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White House: If Schumer Shuts Down the Government to Force Us to Pay For Medicare for Illegal Aliens, We'll Mass-Fire Bureaucrats Instead of Furoughing Them
The White House budget office is instructing federal agencies to prepare reduction-in-force plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown, specifically targeting employees who work for programs that are not legally required to continue. The Office of Management and Budget move to permanently reduce the government workforce if there is a shutdown, outlined in a memo shared with POLITICO ahead of release to agencies tonight, escalates the stakes of a potential shutdown next week. In the memo, OMB told agencies to identify programs, projects and activities where discretionary funding will lapse on Oct. 1 and no alternative funding source is available. For those areas, OMB directed agencies to begin drafting RIF [Reduction In Force] plans that would go beyond standard furloughs, permanently eliminating jobs in programs not consistent with President Donald Trump's priorities in the event of a shutdown. The move marks a significant break from how shutdowns have been handled in recent decades, when most furloughs were temporary and employees were brought back once Congress voted to reopen government and funding was restored. This time, OMB Director Russ Vought is using the threat of permanent job cuts as leverage, upping the ante in the standoff with Democrats in Congress over government spending. "Programs that did not benefit from an infusion of mandatory appropriations will bear the brunt of a shutdown," OMB wrote in the memo. Agencies were told to submit their proposed RIF plans to OMB and to issue notices to employees even if they would otherwise be excepted or furloughed during a lapse in funding. Programs that will continue regardless of a shutdown include Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and air traffic control, according to an OMB official granted anonymity to share information not yet public.Schumer and the Democrats are really going to shut down the government, at least for a while, to try to force Trump to spend Medicare dollars on sex change operations for illegals. (Among other things.) Happy Thursday!
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(Jump to bottom of comments)The language in the memo that the OMB sent out makes note of roles not authorized explicitly by statute, which is a signal that the administration is still using Loper as a driving rationale for all of its deregulatory efforts.
It makes me wonder...is it just easier to eliminate regulations if no one is actively working on it? From an internal perspective.
Like, 10 people are working to, say, study birdflight patterns over rural areas due to climate change, or whatever. But, the 10 people get RIFed. Now that you don't have to deal with any 5th Amendment property claims on the employment of the 10, does it just clear the deck for eliminating the regulation entirely that otherwise wouldn't be allowed? Not that the admin couldn't eliminate the regulation that led to the research group at all, just that the process is streamlined and faster.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2025 12:19 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (gW9Ij)
261 From Insty:
John Nolte adds, “Trump can’t lose here. Democrats will be blamed for the shutdown. Bureaucrats will be fired (tee hee). On the other hand, if Democrats cave and vote for the continuing resolution, their base will be furious. Additionally, these insane demands from Democrats have already been made public, which will haunt them going into the midterms.”
Or as Ed Morrissey writes, “Nice box canyon ahead of you, Chuck.”
Jim Geraghty concurs: Democrats Prepare to March into a Box Canyon by Shutting Down the Government. “Do you envision Trump making significant concessions to ease the pain and suffering of federal government workers? No, I don’t, either. Schumer and the Democrats will have gotten themselves into a high-stakes fight with Trump where one of the party’s key constituencies — government workers — feel the most pain, and it gets worse the longer it drags on.”
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (O7YUW)
Translation: "First"
Posted by: ... at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (Z6dUl)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (N1tpc)
Posted by: toby928 at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (jc0TO)
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I think any shutdown takes less than a day, if it happens at all.
It doesn't take long to send out a shit ton of emails saying, "You're RIFd because we lack funds," from the OMB.
This is bluster and theater. Failure theater. People who donate to Schumer over this should be mocked mercilessly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: It's me donna at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (OUMaO)
Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (LW4bQ)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (tgvbd)
Translation: "First"
Posted by: ... at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (Z6dUl)
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Actually, it's Italian, so it translates as "Sponge".
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Wnv9h)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (tgvbd)
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I like this idea.
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (f1kZG)
Get out ahead of that stupid talking point.
Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (KbCG3)
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Wnv9h)
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Bane placing his hand on the businessman's shoulder.
"Do you feel like you are in charge?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: AI at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (ynpvh)
Trump 2.0 is not Trump 45.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
And it is a beautiful thing.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (N39Ws)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (0sNs1)
This is part of what I voted for.
And, back to work.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (jbnUc)
"Sorry judge, but the Federal government is shut down, so we just can't cut the checks for all that Federal money Illinois was expecting."
Posted by: The ARC of History! at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (0sNs1)
Does it count with a willowed comment?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
Firing is the better solution.
Posted by: illiniwek at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (vbXSk)
Trump 2.0 is not Trump 45.
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:20 PM (t/2Uw)
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Trump did go through a month long shutdown in 2017 against Paul Ryan because Ryan refused to fund the border wall.
Oh, what Trump should have done for those 4 weeks...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (6PCLE)
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (lepZb)
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I'd really like to see those plans. They'd reveal whether the RIF was in fact, a RIF or just temporary layoff.
It's not that I don't trust OMB... it's that I really don't trust OMB.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (0sNs1)
Does it count with a willowed comment?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
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It doesn't. I should be banned, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
lol, you ever see the little faggot from "meidas touch," the far-left Democrat activist blog?
His name is, get this, adam mockler.
Posted by: Soothsayer introduces boobs to this post at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (xm2mH)
Posted by: The Whirlwind at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (6PCLE)
This is the FO output of the FA input.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (Riz8t)
If there was one, Trump should call Elon and have him wield the chainsaw RIFfing the gov't workers himself.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (jbsaf)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (t/2Uw)
Posted by: An idea whose time has come at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (TbWk/)
Posted by: Head on a Swivel at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (jbmHx)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (t/2Uw)
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October government job losses are going to be interesting to see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:25 PM (GBKbO)
Amazing the legs that thing has had
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at September 25, 2025 12:25 PM (lepZb)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM
First is first. We're not Democrats, you know.
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:25 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (0sNs1)
Does it count with a willowed comment?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (ynpvh)
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It doesn't. I should be banned, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (GBKbO)
I never took you for a masochist...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:25 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: ballistic at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (3BwY8)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (8X72a)
It's like a parent telling their teenager, "if you don't clean your room, I'll let you drive the Lamborghini."
And Medi for illegals?? Trump wants to toss these parasites out of the country, but he'll give them free medi?? Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
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I'd really like to see those plans. They'd reveal whether the RIF was in fact, a RIF or just temporary layoff.
It's not that I don't trust OMB... it's that I really don't trust OMB.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (Q4IgG)
Russell Vought runs OMB. I trust Vought to do the needful.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (jbsaf)
It's like a parent telling their teenager, "if you don't clean your room, I'll let you drive the Lamborghini."
And Medi for illegals?? Trump wants to toss these parasites out of the country, but he'll give them free medi?? Sure, Jan.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (iFTx/)
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Which means it's all just failure theater. Schumer's doing it for the donations.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:27 PM (GBKbO)
1-800-CASH-4KKK
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:27 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: that guy that always thinks it's beginning at September 25, 2025 12:27 PM (5rC8Y)
TRUMP SMASH!
Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 12:27 PM (LW4bQ)
Posted by: Advo at September 25, 2025 12:28 PM (jO4mz)
If there was one, Trump should call Elon and have him wield the chainsaw RIFfing the gov't workers himself.
