The Next President is...

[Sua Sponte]

8 minutes ago, nsplayr said:

That sucks to hear. And never trust a Major haha. Just like Roman statues, we cover our pricks in gold (2d Lt and Maj) 😅

I was enlisted, a good majority of officers are retarded. 

[nsplayr]

6 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

I was enlisted, a good majority of officers are retarded. 

I am in the Tennessee Air National Guard…that checks 😆👍

[Sua Sponte]

1 minute ago, nsplayr said:

I am in the Tennessee Air National Guard…that checks 😆👍

Nah, I know the Knoxville -135 unit. Great bros. Now the Birmingham ANG......

[nsplayr]

9 minutes ago, Sua Sponte said:

Nah, I know the Knoxville -135 unit. Great bros. Now the Birmingham ANG......

 Not mutually exclusive, I know many great bros who are severely regarded. Some of the best in fact!

Edited Thursday at 04:49 AM by nsplayr

[nsplayr]

 

Say what you will about congestion pricing in NYC, he and his team created this image, this is not an actual magazine cover.

Does he know what happened to the last King of America??

 

Edited Thursday at 05:22 AM by nsplayr

[17D_guy]

3 hours ago, Lord Ratner said:

Good. Mail in voting is absurd, outside of it's original intent, and should not be conflated with early-voting, which is a good thing. 

Military and out-of-state only. 

Working fine for Oregon and Utah. But you can hate it reasons?

 

Also see you avoided the rest of that comment.

[Lord Ratner]

13 minutes ago, 17D_guy said:

Also see you avoided the rest of that comment

Am I required to comment on your every thought? 

 

I'm not nearly as interested in staffing or FOIA. 

 

The government spends more money, has more employees, and does more things than it ever has. Funny how people act like it's always operating right at the minimum. But we did less before, we can (and should) do less again.

[SocialD]

8 hours ago, brabus said:

@Sua Sponte Yep, all makes sense. The hard thing, as you’ve probably seen, is firing those shitty workers. It is a mountain to climb to build the requisite documentation for poor performance history, make the improvement plan, document them not meeting the plan, etc. A shitload of work to fire horrible workers - very frustrating. 

 

 

You know the system is fucked when it's much easier to fire a technician by non-retaining them militarily.  

[brabus]

11 hours ago, nsplayr said:

hope to god you don't supervise anyone with an attitude like this man. And why are uniformed service members so different? Are MSG towel handlers really that different? MX? Pilots? Why don't they "stop sucking on the gov tit and do something useful in the civ sector?"

You’re trying to compare the GS-X who sits on his ass all day producing nothing (except roadblocks to mission) to mil members who deploy, fight, directly support warfighters, etc? Completely invalid.

 I know you’ve worked with civs, not saying you haven’t, but your breath of experience is extremely shallow on this subject, or you just DGAF about all the waste, one of the two.

11 hours ago, nsplayr said:

That sucks to hear.

I agree with you on Sua’s situation. That’s primarily bullshit because Maj dipshit is at fault, but it’s not bullshit he was asked for justification. @Sua Sponte Highlighting the Maj’s fuck up to leadership won’t buy at least a review of what you provided?

 

11 hours ago, nsplayr said:

so instead of improving the process

Which has been shouted about and tried for our entire careers. Brick wall after brick wall. You act like nobody has thought of that. Shit is so wildly out of control, big action must be done now, not “let’s just keep trying/talking about it and maybe doing the same thing will yield different results in 10 or 15 years!” The problem has become so massive and widespread that we are way past scalpel territory. That is very unfortunate and I wish it wasn’t, but “we” created this monster and let it get out of control - the shit show wasn’t going to last forever (thank God) and now there will be some good people caught up in it. This applies to the entire fed gov,  not just DoD.
 

 

Edited Thursday at 03:45 PM by brabus

[brabus]

10 hours ago, nsplayr said:

Say what you will about congestion pricing in NYC, he and his team created this image, this is not an actual magazine cover.

Dumb move, I agree with you. File this in the category of “WTF were you thinking?!”

[Smokin]

Unfortunately, I doubt that the inability to fire government employees will be fixed ever.  There are so many intertwined rules, regulations, and laws and enough activist judges that feel no problem inserting themselves into things they have business being involved in.  You would almost have to can the entire system and start from scratch, which would probably be a good thing.

I know of GS employees that have been repeatedly caught falsifying time cards, yelling at their boss, showing up to work more than an hour late on a routine basis, and even overtly refusing to do their job because someone upset them.  One guy in my old unit was finally getting fired until state leadership found out that the employee was black.  State ordered the employee to be reinstated even after they were involved and approved of the all paperwork to fire him.

