I did not. I did my damnedest in order to try and inform everybody who was around me. I try to help bring up all of the aspects and all of the problems. Our biggest failure is all those who didn't even vote. Not those who did but those who couldn't even be assed to get off of theirs and go out and fill out the form. But let me Tell you what this administration did Nazi coming.... My unadulterated ass now being even more bold and happy just telling them to fuck off. Might as well start feeding them the same bullshit they've been doing to us for the last eight years. I am now refusing to do absolutely anything involved with anything that they want done I am going to drag my dick on everything and anything I might construe as being helpful to their cause. I'm going to bitch and moan as loudly as possible . I'm going to be the most cantankerous pain in the ass that anybody has ever come across.
That orange fuck can get stuffed should have stayed in oompa loompa land maybe And I'm just saying maybe lighten up on the amount of tanning cream that he's using or at least tell his apprentices they need to slow up cuz we all know Mr tiny hands is incapable of squeezing the fucking bottle himself. Don't want to accidentally use too much energy might be construed as exercise and that might actually physically kill him God damn medical oddity. How can somebody eat that poorly and do literally nothing and still be walking around.
If being convicted of 34 felony counts of fraud and civil liability for rape did nothing to persuade voters then there was nothing Jack Smith could have done to change their minds either.
Take Trump and Republicans entirely out of the equation and you're still left with a majority of braindead stupid Americans. That problem ain't going away anytime soon.
Our populace simply isn't intelligent enough to maintain a democracy.
This is the mental dead end I reach every time. It’s not even just “elections have consequences” or “voters are frustrated.” It’s that huge numbers of Americans are passionate supporters of this specific monster. Many of them have bad reasons, or are ignorant, or have been deceived, but the support that matters is there.
Things like the electoral college, FPTP, and gerrymandering are serious problems we need to fix. But fixing those will not fix the hearts and minds of the people. There is so much more that has to change.
It has had me seriously wondering if whatever hellish stuff Trump’s handlers have planned to dismantle the government is going to be the FASTER way to get to the part where we rebuild something better.
While voters do share some responsibility, they correctly mobilized and ripped this asshole out of office 5 years ago. The voters were failed by Merrick Garland, who clearly didn't think treason or insurrection were that big of a deal.
Yeah, but that took an unprecedented situation (once in a century pandemic) and a million+ dead Americans. He absolutely would have won a second term if COVID didn't happen.
American voters are pretty goddamn stupid and there's really no way around that.
Wouldn't that even more of a reason to protest? It's almost a meme at this point, but the US is the only developed country without universal healhcare. But people keep voting for the party that countless times has threatened to cut even Medicare.
And if a random dude in Germany knows this, every voter in Bumfuck, Nebrahoma should, too, but here we are.
Americans can vote, and a majority of them voted for this a short few months ago. This is exactly what he said he would do. This is what he did the previous 4 years he was in power. Americans want this. They don't even have the excuse of popular vote this time around. They fully committed to this.
Oh don't worry about that -they're reclassifying then as at-will first. Which is the crookedest hiring policy ever. We have it here in Illinois and it's total bullshit.
It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees
That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that's worth the effort is up to them.
I live in a at-will right to work state, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-will right to work state, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?
Probably because they think he is incompetent and should be in jail. If your employees don't respect you and think you should be in jail, then they might not be a good fit.
This is just the start. He's going to purge every competent person who believes in the national mythology / shows an ounce of backbone and replace them with incompetent yes men. These people tend to be very intelligent, resourceful, and well-connected. I don't think this will be the last we see of them. Something tells me that giving a whole lot of people who plotted the overthrows of multiple foreign governments lots of time off together maybe isn't his most brilliant idea yet.
Straight from the Project 2025 manual. It's crazy that I tried to get people to read it before the election and I got called a conspiracy theorist, but here he is actually executing the plan and these same people just deny it's happening. I can't help but think they prefer to be ignorant.
Unfortunately it's always a conspiracy theory until it's put into action. But by then it's too late...
It's exactly like the Nazi problem. To most people they aren't officially Nazis until we're literally being shipped into death camps. Anything that happens before that is just "awkward waves" and "political disagreements."
A bunch of ignorant, uneducated people experiencing economic hardship that vote in a proto-authoritarian out of desperation because their minds were warped by propaganda and hatred.
Sue him. Inundate him with lawsuits regardless of the fact he's already gotten away with being a criminal so that the courts are forced to give attention to the numbers of wrongfully terminated gov't employees
Ordinarily you'd need ground for dismissal, yes. But one of the first things Trump did was follow the plan for Project 2025 which included, amongst other things, reclassifying a fuck ton of government jobs as political jobs, enabling Trump to hire and fire people for political reasons.
In almost everywhere in the US, you can fire anyone, at any time, for any reason, or for no reason at all, as long as it's not because of membership in a protected class (age, sex, gender, national origin, etc.). (Or, obviously, if there's union or other rules around it.)
There is a process for suing the federal government for wrongful termination, but idk how it would work when you're dealing with the actual Justice Department
The Justice Department can be sued. You don't need them on your side in order to file a lawsuit. How far the Supreme Court will go to rubber stamp it is an open question. And by the time it gets resolved one way or another it'll be way past the firing.
Of course, it's more than just losing their jobs. What employer would hire someone with a target on their back from the President of the United States?
Can we find a way to rehire these people in some kind of public legal defense force to fight back against the administration? I would love that. Keep doing the same work just outside of the DOJ.
They'll probably wait until two weeks after his arteries give out from all the McDonalds to file charges next time. Remember that it's about generating headlines for brownie points, not about actually following through with things.
Virtually every last American in the middle class, what's left of it, will need to have a very sharp decline in their quality of life before we stand up in solidarity and force change. So, when their "Dancing With The Stars" gets taken away or their morning cup of coffee is so extremely expensive they can't afford it anymore. Basically, when they stop getting their fix.
We're headed in that direction for sure, but we ain't there yet.
Americans are pussies. We let creature comforts make us complacent well past the point that we should have done something.
I'm probably going to get downvoted into oblivion but it's the white middle class that won't do anything until they lose their conveniences. Asian, black, latino, Indian, and middle eastern know they aren't wanted here and their thoughts and opinions are often left ignored or hardly represented in government. They've had the bare minimum for decades and times of political and economic strife hit them first and hardest.
White America rather vote for a con-man that tells them what they want to hear than even fathom the idea of an "undesirable" sharing the same luxuries they enjoy. I got mine fuck you
Remember when they admonished Biden's administration for not firing anyone after the Afghanistan evacuation? Yeah that's all Republicans want, to fire people. Well actually they might go after these guys.
Nothing of the sort happened. From Jack Smith's report:
A significant challenge that the Office faced after Mr. Trump's indictment was his ability
and willingness to use his influence and following on social media to target witnesses, courts,
and Department employees, which required the Office to engage in time-consuming litigation to
protect witnesses from threats and harassment.
Volume I of that report is 174 pages of investigative findings, and we haven't seen volume II yet.
The idea that they were just lazy is completely ignorant of how long even normal federal cases take, let alone going against a former President with a penchant for stirring up a mob in his favor.
Those people did their jobs. The rest of the system failed them.
Jack Smith ran away and hid rather than fight. These employees kept quietly writing reports instead of moving forward with critical action. Hell, I'd even take a whistleblower. Are we seeing any of that? Ofc not. They're all cowards carefully hired by further cowards precisely to protect their status quo.
Source: i am a former federal employee whose rights were repeatedly violated and who was shitcanned when I made myself heard. Nobody is interested in pursuing my rights violations because nobody has jurisdiction over anyone else. Burn the whole system to the ground.