Trump Brings Back ‘Diet Coke Button’ At The Oval Office.
As Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for his second, non-consecutive term, so did the highly popular Diet Coke button, which the US President uses to order his favourite beverage.
Inside a wooden box, the red button was seen on Trump’s resolute desk after his inauguration ceremony on January 20, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Whenever pressed, the button notifies the butlers at the White House that a Diet Coke is needed at the Oval Office. Trump’s predecessor, Joe Biden, removed the button from the office in 2021.
USA! USA! USA!
YEAAAAAH, BROTHER!
“All your works will be thrown over, your lands asunder. Washington DC will be haunted by the desert owl and the screech owl, the great owl and the raven. For my Father will measure that land carefully; he will measure it for chaos and destruction.”
This was almost today’s Hat and Hair.
Another SoCal fire
Fortunately not a very populated area.
Trump reads that and shouts out “Bend over Doug! Verbal contract!” (yeah yeah — the wife can’t lock the husband in… it is funnier this way, okay?)
So as it was written, so shall it be!
Does that make Kamala a sex trafficker?
cuck?
Oh, she’d sit in the hotel room chair to watch Doug getting railed. (Donald don’t bottom for anyone.)
More like a Domme whoring out her little sissy bitch, for the lulz.
Naw, Kamala has no future so Doug ain’t gonna take no more guff from her. She’s gonna get the Emhoff Special Slap now.
It will be like when Blondie told Tuco that he won’t ever be worth a big bounty again.
Not normally the sort of gossip I’d give the time of day — but in the context of her putting him to other uses here, this is kind of funny.
We dodged a bullet on the Harris quote
Oh, it’ll rear its head majestically, soon enough.
“It” can mean many things, here. So can every other word. Patience! Tumescence before the froth! Honestly, I can’t wait. What a tragically poor choice of words for her. Tragically comedic, like beating a c̵l̵o̵w̵n̵ ̵p̵o̵l̵i̵t̵i̵c̵i̵a̵n̵ ̵c̵u̵n̵t̵ cunte with a baseball bat.
That’s a great song, one I don’t hear very often.
I’m listening to Ron Paul’s Liberty Report, he’s fangirling over Trump. I guess *IT’S HAPPENING* for real this time.
That says something. I’m troubled about the cartel thing, but otherwise he’s proceeding as if he means it this time.
The entire Valley Girl soundtrack is full of great songs. And the movie itself is in my top ten.
We have the DVD and it gets broken out with some regularity.
I have the flipper DVD, where one side is wide screen and the other is 4:3. It’s like an artifact from a lost civilization.
I have a lot of those. 😳 Still work fine.
DVDs have been surprisingly durable. And almost none of Laser rot that plagued Laserdisc. (DVD delamination is usually due to bad storage conditions.)
SugarFree:
True. I’ve only had a handful of commercial DVD’s stop reading. The older DVDR/DVDRW discs failed at a much higher rate.
There are DVDR/W that are more stable, but the format is pretty much dead for extended data storage.
It’s featured prominently in ‘Valley Girl’, along with this gem:
https://youtu.be/1C_fVnE3xHY?feature=shared
Or I could refresh and see SugarFree’s comment.
Damn, another classic.
I’ve never seen that movie. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
+1
I wonder if Barron has any athletic ability. It would be hilarious to see a sitting President’s son playing defensive end for a college football team.
Defensive end? Make him the QB, and get the Secret Service coaching the refs on roughing calls.
I get a “Golf and Tennis” vibe off the guy
Soccer player I believe.
Soccer, really? I played, and was on the tall side at 5’7″.
lol that would be short these days, at least in this country. Same as tennis, the average has gone through the roof.
Barron will be the Gregor Clegane of the House of Trump.
That’s Gawd Emperor Barron to you.
Son of Muad Don?
He looks more suited to basketball, I would think.
With his height, basketball. Doesn’t really have the build for football.
Were he Obama’s kid, the film would already be in fucking post-production.
In it, I’d love to see Barack Jr forced to use the shotgun over and over to save the day. He’d be carried off the field a champion, all to bolstering cheers from the crowd. It’d be fun to see Lefties chanting for firearm ownership and their proper use in formation.
Ahhh, great memories of Valley Girl. What a terrific movie and that song still holds up wonderfully.
Thanks, SF!
Whenever pressed, the button notifies the butlers at the White House that a Diet Coke is needed at the Oval Office.
I wonder if they are kept at a specified temperature.
