilariously egotistical "do you still lust for me baby?" but I like how it flips the usual breakup thing on its head. Not "I still miss you" but "I bet you miss me"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:34 PM (2VST1)

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The first song I recall like that was Already Gone by the Eagles.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:42 PM (VE/4w)

320 Damn, Trump's 2nd term is better than viagra.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 31, 2025 05:42 PM (mzM2O)

321 Trump: What is best in life? Taking a chainsaw to D.C. and then playing 18 at Mar a Lago.

Posted by: WisRich at January 31, 2025 05:42 PM (G0vdT)

322 He's right. They're fired

https://tinyurl.com/mry33af8
Posted by: Notsothoreau at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (EV2jz)

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I'M FUCKING BULLET PROOF!

Posted by: Duke Lowell's Schadenboner at January 31, 2025 05:42 PM (2UnvF)

323 He gave his material to US journalists, Greenwald and a couple of others, not Iran or Russia or CCP, right ?

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

324 "What if a third of the nation's air traffic controllers take this buyout?"

ATC is a really stressful job but it's also specialized and pays well. You're not going to be able to go from ATC to anything else that pays near that much. It's also not a job that really has a lot of "resistance" opportunity. Folks near retirement/burnout might take it but I doubt it'll be a ton.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 05:43 PM (ExV1e)

325 DOGE is South African for ¡Afuera!.

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:43 PM (VE/4w)

326 Okay, here's confirm on the spouse's news...it was only the probationaries, but every little bit counts...

"WashPo - Democracy Dies in Darkness

Interim U.S. attorney fires more than 2 dozen Jan. 6 prosecutors in D.C.
Trump administration dismisses former Capitol riot prosecutors recently hired to permanent positions and still under probationary periods

January 31, 2025 at 5:20 p.m. EST21 minutes ago
4 min

By Spencer S. Hsu
Interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin has dismissed roughly 30 federal prosecutors who worked on Capitol riot cases in the Washington, D.C., office over the past four years, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.

The employees were hired to permanent career positions after serving under special or short-term status as the office surged to manage nearly 1,600 prosecutions after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The prosecutors remained under probationary status, which allows the firings without recourse under Justice Department policy, the people said."

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (exHjb)

327 In addition to Nicole Shanahan, Scott Pressler has a base set up right now in Louisiana to primary Cassidy‘s ass if he votes no on RFK Junior. Pretty sure they’re gonna go that route with Tulsi too.

Posted by: keena at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (RiTnx)

328 I don't know if I would trust Snowden, but...he unearthed some crazy shit, no? I mean , we ALL benefited from it.

Yeah that's my reaction. He broke the law, he leaked stuff he shouldn't have, he has a stupid approach to intelligence and secrets, but he did uncover stuff we all needed to know and made a positive difference.

He broke a LOT of laws, stuff that puts you in jail for life. But then, so did Sandy Berger as brought up earlier...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (2VST1)

329 I'm going to predict Tulsi just gets through in a 51-50 tie breaker by VP Vance.

Lord, I beseech thee to let it be so.

Posted by: Time for a new nick again. at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (89Sog)

330 Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

So much for President Washington...

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:45 PM (2VST1)

331 I think licking you own feces is pretty much an indication that you will do anything. And in this case it's anything that will promote you.

I think it'd kind of appropriate.

Posted by: pawn at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (QB+5g)

332 "Or all the CDC scientists leave for the private sector and then there's a tuberculosis epidemic? That's the risk with the way they've done it, sort of using a blowtorch for a very small issue."

I've had all my TB shots. As have most of us here, I expect. If there is a TB outbreak, it will be because of illegals, who will mainly be the ones to suffer. Tough shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (8zz6B)

333 He gave his material to US journalists, Greenwald and a couple of others, not Iran or Russia or CCP, right ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

That's what Greenwald said, and also that while he could have sold it all easily, he wanted only limited information publicized in order to call attention to the abuses and blatant illegalities.

