White House Confirms It's Purging Disloyal Employees 'From the Bowels of the Federal Government

[Daryl Hunt]

We live in a sad time

Yeah, how dare Trump purge people actively undermining him and his agenda.

The nerve!

Grow the fuck up, asshat.

love the maturity level of the Trumpists!

Loyalty tests and political purges....not surprising you support them.

Shades of Italy, circa 1933.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Trump...as usual...conflates loyalty to the country (or the office of the president) with loyalty to him, personally. Perhaps that should be fealty.

Can't recall this sort of things happening before. I wonder if this means combing Facebook and private lives?


White House Confirms It's Purging Disloyal Employees 'From the Bowels of the Federal Government'

The White House this week confirmed it is combing through federal agencies to identify employees not sufficiently loyal to President Trump to facilitate their ouster, sparking concerns the administration could run afoul of long-established civil service laws.

The administration is examining employees throughout the government to find anyone taking action officials decide represents an effort to undermine Trump, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News Monday. Gidley did not specifically mention career employees, who are statutorily protected against political retaliation, but did note the “millions” of individuals agencies employ. By contrast, there are only about 4,000 political appointees in government.

“It’s not a secret that we want people in positions that work with this president, not against him, and too often we have people in this government—I mean the federal government is massive, with millions of people—and there are a lot people out there taking action against this president and when we find them we will take appropriate action,” Gidley said.

His comments followed reports in Axios that the administration maintains “deep state” hit lists of employees to fire and the president has tasked the head of the Presidential Personnel Office, Johnny McEntee, to purge “bad people” who are not loyal to him. The latter report mentioned only political appointees, who serve at the pleasure of the president and can be dismissed at will, but Gidley’s comments this week appeared to go further.

“Time and time again we see in the media reports from people in the bowels of the federal government working against this president,” he said.

Gidley added that unelected federal workers were pushing “their own selfish political agenda” rather than advancing and executing Trump’s.

The latest comments do not mark the first time the Trump administration has stretched the limits of what is allowable under civil service protections. The number of federal employees proving their agencies took prohibited personnel practices against them reached an all-time high in Trump’s first year in office, according to the Office of Special Counsel. The State Department’s inspector general released two reports this year finding that the department illegally engaged in the political targeting of career employees. Federal law prohibits agencies from discriminating against any employee on the basis of political affiliation, or for any federal official to “coerce any applicant or employee to engage in political activity, or to retaliate against such individuals based on partisan politics.”

This is great news...The dude runs a tight ship...he wants shit done his way...he knows his way yields the result he aims for...he's a bonafide narcissist like all real leaders are....Nutless cowards won't be able to wrap their heads around it...don't try....this and how us Alphas work.

 

[JLW]

I hope the sewage system is good in DC. It's gonna take a bunch of toilet flushes to wash those disloyal turds all the way to the treatment plant.

Yeah, only in Trumplandia is appointing a soviet style commissar to weed out those not sufficiently loyal to the leader considered draining the swamp. LOL

 

[bluzman61]

I hope the sewage system is good in DC. It's gonna take a bunch of toilet flushes to wash those disloyal turds all the way to the treatment plant.

Yep, it's going to take QUITE a bit of flushes to get rid of all of that sh*t. It will feel SO good after all that sh*t is out of our system!

 

[Oddball]

We live in a sad time

Yeah, how dare Trump purge people actively undermining him and his agenda.

The nerve!

Grow the fuck up, asshat.

love the maturity level of the Trumpists!

Loyalty tests and political purges....not surprising you support them.

Shades of Italy, circa 1933.

Oh fuck off, you hysterical moonbats.

 

[Bush92]

Trump...as usual...conflates loyalty to the country (or the office of the president) with loyalty to him, personally. Perhaps that should be fealty.

Can't recall this sort of things happening before. I wonder if this means combing Facebook and private lives?


