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Wednesday Evening Open Thread: Meet the ‘American Accountability Foundation’

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GOP attacks on our country never end. The Heritage Foundation has a new pass-through division:

From his home office in small-town Kentucky, a seasoned political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican Donald Trump, a highly unusual and potentially chilling effort that dovetails with broader conservative preparations for a new White House.

Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security. They’re relying in part on tips from his network of conservative contacts, including workers. In a move that alarms some, they’re preparing to publish the findings online.

With a $100,000 grant from the Heritage Foundation, the goal is to post 100 names of government workers to a website this summer to show a potential new administration who might be standing in the way of a second-term Trump agenda — and ripe for scrutiny, reclassifications, reassignments or firings.…

The concept of compiling and publicizing a list of government employees shows the lengths Trump’s allies are willing to go to ensure nothing or no one will block his plans in a potential second term. Jones’ Project Sovereignty 2025 comes as Heritage’s Project 2025 lays the groundwork, with policies, proposals and personnel ready for a possible new White House…

Jacqueline Simon, policy director at the American Federation of Government Employees, said the language being used — the Heritage Foundation’s announcement praised the group for ferreting out “anti-American bad actors” — is “shocking.”

Civil servants are often ex-military personnel and are required to take an oath to the Constitution to work for the federal government, not a loyalty test to a president, she and others said.

“It just seems as though their goal is to try to menace federal employees and sow fear,” said Simon, whose union backs President Joe Biden, a Democrat, for reelection…

Heritage President Kevin Roberts said the “weaponization of the federal government” has been possible only because of the “deep state of entrenched Leftist bureaucrats.” He said he was proud to support the work of American Accountability Foundation workers “in their fight to hold our government accountable and drain it of bad actors.”

The federal government employs about 2.2 million people, including those in the Washington, D.C., area and workers who the unions say many Americans know as friends or neighbors in communities across the country.

About 4,000 positions in the government are considered political appointees who routinely change from one presidential administration to the next, but most are career professionals — from landscapers at Veterans Administration cemeteries to economists at the Bureau of Labor Statistics…

Jones, from his desk overlooking rickhouses storing barrels in the Bourbon Capitol of Bardstown, scoffed at comparisons to McCarthyism as “nonsense.”

He’s a former staffer to then-Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina conservative Republican who later led Heritage and now helms the Conservative Policy Institute, where American Accountability Foundation has a mailing address. Jones also worked for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and provided opposition research for Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential bid.

With six researchers, Jones’ team operates remotely across the country, poring over the information about federal workers within Homeland Security, the State Department and other agencies that deal with immigration and border issues.

Their focus is on the highest ranks of the civil servants — GS-13, GS-14 and GS-15 employees and those in senior executive positions who could put up roadblocks to Trump’s plans for tighter borders and more deportations…

He dismissed the risks that could be involved in publicly posting the names, salary information and other details of federal workers who have some level of privacy or the idea his group’s work could put employees’ livelihoods in jeopardy.

“You don’t get to make policy and then say, ‘Hey, don’t scrutinize me,”’ he said.

He acknowledges some of the work is often a “gut check” or “instinct” about which federal employees would be suspected of trying to block a conservative agenda.

“We’re looking at, ‘Are there wrong people on the bus right now that are, you know, openly hostile to efforts to secure the southern border?’” he said.

His own group came under scrutiny as it first probed Biden nominees.

Biden had repealed Trump’s Schedule F executive order in January 2021, but a Government Accountability Office report in 2022 found that agencies believed it could be reinstated by a future administration.

Since then, the Biden administration issued a rule that would make it harder to fire workers. A new administration could direct the Office of Personnel Management to undo the regulation, but the process would take time and be open to legal challenges.

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    Thankfully you can prevent this with one simple trick of voting for Joe Biden

    For some reason, this is a bridge too far for some people.

  2. 2.

    lowtechcyclist

    Federal employees carry out the laws that Congress passes and the President signs. If he’s got evidence that a particular employee is doing so in a politically biased manner, he’s welcome to bring it. Otherwise, he should STFU.

