This guys a jerk. He's just trying to cover his ass. If he really thinks it's wrong let's see him vote against this madness in congress.
I predict he won't.
Also this is project 2025s plan to rip through govt at light speed. They are not slowing down.
They have to be stopped
How about impeaching Trump for already having violated his oath of office and doing another quid-pro-quo with like -- EVERYONE. (not just Ukraine... AGAIN.)
Indeed. I hope that happens ASAP. I also wonder about recalls of republican congress people… who says they are entitled to serve full terms if they are ignoring their constituents!
Lucky for this guy, there is a way to do exactly what he wants, and agencies know how to do it. It’s called a RIF- Reduction In Force. And it’s even LEGAL!
Fascinating. It seems like the Congressman is thinking we should have some sort of deliberative process, perhaps conducted by a collection of elected delegates representing the will of their local constituencies. Wherever could we find such a thing?
Nobody wants to talk about it, but C-3PO's decision to shut down all the trash compactors on the Death Star had some serious second-order effects, including a pervasive odor that required opening an exhaust port to dissipate the smell. The consequences were unexpected, and quite dire.
thanks @joshtpm.bsky.social, now will someone *please* fix the Hern-Bentz linking issue? this list purports to create an historical record; please make sure the links are correct. again, thanks.
I feel pretty sure a thinking, decent person doesn't need an impact study to know that witch-hunting "DEI", randomly sacking half the civil service and turning protected data over to a pack of malicious infants w/no security clearance on the whim of a senile despot is not doing the right thing.
This is the same guy who said children who get free lunch should just go get a job at McDonalds. Believe NOTHING he says. Rich McCormick will still vote however Trump tells him to vote.
DT still needs to fund his tax cuts which I am sure you are voting for! A little here and a little there is not going to do it. You’re going to have to find more to support the fricking billionaires all over the country!
That's my congressional representative and he's a complete psycho scumbag. He introduced a bill that would have required women present a birth certificate with their current name on it to vote.
That’s called The Save Act. Speaker Johnson has again brought it to the House for a vote. The objective is to disenfranchise women voters, many of us automatically changed our surnames when we married.
I know it’s stupid for me to try to make logical sense of this. But seems particularly baffling from the “family values we should go back to the 1950s” party….
We’ve always asked what time period they felt America was last “great.” Some speculated the 1950s because it was pre-Civil Rights. But Trump now says the US’s greatest era was the Gilded Age, around the turn of the last century. Well before women’s suffrage. And that’s intentional.
It won't surprise you to know he cheated on his wife with a colleague. He lost in 2020, but then Rs gerrymandered the district to include some exurban and rural areas.
If only. One cannot simply start using her maiden name. The spouse changing needs money,a lawyer,time out of work. A judge has oversight (fed judge/state judge/both at some point?) and cert. are with the state. This can potentially take years. This is a dream of christofascists.
I have kids. No one has ever batted an eye to me having a different last name than my kids. It’s an old tradition that should die anyway. Honestly it already has in the world I live in. Once you publish under a name you just don’t change it - even if you marry.
I’m saying destroy the tradition from now on. It’s useless. Why do you think someone needs a lawyer to change their last name? I never changed my last name when I got married and I very much doubt I’d need a lawyer, judge, etc to change my maiden name to my husband’s last name!
I don’t disagree. It is useless. Unfortunately for a lot of women it’s what we did. You may not like that I’d need a lawyer to revert to my maiden name, but in many places one does. I live in one of those places, so yeah, the expense is very real.
He’s gonna vote for the budget resolution I bet. His constituents should make him pay at the ballot box, and every day before election day by constantly contacting his office, expressing their outrage at his actions. Or his inactions.
To Georgia Republican - you are absolutely not doing the right thing. In fact, you're doing absolutely NUH-THING to fulfill your oath TO THE CONSTITUTION. Remember that thing, the Constitution? You do realize he has YOUR private info too, not just that of your constituents, right?
If only there were some body of officials--ideally, elected by the people themselves--whose sole job it was to determine how much every government agency should be funded, and then put it together in a budget and pass it.
So.... like it was done in the 90s? Legally? With congress passing bills? Actual legit buyout offers and reduction of redundancies? No wild threats and mass confusion?
And like then we'll use the savings to pay down the debt, not have a giant tax cut?
Lol, in the video, he was so infantilizing to the folks there. He said, “I came to answer your questions, but if you’re going to yell the whole time, we can change the topic.”
Fr? No statements of empathy, like “I see DOGE’s actions are upsetting and for good reason. I will do XYZ about this.”
Read between the lines, though. He favors destroying the Federal government. He just wants more reporting on how painful it's going to be. And if there's a major cyber attack or terrorist incident on US soil this year, then maybe they will show more conern.
Wait until he fires thousands of federal employees tomorrow after his rant vis a vis Matt Walsh, with employees not responding to an email they thought was voluntary when they left work earlier today
Here's a real radical thought, if there are any efficiencies to be found in any department or agency, the Secretary or agency head figures out how to implement it, instead of letting a ketamine-fueled moron and his techdouch posse email troll then destroy the Fed. gov.
Everyone if they actually LISTENED to Trump! I'm 75 and have NEVER SEEN a presidential campaigner so clearly state his intentions (minus the multiple lies)! Nowadays EVERYONE has a phone... easy to check multiple sources!
Elon and those kids aren’t capable of actually auditing,and they fired the people that actually are.The congressman is full of it pretending they are doing anything other than destruction.
Well, whichever apparatchik wrote that bold statement has certainly mastered the lingua Franca of obsequious political suck up. Straight up fierce, namby.
Talk is cheap. What is this congressperson DOING to slow down Musk? And he doesn't fundamentally disagree with Musk's actions, just the speed of them? Not good enough.
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I predict he won't.
Also this is project 2025s plan to rip through govt at light speed. They are not slowing down.
They have to be stopped
For the states that have a recall process - just starting it should apply pressure immediately. (hopefully)
Seems like there are enough states with red districts that could start the process.
https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/recall-of-state-officials
https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
so much fun to see people squirm
a bully's delight
Being a servant to Trump will never be the right thing.
The worse the better.
Faster!
And like then we'll use the savings to pay down the debt, not have a giant tax cut?
You would reach more people, when you add a good description into the Alt-text field.
That is pretty easy, especially, when your image just contain text.
This way, you support visually impaired people and everyone else, who rely on a good filled Alt-text.
#accessibility
Fr? No statements of empathy, like “I see DOGE’s actions are upsetting and for good reason. I will do XYZ about this.”
Their constituents making clear they will be voting them OUT.
Hold their feet to the fire 🔥