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rodoheel said:
Ah yes, the "century-long era of progressive government" that has turned America into a third-world hellscape. Wait - what's that? It's actually been the most successful and prosperous period of American history? Nevertheless, clearly it must end.
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Progressive government is bad and "liberal" is a dirty word. Government should only benefit the wealthy (and those willing to follow them). If you disagree, you're a communist. Or is it a fascist? It's confusing. Whatever, you should believe what you're told.
 
rodoheel said:
Ah yes, the "century-long era of progressive government" that has turned America into a third-world hellscape. Wait - what's that? It's actually been the most successful and prosperous period of American history? Nevertheless, clearly it must end.
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That is simply fucking insane, and ought to terrify anybody about what they're actually planning here. And now that they control more and more of our social and news media they can promote this propaganda on a larger scale than ever before. I will say one thing for right-wingers, they never, ever give up and they are incredibly tenacious and persistent. These people have been fighting the New Deal for nine decades now, have never really surrendered to it, and are now finally in a position to abolish most of it. Hell, there are even discussions of abolishing progressive reforms enacted by Teddy Roosevelt 120 years ago. They just don't stop. And unfortunately most Americans are clueless and just keep smiling and complacently saying "it surely won't be that bad, it wasn't last time."
 
Surprised this dropped to the second page. They go after social security and that will F a lot of people! Not sure the price of eggs will matter much at that point.
 
DiehardHeelFan said:
Surprised this dropped to the second page. They go after social security and that will F a lot of people! Not sure the price of eggs will matter much at that point.
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They’ll go after Medicaid first. Social Security Disability payments will be next. EBT. We’ll see rampant claims about fraud….especially “illegal immigrants” getting freebies.

Then we’ll hear claims that Obamacare is stealing from Medicare to fund healthcare for “illegal immigrants” and transgender sex change surgery, especially for convicted felons and “illegal immigrants.” So, Medicare cuts. The Trumplicans facing lack of coverage and care will blame Democrats.
 
Zoo_View said:
They’ll go after Medicaid first. Social Security Disability payments will be next. EBT. We’ll see rampant claims about fraud….especially “illegal immigrants” getting freebies.

Then we’ll hear claims that Obamacare is stealing from Medicare to fund healthcare for “illegal immigrants” and transgender sex change surgery, especially for convicted felons and “illegal immigrants.” So, Medicare cuts. The Trumplicans facing lack of coverage and care will blame Democrats.
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There are an awful lot of Trumpers that are on Medicare and Medicaid. Elon is incredibly naive about how government budgeting works. Cutting entitlements is basically politically impossible, especially with a two-vote majority in the House.
 
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Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.

While Trump’s national popular-vote margin was just under 1.5%, his margin in news deserts was massive. He won these counties by an average of 54 percentage points. In the few won by Harris, her margin was a comparatively slim 18 points, the analysis shows.

The findings are based on results from 193 of the 206 counties Medill has identified as news deserts, in states where county-level election results are currently available. The third annual State of Local News report, released by Medill’s Local News Initiative in October, documented the continuing decline of local news across the country, as measured by the number of newspapers, circulation, frequency of publication, employment and readership.…”

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In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide

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But they aren’t propaganda deserts, they just are professional local news deserts. These places have Fox and OAN and Joe Rogan and the entire “citizen journalist” info-sphere at their fingertips.

The old truism that “All politics is local” is collapsing in the post-truth era.
 
ZenMode said:

Musk, Ramaswamy eyeing federal remote work policies to help slash $2T from budget​


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Musk, Ramaswamy eyeing federal remote work policies to help slash $2T from budget

Work from home policies came under fire from Elon Musk as he and Vivek Ramaswamy took their plans to reduce government waste to the floors of Congress Thursday.
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Translation: Musk and Vivek want to make working for the federal government so miserable and unappealing that employees will quit in droves and no one will want to replace them
 
ZenMode said:
Make it miserable how?
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In this particular example, by eliminating the flexibility and autonomy that comes with full or partial remote work, which almost all employees in white-collar industries are now looking for to some degree. And many federal employees have gotten used to it as part of their jobs. Example: I have a couple law school classmates who work at the USPTO. Currently, after a couple years in DC, trademark examiners are able to work remotely from virtually anywhere in the US. (That policy long predates COVID.) That is a very attractive benefit, because a lot of people don't want to work in DC, and there's no real practical reason why they need to. Telling them they're all going to lose their jobs unless they move back to DC to work in a specific office is going to cause many of them to quit, and make it much harder to attract trademark examiners in the future.

