Yeah a lot of dip / foreign service folks expect to drift in and out of government in response to political tides. The next D president will get a LOT of resumes from experienced people who were pushed out in the Trump years.
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
especially if the incoming administration makes it a point to re-emphasize the importance of federal employees, offers pay raises, better career ladder opportunities, new hiring aimed at people coming out of college, etc.
xp
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
I think it will be easier than many might think. There are still literally tens of thousands of career employees in all of these departments.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
also yes, on the question of the phone: I can hear my mother in law every single time shje calls my wife. My wife sometimes just sets the phone down, not on speaker, because she's shouting everything. This is fucking obvious.
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:50 (four years ago) link
whole binders of women
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:51 (four years ago) link
Does this fed get any credit for NOT getting pushed out based on my incredible ability to avoid bubbles bursting by always zagging when the rest go zig? A: No I will get new bosses and they will be really in love with how smart they are and ready to shake things up
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
you get credit from ex-feds, which is worth about 1/1000th of regular fed credit rates
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
At least the next admin seems unlikely to openly embrace any old Google or Facebook imagineer who shows up to disrupt government
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
personally, i'm already preparing my explanation for what i was doing in the trump years by pointing out that i was gaining valuable experience in the private sector, gaining new and rising buzzwords that i can distribute throughout the federal sector
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
I totally listen to my mom with the phone a foot away from my ear (but not on speaker phone). To Trump: "If it's too quiet, you're too old!"
Meanwhile, this was cute:
The more things change... pic.twitter.com/wZd6CsGxNW— Charlie Sykes (@SykesCharlie) November 20, 2019
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
hearing's back on.
sorry - is there an impeachment thread we can use? i feel like we keep hopping to Impeach Trump Y/N but then it inevitably ends up back here
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:07 (four years ago) link
As was easily predictable, for the time being impeachment hearings comprise about 97% of national politics right now. That's ok, because the split Congress and upcoming election year ensured that nothing whatsoever was going to be done in DC this session, except maybe passing a continuing resolution to fund the government.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
What do u guys think of fiona hill?
― treeship., Thursday, November 21, 2019 12:35 PM
she a boss imo
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
SHUT THE FUCK UP JIM JORDAN
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link
these two make Jordan and Nunes look like unbelievable bumbling clowns
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
god, he's such an asshole. he routinely starts his "questioning" with a loud, obnoxious confrontation that isn't clear, which requires the witness to ask what the fuck he's asking about. and then before they can even answer, he launches into another misleading tirade. stfu paragon of privilege
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
the most tooly tools that ever tooled
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
Holmes has much more patience than I would have
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
I imagine when Jordan was a wrestling coach he didn't touch his students, he bodyslammed them with his voice.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
Jordan is awful
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:01 (four years ago) link
what a fucking joke he is. and he's the mercenary brought in to this committee by republicans because he's so much more talented then they are
LOL
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
can't they hold jordan in contempt or throw his ass out or something?
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
jordan's only "skill" is his ability to be a relatively handsome middle aged white man with a tone of voice and demeanor that fools even dumber people into thinking he must have some sort of coherent point. he's been coasting on that shit since day 1
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link
fucking pathetic
" a relatively handsome middle aged white man" I think you need glasses
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
I have to assume that many GOP politicians have strategically spent very little time in the company of those with the ability and the wherewithal to put them in the hospital because that is almost certainly where they would otherwise be.
Rand Paul clearly needed some tips in this regard.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:05 (four years ago) link
re: Jordan, i've never been able to get past the no-jacket thing, what an absolute cheesedick.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
his ability to be a relatively handsome middle aged white man
have you ever been fucked by a middle aged white man
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
Tip 482: Don't ever interact with your neighbor, as you've almost certainly done something to infuriate them by dint of your existence.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link
This describes Pence too
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:09 (four years ago) link
haha Fiona HIll saying "sorry most government leaders hate Trump"
― akm, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Mike Pence has a voice and demeanor?
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
Did you forget to pull his string? Common mistake.
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link
his anti-evolution speech on floor of Congress always springs to mind 1st when I think of him, check it out it's p infuriating
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
I would never have thought to describe Jordan as "relatively handsome," due to the fact that he never stops making his "I'm a tough guy" face.
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― A breezy pop-rock feel fairly typical of the mid-'80s (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link
As I added the word “relatively” to my list before, I thought, “this will help”
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
You're canceled, Karl.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:22 (four years ago) link
Finally, I can join the greatest shows of the late 1980s, the only place where I belong! As my final request, I would like to know who the relatively handsome middle aged members of Congress are. In the GOP.
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
One of them wants to wrestle with you.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:26 (four years ago) link
Jim Jordan looks like Dexter if he gave up killing people and became an aggravated 6th grade math teacher with prolapsed hemorrhoids
― Jordan Pickford LOLverdrive (Neanderthal), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:28 (four years ago) link
I've been listening to a lot of these hearings, but I always always always have to turn it off a few rounds into member questions because the GOP questioning is so offensive to logic and coherence. It's not even a political reaction, it just makes my brain hurt.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:30 (four years ago) link
As my final request, I would like to know who the relatively handsome middle aged members of Congress are. In the GOP.
― Peaceful Warrior I Poser (Karl Malone), Thursday, November 21, 2019 1:24 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Time to have ol' Darryl Worley deliver a rousing version of 'Have You Forgotten?'
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― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
This Dr. Wenstrup guy...
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
Hill seems to be having a "I've had enough" moment, albeit while calm and collected.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Turner was as bad as Jordan
― Dan S, Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:38 (four years ago) link
Richard III!
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link
re: Jordan's tough guy face
this facial expression
― they see me lollin' (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
Richard III and A$AP Rocky -- truly a world-historic impeachment.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
old lunch is canceled for reminding me of cruzbeard
― american bradass (BradNelson), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:40 (four years ago) link
AKA the Soupcatcher
― War Crimes Tribunal of the Network Stars (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link