Jack booted thugs.

FEMA needs to be overhauled at a minimum. The response from Helene was and shameful.

With all their resources and information available how can they be blindsided as often as they have? I’ll bet if Helene had struck Biden’s neighborhood the response would have been overwhelming.

Our electric utility here in Southeast Michigan is DTE. There is plenty to criticize them here but at least they have set up a “safety net” of sorts, an agreement with other electric utilities in surrounding states to help restore power with each other in the aftermath of storms.

We have had out of state crews in here from as far away as Oklahoma for some of these events. Sometimes crews are enroute from other states before the storm has struck. And our crews doing the same for others as needed.

Correct me if I’m wrong but FEMA doesn’t assist the homeless until after a disaster strikes. Why can’t they be empowered to assist the homeless citizens (important point here) before such an event? Just wondering.

I am hoping this time he can clean out the swamp of every agency.

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Originally posted by hberttmank:
I am hoping this time he can clean out the swamp of every agency.

President Trump needs to hire people to reduce the employee count in departments and agencies like the Black Death reduced the population of Europe.

Trump must remove every SES from the FBI, ATF, IRS, CIA, DHS, DOE, and DOEducation (DOED) and dismantle the DOE and DOED. Restructure the IRS and both federal law enforcement agencies. To clean the swamp. He also needs to remove access to any WH updates to the major Liberal media groups. When all their reports are second hand they will lose tons of money and people following them.

Wonder who will make the first move, Mayorkas resigning or Trump firing him?

Personally I hope Trump phones him immediately after the Inauguration and hands him his walking papers.

Government program overlap is a huge taxpayer waste:

FBI tracks crime statistics but the rectal warts over at the CDC do too in the guise that gun violence is a public health crisis

Don't even get me started on the feeding the poor programs from Dept of Ed, Dept of Ag, etc. There is at least 8 federal programs.

Then there is the law enforcement overlap between all of the armed agents in over a dozen federal agencies

The there is the security overlap between all of the 3 letter agencies. Bush just added another layer of bureacracy over the top by the way he created homeland security.

We found out in COVID that Fauci's NIAID had infectious disease overlap with CDC.

The Gov't Accountability Office has reams of reports on the overlap and waste

I wrote all of the above to point out the efficient thing to do is take a page out of Corporate America by shuting down all existing federal agencies and then create 1 new federal agency to do each required task. Make people interview for a job in the new agency. As Trump has pointed out, the agency doesn't necessarily have to have any/many people in Washington DC. For example:

Feeding the poor - 1 agency does that and no others do it

Domestic law enforcement - 1 agency does that, tracks the statistics, and no other agency does that

Domestic security - 1 agency does that and no other do it

International security - 1 agency does that and no others do it

Infectious Diseases - 1 agency does that and no other do it

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Originally posted by shovelhead:
Wonder who will make the first move, Mayorkas resigning or Trump firing him?

Personally I hope Trump phones him immediately after the Inauguration and hands him his walking papers.

There’s going to be a lot of cowards who will quit ahead of Trump drop kicking their asses out of there. This loser will be one of them.

I want to see security clearances yanked too. Lots of the soon-to-be-former FBI agents need to be unemployable for a while.

It would do my heart good to see Mayorkas rot away for the rest of his miserable life in a federal prison. Or dangle at the end of a rope…either would be fine.

Can we add the ATF to the party?

I'm going to differ from the crowd just a bit for a minute. There are decades of experience working to ensure the American people are kept safe from international crime, domestic terrorism, child trafficking, and probably worse things. You can't just teach that stuff to new agents and have the same quality and thoroughness of investigation. It's probably only a few bad apples at the top, and absent these career politicians, the average FBI agent who believes in the Constitution would be free to do the quality work we all know they want to put in. They signed on to catch bad guys, not persecute Americans.


Ok, I was laughing so hard I couldn't keep that up.

I suggest retaining the janitors and the guys who work in the mail room - you'll need them to clean the place up and mail out final paychecks. Send all of the rest of them packing immediately. That done, transfer the janitors and mail room guys to somewhere else, they didn't do anything wrong and don't deserve to lose their jobs.

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Can we add the ATF to the party?

I want their bldg. renamed after Randy Weaver.

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Originally posted by Gustofer:
It would do my heart good to see Mayorkas rot away for the rest of his miserable life in a federal prison. Or dangle at the end of a rope…either would be fine.

I was thinking GITMO instead of federal prison.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Can we add the ATF to the party?

I want their bldg. renamed after Randy Weaver.

The Randy Weaver Spirit Halloween Store has a nice ring to it.

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Originally posted by Rick Lee:

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Originally posted by smschulz:
Can we add the ATF to the party?

I want their bldg. renamed after Randy Weaver.

I think naming it after Vicki Weaver would be more appropriate.

It needs to happen across the boards.

Yes, she should also be memorialized. Maybe better with an FBI bldg., since they're who murdered her.

All of the political appointees are toast and should have their resignation letters already printed and signed. They serve at the pleasure of the President AFAIK. Some, like 'confidential assistants' (Schedule C) will probably depart with their political appointees - I believe they are in a different category.

Career civil servants (e.g., SES in this case) are a different story. One needs a reason/cause to fire/dismiss a federal employee. This is what I gleaned as an Army civilian.

If anyone knows more, please pipe in. Hopefully, confirmations can move swiftly through the Senate and get to the job at hand.

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It's traditional for all political appointees to submit their resignation on Jan. 20th. Some admins holdover a few, but I can't see that happening here for a single one. The political appointees' staffers also leave, but I don't know if they submit letters or just walk.

I'm looking forward to Trump cleaning out all US Attys too, maybe letting a few reapply. But the message needs to go out.