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Paranoia in Trump's White House
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shnurgleton
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Yep, just another week without an executive branch.
Wake me up when congress decides to do something about it.
Wake me up when congress decides to do something about it.
Tranqueris
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Trump's point of view in the White House.
And Putin is sitting somewhere, smiling at the mess he created.
PeakPointMatrix
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Isaac Otherworld
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Thought this one would be more appropriate given who is in the WH now.
Holy shit I spat my food out at this one.
Honestly, the Federal government is running more or less as well as it ever does. The bulk of the work at the various Departments and Agencies is done by career employees that are not and cannot (easily) be removed by the current administration.
The top of the 'food chain' is usually an appointee from the administration. However, these appointees are relatively short term and even when they aren't as grossly incompetent as many of Trump's appointees have been, they are rarely qualified or have the background to understand what they're truly in for or to be effective at it. As a result, 99% of things remain in the hands of the career employees. Appointees can obviously set the tone from the top to an extent and push certain changes but there is definitely a limit to what they can accomplish without truly understanding the agency they're now 'leading'.
The biggest drivers for change come with the annual President's budget that more or less says "Here's how much money we're going to spend and what we're going to spend it on". This is a big process with input from the various agencies and OMB and the Administration. It does provide a lot of guidance for what each agency is supposed to do. What programs receive funding. Which lose funding. Which stay the course. This budget is submitted to and approved by Congress. In theory, with a Republican President and a Republican majority in Congress they should be able to pass this in time, without continuing resolutions (as we've dealt with for quite a while now). We'll see...
All that said, currently the agencies are more or less running as they were 3 months ago and the new fiscal year doesn't start until October 1 for any sweeping changes to truly be possible.
It's pretty hard to stop a bureaucracy of tens (or hundreds) of thousands of moving parts.
radios shipping overview
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When you're a paranoid, petty asshole that goes on tirades against your employees, you make paranoid, disloyal employees. Employees like that make for a leaky ship.
Fancyarcher
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Pretty sure he's not pleased about how long it has taken to lift the sanctions, though.
There's another one of these that serves cereal I think. Anyone know where to watch the rest of the series?Wrong, the WH is running like a fine tuned machine.
Hooligan69
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LOLOL, and I thought those gifs were the most hilarious thing in this thread!!!
Imagine doing this while the baby is asleep.
Phobophile
A scientist and gentleman in the manner of Batman.
An appropriate response to putting ketchup on hotdogs
Thought this one would be more appropriate given who is in the WH now.
I laughed hard at this. Thanks!
EatinOlives
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Wait, the sanctions were lifted? FFS
aspiegamer
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So... you're saying that WH staffers aren't distracted with social media on their phones all day? Sounds like the system is working fine! They're not going to have Tinder or Grindr on their work phones, after all. Probably.
+1 on the robots in this gifs having awesome comedic timing. That's the real accomplishment in those projects.
This is all hilarious.
+1 on the robots in this gifs having awesome comedic timing. That's the real accomplishment in those projects.
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