    As a recently retired GS-13, I’m very thankful I’m out in time to not have to worry about this asshole and his allies.

  3. 3.

    Bill Arnold

    In a move that alarms some, they’re preparing to publish the findings online.

    If they do this, it is open season, with public oppo dumps of all the dirt on all Republicans in any way associated with government.

  4. 4.

    Gloria DryGarden

    In my head, it means free speech is nearly gone, or highly unsafe.

    I can’t fathom how many end runs one guy gets to run, to subvert, and undermine, the laws and freedoms we thought we mostly had. And how hard it has been to get this guy gagged, and out of public view, and hopefully locked up. TCFG continues to piss me off, in all his machinations. He has his fingers in so many pies, has so many threads into different aspects and angles of the machines his folks put in place, one day his finger might have an accident in a machine.

    I don’t have solutions. Just horrified. I’ll see what I can do to help the democrat win in Colorado’s R+ district, against the embarrassing, ill-informed undereducated boob job gal, Lauren vaping handjob boebert.

  5. 5.

    hueyplong

    Trump will be a sloppy mess by October, constantly saying the quiet National Socialist parts out loud when he approaches the neighborhood of sentience. Hesitation to vote for Biden ought to fade away if we’re the same country that beat Germany in the 1940s.

  6. 6.

    hells littlest angel

    He’s a former staffer to then-Sen. Jim DeMint, the South Carolina conservative Republican who later led Heritage and now helms the Conservative Policy Institute, where American Accountability Foundation has a mailing address. Jones also worked for Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, and provided opposition research for Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz’s 2016 presidential bid.

     

    How about some useful information about the guy? You know, address, phone number, Social Security number, criminal record, etc. You know, like he would do.

  8. 8.

    pinacacci

    Hey since it is an open thread, I have rescued a feral kitten this morning, vet estimates it is about six weeks old, it is comfortable and relaxed but severely underweight and dehydrated.  She is a dilute calico.  Money is not an issue, nor is time, and she will have all appropriate care before I let her out of here.  She’s so tiny that she can’t even be treated for the fleas yet.  She purred for the vet tech so I believe she’ll be a lovely house cat.

    I already have four cats (inherited two when my mom died) so really don’t want to disrupt the social balance. Little assholes.

    Anyway, putting it out there for fellow juicers who are anywhere near NE FL (St Augustine) or are willing to transport little Cinnamon Toast Crunch to anywhere else.  If nobody bites I’mma have to keep her, and I shouldn’t.  Pictures on request.

  9. 9.

    Redshift

    @lowtechcyclist: It’s the same as the attacks on election workers – they don’t like the rules because they don’t get the results they want all the time, and they don’t have the votes to change them, so hey! let’s threaten the people who make the system work and trash everything that lets us have a functioning prosperous society!

    It’d be funny seeing how they like a kleptocracy where they have to pay bribes for everything instead of having rules, if only the rest of us didn’t have to be there with them.

  11. 11.

    Another Scott

    People are right to be outraged about this stuff.  We have non-political civil servants for lots of very good reasons (after not having them earlier).

    GovExec has (as one might expect) covered the Schedule F stuff extensively. Even when TCFFG had the levers of power, he wasn’t able to implement it. We can’t let him try again.

    Yet more reasons to vote the monsters out, and never let them have power again!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  12. 12.

    peter

    @lowtechcyclist: Amen. I retired last year from the federal government after 32 years at a small “cultural” agency. Things were always much more brazenly partisan when the political appointees were chosen by Republicans. As is commonly noted around here, it’s always projection with these assholes.

  13. 13.

    Mike in NC

    Ah, Jim Bob DeMented. There’s a blast from the past. He somehow thought he could tell every other  senator what to think and quit when they laughed at him. Surprised that Fat Bastard didn’t hire him as chief of staff.

  15. 15.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @hells littlest angel:

    I’m not saying the CIA should put a cap in his ass. I’m just saying they could.