Posted by: Darrell Harris - Je Suis Charlie at September 25, 2025 12:24 PM (jbsaf)
Literally, with a chainsaw signed by Milei.
Posted by: pookysgirl says AFUERA! at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (Wt5PA)
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (ynpvh)
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"Shoot the hostage." -- Keanu Reeves in Speed.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (IBQGV)
Would you like to play a game?
Posted by: DJT at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (Riz8t)
I predict Schumer will try to please both sides, and in so doing completely piss off both sides.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (uWKK8)
‘ White House: If Schumer Shuts Down the Government to Force Us to Pay For Medicare for Illegal Aliens, We'll Mass-Fire Bureaucrats Instead of Furoughing Them’
You had me at "Schumer Shuts Down the Government", no need to gild the lily.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (FhXTo)
A degree course which covers "queer and trans geographies" has been cancelled by a top Russell Group university just one week into the semester in a bid to cut £140million.
It is believed that students at the University of Edinburgh rocked up to the first lesson only to be told that the course was going to be withdrawn for cost-cutting purposes.
https://tinyurl.com/3cssf3vr
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (P58QN)
Posted by: Russell Vought at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (jc0TO)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)
just how the Founding Fathers intended, or something
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (jGJov)
51 Imagine how much better the world would be today had Germany won WWI.
Posted by: Oglebay
https://www.amazon.com/Austrian-Painter-What- Germany-Great/dp/1981431861/ref=sr_1
Remove space to use URL.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (ZVgZ4)
1 at a time?
I think Trump sees purging the swamp as his top priority. He's setting up the board to ensure that happens. Clever boy.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Advo at September 25, 2025 12:28 PM (jO4mz)
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To be honest, he'd lose less badly if he had refused to fight at all, even rhetorically.
The media would take it as a signal to not highlight it, the CR passing with little fanfare, and business continuing as usual.
But Democrat consultants know of no other way to do things than to try and win the news cycle, so they talk Democrat politicians into suicide missions to try and get some good headlines for a few days that no one will remember in a year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
William Shatner@WilliamShatner
I over indulged. I thank you all for caring but I’m perfectly fine. I keep telling you all: don’t trust tabloids or AI! 😉
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)
That's their two most loyal voting groups.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (uWKK8)
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (f1kZG)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (wWIcc)
Posted by: Doof at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (wkXwO)
Defund ICE
Protections from Trump doing anything
Statuary protection of DEI
so...looks like we are getting a shutdown because that's stuff Trump would not agree to...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (sKqQm)
A degree course which covers "queer and trans geographies" has been cancelled by a top Russell Group university just one week into the semester in a bid to cut £140million.
It is believed that students at the University of Edinburgh rocked up to the first lesson only to be told that the course was going to be withdrawn for cost-cutting purposes.
https://tinyurl.com/3cssf3vr
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (P58QN)
Queer geography? Calling a peninsula an inlet?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (ynpvh)
ABC: "When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, his intent is clearly to ... collect for the Red Cross."
https://tinyurl.com/2v6paket
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (iFTx/)
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On one level, sure.
But the real power play would be Trump not only doing this BUT ALSO stating that priorities 1, 2, and 3 have to be agreed to and included in ANY resolution that allows government operations to continue (whatever priorities 1, 2, and 3 are for Trump). Don't just trade for the sake of trading--he has the high hand. Make some of our goals be a condition of allowing government operations to continue or open back up.
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (svLOV)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (qBdHI)
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at September 25, 2025 12:29 PM (IBQGV)
lol, I was thinking about that scene yesterday. Thankfully Keanu didn't use a stupid pun, like a modern movie would, about taking the hostages out of the "e-crane-ion", right as the camera pans to the crane they'll use to try to prop up the booby-trapped elevator.
Posted by: Thrawn at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (9Ovst)
@SenSchumer
This is an attempt at intimidation.
Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one—not to govern, but to scare.
This is nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government.
These unnecessary firings will either be overturned in court or the administration will end up hiring the workers back, just like they did as recently as this week.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
Posted by: pudinhead at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (AdHga)
lol. The guy who puts cheese on raw hamburgers wants to negotiate.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (n7LOc)
That would be an interesting alt-history novel idea.
A group of abolitionists that raid the south to free slaves and send them back to Africa.
I suspect it would be cancel-bait even though the protagonists would be fighting Hollywood's second favorite villains...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8X72a)
Posted by: Operator Error at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (GZAOF)
Sucks to be Chuck
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8CfIy)
Defund ICE
Protections from Trump doing anything
Statuary protection of DEI
so...looks like we are getting a shutdown because that's stuff Trump would not agree to...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (sKqQm)
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It'd be smarter if they said, "Shut down the government forever so ICE can't do anything." Instead, they come up with this bullshit that Schumer's gonna force some kind of defunding of ICE into a bill.
I mean, we're sometimes ludicrously stupid when we say that the House could shut down the whole government on its own by simply not passing anything (it could, it's just not ever gonna happen), but Schumer forcing that language into a bill that would have to pass the House and get Trump's signature?
Come on...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (KcHBz)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:26 PM (qBdHI)
Makes you wonder if there is videotape somewhere of said Dems with said "illegals and trans" in compromising positions...
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (e/Osv)
Posted by: redridinghood at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
Actually, Chuckie boy, if you defund the Government, you hand Trump all the legal ammo he needs to fire away.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (uWKK8)
Oh, what Trump should have done for those 4 weeks...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (GBKbO)
That man was quite the POS. I'm glad that the mask was ripped off because everyone was in love with that guy. On the other hand, it was the beginning of a new and deeper cynicism for me, and now I believe in nothing this world offers.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Darth Randall at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (f1kZG)
Dems want lots of illegal in this country.
Dems call those rounding up illegals slave hunters.
Dems must be slave mastas...or at least slave dealers
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 12:34 PM (ynpvh)
I think we already have enough governing and need a lot less of it.
Of course the irony is Cuck Schemer and his friends also tell me Trump's governance is bad...so why can't he agree to have less of it?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:34 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:34 PM (sKqQm)
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True democracy is rule by the Mandarin Class over the underclasses of scum.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:35 PM (GBKbO)
A nonsense term, much like the terms trans-women, trans-men, and cis-{anything}.
"Idiots."
Exactly.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025 12:35 PM (O7YUW)
But Democrat consultants know of no other way to do things than to try and win the news cycle, so they talk Democrat politicians into suicide missions to try and get some good headlines for a few days that no one will remember in a year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
It's never in the best interests of political consultants to tell their clients to do nothing. Even if doing nothing is the smart political play, they'll always recommend some kind of action, so that they can pad out the resume.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at September 25, 2025 12:35 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: steevy at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (YwEeS)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (8X72a)
probably not - even the far left cares much for Bureaucrats. But Schumer still has a huge problem. because the Dem party itself is primarily the party of the Bureaucrats.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (uWKK8)
That fair?
Oh and since the government inflation numbers are honest and correct we'll use those...not the real inflation numbers.
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (sKqQm)
Burying them in long shallow trenches does sound like fun.
Posted by: Operator Error at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (GZAOF)
Sow the dickhead, reap the... whirldickhead?
...
That doesn't sound right.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (06Hmj)
@SenSchumer
This is an attempt at intimidation.
Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one—not to govern, but to scare.
This is nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government.
