You made that up!

it's real
https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/cannaphobia-whats-up-with-fear-of-marijuana.273482/

it's real
https://www.420magazine.com/community/threads/cannaphobia-whats-up-with-fear-of-marijuana.273482/

Blatant relocation of goal post.

420-phobia doesn't appear in that post.

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A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Trump administration has the authority to continue their mass federal worker firings.

Trump can continue mass
firings despite disruption
and chaos, US judge rules

Feb 20 (Reuters) - The Trump administration can continue its mass
firings of federal employees for now, a federal judge ruled on Thursday,
rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald
Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal
workforce.

U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C., said
Trump's onslaught of executive actions in his first month in office
have caused "disruption and even chaos in widespread quarters of
American society." But he said he likely lacks the power to decide
whether the firing of tens of thousands of government workers is lawful.
The unions are instead likely required to file complaints with the Federal
Labor Relations Authority, which hears disputes between federal
agencies and unions that represent their workers, Cooper said. Trump
last week fired the Democratic chair of the three-member panel, who
has filed a lawsuit seeking to be reinstated.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-can-continue-mass-firings-federal-workers-us-judge-rules-2025-02-20/

The ATF Firings Have Begun!

And the left who is anti 2a will say "how will we keep the children safe?"

And the left who is anti 2a will say "how will we keep the children safe?"

They are already whining that the firing of one ATF individual means no gun control laws will be getting enforced.

From The Brady Campaign's president:

The abrupt firing of ATF Chief Counsel Hicks is chilling. It is also no secret that
ATF has historically been woefully under-resourced, and we pay the price in
our safety, with guns now the number one killer of children in this country. Now,
with this sudden removal at the federal agency charged with preventing gun
trafficking and overseeing the gun industry, we are all at greater risk.

https://www.bradyunited.org/press/atf-chief-counsel-fired

Now, for that actual story...

Attorney General Pam Bondi removed the general counsel for the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on Thursday morning, terminating her employment
with the Justice Department.

Pamela Hicks, a 23-year veteran of the department, confirmed she was fired on LinkedIn.
She did not say whether she was given a reason for the removal, but she is one of several
general counsels from Justice Department component agencies to be fired or resign in the
first month of the Trump administration.

The FBI’s general counsel resigned earlier this month, according to people familiar with
the situation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss information that has not
been made public. Sam Ramer — who worked in the Justice Department and White House
during the first Trump administration, then worked in private practice — is expected to be
the FBI’s next general counsel, those people said.

The Bureau of Prisons’ general counsel also announced plans to retire later this month,
according to union leaders and an internal email provided to The Washington Post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-administration-removes-atf-general-counsel/ar-AA1ztv1Q

They are already whining that the firing of one ATF individual means no gun control laws will be getting enforced.

From The Brady Campaign's president:https://www.bradyunited.org/press/atf-chief-counsel-fired

Now, for that actual story...https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/trump-administration-removes-atf-general-counsel/ar-AA1ztv1Q

With our Wolford lawsuit (sensitive places) being petitioned to SCOTUS, I wonder if they accept, will Kayal still work pro-bono as the AG stated.  I mean, I'm sure MDA/ET are paying his $3600/hr fees.

Trump wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built again. He's saying that the approvals will be quick since Brandon screwed them over. You know how they were told "get another job" or "take up another trade" when the 3,000 were affected.

IIRC we get 30% of our oil from Russia and this pipeline would make it so we don't really need any oil from Russia.  After this pipeline was cancelled by Brandon, is what began the oil prices in the USA to go up, thus cost of good went up aka inflation. 

"learn to code"

Trump wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built again. He's saying that the approvals will be quick since Brandon screwed them over. You know how they were told "get another job" or "take up another trade" when the 3,000 were affected.

IIRC we get 30% of our oil from Russia and this pipeline would make it so we don't really need any oil from Russia.  After this pipeline was cancelled by Brandon, is what began the oil prices in the USA to go up, thus cost of good went up aka inflation.

DEI wasteful funding is being cut. What's funny is that companies are choosing to do the same. Now they're being boycotted by the left.  They were also boycotted by the right when implementing DEI type stuff too.  So it seems, had they not done anything, they would have been fine. Example: Target had gay pride stuff for kids and was boycotted.  They pulled all the items a few weeks later.  Now they got rid of their DEI plans and their stocks tanked big time in the past few weeks.

