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Government Workers Say Their Out-of-Office Replies Were Forcibly Changed to Blame Democrats for Shutdown (www.wired.com)

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Some employees at the Department of Education changed their responses back to the more neutral language, only to have it changed yet again to the partisan response, multiple sources tell WIRED.

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[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 102 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Dare I say Trump is the next Hitler

You cannot fucking tell me that he does shit like this and nobody gives a damn. This has to be illegal

[–] smeenz@lemmy.nz 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Does anyone have the article or at least what the wording was changed to ? Blocked by paywall for me

[–] UltraBlack@lemmy.world 0 points 55 minutes ago

Google remove paywall

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 52 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Hatch act, it is in fact illegal.

[–] BanMe@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

He basically shredded the Hatch act his first term, there were no consequences, of course he's just gonna flat out ignore it this time.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

Agreed.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Forcing those military generals to sit through a campaign speech showed that the Hatch Act is basically dead.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Agreed.

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 71 points 16 hours ago

I think we're way past what's legal or not in this shithole. His whole point from the beginning was that he could shoot someone and nothing would happen and americans were like: wow. I like guns too.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

it may well be illegal, but when has that stopped the 34 time felon rapist in chief?

[–] lukaro@lemmy.zip 24 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

34 times convicted felon, who knows how many more he's committed without being convicted.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

i mean, technically you're not a felon until you're convicted of a felony.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 3 points 4 hours ago

Trump was convicted of those 34 felonies, he just wasn't punished for them.

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He's too dumb, also near death, but mostly, he's just too dumb. All of them are. Our saving grace is that the evil isn't smart enough to succeed at evil.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call him dumb. If he was literally stupid he wouldn't have made it this far. He knows exactly what he does and doesn't care. Hes evil as hell, but not dumb.

[–] lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The man himself is absolutely dense. Just listen to one of his speeches or interviews for five minutes. But the really smart (and dangerous) people are the ones whispering into his ear.

[–] wolfeh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 hours ago

This is my impression. Kinda like Dick Cheney whispering into George W. Bush's ear, just... even more openly evil. And that's saying something.