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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:21 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

can the white house make that kind of offer to all federal employees ?

where's the budgeted money for this ? 

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No.  Classic Trump do the work/stiff the contractor bit.

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:21 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

can the white house make that kind of offer to all federal employees ?

where's the budgeted money for this ? 

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I don't know, but a friend of mine works for the government, and apparently everyone she works with got a text offering 8 months paid severance.  All they had to do was reply "resign" and that would be it.

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:17 AM, UpperWestside said:

There will come a day that if this goes on long enough that states like California, and even Texas for that matter, will want to stop propping up the citizens in 3rd world states (Even if Texas does align with them on ideology you still reach a point where cutting them off sounds great). 

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Oh goodie, we are gonna get ANOTHER fucking realignment thread 

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:32 AM, 4th&Five said:

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Well yeah. They told me my whole life "it isn't what you know, it's who you know." And to get out there and "network." 

Yet if anybody non-white ever gets a job, they weren't qualified. It was only ever merit based in the past. That is why Trump put his kids in charge of things in his first term. They just happened to be the most qualified.

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  On 1/28/2025 at 3:04 PM, C-Man said:


Do you want to know who Trump is? He’s this guy:

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He’s just signing whatever shit is placed in front of him. He doesn’t read the EOs. He understands next to nothing about them. As long as he’s able to line his pockets he doesn’t give AF what insane policy is put in place. Therefore, he’s both a moron and a national terror.

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Wait. There's a guy in that gif? For some reason I can't see him ...

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Rep. Rich McCormick defended the impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.

 

During an interview on CNN, McCormick praised the move as a way to broadly re-evaluate how the government allocates funding.

 

"You’re telling me that kids who stay at home instead of going to work at Burger King, McDonald’s, during the summer, should stay at home and get their free lunch instead of going to work?

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:18 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

if milry was smart, he'd leave the country. trump wants him to rot in a cell 

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i just can't imagine being a lifelong serviceman in the Pentagon and now having this drunk unqualified asshole as the boss. Talk about the rug being pulled out from under you. Poor fucking bastards. 

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  On 1/28/2025 at 8:49 PM, bolverk said:

In all the coverage over the silliness of renaming the Gulf of Mexico, has anyone seen any estimates on what this will ultimately cost taxpayers and businesses to make the change?

I mean, we're talking about:

  • Printed materials, including maps, atlases, and textbooks
  • Swapping out names in any legal documents
  • Federal, state, and local signage changes
  • Statues, monuments, etc.
  • Other digital/online changes

 

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Don’t worry he’s probably got Baron and Eric spinning up a maps and globe company that will be the only approved vendor for schools

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  On 1/29/2025 at 3:05 AM, pacman said:

 

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That guy really, really deserves to fall in an abandoned mine shaft. That he says that out loud and just doesn’t care is so inherently despicable. Screw these people. There is not enough awful stuff that can happen to people who screw with a kid’s ability to eat that cannot afford it.

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  On 1/28/2025 at 8:49 PM, bolverk said:

In all the coverage over the silliness of renaming the Gulf of Mexico, has anyone seen any estimates on what this will ultimately cost taxpayers and businesses to make the change?

I mean, we're talking about:

  • Printed materials, including maps, atlases, and textbooks
  • Swapping out names in any legal documents
  • Federal, state, and local signage changes
  • Statues, monuments, etc.
  • Other digital/online changes

 

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Mexico will be footing the bill. Don’t worry the orange god king is in charge here so what could go wrong with this?

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  On 1/29/2025 at 3:52 AM, Valmy77 said:

Is this program really so expensive that should even be a major concern? Surely kids eating is the least concern when it comes to wasteful government spending.

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The cost isn’t the point. Inflicting pain is. This will disproportionately hurt kids in urban areas. 

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I am always amazed at how much stock people put into a politician or admin’s ability to do press briefings and shit.  It’s almost like years and years of butt-chugged right wing propaganda has made people believe that “politics and policy” is stuff that you watch on TV. 