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (lCppi)

334 That bitch!

Transgender nominee for best actress forced to apologize for tweets criticizing Islam, George Floyd

https://is.gd/GjLNGE

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (L/fGl)

335 Former senior advisor to the federal reserve, John Rogers, has just been arrest, arrested for leaking secrets to China.

From Rawsalerts on X.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:35 PM (CT61Q)

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Make Treason Executable Again!

Posted by: ShainS -- Make Treason Executable Again! at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (tLito)

336 Yeah that's my reaction. He broke the law, he leaked stuff he shouldn't have, he has a stupid approach to intelligence and secrets, but he did uncover stuff we all needed to know and made a positive difference.

He broke a LOT of laws, stuff that puts you in jail for life. But then, so did Sandy Berger as brought up earlier...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

If he leaked truly classified stuff, yes, he broke laws. If he leaked illegal crap that the government was doing? He broke the laws.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (CT61Q)

337 Tulsi and RFK seem like long shots at this point.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 31, 2025 05:47 PM (mzM2O)

338 Okay, here's confirm on the spouse's news...it was only the probationaries, but every little bit counts...

Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (exHjb)

Ill bet that 8 months of pay deal looks better for the rest of them too.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:47 PM (n7h9X)

339 Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

So much for President Washington...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:45 PM (2VST1)

The Founders didn't attempt to overthrow a government. At no point did they try to remove the king or Parliament. They wanted to break away. That's different.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at January 31, 2025 05:47 PM (ExV1e)

340 We still don't know anything about the Blackhawk pilot?
Very odd.

Posted by: fd at January 31, 2025 05:48 PM (vFG9F)

341 >>> 330 Pritzker said in the letter. "No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government."
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So much for President Washington...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:45 PM (2VST1)

I'm old enough to remember when the D's were telling us we should approve of the Soviet Union because their government was from a revolution, too!!

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:48 PM (Vqx30)

342 Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

So much for President Washington...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:45 PM (2VST1)

The Founders didn't attempt to overthrow a government. At no point did they try to remove the king or Parliament. They wanted to break away. That's different.

Eh. That's just semantics.

Posted by: That guy who thinks everything is just semantics at January 31, 2025 05:48 PM (xCA6C)

343 Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”

So much for President Washington...
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

So much for a shit load of southern dims in 1866.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:48 PM (CT61Q)

344 The Founders didn't attempt to overthrow a government.

They kinda overthrew the British government in the colonies LOL

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 31, 2025 05:48 PM (2VST1)

345 Anyone remember the scene from Enemy at the Gates where Nikita Khruschev is listening to the general cry and make excuses. And then Khruschev slides a pistol across to him and says "I have to report to the Boss. Perhaps you'd prefer to avoid the red tape."

I like to think that's how the message was delivered to these "officials".

Posted by: Nevyan at January 31, 2025 05:49 PM (a7HML)

346 319 Soy modern songs now are begging women that are with them NOT to leave....

Posted by: steevy at January 31, 2025 05:49 PM (KQk9m)

347 The Founders didn't attempt to overthrow a government. At no point did they try to remove the king or Parliament. They wanted to break away. That's different.

Yeah, they did. The government at the time was the king. After the war, the government was no longer the king. So yes, they did overthrow and get rid of the King.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 31, 2025 05:49 PM (CT61Q)

348 Scanned the Business Inside article re the China/Spy debacle… the CIA, generally, figures prominently.
===
That article is the cover story.
Posted by: Clue at January 31, 2025 05:28 PM (RqHGp)
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Given it's a left wing smear machine (on Trump anyway), I try always to avoid clicking a Business Insider link. So i have no idea what the article details are, but whatever those details, the story must reflect badly on the Junta since it is leaked to Bus Insider. Why anyone employs Henry Blodgett is a mystery.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at January 31, 2025 05:49 PM (zBhVB)

349 Trump should pardon Snowden.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 05:49 PM (77rzZ)

350 Would it be fair to call George W and friends insurrectionists?

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (Vqx30)

351 Trump didn't try to overthrow the government - but Obama did.

Posted by: Black JEM at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (GZYu7)

352 I'd say the founders declared liberty was the most important thing and getting liberty meant overthrowing the king's government in the colonies.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (mzM2O)

353 Apparently, the female pilot of the Blackhawk name will not be revealed per the army because the family has requested such

Posted by: keena at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (RiTnx)

354 I've had all my TB shots. As have most of us here, I expect. If there is a TB outbreak, it will be because of illegals, who will mainly be the ones to suffer. Tough shit.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2025 05:46 PM (8zz6B)

Plus in that case a monkey could just publish the news and tell people to go get a booster / check for a vaccine active and do a full vaccine.

