do they not understand that they're going to need a lot of lawyers or what - ThreadSky

qjurecic.bsky.social • 11 days ago

do they not understand that they're going to need a lot of lawyers or what

The Robert F Kennedy Building is the Department of Justice headquarters. Trump and Musk literally putting justice up for sale.

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thegiantcraw.bsky.social•11 days ago

They have Alina Habba, what more do they need?

tugrim.bsky.social•11 days ago

Who needs a lawyer when they plan on ignoring the law?

allcaps-22.bsky.social•10 days ago

They’ll house them in cubical farms in Charlestown, WV

thesoundings.bsky.social•10 days ago

What's their incentive to have a lot of lawyers? Doing so just helps the courts move faster in dealing with their criminality. They are already there using the fact that they don't have enough lawyers to try and delay cases today. And delay has been shown to be Trump's most effective tactic.

stubbazubba.bsky.social•10 days ago

They're just closing down the federal government at this point.

girllyfan.bsky.social•10 days ago

That's exactly what they're attempting to do. Total elimination and no accountability for breaking laws.

ericcolumbus.bsky.social•11 days ago

They’re big fans of work from home, right?

goldtrashcan.bsky.social•11 days ago

Federal prosecutors can just work out of a coffee shop, just make sure they change the WiFi password now and then

cuil.world•11 days ago

That depends, lawyers can be replaced by armed mercenaries in a pinch

rogersparkman.bsky.social•10 days ago

They just want those lawyers to be paying rent to whichever private landlord buys the gummint buildings.

orangeexpat.bsky.social•10 days ago

Is all of this real estate/lease termination part of P2025? Or just a fun diversion for Elmo and his dogebags?

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•11 days ago

The scheme is to sell to developers and then lease back all the space, basically looting the treasury in the long term for a short term paper gain.

kehlkeh.bsky.social•11 days ago

like we did here in california

thebestjoel.bsky.social•11 days ago

Oh it's the Red Lobster playbook

yakuzajohn.bsky.social•11 days ago

their lawyers are already complaining to judges they don’t have enough lawyers!

zero-effort.bsky.social•11 days ago

Sale leaseback!

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•11 days ago

is the intention to sell the underlying property and rent it back, or literally just to sell it and shutter it

rohandas.bsky.social•11 days ago

I think this is likely the intention, yeah.

ncweaver.skerry-tech.com•11 days ago

Red Lobster Treatment or Kill the Government:

peterorlowicz.bsky.social•11 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/peterorlowicz.bsky.social/post/3ljlavp2ges2l

bribleck.bsky.social•11 days ago

new admin can just have wfh

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•11 days ago

Sigh. You're probably right 😔

lxtruong.bsky.social•11 days ago

They listed the courthouse in Alaska for sale! *laughcry*

pb102.bsky.social•11 days ago

Dems should come out and say if you buy these illegally sold public buildings you should expect to have them eminent domainly taken from you in 2029.

balme.bsky.social•10 days ago

5th Amendment exists!
Just need to primary every Democrat.

https://newrepublic.com/article/190922/primary-every-democrat-trump-durbin

millergcg.bsky.social•11 days ago

I thought this take seemed plausible too: Robber Barron stuff https://bsky.app/profile/maxkennerly.bsky.social/post/3ljiz7gj6ak2p

icecreampirate.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep, this. They want to prevent it from being reversed.

laurentguy.bsky.social•11 days ago

Sell it cheap to good friends would be a possibility in keeping with the administration’s ethical standards.

tomscud.bsky.social•11 days ago

x property development, from the company that brought you x, the everything app

profhalloran.bsky.social•11 days ago

This may be paranoid, so apologies: I think this is part of a balance sheet game that doesn’t have a whole lot of strategy beyond “making it look like DOGE is saving a lot of money.”

danahoule.bsky.social•11 days ago

Or just “destroy the government.”

It may just be ket-fueled nihilism.

But I can think of a certain dictator who would love it. Might even be suggesting it.

shipperxphile.bsky.social•11 days ago

That’s definitely a factor. As is the face of this being two dingbats who have never had to navigate reality or face consequences their entire coddled privileged lives and never had to learn how anything works beyond raping it for profit.

profhalloran.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah, I mean, I’m happy to settle on “that’s just what the meat axe hit today” as just as reasonable an explanation as anything else.

betsy-cazden.bsky.social•10 days ago

I suspect any prospective buyer would quickly discover that a title search leads to problems. Unless, of course, Eric and Don Jr. just *happen* to have founded a real estate company prepared (and funded) to buy up hundreds of properties and lease them back to the govt at high rates.

thelasttheorist.bsky.social•11 days ago

Depends how tight the buyer is with the regime.

becingber.bsky.social•11 days ago

Maybe the civil servants will be forced to rent their own offices like we had to pay for our own water coolers.

