Total weaponization of EVERYTHING against the left, even using right wing shooters against the left.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2025
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Not that laws matter, but it's a pretty clear violation of the Hatch Act.
Call me when any future Democratic AG's do anything to prosecute any of this.
I'll be holding my breath.
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70% if the US is not buying this bs and wants all these idiots to start doing their damn jobs.
30% of the US is giggling with glee over these partisan statements forced on government workers while they fantasize about executions.
that 30% is looking more and more like a sexual deviant masturbating on a playground at 3am.
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Blatant partisanship instead of helping Americans. woo. 🙄😒
Thank you for contacting me. On September 19, 2025, the House of Representatives passed HR 5371, a clean continuing resolution. Unfortunately, Democrat Senators are blocking passage of HR 5371 in the Senate which has led to a lapse in appropriations. Due to the lapse in appropriations I am currently in furlough status. I will respond to emails once government functions resume.
Y'all fucked. Bail now. There's way better places to live out your days on earth .
Can they not make a legal claim given that their employer is putting words into their mouth in communications with the public, especially given that it's highly politically charged wording that would damage their reputation, plus in a normal country saying such things at work like that would get you sacked.
I don't know the legalities, but if my employer made it seem like I'd said something like that I'd demand an immediate apology, a reprimand for whomever did it, and a public redaction and apology sent to everybody that had received the fraudulent message.
That seems reasonable and fair.
First I'm 100% with you, Azure audits who set those messages and they do need to be reported.
Conspiracy time: Every furloughed employee with that message set could be considered in violation of the Hatch Act and that carries with it a possible penalty of removal from federal employment, debarment from federal employment for up to 5 years, and possibly up to a $1,000 civil penalty. I'm really hoping the plan isn't to start firing these workers from agencies the current administration doesn't like to begin with.
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It seems like most countries are heading in the same direction with their own flavors of fascism. It's also not that easy to get visas for decent places to live.
I can understand immigration restrictions because they've always been in the interest of maintaining a healthy economy that can contribute plenty toward future infrastructure. This is just the play for as long as history is recorded. As long as we've had borders, and walls, fences, guards... It's common for countries to go through periods of restriction to only skilled workers, specific industries, etc. otherwise it's working internally on itself for a period.
But when you've got a booming GDP, restricting visas makes as much sense as having substantial poverty among citizens. Like sovereignty and protection of those within was never on the cards, it's just straight up fascism, as you said. You get the same idiots saying they're the most powerful military in the world capable of destroying anything—which isn't far from true—also saying a brown family is going to destroy the nation... Uh-huh. Sure... One of these things has to be a lie for both cannot be true.
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The problem is that for many of the nearly retired folks a job in the government was the promise of a good wage with great benefits and good retirement options. They want it gone because it forced other companies to play catch up in pay and benefits whenever the government could pay better.
It’s also not easy to walk away from a pension program when you’re so invested in it. It’s designed to make people stay long term and put in the work.
I don't think it was designed as that at all. But like anything long-term with no protection or regulation, it will be exploited. This is as guaranteed as sunrise.
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I wish it was as easy as just bailing. I very much want to, but I can't afford it, and with the coming depression, I especially won't be able to afford it.
Maybe you should try being more privileged.
Gotta hope I roll better stats next campaign damn
Yeah. Dumbfuck. You totally misallocated your startinf points.
We can guess your dump stat!
Spelling?
Yeah idk, i wasn't actually going anywhere with that
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Yes leave GS vacancies for MAGAts to fill good plan
if you're planning to leave the country, why not
if you're planning to stay, do everything in your power to stop them
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Who says I want to live on EARTH???
Seems to me Mars is nice and quiet.
Not only is Mars a frigid desert without enough air, at this point any Mars colony is pretty likely to be Elon Musk's company town/fiefdom/slave plantation, which is obviously even worse.
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There won't be if we don't stop this here. A coward dies a thousand deaths.
Definitely the sign of a healthy democracy right there.
They should all go through every email exchange they had and inform every single person who received that automatic response that it was set that way without their consent.
File under "Free speech for me, but not for thee."
If that folder isn't full yet.
Scum of the earth.
lol a circus run by five year olds of the worst kind. I have seen kids orders of magnitude more mature than most republicans.
I've seen 12 year olds with older girlfriends than they have
No shame, no honor, no sense of decency at all. Just unhinged rabid dementia in a sociopathic rapist surrounded by arrogant nazis.
Surely the false personation laws would apply here then?
They modified the out-of-office message to distribute a factually inaccurate statement, by using the shutdown recipient's voice & inbound mail feed.
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Traitors to the United States
Who could have guessed, the prettiest, cry baby bitch would turn this shutdown where "he" has complete control over the US government into a petty game of the buck stops at the dems. Shocked I tell you shocked
May these old republican asshats never have a peaceful day for as long as they live