CDC violated their trust to the country and science, all should burn.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (n7h9X)

355 Holy shit.
If he starts arresting commie spies, half of DC is at risk. Maybe that is what the Gitmo re-up is all about!
Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:37 PM (qFOmp)

There are lots of planes between the US and Gitmo.
Friend's daughter just got back from a two year stint there.
It's more active than just housing 12 or so terrorists.

Posted by: Reforger at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (xcIvR)

356 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (GYt5+)

357 NOOD

presstitutes are dumb

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (Vqx30)

358 Pritzker is an obese blowhard, and a life long dullard. He bought IL , because IL is stupid and let him. He has national ambitions and is aiming for '28.

Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (g47mK)

359 303 Gov. JB Pritzker wants to block those who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol from working in Illinois government, despite the clemency granted to over 1,500 participants in the insurrection by President Donald Trump.

“Our State workforce must reflect the values of Illinois and demonstrate honesty, integrity, and loyalty to serving the taxpayers,” Pritzker said in the letter. “No one who attempts to overthrow a government should serve in government.”
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

Oh please. What a grandstander. If his statement its about "participants," he should be prepared for some discrimination lawsuits. If he's limiting it to the 1500 jailed & pardoned men and women, what are the chances they desire a government job working under the Blob?

Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (lCppi)

360 333 He gave his material to US journalists, Greenwald and a couple of others, not Iran or Russia or CCP, right ?
Posted by: runner at January 31, 2025 05:43 PM (g47mK)

That's what Greenwald said, and also that while he could have sold it all easily, he wanted only limited information publicized in order to call attention to the abuses and blatant illegalities.
Posted by: LASue

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Greenwald is an ass.
He flew to HONG KONG. where the CCP took control of him and his hard drives, and interrogated him until they were satisfied. (presumably that he was not a Luca Brasi)

He could not sell it since they just took it!
Then he went to Russia. Presumably they got it all too. (possibly as part of the asylum deal.)

Posted by: Gentlemen, Please, please, it's too much winning! at January 31, 2025 05:52 PM (qFOmp)

361 353 If so, that’s BS. This is a matter of public interest and the wishes of the family should have zero regard.

Posted by: Bulg at January 31, 2025 05:52 PM (77rzZ)

362 The employees were hired to permanent career positions after serving under special or short-term status as the office surged to manage nearly 1,600 prosecutions after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. The prosecutors remained under probationary status, which allows the firings without recourse under Justice Department policy, the people said."
Posted by: Nova Local at January 31, 2025 05:44 PM (exHjb)

Make ambulance chasers great again.

Posted by: Reforger at January 31, 2025 05:53 PM (xcIvR)

363 If Trump catches the brass in the building he should search them for devices, book their clothes, send them home in paper jumpsiuts. cuffs? no. press parade? sure

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at January 31, 2025 05:54 PM (QSrLX)

364 Would it be fair to call George W and friends insurrectionists?
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at January 31, 2025 05:50 PM (Vqx30)

Their colonies revolted as units against the crown. This usually means some insulation for those under the local government if the revolt fails. In the ACW the Rebs got released on parole as long as they went home and ceased fighting. Some higher ups had limited rights to be elected, nothing much.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:54 PM (n7h9X)

365 Didn't Snowden try to go through the proper whistleblower channels? Maybe they should have listened to him.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at January 31, 2025 05:55 PM (25QY+)

366 Prayers bif.

Posted by: whig's phone at January 31, 2025 05:55 PM (ctrM5)

367 345 Anyone remember the scene from Enemy at the Gates where Nikita Khruschev is listening to the general cry and make excuses. And then Khruschev slides a pistol across to him and says "I have to report to the Boss. Perhaps you'd prefer to avoid the red tape."

