CMRivdogs Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Think the VA is screwed up now. Just wait until your co-workers turn on you... Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter encouraged staff to turn in their coworkers. Quote Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter encouraged staff to turn in their coworkers. A letter signed by acting Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Todd Hunter told employees the VA is ending all agency diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices and all DEIA-related contracts. The email was sent to all employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs late Wednesday. A copy was forwarded to WHRO. Hunter’s message is in line with a similar letter sent to all department heads throughout the federal government by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) on Tuesday. The new VA leadership also asks employees to turn in coworkers who may have been reclassified after the November election to hide their involvement in these programs. It provides an email address linked to the OPM and says that people who fail to report coworkers within 10 days will face unnamed consequences. “These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination,” Hunter said in the email. The VA did not return requests seeking comment. The email did not list specific programs or offices that fall under the mandate. The VA has programs geared toward making its facilities more open to female and minority veterans and promote accessibility for disabled veterans. The VA also has a specific hiring preference for veterans. Quote
Motown Bombers Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Just now, Mr.TaterSalad said: I thought the right hated big tech and was mistrustful of it? It wasn't that long ago that the right was talking about tech as big brother and a real threat to freedom and speech. I guess since the right owns most of big tech now that it's all good. They also hated EVs and would roll coal on Tesla's and block chargers, but Musk kissed the ring and gave the salute so he's good now. Quote
Mr.TaterSalad Posted January 24 Posted January 24 8 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Trump just sounds like everyone's grandfather, uncle, father in law, cousin. You know the one "who knows everything" but not really. Or better yet the "fans" you see on many fan sites who know exactly how to fix a team because they finished fourth in a fantasy league 10 years ago. (Fortunately most of the sports guys currently here are smarter than that) Trump is a lot like the callers on 97.1 who haven't the faintest clue what they are talking about but are so certain in their opinions. The callers that will ignore all stats and analytics in favor of the some opinion that they didn't put two seconds into actually researching. They will regale you with stories from the 68 or 84 Tigers and how great it all was back then and how much the game has changed for the worse. 2 Quote
romad1 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Watching in real time as colleagues are seeing the changes. The most alerting aspect is the encouragement to rat out your coworkers. The Heritage Foundation guys (and of course they are all guys) paid attention to the Communists and the Fascists and to Orwell. My concern for my less self aware coworkers is when the political class c (commissars) find their way into the agencies. Quote
chasfh Posted January 24 Posted January 24 27 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Think the VA is screwed up now. Just wait until your co-workers turn on you... Acting VA Secretary Todd Hunter encouraged staff to turn in their coworkers. The precursor to encouraging neighbors to turn in neighbors for words and acts of disloyalty. 1 Quote
gehringer_2 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 4 hours ago, mtutiger said: He's also wrong in that Cubans have pretty much always been a GOP constituency going all the way back to the fall of Batista / rise of Castro why do you want to go and introduce facts in place of a perfectly happy RW narrative. Quote
gehringer_2 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 4 hours ago, mtutiger said: A lot of conservatives in high-output ag states like Illinois or Iowa see solar farms as a waste of productive agricultural land.... it's not entirely wrong, but on the other hand, farms are generally outputting way more product that can be marketed domestically and we export a massive amount of corn, grain, other commodities. And these farms, which on average (at least in Illinois) are around 50 acres, are generally smaller than subdivision and new housing, for which there's far less controversy when they overtake productive agricultural land.. The opposition to windmills, of which there's little footprint to speak of, is even more mystifying. the national leader in wind power generation is dead red Texas. Let that sink in if you think Trumps speaks for conservatives about windmills. 2 Quote
Tigerbomb13 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 He’s really going to shake down states like California that need disaster aid. Quote
