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Fear of retaliation by the Trump administration has left many federal employees reluctant to speak on the record with NPR. But now?

"I'm done being afraid of them," Gorman says. She believes many others are too. "They say the best organizer is a bad boss, and we all have the same bad boss."

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

NPR asked the White House for a response to the criticism coming from some civil servants. In a statement, spokeswoman Abigail Jackson wrote: "President Trump was elected by a resounding majority of Americans to carry out the agenda he is implementing. Federal workers who are actively resisting the Trump agenda are, in reality, working against the American people who elected the President."

In other words, "fuck you."

'Resounding majority', my arse.

[–] mercano@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It wasn’t a majority at all, it was a plurality, 49.8% vs 48.3%, with 1.9% voting third party. Of course, the Electoral College blew the result out of proportion, as it often does.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Exactly! And they're acting like he's got some sort of mandate from the masses.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To this day I think one of the driving forces that enabled the BLM protests to grow to the extent they did was people being out of work and not having to choose to either slave away every day or lose everything. If you want a pacified population, you want them working.

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And you want them motivated to stay working. You don't rob them blind while they're at work. Not for very long at least.

[–] TotalCourage007@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

You also don't destroy all forms of entertainment keeping them inside lmao.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

they are also currently trying to fuck with the ATC employees right now.