“Don’t get in my way” works when you’re actually doing something yourself. But this guy isn’t going to do shit, he’s an acting manager. If people get out of his way and do nothing, he’s going to accomplish nothing. The order he’s looking for is “do what I say”.

“I, and I alone in FEMA, speak for FEMA,” Richardson said.

Ok, you’re going to be doing the press briefings and writing the releases then? Go for it big man.

“…I took my Marines to Iraq, eleven of them”

Oooooh, ELEVEN whole marines! Wow, what a prestigious career in leadership.

“We’re going to find out how to push things down to the states,” the acting leader later added. “That should be done at the state level. Also going to find out how we can do more cost sharing with the states.”

I assume this is the royal “we”, as your only instruction is to not get in your way.

Read the whole article, there’re more dumb statements. This guy is a big old clown. I’m sure many people there care deeply about their jobs, either for the mission or for maintaining a steady paycheck, but like the petulant doge pups, I think I’d just openly mock a boss who acted like that.

Also, many times you’re not supposed to stop at yield signs. I assume he means “ever, including when someone else is in the roadway”, but it’s just a muddled statement.

Casey Means has no government experience and dropped out of her surgical residency program, saying she became disillusioned with traditional medicine.

She was probably told she wouldn’t pass residency, because paying the expense of medical school and then not getting licensed to practice medicine is insane.

They’re both fighting for the same niche. Sort of like Lauren Boebert and MTG. The whole operation has never been a team effort, just a bunch of self-serving assholes trying to get their own grift on.

Bannon was one of the trend chasers that decided they were at the out and proud Nazi phase and followed suit. Still kind of feeling it out, but definitely not an accident.

https://www.c-span.org/clip/public-affairs-event/user-clip-steve-bannon-nazi-salute/5154286

Most Democrats I want to see doing a lot more. Not her, not Joe, and not Hilary. They can and should disappear from the public eye. They had a direct and significant role in causing all of this.

They stink of loser and ego and corruption and morass. Go away.

Holy shit. I thought this was clearly intentional propaganda targeting the very extremely dumb that would take the mistaken impression from it without any of them being on record saying the fake part, but did no one tell him?

Hard to take every seat in Congress, but if they just steal a couple dozen Democratic seats in red states that’s enough to secure control of the House and the only recourse for that is likely open insurrection.

The person you’re responding to didn’t say anything about anyone being forced to vote for anyone, much less that Palestinians should.

More like there isn’t an inflation surcharge, because that’s not how inflation works. Inflation is just a bunch of sellers raising their prices in general, not a defined policy.

Trump isn’t the only one acting. And most of the foot soldiers were already on the job and just daydreaming about when they could really get tough. They need to be doxxed and recorded so they can be punished for their crimes one day. No “amnesty to let the nation heal” or “just doing their job”. There needs to be consequences.

Don’t leave when the cops say you can’t record them anymore! Stand your ground at least and let one of your colleagues get a picture of police roughing up a reporter. If necessary, get arrested yourself. You took a job that has an inherent role in democracy and now is the time it’s most important.

I appreciate that this “riots are part of their plan” post acknowledges that not rioting just means a bloodless coup. People keep putting this argument up like the optimal move is just continually not taking the bait under the assumption that some easy solution will eventually come to fruition, but it’s just the frog arguing for boiling itself. They’re not going to just have four years of people letting them do whatever they want and then run free and fair elections because we didn’t take the bait.

I’m talking about the actual people making the reports, not the political appointees. They should have never let things bumble on being uncertain about who ordered the presentation. The systems and bureaucracy of the government have just completely failed to maintain processes and standards.

What the fuck are people doing there? By what measure could Elon Musk’s non-role at Doge have any relationship to our intel on Chinese weapons systems? And how could there ever be confusion as to who ordered a classified briefing? That’s so far from how classification is supposed to work it doesn’t make sense how it ever even got beyond a simple rejection.

And from personal experience, even if you find common ground and get them to recognize something is bad, they’ll sit back down in front of Fox News and revert to the norm before any of it matters. I had a “law and order, national security” type conservative acquaintance who right after the Trump classified documents story broke said Trump should go to prison for it (he also had to add that Hillary Clinton should go too). I’m certain he voted for Trump this time around. And he’s had nary a peep about the multiple war plans chats. They aren’t gettable if you just find the right issue or use the right words. If they’re going to change it’s going to happen on their own and over a long time.

It’s not even an uncomfortable topic among the people. You can go into a bar of any political persuasion anywhere and loudly complain about those goddamned rich assholes running everything into the ground and screwing over regular folk and all you’ll get is hearty agreement. It’s only an uncomfortable topic among the wealthy and their political lapdogs.

What’s more “alpha” than backing down from a bully and adhering to their chosen framing of an issue?

You know what would actually be “alpha” (ugh)? Not trying to figure out the ideal terminology for whatever state she thinks the populace is inclined to right now and actually driving the conversation to bring people to our viewpoint. Like having a national tour highlighting wealth inequality and corruption by literal mustache twirling villains. Because if you say it enough and talk about the problem that’s right there fucking everything up right now and LEAD, they’ll adopt whatever goddamned term you feel like.

Fuck conservatives. They don’t need to be educated, they need to be beaten. There are more people left of center than right, we just need to prove we’re actually going to fight for them. All of them. Not 80% and then we’ll start to strategize on how many “urban” voters we can lose to pick up white suburbanite conservatives.

And would you consider either of them to represent the anti-woke strain of the Democratic party?

Anti-oligarchy and “identity politics” are not two camps in the Democratic party. The same people who are against focus on the oligarchy are the ones who are against focusing on “identity politics”.