These unnecessary firings will either be overturned in court or the administration will end up hiring the workers back, just like they did as recently as this week.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
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What is this fat cheeseburger-botching retard talking about with "or the administration will end up hiring the workers back, just like they did as recently as this week"?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
In previous shutdowns, non-essential government employees were furloughed and guaranteed back pay by a 2019 law.
The federal RIF process gives effect to four main retention factors: Tenure, Veterans Preference, Credible Service, Performance.
Mass layoffs instead of furloughs: Unlike the standard practice of furloughs during a shutdown, the OMB memo instructs agencies to plan for RIFs that would eliminate positions permanently. This would remove the protection of guaranteed back pay for affected union members.
See RIF process in action.
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Chuck needs a spanking.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (NFX2v)
But Democrat consultants know of no other way to do things than to try and win the news cycle, so they talk Democrat politicians into suicide missions to try and get some good headlines for a few days that no one will remember in a year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (GBKbO)
They got Kimmel back... The new King of late night !
Posted by: It's me donna at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (VE6XX)
Dr. Maalouf
@realMaalouf
Islamic cleric in the UK:
“Islam is not here to coexist. We were sent to dominate the world, to extinguish and wipe out every other religion. We are superior to everyone else.
We shouldn’t be shy to say it. And if that requires fighting, so be it.”
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (TN0g+)
Posted by: Advo
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Chuck's problems are compounded by the Left blaming him for the reversals in March this year which avoided a shutdown then. Now the ground is even more unfavorable for Dems to shut down the government and yet that is what the left wants to do.
Given that the enraged left is now endorsing shooting people they don't like, I would not want to be on Schumer's security detail.
Posted by: whig at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (WDjG6)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (wWIcc)
Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (BW+Gb)
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Other than cutting the White House lawn, what is there not on the list that we give a sh*t about, anyway?
I do have to question the timing. This cause Chucky to back off, which is OK, but the firings would be much better.
Posted by: Eeyore at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (s0JqF)
Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (gm9Sb)
They've been pulling this same nonsense for decades, and in their arrogance, haven't seen the need to develop new tactics, just in case. Now, new tactics are needed, and they're just standing there with their d***s in their hands. Yes, I include Jasmine Ratchet and AOC in that description.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:38 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 12:38 PM (tgvbd)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (KcHBz)
Was the bad guy Wile E. Coyote?
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2025 12:38 PM (8X72a)
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:38 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (wWIcc)
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I think any shutdown takes less than a day, if it happens at all.
It doesn't take long to send out a shit ton of emails saying, "You're RIFd because we lack funds," from the OMB.
This is bluster and theater. Failure theater. People who donate to Schumer over this should be mocked mercilessly.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:21 PM (GBKbO)
I think the shutdown will be through the Columbus Day weekend - Rs will want military pay on time (and they can't get Ds to approve the bill to pay them) and Ds will want all the feds reinstated before a RIF can take effect (it takes 30 days to perform a RIF)...Rs may give in on one military pay, but won't a 2nd, so I think Oct 29 is the latest this goes...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (tOcjL)
The left loves trannies because they are the worst kind of perverts. Oh and they make great foot soldiers. Get someone to swear an oath and they might at some point wise up. Get them to literally cut their balls off for you and they will forever justify their decision by doing what you tell them
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (sKqQm)
Accept no others.
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (wWIcc)
WTF?
Posted by: Nall at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (vSvIl)
Posted by: Defenestratus at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (WYStd)
Posted by: Anna Puma at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (wWIcc)
No but his goose is....
Posted by: It's me donna at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 25, 2025 12:40 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
There was a news story, the GAO hired some of the furloughed people back because in some states they had properties that had to be looked after, and nobody left who was in a position to do so. Even at the time Musk said this would happen in a few instances; in a place where you inadvertantly laid off too many people, you could always hire some back when you found that out.
Posted by: Tom Servo at September 25, 2025 12:40 PM (uWKK8)
Nothing else matters to me at the moment.
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:40 PM (TN0g+)
The news that Shatner is still hitting it hard into his 90's should be a source of joy and admiration from all morons.
Posted by: Auspex at September 25, 2025 12:41 PM (Y8DZL)
I keed, I keed. But a wonderful typo.
Posted by: rhomboid at September 25, 2025 12:41 PM (U/Byj)
Has anyone ever checked to see how well Florida fits in Lake Michigan?
Might need to flip it over.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 25, 2025 12:41 PM (qpyNK)
I'm paying $8T a year for....this?!?
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:41 PM (sKqQm)
He is in check. He shuts down the gubmint and he is in checkmate.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 25, 2025 12:42 PM (ZmEVT)
So, by all means let this bloated whale corpse on the beach of partisan politics explode most gloriously...
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 25, 2025 12:42 PM (TGPs7)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:22 PM (t/2Uw)
But then they wouldn't be Republicans.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:42 PM (ExV1e)
Liberia?
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:42 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (KcHBz)
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The first time I ever saw a Claymore, it was during an episode of the British (soft core porn, aren't most of them now?) TV series "Strike Back" -- undoubtedly the show with the greatest body count and shots fired evah!
Anywho, during the Covid PsyOps Bullshit, I was forced to wear a mask for work as a contractor with the VA ... and I found one online -- and wore it -- that looked like a Claymore with the classic "THIS SIDE TOWARD ENEMY" embossed on the front of it.
Got lots of laughs and thumbs up from Veterans ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (U/Byj)
Dr. Maalouf
@realMaalouf
Islamic cleric in the UK:
“Islam is not here to coexist. We were sent to dominate the world, to extinguish and wipe out every other religion. We are superior to everyone else.
We shouldn’t be shy to say it. And if that requires fighting, so be it.”
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (TN0g+)
______
"We are superior! Nobody can rape goats like we can!"
It's never-endingly amusing to me that a religion and people that are overwhelmingly backwards, that have literally no achievements to speak of, that are basically human cockroaches, and that are so filthy and disgusting they continue to wipe their asses with their bare hands ... but these putrescents somehow keep telling me how "superior" they are.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (iFTx/)
Nothing else matters to me at the moment.
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:40 PM (TN0g+)
Right. Most people don't give two shits whether the people who enforce the "do not remove under penalty of law" tags on mattresses get paid, or even have jobs.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (qpyNK)
We win, you lose worked great with the Bush's.
Rotten shame that PDT doesn't operate that way.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (4V/4m)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (iFTx/)
They are hiring back a couple hundred GSA workers b/c they didn't have enough to manage and end all the leases.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (tOcjL)
the National Park Service will put out so many orange cones
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (tOcjL)
Active duty will still get their pay on time. They fixed that after a Clinton era shutdown when the military did NOT get paid just before Christmas (end of month November paycjeck,...I was THERE for that one).
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (e/Osv)
Schumer has singlehandedly given Trump the upper hand in this negotiation. Trump knows Schumer will not let the government shut down for any reason...he'll negotiate the additional seven votes needed in the Senate for additional provisions to Israel. He will then go back and say that his vote helped a lot of people from losing their jobs.
"But, but, Schumer HAD to do that! It wasn't a bad long term negotiation, trump would have just never reopened huge parts of the government!" - centrist bootlickers in the sub
Democrats, release a statement saying "Release the epstein files, or we shut it down". Call his bluff.
Not the Epstein files. Dems should say they're against ending the ACA subsidies; it's up to the GOP whether denying Americans financial assistance they need is worth shutting down the government.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (ycI94)
The one thing that makes me not 100% believe this is that right now in particular there's a non-trivial change that Schumer will get shot if he goes against their base.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (UmGiD)
the National Park Service will put out so many orange cones
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (jGJov)
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"That's working during a shutdown. You're fired."
