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MSNBC cancels Joy Reid’s lefty show as network makes major shakeup The pendulum swings hard. This "lady" is a pure racist lunatic, maybe the rhetoric (on both sides), can start to die down...pipe dream I know.

That really sucks for you. And I mean that, a lot of really good people who've done a lot of really good work are going to go through this shitty process. Unfortunately there's no alternative. We have spent decades pretending like we are going to get things cleaned up, and in those decades the only thing that has happened is that things have gotten worse. We have gotten to the "shit or get off the pot" phase, and as much as I hate to see people like you in jeopardy, I am more concerned about my kids and their kids and their kids. We are on the unsustainable path that becomes more catastrophic the longer we are on it. Donald Trump is the most emblematic of this phenomenon. I truly wish we had someone better to lead us through this process, but he is the president specifically because everyone 'better' failed us. So now we're here.

Let us channel our inner Elons and marvel at how we’re at page 420 in the thread.

It's not Friday...but today is the day for the 80th Anniversary of the greatest picture ever taken...even if it's Marines

It wouldn’t have accomplished anything. The 5th time wouldn’t have accomplished anything. That’s how fucked the “damn near can’t fire fed civ” process is. I feel like not a lot of people realize how ridiculous it is.

The country is going off a cliff in 5th gear due to the debt and yet there are a lot of people arguing, "Let's drop down to 3rd gear. Too much chaos otherwise." How about we turn the car around or at least parallel to the cliff?

Yeah, used to keep tabs on the r/AirForce subreddit...stopped after I realized the same. It skews younger and shoe-clerk heavy. A few Commanders (allegedly) post there, but not a lot operational depth regardless. Their bitching about The Knife & Fat Tony would have been the same regardless of who the Commander was. A few good memes, but overall a waste of time She has 8 Air Medals...which is 8 more than CQ had. I haven't served with her, but that seems like an improvement over someone who couldn't even hit the 75% threshold and took the AAM as a consolation prize.

Yup, a shit show for sure. But 100 times better than Harris; I remain pleased with my Trump vote.

Meanwhile at Hellfire/JDAM/Griffin/SDB suppliers…

True....but in this case, a Kill is a Kill. I will allow it!

Enjoy it while it lasts. Your team is going to get all the crap the civilians do as additional duties. It’s all fun and games until you are appointed as the wing piss tester. Shrinking the workforce is a great thing. Doing it by cutting the youngest, most ambitious people without eliminating the dumb requirements is asinine. We are going to keep 60 year old Bob that has worked in XP for the last 40 years and fire a 20 year old that keeps your electricity on.

yeah I figured that but the axis of the Earth runs through the top of my cranium so I posted…

Put a bit of a dent in it last night celebrating.

Agree with everything else you said. Just highlighting this comment wildly simplifies a ridiculous process. It’s so far from being as simple as you just made it sound. I think it should be as easy as you made it sound, but that is far from reality.

All of this firing is so…heart warming.

Hydrate or die. Sometimes the right strategy is Shock and Awe. Helps dilute the weed. If you don’t have anything to hide, why wouldn’t you leave 10% of your body mass in the cup? Renewable hydro power is part of a liberal agenda. We need to reduce this to a trickle! You go to war with the bladder you have, not necessarily the bladder you want.

DOGE demands transparency at all levels… ALL LEVELS.

QUAG’s course shows S-V8I-PT (the ETCA code for IPT) which figures because he's going to CBM. The standard UPT 2.5 T6 course is coded to P-V4A-U. This Thursday, the AETC A5/8 said END will begin sending all studs through the IPT pipeline starting this October (and that DLF will do the same starting in July). Because you already have your PPL, maybe you got lucky and snagged a spot in one of the final "legacy" T6 classes.

To be clear, this isn't some brave act of non-compliance. There's no discord between admin officials here. DoD, DoS, and FBI are simply not under OPM purview, and are thus not obligated to respond.

Had a guy, useless POS, who showed up just enough to keep his health insurance, we shamed our supervisor into doing his job and start separation paperwork. When he did show up to work it was for free because he was so far in the hole, he had to pay Uncle Sam for keeping him on the payroll. Until Jan 20, the only way a Fed could get fired is not show up to work. I do feel empathy for the probationary guys let go, some of them waiting for years for a position to open up. But for the ones who were there because there was an open seat on the bus breathing oxygen that a productive human being can use, enjoy the private sector.

Been hearing about the debt my entire life with promises from Reagan on down to fix it. During that time the wealth divide increased and middle class families that could afford to have a parent at home have been disappearing. Real wages and purchasing power for normal Americans (not you or I) have gone down. Only a Democratic President balanced the budget and ran a surplus. Trump added more to the deficit before Covid with his cuts. The latest R funding bill adds more to the deficit. But wrap yourself in the "party of fiscal responsibility" while Trump wastes millions golfing more than Obama ever did.

Do we not do phrasing anymore?!

So you failed to FWA report them. Nice.

Some one else posted how Clinton did it. I'm in the private sector. I have laid off multiple people in my company, multiple times for bullshit reasons. So get fucked with your "you don't know what it's like" bullshit paternalism. You know when I work weekends I get compensated. If not me directly, at least the org charges hours, because we don't work for free. Then I/we get a bonus at some point. Again, this is the exact shit you all claimed to hate when you were AD with bad commanders/leaders. Didn't matter if someone else posted it from a different unit "sucks bro" or "here's how to avoid that, technique only." But now it's fine for some of you. The hypocrisy is real since the Fed employees can just be "the other." And if this was mission related she and her workforce would be there ASAP. But it's not. It's the same fuck fuck games many here claimed to hate.