    Yes. They could.

    sometime, somewhere, somehow, someone’s gotta take one for the team.

    I’d rather it not come down to this. But my whole nation is being bullied and dragged raw through a firestorm of lies and shrapnel fallout. And I’m pissed. Like most of us here, I gather.

    I’d rather not go to hell myself, and I have work to do on the angels teams.

    But what’s his face, can go to hell, or just permanently be silenced. So that the majority of us can feel safe. Feeling safe is pretty basic.

    What other Scott said:

    People are right to be outraged about this stuff.

  16. 16.

    japa21

    Unfortunately, all too many people feel the government is overbloated and it would be good to trim the fat.  Specially of any people who don’t see your way on everything.

  17. 17.

    HumboldtBlue

    Milwaukee is preparing for a busy week with the RNC coming to town, but with just weeks to go before the convention begins, some are raising concerns about a lackluster level of events being booked during the convention, raising questions about whether the convention will deliver on promises of economic impact.

    Gary Witt, president and CEO of the Pabst Theater Group, told The Recombobulation Area that the majority of the group’s venues will have no events booked for the RNC.

    Two of downtown Milwaukee’s most iconic venues, the Pabst Theater and Riverside Theater, will likely sit empty during the convention, he said, as will the Vivarium and The Fitzgerald, which are both located on Milwaukee’s East Side. Turner Hall Ballroom will host a yet-to-be announced organization, but that arrangement was made for the DNC in 2020 before the convention went mostly virtual.

    Witt characterized the RNC planning as “underwhelming” and a “failure.”

    “It’s 100% a case of ‘overpromise, underdeliver,’ on all parts, by everybody,” he said.

    Whodathunk?

  20. 20.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Gloria DryGarden: So vote.  Donate.  Volunteer.  Encourage others to do the same.  We can stop them, if we put in the work.

    @HumboldtBlue:  They couldn’t organize a piss-up in a brewery*

    *To stick with the Milwaukee theme.

  21. 21.

    lowtechcyclist

    @Another Scott:

    People are right to be outraged about this stuff. We have non-political civil servants for lots of very good reasons (after not having them earlier).

    Indeed.  One very basic reason, completely aside from political civil servants implementing the politics of the party in power, is that you can’t build up expertise like that, if you kick out the old civil servants every four or eight years.  And you’d have these gaps, where the new batch is learning the ropes, where the civil service was ineffective for months or years after each change of administration.  Even if they were totally devoted to doing their jobs in a nonpartisan manner, it would routinely be a mess.  It just wouldn’t work at all well.

  26. 26.

    lowtechcyclist

    @japa21: ​
     

    Unfortunately, all too many people feel the government is overbloated and it would be good to trim the fat. Specially of any people who don’t see your way on everything.

    Then they need to identify where the fat is that needs trimming, to show which agencies are overstaffed and really could do the jobs they are assigned with fewer people.

    But if what they really believe is that certain agencies shouldn’t exist to begin with, and that the ‘bloat’ is their existence in the first place, those agencies exist because of laws that Congress passed and the President signed. The way you deal with that is to lobby Congresspersons to get them to agree with you and write legislation sunsetting those agencies.

    This is a legislative democracy. If Congress passes laws, they can’t be undone by Executive fiat, at least not while we have a democracy. If they don’t like that enough other people support those agencies’ existence that they can’t be gotten rid of, well, that’s life in a democracy. If they want to deal with it by electing a President who will do what he pleases, regardless of the law, then they need to move to Hungary or wherever, because they are against the very idea of democracy.

  28. 28.

    mrmoshpotato

    @hells littlest angel:

    How about some useful information about the guy? You know, address, phone number, Social Security number, criminal record, etc. You know, like he would do. 

    And what size pan to bash him in his fucking fascist face.

  30. 30.

    Skippy -San

    What Mr. Jones ignores is the fact that what he is doing is illegal. The Hatch Act allows federal employees to support political candidates, albeit there are some limits. He is violating all kinds of laws by going after their political preferences.