But don't ask me - Vivek himself has been very transparent about the fact that he is hoping that forcing federal employees to work in an office full-time will result in large numbers of them quitting. They know it's very difficult to fire large numbers of government employees (and rightfully so) so they're hoping to just force them to quit instead. They'll basically treat federal workers like Milton in Office Space - just keep degrading them and making their jobs worse by degrees in hope that they'll eventually get the message and just quit.
 
rodoheel said:
In this particular example, by eliminating the flexibility and autonomy that comes with full or partial remote work, which almost all employees in white-collar industries are now looking for to some degree. And many federal employees have gotten used to it as part of their jobs. Example: I have a couple law school classmates who work at the USPTO. Currently, after a couple years in DC, trademark examiners are able to work remotely from virtually anywhere in the US. (That policy long predates COVID.) That is a very attractive benefit, because a lot of people don't want to work in DC, and there's no real practical reason why they need to. Telling them they're all going to lose their jobs unless they move back to DC to work in a specific office is going to cause many of them to quit, and make it much harder to attract trademark examiners in the future.

But don't ask me - Vivek himself has been very transparent about the fact that he is hoping that forcing federal employees to work in an office full-time will result in large numbers of them quitting. They know it's very difficult to fire large numbers of government employees (and rightfully so) so they're hoping to just force them to quit instead. They'll basically treat federal workers like Milton in Office Space - just keep degrading them and making their jobs worse by degrees in hope that they'll eventually get the message and just quit.
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And if all those workers do decide to come back to the office, it’s going to be a serious challenge to fit them into existing space.
 
rodoheel said:
In this particular example, by eliminating the flexibility and autonomy that comes with full or partial remote work, which almost all employees in white-collar industries are now looking for to some degree. And many federal employees have gotten used to it as part of their jobs. Example: I have a couple law school classmates who work at the USPTO. Currently, after a couple years in DC, trademark examiners are able to work remotely from virtually anywhere in the US. (That policy long predates COVID.) That is a very attractive benefit, because a lot of people don't want to work in DC, and there's no real practical reason why they need to. Telling them they're all going to lose their jobs unless they move back to DC to work in a specific office is going to cause many of them to quit, and make it much harder to attract trademark examiners in the future.

But don't ask me - Vivek himself has been very transparent about the fact that he is hoping that forcing federal employees to work in an office full-time will result in large numbers of them quitting. They know it's very difficult to fire large numbers of government employees (and rightfully so) so they're hoping to just force them to quit instead. They'll basically treat federal workers like Milton in Office Space - just keep degrading them and making their jobs worse by degrees in hope that they'll eventually get the message and just quit.
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The company I work for had some difficulty getting people back in the office, but it eventually gets worked out. Many of our clients are bringing people back to the office. We implemented a work from home policy that is performance based. I don't necessarily mind full-time remote work as long as there is accountability. Accountability is often lacking in government jobs.

If they want to go to work from home, then get rid of the buildings or at least drastically scale back the on-site seats. Having a desk for each work from home employee is a waste.
 
ZenMode said:
The company I work for had some difficulty getting people back in the office, but it eventually gets worked out. Many of our clients are bringing people back to the office. We implemented a work from home policy that is performance based. I don't necessarily mind full-time remote work as long as there is accountability. Accountability is often lacking in government jobs.

If they want to go to work from home, then get rid of the buildings or at least drastically scale back the on-site seats. Having a desk for each work from home employee is a waste.
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I have no problem with downsizing federal government office space. What I have a problem with is a blanket policy of forcing every government worker (or the vast majority of them) back into full-time, in-person work, which is expressly intended to make working for the government less attractive.
 
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