[brabus]

Here’s a good, quick explanation for why Trump is doing what he is WRT taking out the bureaucrat garbage, and why it’s legitimate. 

 

[BuddhaSixFour]

Cool. I expect republicans will 100% stand by this the next time a Democrat wins because they fully believe that civics lesson in their heart of hearts. 

[ClearedHot]

Word inside the beltway is CQ Brown and a few others get the axe tomorrow.  List likely includes CNO Admiral Lisa Franchetti.  Hoping Slife is on the list as well.

[McJay Pilot]

52 minutes ago, ClearedHot said:

Word inside the beltway is CQ Brown and a few others get the axe tomorrow.  List likely includes CNO Admiral Lisa Franchetti.  Hoping Slife is on the list as well.

Here’s hoping, but I believe it was Rainman that said “rule 1: there is no justice”

[Smokin]

3 hours ago, BuddhaSixFour said:

Cool. I expect republicans will 100% stand by this the next time a Democrat wins because they fully believe that civics lesson in their heart of hearts. 

Which democrat did Republicans previously complain about in the same manner that democrats are currently complaining Musk?  There were many officials that Republicans complained about being incompetent, over-reaching their authority, or just plain dumb, but I don't recall Republicans holding up signs saying "Buttigieg was not elected".

[BuddhaSixFour]

6 minutes ago, Smokin said:

Which democrat did Republicans previously complain about in the same manner that democrats are currently complaining Musk?  There were many officials that Republicans complained about being incompetent, over-reaching their authority, or just plain dumb, but I don't recall Republicans holding up signs saying "Buttigieg was not elected".

Cool. I expect republicans will 100% stand by this the next time a Democrat wins because they fully believe that civics lesson in their heart of hearts.

[brabus]

4 hours ago, BuddhaSixFour said:

Cool. I expect republicans will 100% stand by this the next time a Democrat wins because they fully believe that civics lesson in their heart of hearts. 

 Clinton did a good job with reducing the federal bureaucracy and getting finances under control. I hope Trump can accomplish the same feats regarding these topics.

[Chicken]

You can fire them.  Or at least have a hand in it.  In 2008 we had our secretary fired.  It was called PIP at the time.  Performance improvement Process and revolved around helping them improve.  If I remember it was a 6 month process with feedback EVERY WEEK.  A lot of work and why it never gets done.  Most folks are in a job for a year at most then move on to the next thing and don't want to invest in the PIP process.

I personally got tired of her giving me wrong info which caused me to show up to meeting late or not all all with the Wing CC over and over.  Luckily he knew she was retarded as well.

[bcuziknow]

Wow sounds like the entire workforce is horrendous and we should just turn the entire business over to pilots to run it all! Pretty simple solution.

oh wait I forgot, they do own and run it all…my bad

Edited 20 hours ago by bcuziknow

[BashiChuni]

19 hours ago, ClearedHot said:

Word inside the beltway is CQ Brown and a few others get the axe tomorrow.  List likely includes CNO Admiral Lisa Franchetti.  Hoping Slife is on the list as well.

The knife on that list?!?! 👀 

edit: damn read your post wrong though you were saying he was. Here’s to hoping!!!

Edited 17 hours ago by BashiChuni

[BashiChuni]

16 hours ago, brabus said:

 Clinton did a good job with reducing the federal bureaucracy and getting finances under control. I hope Trump can accomplish the same feats regarding these topics.

 

[disgruntledemployee]

22 hours ago, brabus said:

Here’s a good, quick explanation for why Trump is doing what he is WRT taking out the bureaucrat garbage, and why it’s legitimate.

So if Kamala had won and put Soros in a DOGE like job, that's OK?

As to the civics lesson, I wonder what happens when the Executive fails to execute the budget passed by Congress? 

[gearhog]

LOLOLOLOLOL. OMG

https://x.com/WarClandestine/status/1893016797118427203

[brabus]

18 minutes ago, disgruntledemployee said:

So if Kamala had won and put Soros in a DOGE like job, that's OK?

The only thing this type of statement says is you’re against improving financial transparency, cutting FWA, improving financial systems operation, increasing accountability, reducing bloated federal spending, and reducing the deficit. Or if you tell me you’re not against those things, then you’re simply being a partisan hack throwing a tantrum because your team isn’t the one doing the work. The good news is you can choose to stop being a partisan hack and acknowledge when something good is done, regardless of who did it. A good example of this is me throwing Clinton props where props are due, even though I don’t align with him on many other things. Now you try…