    As pointed out, Federal Employees take an oath to the Constitution, not to a person.

    As for his line about scrutiny, there are processes to scrutinize work products, not employee beliefs. When he says that you don’t get to avoid scrutiny, it means he doesn’t understand how the system works.

    He should be arrested and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. The ACLU or another organization should be gearing up to sue him out of existence.

  32. 32.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @japa21: This particular attack is less about “bloated” government and more about getting rid of career civil servants they’ve  blacklisted and replacing them with apparatchiks loyal to the Felon. For obvious reasons and with predictable results.

  33. 33.

    Skippy -San

    @Gloria DryGarden: Kevin Roberts hired him. He is the head of Heritage and one evil bastard.  As such, he is in charge of Project 2025, the ambitious 900-page manifesto for fascism that seeks to destroy the United States as a functioning, democratically based Republic. Hearing his responses to the interview, it became clear that Roberts does not care about anyone but the people aligned with his treasonous vision of the future. He is a slick salesman for cruelty.

    He NEVER served his country in uniform.

    He is a threat to this country. He clearly states he wants to “Institutionalize Trumpism!”. That sentiment alone makes him unfit to serve in the Federal government.

  34. 34.

    waspuppet

    @Skippy -San: He doesn’t claim to understand how the system works. He doesn’t care how the system works. “The system” has created a country where this sub-8th-grade intellect lives a life the pharaohs couldn’t even dream of, but somewhere in America a nonwhite person is acting like they belong here, so he’s going to devote his entire life to destroying America. Because he’s too fucking stupid to achieve anything on his own.

  36. 36.

    gwangung

    What Mr. Jones ignores is the fact that what he is doing is illegal. The Hatch Act allows federal employees to support political candidates, albeit there are some limits. He is violating all kinds of laws by going after their political preferences.

    But Mao and the Khmer Rouge would be quite proud of his techqnique.

    Acting like the perfect communist.

  38. 38.

    kindness

    The Heritage Foundation gambit is exactly what Senator Joe McCarthy did in the 50’s.  He had a list of communist party members.  Many of them weren’t communists and many of them got blacklisted.

  43. 43.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Omnes Omnibus: ​vote. Donate. Volunteer. Encourage others to do the same. We can stop them, if we put in the work.

     Absolutely. To quote Another Scott: eyes on the prize.

  45. 45.

    pinacacci

    @Another Scott:  dude she was frying like a pancake on my driveway.  You would have done the same.  I should clarify because I didn’t explain the original circumstance, but she was literally lying like a limp dishrag in my driveway and barely breathing.  In Florida heat, in the direct sun, what the hell little kitty.  There was no other option but to tend to her

     

    which is to say, there is no virtue in this. it is what anybody should do

  46. 46.

    UncleEbeneezer

    We are finally going electric!  No, not for a car…for grilling/BBQing.  Our property manager has forbidden propane/charcoal grills because our little wood cottages are all surrounded by wooden fences less than 10 feet from the structures, creating a pretty obvious fire hazard.  It’s the right call.  So I ordered a Charbroil Mini Bistro electric grill that should arrive tomorrow.  It’ll be interesting grilling without gas/coals, but I very much miss being able to cook outside (since we have a tiny kitchen and an over-active smoke alarm) while listening to music.  Hopefully I can get the grill early enough and assemble to try it out tomorrow.  I considered several brands/models but ultimately went with the one that sounds easiest to clean and gets good reviews.  The biggest challenge, from reviews I’ve read, is that it probably won’t get hot enough to do steaks with the nice lines/char but that’s no big deal since we can always throw steaks in the broiler or our Lodge grill-pan.

  47. 47.

    O. Felix Culpa

    Question: Would the civil servants whose information is made public on the Heritage Foundation’s list have any legal recourse?

  48. 48.

    gene108

    The scary part to me is one does not put together a plan like Project 2025, and think it’s possible they’ll lose the 2028 Presidential election.

