Your 2024 Presidential Election Thread

[Locksteady]

Which is more fluff than anything. Most positions are already back to full time in the office or one day of telework a week. The article also doesn't allow for RDO schedules and days, so this EO is much ado about nothing. Cheer, jeer, whatever. For most Federal workers this won't change much.

Truth.

Along with being literally one sentence long (or two if you count the 'consistent with applicable law' caveat), the EO was vague and open-ended enough to essentially let organizations decide when and whether or not to bring more people back to in-person work:

"Heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch of Government shall, as soon as practicable, take all necessary steps to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis, provided that the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary."

 

[Salt USMC]

maybe they didnt do anything wrong that needs a pardon?

Nah, Rhodes and his cronies were easily the most guilty out of any of those chuckle fucks. They organized shit over Signal, didn’t delete any of their chat messages, and laid everything out in the open. Not only that, but they bought $20k worth of guns on the drive to DC and stored it in their hotel room. This commutation is absolute idiocy.

I can understand pardoning the non-violent folks who took the capitol tour, but not these guys.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Trump answered more questions from the press tonight in the Oval Office than Biden did during his entire Presidency, only slightly exaggerating.

 

[Marauder06]

Really interested to see how this will impact hybrid schedules. Especially those that aren't public facing roles like logistics, administration, and finance shops.

Having the ability to WFH one day a week/whenever weather in the pass is super shitty is a major benefit for myself and others who don't live in the Denver metro area.

The memo appears to provide for that type of contingency:

"...the department and agency heads shall make exemptions they deem necessary."

 

[amlove21]

I'm willing to bet this is how the Supreme Court will interpret it once it gets up to them.

The 2nd category in the EO (lawful but temporary) is what might not stand up in court.

Yeah it’s gonna be interesting for sure.

As our former dementia patient said- “No amendment is absolute.” /Sarcasm

 

[Locksteady]

Honestly, there needs to be tighter controls on Jus Soli, if you are born to someone who does not have legal status, neither should you. The amount of people flowing over our border right now is insane. The amount of people who buy holiday packages to shit out a child in an American hospital so that they have an anchor is also insane, they're just wealthy. The Supreme Court has made it legal previously to deny citizenship to those born of foreign diplomats in United States v. Wong Kim Ark - Wikipedia

Appreciate the answer.

I think it's the most widely accepted one I've heard, and the part I bolded also matches part of the rationale several of our NATO partners have used to justify stemming illegal immigration flow to their countries too.

 

[CQB]

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[Muppet]

Oh damn.

 

[DA SWO]

So....Hegseth is being Kavanaughed, again. A democrat senator has an affidavit from his (I think) sister-in-law that he was abusive to his wife.

Of course, no mention of this in the past whatsoever, not even during the confirmation hearing.

Easy solution, supena her ass and make her testify in front of the cameras.

 

[RackMaster]

emails are already hitting agencies with guidance on the rebranding...and the consequences.

Saving tax dollars already.

 

[Cookie_]

Ho. Lee. Crap.

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Lets see how much i get to use this meme over the next four years lol.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Batman knew…

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[Muppet]

Well this is awkward.

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Fucking nasty tyrants.

 

[AWP]

USCG is always short of personnel. They have no budget and no respect. What they did have was pissed away by Admiral Papp. During the cuts from 2013 the Coast Guard’s acquisition budget for FY ’14 was about $900 million versus around $1.5 billion in FY ’13. Add the personnel cuts, the operational mission cuts, the insane level of risk aversion, and the fact that it is a serious mind fuck at boot.

Coast Guard cutbacks will cost 1,000 jobs

Wasn't their acquisition of new cutters a disaster? Well over budget for a less-than-ideal replacement?

 

[Dame]

Wasn't their acquisition of new cutters a disaster? Well over budget for a less-than-ideal replacement?

I left before that happened but yeah, they needed cutters badly. I think Papp went cheap on them hoping to get a new ice breaker. The memo to Congress detailed a 10 year design phase. At that time the one they had was 40 years old (50 now) and broke down like a Jaguar when the Brits still built them.

 

[amlove21]

Lets see how much i get to use this meme over the next four years lol.

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Hahahaha. +1 to you

 

[ThunderHorse]

Saw this coming.

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Maybe can't remove the pardon power, but we can certainly put their laundry on front street.

 

[Cookie_]

Maybe can't remove the pardon power, but we can certainly put their laundry on front street.

This seems like the most likely outcome of these investigation.
Maybe it'll lead to some changes to the pardon power.

 

[Topkick]

This seems like the most likely outcome of these investigation.
Maybe it'll lead to some changes to the pardon power.

In the end, it's likely just political theater.

 

[Box]

Are you telling me Leon Panetta was a man of character?

Ha - just like Murkowski pretending to tell us that she is a conservative republican.