While I favor Coke Zero, on both I think the key is to have them at the temp where about a third of it turns to slush when you crack the can. (That’s how I keep my office fridge.)
What on earth is the difference between Diet ___ and ___ Zero? Other than marketing?
Flavor.
Zero tastes more like sugar coke. Diet is its own taste.
Just a degree or two above freezing.
when I drove a truck for Coke we were told 34 sells more
Just applied for a passport renewal.
Took longer to get a good picture from the guy at CVS than to file the paperwork.
The picture isn’t good, but it’s valid. Maybe if it were of a less ugly potato faced mug.
Its ok, some Bobs are better looking than others, not your fault
Takin’ the North-West passage to Honey Harvest this year?
I’m debating a lot of things. But having a valid passport keeps options open.
I didn’t smile in mine and I had just gotten a haircut. My wife said I looked like an Eastern Bloc spy.
Remembers meeting Tundra for the first time…
Tundra begging for the full body cavity search …
Sounds like she was fishing for some role playing.
Niet, border guards love Roubles and apple cake.
I could totally see that LOL
In the 90s/early ‘00s I still had a head of black hair and a full beard. My driver’s license photo came out . . . swarthy. After 9/11, more than one person said there was no way they were letting me on a plane looking like that.
That spurned dirty thoughts of Eastern spies in me, as well…
I am excited to get a new passport photo, but I have to wait 18 months. My pic is just…dreadful. Embarrassingly so. Yuckers. I *did* recently get a new driver’s ID and my visage greatly pleases me. Just a face of seething contempt. Don’t know what ‘inspired’ it, but I’m pleased it came about. I *am* dreadful at posing.
All your works will be thrown over, your lands asunder.
If God went full Old Testament on Washington, DC, Jericho-style, do we commence rescue and recovery operations or just give thanks to the Almighty and quit while we’re ahead?
I figure it be like Sodom and Gomorrah, basically nuked. The whole point would be no survivors.
Rubio would survive, though — he’s a pillar of proposed SALT III treaty negotiations.
I thought that was why California was on Fire…
Oh, the humanity!
Having more federal employees work from the office has long been a focus of Republicans.
“Service backlogs and delays, unanswered phone calls and emails, and no-show appointments are harming the health, lives, and aspirations of Americans,” Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst wrote in a report released late last year.
In that report, Ernst claimed that only 6% of federal workers work in-person full time, while one-third work fully remotely.
Something something phony baloney jobs.
The entire Valley Girl soundtrack is full of great songs. And the movie itself is in my top ten.
It’s like totally tripindicular, dude.
In high school we didn’t get MTV until our senior year. When we were juniors, we’d religiously watch Night Tracks on TBS. Night Tracks was basically a 2 hour show of videos just like MTV would be.
I say that to set up why anyone in my high school would giggle and mock the Plimsouls.
One weekend we were watching Night Tracks and they kept hyping a song by the Plimsouls. Us prairie skulkers had never heard of the Plimsouls before so we kept waiting and waiting. I don’t know what song it was, but it was underwhelming and from then on the Plimsouls were a running joke in my school.
You can have California-style governance, or you can have the other kind.
Choose wisely.
I’m still hoping once we’re out of the Trump Effect, DeSantis will get a shot at the national chair. JD has looked really good since being selected Veep — but Ron’s proven competence working within a political system for some time now. He just evidently didn’t have the spark to even vaguely compete with The Big Orange.
But yeah — if I could swap him for Hair Gel, I certainly would. Unfortunately, I’m decidedly in a minority voting bloc in Kahlifornia.
that’s a lot of fucking snow
But… but then we wouldn’t have gay porn in the school libraries though?!
Trump has long argued that his administration should have greater flexibility in appointing people who will faithfully carry out his agenda and firing those who won’t.
That’s grotesque.
Does that guy think he’s the head of the executive branch or something?
It’s the duty of everyone in an executive branch agency to strongly oppose anything a Republican president does, in a completely neutral and nonpartisan way.
Uffda. A school administrator shows some discretion and now local cops want him charged because he didn’t respect their authority!
I’d love to know more about the students and the fight. The loser of the fight did get a concussion and need some stitches.
Did the vice principal cover things up because they were a couple knuckleheads who were mostly OK kids and didn’t need a felony on their record? Or was the kid with the knuckles from a “protected class”?
The kid with the knuckles is lucky he didn’t accidentally kill the other kid. Those things are serious shit.
Any head injury can be dangerous. There was a big to do locally when a fight between two drunks outside a bar ended with one guy falling, hitting his head, and dying. I think it eventually went for involuntary manslaughter.