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•11 days ago

maybe federal workers could use a room in their house as makeshift office space

unmitigatedgaul1.bsky.social•11 days ago

Yeah! They could call it something like “work from home”!

cgillespie62.bsky.social•11 days ago

We will rename our homes after confederate generals and it will be good

pwnallthethings.bsky.social•11 days ago

Hegseth saying "no, see, it's the Robert E Lee Office named after the grocery store guy coincidentally called Robert E Lee, totes not the confederate one"

jonathanjoshua.com•11 days ago

then they'll complain that we're dishonoring the grocery store guy if we try to rename the office later.

howarddalton.bsky.social•11 days ago

If it has no home it can’t live there - the dept is effectively killed off.

sharkman1963.bsky.social•11 days ago

they didnt get that far in the planning yet...

amb-markab.bsky.social•11 days ago

That are using a private equity takeover playbook.

hammbear2024.bsky.social•11 days ago

BANGING THE DRUM need to take more seriously what they're saying out in the open: they intend to slash programs, illegally, and the people who work on them, down to shutdown level, on a permanent basis. The two step move is doing the firing and declaring the jobs unauthorized/not required by stats.

hammbear2024.bsky.social•11 days ago

This is all wholesale illegal impoundment, but this is the vision.

hammbear2024.bsky.social•11 days ago

It's not hidden. It's everybody who goes home if there's a shutdown, doesn't come back, ever. (That's the target).

feduprepublican.bsky.social•11 days ago

They're gonna pull a Red Lobster on the federal government.

google-me.bsky.social•10 days ago

The J. Edgar Hoover building (FBI HQ) surprised me more.

tornadoteddy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Can save me the time of researching on my own and just tell me that these lease cancellations are very illegal?

allcaps-22.bsky.social•10 days ago

The U.S. owns many of these buildings.

becingber.bsky.social•11 days ago

This part never fails to bewilder me.

bradpatrick.bsky.social•10 days ago

I truly can’t fathom what “non-core” means in this context. This is all utterly batshit crazy.

avishaybsg.bsky.social•11 days ago

Along with everything else, the aim is to salt the earth. Make it as difficult as possible to reverse the hollowing of the state. No buildings makes it much harder to rehire and no one will agree to repurchase these properties at market value

connorlynch.bsky.social•11 days ago

we're gonna have to eminent domain all these properties back huh

avishaybsg.bsky.social•11 days ago

Even if they try, it’ll get tied up in litigation for agea

connorlynch.bsky.social•11 days ago

I am not prepared to predict with any certainty what the judiciary is gonna look like in five years

connorlynch.bsky.social•11 days ago

maybe eminent domain is too conciliatory. if you acquire a property the executive had no authority to sell, no you didn't.

doyle.boston•11 days ago

Not if there is no more law

joedudekjd.bsky.social•11 days ago

"The first thing we do: let's sell all the lawyers."

mrose.ink•11 days ago

In all seriousness, the odds that Trump and/or Musk is outright embezzling the money right now are approaching 100%. They're stripping the copper wire out of the government and taking everything that's not bolted down.

stubbazubba.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yeah, there's lots of reporting about payments turned *off* because we know the people who are not receiving them. But we really need to know if payments have been made to new people/places Congress never authorized, and the only way to know that is for someone w/access to disbursements to tell us.

joedudekjd.bsky.social•11 days ago

I don't even want to bother hypothesizing, because it risks minimizing what we already know they're doing. Musk is crippling his companies' regulators and granting himself contracts. Trump is earning millions by settling his frivolous civil suits. That's all corruption enough.

thejan6plaque.bsky.social•11 days ago

It’s on the list of things they don’t understand, correct

snidely1459.bsky.social•10 days ago

Going to be a lot of Chinese and Russian shell companies vying to grab the FBI and DOJ buildings.

chrisneyland.bsky.social•10 days ago

They ignore court orders so why would they care if they don’t have enough lawyers or if the lawyers that they do have all suck as lawyers as much as Alina Habba sucks as a lawyer?

sorrykb.bsky.social•11 days ago

They can rent space in Trump Tower.

kv417.bsky.social•10 days ago

If there’s no buildings, we don’t need judges or lawyers, or laws or anything resembling right from wrong? 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️

davidlewis61.bsky.social•10 days ago

Only a half-dozen or so laywers are willing regularly to lie to a federal court, so they don't need very many offices.

bioturbonick.net•11 days ago

Don't need lawyers if they kick the judges out of their own buildings.

kurtbenjamin.bsky.social•11 days ago

Perhaps they figure they won’t need lawyers. An understaffed DOJ may even slow the legal process, Trump’s go-to tactic.

hammbear2024.bsky.social•11 days ago

I mean, we should be paying more attention to the fact that they are openly talking about slashing everything down to shutdown levels permanently, yes.

se7en-driver.bsky.social•11 days ago

Lol. DOJ is "not core to government operations"

izzos.us•10 days ago

Best guess is the plan is to sell them and convert them into rentals.

Bet Musk is already setting up a shell corp in order to become the goat's landlord.

orangeexpat.bsky.social•10 days ago

Rentals? Except that they have fired all the staff which may have required housing.

izzos.us•10 days ago

Office space. They're going to sell DOJ headquarters and then rent it back to the DOJ

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