What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Oexmelin]

It's only stupid if you want a functioning government. If you want to scuttle government, so that your friends' businesses can provide that service, or are no longer bound by regulations that can no longer be enforced, undermining government both through useless expenditures and loss of capacity is a great idea.

[viper37]

CalExit might become a reality after all.

[CountDeMoney]

If Trump is really freezing medicare that's going to turn on him real quick...

No, it won't.

[PRC]

It's only stupid if you want a functioning government. If you want to scuttle government, so that your friends' businesses can provide that service, or are no longer bound by regulations that can no longer be enforced, undermining government both through useless expenditures and loss of capacity is a great idea.

In the minds of guys like Musk it's harder to reform an institution to their liking than it is to just nuke the institution and treat the creation of a new version as a tech startup.  Easier to start a project from scratch than it is to fix a legacy project.

[CountDeMoney]

There can be a role for buyouts, and I'm open to the idea that there's room for a reduction in headcount in the US federal government.

But a blanket offer of buyouts is just fucking stupid until you know what cuts you want to make.  You could get half of some really vital workers taking the buyout, and almost none of the most useless workers taking them.

You are an absolute fucking moron shill, and I hope a large North American predatory mammal rips your fucking head off.

[Razgovory]

Why stab stupid people, when you can stab people who knew what would happen and maliciously let it happen anyway.  People who wanted to punish this country because it would not indulge their sectarian and racial hatreds.

Ah, you're picking the path of least resistance, the people you already hate.

Good to know you're not really different.

You are very weird.  You are upset that I don't like bad people, and instead want me to go after people like you, right-wing nationalists.

[Neil]

CalExit might become a reality after all.

There's no Clarity Act in the US.  There's no provision for a legal exit from the United States, and a history of it being strictly forbidden.

[HisMajestyBOB]

On the other hand, how many Federal workers actually believe the Trump admin will make good on those payments?

[viper37]

Why stab stupid people, when you can stab people who knew what would happen and maliciously let it happen anyway.  People who wanted to punish this country because it would not indulge their sectarian and racial hatreds.

Ah, you're picking the path of least resistance, the people you already hate.

Good to know you're not really different.

You are very weird.  You are upset that I don't like bad people, and instead want me to go after people like you, right-wing nationalists.

I would disagree they are people like me.  I have nothing in common with right wing ultra-religious people bent on ethnic cleansing and political violence.  You on the other end...

[viper37]

CalExit might become a reality after all.

There's no Clarity Act in the US.  There's no provision for a legal exit from the United States, and a history of it being strictly forbidden.

I know, I know. 

But as it is now, everything is in chaos.

Firing all Federal workers likely mean DoD workers too.  That means a cripple US Army, Navy and Airforce.  Who's gonna stop the seceding States this time?

[viper37]

There can be a role for buyouts, and I'm open to the idea that there's room for a reduction in headcount in the US federal government.

But a blanket offer of buyouts is just fucking stupid until you know what cuts you want to make.  You could get half of some really vital workers taking the buyout, and almost none of the most useless workers taking them.

You are an absolute fucking moron shill, and I hope a large North American predatory mammal rips your fucking head off.

Calm down.

Buying out the contract of an excess workforce can be a thing without referring to an extreme shutdown like your moronic President is doing.

[viper37]

On the other hand, how many Federal workers actually believe the Trump admin will make good on those payments?

I've read that by law, compensations can't be higher than 25k$.  Don't know if that's true.

[Grey Fox]

There can be a role for buyouts, and I'm open to the idea that there's room for a reduction in headcount in the US federal government.

But a blanket offer of buyouts is just fucking stupid until you know what cuts you want to make.  You could get half of some really vital workers taking the buyout, and almost none of the most useless workers taking them.

You are an absolute fucking moron shill, and I hope a large North American predatory mammal rips your fucking head off.

Calm down.

Sure, he gets the benevolent BB. 

[mongers]

There can be a role for buyouts, and I'm open to the idea that there's room for a reduction in headcount in the US federal government.

But a blanket offer of buyouts is just fucking stupid until you know what cuts you want to make.  You could get half of some really vital workers taking the buyout, and almost none of the most useless workers taking them.

You are an absolute fucking moron shill, and I hope a large North American predatory mammal rips your fucking head off.

 

[Valmy]

There can be a role for buyouts, and I'm open to the idea that there's room for a reduction in headcount in the US federal government.

But a blanket offer of buyouts is just fucking stupid until you know what cuts you want to make.  You could get half of some really vital workers taking the buyout, and almost none of the most useless workers taking them.

You are an absolute fucking moron shill, and I hope a large North American predatory mammal rips your fucking head off.

Damn.