-Russ Vought
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (GBKbO)
Wouldn't it be cheaper just to offer Dem/deginerate politicos (redundant, I know) free trips to Thailand (home of ladyboys, so I'm told)?
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: nurse ratched at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (rn2/h)
Posted by: Gnostic Surface at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (kZs1J)
this is actually the city motto of Dearborn, MI
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (jGJov)
Don't just trade for the sake of trading--he has the high hand.
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (TN0g+)
Give him the high hat.
Posted by: Zombie Johnny Caspar at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (y9nCu)
Posted by: ChristyBlinkyTheGreat at September 25, 2025 12:23 PM (6PCLE)
The Administration should have said, "Programs that will continue regardless of a shutdown include Social Security, Medicare, veterans benefits, military operations, law enforcement, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and air traffic control." and, if asked, "I'm not going to comment on negotiations in Congress."
Then they should have dropped the hammer out of the blue when the Democrats thought he was scared.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (EGaWN)
A group of abolitionists that raid the south to free slaves and send them back to Africa.
I suspect it would be cancel-bait even though the protagonists would be fighting Hollywood's second favorite villains...
Posted by: 18-1
Ever hear of Liberia?
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (ZVgZ4)
@SenSchumer
>>This is an attempt at intimidation.
>>Donald Trump has been firing federal workers since day one—not to govern, but to scare.
Then call his bluff, Chuck. Shut it down.
Posted by: JackStraw at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (viF8m)
Democrats, release a statement saying "Release the epstein files, or we shut it down". Call his bluff.
Enough with the Epstein files
Posted by: It's me donna at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (VE6XX)
Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (gm9Sb)
Not a chance. He goes out horizontally, just like Mitch.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (UseAb)
Posted by: Josephistan at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (FLx59)
the National Park Service will put out so many orange cones
Barky told them to do that.
I suspect in Trump's case it just means no park rangers collecting fees...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
the National Park Service will put out so many orange cones
Barky told them to do that.
I suspect in Trump's case it just means no park rangers collecting fees...
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 12:45 PM (sKqQm)
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I seem to remember some resistance types did it in 2017 as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: rhomboid at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (U/Byj)
You can't pay anyone except Exempt employees (who are not paid by Congressional appropriation) without a law...Military are not Exempt. Rs have been trying all last week to get a bill that said we could use old unspent appropriations to pay them - Ds wouldn't go for it, although they did last time.
So, military will work, but not be paid til the end. And that will hurt Rs.
Both sides are ramping up the chicken game right now...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (tOcjL)
@realMaalouf
Islamic cleric in the UK:
“Islam is not here to coexist. We were sent to dominate the world, to extinguish and wipe out every other religion. We are superior to everyone else.
We shouldn’t be shy to say it. And if that requires fighting, so be it.”
--
I console myself knowing they've always said and thought this. Going at it for 1000s of years and they have yet to conquer the world or other religions.
One thing I'd like to see is for all the useful Coexist idiots to understand just what Islam is all about and what its violent objectives are. It's clearly stated. If only those useful idiots weren't so stupid.
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (qBdHI)
That way there'll be less pressure to end the shutdown and he'll have time to eliminate the swamp entirely.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (1Nv0l)
Pointing out that Florida looks like a dingaling?
Idiots.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM
So, is the panhandle the thingie that goes up?
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: Mister Ghost at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (TGPs7)
I'm paying $8T a year for....this?!?
Posted by: 18-1
I remember the screeching and pearl clutching when Rick Perry said he had a goal to make the federal government as insignificant as possible for us.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (svLOV)
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Yep. And the left and George Bush keep telling us "they don't really mean that" when its quite clear that they DO really mean it.
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (TN0g+)
He is in check. He shuts down the gubmint and he is in checkmate.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 25, 2025 12:42 PM (ZmEVT)
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The Democrat Communist Party is THE PARTY OF (YUGE!) GUBMINT. He's plucked.
Keep f*cking that chicken, Chucky ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:39 PM (tOcjL)
Active duty will still get their pay on time. They fixed that after a Clinton era shutdown when the military did NOT get paid just before Christmas (end of month November paycjeck,...I was THERE for that one).
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 25, 2025 12:43 PM (e/Osv)
Nope, that was a one time fix.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (cbjQQ)
Posted by: tankdemon at September 25, 2025 12:38 PM (8X72a)
It was most likely an intentional action to avoid a Walker roundhouse kick of death…but I was young when I saw it.
Posted by: Cray Cray at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (KcHBz)
I think not.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (qpyNK)
Posted by: Crusader at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (TN0g+)
If he's not just talking shit (spoiler: he was just talking shit), it would be some grand projection. "They don't really mean that. We never really mean what we say either. So of course they don't."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (06Hmj)
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (0sNs1)
Sure thing, Jan...
*oh, UPS delivery... and entire box of shiny new 30 round Pmags... does happy joy dance, looks for uplula...*
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: rickb223
When the Brits admit something is stupid, that's impressive.
Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (svLOV)
problem is they are outbreeding everyone else, and they have perfected taking advantage if liberal western welfare systems to pay for it. an invasion without firing a hot
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:48 PM (Tcp1u)
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Or he dies in office but no-one notices the difference. Feinstein-style.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)
Pointing out that Florida looks like a dingaling?
Idiots.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM
So, is the panhandle the thingie that goes up?
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (0sNs1)
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I'm pretty sure the panhandle is the chainsaw attachment.
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (UXgSa)
Reversal of prior policies: The Biden administration's hiring trends reflected a focus on rebuilding a civil service that supporters said had been "hollowed out" by previous administrations.
>>Legislative mandates: Hiring was tied to specific legislation, including the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act. (Those pieces of crap again!)
Normal attrition: The net growth of the workforce factors in natural turnover due to retirements and other departures. For example, over 200,000 employees were hired in fiscal year 2023, but the net growth was about 80,000 after accounting for attrition.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (NFX2v)
Worse news for the Dems? SCOTUS just issued a decision allowing Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC, signaling a possible overturning of the notorious Humphrey’s Executor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (n7CIX)
......
Should do that anyway.
Posted by: wth at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (UjdFS)
Defund the secret & private health care for Congress and the Supreme Court.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (u82oZ)
We shouldn’t be shy to say it. And if that requires fighting, so be it.”
The Imam told this to Thomas Jefferson around 1801.
Posted by: Ordinary American at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (UseAb)
Someone, somewhere, does not understand the people who pay the salaries of government employees no longer have any sympathy, especially after the way they let their petty tyrant freak flag fly during the Joe's residency.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (tT6L1)
Aww. Some poor kids probably studied all night for the tilapia vag test.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (UmGiD)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:31 PM (Riz8t)
I think he saw it as his top priority last time but he underestimated the depth of the water and the number of traitors in his midst.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:47 PM (tOcjL)
Well f*ck....
-SLV
Posted by: Shy Lurking Voter at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (e/Osv)
KTLA
@KTLA
Six men have been arrested in connection with a series of smash-and-grab robberies targeting jewelry stores across multiple Southern California counties, following a months-long investigation by local and state law enforcement.
