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"Eliminating the bureaucracy of government application processes" = cutting experienced staff and oversight in favor of automation and profit margins."Consumer-friendly best practices along with innovative technology" = making applicants do all of the work and then blaming them when the shitty proprietary system we replaced all that staff and oversight with can't handle the results.

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Exactly - they receive very little in the way of discipline or parental modelling of good behavior and during their formative years, they are mostly raised by nannies and assorted employees, none of whom have the authority or probably even interest in doing the work it takes to instill a child with a moral compass and empathy for others. When their parents do pay attention to them, it's either overly effusive praise to make up for the lack of quality time spent with them, criticism of any normal childlike behavior that deviates from the perfect princeling ideal expected from such scions of 'good breeding' or a flurry of denial and mitigation of consequences when the child does something horrendous.They grow up confused and angry because they don't understand why they're being told that they are precious perfect little angels who deserve the best of everything but they feel shitty and unwanted when they realize the people who are supposed to love them have fobbed them off to servants because they have better things to do and the people who actually take care of them only do it because they're paid...Add that deep-seated unhappiness and chronic mistrust of people to a stiff dose of entitlement and self-absorption and you've got yourself a budding sociopath.

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Removing blood clots are never elective surgeries, I would assume. I mean, blood clots kill people all the time.

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Dellaj my love, i'm a Ferrari man. Ranges are soooo bourgeois.

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Just something to bear in mind, Syphilitic Donito's father, while he was capable, financed him directly, guaranteed his loans, guaranteed 're-financing', and ponied up sub rosa bail outs. When Fred Trump's fate was sealed, an ever expanding legion of fixers, lawyers, and hired guns took over the task of keeping Fat Boy Orange out of the jug. He has no idea, none, that he is the beneficiary of such horrifyingly elaborate efforts, one of the reasons that he is so baffled by the public humiliation he's enduring now.

Don-Don and The Dumb One? Koosh-Koosh? These shitbirds are in the same boat. Never faced a consequence. Never put food on their own tables or shoes on their own feet. Never put off a 'want' to obtain a 'need'.They've spent their lives surrounded by family retainers whose only role is to downfuck their fuckups

They're the only ones who're going to be surprised when the hammer drops

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Um, beg pardon, here, small detail... what the *fuck* does he mean by "his staff hit send too soon"? If HE is the one going for a security clearance, he may ask his staff to remind him, or feed him notes, but HE IS THE ONE WHO HAS TO FILL IT OUT AND SIGN IT.

ObDisclosure: I have a POT (Position of trust) clearance (I think, they never tell you). This, presumably, means don't get top secrets, or middle secrets, probably only bargain basement secrets, or maybe blue light special secrets....

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Spit it out. What are you saying? Have some courage.

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Gosh, mate, it's fucking second degree, isn't that obvious? I troll the Breitbart abysses, not my soulmates at Wonkette.

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or public stoning

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and that Trump is surrounded by handlers who choice feed him good news so he doesn't throw a tantrum.

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Bannon is not an idiot, he is far worse - a zealot. true believers are the scariest of all.

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Somebody needs to teach these idiots how to lie. Clearly they have a lot to learn.

"No, honey, I just went over to her house. Nothing happened." Has this lie ever worked?

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I have not heard Natalia Veselnitskaya speak anything other than Russian on TV.

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Also, it is probably some minor legal violation to give someone else your password for the online form.

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You know about Alive 2017, then?

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And even if she speaks fluent English, she would surely pretend not to.

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