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  On 1/29/2025 at 3:11 AM, staboner said:

i just can't imagine being a lifelong serviceman in the Pentagon and now having this drunk unqualified asshole as the boss. Talk about the rug being pulled out from under you. Poor fucking bastards. 

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Here’s the new guy:

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:21 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

can the white house make that kind of offer to all federal employees ?

where's the budgeted money for this ? 

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I cannot say enough that if you want to know WTF is going on, especially on the “mechanics of government” shit, just blow past the news and go read the Executive Order itself and even more importantly, the OPM and OMB guidance on implementation.

The media will run with what the White House or Elon says, the details will be very different. Remember that this is a group that claimed they “had the military turn on the faucet to send water from the PNW to California.” 

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:18 AM, tx 3 putt said:

 

if milry was smart, he'd leave the country. trump wants him to rot in a cell 

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Sounds like something a "wannabee director" and someone who is "fascist to the core" would do.

Why is he mad at Milley and wants him in jail again?

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  On 1/29/2025 at 5:08 AM, yoladu said:

shouldn't there be 435 of them?

 

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“As of 2022, there are 222 districts in the House that are more Republican than the national average and 206 districts more Democratic than the national average. The number of swing seats, defined as those between D+5 and R+5, is 87.”

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More on the utter shit show that is OPM (which is now the nerve center for Elon’s team).

https://www.pogo.org/investigations/raging-misogynist-now-federal-government-h-r-s-top-lawyer
 

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Andrew Kloster, a self-described “raging misogynist” with a public history of racist comments and insistence on loyalty to President Donald Trump, has been installed as general counsel for the federal government’s human resources agency, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). 

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Kloster, who is now responsible for advising the government’s H.R. department, has a long history of racist and sexist online comments and social media posts. In a response to a post on The Volokh Conspiracy legal blog, as reported by The Daily Beast, Kloster wrote, “Consent is probably modern society’s most pernicious fetish.” He also has written online that “Slaves owe us reparations.” In 2023, roughly six months after being served a temporary restraining order, he tweeted, “I need a woman who looks like she got punched.” POGO’s queries sent to OPM and Kloster sought comment on these and other statements; neither addressed these questions

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nsiap ...Trae Crowder doin' his thang. Part 1 of 3. Follow the link for the other two.

 

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  On 1/29/2025 at 2:17 AM, UpperWestside said:

There will come a day that if this goes on long enough that states like California, and even Texas for that matter, will want to stop propping up the citizens in 3rd world states (Even if Texas does align with them on ideology you still reach a point where cutting them off sounds great). 

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Realignment talk still not going away ...

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Federal Employees given option to resign with up to 8 months pay. So many questions.....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvqe3le3z4o

President Donald Trump has offered buyout packages to almost all federal employees, a major move designed to shrink and reform the US government.

In an email sent on Tuesday, his administration told workers they had to decide by 6 February whether they wanted to be part of a "deferred resignation" programme.

If they agree by then to quit in September, the message said, they would receive about eight months of salary as a severance package.

The Trump administration expects up to 10% of employees to accept the offer - which equates to about 200,000 of the more than two million people who work for the federal government, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Senior Trump officials told US media that the buyouts could save the government up to $100bn (£80bn).

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  On 1/29/2025 at 12:08 PM, InkaUtexas said:

Federal Employees given option to resign with up to 8 months pay. So many questions.....

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvqe3le3z4o

President Donald Trump has offered buyout packages to almost all federal employees, a major move designed to shrink and reform the US government.

In an email sent on Tuesday, his administration told workers they had to decide by 6 February whether they wanted to be part of a "deferred resignation" programme.

If they agree by then to quit in September, the message said, they would receive about eight months of salary as a severance package.

The Trump administration expects up to 10% of employees to accept the offer - which equates to about 200,000 of the more than two million people who work for the federal government, according to the BBC's US partner CBS News.

Senior Trump officials told US media that the buyouts could save the government up to $100bn (£80bn).

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His unemployment numbers are gonna go to shit.

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