I know this may seem strange to someone who's been in the government for a long time, but everything you're describing is just "life in the private sector." That's not to say this email or some of the other things they're doing are master classes in administrative procedure, but it's hard to disagree with the underlying goal when people complain about having to work on a weekend to read an email. Our government is bloated and inefficient. That means to fix it, there will be fewer people with .gov jobs. I hope that's not your wife, but it's going to be someone's wife. If you have friends in corporate America you should ask them about "unpaid" weekends and surprise layoffs. This has been very tame in comparison.

This is what i show.

AI? Interestingly I just saw an X post that they suspect some cases of dead/non-existent people (or at least non-existent at work ever, literally) on the fed payroll. In those cases there won’t be an answered email, or that’s the thought at least. I’m guessing cooler heads prevail and nobody on leave is getting fired, and in the end this is well-intentioned, but poorly executed with low SA on salient points like people on leave, traveling with limited email connectivity, people who actually are doing shit that matters instead of mouth breathing on email, etc.

Yea, so hard Left it makes me seriously despair for the future of this country.

So who's gonna read all the responses?

We are awaiting guidance on what to do from Agency leadership, so far nothing. I’m sure it’ll come Monday afternoon sometime giving little time to respond, oh btw I’m on leave and have no access to gov webmail, so I would have to drive an hour to the nearest facility to gain access, and I was on my scheduled bid leave all this past week so what would one say? I’m really really hoping everyone blows this off. Look man peeling you guys apart as a job sucks enough as it is, I may well lose my retirement after 16 years of doing this so I’m glad this is all working out for you. This is after serving in Mx and as Aircrew in the AF, I’ve done my time. Apologies, everyone is entitled to their opinions and votes, but we are straight up not having a good time right now. The dripping condescension from the DOGEbois is a bit much.

I received my training RIP for IPT. These are all the potential places you could go. The list is much longer than i originally thought. The first entry is Georgetown in Austin Tx. I'll keep everyone posted as i get more info. Nervously, QUAG

What a shit show.

Gen Brown banned Friday shirts which, while extremely unimportant, signaled the beginning of the asinine dress and appearance crackdown we are now in the midst of. I’m sure his firing has nothing to do with that and everything to do with the Trump admin’s anti-DEI posturing but I’m going to pretend it was causal as I crack another beer and laugh my ass off.

I think the current admin will exercise the right to return fire.

A number greater than 1 Still, this shit has got to stop, bullies respond to force and nothing more.

However, pretty good if you were/are a bear.

Brother it is smooth as silk. I've found the Weller Special Reserve to be very close to Pappy, only recently found out they use the same recipe but age for a shorter period of time (I stopped being a bourbon snob and became a rum snob about 10 years ago). I lucked into a few bottles of Weller at retail a while back, still have a few unopened in my bar. I will likely finish the pappy if they get a kill shot on Cat 5.

Second. https://www.jcs.mil/About/The-Joint-Staff/Chairman/General-Maxwell-Davenport-Taylor/

I got my final LES today after retiring as an O-6 with just short of 27 years, all active duty. So, I was able to add up my lifetime totals, which I thought some of you might find interesting: Base Pay = $2,209,000 BAH = $634,000 BAS = $71,000 Language Pay = $165,000 COLA & Family Sep = $185,000 Lifetime compensation = $3,265,000 For what it’s worth, my net worth (TSP, IRA, stocks, bonds, CDs) is $2.3M. My wife is a homemaker and we just bought our first house, so this is all long-term investing and living beneath our means. Pension will come to $104,000 a year and I’ll likely get 100% VA disability for another $50,000 a year tax free. Anyway, I’m sitting pretty well and figured it might inspire some of you to stick with your plan.

There is an entire difference between “Standards” and “meaningless hills to die on invented by some shoe clerk to give their career/position purpose.” The inability by senior leadership to even acknowledge that both are going on throughout ranks and services is exactly the kind of shit that causes you and others to stand dumbfounded at your warfighters and tactical leaders not simply toe the line because some anointed E9 from the second group tells you, “we’ve got a problem with discipline.” Stop inventing stupid standards and crush anybody that does so we can spend the energy on enforcement of standards where it god damn matters, Sir. The next time some E8/9 is doing uniform spot checks I’m going to make them conduct a log book recon because that will actually get somebody killed and is the job those crew dawgs are here to do, and they can in fact do it while wearing white socks *gasp/horror. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Enshallah.

(b) REQUIREMENT FOR APPOINTMENT.—(1) The President may ap- point an officer as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff only if the officer has served as— "(A) the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; "(B) the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, or the Com- mandant of the Marine Corps; or "(C) the commander of a unified or specified combatant command. (Goldwater-Nichols Act)

This is why American corporations going the DEI route was so poisonous. They planted the seeds for the general public to not trust who they are putting in the front of airplanes by openly stating they would prioritize immutable characteristics as part of their hiring practices. The crazy speculation and blow back you’re seeing on social media is a direct fault of their choices and actions in the post 2020 world. It will take a long time to reverse the distrust; and it may never go away since so many out there still worship at the altar of DEI.

Yes: join the Navy