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Old enough to remember when presidents, especially Republican ones, prided themselves on jobs created and not destroyed.
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Is this going to be a reverse Al Capone’s vault?
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You’d think a man whose child died of SIDS would be all about monitoring infant death, but recent events show that he maybe doesn’t actually care about his kids.
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Even career-long feds aren't spared. I have a friend in his mid-40s in the same boat because he was so good at his job, he got promoted last year and thus was "probationary." He handles VA claims and appeals. It's just evil. There is no other term for this.
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Yup. Him and Trump:
Two people unable to take a joke so they decided to dismantle democracy.
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So what you’re telling is this entire trauma could have been avoided if Musk his paid his damn taxes like an adult. Instead the richest man in the world is firing 20somethings making $50k to make drinking water safe because safe water is too rich for America’s blood. Lord help us.
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American here: thank you. Please keep the flame of democracy alive. Teach those wonderful, wondering kids.
I’m sorry for this: our country, who my fellow Americans picked, all of it.
“To you from failing hands we throw the torch.”
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Is he wearing a Kevlar vest under his shirt? And if so, where is his living helmet, K 3vL ÆR?
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Wait until Jesse finds out about all the employees at VA who were DOGE’d. If he really wants to help vets, he’d beg for their reinstatement too. And given veterans preference across the government there are thousands of vets in the same position as his friend: DOGE’d.
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Exactly. Why is NBC carrying Musk’s water. Dump it on his head. He did this.
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*”on the” not “I’m the.” If I were Musk, I’d be enjoying my billions and my family. Not ruining people’s lives.
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I can’t wait to see what happens at DOD. Surely, the usual level of DOGE perfection.
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DOGE, not USDA, but DOGE. Please make sure you put the blame where it belongs: I’m the unelected “special government employee” Elon Musk and his DOGE bros. Thanks!
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Really. He had to Wikipedia FDR? JFC.
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So not so much the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but the Department of Redundancy Department (DORD). Yikes.
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Understaffing in high-risk, high-stress jobs using outdated systems to monitor air traffic. We've been heading here for years.
Also alarming that people are rejecting the evidence before their eyes and believing it is a conspiracy. The only conspiracy was the criminal underfunding of our ATC/FAA.
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Who needs to worry about backdoors when he's opening the front door and letting anyone who offers him fealty in to rob us all. But I hear you. I'm just venting to the choir because the people who can do something aren't interested.
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The judges are scared pantless aren't they? They're not going to stand up for us either, just like Congress. DOGE can analyze programs without the PII, GAO does it all the time. But the judges are too afraid for their jobs to bother doing them.
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Unfortunately, the only part of the NT they're familiar with is the part saying Jesus died for their sins and those who follow him will be saved. They didn't read the part before where Jesus says he's only saving the believers who do Corporal Works of Mercy, like welcoming the stranger.
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Sir, with respect, Elon Musk is conducting a coup and about to shut down social security and publish state secrets online, having fired our nuke security and air traffic safety personnel without realizing it. Please, for the love of god, FOCUS ON THE REAL. Pretend it’s Biden and don’t let up.
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None of them are pushing back because they are scared of drawing attention in case it hurts their members. What they don’t realize is that their silence now is hurting them more. They don’t realize that they must push back against the bully en masse or he will never stop.
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Are they also claiming credit for things posted on FPDS that showed up after they started their “work”? Also, funny how all this federal procured data was available on a public website! What will they find next? Spending data on usaspending.gov? GAO reports on waste, fraud and abuse?
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What if I hug them and scream in their ears instead?
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Thank you for shining a light on this chaos. I feel like the only other place I’ve seen this reported is Reddit.
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Could you imagine how the media would cover this if any of this happened under any other presidency? How Congress would react?
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What did Wendy ever do to them?
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Probably more than that since we paid farmers through USAID and they separately exported for profit. So much efficiency!
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That sounds an awful lot like some Woke Green New Deal recycling program some peacenik tree hugger thought up! /s
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The only conclusion I can come to regarding the silence of all institutions and opposition leaders is that they fully support what is happening. Even if the support is to get Trump to self-immolate, they are throwing the people onto the pyre with him to own the cons like the cons owned the libs.
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You are not supposed to observe from his lap, dude!
Watchdogs are supposed to bark when there is danger. The media is operating under the false pretense you are supposed to be “objective observers” and report both sides. But your actual job is to seek truth and report it, not observe passively.
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Destabilizing the world to get back at Greta for asking us to use paper straws. Totally Alpha, there JD.
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But we literally have command of the sea. What the fuck?
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Same. It's very lonely for my mom, too. It is a very particular kind of hurt and grief that comes with realizing that your still-living friends are gone. The people they were no longer exist.
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My mother is having the same experience, only with political thrillers. All her friends went MAGA, where she has been radicalized in the opposite direction quickly recognizing Trump & Co as villains. Thanks, John Grisham, I guess?
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Partition was famously smooth and not at all traumatic for the people who had to uproot their entire lives and move to a completely different country just because they ended up on the "wrong side" of an arbitrary line drawn by their colonizers on their way out of town.
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But will we become provinces 11-60? Or just province 11? Probably just territories 4-54, if we're being honest with ourselves.
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If the president can ignore court orders, surely we can ignore executive ones.
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I'm starting to think "originalism" means going back to tyrannical monarchy (which, as with all "originalist" rhetoric, is something that never actually existed, but is part of our founding myth anyway).
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That framing will be how the pundits that abetted the moral panic put themselves on the right side of history and allow themselves to sleep at night without ever having to be held accountable. They are "the good Germans."
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Eric Adams is about to learn about La Cosa Nostra. “It’s a nice dismissal you have there. It would be a shame if something were to happen to it.”