They’d better make out like bandits now, because when this whole nonsense is over, they’ll never find employment anywhere else.

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    Re: feature image (an open briefcase filled with cash and money falling haphazardly to the floor) anyone know the explanation/origin of this 80s/90s movie trope? Why was it always a briefcase? Surely there were more convenient and nondescript types of luggage to use for legal tender.

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    They’re government employees, so they’re paid on the GS scale, plus a cost-of-living adjustment by region. Of course they’re making over 100k, that just means they’re a college graduate with about 10 years of experience living in DC.

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    I wish that were true.

    Sadly they’re set for life. They will spend however long they have in government building a network that will make them immensely valuable to any number of lobbying firms. We’ll be hearing about these dipshits for decades.

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        They’re going to destroy millions of lives, and I doubt any of them know how expendable they are to their billionaire handlers.

        Trump had 2 assassination attempts last year ffs, and that was before Elon joined the clusterfuck, the open corruption, or they collapsed the economy. I wouldn’t be surprised if half of them are dead in a couple of years.

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    Hey, if you want to layoff people critical to managing nukes and run a lying website that is open to SQL-injection attacks, that takes a lot of “special” knowledge. I think it’s great that we’re paying dumbasses to fuck things up. What other job could they get with such prestige?

    /s

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    We should insist the only Elon write code for Doge because he’s a million times more qualified based on his net worth.