I like to think that's how the message was delivered to these "officials".

Posted by: Nevyan

Bob Hoskins, right?
*checks imdb*

Yeah, it was Bob.

Posted by: BifBewalski .308 / .45ACP at January 31, 2025 05:56 PM (YAoGK)

368 Locality pay adjustments are made based on your mailing address, not your work address. If an employee got to stay remote and then moved, their pay was adjusted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM (FAbrK)

"Just send my mayayayal to the Tijuana jail."

Wouldn't be hard to have one's mail forwarded by a friend.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at January 31, 2025 05:58 PM (8zz6B)

369 Oh please. What a grandstander. If his statement its about "participants," he should be prepared for some discrimination lawsuits. If he's limiting it to the 1500 jailed & pardoned men and women, what are the chances they desire a government job working under the Blob?
Posted by: LASue at January 31, 2025 05:51 PM (lCppi)

He'd probably be liable for a law directed at specific people, who since they are pardoned have no legal liability per se. You can't pass a law to find the WR who dropped a key pass in the big game no matter how much he deserves one.

Posted by: Oldcat at January 31, 2025 05:59 PM (n7h9X)

370 Is Pritzker that guy with a belly the size France?

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at January 31, 2025 06:02 PM (kTd/k)

371 Also, is anyone concerned that Trump's Tariffs are going to cause inflation, because you know, common sense economics here?
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If you had common sense, you would know inflation is always and ever a monetary phenomenon. Government printing. Or whatever the digital equivalent is. It represents a permanent loss in the purchasing power of the currency unit. It doesn’t come back. Ever. It is also cumulative.

If you want to talk about. tarriffs, we can do that, too.

Posted by: Common Tater at January 31, 2025 06:02 PM (m1xvH)

372 "Ace is sigma
Posted by: banana Dream -- OHIO!"

If he ever goes sentient, we're all fucked.

Posted by: fag Picard at January 31, 2025 06:03 PM (fV+MH)

373 Fag Picard is bugging me.

Posted by: eleven at January 31, 2025 06:04 PM (fV+MH)

374 @306 his FAA nominee was withdrawn. AA restaurant owner who knew nothing about anything and was exposed by Ted Cruz's questioning
Posted by: Smell the Glove

I remember when that happened. It was painful to watch. It is one thing to lie on your resume and submit it to some unknown HR person, it is quite another to be nominated for a job as a Dept. head in the US Government that you are totally unqualified for and have to sit in front of a Congressional Committee and be grilled about. Jesus, he should have turned it down before any of that happened. How he thought he could bullshit his way through that I'll never know.

Posted by: Cheri at January 31, 2025 06:09 PM (oiNtH)

375 DOJ might be panicking, but my small office at a small military base is cheering Trump on.

We are also hoping several people at our HQ take up the offer in the Fork in the Road email.

Posted by: Aivanther at January 31, 2025 06:41 PM (XeEvf)

376 It's not a bad deal for many of the federal workforce. If they have sufficient time of employment, they can retain a retirement benefit (it will vary depending on length of employment and what has been their classification), and might be eligible for retirement medical benefits when they reach 60-something.

If they have real skills, they can build a new career with additional retirement benefits. If they don't have real skills, I suppose they can learn to code.

Posted by: DaveK at January 31, 2025 06:47 PM (23/Zl)

377 I'm sure there are moronic idiot insurrectionists in the civil service. That said, the six percent figure is the people in Yuma who never get snowed on or have never had a doctor's app't in the middle of the day. How many of the people who "aren't one hundred percent in the office telecommuted on a snow dayt? Just one mid-day doctor appointment where you telecommute before and after? You were not one hundred percent in office.

I get the sentiment, but it's misleading...

Posted by: SouthCentralPA at January 31, 2025 07:55 PM (muRIc)

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