No where does it say the employees must “defend and protect the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I see they have loyalty in there but to whom? I am a retired fed and starting out in my career one of my jobs in personnel was to administer the oath of office to new employees. The new hires took the oath seriously. This makes my blood boil. He is making a mockery out of federal service employment.
I love the enhanced standards on conduct……..Trump and his entire band of appointees and staff couldn’t pass a proper background check. The floor is his ceiling for standards, look at his nominees!!!!!
I would like to see those “enhanced standards”. That could be a MAGA litany of what they perceive as sinful conduct or not being of their “kind” (straight, white, Christian, cis male).
WTF? Trump is insane. He’s gutting our workforce, replacing career people with cronies who will know nothing about how to perform their new jobs. Is this even constitutional?
As a federal employee, the really-incensed part of me thinks every last one of us should say ‘yes.’ The more rational part thinks every last one of us should say ‘HELL, no.”
This is utterly abominable and a slap in the face of every federal government worker. Just replace the word "merit" wherever you see it with "unquestioned obeisance." If Congress allows this to go forward, it's the end of good government as we have come to know it.
11-5-2024 was the end of AmeriCa as we knew it. Trump's AmeriKKKa Project 2025 in action. If U voted for this messy demagogue wannabe dictator I say🖕U! U r complicit in the destruction of 🇺🇸!
Hi Allison I really hope you read this. I'm so sorry but I have to unsubscribe to EVERYTHING that has to do with politics. I fought for close to 10 years and I'm so tired and so stressed out and my mom is dying and I'm worried sick about my business with the monster in office and I literally get nauseous when I even see a headline about all the horrible cruel things that are going to happen. I wanted to let you know that you have been my go to twitter account for years, I think you're an absolutely lovely person, over the top intelligent, extremely level headed, super talented, and somehow always on the pulse of what's happening. I promise to be back in 3.5 years if there's still a way for us to win the presidency. Thank you for having the tenacity and strength and shero-ism keep up the good fight. You are a much stronger person than I. Take care and know that if you looked up, "Nevertheless she persisted" there'd be a photo of you in a group of our best and bravest patriots.
All part of the plan. Anyone who doesn't take the deal will just be fired anyways. They will fill every decision making role in the government with Republican loyalists who dont care about facts or the truth, only partisan loyalty. The fascists won, and now they will remake the country in their cruel image. U til people understand this en masse and are ready to fight, they won't stop. Call me when millions of Americans are starving in the streets. Maybe then we can finally have the fucking workers revolution this country should have had 50 years ago.
It is. This was a slow motion coup over several years happening right out in the open. They rich just needed their propaganda brainwashing to reach critical mass in the population. We who understand history have been warning people for years, and they laughed in my face. Putting a fascist with no morals or principles in charge of the nation will always be terrible for a nation. Sadly once all the people from WW2 died, the fascists began ramping up their rhetoric again because there is no one alive to remember the nazis were the fucking bad guys anymore. The people chose to learn this lesson the hard way because they'd rather starve or die in a civil war than listen to a historian. Book learning is for losers, submitting your nation to billionaires who hate you is how we show strength in America nowadays. It is what it is.
Im not giving in to anything, I didn't vote to put a demented narcissicist in office hell bent on being a dictator, the idiotic voters did. But currently about 60 million people in this country live in an alternate universe in their heads and need cult deprogramming. I have no solution to this, so I have made peace with the fact we are all fucked and the nation is doomed. Not sure what else you expect me to do against the largest and most effective gas lighting propaganda machine in history. Shouldn't have let amoral billionaires control all of our press. Oh well.
"Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline...."
Interesting that these standards don't apply to Cabinet members and POTUS.
What an insult. So many of our finest are in these jobs. And all of them have sworn an oath to the Constitution. As have every immigrant who on that day they hold so dear they take the oath and become a citizen of The United States of America.
There will be suicides, I'm sure. Most of us are just a breath away from that impulse ourselves. Not much is holding any of us up against all of this.
Too bad those who could have done something did not vote or voted for Trump not on MAGA beliefs but for whatever reason, many because they did not like VP Harris's laugh. Well, that's a laugh!