mtutiger Posted January 24 Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Mr.TaterSalad said: I thought the right hated big tech and was mistrustful of it? It wasn't that long ago that the right was talking about tech as big brother and a real threat to freedom and speech. I guess since the right owns most of big tech now that it's all good. As far as the Big Tech guys are concerned, I've become more convinced that their latest heel turn is less about where they think public opinion is going and more about Trump promising them lots of cash for AI and other pursuits. The Stargate announcement was kinda revealing in particular. Quote
chasfh Posted January 24 Posted January 24 47 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said: the national leader in wind power generation is dead red Texas. Let that sink in if you think Trumps speaks for conservatives about windmills. They're not going to go after windmills in Texas. They're going to go after windmills in blue states. Quote
mtutiger Posted January 24 Posted January 24 1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said: So bad on so many levels. Quote
chasfh Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) 1 hour ago, Motown Bombers said: Why didn't they just hold administrators at bay by gunpoint and just walk in? Do they think Biden is still president or something? Edited January 24 by chasfh Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 24 Posted January 24 4 minutes ago, chasfh said: They're not going to go after windmills in Texas. They're going to go after windmills in blue states. Could be similar to the gated communities who have been fighting windmills off the Atlantic Coast. Windmills are good as long as they're somewhere else. Like the mountains near Frostburg, Md Quote
Tiger337 Posted January 24 Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, chasfh said: Holy shirt, we're gonna invade, aren't we? LOL, healthcare of all things to be promoting. Our healthcare system sucks compared to other developed countries including Canada. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 24 Posted January 24 1 minute ago, Tiger337 said: LOL, healthcare of all things to be promoting. Our healthcare system sucks compared to other developed countries including Canada. Especially when MAGAs are working to "reform" Medicare (especially drug prices) Medicaid and Veteran's benefits. Quote
LaceyLou Posted January 24 Posted January 24 13 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: Could be similar to the gated communities who have been fighting windmills off the Atlantic Coast. Windmills are good as long as they're somewhere else. Like the mountains near Frostburg, Md Exactly. This is one reason why noted right winger Ted Kennedy opposed windmills that were going to be too close to the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod..... 1 Quote
chasfh Posted January 24 Posted January 24 12 minutes ago, Tiger337 said: LOL, healthcare of all things to be promoting. Our healthcare system sucks compared to other developed countries including Canada. Quote
chasfh Posted January 24 Posted January 24 1 minute ago, LaceyLou said: Exactly. This is one reason why noted right winger Ted Kennedy opposed windmills that were going to be too close to the Kennedy Compound in Cape Cod..... Hasn't Trump had a major forking hard-on for windmills ever since the Scottish golf club incident? 1 1 Quote
mtutiger Posted January 24 Posted January 24 (edited) 27 minutes ago, chasfh said: They're not going to go after windmills in Texas. They're going to go after windmills in blue states. FWIW, during and after the freeze in 2021, state politicians in Texas went a long way to publicly bash wind and solar as a means to defend O&G, or come up with an alternative explanation that wasn't the fact that LNG was freezing at various wellheads throughout West Texas (which was a major driver of the crisis and came after providers, after the 2011 winter storm, didn't do hardly anything in response). The effect of that is that wind energy popularity even in the largest wind producing state isn't what it used to be and is now, like many other things in our society, politically polarized for absolutely no reason at all. So no, I don't think this is about blue states or red states, this is that Donald Trump has always hated this stuff (for the same reasons that NIMBY coastal elitists types hate it) and that he and others have primed the base to hate this stuff. Even if there is economic benefit. Edited January 24 by mtutiger Quote
LaceyLou Posted January 24 Posted January 24 6 minutes ago, chasfh said: Hasn't Trump had a major forking hard-on for windmills ever since the Scottish golf club incident? That's when it began, yes. I'd blocked it out, but I seem to remember him claiming that they cause cancer. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Way back in the mid 90s we moved into a new subdivision on the Aurora/Naperville boarder. Once the sub was built out, the builder handed over the HOA to the home owners, one of the discussions turned to the issue of the retaining ponds on the property. A number of home owners asked why we needed them anyway. We found out about a year or so later when a series of thunderstorms came down I-88 dumping about 18-25 inches of rain in about 10 hours causing some flooding. The golf course community across the street received major damage, our sub not much. 1 Quote
oblong Posted January 24 Posted January 24 Trump and his voters are what I call barber shop people. If you’ve been in an old school barber shop you kkow what I mean. 1 Quote
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