ThunderHorse
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I wonder why they're not appointing someone directly for the ATF role and bouncing it around?
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Topkick
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Lol. Have you noticed how many women are in high level jobs in Trump's administration?
ThunderHorse
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First White House Chief of staff that is a woman is a Republican. Kind of a weird place to virtue signal.
Topkick
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Trump has a shit ton of women in his administration, so I find it odd to claim his administration is somehow misogynistic or using it as a definition of wokeness.
Stock market booming- did we all buy the dip? Your favorite president even gave you a heads up...
Ok I am more lost. They appointed Driscoll. If you have the right guy, why bounce it around? Kash took over while the agency had a vacancy (Dettlebach resigned on Jan 17th of this year), they found the guy (Driscoll), they appointed him, here we are? Are you just saying you wanted to know the name beforehand?
Dude, Susie Wiles is a SAVAGE. Just an absolute killer, she's been with Trump since the first admin, and is the driving force behind Trump 2.0.
ThunderHorse
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No, Driscoll is another interim appointment. Driscoll is the confirmed SECARM.
Ah, there we go. Yeah that's retarded. Sorry, I wasn't tracking- no clue why they're not just finding a lasting ATF head... in my hopes, it's because they know they're going to ctrl+alt+delete the ATF as a whole, and maybe they don't need a lasting head guy?
If only...
Wiles will be the one to have Musk fired. Everything I've read about the lady, you don't cross her or Trump, so getting on her bad side is a great way to "get got." If Trump starts letting high profile folks go, there's an excellent chance she played a major role.
That's why i said "almost all" and "people in the administration"; its never 100% of everybody. I don't think Trump himself particularly cares about DEI outside of knowing it's a popular talking point.
Awful timing on my part. Paid off some debt/put my tax return towards home repairs so didn't have a big chunk of change to play with.
As one of Shadowspear’s non-Oligarchs who has a 401k, I did not buy the dip because people were saying the crash didn’t matter. But now it does? This is the last time I take financial advice from @amlove21 !!
I'm still ticked off at myself. When the market opened this morning I was going to grab a bunch of cheap 600 Strike SPY calls for May. They were selling for .26 I got wrapped up in some things and never looked at the market during the day. Those calls were selling for .83 each now. I would have made about 3x on the money, but never put the order in. At least I was able to average as much as possible yesterday.
Missed opportunity. You shouldn’t listen to me at all about anything, and that’s the most gracious I can be to myself.
ETA- if you put some small options on QQQ when Trump posted ‘great time to buy’- $1k returned $1.2M.
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Stop looking at tariffs as if they exist in a silo- they don’t. Every single market indicator we have leads to one thing- an economic boom the likes of which we haven’t seen.
Tariffs + decreased energy + cooling inflation + CPI + security yields = resurgent American economy.
Maybe it is 4D chess…?
Tariffs + decreased energy + cooling inflation + CPI + security yields = resurgent American economy.
Maybe it is 4D chess…?
DoD Sets Policies on Consolidating and Eliminating Offices and Civilian Jobs
Part of the initiative to lower the manpower level is to outsource jobs. Can someone name one job that is cheaper to contract for than to hire a GS/WG to do? This is @AWP’s wet dream.
I like the concept of cutting waste (especially to consolidate supervisors where people only have few staff), but having contractors do work is not more efficient and certainly not cheaper, especially professional employees. Do they not realize how bad the Government is at writing PWS’s?
Part of the initiative to lower the manpower level is to outsource jobs. Can someone name one job that is cheaper to contract for than to hire a GS/WG to do? This is @AWP’s wet dream.
I like the concept of cutting waste (especially to consolidate supervisors where people only have few staff), but having contractors do work is not more efficient and certainly not cheaper, especially professional employees. Do they not realize how bad the Government is at writing PWS’s?
Ironically we had this convo today, a bunch of Gov and Ctr types. The number of horrific cyber sustainment contracts we deal with is staggering. Honestly, our greatest insider threat is the person writing the contract because if they don't bake cyber into the initial contract then we play hell catching up. I could go on and on, but the flaws I see in cyber alone bother me because if we're being missed, what else is being missed?
Contractors are to fill gaps and I've seen first hand how they don't fill "gaps," they are an institution on some contracts. I know, because I was "that guy" for 15 years on TWO contracts. That's not a gap, that's an industry. What's the break point where it is cheaper to go Gov than Ctr? Gotta' be less than 5 years.
That GS-14 or equivalent with no one or almost no one working for them? Why do they exist?
Here's a good one I learned this week.That "replace 1 for every 4 departures" is disingenuous. Say we lose 4 engineers, we don't hire one in their place. Ech II decides where that one person goes. If Ech II says we need more...cyber or contract or financial managers than engineers, it isn't hiring an engineer. It might not even hire one for the losing organization.
We had a major defense contractor deliver PCs that were never patched. Bare bones Win 11 images. Why? Contracting didn't write that in the PWS and when the Gov complained, the major defense firm dropped a polite version of "fuck you, pay me." The solution? Put a couple of contractors on the road for 4-ish months flying around and patching these systems. We are totally spending money wisely and helping the warfighter with that move...
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Whoever manages/tends/cares for the golf course on USAF bases should be outsourced.
ETA: Or shut them down.
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