They outlawed them in AZ after somebody got killed in Phoenix by some dumbass kids (from a “good” neighborhood and “good” families) on one of their wilding sprees, which were apparently not infrequent.
*Unblinking eyes firmly fixed. Walks backwards. Disappears through hedges.*
Knuckledusters are deadly force by themselves. If someone attacked me with knucks, I’d bypass the OC and grappling and go right to shooting them.
Do they actually have five eyewitnesses?
I think I’m having an ocular migraine – I’m getting auras / kaleidoscope vision, albeit mostly in one eye it seems.
I don’t care for it.
At what point should I get concerned?
Right now, IMO.*
*I’m not an optician.
Fading already, I think. So I’ve got that going for me.
Ay head shots lately? Falls?
Nope. Just had some sort of cold/sore throat start up so maybe related.
Or just entropy reminding me that the cold, cold grave awaits us all.
One of those two.
Definitely one of the two.
You might try some real dramamine.
Advil Migraine clears those up before you have to go lie down in a dark room. Very effective. I suffer from those periodically, during Spring.
*rubs eyes*
I read that as “Avril Lavigne”.
I get an AARP card in the mail and I start falling apart.
You ain’t seen nothing yet.
buh buh buh baby?
Depends on what you mean by “concerned”. Would I take a Claritin (because mine are allergy triggered) and some Advil right now to try to stave it off? Yeah.
Would it concern me beyond that (or worst case spending some time puking up my guts if it gets really bad)? No… but I get these quite often. Been fighting one through this past weekend, in fact. I blame the almond orchards around me.
Hope it is transitory and you get through it, Slumbrew.
Already just about gone, thankfully.
I know people get these all the time, just concerning as a newbie.
Understandable. They’re really fun when you’re driving across the country too — because then you’re split between worrying you’ll get a blind spot and hit something or you’ll have to stop on the side of the highway and puke your guts out. Yay! (Fortunately, once I hit Utah or around Flagstaff (I-80 vs. I-40) the air quality gets a lot better and I tend to be okay).
Glad yours is dying down… not something I wish on anyone else.
Mine was vertigo for awhile. That was scary as hell.
Happily it appears to not like the altitude here.
Ugh, I had vertigo for a while last year. That sucks.
Worse was for a friends wedding – had vertigo in the morning, cleared up that evening, spent the evening drinking way too much wine.
Next morning, vertigo back with a vengeance – wine hangover and vertigo are a terrible combination.
The Epley maneuver did seem to help.
About 10 years ago I started having those. It really freaked me out. Then I found out those are migraine symptoms, and you can have that happen without a headache. At the time I was at a very stressful job, so I had them every few days, now it’s only once a year or so. I’m not currently dead, so for me it was appropriate to not be concerned.
If you were currently dead and posting updates — I think we’d be the ones who would have to be concerned.
Then again… there’s Pie — and he seems relatively harmless for an undead…. so maybe not.
If TOK was currently dead, but still posting updates, I would ask him who his political party connection was.
He’d switch to democrat, like everyone else who dies.
I have those occasionally. They’re not dangerous. Do you have high blood pressure?
Borderline and 120/80 on meds.
Being sick might have spiked your pressure a bit. They typically last about 20 minutes followed by a dull headache for a few hours that nothing fixes.
It _does_ seem to be following that path.
Thanks, Spud!
No prob. If it starts recurring, give your doc a call.
Dude, you won’t fucking believe this, but I just, like this morning, got out of the hospital for this. I went to the eye doctor Monday for a floater in my vision, from there straight to the ER when my blood pressure nearly broke the machine. I admitted with something like 270/150.
Have I ever mentioned how much I hate hospitals?
If your blood pressure is managed and they’re not recurrent, probably not dangerous, but they can be a sign of high inter-cranial pressure, which is never good. So, I dunno. My best advice is, “Please don’t die.”
Yikes! Welcome back.
Damn dude!
I go annually for an eye check up. Almost every year they remind me that any sudden changes in vision should be checked asap.
Whoa, surprised your eyes weren’t as bugged out as Adam Schiff’s.
Yow! Glad you’re doing OK.
I suspect Spud was right – BP spike due to illness (damn Legoland).
Feeling fine now.
morning thread RE: retasking fed DEI staff…
Pope Jimbo on January 22, 2025 at 9:14 am
How about we put them all on stationary bikes all day? We could harvest electricity and call it a green energy project.