    You do Project 2025 only if you believe you will have a stranglehold on the executive branch for the foreseeable future.

  49. 49.

    brantl

    @hueyplong: Unfortunately, you can’t see that country in the rear view mirror of the fascist Volkswagen that is half this country’s vehicle of choice.

  50. 50.

    Ella in New Mexico

    C’mon SCOTUS.

    Go ahead and give Trump blanket immunity. Make our day.

    Then let Joe take care of this problem once and for all.

  51. 51.

    gene108

    @Skippy -San:

    What Mr. Jones ignores is the fact that what he is doing is illegal.

    Who’s going to press charges? In Kentucky, he’d probably get a federal judge that agrees with what he’s doing, and rules the Hatch Act unconstitutional.

  52. 52.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @O. Felix Culpa: Would be oh so delicious to find out!

    Stories like these do inform us, but don’t forget: they’re designed to freak us out and get us to read/follow.

    Unless a group like this can override decades of established law, Civil Employees are protected from all kinds of political interference. Anyone who tried to harass them or sic MAGATs on them for personal political views will very likely be subject to legal action.

    But it’s also why we have to spread this stuff to any doubters in our midst–they need to understand the potential outcome and the stakes of a protest vote or staying home.

  53. 53.

    catclub

    @lowtechcyclist: Then they need to identify where the fat is that needs trimming, to show which agencies are overstaffed and really could do the jobs they are assigned with fewer people.

     

    Government headcount has been about stable for the past 20+ years. Government headcount per population has dropped substantially.  Contractors do a lot of work that should be done by Feds. This hollows out federal expertise.

  55. 55.

    Ella in New Mexico

    @kindness: I think we know better now. We’ve got their number. They won’t want to see what would happen if they tried that again.

  57. 57.

    Sister Golden Bear

    It’s a win on a technicality, but we’ll take the win, as a judge ruled that a Montana law that would’ve have legally erased both trans and intersex people.

    Per Erin in the Morning, the law defined sex “as strictly belonging to “males” and “females” based on chromosomes and gamete production, making no exception for intersex individuals* and thus putting a halt to legal protections for transgender individuals [who were the actual target]. It redefined sex as such in 41 different legislative contexts, potentially upending the lives of many transgender Montanans….It was signed by Republican Governor Greg Gianforte, and it explicitly ignored the dominant scientific view that sex is a spectrum and can be changed, and is not strictly defined as ‘male’ or ‘female.’”

    *I’ll note that prevalence of intersex people is potentially as high as 1.7% of the population — about 10 times as many people as redheads with blue eyes.

  58. 58.

    satby

    @pinacacci: you would like to think so, that everyone would do something for a suffering animal, and most probably would. Quite a few do not, and some sickos would have hastened that kitten’s demise. So you do deserve thanks and kudos.

  59. 59.

    Bill Arnold

    The sort of treatment Kevin Roberts and Tom Jones are planning to sign Republicans up for:
    Self Tanner and Cheap Ties: Bankruptcy Filings Reveal Rudy Giuliani’s Amazon Purchases (Samantha Cole, JUN 26, 2024)

    But that’s not all the filings revealed. Giuliani spent $1,892 on Amazon purchases in May 2024 alone. They include:

    – A standing tripod (perhaps for a press conference, or to record YouTube videos decrying the accusations against him?)
    – Multiple Anker-brand charging cables and bricks
    – A lot of extremely cheap ties, including this 6-pack for $22 and this tie and pocket square set in red and yellow stripes for $13
    – Earbuds, which he could have bought on Temu for $6 but retail on Amazon for $79
    – Dry erase markers
    – A two-pack of Big and Tall black “performance tech” t-shirts
    – Jergens self-tanning lotion in “deep” bronze
    – “Sunless tan” anti-shine makeup powder

  60. 60.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @Ella in New Mexico: I’m not particularly “freaked out” by this information, and more motivated to ensure that Project 2025 does not come to pass, that is, to defeat Trump and elect Biden. It is a well-worn strategy to use “lists” as a means of insinuation and intimidation. See, of course, Joe McCarthy and an earlier comic counterpart, “I’ve Got a Little List” from the Mikado.