Or, on some level would NEVER vote for a woman.
And then how about YOU those who did not vote or -- I don't know wrote in a name -- in protest over Gaza. Well Gaza the people are being herded elsewhere so Trump can build a resort.
While Biden/Harris ended their administration with a peace accord and freed hostages on both sides. It is all there for Trump to bring home. He will not. And, blame Biden for not doing so.
You have all been conned top to bottom! Not voting / Protest votes / Whatever!!
So, how did that choice to not vote for VP Harris work out for you? YOU THREW YOUR COUNTRY UNDER BUS WHEN THE ENEMY WAS RIGHT THERE in the form of Trump. When you should have stood up and thrown your weight to keeping him out of office you demurred. Now live with it. There is not anyone or anything that will save our country now -- but it was your doing, chump!
If you think cutting off your nose to spite your face in either side of an oligarchic coup is the right play right now, that the right positioning is spitting on the fragmented base of people trying to navigate the collapse of a republic, and especially if you sincerely think this coup wouldn’t have happened or wasn’t happening if Harris had won - you are going to be so, so disappointed.
"misconduct" is not defined - could being gay or transgender be misconduct? "Enhanced standards of suitability" - is it suitable for women to be in combat roles?
His EO banning transgender service members states that being transgender “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”
Seems that "misconduct" could be used against transgender people employed anywhere in the government.
No where does it say the employees must “defend and protect the constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. I see they have loyalty in there but to whom? I am a retired fed and starting out in my career one of my jobs in personnel was to administer the oath of office to new employees. The new hires took the oath seriously. This makes my blood boil. He is making a mockery out of federal service employment.
destroying the government IS the point
I love the enhanced standards on conduct……..Trump and his entire band of appointees and staff couldn’t pass a proper background check. The floor is his ceiling for standards, look at his nominees!!!!!
I would like to see those “enhanced standards”. That could be a MAGA litany of what they perceive as sinful conduct or not being of their “kind” (straight, white, Christian, cis male).
Project 2025 underway. And he said he knew nothing about it. He lied? Lol. Of course he lied!
Do not summit to this dictator!
Make them fire you.
Please don’t make it easy for them! Stay
WTF? Trump is insane. He’s gutting our workforce, replacing career people with cronies who will know nothing about how to perform their new jobs. Is this even constitutional?
All federal workers should refuse this offer unless they are within 6 months of retirement
As a federal employee, the really-incensed part of me thinks every last one of us should say ‘yes.’ The more rational part thinks every last one of us should say ‘HELL, no.”
Don’t do it! Fight like hell!
What a$$holes! This is horrible! HORRIBLE.
This is utterly abominable and a slap in the face of every federal government worker. Just replace the word "merit" wherever you see it with "unquestioned obeisance." If Congress allows this to go forward, it's the end of good government as we have come to know it.
11-5-2024 was the end of AmeriCa as we knew it. Trump's AmeriKKKa Project 2025 in action. If U voted for this messy demagogue wannabe dictator I say🖕U! U r complicit in the destruction of 🇺🇸!
Hi Allison I really hope you read this. I'm so sorry but I have to unsubscribe to EVERYTHING that has to do with politics. I fought for close to 10 years and I'm so tired and so stressed out and my mom is dying and I'm worried sick about my business with the monster in office and I literally get nauseous when I even see a headline about all the horrible cruel things that are going to happen. I wanted to let you know that you have been my go to twitter account for years, I think you're an absolutely lovely person, over the top intelligent, extremely level headed, super talented, and somehow always on the pulse of what's happening. I promise to be back in 3.5 years if there's still a way for us to win the presidency. Thank you for having the tenacity and strength and shero-ism keep up the good fight. You are a much stronger person than I. Take care and know that if you looked up, "Nevertheless she persisted" there'd be a photo of you in a group of our best and bravest patriots.
Sounds like you are going through so much. Take good care of yourself & your loved ones, including your mom. Sometimes we have to step away.
You're going through a lot! Sending you strength. Please take of yourself and those you love. You can rejoin the fight when ready.
