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Trump's old 'half-wit' intelligence director ridiculed for not knowing where federal jobs are located
April 21, 2021
If there's one thing that former Director of National Intelligence Richard Grenell has done since leaving office, it has called into question the "intelligence" portion of his previous job title.
Such was the case Wednesday when the long-time federal employee proclaimed that no state should have most of the federal jobs in it. He was talking about his reasons for opposing statehood for Washington, D.C., which comes up for a vote in the U.S. House Thursday.
No state should have all the Federal jobs. If DC becomes a state then the federal government must move out of DC a… https://t.co/pTH9dKNWgS— Richard Grenell (@Richard Grenell)1619017293.0
DC statehood has always been a problem for those nearly 700,000 residents who live in its borders and pay taxes but aren't given representation in Congress. It became an even greater point of contention during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Mayor Murial Bowser requested help from the National Guard ahead of the rally, but when the violence began, it took several hours for the guard to be deployed to the Capitol. Bowser had to call Virginia and Maryland and beg for help from their governors because the federal government is in charge of the D.C. guard because D.C. isn't a state.
The problem with Grenell's statement is that while D.C. might be the seat of the three federal branches of government, the actual employees of the federal government are located out in the other 50 states and 16 territories.
According to the ClearenceJobs website, "as of the end of February 2019, the total [people federally] employed was 2,050,936. Of this number, about 85 percent are employed in locations outside of Washington, D.C; 36 percent of these employees live in rural areas." They list the top ten federally employed states as:
1. California – 172,553
2. Virginia – 155,682
3. Maryland – 149,673
4. Texas – 148,453
5. Florida – 99,212
6. Georgia – 80,042
7. New York – 68,579
8. Pennsylvania – 68,300
9. Washington – 60,250
10. Ohio – 54,483
It drew a lot of mockery from those on Twitter observing the ignorance. Some kindly welcomed him to the DC statehood movement. See the comments below:
Good news, DC doesn't have all the Federal jobs. Thanks for your support of DC statehood!
— Zachary Pleat (@zpleat) April 22, 2021
Still can’t believe this moron was DNI. Over 90% of the federal workforce is outside DC. https://t.co/KFyxBeHXsz— Angry Staffer (@Angry Staffer)1619057316.0
@BaddCompani @RichardGrenell Be dumb. But don’t be dumb at YOUR JOB! Between this idiot and creatures like Marjor… https://t.co/uKt3YMeDsF— Carol Johnson AKA Cleo Everest (@Carol Johnson AKA Cleo Everest)1619060850.0
You are still just as useless as you were as an ambassador in Germany. They're still laughing about you
— Resistor the Resister (@Countermotion45) April 21, 2021
Imagine having worked in the federal government and not knowing that national parks, military, VA, and hundreds of other departments operate outside DC with thousands of federal employees.
— Tyler King (@TylerAKing) April 22, 2021
@zekonja @RichardGrenell It’s about making a point that really isn’t one because he’s that idiotic.— nancy hayes pope (@nancy hayes pope)1619057855.0
I didn't realize I had to go to DC to visit Yellowstone or mail my packages. Makes it kind of hard for our smoke jumpers get on a fire in a timely fashion if they have to come all the way from DC. Must be pricey to send out trail crews from DC to western states every day.
— MtnGrl 🏡 (@MtnGrl4) April 22, 2021
Wow, and you were acting DNI? 🙄My Dad, grandfather, uncle, and aunt all worked 30+ years each for the federal government in MA, FL, and TX, not a day in D.C.
— Pat Collins (@PL_Coll) April 22, 2021
@RichardGrenell
You half-wit. There are federal agencies and offices and employees in all states.
— Michael J. Stern (@MichaelJStern1) April 22, 2021
@mampdx @RichardGrenell Meme of the Day. Right here.— Karen Rhodenizer (@Karen Rhodenizer)1619059365.0
@liberalpuppy @RichardGrenell No one said he was ever bright, or knows how to use Google! 😉🤣— Lori Foy (@Lori Foy)1619060056.0
@swabbidiot @RichardGrenell Lol! Even *I* knew that!— ☔️ Kanoe 💐 (@☔️ Kanoe 💐)1619058057.0
@MuellerSheWrote @RichardGrenell 😱— Tammy (@Tammy)1619060973.0
not the brightest light in the harbor huh? It's ok, not everyone can be on the right side of the IQ bell curve.
— Jim "Fully Vaccinated" Collins 🌹 (@jimcollins) April 22, 2021
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Seth Meyers takes down 'shameless' Kayleigh McEnany 'who's still on TV lying for a living'
April 21, 2021
Americans just spent four years being gaslighted and lied to, and still, Republicans are still trying to do it, "Late Night" host Seth Meyers explained in Wednesday's "Closer Look" segment.
