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cactusflinthead

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  1. Peters’ job included replanting forests with young saplings, and he said he put in “100% effort all the time.” Supervisors were apologetic when they called to fire him, explaining that his name was on a list handed down by the federal Office of Personnel Management. A follow-up letter contained the same terse message that was sent to at least four colleagues in Peters’ roughly 40-person office, and 3,400 workers across the Forest Service: “The Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.” Peters feels betrayed by politicians he helped put in office. He voted for Trump in November, impressed by his vows to bolster the economy and slow immigration across the southern border. “If I had known that this was going to happen,” he said, “I wouldn’t have voted for him.” https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/02/trump-firings-hit-great-lakes-sea-lamprey-program-michigan-forestry/ The news came in an email from the acting administrator of his agency. It said that it would not be in the “public interest” to continue further employment, citing his performance, “For this reason, the Agency informs you that the Agency is removing you from your position,” the email further stated. Because they are concerned about possible retaliation and a likely appeal to the Merit Systems Protection Board, the couple asked WTOP not to use their names for this story. ___ The termination is complicated by the fact that last November they supported Donald Trump when he sought the White House for a second term. “I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,” he said. “We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.” https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/02/this-civil-servant-and-veteran-voted-for-trump-now-hes-out-of-a-job/ “The letters are willfully incorrect and to our belief in NTEU unlawful," Berman told NBC10. "They say essentially 'your ability, skills and performance do not make you a fit for federal employment. In addition, your performance is not up to par.' This is patently untrue. These are being all issued with the exact same wording to every single one of these probationary employees, whether they have just gotten out of training and had no performance metrics. Whether they have been here for almost their entire year and had very good performance appraisals." ___ “You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it,” McCabe said. “I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know? I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason." https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/philadelphia-irs-layoffs-firings-union-president-trump/4114738/
  2. GODDAMMIT drag his bullshit over to the proper thread. Don't engage that fuckhead. He's too lazy to find it for himself
  3. Stay on topic jackass. Or live up to what you said about staying out of CR
  4. Y'all we have a gerrymandering thread. I know it's a hard task to stay in focus when someone that said they weren't ever coming back to CR decides to be a distraction, but there's a lot of face eating happening and I would damn sure rather hear about that.
  5. Good to hear. It's a little annoying when I have to pay the same for a Dr. Pepper as I would for a beer.
  6. Noble Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman points out that nowhere are children more at risk from the proposed “savage” Medicaid cuts than in West Virginia, a state that voted overwhelmingly for President Trump — and where Medicaid provides health insurance for an astonishing 45% of children, the highest figure in the country. Doubling down on his idea that the cuts are savage, Krugman’s article addressing the Republican authorization is titled Cruel and Unusual. Krugman writes of what he characterizes as a perception among conservatives — especially MAGA conservatives — that they can “safely target [Medicaid] for cuts, because it’s mainly a program for inner city people of color. But that was never as true as people imagined and is definitely not true now. Again, consider West Virginia. It’s one of America’s most rural states and overwhelmingly — 90 percent — white. Yet as we’ve seen, it’s deeply dependent on Medicaid.”
  7. Graveyard don't lie.
  8. Apply that to the opinion leaders that fed the tree that grew Trump.
  9. What happened to the idea that the designated driver got to have their drinks free? Oh yeah. Money. So, take away the ability to have a sober driver to hang out with the drinkers and make it more expensive than a standard alcoholic drink. Yeah! That'll get the money out of them. Forget about having good food. Same old tendies and frozen fries are good enough. This is supposed to make them want to go out and fight through the anxiety inducing human cattle lot? They are unwilling to do it and I don't blame them one iota.
  10. Bullshit Welcome to the Iggy bin. I see there's a fresh pile. Won't be on my timeline for long.
  11. This scares the booze lobby very much. It's why we see occasional articles about Gen Z 'not having fun' or other bullshit spin. Gee, they don't see the appeal of going out to spend the little money they have on over priced drinks at a bar? Damn, that's terrible for your bottom line.
  12. Your absence was noted more than once. Welcome back
  13. Sauerhoff hid his IG. Huang goes into detail on the substack link in the NY Post story. Sauerhoff's MIL came by to try make peace, or that's what she claimed. Said her husband was a judge. It's in the substack. I'm on Huang's side. He asked the man to leash his dog. He says out of concern that his Dobie was getting bounced on. Huang is still available on his social media. Sauerhoff won't talk.
  14. Here's where I saw it yesterday
  15. It's on his IG. That's the best I can do on vetting it. I'm not fond of posting GoFundMe links. I don't know how to make more certain that it's legit. Edit: if someone has a way to contact him directly that would be great
  16. I lost a guy at work to a blown out aorta. Finding out why he wasn't able to be there that day was a shock. Henry got lucky
  17. https://www.instagram.com/canteatright/
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