White House Confirms It's Purging Disloyal Employees 'From the Bowels of the Federal Government'

The White House this week confirmed it is combing through federal agencies to identify employees not sufficiently loyal to President Trump to facilitate their ouster, sparking concerns the administration could run afoul of long-established civil service laws.

The administration is examining employees throughout the government to find anyone taking action officials decide represents an effort to undermine Trump, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News Monday. Gidley did not specifically mention career employees, who are statutorily protected against political retaliation, but did note the “millions” of individuals agencies employ. By contrast, there are only about 4,000 political appointees in government.

“It’s not a secret that we want people in positions that work with this president, not against him, and too often we have people in this government—I mean the federal government is massive, with millions of people—and there are a lot people out there taking action against this president and when we find them we will take appropriate action,” Gidley said.

His comments followed reports in Axios that the administration maintains “deep state” hit lists of employees to fire and the president has tasked the head of the Presidential Personnel Office, Johnny McEntee, to purge “bad people” who are not loyal to him. The latter report mentioned only political appointees, who serve at the pleasure of the president and can be dismissed at will, but Gidley’s comments this week appeared to go further.

“Time and time again we see in the media reports from people in the bowels of the federal government working against this president,” he said.

Gidley added that unelected federal workers were pushing “their own selfish political agenda” rather than advancing and executing Trump’s.

The latest comments do not mark the first time the Trump administration has stretched the limits of what is allowable under civil service protections. The number of federal employees proving their agencies took prohibited personnel practices against them reached an all-time high in Trump’s first year in office, according to the Office of Special Counsel. The State Department’s inspector general released two reports this year finding that the department illegally engaged in the political targeting of career employees. Federal law prohibits agencies from discriminating against any employee on the basis of political affiliation, or for any federal official to “coerce any applicant or employee to engage in political activity, or to retaliate against such individuals based on partisan politics.”

Them bunch of fucking Anti-American came in during the 1970's....resurgence under that piece of shit Bill Clinton...and need to be terminated for national security purposes. The Clinton campaign worked with secret intelligence and Putin to undermine our own electoral process. They paid for a fake dossier. Russian collusion came within Clinton campaign.

 

[Coyote]

Why the fuck would anyone want people on the team who are working against and undermining you?

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Lol...why the fuck would anyone want a president that only wants yes men around him?

Who said anything about yes men?

Isn’t that what the Trump purge is all about. It is getting rid of those that don’t tow the Trump line without question. The Trump administration wants sycophants not truth tellers. Loyalist above all else is the prime qualification for a position with Trump.

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No..look at who Trump has appointed as director of personnel. A 29 year old whose name is Johnny McEntee whose sole job is to weed out those not suitably loyal to Trump.

What this kid, Johnny McEntee, really is is Trump’s equivalent of a Soviet commissar. He is in charge of political education and loyalty to the leader. Those not sufficiently loyal will be purged.

But hey live in your world of denial.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0e6c56-54c1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

People confuse loyalty to the office of the president with loyalty to the person himself.

 

[eagle1462010]

The federal government has three branches, the executive, the legislative, the judicial.

The President is the elected leader of the executive branch.

People who work in the executive branch serve the President, and if they cannot do that, they should seek alternative employment.

Not exactly. If they are political appointees then yes, they serve at the pleasure of the president. Otherwise - they serve their country, their agency, or the office of the president. If they are not political appointees they are protected by civil service laws from political retaliation.

That should change. No one in the executive branch should be protected from accountability to the President.

I disagree. Political retaliation is not accountability.

Oh so...............you want Trump to Bend over with NO VASOLINE while the LEFTIST HACKS in Gov't try to FRAME HIM.......

Boo Hoo

So you support political retaliation?

If that means giving your side a DANG TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE........DAMNED SKIPPY.

When shall we have the IRS, DEA, ATF GIVE YOU A PROCTOLOGY EXAM.......

Like the Dems did to those and no one went to jail.

Perhaps IF YOUR SIDE GOT A TASTE of your OWN MEDICINE you wouldn't want to do it again.

