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2025-02-10 Government Corruption

Trump hits the golf course in Florida as official hints at sneaky way Elon Musk could be hoping to persuade federal workers to quit

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Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11173 views ] Top

#1 Turn off the heat and water then
require them to be in the office.

Posted by Skidmark 2025-02-08 18:41|| 2025-02-08 18:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Some of it is the building; some of it is the commute.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-09 09:08|| 2025-02-09 09:08|| Front Page Top

#3 No, all that is required for the building to be habitable.
Compromise, tell them all must return to work by April.
And then shut off the A/C.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-02-09 09:09|| 2025-02-09 09:09|| Front Page Top

#4 Judge Engelmayer's action was a 7 day Temporary Restraining Order.

The matter is to be revisited.

In the meantime, govt workers are doing some of the work that DOGE wanted done.

Posted by lord garth 2025-02-09 11:48|| 2025-02-09 11:48|| Front Page Top

#5 In the meantime, govt workers are doing some of the work that DOGE wanted done.

Or erasing records.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-02-09 11:54|| 2025-02-09 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 I don’t think they are erasing. For some government workers this change is what they have been waiting for for years.

Posted by Super Hose 2025-02-09 13:11|| 2025-02-09 13:11|| Front Page Top

#7 Re #4: Ed, tell them the AC was turned off to fight climate change. Everybody has to make some sacrifices to help the planet, right?

Posted by Rambler 2025-02-09 13:24|| 2025-02-09 13:24|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ Washington, summer, no AC...heheheheh

Posted by Mercutio 2025-02-10 09:43|| 2025-02-10 09:43|| Front Page Top

#9 As a native Washingtonian, I grew up in Wheaton and Silver Springs in the 50s-early 60s. August was always the worst, when family cars didn't have A/C, and weekends at Ocean City or Rehoboth were a Godsend. I brought my California native wife back to DC in the middle of July (her first visit) and her reaction the first morning was "Holy Crap, we are never living here"!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2025-02-10 14:04|| 2025-02-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#10 Actually, as we have seen for years with Walter Reed Hospital, only the intent that the building be habitable is necessary — they can fail safety inspections for a decade or several before it becomes a real problem…

Posted by trailing wife 2025-02-10 15:56|| 2025-02-10 15:56|| Front Page Top

#11 The Army has been trying to decommission Walter Reed since before 9/11 as Congress has repeatedly refused the funding to fix it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-02-10 16:43|| 2025-02-10 16:43|| Front Page Top

#12 There is nothing sneaky about it. When the Bobs ask you what exactly you do here, if you don't have a good answer, it is time to leave.

Posted by SteveS 2025-02-10 20:17|| 2025-02-10 20:17|| Front Page Top

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