‘More will be coming’: Trump pledges ‘Democrat-oriented’ layoffs as government shutdown continues
Source: Silent-Resort-3076
‘More will be coming’: Trump pledges ‘Democrat-oriented’ layoffs as government shutdown continues
Source: Silent-Resort-3076
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>As we enter day 11 of the government shutdown, the White House has followed through on its mass layoff threat, sending notices to over 4,000 government workers. According to the Trump administration, Friday’s lay offs are “just a snapshot” and more will be coming.
>Meanwhile, President Trump has said the administration intentionally moved to lay off “people that the Democrats want.”
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of these United states, who swore to uphold the constitution, swore to Make America Great Again is now… checks notes.. Doing his best to lay as many people off as possible.
Should be great for the Economy.
It’s almost like, this ‘President’ doesn’t really care about the country’s people if they are not kissing his arse…
>”The major problem, one of the major problems, for there are several, with governing people is that of who you get to do it. Or, rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.”
-Douglas Adams, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe
Fascinating that he sees certain parts of the government as “Democrat” and others as “Republican.” So that thinking, through Vought, is going to be used to eliminate departments regardless of this shutdown. And Trump, through Vought, sees no need to follow agreements from Congress. So what this is, in my view, is a test for the resolve of the Democratic Party. The rules have changed and we’ll see if they understand the new reality.
This is fascism.
This was coming regardless. He just feels Vought and himself have an amazing excuse and opportunity to pin it on Democrats.
And the public wasn’t buying that from day 1 of the shutdown. No way will they then blame the layoffs – which have never happened before – on Democrats.
I think they’ve thought bubbled themselves into a real problem.
As if anyone with half a brain doesn’t realize that he would be doing this regardless of whether the government was shut down or not. Keep it shut down.
Can we give this most un-American president in history a reverse uno card please!
Republicans won’t care until it is THEIR ass getting laid off.
How are we supposed to not see this demented pedophile as a literal enemy of the people?
Everything he does is wildly inappropriate and just plain evil
All this to avoid reaching across the aisle.
He’s been laying off people in positions that are not consistent with his political priorities (or just because) since he came into office.
He’s just found a new excuse.
This smells like a lawsuit
Federal employees are protected from discrimination based on political affiliation
Pledging to layoff people only in the opposing party has to be illegal, right? I mean I get that that doesn’t really matter anymore but still.
This is actual political persecution
What a cruel petty little man.
Language like this only feeds the prospect of a soft secession.
Why should blue states prop up the red when every action they perform is laced with such open and direct antagonisms toward half of the country?
Be reminded, that most authoritarian regimes are ended when 3-5% of the population finally stand together on opposition. We’re quickly coming to that moment, when the solution will be activists in the streets in numbers too great to overcome.
Instead of republicans working to resolve the shutdown they are using the shutdown to continue their destruction of all that runs the operations of our government.
Let the class action lawsuits commence !!
Just another reason for impeachment. He cant stop breaking the law.
I remember a time when all the major US outlets called for the resignation of Joe Biden for *checks notes * sounding too old. I guess they only do so when a Democrat is in power
This pile of garbage has already weaponized the government long ago. Don’t give him an inch.
It’s killing me to watch what he’s done to our country.
Ripping away popular government services that many Americans rely on while letting them know only Democrats actually cared about those services/programs in the first place, must be one of those 4D chess moves I’ve heard so much about.
Democrats are Americans. If you hate all Democrats, you hate America.
Trump hates America.