That’s an excellent point. Maybe lobby to have it added to the “Project 2029” document that some Democrats are talking about creating…?
^(From Acyn tweet.) That’s a LOL!
Here I’d thought that Gavin Newsom had cured Donald of this. And he did stop using it for a few weeks.
Sad to see the relapse.
When I was working for the Social Security Administration there were several times when there was a government shutdown which resulted in most federal employees being furloughed. With one exception, however, I continued to work because there was no way anything would be done that might interfere with Social Security benefits going out. While the term used at that time was “essential worker”, I agree that “time-sensitive” would have been a more appropriate term.
Hah! Good One! 
I was semi-essential. Due to my career program, I carried a Tippy Top Secret clearance. I’d be told to not leave town and check in periodically during the day 
We’d go to the Redstone Arsenal golf course and play all day. Tough job, have to come in once a day or every other day to read a message. Always ended up getting full pay for the short closures.
When we were furloughed during the pandemic, out of hundreds of IT folks at my agency, one was “essential”. Literally one person. I guarantee you that if you decided that meant the agency only needed one IT person to support thousands of other employees, it would not go well.
(I suspect that around 1% of my whole agency was “essential” at the time; probably less than 1% as we were effectively shut down during it.)
While checking my email for any guidance regarding the shut down I got the following missive from the HHS news feed.
HHS Employees,
President Trump opposes a government shutdown, and strongly supports the enactment of H.R. 5371, which is a clean Continuing Resolution to fund the government through November 21, and already passed the U.S. House of Representatives. Unfortunately, Democrats are blocking this Continuing Resolution in the U.S. Senate due to unrelated policy demands. If Congressional Democrats maintain their current posture and refuse to pass a clean Continuing Resolution to keep the government funded before midnight on September 30, 2025, federal appropriated funding will lapse.
A funding lapse will result in certain government activities ceasing due to a lack of appropriated funding. In addition, designated pre-notified employees of this agency would be temporarily furloughed. P.L. 116-1 would apply.
The agency has contingency plans in place for executing an orderly shutdown of activities that would be affected by any lapse in appropriations forced by Congressional Democrats. Further information about those plans will be distributed should a lapse occur.
This is a blatant violation of the Hatch Act, but I guess those rules don’t apply anymore, well they probably do for people promoting Democats but definately not for Republicans.
Trump’s Secretary of War tells his career officers what their job is.
“You kill people and break things for a living.”
My dad was in the 7th Fleet. Their motto is ‘Ready Power for Peace’.
Do they give out a Noble Prize for that?
(I know it’s the Nobel Prize, but I’ve too many Stupid Republicans pronounce it as “noble”, so I figure maybe it’s a different prize that the Embarrassment-in-Chief wants.)
Trump things that it would make him a ‘Noble’ person. Not that he can define that.
For those of you who don’t know, this (killing people and breaking things for a living) was Rush Limbaugh’s description of what the military was used for.
That makes sense, Hegseth also said he wanted to turn the clock back to 1990, when the military was presumably more manly and unconstrained by wokism and leftist weakness.
What it’s used for–sure.
That doesn’t mean that people who join up see ‘killing people and breaking things’ as their own goals, though. Plenty of veterans have been voicing disgust at this unwelcome definition (at least on Bluesky and Reddit Military).
Many who join the military are much less interested in embracing brutality and nihilism, than Trump, Hegseth, and Limbaugh would like.
Not to mention: committed to their oath to the United States Constitution and not to whoever just happens to be President right now.
Yes, I think that’s holding true for the majority of officers (at least) for now.
Three years from now, though…after Hegseth has been allowing promotions only of True Donald Believers…
Lie detectors should weed out those who are insufficiently loyal to his Cheetoness.
Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, the Pentagon plans to require that some staff sign NDAs that prohibit the “release of non-public information without approval or through a defined process” and subsequently take random polygraph tests, according to a draft memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg reviewed by The Washington Post.
There is a UK English word: nobble
I reckon Tangerine Temper Tantrum deserves a Nobble Prize, he excels in many of those definitions.
Trump tried to confiscate the sword that belonged to General Dwight D Eisenhower from the Eisenhower Presidential Library. The director of the library refused to provide it. He has now been fired.
Those sources say that earlier this year, the State Department contacted the Eisenhower Library to ask for the item—a sword of Eisenhower’s1 that belongs to the U.S. government—for Trump to give to the king, and Arrington declined; under federal law and agency regulations, he could not provide it. According to sources, that upset Byron, who, they say, began to look for an opportunity to remove Arrington.
Without being able to get an original sword from the library, Trump eventually gave the king a replica of Eisenhower’s West Point Officer’s Sabre.
I’d say I’m second to none in my disrespect for Donald.
But he still manages to surprise me, sometimes. His depth of contempt for the concept of “IT’S NOT YOURS, DONALD” is unfathomable.
