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I’ve had waffles and fried chicken in Raleigh, so I guess I should try this.

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Wait, Ledeen, as in Michael Ledeen? That’s arguably the scariest part of the whole thing.

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After Trump gets booted, restaffing all these positions with competent personnel who haven’t since retired or moved on to better-paying civilian jobs is going to be brutal.

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Parts of the federal government were already facing a succession crisis before Trump took over. I wouldn’t be surprised if some departments will be reinventing institutional knowledge from scratch.

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I think it’s time I started updating my resume. Maybe I can get in on that sweet sweet Government employment

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Better make sure you have enough savings to survive 4-6 weeks of government shutdown.

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Usually, I do.

6278

I think you could have a lot of fun in the IRS.

Edit: meant as a compliment. You seem numerate and engaged in financial issues and they need people.

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Leadership roles routinely turn over whenever a new administration takes over. For instance, Jessie Liu has only held her current position for a few years.

Trump’s self-serving requirements for appointment are disturbing, but his institutional imprint will be overwritten by the next administration. In other words, pretty much everyone who Trump is firing now would have resigned anyway under President Sanders. That’s a feature not a bug.

The real “institutional knowledge” is in the non-leadership roles, who are protected from interference by Trump (hence his railing against the “deep state”).

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Seriously? You don’t think there would have been significant carryover from Obama to Sanders?

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I meant that if a Democrat wins this November, all of the people now out of a job would have been out of a job anyway.

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So Dow down a thousand points. Maybe Donald Trump’s luck is finally starting to turn.

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Nope, blame Bernie.

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Except this is different under Trump. The distrust between the career and political employees has never been higher. This is made worse by Trump moving into senior or political slots junior or incompetent employees who are known to be reliable Trumpists.

Almost all senior career employees who have employment options in the private sector have jumped ship or are planning to. Which in many cases means that the ablest and most dedicated people have left.

6285

Wow, that’s just stupid.

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Well, it was labeled as coming from Fox Business.

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Disagree. The lesson he learns is “ONLY LOYALISTS GET JOBS – PURGE ALL OTHERS”.

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