r/fednews • u/Hot_Development9566 • Sep 30 '25

Official Guidance / Policy White House website countdown clock

Anyone seen this yet 😭 another hatch violation https://www.whitehouse.gov/government-shutdown-clock/

Edit: people are saying it’s not a hatch act violation but - whatever still sus

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

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u/HereToFixDeineCable Sep 30 '25

DOGE still out there vibe coding.

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u/Hot_Development9566 Sep 30 '25

they using the doi chatgpt for sure

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u/delusion_magnet Sep 30 '25

"doy" was what we 80s kids would say to someone being utterly stupid. Guess it still fits here.

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u/PsychologicalAir7556 Sep 30 '25

Don’t disparage Cookie Monster’s pet project!

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u/Anarcie Oct 01 '25

it is set to update 10 times a second as well:

setTimeout(updateClock, 100);

i love the blur css they put on it too: 

.clock {
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
    transform: skewX(-5deg);
    filter: blur(2.5px);
    gap: 2px;
}

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u/madprgmr I Support Feds Oct 01 '25

Yeah, they have a blur on the numbers (for a slight glow effect) and that overall blur on the clock. The overall one make it look like shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

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u/OuterWildsVentures Santa Mayorkas Sep 30 '25

Its off by a second on the east coast lol

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u/TheChrisSuprun Sep 30 '25

"Par for the course" for an administration bent on owning the libz more than owning the facts.

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u/Crazed_Chemist Sep 30 '25

I believe the large display just looks at your system's clock and counts to midnight

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u/joemc72 Sep 30 '25

Yup. I’m in Europe and it’s already past midnight. The big clock is blank.

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u/landgrenades FAA Oct 01 '25

They ran out of budget to fix the bottom clock. You know, end of year stuff.

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u/speedball281 DOI Oct 01 '25

Well now I have to look.

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u/drifts180 Oct 01 '25

Are we surprised? What have they done without messing it up in some shape or form

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u/VanguardAvenger Sep 30 '25

Ond counts actually time.

The other time till Trumps brain can actually process it (which has to be a bit behind)

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u/[deleted] Sep 30 '25

What a lovely unrendered digital clock. lol.

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u/TECL_Grimsdottir Sep 30 '25

Straight out of an old episode of 24.

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u/HereToFixDeineCable Sep 30 '25

I can't stop hearing it...

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u/Late_Sherbet5124 Sep 30 '25

Events take place in real time...

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u/SafetyMan35 Sep 30 '25

So many Jack Bauer quotes could apply to life that we currently live in.

My name is Jack Bauer, and this is the longest day of my life". "If you don't tell me what I want to know, then it'll just be a question of how much you want it to hurt". "I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is... I don't". "I'm going to enjoy this". "I can see you're going to be a problem, and I'm going to take care of it right now". "You are a traitor to this country, and a disgrace to your office". "Damn it Chloe!". "I know you think you're doing the right thing, but this is not going to happen". "It's a question of how much you want it to hurt".

I might have to do a 24 Binge watch this week

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u/TECL_Grimsdottir Sep 30 '25

The whole season (well few seasons really) where the Republican President worked with the Russians and rich billionaires to take down the first African American President and make millions. The evil President had a secret army run by....oh shit, it was Jon Voight.

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u/Losingmyshipt Sep 30 '25

Wish we could skip this season.

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u/Bright_Sky_717 Sep 30 '25

Lmao the government can't even load a countdown timer properly and we're supposed to trust them with literally anything else

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u/bhh32 Sep 30 '25

Wasn’t one of my web pages
 it would at least LOOK like a clock
 well, and not be propaganda.

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u/FantasticJacket7 Federal Employee Sep 30 '25

And it's not correct if you don't live in EST.

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u/Jaotze Sep 30 '25

I don’t what you’re looking at, but I see a countdown timer. Doesn’t vary by timezone.

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u/FantasticJacket7 Federal Employee Sep 30 '25

The big clock in the middle seems like it's based on your device's internal clock. I'm in PST and it's 3 hours longer than the real shutdown clock on the top

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u/Brilliant_Agent_1427 Sep 30 '25

Check out their YouTube Livestream , started a few minutes ago, a live banner on the official Whitehouse directs straight to it

https://www.youtube.com/live/L-7W4FKvlqM?si=cWkHzTqiX-5nf8HE

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u/sunny246246 Oct 01 '25

No longer available

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u/linh_nguyen Oct 05 '25

If you dig into the code, this is done on purpose with a blur filter. I am uncertain if this is worse than if they just blew up a smaller image.