Maybe companies should just stick to selling stuff and not have an agenda.  Either way, you alienate 1 side of your market. Like Dicks not selling "assault rifles' anymore due to pressure from anti 2A orgs. Most gun guys dont buy their rifles from Dicks, but their wives who are soccer moms buy stuff other things.  And the husbands told their wives to shop elsewhere and Dicks sales went down big time.  Under Armor began supporting BLM and was boycotted.  Nike with sports bras to trannies and BLM. The list goes on and on.

Looks like we have another WINNER.
Trump admin will gut the Californication of our trucking industry.
A Biden fumble opens the door for Trump and congress to take action to
save our trucking industry from more idiotic rules and regs from CA.
Making trucking more expensive makes life more expensive.
Yes you non-believers even your soy milk costs more.

Looks like we have another WINNER.
Trump admin will gut the Californication of our trucking industry.
A Biden fumble opens the door for Trump and congress to take action to
save our trucking industry from more idiotic rules and regs from CA.
Making trucking more expensive makes life more expensive.
Yes you non-believers even your soy milk costs more.

Think of all the cars and trucks that failed CA emissions testing and were cheaper to junk than make compliant.  How does that impact the environment?

Trump wants the Keystone Pipeline to be built again. He's saying that the approvals will be quick since Brandon screwed them over. You know how they were told "get another job" or "take up another trade" when the 3,000 were affected.

Restarting the Keystone pipeline will be very difficult.  After Biden cancelled the project in his first day in office, companies capable of taking on
such a project are very hesitant to invest millions of dollars in any long term contract that can be simply cancelled by an EO.

Think of all the cars and trucks that failed CA emissions testing and were cheaper to junk than make compliant.  How does that impact the environment?

Plus all the environmental harm from cow farts.

Newest story is 80K will be cut from the VA. THey have 400K employees.  I've known many who aren't happy with the VA system.  It has gotten a little better over the past few years, but still not where vets expect it to be.

Just because you're a vet or work with vets, doesn't make you immune from not doing your job and job cuts.

Some stories I've heard over the years:

Friend had a broken arm and the cast was set too tight. Instead of re-doing it, Tripler cut the cast and used duct tape to secure it not as tight.

Retired friends tried making appointments and it does take longer than how their non VA friends the similar age can get with their PCP.

Nurses can be removed to go to training for X events.  When Mrs. CMO was giving birth, we had a couple who went to Tripler cause the womans water broke. They were sent to Kapiolani cause half the nurses were gone in Louisiana for training incase China invaded Taiwan.

1 friend brags how they don't do much admin things in the VA.  And even her coworkers who mess up don't get reprimanded after repeat mess ups.  They too don't do much.

Of course there are some positive or normal things with the VA that I have a few examples of too, but mostly it's bad examples that I hear of.


In general, the bigger the gov org, the worst it gets.  These cuts aren't targeting vets, but are across the board for many departments.

Some stories I've heard over the years:

A friend with severe PTSD keeps getting switched to new psychologists, forcing him to start all over from the beginning and relive his trauma.

It happens to a lot of guys, and the theory amongst some of them is that they are trying to get the unstable ones to kill themselves and save the system money.

If that's was the goal then they've been rather successful.

https://stopsoldiersuicide.org/vet-stats

The VA scandals under the Obama administration were likely never corrected.

They first uncovered that it was taking 1 month up to a year for appointments.  if you had to cancel or they canceled on you, you went to the back of the line and had to start waiting all over again.

The problem, aside from veterans not getting decent care in a reasonable timeframe, is the administrators were rewarding themselves with giant annual bonuses.  They justified the bonuses by keeping 2 sets of appointments -- one that was accurate showing horrendous wait times, and a second set showing the request dates being moved up so it appeared the appointment dates were within VA guidelines.  The target was to receive an appointment date within 14 days of the request.

CNN reported on April 30, 2014, that at least 40 United States Armed Forces
veterans died while waiting for care at the Phoenix, Arizona, Veterans Health
Administration facilities. By June 5, 2014, Veterans Affairs internal investigations
had identified 35 veterans who had died while waiting for care in the Phoenix
VHA system.

The House Committee on Veterans' Affairs held a hearing on preventable patient
deaths in VA facilities in September 2013 during which representatives accused
the VA of failing to discipline the officials responsible for patient deaths and instead
providing performance bonuses. For example, VA regional director Michael Moreland
received a bonus of approximately $63,000 and a five-page performance evaluation
that made no mention of an outbreak of Legionnaires' disease that led to the deaths
of six veterans and illness for 21 others at a Pittsburgh VHA hospital for which
Moreland was responsible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Veterans_Health_Administration_controversy

Later reports showed that the administrators found new ways to circumvent the new tracking and reporting processes without fixing the actual problems.

Any bets on whether things slipped back into the Obama era "hell" under Biden's watch?