The Trump Presidency 2.0

[Cookie_]

Swamp critters are mad that their duly elected head of government can send them nice Christmas messages? Welcome to the Army in 2011.

I don't think anyone is "mad" about the OPM email , moreso that it went out before most agencies were able to identify who is exempted.

Guidance this morning from our immediate HRO is nobody is authorized to respond to it until further information from NGB comes out. We don't know if "military service members" includes T5/T32 guardsmen, for example.

 

[Muppet]

Enjoy

 

[Salt USMC]

Holding a vote in the SCIF? I can see having the discussion in a SCIF, maybe. But voting? No, we need that out in the open.

There is probably a miscommunication here. The Senate Intel committee can meet and discuss the nomination in a SCIF, and can certainly hear testimony from the nominee and others in a SCIF, but there’s absolutely no way a vote on the open floor of the senate would (or could) be kept secret. They might be talking about the Senate committee vote, which is typically just a thumbs-up or thumbs-down recommendation to the larger senate.

 

[AWP]

BLUF: None of this is working out well, or as reported, or even makes sense.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! Reading my branch's latest guidance this is going how I thought. "Stand by to standby."

Fork in the Road email is legit, but DoD is looking into if that applies to their personnel or not, so don't respond just yet. RTO requirements are legit, but numerous factors prevent this from happening, so continue to do what you do until we have further guidance. You have to return to the office within 30 days, but we don't know how that will happen so be flexible.

Some contractors in our building were placed on permanent telework because there aren't enough seats for Gov and Contractor. Shit, son, this RTO order is already making gains...right?

This is hilarious. I'm glad DOGE is staffed with geniuses...

 

[amlove21]

I am not tired yet of the winning.

I hope the expected 5-10% of the emailed folks take the package. That's $100B. Then, I hope the president moves every single one of these gluttonous departments out of DC- it is estimated that 20% of the DC elite won't move to places like Des Moines and Idaho if directed. And to that I say (in Jocko's voice)- good.

As an aside- holy JEEBUS is Karoline Leavitt a savage on the mic. The Find Out administration is in full swing- and it's been 9 days.

 

[Cookie_]

I am not tired yet of the winning.

I hope the expected 5-10% of the emailed folks take the package. That's $100B. Then, I hope the president moves every single one of these gluttonous departments out of DC- it is estimated that 20% of the DC elite won't move to places like Des Moines and Idaho if directed. And to that I say (in Jocko's voice)- good.

As an aside- holy JEEBUS is Karoline Leavitt a savage on the mic. The Find Out administration is in full swing- and it's been 9 days.

I'm interested in how they got to that $100B number.
The CBO numbers

In fiscal year 2022, the federal government spent roughly $271 billion to compensate those civilian employees. About 60 percent of that total was spent on civilian personnel working in the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Department of Homeland Security.

Either way, drawdown is good. I'm supportive of changes to our employment structure/standards. It's only a small percentage of feds (I've seen) who are shitbags, but it's impossible to get rid of them barring something criminal.

 

[GOTWA]

I am not tired yet of the winning.

I hope the expected 5-10% of the emailed folks take the package. That's $100B. Then, I hope the president moves every single one of these gluttonous departments out of DC- it is estimated that 20% of the DC elite won't move to places like Des Moines and Idaho if directed. And to that I say (in Jocko's voice)- good.

As an aside- holy JEEBUS is Karoline Leavitt a savage on the mic. The Find Out administration is in full swing- and it's been 9 days.

If I could move my job to Idaho...Fuck, I'm in.

 

[compforce]

The double dip is on!

 

[ThunderHorse]

Guys, it's not gardening leave. We just want ya gone.

 

[AWP]

Anyone seen Nancy Pelosi's Nvidia stock? Neither has she since she sold it off right before Nvidia lost about 17% of it's stock value.

Some gals have all the luck, I guess.

 

[Salt USMC]

The government is only funded up to March so I’m not sure how secure that promise of 8 months pay is

Edit: Oh, never mind. This is an offer for morons. It’s not a severence check, it’s “We’ll pay your normal salary and you can do whatever until October. Then you won’t have a job.” I would be surprised if 1% of the workforce took this

 

[GOTWA]

I got my email, but I'm about 25 years from retirement eligibility and about 97 years away from financial suitability.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

I am not tired yet of the winning.

I hope the expected 5-10% of the emailed folks take the package. That's $100B. Then, I hope the president moves every single one of these gluttonous departments out of DC- it is estimated that 20% of the DC elite won't move to places like Des Moines and Idaho if directed. And to that I say (in Jocko's voice)- good.

As an aside- holy JEEBUS is Karoline Leavitt a savage on the mic. The Find Out administration is in full swing- and it's been 9 days.

If I could move my job to Idaho...Fuck, I'm in.

Lol. You guys realize that anyone from DC is going to get loved tenderly in Idaho... right?



People haven't forgotten the above and the influx of California liberals, during Covid, has made the population hostile to outsiders.

 

[GOTWA]

Lol. You guys realize that anyone from DC is going to get loved tenderly in Idaho... right?

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People haven't forgotten the above and the influx of California liberals, during Covid, has made the population hostile to outsiders.

I'll bring my neighbors a costco pie and then I'll stick a 10' American flag in my yard. I'm sure they'll get the point when I don't roll up in a Tesla.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

I'll bring my neighbors a costco pie and then I'll stick a 10' American flag in my yard. I'm sure they'll get the point when I don't roll up in a Tesla.

You're better off asking your neighbors which local church they go to.

 

[R.Caerbannog]

I sincerely hope that a large chunk of the federal workforce is trimmed/fired and that they fuck off to their liberal utopia's. For years we've had unelected liberal bureaucrats lord power over us, destroying our cities and social fabric. I hope they are forced to embrace the diversity and ruin they forced on the rest of us.

That said, I doubt they will. Like a plague, they are rootless and spread disease wherever they go.

 

[Marauder06]

The government is only funded up to March so I’m not sure how secure that promise of 8 months pay is

Edit: Oh, never mind. This is an offer for morons. It’s not a severence check, it’s “We’ll pay your normal salary and you can do whatever until October. Then you won’t have a job.” I would be surprised if 1% of the workforce took this

Why is this an "offer for morons?" If you have skills (general "you," I know you specifically have a lot of marketable skills), you can get another job and double dip on that sweet, sweet government teat for EIGHT MONTHS.

I have a lot of personal loyalty to my current organization and my current boss, but I would totally take that offer* and jump over to the private sector and laugh all the way to the bank.



*if I were eligible for it, which apparently I'm not

 

[AWP]

I sincerely hope that a large chunk of the federal workforce is trimmed/fired and that they fuck off to their liberal utopia's.

I guess I work around the wrong crowd because they aren't what you describe. As always, you're smarter and have all of the answers.

 

[AWP]

I have a lot of personal loyalty to my current organization and my current boss, but I would totally take that offer* and jump over to the private sector and laugh all the way to the bank.

We have a number of people looking at that possibility. Take the offer, early "retirement", return as a contractor to do the exact job for 30k+ a year more. Guys could slide in around 60k a year more with the right company.

 

[Topkick]

The Kash Patel confirmation hearings today will be fun to watch.