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The Great Sorting-Out Begins
kunstler.com ^ | 24 Jan, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 01/25/2025 4:33:54 AM PST by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 01/25/2025 4:33:54 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left sure do love their marxism, especially the shiny and new DEI cultural marxism.


2 posted on 01/25/2025 4:34:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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The “Chief Diversity Officer” types should have their next job begging for food on street corners.

Their reign of terror and error is about to end.


3 posted on 01/25/2025 4:36:42 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: MtnClimber

This raises the question of how best to ferret out the Deep Staters from our federal bureaucracies?

Wholesale housecleaning by handing pink slips to all the senior executives, much like the do-nothing, DEI hire herself Ms. Boykin, might be effective, but it risks paralyzing any legitimate activity and invites a massive number of lawsuits against the Administration for wrongful termination.

Continuing to enact and implement common sense rules and policies might encourage a number of these left-leaning losers to voluntarily resign, but that could take a long time, and I wouldn’t want to underestimate the ability of these bureaucratic barnacles to stubbornly resist removal. We certainly need policies that make it easier to fire them.

I really don’t know the answer, so how DO we get to a place where government becomes much, much smaller, more efficient, and focused on serving the American people? Serious question.


4 posted on 01/25/2025 4:50:37 AM PST by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой!)
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


5 posted on 01/25/2025 4:52:49 AM PST by nopardons
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To: Carriage Hill; notdownwidems

James Howard Kunstler ping


6 posted on 01/25/2025 4:54:41 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Apparatchik

In some cases, it is real easy. In the DoD we always could tell who these people were. One deployment to the green zone and a career made by telling how great they were during that one deployment. The people we knew we could count on made mutiple deployments to really s****y places and they usually didn’t get promoted beuase they were not in DC promoting themselves.

Promote the guys who did everything they could to stay out of DC. I know lots of those guys.


7 posted on 01/25/2025 5:06:22 AM PST by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Apparatchik

If I could not fire a DEI type I would immediately detail them to Alaska or Antarctica or nuclear missile bases in the Dakotas for six months.

You can do that to any federal employee.

90+% would quit at that point—and remember the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Then you have six months to deal with the bureaucratic mess trying to get them fired.


8 posted on 01/25/2025 5:10:20 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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If I could not fire a DEI type I would immediately detail them to Alaska or Antarctica or nuclear missile bases in the Dakotas for six months.

You can do that to any federal employee.

90+% would quit at that point—and remember the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Then you have six months to deal with the bureaucratic mess trying to get them fired.


9 posted on 01/25/2025 5:10:20 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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To: cgbg

Send them to special duty in E Palestine or W NC


10 posted on 01/25/2025 5:14:37 AM PST by combat_boots
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To: Apparatchik

Start with impeaching Chutcan and Jackson.


11 posted on 01/25/2025 5:58:49 AM PST by sauropod ("You didn't take a country. You only won a football game!" - Dan Dakich Ne supra crepidam)
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To: combat_boots
Now we know why Trump wants Greenland.

Reassign the folks he cant fire to a new, very spartan city in the interior of Greenland.

12 posted on 01/25/2025 6:05:25 AM PST by Mogger ( 7th generation Vermonter, refugee in New Hampshire hoping NH remains sane.)
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To: MtnClimber

Please add me to your Kunstler ping list.

Thank you


13 posted on 01/25/2025 6:24:56 AM PST by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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To: The FIGHTIN Illini

You are added to the ping list.


14 posted on 01/25/2025 6:26:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Kunstler is always a good read.
Thanks for the Ping.


15 posted on 01/25/2025 6:36:40 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Apparatchik
Wholesale housecleaning by handing pink slips to all the senior executives, much like the do-nothing, DEI hire herself Ms. Boykin, might be effective, but it risks paralyzing any legitimate activity and invites a massive number of lawsuits against the Administration for wrongful termination.

These are the guys in the chain to prevent Trump's orders from being executed. Lying by shifting titles and covering up is a felony. They can be fired immediately for that.

16 posted on 01/25/2025 6:36:55 AM PST by AndyJackson
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Then you have six months to deal with the bureaucratic mess trying to get them fired.

That is an artificial deep state construct too.

17 posted on 01/25/2025 6:38:50 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: MtnClimber

Kunstler’s style reminds me of Schlichter. Love them both for their biting brashness.


18 posted on 01/25/2025 8:28:50 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Apparatchik

The DEI commissars will have to be bribed to quit with generous severance packages.


19 posted on 01/25/2025 8:58:08 AM PST by Orosius (A“Wake America Up Again )
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To: MtnClimber

TELL ME SHE GOT FIRED...PLEASE


20 posted on 01/25/2025 12:53:35 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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