honestly feels like democracy is crumbling in front of our eyes, we are regressing with blazing speed.
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We knew it would. Consider the amount of damage he was able to cause in his first term without a plan, experience, or support, and during a global pandemic.
Seems like you forgot about:
"John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it" -President Andrew Jackson
(I mean... this time, "John Marshall" will just rubber stamp it so... 🤷♂️ oh well...)
Almost every posting on https://www.usajobs.gov/ was just pulled.
I only really hear about the healthcare side of things, so on that note the VA (and veterans who get care there) just got FUCKED.
...this is gonna to cause a tsunami of demand on the private sector that's already hanging on by a thread.
We are firmly in the 'find out' phase.
Wow. Mask is off! No pretense now. Nazi agenda being rolled out. It's not MAGA. It's MAWA.
There really wasn't any masked pretense before the election, either.
Unfortunately nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Ah. Clearly a national priority.
I mean, he's been barfing out other orders, left right and center
So how do you know? Does this mean every none white male is on paid leave now?
I think this means employees working in DEI compliance roles. So not DEI hires, but people who are enforcing DEI.
Yeah, I think firing someone because their race, religion, or sexual orientation might be illegal. At least for now.
Since when have they given a shit about laws?
I mean how many people can this be? Are there actually any people who only work on dei compliance? Seems like one of the many things that would be handled by someone who got cross trained in an HR department.
Would be pretty rad if you were in that position though. Seems likely some people just got a 4 year long paid vacation. After the civil service reform act, trying to fire people like this is a long and uphill battle.
They have both houses of Congress, I assume the federal government is about to be gutted. They even published a book on it
Yeah, but repealing the csra wouldn't exactly solve their issues with federal employees, and would likely cause more problems than it solves.
The CSRA was a compromise between federal employees and the government. Giving up their right to collective bargaining for a set amount of guaranteed rights and options of recourse. If you ended up overturning the csra you would also be getting rid of the prohibitions against collective bargaining and more importantly.....strikes.
Meaning that federal employees would garter the power to freeze aspects of the federal government on demand. Making their collective bargaining power immense.
I'm sure he's going to do a bunch of damage, but I doubt they would go as far as repealing the CSRA, and even if they did, it might be a good thing for workers.