We’re back to Tuesday. That means the Seattle Chapter of Drinking Liberally will gather at the Roanoke to engage in conversation, celebration, commemoration and commensuration over a cocktail. Stop by, if you can.
We meet tonight and every Tuesday at the Roanoke Park Place Tavern, 2409 10th Ave E, Seattle. You’ll find us in the back room of the pub. We start at 8:00pm.
Chapters of Living Liberally are all over the place…if you can’t make it to the Seattle chapter, stop by another chapter near you.
So about that letter to civil servants telling them to return to office or take a buyout and resign.
The IT folks in my life have their hair on fire. It was sent as a plain text message, no encoding and included an opt it button to resign in the body of the email,
Assuming the Tech Freaks now trying to run the show knew what they were doing about cybersecurity many people forwarded it to the press. So now that it’s out there, anyone can copy the code for the resign button and if you know the proper email of a Federal employee….resign them.
Also those unencoded buttons in an email are a really high hacking risk as it gives someone with the knowledge, or even a small amount of Chrome “Inspect Page” skills the destination IP that is naturally a US Government server somewhere.
Like for real.
And they are worried about the security breech possibilities of TikTok.
Donnie:
“The people of Greenland want to be part of America.
Greenland:
“The Fuck we do!!!!”
https://www.reuters.com/world/poll-85-greenlanders-do-not-want-be-part-us-2025-01-28/
“I’m freezing all ‘entitlement’ spending.”
Federal Courts
“The Fuck you are!”
“I’m freezing all ‘entitlement’ spending.”
Federal Courts
“The Fuck you are!”
If presidents can’t be sued while in office because that would distract them from their official duties, then they can’t sue while in office, either, for the same reason. Therefore,
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5109982-pulitzer-board-trumps-lawsuit/
@1 The boxes and boxes of classified docs in the Mar-a-Lago shitter and Tulsi Gabbard’s nom for DNS tells you the orange guy at the top doesn’t give a fucking tinker’s damn about security.
In fact, setting up federal workers and federal agency servers for hacking probably is deliberate.
Republicans have been telling us for years they hate government and want to destroy it. We should believe them.
@2 France to Denmark: We’ll send French troops to help defend Greenland if you’d like.
Republicans. Promised. Eggs. Would. Be. Cheaper.
@7 I guess the question there is whether we should take knives away from people who slash their own wrists. The way I’d answer that is, “We will when we have a House majority again. Until then, please don’t drip blood on our floor.”
@9 They also promised they wouldn’t go after women who have abortions. They were lying both times.
Trump just imposed by executive order a nationwide ban on transgender care for minors.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/28/trump-signs-sweeping-order-to-further-restrict-trans-care-for-minors-nationwide.html
Trump is diverting airport security funding to mass deportations.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/administration-may-pull-money-tsa-help-fund-deportations-rcna189387
I think it’s best to avoid flying and stay out of tall buildings that might become terrorist targets while TSA is down.
@8
Putin and Xi raise a toast
Trump is getting back at Gen. Mark Milley the only way he can: Revoking his security clearance and pulling his personal security detail.
Of course it will be stripped and his retirement pay cut.
Beyond petty, but to be expected.
https://www.aol.com/news/pentagon-pull-milleys-security-clearance-222446634.html
15
I’m pretty sure Milley will do just fine in his retirement.
@15
And reinstated in 2029.
David Pakman thinks Trump might be confusing “political asylum” with “insane asylums.” I think he might be right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2aI-7_ytU8
Same term, different meanings.
The irony is painful.
Huh, who knew releasing cop beaters, arresting tan colored veterans, nazi salutes, and unqualified nominees would have consequences so quickly.
IA State Senate District 35 (Trump +21) special election flips the seat to the Democratic Party.
@21
Oh boo – fucking whoo, you crybaby piece of shit! Go suck your Dick Tracy!
@21 He won in 2 of 3 counties, and was only 12 votes behind in the 3rd county.
https://electionresults.iowa.gov/IA/123074/web.345435/#/detail/1000
I don’t know if this is a harbinger of things to come. I don’t know if Trump froze farm support payments. If Democrats win Florida’s April 1 special elections, it’ll be almost impossible not to believe a serious backlash is afoot.
Non-partisan science is gone at the EPA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/epa-fires-science-advisers-00201156
Non-partisan science is gone at the EPA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/epa-fires-science-advisers-00201156
Non-partisan science is gone at the EPA.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/epa-fires-science-advisers-00201156
How Trump got Hegseth confirmed:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/hegseth-confirmation-senate-trump-00201033
“Welcome to the ‘try and stop me’ presidency.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/28/trump-executive-power-courts-00201120
By now it’s becoming clear Trump will ignore the Constitution, statutes, separation of powers, civilized norms, and public outrage and do whatever he wants, and it will be up to courts to rein him in. This is going to be a Full Employment For Lawyers administration.
The GOP is no longer the “law and order” party:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-pardons-capitol-rioters-republicans_n_67993f13e4b09798def218d0
If they can’t even vote for that, they’re little better than a mob themselves.
24, 25 & 26:
Did you purposely post that comment three times?
Saying something over and over again does necessarily not make it “truth.”
The trick behind Trump’s offer of severance pay to federal workers who resign by next week is that he “doesn’t have the authority to even make that offer” and there’s “no budget line item to pay” the promised severance, so once they quit they’ll discover the promise of severance pay is unenforceable.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tim-kaine-trump-federal-workers-buyout_n_6799a2bfe4b09dcf5694ef54
It will take years and trillions of dollars to rebuild what Trump is about to destroy. Essentially, most of the government and part of the military.
A Trump supporter’s wife was just deported to Venezuela. Another Trump supporter’s husband was just deported to Mexico.
We liberals didn’t want this, but you Trump supporters cut us off at the knees last November. So, sorry, we can’t help. We feel your pain, though.
Trump shuts down Arizona’s anti-cartel drug task force.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBOJQc5yoNM
Aww, he probably didn’t mean to, it’s just collateral damage.
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