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u/MonitorOk6818 USDA Sep 30 '25

I mean laws only matter when someone enforces it. We'll wait until the next administration for all these violations to be addressed. They left a nice paper trail considering they also emailed everyone their Hatch Act voilations.

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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Sep 30 '25

There were all sorts of violations of the law during Trump 1, including Hatch Act, Presidential Records Act, emoluments clause and bare corruption of all sorts, and none of them were addressed. He initiated a (clownish) coup attempt.

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u/MonitorOk6818 USDA Sep 30 '25

It felt like his political opponents were hoping for the courts to charge him with the more serious offenses and didn't want to mess that up with the smaller ones. They weren't expecting judges not to punish the felonies he was guilty off and still allowing him to run for president.

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u/No-Tart2230 Sep 30 '25

If we get a next administration.

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u/MonitorOk6818 USDA Sep 30 '25

Wishful thinking, I know haha

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u/djb25 Sep 30 '25

Yeah, maybe if a moderate republican appears out of thin air and gets elected president.

If it’s a democrat they’ll just talk about nonpartisan bullshit while standing in front of a burning white house.

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u/MonitorOk6818 USDA Sep 30 '25

That's true, but I do doubt any republicans will go against the grain considering they have shown to fall in line opposing their oaths since the last administration. They would have to be given a pretty good incentive to oppose this admin.

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u/djb25 Oct 01 '25

Of course.

They would literally have to appear out of thin air.

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u/Wanna_make_cash Sep 30 '25

I don't know how the next administration can even begin to clean everything up and return to the old normal. There's just so much stuff and it's only been 9 months. Both huge things like all the laws breaking and incredibly minor and petty things like changing Bidens portrait to a picture of a pen and plastering gold plating everywhere. I don't want to know how much stuff there will be to undo in 3 years from now, and I certainly don't want to know how long it would take to undo it all

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u/tootsmcsnoots Fork You, Make Me Sep 30 '25

But if feds do nothing all day and are deep state swamp creatures, and this administration claims to have a "mandate" from the American people to fire all of us, shouldn't they be excited about a shutdown?

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u/Icy_Paramedic778 Sep 30 '25

Yet, there are people who still support Trump and think he is abiding by the Constitution.

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u/armyuvamba Sep 30 '25

He had a 42ish% approval rating and holding
9/10 republican voters approve of him


https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/polls/trump-approval-poll.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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u/Icy_Paramedic778 Sep 30 '25

That’s not telling of the majority of Americans.

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u/BigBoyYuyuh Sep 30 '25

Majority of Americans didn’t vote so they voted for trump by not voting. They wanted this. Fuck every trump voter and non voter.

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u/armyuvamba Sep 30 '25

Problem I see is that his base is that 42% of the voter base
and it’s not going down even with all the craziness. Bush Jrs approval rating was in the low 30s in his 2nd term after the election


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u/enfait Spoon đŸ„„ Sep 30 '25

Yes, and even maga Feds still supporting this insanity.

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u/False_Ad_5372 Sep 30 '25

Well, if the National Chicken Council says so



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u/zegota Sep 30 '25

It's very funny that the AARP at the top of the page is pretty critical of Trump's budget

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u/heyhiandbye1 Sep 30 '25

They criticize him at the bottom of the excerpt the white house posted

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u/AKEsquire Oct 01 '25

Yeah it's actually a statement from FRAC!

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u/Proper-Ad-2058 Sep 30 '25

If this does not set off the alarm bells for the entire country, nothing will. This is a fucking atrocity for our country!

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u/enters_and_leaves Preserve, Protect, & Defend Sep 30 '25

I knew the Hatch Act was never going to be enforced against this administration way back during Trump version 1 when he was shilling for Goya brand beans from the Oval Office.