    My question is whether there is anything legally actionable in the publication of such a list.

  62. 62.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @lowtechcyclist:

    If you kick out the old civil servants every four or eight years.  And you’d have these gaps, where the new batch is learning the ropes, where the civil service was ineffective for months or years after each change of administration.  Even if they were totally devoted to doing their jobs in a nonpartisan manner, it would routinely be a mess.  It just wouldn’t work at all well.

    Which is a feature, not a bug, for Republicans who don’t think the government should do anything except persecute those people and while redirecting firehoses of money towards the deserving billionaires.

  63. 63.

    p.a.

    Heritage was originally formed because a group of mouthbreathers didn’t think the conservative AEI was strong in support of America’s SST program.
    The Heritage motto should be “Heritage Foundation: Wrong Since Day One.”

  66. 66.

    wjca

    In a move that alarms some, they’re preparing to publish the findings online.

    Time to recruit some hackers.  Step 1) Insert the names of these scumbags onto their own list.  Step 2) Change the addresses for everybody else to some non-existant location.  (Not wrong addresses, lest some innocent living there get attacked!)  Step 3) Change all the phone numbers for everybody else to 555s.**

    ** Obscure trivia: there’s a reason that, when movies or TV use a phone number, it’s (area code) 555-####.  Because all 555 numbers are invalid/never used.  Keeps brain-dead fans from hassling real people.

  70. 70.

    Geminid

    @H.E.Wolf: Among others, political scientist Rachel Bitecofer will point out that candidate quality typically cannot overcome district demographics. But there is a limiting case for all such political theorems, and Lauren Boebert is a limiting case if there ever was one.

  71. 71.

    Dan B

    @kindness: In addition to Joe McCarthy’s witchhunt of communists was his hunt for homosexuals.  More gays and lesbians were forced out of government jobs and the military than communists.  It’s estimated that ten thousand supposed, or actually, LGBTQ people lost their jobs, even an accusation could end your career.  There’s a repeat of this pattern today.

  73. 73.

    Dan B

    @O. Felix Culpa: The Heritage Foundation plan could duplicate McCarthy’s which did not allow a lawyer or anyone else to be present.  Plus the options were confess or be outed, whether true or not.  This applied to LGBTQ people but probably to communists or socialists as well.

  74. 74.

    RaflW

    @HumboldtBlue: Really frustrating.

    But, the silver lining is the underlying story: the RNC is in a few weeks and the planning stinks. Shoving all the experienced operatives out of the way and replacing them with MAGAloons who don’t know shit means the convention is likely to run poorly, be low energy, and just look cheap and tawdry.

    I feel sad that Milwaukee, a fine city where I spend more time than, say four years ago I would ever have imagined, will get some of the blame.

    But the same dolts who are not organizing worth a damn in a city that knows how to drink and eat with the best of them (not so much in terms of fancy, but in terms of gusto and solid Italian-American hospitality), I’m hoping they don’t really know how to organize an autumn ground game or closing argument campaign. đŸ€žđŸŒ

    eta: Recombobulation Area is a great site. I’m a paid supporter.

  76. 76.

    RaflW

    @UncleEbeneezer: I will be very interested to hear if you like it. I’ve considered that grill a couple times, but never hit “purchase.” Our HOA’s insurance is likely to make removing gas grills a requirement for renewing the association’s policy this fall (wooden decks have, tbh, made me nervous so we don’t have a grill). Some of our owners are gonna have strokes if the ins. co. follows thru.

  77. 77.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @RaflW: Milwaukee needs to be sure and get paid up front for any police protection or other municipal services.

  78. 78.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @H.E.Wolf: I’ll call my mom’s friend in Yuma, see if there’s something I can do.. I need paid work, but this might be the call.

