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Considering that a very large percentage of your property tax dollars go to public schools that people over 65 have no interest in I am very much in favor of this tax exemption. My kids went to private schools because the public option was such a $hit sandwich.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Hank Johnson is easily the stupidest member of Congress.

Well Hank, contempt doesn't begin to describe my feelings toward you.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Hank "Guam gonna tip over" Johnson is easily the stupidest member of Congress.

I agree that Hank is a drooling, window licking moron. I’m not sure that Maxine “Maxi-pad” Waters doesn’t rank right up there too though.

Kristi Noem and Tom Homan have found some of the ICE raid leakers, saying that they originated from the FBI. She mentioned they will be fired, but IMO, they need to be arrested and prosecuted as well.

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“You bet we have used every tactic that we have,” Noem went on, detailing how DHS has begun employing polygraphs, or lie detector tests, to determine which individuals inside the federal government were responsible. Other sources of evidence include internal emails and communications on government-issued phones.

“It’s amazing how these bureaucrats who have an agenda to stop the work that we’re doing to bring safety to America, how they will sell each other down the river if it’s just to protect themselves,” she added.

https://trendingpoliticsnews.c...z&utm_medium=twitter

Oh boy. I really hope that wasn't an actual federal employee but I can see some Gen Z dumbass actually sending that:

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1894451134414152005

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Originally posted by smlsig:
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Considering that a very large percentage of your property tax dollars go to public schools that people over 65 have no interest in I am very much in favor of this tax exemption. My kids went to private schools because the public option was such a $hit sandwich.

I feel you. Our kids attended public universities, but that was the first they attended a public school.

At the same time, in theory at least, we all benefit from a more educated workforce. If all the kids that go to public schools are better educated, get better jobs, contribute more to society, pay more taxes, (at least slightly) defer the Social Security system going belly up, then even the retiree who never had kids is better off.

Now, it is absolutely fair to say that public schools are not serving the students (or the parents) anywhere near as well or as efficiently as they should be. However, that seems like a separate problem to me. I’m sure DOGE and PDJT will have a better idea, but my first thought is to delete the department of education, return control of education to the local governments, and let them figure it out. The parents will likely be much better able to hold the schools accountable. I’m sure they will be able to do it more cost effectively.

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Oh boy. I really hope that wasn't an actual federal employee but I can see some Gen Z dumbass actually sending that:

These bureaucrat workers are so goddamn stupid. They have no idea that Musk is very experienced in this, he fired 80% of the workforce at Twitter after he bought it and took over. And it is more successful now than before. FAFO. These idiots can go work at Starbucks or Whole Foods or somewhere.

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These bureaucrat workers are so goddamn stupid. They have no idea that Musk is very experienced in this, he fired 80% of the workforce at Twitter after he bought it and took over. And it is more successful now than before. FAFO. These idiots can go work at Starbucks.[/QUOTE]

No, Starbucks just laid off 1100 people and more to come...

Wish I was in that tour group!

https://x.com/Scavino47/status/1894431242982232345

Incredible!

Outstanding !

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1894513915352027540




Link on Judge

Judge Amir H. Ali was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of Columbia on December 2, 2024. Judge Ali received his Bachelor’s in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.

After law school, Judge Ali clerked for the Honorable Raymond C. Fisher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and for the Honorable Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada. Following his clerkships, Judge Ali worked in the Washington, D.C. office of Jenner & Block LLP. There, Judge Ali had an active pro bono practice and litigated complex commercial cases in a wide variety of areas. In 2017, Judge Ali opened the Washington D.C. office of the MacArthur Justice Center, where he litigated civil rights cases at all levels of the federal judiciary and later served as the organization’s national Executive Director.

Judge Ali has taught courses on civil, criminal, and appellate litigation at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of the District of Columbia David A Clarke School of Law.

Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali (born 1985)[1] is a Canadian-American lawyer and academic who is serving as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[2] He was appointed by Joe Biden

Suck it, Jacky Boy

https://x.com/MAGAMichelleS69/.../1894504447109206064

Yup, it's high time to impeach these scumbag partisan activists masquerading as "judges".