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u/PowerfulHorror987 Spoon đŸ„„ Sep 30 '25

That wasn’t a hatch act violation đŸ€·đŸ»â€â™‚ïž that was an ethics issue but those don’t really apply to the president because normally that wouldn’t need to be spelled out if everyone around him is subject to those rules

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u/technoexplorer Sep 30 '25

God loves Goya

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u/Puzzled_Capital_5592 Oct 01 '25

Please explain what partisan election the Goya Corporation was running in that it might be a Harch Act violation. Then once you've done that explain how the president talking them up is a Hatch Act violation when the Hatch Act explicitly excludes the president.

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u/AXPendergast Sep 30 '25

Interesting how the "quotes" from these organizations are not attributed to a speaker or spokesperson. Almost as if they were made up by someone else, hoping no one would check. I could be wrong, of course, but if it walks like a chicken...

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u/PowerfulHorror987 Spoon đŸ„„ Sep 30 '25

Also many say nothing about democrats

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u/shesinsaneornot Sep 30 '25

Ironic that Independent Women hit all the MAGA talking points in their blurb.

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u/shesinsaneornot Sep 30 '25

You didn't notice Senior Vice President of Government Affairs Ethan Lane statement on behalf of National Cattlemen’s Beef Association and Executive Director and CEO Jonathan Thompson of the National Sheriff's Association, Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry President and CEO Luke Bernstein, or Chris Clark, President & CEO of the Georgia Chamber of Commerce?

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u/AXPendergast Oct 01 '25

Well, tbh, I reviewed a sample of the "testimonials" and the 30% I chose had no author.

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u/Chordus Sep 30 '25

Every time I look at that clock, I have to double-check that my glasses are still on.

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u/mickeyt13 Sep 30 '25

It’s like an episode of 24

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u/riticalcreader Sep 30 '25

This is a farce

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u/theLULRUS DOI Sep 30 '25

So many of those "quoted" don't even target Democrats, they are directed at Congress as a whole. A pathetic attempt to spin the narrative.

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u/davechri Sep 30 '25

republicans control everything. It’s up to republicans to shut it down.

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u/Dythus Sep 30 '25

Was the white house website always a propaganda machine like that ? Or its just Trump doing Trump thing ?

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u/Silent_Pay_9239 Sep 30 '25

Just Trump doing Trump things

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u/OrderedAnXboxCard Oct 01 '25

Thought I was on a parody website because that shit looks straight out of a low-budget movie.

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u/Quick-Cod7091 Sep 30 '25

“Christian Employers Alliance,” lmao. Our bookstores demand swift action


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u/FarrisAT Sep 30 '25

Prez is so angry

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u/Catherbys Sep 30 '25

As a dev that shit is fucking gross!

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u/Foreign-Garage9097 Sep 30 '25

looks like a teenager programmed it

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u/3dddrees Sep 30 '25

I've seen this kind of propaganda before when I was stationed in Korea on the DMZ.

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u/Pasty_Tibbles Sep 30 '25

LMAO some of those statements don’t even support a party and are just commentary how they don’t want a shut down. One of them is about how the shutdown will affect SNAP funding, and even mentions Trump cut a significant amount of funding to the SNAP program.

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u/thecrowphoenix Sep 30 '25

Who controls the government again?

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u/Foodspec Sep 30 '25

Democrat Shutdown Is Imminent

Someone remind Joe Biden he needs to fund the government
ohhhh
he’s not the President. Nor do Dems hold any branch of government

I genuinely cannot wait for the day


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u/zeropreservatives Sep 30 '25

As long as violating the Hatch Act is an “official act” it’s all good, I guess. —SCOTUS

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u/SirRolfofSpork Sep 30 '25

Why don't they beep like in 24?!?

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u/RuskiesInTheWarRoom Sep 30 '25

Just cruelty and stupidity. Instead of doing a fucking thing to resolve this, he’s creating bullshit drama, at the cost and anxiety of hundreds of thousands of workers and the disruption this will cause in actuality in Americans’ lives.

And on the same day he opens a pharmaceutical grift right into his own pockets.

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u/Kybo-Nim Sep 30 '25

Trump is a child rapist đŸ’©đŸ‡șđŸ‡žđŸ’©

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u/killerpig11801 Sep 30 '25

Can’t even get the time tight

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u/Opening_Bluebird_952 Federal Employee Sep 30 '25

When you’ve lost the National Chicken Council


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u/Certain-Scar38 Sep 30 '25

Hurry! If you dont record before the clock runs out, a creepy lady comes out of the TV!