Giant hamster wheels. Otherwise, Yes.
Holy shit, hearing some quotes from the woke lady bishop lecturing of Donald.
“Lesbians and trannies are scared for their lives…”
“And the people who pick your vegetables and wash your dishes…” (Jobs Americans won’t do, I guess.) And on and on.
What a cunte.
She definitely put the piss in Episcopalian.
Scared for their lives because of scaremongers like her.
Could we get the trannies to pick the vegetables?
Sorry, they only pick genders.
HEY-O!
Too hard to shift the trannies into agricultural work.
Do you have to double-clutch them or something?
Frequent dilation breaks are an issue.
*shudder*
🤢
Still can’t figure how Bro1 can tell me with a straight face that transpeople are a fraction of a fraction of a percentage of the population when he’s batting 1.000 on his kids.
I stirred up a family email thread.
All of them were gushing over how brave and wonderful the sermon was. They were also all pulling for the Bills to get to the Super Bowl.
Normally, I mind my own business, but they went a bit too far today. They were all hoping that the lady bishop would be safe. Worried that some MAGA person would hurt her.
So I replied all with “TRUMP AND CHIEFS!!! WHOOOOO!”.
Only one reply so far that said “completely disagree, but whatever”
Ask if any of them have young daughters in sports or live in an area where huge amounts of their tax dollars are being given to freeloaders just for showing up.
rhywunsy:
Nope, all old coots. The only way they’d ever turn on the proggies/trannies/illegals is if they tried to cut their SS.
Reminds me of my family. Completely insulated from the consequences of their preferred policies.
I like to ask them why they hate my children.
https://x.com/AdrianneCurry/status/1882187111430033878
She’s correct.
She was always pretty funny.
One of us? Look at that T-shirt https://x.com/AdrianneCurry
She seems like a good egg:
“If any of you are ever feeling bad about yourself or embarrassed about something you did in your past…Go watch my old reality tv shows on VH1 .
I guarantee you will feel better about your lives.”
“I’m gonna marry a Brady!” 🎶 (or was it “bag a”?)
I believe it was ‘marry’ – which she indeed did. For a while.
Bless her, I liked her. CK, Jane Wiedlin, Verne Troyer, da Brat, Chyna. Memorable.
True — but I have to say that I agree with the Liekitisn’t user as well.
Man, they aren’t messing around:
https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1882170126700839367
I talked to my mom today, and she wanted me to ask our BP friend if the border was really closed, or if it’s just Trump saying things. Coincidentally, he’s in town and on his way to my house right now, so I can ask him in person. Although he hasn’t been to work this week, so I might know more than he does.
Wow.
I do have a friend who’s here illegally (Brazilian, tons in this area); I’m hopeful that they’re really focusing on the “asylum seekers” and not the ones quietly just working and paying taxes. He’s a net contributor.
I don’t blame him for taking a gamble, all those years ago, but he knew it was a gamble. It’d suck if he got bounced but it was always a possibility.
If the dumb cocksuckers hadn’t opened the borders and flooded the NGOs with money your pal would have likely spent the rest of his life here. I hope they overlook him.
Yep, although having no clear legal status does suck – he had a relationship end because of the uncertainty; do you want to get married and have kids with someone who might get tossed out of the country? The marriage wouldn’t be an automatic green card since he was here illegally.
He’s been talking to lawyers for years but the only real option is to go back to Brazil and try to get in through the front door, which we all know is fucking terrible.
High walls, wide gates, please already.
I don’t really blame them for coming to work and taking a chance. I’d probably try to do the same if I were in their shoes. But they should go into it knowing there’s a risk of being kicked out, which is what happens when you break the law. Or at least that’s what should happen.
I think the main focus is on those who are committing other crimes, because who in their right minds would be against deporting those?
The other day Mrs. TOK said the same, there are people here illegally, but working and trying to make a living, and she hopes they don’t get sent home.
The whole thing is just evil. They told people to get on an app and fill something out, then they’d get a free plane ride into the US, food, a place to stay, and cash. I can’t really blame them for trusting the US government and taking that offer. How could they know the Biden admin was just another cartel?
Yeah, he’s hopeful he can quietly keep doing his thing but I don’t get the feeling he thinks it would be “unfair” if he had to go back.
He took his shot. I’m still hoping it works out.
I’m still freaked out about the number of missing kids.
I wish Trump would sign an EO banning the NGOs.
