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“Meanwhile, acting commissioner Kilolo Kijakazi has been working to roll back Saul’s policies, which aimed to chip away at disabled Americans’ access to Social Security benefits.”
I, for one, am outraged – OUTRAGED! – that this man is being prevented from carrying out the critical work of denying benefits to disabled Americans.
What kind of sick and twisted country allows its disabled to survive?!
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Republicans who spent four years allowing Trump to weaponize whatever agency he wanted for his political interests kicked up a fuss over Saul’s firing and accused Biden of politicizing the agency.
Is there a word for what happens when you read a phrase so ironic that it makes your brain hurt momentarily like an ice cream freeze headache?
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Actually, I bet he did know. But, he wanted to wait until Monday to make political hay with his termination.
He is not going to be successful in his effort to return.
Go find someone else to give a damn.
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I knew a guy once who felt under-appreciated at work so he quit. But he didn’t leave, or give two weeks’ notice, or any of those traditional quitting things. He just kept coming in, clearly hoping they’d beg him to stay and offer to sweeten the pot. What they actually did was suggest, after a week of this, that he pick a day to leave and then leave. In the end he stormed out. I told him good luck and he snarled “Yeah” without turning around. This isn’t quite the same thing, but it’s still pretty funny.
Speaking of former guys, I knew we’d see some fun stories coming out. Here’s one: Trump wanted the person who leaked that he fled to the bunker tried for treason and executed. Such a stable genius, the stable genius was!
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Never put off until the Monday after you’ve been fired to purge your incriminating emails and files.
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Methinks Mr. Saul has very little idea of how computer networks function. I suspect he was just as ignorant of Social Security procedures. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
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Sorry Saul, DC has “employment at will” statutes, so you’ve no recourse.
Here, let me help you tie that shoe on the other foot.
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Saul, who had ignored Biden’s request for his resignation before the President fired him Friday, vowed to stay in his post, saying that he considered himself to be “the term-protected commissioner of Social Security.”
Yeah, and I consider myself to be the King of England, but here I am shit-posting on TPM.
You can consider yourself whatever you want, but the rest of us consider your ass fired.
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Yep and he admitted it to the WaPo.
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A dumb white terrorist is not a terrorist, apparently.
Doug Jensen, a QAnon conspiracy theorist who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 in support of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, was ordered released on home incarceration by a federal judge on Tuesday. Jensen, who was among the first rioters to enter the seat of the legislative branch of the federal government and chased U.S. Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up the stairs leading to the Senate, believed that he was at the White House, which is the center of the executive branch.
U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said that Jensen’s conduct was serious, but that the threat Jensen posed to the community could be mitigated through strict conditions of release. Under federal law, pretrial detention is supposed to be a last resort and implemented only when there are no other conditions that would ensure public safety.
Judge Kelly cited Jensen’s lack of a grade-school level understanding of the U.S. government in his decision to release Jensen. Jensen, in Jan. 6 videos that were released to the media on Monday night, repeatedly stated that he believed he was at the White House.
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It’s funny how we never heard a peep from Republicans when Trump set out to fire all Obama appointees regardless of pesky rules or regulations like term protection. But if they didn’t engage in bad faith hypocrisy, they wouldn’t be Republicans.
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I think, once he sees that the direct deposits have stopped, too, he’ll move on.
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Lock him OUT!
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Definitionally a useful idiot. But let me get this right, if you rob a bank while stating that you think you’re robbing a post office, does that absolve you?
(granted, what’s happened here is pre-trial release, not sentencing)
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That’s okay Andy, at some point, Donnie’s gonna have to set up his own shadow government anyway.
You can be The Duke of Impunity.
Your and Count Rugen will be Fire Swamp buddies.
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It’s MAGA reasoning.
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Does the fact that this makes me chuckle mean I’m a bad person? Because I can’t stop smiling.
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