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| Memo to Obama aides: Don’t prank Trump or Clinton on your way out | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 1 2016, 04:07 PM (209 Views) | |
| Copper | Oct 1 2016, 04:07 PM Post #1 |
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Shortstop
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2016/09/29/memo-to-obama-aides-dont-prank-trump-or-clinton-on-your-way-out/
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The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy | |
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| jon-nyc | Oct 1 2016, 05:41 PM Post #2 |
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Cheers
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Well, unlike the other things mentioned that one's kind of funny and pretty harmless. |
| In my defense, I was left unsupervised. | |
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| George K | Oct 1 2016, 05:44 PM Post #3 |
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Finally
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I want to know what the "sticky stuff" was. Er, no. I don't. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Klaus | Oct 2 2016, 01:25 AM Post #4 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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How many people loose their job when the administration changes? I would have expected that only the senior positions change. |
| Trifonov Fleisher Klaus Sokolov Zimmerman | |
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| jon-nyc | Oct 2 2016, 01:43 AM Post #5 |
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Cheers
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The entire whitehouse staff changes, except for positions related to the facility itself (groundskeepers, butlers, etc). That's what they're talking about. The vast majority of federal employees work for various agencies and they don't turn over. Just the leadership positions, as you suggest. (Prior to the 1880s *all* non-military positions in the federal government turned over, which was chaotic as you might imagine. It also made the presidency an immense patronage machine, with predictable results) |
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| Mikhailoh | Oct 2 2016, 03:58 AM Post #6 |
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If you want trouble, find yourself a redhead
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It's still an immense patronage machine, probably turning over more positions than it did then. |
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Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball | |
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| Axtremus | Oct 2 2016, 04:13 AM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Not pranking is the responsible thing to do. Good policy. |
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| Riley | Oct 2 2016, 05:05 AM Post #8 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Taking all the W's was pretty ****ing funny though.
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| George K | Oct 2 2016, 05:12 AM Post #9 |
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Finally
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In a 4th grade kind of way, I suppose. |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| jon-nyc | Oct 2 2016, 06:26 AM Post #10 |
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Cheers
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You might think so just given the growth of government but it isn't so. When Benjamin Harrison took office in 1889 some 31,000 postmaster positions changed hands. It touched every town in America. |
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| John D'Oh | Oct 2 2016, 08:23 AM Post #11 |
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MAMIL
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It's hard to image how these people could learn to be so childish when they work in Washington. |
| What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket? | |
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