Speaking out on the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial, Meyers brought up former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who is now working for Fox News.
"I mean, we just went through four years of bullsh*t liars trying to convince us that reality isn't reality," said Meyers. "They were like hypnotists, except instead of a pocket-watch, they used a meatball on a string."
Doing his hilariously bad Trump impression, Meyers said, "Coronavirus isn't real!"
"Yeah, no, it is," said Meyers in response to the fake Trump.
"Racism doesn't exist," the fake Trump said, swinging the meatball.
"Yes, it does and, also, you're like, getting sauce everywhere," said Myers. "Also how does meatball hypnosis on like 50 percent of the country? In fact, if sh*t hypnotists still want to be on TV lying for a living like former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, who was shameless enough to go on Fox yesterday and criticize President [Joe] Biden for supposedly inflaming tensions by gently suggesting that it would be good if the jury agreed that murder should, in fact, be illegal."
McEnany misquoted Judge Peter Cahill, who said that he wishes political officials wouldn't intervene in the judicial process, which he said he felt Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) did. Neither Biden nor Waters addressed the trial until after the jury had been sequestered from news and television. Cahill said as much in his statement to the defense attorney.
"Right, of course, we wouldn't want a president inflaming tensions," said Meyers. "Who did you work for again? Oh, right. President flame thrower. But, sure, Biden's the one inflaming tensions. I mean, what's he going to do next? Gather a group of violent insurrectionists dressed like werewolves and Call of Duty cos-players down at the Capitol and tell them to fight? While his no-neck pasta-goblin of a lawyer calls for a trial by combat? Maybe he'll become best friends with a pillow salesman to claims the jury vote was rigged by Hugo Chavez and the CIA is part of a vast communist conspiracy. 'I saw Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez down at the courthouse using CIA computers to rig the verdict just like how they rigged the Superbowl against DA BEARS!'"
Meyers confessed that he knows that Mike Lindell isn't from Chicago but, "I don't, what's the word, care."
He went on to bash Republicans for their decision to not only support murder by Derek Chauvin, but now they're legalizing it in several states.
See his attack on the GOP below:
Chauvin Found Guilty in George Floyd Murder As Calls for Police Reform Grow: A Closer Look www.youtube.com
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Maddow: Al Qaeda used to instruct terrorists to ram their cars into crowds — just like GOP bills now legalize
April 21, 2021
Oklahoma and Florida legislatures have legalized running a car into a crowd of people if one feels "threatened." It's being called a get-out-of-jail-free card for white supremacists and terrorists who want to commit murder during a Black Lives Matter rally.
Ironically, Oklahoma experienced an incident in which a disgruntled student plowed into a crowd of people at the homecoming parade in 2015homecoming parade in 2015, killing two people. Oklahoma was also home to large, armed tea party rallies that could now be targeted thanks to the law. There are generally much larger and louder protests from the right-wing in Oklahoma than from Black Lives Matter protests.
In Florida, they've essentially nullified the right to assemble when it comes to confederate statues, which will likely get the law thrown off the books. Still, an all-white Republican group of lawmakers cheered on the freedom they now have to kill Black Lives Matter activists.
Speaking to Florida state Sen. Shevrin Jones, Maddow asked about the specifics of the bill, which he noted are flatly unconstitutional. But it was her comparison that brought in a striking comparison.
"One of the things that is, I think so -- that is the most shocking about this bill, and we saw that it made the headline in The New York Times today, is this idea that this Republican bill, and now state law in Florida, singles out people who use their cars to run over protesters for a specially designated form of immunity," she began. "I mean, you know, the freaking Al Qaeda Magazine, when it used to exist, used to advise Al Qaeda adherents that a great way to terrorize lots of Americans is to use a readily available large tool, namely a car or a truck, to run down Americans as a way of committing terrorist attacks in this country. By putting such a spotlight on that and singling it out for immunity, are there concerns this is creating a clear and present current public safety threat around that type of way of hurting people?"
Jones agreed, explaining that it happened in Miami, Florida last year during a George Floyd demonstration where someone drove their car into a crowd. Under the new law, killing someone there would be legal.
"And let's be extremely clear, that the governor has created a piece of legislation that no one has asked for," said Jones. "Instead of the governor doing what needs to be done to protect the lives of Black people within this state who is included within the 22 million people in the state of Florida, to begin to create these penalties that do nothing but create more individuals in our criminal justice system and to continue to clog up our jails. So, it does nothing."
See the discussion below:
the dangers of the murder legalization law www.youtube.com
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