O'Leary: "It's not the people. It's the codes. They are COBALT."

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O'Leary: "It's not the people. It's the codes. They are COBALT."

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COBALT, COBOL, whatever.

Might as well be Sanskrit.

need to give them the benefit of the doubt, that is only 2/5 days of the week, so 91.1 X 40% = 37% overstaffed.

Start there with a 37% RIF and then do it again in 3 months.

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need to give them the benefit of the doubt, that is only 2/5 days of the week, so 91.1 X 40% = 37% overstaffed.

Start there with a 37% RIF and then do it again in 3 months.

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No that might work for Private Industry but I am with O'Leary on this one. "double what you think you need to cut".

Trump administration fires thousands for 'performance' without evidence, in messy rush


Many probationary employees targeted in latest Trump cuts across agencies had excellent ratings; legal challenges are expected.

February 17, 2025 at 7:18 p.m. EST Yesterday at 7:18 p.m. EST

Amanda Mae Downey hugs her daughters after being fired from her federal job at the Forest Service in Lake City, Michigan, on Monday. (Kristen Norman/For The Washington Post)

The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey's name. The second mentioned "the news" about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

"I'm glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person," her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. "So we can add a little human touch to what's going on."
Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years' probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

A GOOD START!

After we do as many blanket firings as possible- it's time to hit the GS-15 and SES leadership hard


Department of Homeland Security preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week
Published Tue, Feb 18 2025

The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country's third-largest agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the administration's goals, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The sources said the Trump administration has a "centralized plan" and a list of people in high-level positions across every component of DHS who are to be targeted this week.

The firings will come on top of hundreds of more general cuts that began across DHS on Friday night, which targeted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Those firings were the latest in a governmentwide effort to reduce the federal workforce.

This week, the three sources told NBC News, career employees at high managerial levels, namely Senior Executive Service and General Schedule 15 employees, may be removed from agencies across DHS not to reduce the size of the workforce but to remove employees whom the administration sees as potentially standing in the way of goals the Trump administration has for the agency.

DHS, which includes Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, is the primary agency tasked with enforcing U.S. immigration law. Trump has relied heavily on CBP to secure the southwest border and on ICE to ramp up arrests and deportations of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.

A Trump administration official defended the plan. Asked whether reducing the positions would make it harder for DHS to make good on Trump's immigration goals, the administration official said the administration is removing people who it believes "willfully grind things to a halt."

"These people put themselves in a terrible position, and they need to be removed," the Trump administration official said.

Now every agency must fire their SES leftists

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You know…it dawned on me this morning…for people to be on the SSA roles who would literally be older than this nation, or even older than the SSA itself, it would mean that someone had to go in there and create those fake numbers deliberately…

I'm hoping forensics can at least show when those 'ancient' individual accounts were created…

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Apparently, you haven't heard of the 'fat fingers theory'.

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My guess is majority will be facilities who continued to collect checks assigned to them after a patients death, mixed in tons of family members still cashing mom and dads checks that magically never stopped showing up, and probably **** ton of illegals

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Wondering if Actblue is involved? Could be all the deceased not only vote Democrat but donate to Democrats.

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My guess is majority will be facilities who continued to collect checks assigned to them after a patients death, mixed in tons of family members still cashing mom and dads checks that magically never stopped showing up, and probably **** ton of illegals

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Wondering if Actblue is involved? Could be all the deceased not only vote Democrat but donate to Democrats.

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There is some connection here to voter rolls, illegal voting, etc. Someone is behind the scam.

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Big_Time_Timmy_Jim said:

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My guess is majority will be facilities who continued to collect checks assigned to them after a patients death, mixed in tons of family members still cashing mom and dads checks that magically never stopped showing up, and probably **** ton of illegals

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Wondering if Actblue is involved? Could be all the deceased not only vote Democrat but donate to Democrats.

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There is some connection here to voter rolls, illegal voting, etc. Someone is behind the scam.

