The first day of his inaguration, Trump put forth an executive order that will attempt to make all federal employees Schedule F, basically, the same protections as a political appointee instead of a civil servant. This will make them basically at will employees.
DunkinCoder is correct they are also making it really awful to work for the federal government with RTO and freezing of funding. And the hiring freeze. But it's not the complete picture, its actually much worse.
There will be court cases with federal employees trying to keep their jobs. I suspect they will fail, due to how the courts are republican controlled right now. The firings haven't started yet. Expect them soon. There will be loyalty tests. There's an email floating around asking federal employees to rat on "DEI hires", whatever that is. Are minorities that are actually entirely qualified for their federal position a "DEI hire"? Do you get fired if you don't pretend that they are?
All federal employees have been reclassified to political employees instead of nonpartisan civil servants, meaning they are closer to at will employees.
This has never happened before.
All federal employees now serve at the will of the party in power. There will be loyalty tests. There will be entire departments defunded and dismantled.
They are reviewing social media posts as we speak to decide who to keep. That's right, that includes folks at the CDC, FDA, EPA..... every paperwork jockey, no matter how minor their position, is now subject to the whims at the party in power in a way they were not before.
All these firings will be contested. They'll go to the courts. Say... Who owns the courts right now?
You have no idea what is happening. The purges begin 90 days from now.
I'm not sure why you're being down voted because you're right... maybe its just that bit at the end of your reply.
FTA, large insurance companies are required to insure risky homes if they want to do business in the state at all. Since they can't use catastrophe models or reinsurance they have to spread the risk over every home they insure in the state. So, people living in risky areas are having the cost of insurance subsidized by people living in less risky areas.
This creates perverse intensives. Peeps are just going to rebuild in areas with high fire risk... right? Want a big mansion in the woods? No problem! We can just rebuild if it catches on fire! Paid for by the public!
I don't know what the answer is, but the insurance companies just aren't at fault on this one. If you take issue with the increased rates, your problem is with climate change, and a housing system that requires insurance to function (houses are so expensive that we pay with mortgages, which require insurance).
This link is broken. Hmm.... If this were a real organization that needed money, wouldn't they either shut this site down entirely or fix their shop page?
This shit is ancient, and it was drawn as satire/bait. Nobody is handing out these flyers seriously. This post is rather embarrassing. Satire is dead I guess.
Edit: sources:
Source for text: scroll for text. I don't know where the goat went. This website is a high-effort satire page that hasn't been updated since like 2010. Looks real at first glance but just click around, it's clearly not a real church.
If I stole $62 million dollars (fta, Bilzerian owes this as his original amount), I'd be thrown in jail.
They've let this guy dick around for 31 years and haven't gotten the public's money back.
The USA has extradition with St Kitts and Nevis as far as I can tell. Running away to a tax shelter island (a British commonwealth, for fucks sake) shouldn't be enough for the USA to shrug it's sholders and give up.
The capitalist class plays by different rules. Don't let them get away with excuses like this.
I'd argue that would be a power trip, friend, because he's made a major change to the rules without his user's permission. And, many people outside that instance depend on db0's communities, which are large and varied. Very unlike many communities at awful.systems, which are meant for venting, snark, and sneering down your nose at people, warranted or unwarranted.
Everyone at awful.systems likely agrees with the moderation of the admins or they would not be there.
They didn't send it to the secret service or the boarder patrol or ICE. I think also the post office didn't get the letter.
I wish there was some shaudenfruede to be had, but there is none.