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  • #31
    Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

    Originally posted by Kepler View Post
    So yesterday after Gordon announced she is resigning on the 15th DNI put out a call for resumes for all IC GS-15. I want you all to sleep tight tonight knowing the White House apparently considers Dr. Mrs. to be fully qualified to be D/ODNI.

    (She'd actually be great and she really is qualified with 10+ years in intel and defense, but considering she actually believes in civil liberties I'm afraid that's a no go).
    To make sure I’m reading this right, she has all the paper qualifications right? The White House didn’t call for her to apply.

    Wouldn’t that be weird. To have a cafe connection to someone in a White House admin.
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    Originally posted by SanTropez
    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
    Originally posted by Kepler
    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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    • #32
      Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

      Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
      To make sure I’m reading this right, she has all the paper qualifications right? The White House didn’t call for her to apply.

      Wouldn’t that be weird. To have a cafe connection to someone in a White House admin.
      No, the White House will not be calling her. There are about 500 GS-15s in the IC and she is 180 degrees from what they want politically, intellectually, and morally. 90% of that population is like her, so unless they go outside they are drawing from a pool of about 50.

      It just blows me away that they think she is qualified to run the US intelligence apparatus. She is far more qualified that Ratcliffe, for example.

      We have had The Talk about what to do if she is ever tapped for a political position with this administration. It's a serious dilemma -- do you put yourself in a position in which you are now attached to great evil for the temporary privilege of pushing back until they fire you? On paper she is simply an ultra efficient career civil servant so it could actually happen that she'd be approached for a lower level slot. But becoming a political means losing your shield against arbitrary and/or malicious punishment, and obviously this administration is the equivalent of working for a seething madman.

      There's no penalty for turning down an offer because you stay a career and can't be harmed too badly. It also preserves anonymity in the face of their political network. So she is most comfortable with staying where she is and riding out the storm. There are hundreds like her with the institutional memory to restore normalcy once this fascist period passes and also to then build in protections so this can't happen again. The primary obstacles to a complete Nazi takeover this time have been their incompetence. The next time might be by smart actors. We will need to completely change the way political power runs from the EOP through the federal bureaucracy before that happens. The structures and processes that have existed since Executive Order 12333 (1981) assumed good will and good character in the President. Obviously this can no longer be taken for granted.
      Last edited by Kepler; 08-09-2019, 07:49 AM.
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      • #33
        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        No, the White House will not be calling her. There are about 500 GS-15s in the IC and she is 180 degrees from what they want politically, intellectually, and morally. 90% of that population is like her, so unless they go outside they are drawing from a pool of about 50.

        It just blows me away that they think she is qualified to run the US intelligence apparatus. She is far more qualified that Ratcliffe, for example.

        We have had The Talk about what to do if she is ever tapped for a political position with this administration. It's a serious dilemma -- do you put yourself in a position in which you are now attached to great evil for the temporary privilege of pushing back until they fire you? On paper she is simply an ultra efficient career civil servant so it could actually happen that she'd be approached for a lower level slot. But becoming a political means losing your shield against arbitrary and/or malicious punishment, and obviously this administration is the equivalent of working for a seething madman.

        There's no penalty for turning down an offer because you stay a career and can't be harmed too badly. It also preserves anonymity in the face of their political network. So she is most comfortable with staying where she is and riding out the storm. There are hundreds like her with the institutional memory to restore normalcy once this fascist period passes and also to then build in protections so this can't happen again. The primary obstacles to a complete Nazi takeover this time have been their incompetence. The next time might be by smart actors. We will need to completely change the way political power runs from the EOP through the federal bureaucracy before that happens. The structures and processes that have existed since Executive Order 12333 (1981) assumed good will and good character in the President. Obviously this can no longer be taken for granted.
        I've faced this at the state level twice. Once I was explicitly asked to take a political position, I said no. The other I had feelers made and decided not to pursue it; doubt I would've gotten it anyway.

        Part of it is I'm at a point in my career and life that the stability of being a merit protected civil servant is worth a lot to me, and the pay raises would not have made up for losing that and becoming an at will appointee (which was borne out when the person who ultimately took job #1 was let go 3 years later for no reason other than politics) Part of it was also that after the first offer was made, I realized I was no longer an independent, and did not want to be associated with that administration.

        It's not an easy call. If I were to get asked the same thing in 20 years when my daughter is out of college and I'm eligible for full retirement, maybe I say yes since I can be as obstinate as I want at that point.
        Last edited by unofan; 08-09-2019, 09:20 AM.

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        • #34
          Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

          Originally posted by unofan View Post
          It's not an easy call. If I were to get asked the same thing in 20 years when my daughter is out of college and I'm eligible for full retirement, maybe I say yes since I can be as obstinate as I want at that point.
          Admit it, you just want a chance to write a “Some arsehole is using your letterhead” letters
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          Originally posted by SanTropez
          May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
          Originally posted by bigblue_dl
          I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
          Originally posted by Kepler
          When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
          He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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          • #35
            Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
            Admit it, you just want a chance to write a “Some arsehole is using your letterhead” letters
            I wouldn't go that far, but having no farks left to give and being able to tell the honest to god truth to the powers that be would be nice.

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            • #36
              Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

              Another one.

              That's something like a half dozen white male domestic terrorists in the last 2 weeks, not counting the two shooters.

              DHS and TSA should start profiling us.
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              • #37
                Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                My neighbor who is near the top of the twin cities law enforcement ranks said they have been warned by the feds for a while now about white right wing terrorism. Said “We’re so f-cked”. Verbatim.
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                Originally posted by SanTropez
                May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                Originally posted by Kepler
                When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                • #38
                  Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                  When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time.
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                  • #39
                    Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                    3 more terrorists stopped this weekend. Guess what they all had in common?
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                    • #40
                      Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                      JFC™ (ScoobyDoo)


                      Also, how much of a dumb sh** was that second one? A three mile distance "confirmed kill" with a .22LR?

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                      • #41
                        Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                        Originally posted by aparch View Post
                        JFC™ (ScoobyDoo)


                        Also, how much of a dumb sh** was that second one? A three mile distance "confirmed kill" with a .22LR?

                        I'm laughing and terrified by this at the same time. A 22 is what boy scouts shoot. The longest confirmed kills on record are what? 1,800 yds? But with a .50 cal Barrett.

                        Edit: JFC, the Barrett M82 is the official state rifle of Tennessee


                        Edit2: Oh, it was designed by this guy
                        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronnie_Barrett
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                        Originally posted by SanTropez
                        May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                        Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                        I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                        Originally posted by Kepler
                        When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                        He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                        • #42
                          Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                          Originally posted by aparch View Post
                          JFC™ (ScoobyDoo)

                          Also, how much of a dumb sh** was that second one? A three mile distance "confirmed kill" with a .22LR?
                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7gZ4i9C0o
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                          • #43
                            Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                            Mookie would assume being a Youngstown Jew is suffering enough
                            a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                            • #44
                              Re: Global War on Terror 9: Winter Is Here.

                              Current record for long distance confirmed kill would no doubt be held by an American president.
                              a legend and an out of work bum look a lot alike, daddy.

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                              • #45
                                Originally posted by mookie1995 View Post
                                Current record for long distance confirmed kill would no doubt be held by an American president.
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