You get the help you pay for. If a Smart Person has a choice between taking a job in the private sector and a job in the public sector, and the public sector isn't competitive, then the people working for America are going to be the dregs that couldn't get a private sector job.

Americans should want public servants to be smart and effective, and to get those people, you have to pay them.

A Meal Team Six joke that took the Capitol.

From the article: "It is unknown what DEFCON1 means."

It means nuclear war is happening or is about to happen.

Nuclear. Goddamned. War.

Drive these nutbars into the sea and keep them there.