Should an ideological purity test be applied to federal employees?

[sparky]

~S~

 

[Hutch Starskey]

You are in a cult, dude.

Your gaslighting is cheap and ineffective. It also lacks any creativity.

 

[Billiejeens]

Your gaslighting is cheap and ineffective. It also lacks any creativity.

You only believe it to be gaslighting because it is incongruous with THE Narrative that your echo chamber has created for you.

 

[struth]

Conservative group’s ‘watch list’ targets federal employees for firing

An organization funded by the conservative Heritage Foundation has compiled an online “watch list” of federal employees it claims cannot be trusted to secure the U.S. border and should be fired, a sign that supporters of Donald Trump’s immigration policies are preparing to help him neutralize the administrative state they believe tried to thwart his first presidency.

The “DHS Bureaucrat Watch List” — a website unveiled in the final weeks of a presidential campaign in which immigration is a key issue — names 51 federal policy experts and high-ranking leaders, the majority of whom are career civil servants at the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. The group identified them largely using public social media comments, prior work experience and campaign finance records.

Among the employees’ actions cited by the group are posts celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage or lauding the contributions and successes of undocumented immigrants, as well as donations as little as $10 to Democratic candidates. One employee union likened the effort to unearth the private views of public employees to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s 1950s-era campaign to purge federal workers he accused of being communists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/02/federal-career-employees-watchlist-trump/

I suspect getting trumples to answer the question posed in the subject line will be a bit like herding cats but I'm asking you folks to do so anyway.

Should a federal employee be faced with the risk of termination for the views he/she holds on something like the legally protected right (Obergefell) to same sex marriage? What does a person's opinion on same sex marriage have to do with their competence to do their job?

Is it possible the threat of termination could be used as a means of intimidation to get federal employees to comply with directives that are in violation of the law?

Would you trump supporters object if you learned Biden had compiled a list of federal employees earmarked for termination based on the employee's views regarding gun control?

What does gay marriage have to do with the DHS?

 

[struth]

He is not.

He is using rhetoric to state that actively resisting his poliees in office is grounds for termination.

As they should be. If you don’t want to work for him, and implement his policies then you should be fired

 

[Hutch Starskey]

You only believe it to be gaslighting because it is incongruous with THE Narrative that your echo chamber has created for you.

It is you dopes who exist outside of reality.

 

[Billiejeens]

It is you dopes who exist outside of reality.

It's not

 

[Hutch Starskey]

It's not

Tell us again how the 2020 election was stolen and how dems are commies.

Tell us some more about how Trump is winning.

 

[justoffal]

Conservative group’s ‘watch list’ targets federal employees for firing

An organization funded by the conservative Heritage Foundation has compiled an online “watch list” of federal employees it claims cannot be trusted to secure the U.S. border and should be fired, a sign that supporters of Donald Trump’s immigration policies are preparing to help him neutralize the administrative state they believe tried to thwart his first presidency.

The “DHS Bureaucrat Watch List” — a website unveiled in the final weeks of a presidential campaign in which immigration is a key issue — names 51 federal policy experts and high-ranking leaders, the majority of whom are career civil servants at the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies. The group identified them largely using public social media comments, prior work experience and campaign finance records.

Among the employees’ actions cited by the group are posts celebrating the legalization of same-sex marriage or lauding the contributions and successes of undocumented immigrants, as well as donations as little as $10 to Democratic candidates. One employee union likened the effort to unearth the private views of public employees to Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s 1950s-era campaign to purge federal workers he accused of being communists.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2024/11/02/federal-career-employees-watchlist-trump/

I suspect getting trumples to answer the question posed in the subject line will be a bit like herding cats but I'm asking you folks to do so anyway.

Should a federal employee be faced with the risk of termination for the views he/she holds on something like the legally protected right (Obergefell) to same sex marriage? What does a person's opinion on same sex marriage have to do with their competence to do their job?

Is it possible the threat of termination could be used as a means of intimidation to get federal employees to comply with directives that are in violation of the law?

Would you trump supporters object if you learned Biden had compiled a list of federal employees earmarked for termination based on the employee's views regarding gun control?

That kind of testing is too much of a slippery slope into dictatorship. However I posit to you that all new administrations regardless of their politic...do it.

 

[Billiejeens]

Tell us again how the 2020 election was stolen and how dems are commies.

Tell us some more about how Trump is winning.

This didn't age well.

 

[Billiejeens]

It is you dopes who exist outside of reality.

This didn't age well.

 

[berg80]

What does gay marriage have to do with the DHS?

Bingo.

 

[berg80]

That kind of testing is too much of a slippery slope into dictatorship. However I posit to you that all new administrations regardless of their politic...do it.

You can posit it if you like. It just isn't true.

 

[struth]

Bingo.

That really didn’t answer my question.

 

[berg80]

That really didn’t answer my question.

It does, you just can't figure out why.

 

[justoffal]

You can posit it if you like. It just isn't true.

Seriously?...... The level of dictatorship that exists behind the scenes and away from the public purview rivals that of the CCC. I don't care if it's in DC or not..... niether party is innocent of it.

 

[struth]

It does, you just can't figure out why.

No it doesn’t. Your link seems to be grasping at straws.

The bottom line. The folks targeted, don’t share the same policies for Homeland Security

Same sex marriage has nothing to do with it