Image: https://x.com/KTLA/status/1971019642752909519
6:11 PM · Sep 24, 2025
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (Fzg8o)
https://federalnewsnetwork.com/ congress/2025/09/lawmakers-want- guaranteed-pay-for-troops-as-government-shutdown-looms/
"House lawmakers are racing to ensure that troops, including the Coast Guard, civilian employees and contractors continue to receive pay and benefits as the threat of a government shutdown looms at the end of the month.
The legislation, dubbed the “Pay Our Troops Act of 2026,” would guarantee pay for service members if Congress fails to pass legislation to keep the government open before Oct. 1.
The bill would use existing, unappropriated Treasury funds for fiscal 2026 to continue paying service members and civilian workers in the event of a government shutdown until Congress passes a continuing resolution, an appropriations bill that funds the Defense Department or January 1, 2027 — whichever comes first."
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (tOcjL)
He is in check. He shuts down the gubmint and he is in checkmate.
Posted by: no one of any consequence
Dude, cheeseburger cheeseburger.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (cbjQQ)
Mt Vernon, any time in the past 15 years or so...
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Uah4U)
Worse news for the Dems? SCOTUS just issued a decision allowing Trump to fire Rebecca Slaughter from the FTC, signaling a possible overturning of the notorious Humphrey’s Executor.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (n7CIX)
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It was a stay of a lower order that had ordered Slaughter keeping her position as the suit played out. So, she's out of her job as the merits case continues forward.
Tea leaf reading says, especially since this stay is in outright violation of Humphrey's Executor, that the precedent from the FDR years is going to be overturned once the merits get to SCOTUS (the appeal's court should rule in alignment with the precedent to keep Slaughter in her position because the appeal's court can't overturn precedent).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:51 PM (GBKbO)
same way every Western monument needs one telling us how the Indians were peaceful nature loving hippies who used every part of the buffalo
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 12:51 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 12:46 PM (qBdHI)
Just one quibble... not all of their idiots are useful.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 25, 2025 12:51 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at September 25, 2025 12:51 PM (wrRTB)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (Tcp1u)
That's great!
I missed it. How did you get sepsis?
Posted by: bonhomme at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (dZNcN)
Posted by: VSGDJT at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (gmiY5)
You peons will love us...
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (tubbA)
Posted by: NaCly Dog
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Keep SCOTUS. They're still on our side.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Uah4U)
Great news !
Posted by: It's me donna at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (VE6XX)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM
Ahem. With Mr. Schumer, that's cheeseburger tartare.
Posted by: Duncanthrax, a mid-tier AoSHQ commenter, according to Grok at September 25, 2025 12:52 PM (0sNs1)
He is in check. He shuts down the gubmint and he is in checkmate.
If he shuts down the government Trump wins. If he doesn't, Trump wins and Antifa shoots him.
So when I spell it out like that, I think the shutdown will happen.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2025 12:53 PM (UmGiD)
A couple of hits on desalination plants in Qatar, and the traditional way of American War: Firepower. Will is needed.
For example, the French military can cleanse France of invaders. No will. The UK and Germany are too outnumbered to do that.
The Arab culture can't repair much without slaves from other countries.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:53 PM (u82oZ)
same way every Western monument needs one telling us how the Indians were peaceful nature loving hippies who used every part of the buffalo
Someone should ask what they did with the buffalo's wang and a-hole, but that would be, you know, immature.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:53 PM (Riz8t)
Fed employees who are unemployed do not sabotage, do not write counterproductive regulations, do not contribute to the Dems.....
Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at September 25, 2025 12:53 PM (hn8Tt)
Posted by: pudinhead at September 25, 2025 12:33 PM (AdHga)
We should have an Amendment that if the government shuts down that no member of Congress is permitted to run for, or be appointed to, any office, ever.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (ExV1e)
I dunno, "furoughing" them sounds like a good idea too-- like, laying them all out in furrows as fertilizer.
Posted by: zombie at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (pMi6S)
Uhh, does that include the dick and balls? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Barack Obama, Man's Country VIP at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (UmGiD)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (u82oZ)
Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at September 25, 2025 12:37 PM (gm9Sb)
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Not a chance. He goes out horizontally, just like Mitch.
Posted by: Ordinary American
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Or he dies in office but no-one notices the difference. Feinstein-style.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 12:49 PM (1Nv0l)
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Shouldn't they all get Chinese State-Sponsored Funerals?
I am disappoint ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: Croaker at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (+BcZI)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:55 PM (u82oZ)
Trump is a monster.
My decoder ring only tells me "Be sure to take your prenatal Tylenol with Ovaltine."
Posted by: Professor of Progressive Logic Studies at September 25, 2025 12:55 PM (47/pr)
Posted by: zombie at September 25, 2025 12:55 PM (pMi6S)
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Which would also be on the outside.
You know, a Klein bottle globe would be a very cool knick-knack.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (o46Y5)
Uhh, does that include the dick and balls? Asking for a friend.
Posted by: Barack Obama, Man's Country VIP at September 25, 2025 12:54 PM (UmGiD)
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They used to throw those on the courts of nascent women's basketball games.
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (UmGiD)
Posted by: Karen at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (QcgWm)
Schmuck Schumer has often had success, bitch-slapping the GOPe around
LET'S SEE WHO CAVES
(my money is on the Republicans)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Your many 'ette OnlyFans fans at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (0sNs1)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (u82oZ)
lololololol
don lemon's & joy reid's failed podcasts are failing so badly, they often team up to get more eyeballs. And still nobody watches them.
The ONLY time people see these two LOLCOWS is when they saying something amusing enough to clip.
Posted by: Soothsayer introduces boobs to this post at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (xm2mH)
Schmuck Schumer has often had success, bitch-slapping the GOPe around
LET'S SEE WHO CAVES
(my money is on the Republicans)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (AOsQT)
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He caved like two months ago on the OBBB.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (aURVT)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Tcp1u)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:36 PM (Riz8t)
Which would also be on the outside.
You know, a Klein bottle globe would be a very cool knick-knack.
I fancy myself a reasonably bright guy, but I missed that entirely. I have a Klein bottle, and they are very cool.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Riz8t)
Places where you look at the countryside and say, "How did that happen?"
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (ExV1e)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Tcp1u)
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Do normies change voting habits when they hear about a plant closing three states over?
Why would they change voting habits when they hear about fed workers losing their jobs?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (BXhTy)
"But, we mortgaged the house so we could take a vacation to a National Park, and now it's closed."
"We had our family trip planned to Washington DC for two years, scrimping and saving where we could so our two little boys could see it. But, now it's closed."
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
Keep the good parts. Shit-can 60% of the total as bad. We do need robust defenses against illegals, Chinese, and Islam.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:59 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (BXhTy)
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Vought has to make departments aware of OMB plans. The specifics have to come from the department themselves.
It can't be secret, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
"But, we mortgaged the house so we could take a vacation to a National Park, and now it's closed."
"We had our family trip planned to Washington DC for two years, scrimping and saving where we could so our two little boys could see it. But, now it's closed."
Posted by: Orson at September 25, 2025 12:58 PM (dIske)
I suspect many will be less tolerant of some asshoes putting up cones.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at September 25, 2025 12:59 PM (ULPxl)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (AOsQT)
What, no North Korean artillery solution?
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (tubbA)
The one thing that makes me not 100% believe this is that right now in particular there's a non-trivial change that Schumer will get shot if he goes against their base.