All part of the plan. Anyone who doesn't take the deal will just be fired anyways. They will fill every decision making role in the government with Republican loyalists who dont care about facts or the truth, only partisan loyalty. The fascists won, and now they will remake the country in their cruel image. U til people understand this en masse and are ready to fight, they won't stop. Call me when millions of Americans are starving in the streets. Maybe then we can finally have the fucking workers revolution this country should have had 50 years ago.
It's not too late.
It is. This was a slow motion coup over several years happening right out in the open. They rich just needed their propaganda brainwashing to reach critical mass in the population. We who understand history have been warning people for years, and they laughed in my face. Putting a fascist with no morals or principles in charge of the nation will always be terrible for a nation. Sadly once all the people from WW2 died, the fascists began ramping up their rhetoric again because there is no one alive to remember the nazis were the fucking bad guys anymore. The people chose to learn this lesson the hard way because they'd rather starve or die in a civil war than listen to a historian. Book learning is for losers, submitting your nation to billionaires who hate you is how we show strength in America nowadays. It is what it is.
So you're answer is to comply in advance?
No no no no never ever ever never give in.
Im not giving in to anything, I didn't vote to put a demented narcissicist in office hell bent on being a dictator, the idiotic voters did. But currently about 60 million people in this country live in an alternate universe in their heads and need cult deprogramming. I have no solution to this, so I have made peace with the fact we are all fucked and the nation is doomed. Not sure what else you expect me to do against the largest and most effective gas lighting propaganda machine in history. Shouldn't have let amoral billionaires control all of our press. Oh well.
Allison, is any of this illegal?
Yes. It is illegal.
I have same question
Congress controls budget not potus
It doesn't matter anymore. I guess most people really won't wake up until Scotus disbands congress.
higher qualifications for fed workers but not to be cabinet members..
wonder if the qualification is merely a loyality oath
Can’t say the Emperor has no clothes, bow at his platformed raised feet, and kiss the ring madwoman!!
"Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline...."
Interesting that these standards don't apply to Cabinet members and POTUS.
What an insult. So many of our finest are in these jobs. And all of them have sworn an oath to the Constitution. As have every immigrant who on that day they hold so dear they take the oath and become a citizen of The United States of America.
There will be suicides, I'm sure. Most of us are just a breath away from that impulse ourselves. Not much is holding any of us up against all of this.
Too bad those who could have done something did not vote or voted for Trump not on MAGA beliefs but for whatever reason, many because they did not like VP Harris's laugh. Well, that's a laugh!
Or, on some level would NEVER vote for a woman.
And then how about YOU those who did not vote or -- I don't know wrote in a name -- in protest over Gaza. Well Gaza the people are being herded elsewhere so Trump can build a resort.
While Biden/Harris ended their administration with a peace accord and freed hostages on both sides. It is all there for Trump to bring home. He will not. And, blame Biden for not doing so.
You have all been conned top to bottom! Not voting / Protest votes / Whatever!!
So, how did that choice to not vote for VP Harris work out for you? YOU THREW YOUR COUNTRY UNDER BUS WHEN THE ENEMY WAS RIGHT THERE in the form of Trump. When you should have stood up and thrown your weight to keeping him out of office you demurred. Now live with it. There is not anyone or anything that will save our country now -- but it was your doing, chump!
If you think cutting off your nose to spite your face in either side of an oligarchic coup is the right play right now, that the right positioning is spitting on the fragmented base of people trying to navigate the collapse of a republic, and especially if you sincerely think this coup wouldn’t have happened or wasn’t happening if Harris had won - you are going to be so, so disappointed.
Signed
— someone that has actually lived through a coup.
"misconduct" is not defined - could being gay or transgender be misconduct? "Enhanced standards of suitability" - is it suitable for women to be in combat roles?
It is whatever the king decides it is. Until those who voted for him feel the pain of their choice and recognize it, it will a tough fight.
His EO banning transgender service members states that being transgender “conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle, even in one’s personal life.”
Seems that "misconduct" could be used against transgender people employed anywhere in the government.
The civil service purge has begun.