THE ERA OF TRUMP

[StCapps]

Is capps accepting reality yet?

What reality is that?

The one where I am holding ice chunks, Jackie.

You ain't on the Titanic chicken little. Simmer down.

[Okeefenokee]

Is capps accepting reality yet?

What reality is that?

The one where I am holding ice chunks, Jackie.

[TheReal_ND]

WASHINGTON—The administration plans to lift the federal hiring freeze that has been in place for the past three months but claims that hiring more workers would downsize the federal government, which was seen as a central piece of President Donald Trump’s pledge to “drain the swamp.”
“The government reorg is probably the biggest story nobody is talking about,” Mick Mulvaney, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said in a briefing with reporters on Tuesday. “We’re trying to do something that’s never* been done.”
Mr. Mulvaney said the federal government would lift the hiring freeze on Wednesday. Agencies will be able to hire again, but will allegedly be required to submit plans for making themselves leaner.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-to-l ... 1491966001
If paywall have archive for free
https://archive.is/lcF5C

[Fife]

Oh you meant that Drain the Swamp.

[Okeefenokee]

A hiring freeze can't go on forever. The attrition is pretty fast. We talked about this when it started. Wasn't it somewhere in the millions of employees?

So they cut tons of jobs and then say you can start hiring again, but you have rules for your new hires.

How does everyone else think it was supposed to go?

This is gaslighting.

[Fife]

Gaslighting? Meh. Maybe, if there is anyone out there that actually believed that some reduction in government was IRL going to happen. Nobody's really that gullible, are they?

[Martin Hash]

Gaslighting? Meh. Maybe, if there is anyone out there that actually believed that some reduction in government was IRL going to happen. Nobody's really that gullible, are they?

Me.

I think Trump was on course until his subversion. Took less than 100 days to pacify him.

[TheReal_ND]

I shilled for a president who has Saudi cock up his ass and didn't even get payed.

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/trump-sa ... 67300.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... o-saudi-a/

[Okeefenokee]

Gaslighting? Meh. Maybe, if there is anyone out there that actually believed that some reduction in government was IRL going to happen. Nobody's really that gullible, are they?

If there really was a hiring freeze for three months, then I'd say the reduction already happened. The question is will it last after the freeze is lifted, and the freeze was always going to be lifted. Reducing the government doesn't mean we are going to reduce until we're Somalia.

So the issue is how does it work after the freeze is lifted. How is the administration seeing that the numbers don't shoot right back up to where they were? But unlike it seems is being implied or stated, that the freeze is being lifted is not evidence of anything.

[TheReal_ND]

Mr. Mulvaney, who represented South Carolina in the House and described himself Tuesday as a “former right-wing member of Congress,” said that he remained confident that Republicans and Democrats could reach bipartisan agreement on areas of improving government. He said Mr. Trump’s determination to get the task done would help him where others, including Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, tried and made limited headway.
Mr. Mulvaney said he was inviting ideas with an open mind, and that Mr. Trump and the administration aimed to remake the federal government as if they were starting from scratch, without being tied to precedent or budget processes.
“This is a big part of draining the swamp,” said Mr. Mulvaney. “What you’re talking about doing is restructuring Washington, D.C. and that is how you drain the swamp… This is a centerpiece of his campaign and a centerpiece of his administration.”

Kill the beast.