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Originally posted by parabellum:
Suck it, Jacky Boy

(Referring to the pen)
"Send it to Jack Smith"

lololololololollolol!!!



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"Wait, I just want to savor this one, please."

(Paraphrasing)

"I've been targeted (for more than 8 years), so don't talk to me about targeting."

Here's a question. First, some background info: I am a Marine veteran. My wife works for the VA as a nurse manager in a western Michigan suburb. She was an Army nurse for 14 years. We are 1000% behind the DOGE movement to eliminate fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government.

My wife is telling me that a small percentage of her people, federal employees at the VA, received email notices of their termination, with no advance notice or explanation in-person at all, today. Her employees are freaking out with emotion-driven negative rants about how this administration, Musk and Trump, are behind this and how unprofessional it is, etc. etc.

I believe that the deep state intermediaries who hate what Trump is doing who are in between the macro: the righteous goal of reducing fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government; and the micro: how the communication of individual terminations and reductions in force at my wife's ground floor level are implemented, are deliberately trying to make this process as painful as possible to foster a movement of support against Trump amongst lower level federal employees.

To my question: Am I correct in this assumption and how would you bring this scheme to light and effectively counter it?

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Originally posted by G-Man:
Here's a question. First, some background info: I am a Marine veteran. My wife works for the VA as a nurse manager in a western Michigan suburb. She was an Army nurse for 14 years. We are 1000% behind the DOGE movement to eliminate fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government.

My wife is telling me that a small percentage of her people, federal employees at the VA, received email notices of their termination, with no advance notice or explanation in-person at all, today. Her employees are freaking out with emotion-driven negative rants about how this administration, Musk and Trump, are behind this and how unprofessional it is, etc. etc.

I believe that the deep state intermediaries who hate what Trump is doing who are in between the macro: the righteous goal of reducing fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government; and the micro: how the communication of individual terminations and reductions in force at my wife's ground floor level are implemented, are deliberately trying to make this process as painful as possible to foster a movement of support against Trump amongst lower level federal employees.

To my question: Am I correct in this assumption and how would you bring this scheme to light and effectively counter it?

How do you know it wasn't Trump? I'd say they have a right to be pissed off. I wonder how many hard working peoples lives are going to be destroyed so that they can say how much money they saved. The veteran's get substandard care and then they hire more medical staff six months from now!?

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Originally posted by Ronin101:

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Originally posted by G-Man:
Here's a question. First, some background info: I am a Marine veteran. My wife works for the VA as a nurse manager in a western Michigan suburb. She was an Army nurse for 14 years. We are 1000% behind the DOGE movement to eliminate fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government.

My wife is telling me that a small percentage of her people, federal employees at the VA, received email notices of their termination, with no advance notice or explanation in-person at all, today. Her employees are freaking out with emotion-driven negative rants about how this administration, Musk and Trump, are behind this and how unprofessional it is, etc. etc.

I believe that the deep state intermediaries who hate what Trump is doing who are in between the macro: the righteous goal of reducing fraud/waste/abuse in our federal government; and the micro: how the communication of individual terminations and reductions in force at my wife's ground floor level are implemented, are deliberately trying to make this process as painful as possible to foster a movement of support against Trump amongst lower level federal employees.

To my question: Am I correct in this assumption and how would you bring this scheme to light and effectively counter it?

How do you know it wasn't Trump? I'd say they have a right to be pissed off. I wonder how many hard working peoples lives are going to be destroyed so that they can say how much money they saved. The veteran's get substandard care and then they hire more medical staff six months from now!?

Valid point. However, I do know that it wasn't an email directly from President Trump that told these employees they were fired. It came from an intermediary. Policy is implemented downward, by people closer to ground level. A layoff can and will occur in the private sector as well as in government. A necessary event at times public or private. It can be done well, and it can be done maliciously. I don't believe the directive from a populist President is to make it as painful as possible. That is at the heart of my question.