Democratic appropriators will gain wide latitude to investigate how the administration has been spending money. They plan to regularly call in budget chief Russell Vought, who they’ve accused of defying Congress’ intentions for how money should be spent.

DeLauro and Murray want to add guardrails to funding bills to protect against the administration’s attempts to cut spending. They secured language in September’s stopgap funding law temporarily blocking Vought’s proposal to give political appointees more control over grant money.

They need to call Vought in on the regular. They need to make sure they quote his own words at him. He’s the one that needs to feel “traumatized”. He needs to spend lots and lots and lots of time in the barrel.

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said Vought, one of the architects of Project 2025, Republicans’ radical, right-wing blueprint for overhauling the government.

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” he went on. “We want their funding to be shut down so that the [Environmental Protection Agency] can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/russell-vought-trauma-federal-workers-resurfaced_n_6a584180e4b07a7875d194ba

Get Vought

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I hope they remember to get that guy. The guy at the center of so much bullshit and fuckery going on under donnie 2.0. Co-author of Project 2025.

Anyone that signed onto that doc should be considered guilty and investigated and prosecuted. They are extremists hellbent on destroying this country.

The cons clutched their pearls over Obama “fundamentally changing America” and then mounted efforts like Project 2025 to actually do that.

I think Jimmy Kimmel or Daily Show did a supercut of him recently not knowing anything, and it was hilarious.

Remember how the conservatives were rending their garments over Hunter’s hard drive laptop October surprise fizzling?

And how they had Matt Taibbi publish the “Twitter files” after fElon took over Twitter? A great big fucking nothingburger, but I’m sure they’ll be just as outraged about squelching activism? Right?

Vought is relatively quiet and behind the scenes and a lot less performative than that idiot Hegseth, but even more than Hegseth, I want to see that little motherfucker pay.

“When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains,” he went on. “We want their funding to be shut down so that the [Environmental Protection Agency] can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so.

“We want to put them in trauma.”

Keep in mind he’s talking about Americans that are civil servants. This angry little shithead who is himself a “bureaucrat” set out to explicitly assault 2 million Americans that work for this country.

He needs to pay for that.

What else to expect from conservatives?

They’ve been intentionally calling the DemocratIC Party the “Democrat Party” for decade upon decade. You’ll sometimes even hear them “correct” themselves on air, in order to stay on-message for being petty little babies that constantly insult Democrats.

They know the correct name for the party, but they’ll back up and make sure they say “Democrat Party”. Just like some of the idiots now referring to artificial intelligence/AI as “superintelligence” or “SI”, will do the same thing, especially if donnie is standing next to them…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/democrat-party-republican-insult.html

Just how in the fuck are these guys allowed to be operating in secret at all?

These motherfuckers work for us.

Maybe they might throw in some performative internal bullshit too like a DEI book club.

A whole lot of professed “independents” are actually Republicans who just don’t want to admit it, when you probe even just a little bit.

That’s why there is Murc’s Law and the term “reactionary centrists”.

And then a large portion of the others are just fence-sitters that are generally low-info, but throw in with what they think will be the “winning team”. Or vote for/against someone based on some arbitrary trait - they found the candidate tall/attractive, they didn’t like the way they laughed, etc…

Lastly: nearly everyone knows that elections are decided at the margins. No one contests that. But it’s not really like most “independents” are evaluating things on the merits like some set of perfectly rational actors. Just because elections that are nearly 50/50 and swung by the arbitrary whims of a few people that don’t profess allegiance to being R or D does not really speak to the actual independence of people that merely claim they are independent.

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LOL, bravely running away, away!

I’ve never seen anyone know less while walking so fast that he was nearly jogging - away from people asking questions.

Getting Vought should be job #1.

That shitheel Vought said that civil servants should feel traumatized by Project 2025.

We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected. When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down so that the EPA can’t do all of the rules against our energy industry because they have no bandwidth financially to do so. We want to put them in trauma.

Not only does HE need to feel traumatized, but assholes within organizations like ICE need to feel traumatized.

Treating civil servants like that little creep did should be something that we need to come down like a ton of bricks on.

Good. Don’t forget people like Musk, too.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/well-now-we-have-to-send-elon-musk

JFC, read the room, asshole.

So many motherfuckers to investigate.

https://www.wonkette.com/p/well-now-we-have-to-send-elon-musk

Yup. The base are utterly clueless and the “independents” are often just as clueless.

I bet anything they don’t know about his Thiel/Curtis Yarvin connections. Or how he endorsed the book The Unhumans, FFS.

And I bet few have read The Nerd Reich or have read - or at least read about - The Sovereign Individual…

This is exactly why this little skidmark is saying this.

Let’s reach across the aisle to help that motherfucker get into prison.

I realize. David Brooks has been kicking around for quite a while; I just found it hilarious that anyone still finds his “analysis” worthy of anything other than a punchline.

Because the guy is practically the poster boy for “both sides” dumbassery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtE1BkfVs4

Every time I glanced over at the screen, if he was on the screen at all, he seemed to be on his phone, though. That woman on the far right of the screen seemed to be doing her part to have a quota of stupid conservative takes, though.

MeidasTouch had a cut of various cons like Mikey Johnson claiming the “polls were wrong” and there is lot of “energy” out there, etc.

Real 2020 energy when all these jagoffs were claiming donnie had it in the bag because of “enthusiasm” at his hate rallies and Biden was “campaigning from his basement” and “no one is going to his rallies”.

These people seem to be completely innumerate. Anecdotal experience among the self-selected at events like donnie’s stupid rallies is no way to really get a sense of how an election is going to turn out, FFS.