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You betcha.

ERIC was charging member states to go through their Bureau of Vital Statistics records, among other state records to "maintain" that state's voter rolls. Death certificates are maintained by those Bureaus.

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Big_Time_Timmy_Jim said:

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My guess is majority will be facilities who continued to collect checks assigned to them after a patients death, mixed in tons of family members still cashing mom and dads checks that magically never stopped showing up, and probably **** ton of illegals

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Wondering if Actblue is involved? Could be all the deceased not only vote Democrat but donate to Democrats.

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There is some connection here to voter rolls, illegal voting, etc. Someone is behind the scam.

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Some people may have thought I was trying to be funny, but I was deadly serious.

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Also out at DOJ: Biden's top tax enforcer--David Hubbert, a 40+ year vet of DOJ who "opted to retire to avoid a reassignment to the sanctuary cities enforcement group," Bloomberg reports.

But wait there's more to cheer: "His departure intensifies anxiety over tax enforcement.…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 18, 2025

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Elon was right. Many have left voluntarily.

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Trump administration fires thousands for 'performance' without evidence, in messy rush


Many probationary employees targeted in latest Trump cuts across agencies had excellent ratings; legal challenges are expected.

February 17, 2025 at 7:18 p.m. EST Yesterday at 7:18 p.m. EST

Amanda Mae Downey hugs her daughters after being fired from her federal job at the Forest Service in Lake City, Michigan, on Monday. (Kristen Norman/For The Washington Post)

The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey's name. The second mentioned "the news" about probationary federal workers and how the Trump administration planned to fire them.

When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for an explanation, she learned her name was on a firing list. She would have to come into the office to sign a letter formalizing her termination. And she had to do it before the holiday weekend was over.

"I'm glad that our agency at least has decided we can do it in person," her manager said, according to a recording Downey provided to The Washington Post. "So we can add a little human touch to what's going on."
Many federal government employees were dismissed over the holiday weekend as managers confronted a Trump administration demand to fire workers by Tuesday. In group texts and in online forums, they dubbed the error-ridden run of firings the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre."

The firings targeted new hires on probation, who have fewer protections than permanent employees, and swept up people with years of service who had recently transferred between agencies, as well as military veterans and people with disabilities employed through a program that sped their hiring but put them on two years' probation. Most probationary employees have limited rights to appeal dismissals, but union heads have vowed to challenge the mass firings in court. The largest union representing federal workers has also indicated it plans to fight the terminations and pursue legal action.

A GOOD START!

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The lawsuits will likely be dismissed. Probationary employment has a long history of the employer being able to fire them easily.

nm

I feel like my birthday came 7 months early today with all the amazing news out of DOJ.

Denise Cheung, a former top aide to Eric Holderr, just quit her role as head of criminal division for the DC US Attorney's office. She was promoted to that position by Matthew Graves, the…

— Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 (@julie_kelly2) February 18, 2025

If I'm not mistaken, Denise was not only heavily involved with prosecuting Jan 6th cases on 1512(c) grounds which were thrown out by SCOTUS last term but also helped to cover up the Hunter Biden laptop.

ETA: Think I overplayed her role in the Hunter lap top. Got her confused with someone else.

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🚨 #BREAKING: FDA food division head Jim Jones resigns - NBC.

His position is responsible for keeping American food safe.

The resignation comes after RFK Jr. took over the HHS. pic.twitter.com/pQRfEuwlJg

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 18, 2025

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His work in Koolaid safety left a lot to be desired.

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Brick walls were never safe when the Kool-aid mascot was around.

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will25u said:

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🚨 #BREAKING: FDA food division head Jim Jones resigns - NBC.

His position is responsible for keeping American food safe.

The resignation comes after RFK Jr. took over the HHS. pic.twitter.com/pQRfEuwlJg

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 18, 2025

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His work in Koolaid safety left a lot to be desired.

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Brick walls were never safe when the Kool-aid mascot was around.

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