 

[Rambunctious]

Dems don't get it....Trump is us....so what is good for Trump is good for us.....

 

[Oddball]

Lol...why the fuck would anyone want a president that only wants yes men around him?

Who said anything about yes men?

Isn’t that what the Trump purge is all about. It is getting rid of those that don’t tow the Trump line without question. The Trump administration wants sycophants not truth tellers. Loyalist above all else is the prime qualification for a position with Trump.

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No..look at who Trump has appointed as director of personnel. A 29 year old whose name is Johnny McEntee whose sole job is to weed out those not suitably loyal to Trump.

What this kid, Johnny McEntee, really is is Trump’s equivalent of a Soviet commissar. He is in charge of political education and loyalty to the leader. Those not sufficiently loyal will be purged.

But hey live in your world of denial.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0e6c56-54c1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

People confuse loyalty to the office of the president with loyalty to the person himself.

"People"....That's a marvelous strawman you have there.

 

[bluzman61]

We live in a sad time

Yeah, how dare Trump purge people actively undermining him and his agenda.

The nerve!

Grow the fuck up, asshat.

love the maturity level of the Trumpists!

Loyalty tests and political purges....not surprising you support them.

Shades of Italy, circa 1933.

You ARE an idiot, Daryl.

 

[Coyote]

Not exactly. If they are political appointees then yes, they serve at the pleasure of the president. Otherwise - they serve their country, their agency, or the office of the president. If they are not political appointees they are protected by civil service laws from political retaliation.

That should change. No one in the executive branch should be protected from accountability to the President.

I disagree. Political retaliation is not accountability.

Oh so...............you want Trump to Bend over with NO VASOLINE while the LEFTIST HACKS in Gov't try to FRAME HIM.......

Boo Hoo

So you support political retaliation?

If that means giving your side a DANG TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE........DAMNED SKIPPY.

When shall we have the IRS, DEA, ATF GIVE YOU A PROCTOLOGY EXAM.......

Like the Dems did to those and no one went to jail.

Perhaps IF YOUR SIDE GOT A TASTE of your OWN MEDICINE you wouldn't want to do it again.

So which Dem made lists of civil service employees that were insufficiently "loyal" and went after them?

 

[Coyote]

Who said anything about yes men?

Isn’t that what the Trump purge is all about. It is getting rid of those that don’t tow the Trump line without question. The Trump administration wants sycophants not truth tellers. Loyalist above all else is the prime qualification for a position with Trump.

View attachment 309211

No..look at who Trump has appointed as director of personnel. A 29 year old whose name is Johnny McEntee whose sole job is to weed out those not suitably loyal to Trump.

What this kid, Johnny McEntee, really is is Trump’s equivalent of a Soviet commissar. He is in charge of political education and loyalty to the leader. Those not sufficiently loyal will be purged.

But hey live in your world of denial.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...0e6c56-54c1-11ea-b119-4faabac6674f_story.html

People confuse loyalty to the office of the president with loyalty to the person himself.

"People"....That's a marvelous strawman you have there.

You seem to be one of the perpetually confused.

 

[Daryl Hunt]

We live in a sad time

Yeah, how dare Trump purge people actively undermining him and his agenda.

The nerve!

Grow the fuck up, asshat.

love the maturity level of the Trumpists!

Loyalty tests and political purges....not surprising you support them.

Shades of Italy, circa 1933.

Oh fuck off, you hysterical moonbats.

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I never compared Rump to Hitler. In many ways, that wouldn't be fair to Hitler. But I find many coralations between Rump and Mussolini in 1926 doing many of the same things Rump is either doing or trying to do. If successful, the next step in the process is "Emperor" or "Dictator". And then you have a Hitler.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

No boss or supervisor would tolerate undermining and disloyal people around him. We see what that has done so far.

Trump's problem is that he waited too long. Most presidents Do It on day one.

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Trump...as usual...conflates loyalty to the country (or the office of the president) with loyalty to him, personally. Perhaps that should be fealty.