Every time I’d have some family member go on a rant about illegal immigration, I’d tell them that they have no idea how fucked INS (now ICE) was. It would be 100% dysfunctional except that a few vindictive assholes sometimes do rouse themselves to fuck over someone for some slight.
After the last 4 years, though, I agree that something has to be done. We have way too many “asylum seekers” now. It isn’t like your buddy who has been working quietly and obeying the law. Also not getting cash cards and free housing/health care.
Trump would be smart to skim the cream of the illegal crop and deport them first. Next, I’d start cutting off all the $$ and a lot more would self deport. Theoretically after that all that would be left are illegals who are paying their own way and not getting in trouble with the law.
I’ve seen the figure that 1.2 million people whose asylum claims were turned down and are under order to leave the US have not self-deported or been deported by ICE.
Maybe because we’re just used to the extremely lax enforcement here – in almost every other country it’s no joke.
lol Are you new in this country?
Maybe I’m the odd one out here but I don’t really have any sympathy.
I’ve been in a similar situation in not-USA and it would just not have tempted me to ignore their laws in this matter. And if I did, I would expect to get tossed in reasonably short order.
I’m in kind of a high walls, closed gates mood for at least a few years. Until we get everybody we can find who is here illegally out (sorry about your Brazilian pal, but no), anyway. Then we can think about the only purpose of immigration policy that should count: “what immigration contributes to the general welfare (in the old sense) of American citizens”.
Wishful thinking IMHO.
In four or eight years the Dems will be back in power and spraying tax dollars all over the place again.
I wish Trump would sign an EO banning the NGOs.
Zero out the budget on anything going to them. That’ll sort ’em out.
Counselor, if it helps he’s one of the best bartenders I’ve ever met. Fantastic palate, charming and fast. His drink creations were top-notch.
He’s wasting his skills with his landscaping business. What’s he thinking, creating jobs and being his own boss?
If anyone is running low on salty prog tears, here is your source for a fillup:
https://ordinary-times.com/2025/01/21/trump-term-two-day-one-executive-orders/#comment-4062287
Me: I’d like to print this page of black text.
Printer: Sorry, I’m out of yellow.
Me: I just need black ink, which you have plenty of.
Printer: Sorry, I’m out of yellow.
Me: Ok, fine. *replaces yellow cartridge* Now please print my page.
Printer: I don’t have any cyan, either.
Me: Seriously? *replaces cyan* Can we print this page using only black ink now?
Printer: Fuck you, where’s my magenta, bitch.
Anyways, I was finally able to print a page of black text after replacing all the color inks.
Mine will let me “temporarily” print black only. But you have to hit the option each print job. Aggravating third world problem for sure.
Just have your orphans produce an illuminated manuscript.
I just bought one of those ink tank printers after the color laser printer decided to stop running. No errors, no nothing. It would just churn for 20 minutes and then shut down. I think it’s the aftermarket toner cartridges, but I’m not gambling $150 on getting name brand cartridges for a 12 year old printer when I can get a new printer with 2 years of ink for $200
Oh come on!
https://x.com/PatrickCToomey/status/1882067777135243766
It’s Happening!
“Smokahontas” is my new favorite commenter name.
Liberals Briefly Pause Chanting ‘Death To Israel’ To Call Elon Musk A Nazi
https://babylonbee.com/news/liberals-briefly-pause-chanting-death-to-israel-to-call-elon-musk-a-nazi
Regarding the EO about birthright citizenship, I like simple rules, so I would prefer to keep birthright citizenship. But I don’t like how it has been abused to allow a bunch of illegal immigrants to come here, have anchor babies who can then bring in the whole family through chain migration. I don’t think the EO will survive a court challenge, and maybe Trump doesn’t expect it to. Maybe he’s using it as another bargaining chip if/when there is a bill to enforce the border.
I’d rather stop chain migration that birthright citizenship.
Especially for H1B visa holders who become citizens. Fine, you can stay, but your family doesn’t get any preferential treatment.
Same. We share “birthright citizenship” with most of the New World, but “chain migration” is only a thing due to a generosity that is probably unique to the US.
My answer is “If you want to reunite with your family, you can go to them”
My cistern of generosity has been drained.
If you had any idea now many Mexican women run for the border in their 8th month, you would change your mind about birthright citizenship. Hell, there were people running businesses to bring pregnant Chinese women over and put them in hotels until they squirted out a newly minted American citizen.
If you aren’t a citizen (or maybe a permanent legal resident), having a kid here shouldn’t mean anything immigration or citizenship-wise.
