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Boy, they just cut the State Department to the bone. How will we be able to do what ever the fuck the State Department is supposed to do. Don't expect the Tug leftards to read this as it contains numbers and shit.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/07/state-dept-layoffs.php

From The Hill newspaper,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio began mass firings at the State Department on Monday, part of a reorganization plan to form a leaner foreign policy force that, he argues, will allow the United States to respond more nimbly by removing layers of bureaucracy.

The department sent reduction in force (RIF) notices Friday morning to about 1,100 civil servants and 250 foreign service officers stationed in the U.S., with plans to cut its workforce further.

The Hill continues,

The move prompted heavy pushback from Democrats and former diplomats who contended that by downsizing its diplomatic footprint the administration is putting national security at risk.

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde describing the death scene of Little Nell in Dickens’ The Old Curiosity Shop, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh.

Byron York points out on Twitter (X) that the Dept.’s bureaucratic bloat has become extra heavy in recent years,

Looking at State Department documents, it appears the department went from 57,340 total employees in 2007 to 72,895 in 2015 to 80,214 in 2024. So it grew by nearly 23,000 employees before the ‘devastating’ cut of 1,300.

BidenBros are taking classes from her…

Lol dipshit, I finished a MS last year for my third degree and graduated phi kap phi. #fighton

I won't even go into how political the education was at every level.

You went to fucking central.

Congrats on your communist utopia that doesn’t exist anywhere.

Most people don’t have a wife that supports their lazy ass. Still excited about the Trump felony convictions?

Breaking news: tug magatards equate capitalism with progressive tax rates, universal health care, prioritizing public education, mass transit, infrastructure spending, and generous parental leave

Quite the vaccine. Rolled out in early 2021and then cases spiked in the summer of 2021. Then it just went away as people stopped taking the vaxx.

This is what we were and still are faced with. Imagine thinking you were on the side of SCIENCE when you didn't bother to learn a phucking thing about the chicom crud and put your faith in untested mRNA vaccines that would never have been approved in a sane environment. Rogan knew more about the crud and the vaxx than St. Fow Chee. Remember the winter of severe illness and death that never materialized? Good times from the dementia patient's administration.

https://instapundit.com/

IS THE NEW YORK TIMES A LIBERAL NEWSPAPER? OF COURSE IT IS: Is It Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family? The column was written by David Litt, a former Obama speechwriter whose smugness is almost as overwhelming as his boss:

Not too long ago, I felt a civic duty to be rude to my wife’s younger brother.

I met Matt Kappler in 2012, and it was immediately clear we had nothing in common. He lifted weights to death metal; I jogged to Sondheim. I was one of President Barack Obama’s speechwriters and had an Ivy League degree; he was a huge Joe Rogan fan and went on to get his electrician’s license. My early memories of Matt are hazy — I was mostly trying to impress his parents. Still we got along, chatting amiably on holidays and at family events.

Then the pandemic hit, and our preferences began to feel like more than differences in taste. We were on opposite sides of a cultural civil war. The deepest divide was vaccination. I wasn’t shocked when Matt didn’t get the Covid shot. But I was baffled. Turning down a vaccine during a pandemic seemed like a rejection of science and self-preservation. It felt like he was tearing up the social contract that, until that point, I’d imagined we shared.

Had Matt been a friend rather than a family member, I probably would have cut off contact completely. As it was, on the rare and always outdoor occasions when we saw each other, I spoke in disapproving snippets.

“Work’s been good?”

“Mhrmm.”

My frostiness wasn’t personal. It was strategic. Being unfriendly to people who turned down the vaccine felt like the right thing to do. How else could we motivate them to mend their ways?

I can't even count the number of times some liberal has told me how much he or she wants the world to emulate North Korea.

Unless of course, counting to zero is a thing.