But just a reminder Commie Claudia, and Governor Justin, I hold all the cards. Have a great weekend, now watch this drive!
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(do we have a “feckless schadenfreude” topic division?)
The veterans - who voted as a block more for trump than just about any other - are just now figuring out they’ve been betrayed.
Veterans Fired From Federal Jobs Say They Feel Betrayed, Including Some Who Voted For Trump
Veterans who have been abruptly fired from federal jobs say they feel betrayed by the Trump administration’s dramatic downsizing of government.
Brian Witte
Mar 6, 2025, 09:23 AM EST
Nathan Hooven is a disabled Air Force veteran who voted for Donald Trump in November. Barely three months later, he’s now unemployed and says he feels betrayed by the president’s dramatic downsizing of the federal government that cost him his job.“I think a lot of other veterans voted the same way, and we have been betrayed,” said Hooven, who was fired in February from a Virginia medical facility for veterans. “I feel like my life and the lives of so many like me, so many that have sacrificed so much for this country, are being destroyed.”
The mass firing of federal employees since Trump took office in January is pushing out veterans who make up 30% of the nation’s federal workforce. The exact number of veterans who have lost their job is unknown, although House Democrats last month estimated that it was potentially in the thousands.
(isn’t there some Tacitus quote about “don’t piss off your veterans. they recall how to hold a sword”? …perhaps not)
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Nope, no chaos at all.
A message seen by the AP was sent with the subject line, “Read this e-mail immediately.” It said that “after further review and consideration,” a Feb. 15 termination notice has been rescinded and the employee was cleared to return to work on Wednesday. “You should return to duty under your previous work schedule,” it said. “We apologize for any disruption that this may have caused.”
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And I’m…well, kind of dim today (square biz, really!)…James is a republican. SIGH.
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I often get disappointed in other veterans, but I also understand it. The military as a whole tends towards conservative although not always Conservative. It can be difficult for people in that kind of environment to break out of that mindset, even with strong evidence, and the longer you’re in service, the easier you are to influence once you’re out. I’ve had that discussion with other vets when they think the Republicans value them and respect their service, but like many victims of abuse, they have difficulty coming to grips with the idea that actions are less important than words.
Republicans always cut the budget to the VA hospitals and programs, although this current slash is the most egregious ever, but they say all the nice words and wave the flags, so that means they respect vets. Democrats raise those same budgets and take other actions to expand care and opportunities for vets, but they don’t always praise vets and may actually question the wars in which those vets were involved. (The fact that this is not the same as being critical of the vets themselves seems difficult for some vets to grasp.)
I don’t want any of them to get hurt in this, but then again I really don’t want anyone to get hurt in this, but that’s a hope that’s already been battered and broken. I’m holding out for my secondary hope that they finally start seeing what some of us have been trying to explain to them for years, for decades: the Republicans are not the friends of vets.
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Why, of course:
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i believe i’ve blathered my baseless theory that the bruise oft espied on the back of his hand might be an IV infusion site for…
Lecanemab (Leqembi®) is an antibody intravenous (IV) infusion therapy that targets and removes beta-amyloid from the brain. It has received traditional approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat early Alzheimer’s disease
(oh how we all recall all the advanced COVID treatment trump got the first time around, then tried to kill it all for everyone else, and now if he is receiving advanced Alzheimer’s therapy again he’s shutting down the FDA and NIH research funding… is there a better candidate for most stupid solipsistic slime in all of history!? @#$!!!)
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“Does a single district-court judge who likely lacks jurisdiction have the unchecked power to compel the Government of the United States to pay out (and probably lose forever) 2 billion taxpayer dollars? The answer to that question should be an emphatic ‘No,’ but a majority of this Court apparently thinks otherwise. I am stunned,” Alito wrote in his dissenting opinion
I mean, I’m not a US constitutional law scholar, but I’m pretty sure that this is exactly why it went to the Supreme Court? You know, the one whose benches he’s sullying with his presence?
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Leave us also not forget the cognitive decline associated with even mild (and I am not at all certain his was all that mild) covid infection. Not that it matters at this point. Il Douche is just a figurehead for Elno’s debauchery.
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Mary Trump’s description of Fred Trump’s mental decline reminded me of my mother’s.
But, no, she doesn’t wear boxer shorts.
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Guess what these democrats did today.
They voted to censure Al Green.
Ami Bera of California
Ed Case of Hawaii
Jim Costa of California
Laura Gillen of New York
Jim Himes of Connecticut
Chrissy Houlahan of Pennsylvania
Marcy Kaptur of Ohio
Jared Moskowitz of Florida
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington
Tom Suozzi of New York
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You know what would “save the stock market”? Not repeatedly fucking jerking the economy around with these on again/off again tariffs. If there’s one thing markets don’t like, it’s uncertainty.
It’s like all he has to do is literally nothing and let the economy he was handed ride, and he’s too incompetent/greedy/self-absorbed to do that.
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Unfortunately paywalled for me. But I’m not surprised. Tramp is a one trick pony on foreign economic policy, and the world has had more than four years to prepare itself, and nearly two years of the idiot telegraphing his intent to impose tariffs if/once he got back into office.
The world is ready to move on from his BS. I just hope the US can rid itself of his malignancy before we become a complete pariah state.
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I’m going to cross post this here and the measles thread:
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