I dislike the granting to even legal permanant residents. At least one citizen parent is my simple rule.
If your parents are legal, you can apply to naturalize like any other immigrant.
Of course, I have harsher standards for who can gain permanant legal status as well.
Love Big Brother
New Hampshire resident Jason Riddle, who admitted to entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, drinking from an open bottle of wine and stealing a book from the Senate Parliamentarian office, pleaded guilty to theft of government property and illegally protesting inside the Capitol. He was sentenced in April 2022 to 90 days in prison.
Riddle was struggling with alcohol at the time, and part of his probation included mandatory alcoholic treatment. The Navy veteran said he is grateful for his arrest.
“I am guilty of the crimes I have committed and accept the consequences,” he told ABC News. “It is thanks to those consequences I now have a happy and fruitful existence.”
At the time of his arrest, Riddle said he was an “obsessor” of Trump’s.
“I don’t need to obsess over a narcissistic bully to feel better about myself,” Riddle said. “Trump can shove his pardon up his a–.”
Converts make the best cult members.
OFFS!
Never change, The MSM. All propaganda, all the time.
I wish this were actually true, it would be maximally entertaining.
“BREAKING: Vladimir Putin is reportedly seeking to have Anthony Fauci EXTRADITED to Russia to face COVID-era ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charges as part of a Deal to end the War in Ukraine.”
https://x.com/CilComLFC/status/1882176131820028101
I vote Da!
I can get behind that.
Please, please, please make this happen Donald.
I’ll be in my bunk.
“Sure, Vlad. Could we throw in Birx as well?”
The worst kinds of Wordle.
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I got it in three and not so many green squares but I can’t figure out how to copy the result. Maybe you need an account?
Likeaso.
*bleargh*
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I’m looking around for jobs and was told to look at universities in the Indy area. Well, I found one that succinctly demonstrates all that’s wrong with education in America. This is “Baby shoes for sale. Never Worn.,” territory.
𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐲
Marian University
Indianapolis, IN
WhyTF is a uni spending on fucking literacy?! Shitty high schools suck, yes! But even then! How/Why do ya get into uni BEFORE you can fucking read?!?! Ah! I do know the answer is grift, but Christ.
Yep. We have people in college who wouldn’t have qualified for a high school diploma 30 years ago.
“Today, class, we begin a deep dive into the lives of Dick and Jane. Why did their dog, Spot, feel the need to run so much? Likely because Spot knew Dick was a white supremacist and was trying to escape! Run, Spot! Run!”
You should apply for it. This could be great.
Local Big U is where I would look if I lost current (remote) job. It would be something in IT so hopefully I could avoid all that’s wrong with education.
Tomorrow I have to juggle getting Mom discharged from hospice and admitted into home health without overlapping Medicare, getting Mom’s hospital bed ripped right out from under her until home health brings another one, or fucking up her vendors’ deliveries.
I haven’t done shit like this since I was dispatching delivery trucks all over the metro.
US men’s euro-ball live on TNT for anyone who cares. USA! USA!
Can we lose to Costa Rica – again?
Si se puede!
If one can, one can.
It’s 7pm. Just signed out of work, purging QUILTBAG and DEI from our website
Would this be the best day you’ve had in this job?
It would have been, except the utter disorganized clear-as-mud chaotic instructions and the whole working 12 hours thing.
But not only did I have the pleasure of removing the DEI main page, I also got to remove the QUILTBAG Policy and Gender Equity Policy pages.
So hateful I can’t even.
Deleted with EXTREME PREJUDICE!
The ability to shower with impunity in extremely hot water for extended periods in sub-20-degree weather is a gift. Best $800 I ever spent (on the tankless heater)
Do it!!
https://x.com/unusual_whales/status/1882080026851709369
Wait… so with everyone supposedly returning to the office, their real estate is still two-thirds vacant?
There’s a hiring freeze, and there will be significant attrition. Plus a gigantic chunk of onsite Fed people are contractors, and we’re (so far) not obligated to return like the Civil Service
I can only speak to FAA HQ and Las Vegas, but when 2021-2022 came around there was a lot of “Give me the reason to pull the trigger” on retirement and we never back-filled.
Oh the ‘one reason’ was the we didn’t force you-forced shot. Biden Admin didn’t want to ever admit it and Trump surely doesn’t want to, but Biden’s decree dumped* a lot of folks who probably still had 5-10 years left before civil service retirement.
*Quickly offset by hiring the BS DEI ranks is my theory. Sorta like cash-for-clunkers in the fed workforce.