Well, he used different words — he wishes to “streamline” the government to rid it of the messiness and redundancy that prevents him from ruling as a dictator from his perch as Chief Executive — but in the end, let’s just go ahead and call a spade a spade.
RACISTS!
(h/t GeoffB)
new website fuck yeah!
Friday the 13th Special!
but I hadn’t heard this part yet
so now the next president will be accused of putting small business on the back burner when he doesn’t want some random-ass bureaucrat whore hanging about important cabinet meetings
Karen Mills, who’s been doing a terrific job leading that agency.
I’m going to have to disagree with that there. But what do I know? I’m a small business owner/operator, and this is The Fourth Most Brilliant American Statesman.
1. happyfeet posted on 1/13 @ 12:39 pm
new website fuck yeah!
ok I lol’d. thanks
“that small business owners have their own seat at the table in my Cabinet meetings.”
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“This is the same sort of authority that every business owner has to make sure that his or her company keeps pace with the times”. Ownership!
And let me be clear: I will only use this authority for reforms that result in more efficiency, better service, and a leaner government.
We all know what Bogie McJugears means when he says “Let me be clear,” don’t we?
A short word count from Obama’s speech, straight down from the top, a short way, by prevalence, excluding common words like “the”s, “and”s, “to”s, “a”s, etc., culled from a Wordle:
Go talk to the skilled professionals in government who are serving their country – some of the hardest-working folks you’ll find anywhere – and they’ll tell you that their efforts are constantly undermined by an outdated bureaucratic maze.
The skilled professionals in government serve themselves, Jugears, and the maze is their shield, which they use to keep people like me from seeing what’s really going on. The only people in government who serve their country are the drones at IRS who give you a different answer every time you call with a question, and the desperate hopeless killbot baby-murderers who lack body armor and a conscience.
Motherfucker means what he says, only not how it looks:
Right now, there are six departments and agencies focused primarily on business and trade in the federal government – from the Commerce Department to the Small Business Administration to the U.S. Trade Representative’s office. Six. In this case, six isn’t better than one. It’s redundant and inefficient. With the authority I am requesting today, we could consolidate them all into one department with one website, one phone number and one mission – helping American businesses succeed.
Because if there’s one thing Main Street needs, it’s having its own customized version of Homeland Security!
If we can just find a good Speer.
Heh geoff.
And all this from The Office of the President Elect!
You hobbits. Mordor serve nasssty, hating hobbitsesss.
You know, the thing is, Barry fancies himself a good man. And for this he is despised.
He should double down.
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I call them shovels… so as not to offend.
It’d be tough to go into Home Depot and ask where one could find a good spade and not get charged with a hate crime by Al Sharp?ton
“a corporate welfare Voltron.”
My whole life, I’ve been living with Boomer metaphors. Stuff like this makes me happier than I should admit.
What Squid said … When douchebag says let me be clear, what follows is always a whopper. I will just stick the tip in. Promise.
So he’s going to add 10 pounds, call the media in to watch him clip his fingernails and then claim that he’s losing weight.
And they’ll lap it up.
Gotta say, the dude is messaging to the lowest common denominator: “I tried to down-size the government and the Repubs wouldn’t let me. Do-nothing Congress! I’ll just have to discover some new Executive powers. Because we can’t wait!”
well if we had a speaker of the house with balls he’d send harry reid a bill to eliminate half the fed gov’t.
balls in your court baracky.
Which seems to be exactly where the votes are.
On a spit. With an apple in their mouths.
Downsize, consolidate. Same thing, right?
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