Posted by: Ian S. at September 25, 2025 12:44 PM (UmGiD)
I hadn't thought about that, but, yeah. Leftards, from the beginning, have always murdered their own who are judged insufficiently devoted to the "cause".
Ole Chuck would be smart to hire some extra security. No matter what he does.
When you set lose a mad dog, there's no guarantee that he won't circle around and bite your ass. In this example, mad dog = antifa/BLM.
Posted by: naturalfake at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (iJfKG)
Not me.
When I clean out my closet, I take EVERYTHING out, and then only out back what is absolutely essential
That's what we nneed to do with the Feds00DOGe on steroids.
Shut down the entrie federakl government, until further notice. Deem eveyr department null and void, expunged from existence.
Then, starting with a completely clean slate, only re-instate what is absolutely necessary.
We'd balance the budget in a matter of weeks.
Posted by: zombie at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (pMi6S)
I have a Klein bottle, and they are very cool.
Posted by: Archimedes
The great glassblower Mitsuki Ohno gifted me a vintage Klein bottle. It is a prized possession.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (u82oZ)
Because the GOP has fallen for this shutdown, pull my finger joke for years. That’s because pollsters kept saying it wasn’t popular with the voters. They also tried to blame midterm loses on it, because you know, federal bureaucrats are like Mother Theresa to the voters *makes jerking motion*
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (Tcp1u)
Posted by: zombie at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (pMi6S)
* searches interwebz *
"In mathematics, the Klein bottle is an example of a non-orientable surface; that is, informally, a one-sided surface which, if traveled upon, could be followed back to the point of origin while flipping the traveler upside down. More formally, the surface is a two-dimensional manifold on which one cannot define a consistent direction perpendicular to the surface (normal vector) that varies continuously over the whole shape."
Basically, an MC Escher sketch ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klein_bottle
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (UXgSa)
It can't be secret, to be honest.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 12:59 PM (GBKbO)
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When was the last time we had a president capable of forking Democrats? (OM Chess thread reference)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (tT6L1)
Ole Chuck would be smart to hire some extra security. No matter what he does.
When you set lose a mad dog, there's no guarantee that he won't circle around and bite your ass. In this example, mad dog = antifa/BLM.
I'll bet Pelosi is glad she's no longer in power.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Riz8t)
TXMoMe is your friend. Just sayin'.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (ExV1e)
I'm not without hope, I just won't put my faith in man.
That old book is full of useful knowledge, if only one looks.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Hx0tZ)
A Jew in NYC? He'd be dead within 48 hours of Mamdani getting sworn in.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (ExV1e)
We need Cannibal Bob and Haiti to help prevent waste.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (u82oZ)
____________
"Call me!"
-- Alfred Packer
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: man at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (tubbA)
Trump has apparently discovered the "hostage puppy" method of negotiation that is used by all cities, board of county commissioners and state governments in this country.
"We appear to be 173 million short this biennium. I guess we have to close the fire department and tear down the bridge carrying the highway over the river. Unless you vote for yet another bond and tax increases"
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (rbvCR)
I resemble that remark!
Posted by: James Clyburn - age 85 at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (ZmEVT)
Posted by: Euclid at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (bZOO+)
... "Audio Propagandist" ?!?
Posted by: SMOD at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: Karen at September 25, 2025 12:56 PM (QcgWm)
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Golf clap
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (BXhTy)
Posted by: t-bird at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (04KGT)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (8CfIy)
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:02 PM (EL2O4)
Taydolph Swiftler claims another victim
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (jGJov)
Someone should ask what they did with the buffalo's wang and a-hole, but that would be, you know, immature.
Posted by: Archimedes
Don't forget their wings.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (P58QN)
And in a BidenAmerika you take out trillions in loans to bring them here and put them on welfare
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: M.C. Escher at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (1xP4M)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (u82oZ)
@IngrahamAngle
·
1h
🚨 Big news out of Washington. 🚨 Thanks to @POTUS
’s leadership, America is unleashing @elonmusk
’s xAI across govt.
=----
I saw this movie
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (AOsQT)
If you have to reach that low, this shit don’t float.
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (Tcp1u)
Not including benefits. Without locality pay being a factor.
The fact that many "highly-education, white collar professions" are worthless (lots of letters behind their names but...) in as far as field/investigative work; testifying as may be necessary; customer service; mentoring, work-related writing directives, SOPs, etc.; being well-versed in a broad range of statutes applicable to their sub-agency, etc.
Unfortunately, often door stops/conference attendees.
Something has to give. ^ is why there are so many Federal contractors onboard. (And many of them aren't so great either.)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Archimedes
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When is a bottle not a bottle.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 01:04 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (tT6L1)
Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (et1vG)
At this point, I think the question isn't whether he survives as Senate Majority Leader (he won't), but whether he gets re-elected.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (wtvvX)
The fact that many "highly-education, white collar professions" are worthless (lots of letters behind their names but...) in as far as field/investigative work; testifying as may be necessary; customer service; mentoring, work-related writing directives, SOPs, etc.; being well-versed in a broad range of statutes applicable to their sub-agency, etc.
Unfortunately, often door stops/conference attendees.
Something has to give. ^ is why there are so many Federal contractors onboard. (And many of them aren't so great either.)
?
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (rvwwT)
Read the following Real Dialogue in black jive ghetto voice:
joy reid: god knows what god is doing, she a smart, smart lady, HA HA!
donk lemon: [grinning and giggling like an idiot] She probably black, hee hee.
joy reid: [fake black ghetto-laughs] HA ehEA HAhaHA, she definitely black.
They got their viral moment. But, again, for being lolcows.
Posted by: Soothsayer introduces boobs to this post at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (xm2mH)
-- Alfred Packer
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM
Dear Mr. The Blade,
I hate to be the one to mention this, but it's Alferd. Alferd Packer, aka "The Colorado Cannibal".
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (0sNs1)
Image: https://x.com/KTLA/status/1971019642752909519
6:11 PM · Sep 24, 2025
Posted by: BetaCuck4Lyfe
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Just trying to turn their lives around.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (XeU6L)
At this point, I think the question isn't whether he survives as Senate Majority Leader (he won't), but whether he gets re-elected.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at September 25, 2025 01:05 PM (wtvvX)
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I still think he gets no serious primary contender, and no one will unseat him in leadership.
AOC's gonna run for president and last long enough there to keep her from filing any paperwork to challenge Schumer.
The graft of a presidential run is much more than that of a senate run, even in New York.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (u82oZ)
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (8CfIy)
Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at September 25, 2025 12:30 PM (t/2Uw)
I think so. Surprised the Turks haven’t been telling Erdogan that. But then, not that he cares. Turkey has traditionally been an ally of Israel. Until this joker came along.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (EL2O4)
At this point, I think the question isn't whether he survives as Senate Majority Leader (he won't), but whether he gets re-elected.
When power is the only thing that gives his/her life meaning, it can be difficult to get someone to let it go.
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 01:06 PM (Riz8t)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Uah4U)
Good, I never liked that color. It is too pale for autumn and for summer it just looks like dust.
Posted by: Kindltot at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (rbvCR)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (ZZy8b)
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (i24o9)
Deportation costs money. They should be sold into slavery in central Africa or Asia at a profit.
Posted by: thank you for your contributions at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (IMRrl)
Posted by: Soothsayer introduces boobs to this post at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (xm2mH)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
The question is, does he survive being shot by a deranged leftist for not being left enough.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (P58QN)
That ship went over the horizon long ago.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at September 25, 2025 01:03 PM (u82oZ)
Time to get it back.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (EL2O4)
I love that this is happening right now.