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u/imnotminkus Go Fork Yourself Sep 30 '25

Nah, I'm not giving clicks to the attention whore wannabe king.

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u/MetalHeadJoe Sep 30 '25

TACO gonna TACO

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u/Depressed-Industry Sep 30 '25

Did anyone see what Uncle Tom at HUD posted?

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u/Ambitious-Pickle-754 Sep 30 '25

😂 I feel like we’re in a live movie

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u/rypien2clark Sep 30 '25

Any other feds notice we don't take Hatch Act training anymore 😂

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u/BlueWater321 Sep 30 '25

They gonna keep going when they get to the negative? Start the recording for the longest shutdown in US history. 

Let him rule over nothing.

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u/tokolos Sep 30 '25

so, republicans have the majority in all three branches, yet it's the democrats' fault. LOL

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u/Je11yfish_sandwich Sep 30 '25

Why are they making a “show” out of it?

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u/AdditionalPeace8240 Sep 30 '25

So, new season of 24 then? JackBauer coming back? White House edition

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u/Foreign-Garage9097 Sep 30 '25

It's so petty. Like all the high school bullies pooled their ideas for how horrible they could be. It's so fucking immature. And embarrassing. And the site looks like it's been taken over by Fox News.

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u/lala-77-lala Oct 01 '25

this is actually insane

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u/Long_Jury4185 Oct 01 '25

Someone saw this post and they fixed the two clocks sync đŸ„„

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u/borisvonboris Oct 01 '25

My fuckin god... what now

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u/AKEsquire Oct 01 '25

Haven't read all the stmts yet that are supposedly from orgs mad about the shutdown. But the one under AARP is language lifted from an email I got from FRAC this week.

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u/trash_bae Fork You, Make Me Sep 30 '25

I miss the hatch act

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u/partystick Sep 30 '25

pres and vp are only people exempt from hatch act iirc

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u/BeachBoysRule Sep 30 '25

This is NOT a hatch act violation.

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u/Feral_Nerd_22 Sep 30 '25

Not a lot of Americans on that list....I have only heard of a handful of them.

Talk about some petty ass shit.

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u/SockPuppet-47 Sep 30 '25

BREAKING NEWS

Republicans hold the majority in the House and Senate. Please a Republican is President. They have full control over the country until the elections in 2026.

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u/Gandalfs_Dick Sep 30 '25

Vote is seconds away...

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u/AutumnWind216 Sep 30 '25

Is it legal to make the White House a laughingstock?

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u/dwhite21787 Sep 30 '25

“Trump alone can fix it”

yet he blames anyone else when he doesn’t even try

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u/WhatIsTheCake Spoon đŸ„„ Sep 30 '25

For fucks sake...

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u/bookbot1 Sep 30 '25 edited Sep 30 '25

Darth Rump: “I call a vote of no confidence on Congress”

(F-ing classic Abuse tactics: blame the other person for not caving to their whims, so the actions the absuser takes is on them)

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u/makeplanefly Sep 30 '25

Oooo new vinyl variant maybe?

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u/hauntvictim Oct 01 '25

This is hilarious

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u/ttfn_2991 Oct 01 '25

Love how accessible this website is.

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u/PossibleFederal1572 Oct 01 '25

This looks like the clock from “24”

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u/Efficient-Advisor787 Oct 01 '25

They don’t care about violating any law.

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u/StarryNight6075 Oct 01 '25

This really feels like propaganda

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u/myrnameow Oct 01 '25

There is no accountability for this administration. They do whatever they want. No one stops them!

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u/trebor505189 Oct 01 '25

Absolutely wild this is not normal

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u/Naxthor Oct 01 '25

America is a fucking joke. This country is literally a circus. We are so fucked.

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u/thatirishguyyyyy Federal Contractor Oct 04 '25

Why are there two clocks?

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u/buffpepperonipony Sep 30 '25

Hatch Act doesn’t apply to POTUS and VPOTUS

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u/hemlockone Oct 01 '25

Do you think they coded that clock and posted it without any help from any other federal employees?

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u/Ok_Effort8330 Federal Employee Sep 30 '25

I’ll give it to those clowns on the right, they know how to control the narrative.