Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.
In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time”.
The USDA office staff should’ve barricaded the building to keep the jackbooted thugs out.
That is the level of resistance we need to be at, at this point.
They should’ve, yet they didn’t. All this 2A stuff Americans have been hyping up for decades has really just been a pose this whole time. All a bluff, and now that the fascists are not only within their shores, but in the highest offices of power? It is a beyond imaginably fucked situation right now, even with all this controversy it doesn’t resemble a fraction of how alarmed we should all be. There needs to be a mass panic, or people need to act RIGHT NOW.
These cosplaying-few day old accounts need to get a life. Love how much you’ve distorted the reality of the situation thinking the 2A crowd is the same ones declaring fascists are in charge now. Please tell us more how an individual should put themselves into harms-way while you type behind your brave keyboard.
The lady refused to leave her post till forcefully removed, same action as a sit-in which was effective as a peaceful demonstration of a protest during the civil rights era. The fact that you’re telling people to arm up in a government building makes me think you’re just another Jan 6’er or watch way too much entertainment thinking it’s facts.
Please tell us more how an individual should put themselves into harms-way while you type behind your brave keyboard.
I took a brick to the knee standing up against the UK fascists that went running around doing pogroms. I’d take a million more too. What are you doing to stand up against fascism? Show up to work on time?
American here, and what you wrote sounds pretty good on the surface. The problem is that the nutty vocal 2A fanatics are the exact people who delighted in putting the fascists in charge.
lmao
The amount of corruption will definitely turn the USA into another China and Russia. Wake up Congress! This is under your watch.
They want to turn western countries also into narcissistic shitholes. It seems like billionaires have power already, not congress
The current majority of Congress not only enabled this; they want this.
They certainly want whatever their donors want.
Good for her.
Phyllis Fong is a badass then 💪
Is this why their website was down?
Edit: is down
No. It’s down so they can remove any and all mention of bird flu because that’s what’s making eggs expensive.
Eggs have been getting expensive before that. All animal products will continue to increase in price because of how inefficient they are.
Fortunately humans don’t need to eat eggs
FOUND THE VEGAN!
After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit. I try my best to keep ahold of myself, not run away too much with assumptions or conspiratorial thinking. But you don’t have to wait for them to do 100% fascist shit to start calling them fascists.
The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying “these rogue, partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”
This. This right here. They are screaming their intent at us and we don’t need to wait for them to do it to respectably call them fascists. Like to be clear I guess he can do this but the way he did it is potentially incorrect? Regardless, that’s not what I want to hear you say when you do it to a 22-year veteran of the department.
I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit.
I’m glad you brought this up because I’ve noticed the tone change in all the media as well. I don’t blame them and understand. They spent months or years screaming and calling out Trump after spending years during his first term pointing out everything wrong.
Everyone’s burnt out, you can hear it in the jokes and the incredulous chuckles that come out from segments now. They all tried their best but it didn’t change the outcome, that has to make you take a step back. I honestly would probably do the same, you can’t keep bombarding people with multiple items a day and expect them not to tune it out eventually. They know it’s time to switch to a better long-term strategy than what they’ve been trying to do calling out all the bullshit with intensity.
After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart
What’s this everything you refer to?
I think Jon Stewart has been a pretty stand up guy unlike his liberal/conservative flip flopping friend Stephen Colbert.
Only thing I can remember bad about Jon Stewart was that he didn’t say who owned the Wall Street building during the occupy Wall Street movement. But even that is minor since you generally keep family stuff private.
I remember him fighting for the 9/11 firefighters more than anyone.
I can’t tell if this is satire or not
I actually worked with a guy that really hated Stephen Colbert. He was disgusting in many ways, early alt-right. One day I realized that he wasn’t mad about Colbert mocking conservatives, he actually believed it was an honest conservative political show. He loved The Colbert Report. He took it at face value. So when Colbert “came out” as a liberal it broke his heart. He thought the guy turned his back on his ideology for money.
I could not convince him that the Colbert Report was satire. These people really exist.
Oh wow, that’s wild. Funny but sad.
Neither can they.
There have been growing criticisms of him coming from the left for a bit now on how some of his tendencies to diffuse situations learns more towards liberalism than leftism. This isn’t an outright attack on him or to say he’s moving rightward overall. I need to watch this video again but I think this is the one that touches on a bunch of the points, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY
From a comment on the video, “Jon Stewart made me a liberal as a child, adulthood made me a leftist.”
If you like Jon Stewart I’m not trying to say you shouldn’t. But as someone who has continually been moving left, I do feel more distance from him than I used to is all.
He’s absolutely moving right.
Hes not moving right hes always tried to work across the aisle something leftists could learn a thing about
Thanks for the information but leftists are increasingly making me more liberal anyways so I’m not too worried about it.
Is your political stance based off of policy or the individuals that make up the constituents of politicians that claim to be left? I don’t understand how some rhetoric from “lefists” have changed your views on policy. Might want to step off of political discourse online if you’re being swayed by “personalities”, it’s exactly the kind of discourse bad-actors are trying to implement.
Hey, fair. I know the overall political left has always been plagued with infighting and purity testing. I’d like to at least do my part in bridging the gap between leftists and liberals by not getting in your face about not panicking over this shit if you’ll still allow me the same space to entertain my concern without calling me hysterical. Deal?
I don’t call anyone hysterical I abhor the historical connotations of the word.
The tone he had on Monday’s Daily Show was, “let’s not start throwing around the word fascism yet”. He apparently still has faith in the courts? https://archive.org/details/COM_20250128_070000_The_Daily_Show
And who did the escorting??
The article says “security agents”. Probably contract security.
Exactly! Get names. The order was illegal. “Just following orders” isn’t justification. Get those security people in court. Get their manager. Get everyone at every step in the decision-making chain. Make people second guess whether participating in a thing that’s “controversial” is a good idea. The little foot soldiers should be worried about just doing things because the boss said so.
“Security agents” according to the article, whatever that means
I guess they work for the Department of “You Ask a Lot of Questions for Somebody in Imprisoning Range”
Shopping mall “cops”
Escorted out by whom? Who marched into a government building to follow this illegal order?
The ss
Whoever did it had qualified immunity, without a doubt. Better off not resisting there.
They’re going to use black hoods in no time
When they go low, we go nuclear. Retribution can cut both ways.
Good for her. Step one in resistance is not just complying with illegal orders. A step the news organizations have been woefully failing at. “[T]he White House terminated her” just assumes correctness and ability. They’ll “allege” a crime that was recorded and broadcast to the public, but just accept Trump’s framing of actions that are plainly illegal.
Build union power, mass strike action is a necessity and the only way to prove who runs the country.
They would just all be terminated. They don’t seem to care if the government functions or not.
I’m talking broadly, US unions should be showing solidarity to government workers getting fired and put in place mass strike action. So employment in any and all industries necessitates union membership. That is union power.
This the plan. No government -> no regulations. No regulations -> no lube. No lube -> the US citizenry’s anus. Gaping, flaccid, prolapsed US citizenry’s anus’ -> corporate profits.
Metaphorically speaking of course.
The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying “these rogue, partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”
They really have the doublespeak down.
rogue, partisan = nonpartisan
qualified = sycophantic
uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy = ride Trump’s cock
Man, that’s a grade A beef. Or wait, is it? This keeps happening and how the hell are we going to know!?
[Yes, I’m making cheap jokes as the U.S crumbles. Yes, I feel this is necessary.]
