And just leave their poor billionaire donors out in the cold?!

Haven’t you thought of the economy!

Was just coming to fix that lol.

I searched it and saw a B Dolan version from like a dozen years ago and got mixed up.

I’ve seen Dylan live, but I didn’t know he made an original till right now…

I immediately thought of the Dead Prez version from a decade ago and wasn’t sure what was going on lol

Elmo is about to make googling things illegal now

/s

More importantly, bureaucrats who are used to politicians making kneejerk reactions and trying things they can’t do.

Bureaucrats used to planning ahead for multiple contingencies.

trump and Elmo aren’t chaotic forces, they’re incredibly predictable idiots. The unions arent scrambling to react like a disorganized mass of employees, they just shrug and pull the next packet of documents out of a drawer and follow the next step in the binder.

They don’t need to worry about flashy attorney fees, they have an army of beige suit lawyers who file boring and predictable arguments that were written before Elmo thought to put the current plan into motion. And they have the massive savings account to pay those boring lawyers for a very long time, because federal bureacrats are risk adverse and plan for raining days.

There’s a reason neoliberals play nice when they decimate the federal workforce.

The union can outlast a president.

Protests (often incredibly violent ones) are why we have unions.

*Note an accurate explanation of how we got our rights isn’t directly advocating for how to keep them or as advocacy for violence in any form, because that’s what unacceptable about this situation

You shouldn’t need a tool.

In your setting should be an option to export a json file, when you make a new one just upload that file.

The vast amount of Americans aren’t in that boat…

Every crazy person around me is carrying, all it takes these days is not driving exactly like how someone wants or unintentionally minor inconveniencing them for them to pull out a gun.

It’s not even staying out of “bad areas” anymore. It can (and does) happen everywhere. It just usually doesn’t make the news unless someone is shot in a nice area. A crazy person pulling a gun out might get media attention if it’s on video if not, cops don’t even care.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Ratchet Effect…

trump did a lot of bad shit 16-20.

Biden undid some, but in the process tried to make a border wall part of the Dem platform against the wishes of the majority of Dem voters.

That (and other moves to the right) allowed trump to win in 2024.

Since some of his stuff like the border wall was adopted by Dems, he now has to go even further right to satisfy his voters.

So on a long timeline, the country is constantly moving right. And every step it depresses Dem turnout.

At this point it’s not enough for Dems to stop actively moving right. We need to go left fast.

I didn’t ask for ran example, but yes that’s entirely the type of comment I’m talking about…

Just because you personally haven’t heard of something, doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

That’s literally how trump thinks tho

I’m still salty how many people are still running around shit talking the unions like they haven’t done anything.

Just because mainstream news doesn’t mention it yet, doesn’t mean it’s not happening. If you’re not on a union mailing list, you’re not hearing about stuff till it gets to this point.

There’s a shit ton of lawsuits going on, mostly because the unions work hand in hand, so when one sues, they all sue.

It’s not like private sector, when fed unions fight the federal government, the federal government is often the side with less resources.

So you want to give fascists freedom of expression, because fascists wouldn’t give it to anyone else when they’re in power?

…

The way this looks to me, there’s two likely reasons for someone to have that stance

1. They’re a fascist hoping I’m the dumbest person on the planet and that I have zero critical thinking skills.

2. Theyre exactly who #1 would be looking for

Well, if he tried to take the fork, he’s a forking idiot.

4 different unions are suing them over it…

It’s not exactly OPM realizing anything, they’re actively fighting multiple lawsuits over not acknowledging that…

Like, I guess if there was 5 lawsuits it would be more opposite

even though we have have a dangerous fascist at power, there is nothing he can do to you.

Fascists don’t care about laws, and even under Dem presidents, peaceful protestors have still been attacked and had their rights violated.

How the fuck have you not noticed that?

There’s quite a few jobs that aren’t union eligible

Yep, I’m not bargaining unit, so it sucks more than most. And there’s really not many of us

But I still have a shit ton of protections anyways.

there are federal workers that do get fired for doing a bad job.

I’ve fired federal workers, it’s just a year long hassle and giving them every plausible opportunity to improve first.

Nah, fuck that.

There’s no valid reason to let fascists have a seat at any table.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Even Republican appointed judges are turning against trump policies.

Not everything gets to the supreme court.

Pelosi’s pick for the Oversight Committee didn’t think of it till it was too late.

Don’t be too hard on him, can’t expect much out of a septigenerian actively battling throat cancer, it’s not like there was another choice, it was his turn after all.

Nah, after probation it’s pretty much impossible.

There needs to be like a year of documentation that the employee is just not doing their job.

Because of the union.

That’s why there’s this big push to resign, every tool they have to reduce the federal workforce begins with the word “voluntary”. Probate employees and contracts have reason to be nervous tho.

Even closing USAID, it stops the work they’re doing, but they’re all gonna get huge severance checks or settlements if it really closes. It’s not like the private sector where it’s individuals fighting a billion dollar corparion. It’s multiple unions that are individually some of the largest in the country whose only reason for existence is knowing an incredibly confusing system of decades of regulations…

Versus a couple teenager and college drop out techbros with zero idea what they’re doing.