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“They wanted to show they were gutting the government, but there was no thought about what parts might be worth keeping,” said one FDA staffer who was fired and rehired. “Now it feels like it was all just a game to them.”

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    24 days ago

    It’s almost like putting the guy who famously, thoughtlessly fired way too many important people when he took over Twitter… In charge of doing the same thing to illegally fire people from government agencies was a bad idea.

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      That’s too many words. What are you, woke? Just tell me if it’s going to make America great again.

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    There was no mistake. The damage he’s done to the US has been fully intentional. He’s a domestic enemy of the US carrying out attacks on our nation, not just a clueless politician blundering his way from mishap to another.

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    The Washington Bezos headline is barf-inducing in it’s soft-pedaling trumps role in the fuckup it’s now “trying to ‘fix’”. I feel dirty linking to them. That shop is really fucked up.

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      It’s curious to see people call Trump Putin’s bitch while a guy like Bezos - who has utterly supplicated himself to Trump at every opportunity - gets such light treatment.

      Also… by the transitive property of bitchness… is Amazon working for the Russians?

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    24 days ago

    They did exactly what they set out to do. Bust everything and then have a fuck up to serve as the fall guy.

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    I know people in charge of staffing various departments at various military bases, and they have hundreds of open positions they can’t fill because the people who took the buyout are still technically in those positions.

    So they’re double fucked. These are critical positions like medical and mechanical.

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      and they have hundreds of open positions they can’t fill because the people who took the buyout are still technically in those positions.

      Even after DRP, we get the spots back at a 4:1 ratio…

      So if 12 took it, 3 can be hired

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          24 days ago

          On a long enough timeline this is just a speed bump

          No matter what trump tries, he won’t match the number of separations under Clinton, and we won’t end up with a lower number after

          They’re both pretty much the same, coincidentally enough we had just gotten back up to pre-Clinton number of feds, so the comparison is easy.

          But because a Republican did it instead of a Dem, we’re likely to bounce back much faster this time.