• Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    At least all that stuff about a weaponized DOJ is over right?

    The only thing worse than Russia is a wannabe Russia that had a feasible choice.

  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The system didn’t fail them, voters did.

    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.

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      2 months ago

      This is the real nail in the coffin.

      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.

      We’re cooked.

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      A criminal is the head of the governing body that makes the laws. Why even bother asking why he’s not following them?

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      2 months ago

      The BS reason they gave is in the article. We all know the real reason is that they aren’t loyal to Dear Leader.

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        Literally, from the article:

        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.

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        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?

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      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.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.