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Indeed, it's a little more difficult to maintain that air of superiority when challenged to express your opinion and the reasoning for it rather than just take supercilious pot shots at those who have the cojones to do so. Fraud.

Please feel free to enlighten us all with the reasons for the shutdown.

If they announce your replacement halfway through your normal tour, I think that qualifies as a firing. Army's Number Two General Suddenly Replaced by Hegseth's Senior Military Aide – RedState Bonus points for promoting a junior guy over a lot of senior guys.

Two recent wins: Trump told the UN to shove their plan to tax shipping above 5,000 tons for carbon emissions. Not member nations, but the UN itself would levy the tax and control the funding. That would be quite the precedent setting to have the UN start taxing. U.N. shipping agency delays decision on ship fuel emissions tax after Trump pressure The second is a little more justice, I hope. Brennan referred to DOJ for prosecution. BREAKING: Another Trump Enemy Now in Legal Crosshairs After Criminal Referral From Congress

I stand corrected...we didn't survive.

Yes, Congress has always appropriated money to make up for the pay lost during a shutdown, at least since the 1980s. Also, the number of people and programs that are still receiving money despite the shutdown has increased dramatically over my experience. What's different this time is Trump & Co firing 4,000 more GS. A district judge has halted that, but I expect that to be overturned eventually. I'm finding out about lots of obsure agencies and offices that do weird stuff that, to me, isn't a government function.

U.S. SOUTHCOM commander retires less than a year into tenure - UPI.com

Clinton/Gingrich shutdown back in early 1990s lasted 30+ days. We survived. Since then, so many people and programs have been added to the "not affected by a shutdown" list, that it's not really a shutdown. The high viz ones like military and ATC were not, I suspect deliberately. Gets headlines/clicks. Having been through that one and numerous others, it sucks. Especially for younger troops who don't make a lot to start with and then don't live very smartly to be able to absorb life's curves. Despite the MSM's best efforts, this is a Democrat-induced wound. How many clean CR's did Shumer and company vote for in the past? This isn't a cut; it was funding at the exact same levels as last fiscal year, at least until something for the rest of this fiscal year could be hammered out. Pure theatrics, of which both sides play their roles. Trump firing 4,000 more GSs' had to have hurt (I believe a district judge halted that, but those have nearly all gone the Administration's way eventually) the Democrats who didn't think he'd do it. If this continues to drag on past the oh-so-useful "No Kings" protest this coming weekend, I expect more firings. For those government employees who decide not to show for work even without a current paycheck and it's part of your contract, bye-bye. For the uniformed, it's a bit more serious. The not so much discussed flip side and hugely precedent setting, IMO, is Trump paying troops for the next pay period from non-personnel accounts in DoD. Allocating funds is a strictly Congressional role and they are content to let Trump abrogate that role because the optics would look bad to sue to not pay troops. All fun and games until the next time somebody decides to move money arbitrarily.

Trump begins mass layoffs of federal workers amid government shutdown

One ping only, Dmitri... (is all it takes).

So, one guy who has never run a large legal office, federal or state, says the head of the DOJ is unqualified. But that same head of DOJ has run a state DOJ, which is pretty substantial. Las head of DOJ was quite the liberal lawyer, but had never actually run anything. How'd that turn out? I also am unaware when the last time a sitting head of DOJ argued a case. That's what minions are for. In the end, only one opinion matters. The guy we elected by a fairly large margin chose her. Gnash your teeth all you want, but that's the reality. Until or if he changes his mind. That whole "serving at the pleasure of the President" gotcha thing.

Navy fires commanding officer of USS Wyoming

DOJ dropped the ball on not having a perp walk for Comey. Was satisfying seeing the mugshot. Now, let's see this hippo get perped walked and a mugshot. New York Atty. Gen. Letitia James indicted on fraud charge, source says

Certainly not a perfect record, but overall, I voted for this: Illegal border crossings drop to lowest level since 1970: ‘Most secure border in American history’ Kash Patel says FBI agents fired over monitoring GOP senators Trump's DC police takeover: What the crime stats show National Guard Exceeds 2025 Recruiting Goals | American Military News Comey pleads not guilty in court after indictment on alleged false statements, obstruction As to non-citizens serving in the Guard and how they feel about helping ICE, while I certainly can't know, I imagine most of them feel like those immigrants who came here the legal way - make the illegals earn their entrance. Dude who enlisted is paying his dues to get his citizenship. Why should someone else get a free ride?

And? One other point; nothing says sincerity/seriousness like the face-to-face interaction. Rather reinforces the point of the new sheriff in town operates differently so get on board or get out. Also, generals work for SECDEF & POTUS. If those offices chose to call generals in, said generals respond with "yes, sir." Pretty standard, I'd say. A maybe conspiracy thing is that this meeting was a cover for another purpose regarding upcoming actions.