Don’t fatigue yourself. If you cast your mind, you’re sure to find your way past the slag to puns of fine mettle.
Yeah, but what if they’d prefer to strike while the iron is hot?
And Scaramucception occurs just how long after a politician gets into bed with Trump?
If only this could be played out on the imaginary axis… Trump would probably think the ‘i’ refers to him…
He does seem to imagine a lot about his unit.
He also imagines this is a good idea. (The link goes to Yahoo.)
Mark McAfee, a raw milk producer based in California, has made products that have been deemed unsafe and recalled several times due to bird flu contamination, a problem that that would have been eliminated by pasteurization. The suspect quality of his milk has not stopped an expanding group of raw milk drinkers from continuing to use the product, however, nor prevented Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from reportedly approaching McAfee with an offer to guide the incoming administration’s raw milk policy.
And what consequences could come from an unfunded “Departent of ‘Governemnt Efficiency’”? (Yes, I put those quotation marks in on purpose, and the link goes to Yahoo.)
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) has unveiled her “DOGE Acts” to cut spending and freeze federal hiring, as well as salaries.
“Senator Blackburn is planning to introduce a package of bills – known as the DOGE Acts – aimed at holding the federal government more accountable for managing taxpayer dollars next week,” Blackburn’s spokesperson said in a statement. “The DOGE Acts coincides with Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s plan to make the federal government more efficient.”
The legislation “would cut discretionary spending, move federal agencies out of the swamp, freeze federal hiring and salaries for one year, begin the process of a merit-based compensation structure for federal employees, and require agencies to get employees back in the office,” according to the statement.
Smooth move naming it after one of the favorite words of the co-president. (*I’m tempted to follow the naming convention of sovereign citizens here. Musk is not co-president. He’s president-in-fact.) And here is the other white meat in this pandering. (Same link.)
The bills in the package would create a commission centered on the relocation away from D.C. of some federal agencies; cause a yearlong pause in federal hiring and salaries; and make the federal government have a pilot program in which civilian employees would be compensated in relation to their merit.
Oh, yeah! That’s what we need, yet another government commission. But, what does the *agent here by special appearance on behalf of the LIVING PERSON IN THE FLESH and NOT the fictitiousstrawman ALLCAPS!!! Corporate shell NAME Trump think about DOGE? (Same link.)
DOGE would “provide advice and guidance from outside of government” and work alongside the White House Office of Management and Budget, the president-elect said.
“It will become, potentially, ‘The Manhattan Project’ of our time,” Trump added.
No doubt. If your time in government again goes the way your other corporate ventures have gone, all of this will bomb too. And the collateral damage will be the entire country. Again.
And what better qualification for Chief of Protocol at the State Depatment than being a star of Fox News? (Another Yahoo link.)
President-elect Donald Trump named Monica Crowley, a former Fox News contributor, as his nominee for chief of protocol at the State Department—marking the latest network personality to land a job in the incoming administration.
Oh man, talk about “The swamp is calling from inside the house”.
When I was hired by the Canadian Federal Government back in the late 90s, there was a program to replace our existing job classification system with a “Universal Classification System”, that would classify every job according to objective standards, and determine pay based on these standards. They tried to make it work for 5 or 6 years, before admitting utter failure.
Trying to classify every job in the government by one standard is just fundamentally impossible. There’s too many different things going on, and everyone involved is motivated to make their job sound better to get better pay. For example, there was supposed to be a credit given to people who worked with “hazardous materials”. Great idea, until the guy who has to fill up his truck every day realizes that “gasoline” is a hazardous material.
The bureaucrats will have them tied in knots over this for years.
What about the constitutional requirement of giving advice and consent to the president’s choices? Bwhahahahahahaha! (The link goes to Independent.)
Tommy Tuberville, a Donald Trump loyalist, said it wasn’t the “job” of Senate Republicans to vet the president-elect’s cabinet nominations as debate around Pete Hegseth’s position continues.
The GOP senator told CNN on Thursday that, in his opinion, it is up to Democrats to vet nominations, and that members of his own party should be inclined to automatically confirm them.
“Who’s to say we’re a better vetter and picker of people than Donald Trump?” Tuberville told CNN on Thursday.
Who’s to say? Recent history shows the dead rat around the corner is a better picker of people.
And of course, these things are in direct opposition to each other. I’ve been working at home for a long time now (did a few years before COVID, and after being back in the office briefly, COVID sent us all home again). I’ve thought for years that this would be a great way to diversify the government, while also helping support local communities facing population decline.
Give me good internet access, and I can do my job anywhere in the country. It used to be if you wanted my job, you had to move to Ottawa, but now we have people all over the country. It increases our potential hiring pool, while also providing good paying jobs in many local communities.
Embracing work-at-home, and encouraging people in many different locations to apply for Federal jobs, would do a lot to break the power of the “Washington Elite”, but they’re just never going to see that. Letting people work at home is too much of a win for the employees to be tolerated.
The Actual Fucking Constitution, perhaps?
God, bootlickers are just awful.
From your fingertips to Yahoo’s electrons…
House Speaker Mike Johnson intends to cut 75 percent of all federal agencies with the help of Elon Musk’s outside commission known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
“We certainly hope” to slash the number of federal agencies from 428 to 99, as Musk has vowed, Johnson said in response to a question from Fox News host Martha McCallum in an interview Wednesday night. “We want to be willing partners in that,” he added.
No, you asshole!
requires you to be a check and balance on, not a “willing partner” with, the executive branch.
So, what’s on the chopping block, Mikey?
He noted he aims to cut all funding for PBS and Planned Parenthood.
Fuck seeing their birth certificates. What I’d love to see now is all of these idiots’ grades in civics class.
Did I mention that we are well and truly screwed?
We should start a pool on how many of the federal agencies they want to eliminate aren’t even federal programs let alone federal agencies.
If only to laugh at anyone that picks a number with two digits.
Is there a Washington DC commercial real estate REIT that I can short??
[need answer fairly fast]
Anyone here play Elden Ring? Johnson needs to change his name. Mikey to me is connencted with the character in the Life cereal commercial, said character who only likes Life cereal because it’s so good. Johnson, on the other hand, is happily slurping up whatever Trump and his cronies are serving. He’s more like the NPC named Dung Eater than like a Mikey.
If they freeze hiring for a year AND move agencies away from DC, how many current staffers now living in the DC area are going to be in a position to relocate themselves? I highly doubt that any such legislation will include funding to have Uncle Sam pick up the tab, so when the FDA moves to Nebraska, and they can’t hire anyone, we just have an unstaffed FDA?
ding ding ding!, correct!.
The ultimate goal is to render the state completely impotent so the rich can do whatever they want without even minimal supervision.
Okay, so how will they try to spin the inevitable jobs loss as a positive?
I don’t think they care a whit about federal job losses.
Nor is it a problem on how to spin it. Just ignore reality and claim whatever is happening is the best thing that has ever happened, and give Trump credit.
They’ll suppress the jobs report numbers, and if anyone asks about them, demean that person by angrily asking them why they can more about a bunch of lazy liberal *pervertasites than about the honest American lower-taxes-payers.
*Can anyone come up with a better combination of “pervert” and “parasite”? That one sounds like a porn webpage.
Pervacite.