Discussion: WH Economist: Fed Workers Actually 'Better Off'

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#238

Completely OT

YouGov survey: British sarcasm 'lost on Americans’
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46846467

“half of Americans wouldn’t be able to tell that a Briton is calling them an idiot”.

YouGov showed a number of common British phrases, including “with the greatest respect”, “I’ll bear it in mind” and “you must come for dinner”, to Britons and Americans.

“While not all the phrases show a difference in transatlantic understanding, there are some statements where many Yanks are in danger of missing the serious passive aggression we Brits employ,” YouGov said.

The starkest difference was in the phrase “with the greatest respect” - which most Britons took to mean “I think you are an idiot”, but nearly half of Americans interpreted as “I am listening to you”.

or maybe not, with greatest respect, mr Hassett, I think you are an idiot…

#239

Did anyone tell this Rectum that all Federal Workers are NOT CONGRESSMAN!!
((Taking time off anyway)

#240

Let me get this straight working w/o pay is better then taking days off with pay. Ok when are YOU going to start?

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#241

Hassett ought to be told to work 6 months without pay just to see how much better off he’d be.

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#242

How about grounding trump’s plane and helicopter for the duration of this shut down. Also no gas money for his limo.

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#243

Bless Hassett’s little heart.
(Not a complement)

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#244

You can be clueless or even punitive about general suffering and at the same time very understanding in responding to individuals in your personal vicinity.

In fact, that describes most of my Trumpy relatives (by marriage only, thank gaud).

It’s kind of a symptom of Republucanism, in fact. They don’t change their minds about social issues until their kid or neighbor is involved, and even then it’s often compartmentalized away: “THIS abortion is absolutely necessary, not like the one Suzy Roundheels had.”

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#245

The quartering had an additional purpose: burying the body parts separate from each other so you couldn’t arise whole to respond to The Last Trump(et). Your head, of course, went to the palisade of pikes.

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#246

Just another All Ass Hat No Cattle kind of guy that thinks we believe him.

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#248

is that any claim that distorts discussion is winning the discussion.

The Road to Unfreedom by Timothy Snyder
(random notes I made while reading)

“It was not meant to convince in a factual sense, but to guide in a narrative sense.”
Invasion is self-defense
The suppression of individual freedom in favor of national submission.
Make politics of being rather than doing - playing to the culture
“You can just say anything. Create realities.”
The denial of factuality
Women pushing empty prams.

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#249

I’m sure he’s a very close friend and colleague of Art Laffer.

#250

It’s almost as if the WH holds a weekly competition to see who can be the biggest asshole.

#251

the smirk would be gone in 2 seconds.

#252

All these clowns that are in the Trump administration are nothing but clowns. And once this President is no longer in office either by Impeachment or voted out, all these clowns will have a hard time finding meaningful employment anywhere.

#253

I hope you’re right. Way too many of them will become commentators for some news organization or other, or senior fellows at the usual list of derp tanks, or get jobs at connected law firms.

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#254

Kevin should look for a really good proctologist to have his head removed from is ass.

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#255

He would be better off digging his own grave.

#256

They can always work for a conservative think tank, the Koch Brothers or the oil industry as lobbyists. It’s practically a certainty.

#257

Remember the Boy Scout leaders who took their kids to Arches National Park and actually took a selfie of them pushing over one of the smaller arch formations? They sent it to twitter and thought they would get millions of likes. They were obviously some of the same goobers who applauded loudly when Trump told the kids at the National Boy Scout Jamboree all about making money and spending it on yachts and orgies.

Whose Boat is That Boat? Do they have orgies there?

#258

Wait…are we in The Good Place?

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