Posted by: Czech Chick at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (vK/Ja)
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh
I sometimes wish this site had like buttons!
Posted by: MaureenTheTemp at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (HI5Mk)
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Deportation costs money. They should be sold into slavery in central Africa or Asia at a profit.
Posted by: thank you for your contributions at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (IMRrl)
Already done, fat!
... wait, was I not supposed to say that?
Posted by: Brandon at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (ULPxl)
But fun-fact: they do embed smoothly in the 3-torus: the 3-d equivalent of 2-d creatures living on the surface of a donut.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 01:09 PM (AOsQT)
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 01:09 PM (1Nv0l)
... what would Martin Luther do ?
Posted by: SMOD at September 25, 2025 01:09 PM (RHGPo)
Posted by: thank you for your contributions at September 25, 2025 01:07 PM (IMRrl)
Yeah, but I’d rather pay for deportation than anything else for a fence jumper/line cutter.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:09 PM (EL2O4)
No mention of groups or areas where the cases are popping up. Not the slighted curiosity. Which is unusual since the media is always obsessed with showing how some malady or illness is disproportionately affecting some minority group. It's as if they don't want to know. Weird.
Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 01:00 PM (AOsQT)
It would be a RIF, which is a layoff not a firing...so yes.
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (tOcjL)
lol, alex jones, another worthless lolcow
Youtube unbanned him, yesterday. Twelve hours later Youtube deleted his channel.
Posted by: Soothsayer introduces boobs to this post at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (vu6Jb)
Posted by: Mrs JTB at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (yTvNw)
No mention of groups or areas where the cases are popping up. Not the slighted curiosity. Which is unusual since the media is always obsessed with showing how some malady or illness is disproportionately affecting some minority group. It's as if they don't want to know. Weird.
Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (GUOwU)
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It's weird how Canada is dealing with it, too. And much worse.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Mel Gibson at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (FmapG)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (bXbFr)
@amuse
@amuse
DOGE: If Democrats shutdown the government in October Trump has ordered Russ Vought to permanently eliminate jobs when discretionary funding lapses and no alternative funding source is available. In past shutdowns Democrats have been able to assign blame to Republicans and face no consequences - everyone just gets a vacation and backpay a few days later. This time it is going to cost thousands of government union jobs. Checkmate as @seanspicer points out.
https://is.gd/gUa1tW
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:10 PM (UXgSa)
... what would Martin Luther do ?
Posted by: SMOD
Nail the doors shut and burn the building down?
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 01:11 PM (P58QN)
_-_-_
If there is nobody working at a National Park, there would be nobody to tell me I can't use the roadside toilet without paying the $7 fee. Schade! It costs money to close them, I am certain. The park service is mostly the .gov selling access.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:11 PM (te4DV)
Posted by: getting seriouser at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (IMRrl)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Drunken Yoda at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (ilHZO)
If there is nobody working at a National Park, there would be nobody to tell me I can't use the roadside toilet without paying the $7 fee. Schade! It costs money to close them, I am certain. The park service is mostly the .gov selling access.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:11 PM (te4DV)
Unless you got a pass.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (EL2O4)
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
🚨 BREAKING: The White House is planning for "MASS LAYOFFS" if the government does indeed shut down, using the opportunity of a funding lapse to remove more federal employees.
LMFAO!
Chuck Schumer is losing BIG right now!
- Shut the government down, Trump fires bureaucrats
- Keep the government open, cave to Trump
"The memo from the White House Office of Management and Budget directs agencies to consider firing employees working on any program that is not funded by another law, such as Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act enacted in July, and which does not align with the president’s priorities. Once government funding is reinstated after a shutdown, agencies should revise their plans to keep only the smallest number of employees necessary to legally operate, the memo says," WaPo reports
This is what plan and adapt looks like!
https://is.gd/Lm1jNI
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (UXgSa)
if he isn't re-elected (which I doubt) he will certainly be replaced by someone just as awful
Unless I'm wrong.™️
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that? at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (AOsQT)
Cox says he’s a woman and asked the judge to tell the prosecutor to stop misgendering him. The judge said no.
One woman testified when she walked in an Arlington girls high school locker room after swim class for her young daughter she saw Cox masturbating in a shower stall with the curtain open. She said her young daughter was with her when she saw Cox touching his erect penis.
Arlington Public Schools allows people to use locker rooms and bathrooms based on their gender identity.
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Apparently, be went full Jeff Toobin.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (cbjQQ)
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (bXbFr)
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (cSByu)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
Probably both VA and MD ones...so they need 3 more...
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (tOcjL)
... what would Martin Luther do ?
Posted by: SMOD
Nail the doors shut and burn the building down?
_-_-_
Pretty sure Luther would be appalled to see that his name is on the church door for starters, regardless of the activity inside. ELCA is a major embarrassment.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (te4DV)
Can we get more videos of State Dept. employees clapping as their fired colleagues walked out with their stuff? Bc those were hilarious
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (jGJov)
Obama sure didn't. In 2013 we were forbidden to enter Red Rocks Canyon by guys with guns.
Posted by: mr tmz at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (rJ48h)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Why stop there? Let Murcow and a few others be No votes, and force a few more Dems to smell the glove.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at September 25, 2025 01:14 PM (4V/4m)
I wonder if he screws up the shutdown enough and faces a better known/funded candidate if his senate seat could be at risk.
NYS has had R senators, though not recently. MA, a more leftwing state had a brief R senator after people were mad about Obamacare (though the Rs still failed to stop it)
Posted by: 18-1 at September 25, 2025 01:14 PM (sKqQm)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
_________
https://tinyurl.com/2kmdf2az
Posted by: Elric The Blade at September 25, 2025 01:14 PM (iFTx/)
Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at September 25, 2025 01:14 PM (h3wuo)
Posted by: Nova Local at September 25, 2025 01:13 PM (tOcjL)
Maybe NM. That state is heavy on the federal government tit.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:14 PM (EL2O4)
"I'm afraid we can no longer afford the upkeep do to the shutdown, so we are selling all national parks to a consortium of investors from Vegas, which plans to redevelop them into casinos and amusement parks."
Posted by: this would be better at September 25, 2025 01:15 PM (IMRrl)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Uah4U)
Excellent. Sepsis sucks.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ynpvh)
Posted by: man
Visited Monticello just as the complete Covid shutdown was ending; the staff was very happy to see anybody since there were only a dozen of us there.
No lefty bullshit from them, although the Sally Hemmings stuff on exhibits was a little thick.
Posted by: Auspex at September 25, 2025 01:15 PM (Y8DZL)
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It almost sounds like a bluff. Almost.
More like rhetoric to get the Dems to fold.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at September 25, 2025 01:15 PM (Q4IgG)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Tcp1u)
OTOH, a good number of people do get upset about the troops not getting paid.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at September 25, 2025 01:15 PM (ExV1e)
"I'm afraid we can no longer afford the upkeep do to the shutdown, so we are selling all national parks to a consortium of investors from Vegas, which plans to redevelop them into casinos and amusement parks."
What about us? We used all parts of the buffalo? Does that count for nothing?
