Totally flailing www.politico.com/news/2025/02... - ThreadSky

thangslanger.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Aren’t vets (often) hired via DEI? lmao

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3luesky.bsky.social•1 day ago

I’m sure no veterans work at the Pentagon…

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souper-deluxe.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I don't get it. We don't have an excess of federal employees right now. You could even argue the opposite.

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shred18.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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freeulysses.bsky.social•22 hours ago

“let me be clear, though, even when we not doing that thorough review, everything we did was perfect and the best thing ever done”

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raspyman.bsky.social•20 hours ago

AFTER the fact... and they have a whole new "oops" all ready!!
It's actually POSTcision

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bananapantz.bsky.social•1 day ago

What late Friday announcement?

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freeulysses.bsky.social•22 hours ago

the one later

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elandprincess.bsky.social•23 hours ago

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danbad23.bsky.social•13 hours ago

But in the beginning, we definitely did not check, even once. We had no idea why we should, because we’re smug tech fucks who think we know everything better than anyone.

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m00dswing.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Liars.

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nursegenius1019.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Sure.

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neithandunderhill.bsky.social•23 hours ago

"Essential" or "mission critical" workers are the ones who can keep minimum functions going in an emergency or a shut down, but the government can't sustain those efforts with skeleton crews only. These agencies will grind to a halt in months, and that is the point.

Midterms are way too late!

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conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

million-dollar question is what they do in response to escalating backlash: pull back and bide their time or double down and try to repress dissent?

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joedalziel.bsky.social•1 day ago

My money would be on them doubling down. 😬🥺

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conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

slow-rolling Orbanism this is not

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joedalziel.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Now I understand why the proverb 'May you live in interesting times' is actually a threat. 😭

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michaelcpaul.bsky.social•6 hours ago

Bullshit
They’re letting people go and saying that it’s because of “poor performance“. They’re not even looking, they’re just cutting people because they’re probationary.

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radfence.bsky.social•23 hours ago

No more alcohol before 9AM

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ddayen.bsky.social•1 day ago

"You guys, we're checking to see if the people we let go from the government actually do anything important here, we swear"

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saneenglish.bsky.social•1 day ago

Push the red button, see what happens, oops

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conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

sir, a second "fuck around" has hit the "find out"

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dejlaix.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts.

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14767977.bsky.social•11 hours ago

The problem isn't just the speed, that's on purpose, the problem is their definition of essential.

Just sayin'

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devin-eleven.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Like we don't know they used an algorithm to fire thousands and thousands of employees without even knowing what the jobs were.

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heysyd.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Yup

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fakekimmygibbler.bsky.social•1 day ago

They'll fire everyone but the veterans, and then the veterans will be stuck doing 3 times the work for the same pay. Even Trump's better option will result in overwhelming backlash.

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pearl50smag.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You know who is not essential to the Government? ELON! Trump, and everyone who they have appointed, cabinet members, Trump Family, Dog-E Teen hackers, Bannon, and the entire Republican Congress members, both Houses!

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jackcandel.bsky.social•21 hours ago

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wethepeople24.bsky.social•14 hours ago

Yeah tell that to the two generals they fired one a black man the other a white woman.

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cyclingtoronto.bsky.social•22 hours ago

The worst thing you can do is alienate the trained killers.

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playmore24.bsky.social•7 hours ago

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pcb03.bsky.social•1 day ago

Morons

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akajuhlz.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Politico's unblinking recitation of junta bullshit.

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reeseourso.bsky.social•23 hours ago

At what point will the start accessing party affiliation and primary voting records to determine layoffs

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firsk.bsky.social•23 hours ago

One of my favorites was the contractor who found his contracts cancelled, because his company name included his surname- Green.

That's precision for you.

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cheekybot.bsky.social•3 hours ago

So, after f'ing up. We are now going to be more precise in our f'ing up. Classic.

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cruiseshipdrummer.bsky.social•7 hours ago

we were merely double checking before, now we're going to triple check, maybe even quadruple

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laverneousdonkler.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Meanwhile, apartheid for America advocate Apartheid Elon MuskRat dances around on stage with a chainsaw (not a scalpel) after getting high with Dotard Jr. backstage. This is all bullshit.

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pamherd.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you talk to folks at NIH, they are absolutely not even double checking. It's still full on firing. Similar reporting from NSF and CDC. I'm very skeptical of this kind of talk...

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artificialmcb.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Oh they don’t care about climate change or disease so those don’t count to them.

They only kinda care about planes falling from the sky.

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icefire9atla.bsky.social•1 day ago

You'd have to be astonishingly gullible to believe this, so most of the media will lap it up.

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conjurial.bsky.social•1 day ago

stenography elevated to high moral principle

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321steve.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Bull shit, same story different storyteller.

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scarfface.bsky.social•22 hours ago

nazi: I am a liar and I am going to tell you obvious lies

politico: thank you for these quotes! they are amazing!

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cottonhollow.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Duh

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gr8philly.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I think they need bibs.

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abobandrea.bsky.social•1 day ago

With alt text for accessibility because we don't enable the fascist plan to eliminate disabled people from society:

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pinksim.bsky.social•23 hours ago

What do we call it when you're considered an essential employee because of a status and not because of what you know or do? Or how good you are at your job?

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deerwatcher.bsky.social•22 hours ago

a hand-grenade is still a hand grenade..they already did the damage.

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josephdomingo.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Break shit and move fast has become Break shit and then pray everyone you fried will come back for less money

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newburyken.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Too late they already fired many veterans. They illegally said for performance even though they had excellent performance reviews. They have destroyed lives and our vow to veterans

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