Can't recall this sort of things happening before. I wonder if this means combing Facebook and private lives?


White House Confirms It's Purging Disloyal Employees 'From the Bowels of the Federal Government'

The White House this week confirmed it is combing through federal agencies to identify employees not sufficiently loyal to President Trump to facilitate their ouster, sparking concerns the administration could run afoul of long-established civil service laws.

The administration is examining employees throughout the government to find anyone taking action officials decide represents an effort to undermine Trump, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said on Fox News Monday. Gidley did not specifically mention career employees, who are statutorily protected against political retaliation, but did note the “millions” of individuals agencies employ. By contrast, there are only about 4,000 political appointees in government.

“It’s not a secret that we want people in positions that work with this president, not against him, and too often we have people in this government—I mean the federal government is massive, with millions of people—and there are a lot people out there taking action against this president and when we find them we will take appropriate action,” Gidley said.

His comments followed reports in Axios that the administration maintains “deep state” hit lists of employees to fire and the president has tasked the head of the Presidential Personnel Office, Johnny McEntee, to purge “bad people” who are not loyal to him. The latter report mentioned only political appointees, who serve at the pleasure of the president and can be dismissed at will, but Gidley’s comments this week appeared to go further.

“Time and time again we see in the media reports from people in the bowels of the federal government working against this president,” he said.

Gidley added that unelected federal workers were pushing “their own selfish political agenda” rather than advancing and executing Trump’s.

The latest comments do not mark the first time the Trump administration has stretched the limits of what is allowable under civil service protections. The number of federal employees proving their agencies took prohibited personnel practices against them reached an all-time high in Trump’s first year in office, according to the Office of Special Counsel. The State Department’s inspector general released two reports this year finding that the department illegally engaged in the political targeting of career employees. Federal law prohibits agencies from discriminating against any employee on the basis of political affiliation, or for any federal official to “coerce any applicant or employee to engage in political activity, or to retaliate against such individuals based on partisan politics.”

That's great news! Thank you

 

[bluzman61]

We live in a sad time

Yeah, how dare Trump purge people actively undermining him and his agenda.

The nerve!

Grow the fuck up, asshat.

love the maturity level of the Trumpists!

Loyalty tests and political purges....not surprising you support them.

Shades of Italy, circa 1933.

Oh fuck off, you hysterical moonbats.

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I never compared Rump to Hitler. In many ways, that wouldn't be fair to Hitler. But I find many coralations between Rump and Mussolini in 1926 doing many of the same things Rump is either doing or trying to do. If successful, the next step in the process is "Emperor" or "Dictator". And then you have a Hitler.

??????????????

 

[eagle1462010]

That should change. No one in the executive branch should be protected from accountability to the President.

I disagree. Political retaliation is not accountability.

Oh so...............you want Trump to Bend over with NO VASOLINE while the LEFTIST HACKS in Gov't try to FRAME HIM.......

Boo Hoo

So you support political retaliation?

If that means giving your side a DANG TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE........DAMNED SKIPPY.

When shall we have the IRS, DEA, ATF GIVE YOU A PROCTOLOGY EXAM.......

Like the Dems did to those and no one went to jail.

Perhaps IF YOUR SIDE GOT A TASTE of your OWN MEDICINE you wouldn't want to do it again.

So which Dem made lists of civil service employees that were insufficiently "loyal" and went after them?

Do not play this game with me...................play it with the uninformed...............It is well known what the IRS and other Federal Agencies did in the 501cs.....................People should have WENT TO JAIL FOR IT........

But when you OWN THE DOJ...........they don't go to jail.............The courts backed up what happened........and it all happened under Obama's Watch.

DID YOU CARE COYOTE..........That our Gov't TARGETED groups because of their beliefs.........Did IT BOTHER YOU AT ALL............... hmmmmm

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Why the fuck would anyone want people on the team who are working against and undermining you?

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Lol...why the fuck would anyone want a president that only wants yes men around him?

Why would a President want people working for him actively working against him?

 

[Coyote]