Posted by: Indians at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (Riz8t)
Trump will keep the parks open and I guarantee he will tweet about it with a comparison to Barky
Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (8CfIy)
I showed the guy that originally wrote the background and he told me that he used AI to look in the project folder and write a background for a fund request, LOL.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (ZZy8b)
If there is nobody working at a National Park, there would be nobody to tell me I can't use the roadside toilet without paying the $7 fee. Schade! It costs money to close them, I am certain. The park service is mostly the .gov selling access.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:11 PM (te4DV)
Unless you got a pass.
_-_-_
Yeah, our lovely state.gov here sells those along with your vehicle registration. Nope. We already own it. Not paying for access.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (te4DV)
>name is literally Dick Cocks
Posted by: gKWVE at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (1ET9J)
Posted by: Duncanthrax
I think it's mostly saber rattling, thinking maybe Trump will get scared if he's blamed. He's not running for reelection and has no fucks left to give, so that's not going to work.
Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (ycI94)
Posted by: gKWVE at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (1ET9J)
Posted by: pudinhead at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Piper at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (GMx4K)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, in a world of gods and monsters with James Whale at September 25, 2025 01:12 PM (GBKbO)
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Fetterman is the only one we know of presently.
[I wondered what would happen if, say, a dozen or so Dems were incapacitated by Furryfucking Tranny Assailants, and there were less than 100 Senators present?
Brave Search AI tells me: "A quorum (at least 51 senators) is required for most proceedings, and if a quorum is not present during debate or a vote, the Senate takes steps to secure the attendance of absent members before continuing. Thus, even with absences, the 60-vote cloture rule remains the key barrier to ending a filibuster."]
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison"
So the mere discussion of less vaccinations here is causing a measles outbreak in Canada too? That's incredible. See what asking questions can do?
Posted by: Ripley at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (GUOwU)
Posted by: OneEyedJack at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (Hx0tZ)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (Riz8t)
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Can we end gluttony as a deadly sin. Reclassify it as more a parking ticket?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (cbjQQ)
putting cones up on the sides of the road to try to keep people from stopping to look at Mt. Rushmore was a highlight
Posted by: brak at September 25, 2025 01:18 PM (jGJov)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at September 25, 2025 12:50 PM (Uah4U)
Excellent. Sepsis sucks.
_-_-_
VERY glad to take your word on that, and VERY glad you are doing better, Duke.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:18 PM (te4DV)
Posted by: Archimedes at September 25, 2025 01:01 PM (Riz8t)
My overall impression is that she enjoyed the perks of power, and had whatever general sense of what she could do with it, but wasn't interested being a driving force behind changing national policy.
And she absolutely despised having to herd all the various maniacs in the party, and to put up their their various shenanigans.
Posted by: BurtTC at September 25, 2025 01:18 PM (dGCAG)
Posted by: pudinhead at September 25, 2025 01:18 PM (AdHga)
Posted by: Nazdar at September 25, 2025 01:19 PM (NcvvS)
Posted by: Bladerunner2019 at September 25, 2025 01:19 PM (hg9DX)
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at September 25, 2025 01:20 PM (ZZy8b)
Posted by: Don Black. Message: What the hell is that?
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Primaried by Puerto Rican tits.
Posted by: Don't blame the alligators at September 25, 2025 01:20 PM (1Nv0l)
Posted by: Tex Lovera
The question is, does he survive being shot by a deranged leftist for not being left enough.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 01:08 PM (P58QN)
I can't recall a leftist shooting a prominent leftist pol for not being commie enough. If/when that happens (hope not) God only knows how the prominent non-Maoist Democrats will react. Their first impulse will be vastly increasing their personal protection. Second impulse? Instruct the troops to rat-out any fellow travelers they know who ever talked about zapping a Democrat pol? Beyond that I dunno.
Posted by: Gref at September 25, 2025 01:20 PM (5rh/l)
Posted by: Vengeance
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Yeah, he and Joe were always peaches.
In 2013, public bathrooms in national parks were suddenly padlocked. Certain employees on travel were 1st told to standby and then find a way home - promptly.
Of course, much more. Always, "feel the pain" was their method.
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Throughout their administrations, federal "employee-type" whistleblowers lived in terror of O.
And off-duty use of illegal drugs remained grounds for termination. (In March 2021, the Biden administration fired five White House staffers after their background checks revealed past marijuana use.
Trump was a pussycat during his first administration and yet they rallied against him, especially union reps.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 25, 2025 01:20 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Don in SoCo at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (te4DV)
My pass was free. Be sure to tell the cops what you told me.
Posted by: Cow Demon at September 25, 2025 01:21 PM (EL2O4)
Posted by: Indians at September 25, 2025 01:16 PM (Riz8t)
"By executive order, I'm eliminating Indians as a classification. We can't have two different types of Indians. It's confusing. And the real ones don't wear feathers or go "woo woo" anymore, so what's the point. All Indians -not the subcontinental guys who are fond of H1B visas, the ones who like wig wams and teepees- have 30 days to choose a new classification; you can be Asian or Mexican-ish."
Posted by: press conferences I want to see at September 25, 2025 01:22 PM (IMRrl)
Posted by: Vengeance at September 25, 2025 12:57 PM (Tcp1u)
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Abigail Spanberger (Commie running for Governor of Virginia) hardest hit ...
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:22 PM (UXgSa)
Posted by: press conferences I want to see at September 25, 2025 01:22 PM (IMRrl)
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LMAO.
BTW, I love the folks like you who are constant variable sock-puppets of humor. Brilliant!
Posted by: ShainS -- We Are Risen Following The Attempted Martyrs & Finally First-Degree Martyr at September 25, 2025 01:23 PM (UXgSa)
No, its Medi money to shore up failing state and local governments.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at September 25, 2025 01:25 PM (pawvM)
Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence [/s at September 25, 2025 01:31 PM (kqBRX)
Posted by: DaveA at September 25, 2025 01:31 PM (FhXTo)
have 30 days to choose a new classification; you can be Asian or Mexican-ish."
Posted by: press conferences I want to see
Or simply pick American.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 01:31 PM (P58QN)
Posted by: ShainS -- Leftist Language is a Dehumanizing Permission Structure for Political Violence at September 25, 2025 01:32 PM (kqBRX)
If the Dems cave and don't shut it down, do they then risk being shot by their violent constituents?
Posted by: melodicmetal1 at September 25, 2025 01:33 PM (61TgR)
This is nothing new and has nothing to do with funding the government.
These unnecessary firings will either be overturned in court or the administration will end up hiring the workers back, just like they did as recently as this week.
Posted by: redridinghood at September 25, 2025 12:32 PM (NpAcC)
He's assuming something that we have existing precedents that go exactly the other way - Trump can fire employees and end programs. But from his point of view telling his followers that Trump will be nice and rehire them is tactically very bad - the gratitude if any will go to Trump.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 25, 2025 01:50 PM (8avO+)
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Can we end gluttony as a deadly sin. Reclassify it as more a parking ticket?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at September 25, 2025 01:17 PM (cbjQQ)
so much for Biblical Literalism in Protestantism.
Posted by: Oldcat at September 25, 2025 01:53 PM (8avO+)
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at September 25, 2025 01:59 PM (NFX2v)
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at September 25, 2025 02:02 PM (cj2dL)
Posted by: Indy Bill at September 25, 2025 02:17 PM (iKLKd)
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They invented the abacus*!!
*dumb stuff they've claimed to have done
Posted by: Lady in Black at September 25, 2025 04:08 PM (qBdHI)
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