  80. 80.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @wjca: are you in a position to hire said hackers, get that happening? Ok, don’t answer that. Hope someone is onto this. Good idea

  81. 81.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @RaflW: Will do.  I’m hoping it works a bit better than the George Forman (kitchen) Grill I had back in the early 2000’s.

  82. 82.

    HumboldtBlue

    @RaflW: ​ 

    eta: Recombobulation Area is a great site. I’m a paid supporter.

    Nice. As Omnes pointed out, the organizing skills are… lacking.

  83. 83.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @Geminid: so you’re saying candidate quality might, in this case, overcome demographics?

    Be it so

    candidate quality typically cannot overcome district demographics

  85. 85.

    evodevo

    @lowtechcyclist: Prime example: see, Trumpy WH during and after the transition in 2017 lol – they wouldn’t interact with the Obama staff, and thought all the old employees would still be there to exploit and then fire.  Instead it took them months to come up to speed on everything from where the office supplies were to how the simplest govt. function worked…

  86. 86.

    wjca

    @Gloria DryGarden: are you in a position to hire said hackers, get that happening? Ok, don’t answer that. Hope someone is onto this.

    I wish!  (Of course, if I were, I’d deny it….  ;-)

    But I definitely second your hope that somebody is on it.

  87. 87.

    rikyrah

    I will say what others have not:

     

    I would bet my salary that a disproportionate percentage on that list are Black men and women who have worked their way up the federal food chain

     

    Never forget the surprise of Shrub Bush, that when they looked at the federal workforce in DC, his astonishment of the number of Black men and women who were right on the cusp of those higher echelon grade levels because they had followed the rules and were next in line due to clear rules about Seniority.

    So he tried to change the rules around promotions 😒😒

  88. 88.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @gene108: so us 108 because you use a maka? Might be time to do some chants 108 times. I oughta start a chant practice..

  89. 89.

    wjca

    @HumboldtBlue: Rep. Jasmine Crockett brings the receipts again.

    These guys are really pathetic at covering their tracks!  It’s like they simply can’t imagine anybody noticing.

  91. 91.

    redoubt

    @rikyrah: Sucker bet (raises hand as retired Fed).

    Nothing makes them madder than seeing a Black person somewhere they think they ought not to be.  (Barack Hussein Obama for example.)

  92. 92.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @wjca: of course, and well you should. Tell me what kind of hackers are needed. I’ll put out an energetic call.

    In Texas, didn’t some hackers start messing up the data base of pregnant women, or something to interfere w their cute little bounty hunting abortion ban? Those are the people we need. Maybe someone on here knows them, and can make the call..

  93. 93.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @wjca: of course, and well you should. Tell me what kind of hackers are needed. I’ll put out an energetic call.

    In Texas, didn’t some hackers start messing up the data base of pregnant women, or something to interfere w their cute little bounty hunting abortion ban? Those are the people we need. Maybe someone on here knows them, and can make the call..

     

    @Gloria DryGarden: I meant mala. Sorry to xxxx108.

  94. 94.

    Gloria DryGarden

    @rikyrah: it’s appalling to me anytime some politicians look at skin color, and fail to see brilliant humans, talent, competence, and appreciate that it’s even competence against some odds.

    I believe you that Shrub did that. I think even less of him for it, and now I want to yell swear words. Internalized racism is a weed to root out! Not a thing to make judgements by. How can they miss out on so many great people? And not see, actually see people for everything inside them?

    Thank you for pointing this out.

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    Miss Bianca

    @pinacacci:

    OMG. I love dilute torties. My Lefty was a dilute tortie, and I’ve been grieving her loss for some time. If I didn’t live way far away in the mountains with two non-cat-broken dogs, I would be beating down your door to get to her!

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    Ironcity

    @hueyplong: We are not the same country that beat Germany in 1945 any more than the Germany of today is the same one as in  1945.   In many ways we are a better place to live in general, but no place is perfect and both places seem  to have their share of fascists.

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