When we say trump is stifling dissent, this is what we mean.

[berg80]

There is a process. Try harder.

Clearly they felt their observations were not being responded to by the regime. The only alternative left to them being to inform Congress.

For the sake of public safety.

 

[martybegan]

Just saying, you don’t believe in civil service protections. Everyone in the government must behave exactly as they’re instructed even if it means lying to the American people.

Or get fired.

civil service protections depend on the civil servants being apolitical.

We are better off going back to the spoils system, as the civil service has been overtaken by progressive dems.

 

[martybegan]

Clearly they felt their observations were not being responded to by the regime. The only alternative left to them being to inform Congress.

For the sake of public safety.

Clearly their Trump hatred required them to be whiny little bitches.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Stifling dissent?

Is that like when the Biden administration strong-armed social media to censor conservatives on line?

Stifle yoursel, Stalinberg.

 

[Rogue AI]

Clearly they felt their observations were not being responded to by the regime. The only alternative left to them being to inform Congress.

For the sake of public safety.

If they willingly violate their contract agreements they are subject to termination. Or are these more liberal loons who are above the law?

 

[berg80]

More off topic silliness in a lame attempt to support seditious activities.

The exposure of incompetence is not sedition. Trying to steal an election is sedition.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane, claiming an estimated 1,833 lives, leaving millions homeless, and causing approximately $161 billion in damage. Hurricane Katrina was not just a natural disaster, but a man-made one: the inexperience of senior leaders and the profound failure by the federal government to deliver timely, unified, and effective aid to those in need left survivors to fend for themselves for days, and highlighted how Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities are disproportionally affected by disasters. These failures prompted Congress to pass the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (PKEMRA), which introduced safeguards to ensure such shortcomings of disaster preparation and response would not be repeated. However, two decades later, FEMA is enacting processes and leadership structures that echo the conditions PKEMRA was designed to prevent.

Since January 2025, FEMA has been under the leadership of individuals lacking legal qualifications, Senate approval, and the demonstrated background required of a FEMA Administrator. Decisions made by FEMA’s Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator (SOPDA) David Richardson, Former SOPDA Cameron Hamilton, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem erode the capacity of FEMA and our State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) partners, hinder the swift execution of our mission, and dismiss experienced staff whose institutional knowledge and relationships are vital to ensure effective emergency management.

The agency’s current trajectory reflects a clear departure from the intent of PKEMRA. Our shared commitment to our country, our oaths of office, and our mission of helping people before, during, and after disasters compel us to warn Congress and the American people of the cascading effects of decisions made by the current administration. We the undersigned — current and former FEMA workers — have come together to sound the alarm to our administrators, the US Congress, and the American people so that we can continue to lawfully uphold our individual oaths of office and serve our country as our mission dictates.

Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

 

[Godboy]

FEMA Suspends Staff Who Signed a Letter Criticizing Trump​

The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Tuesday suspended around 30 employees after those workers wrote to Congress warning that the Trump administration had gutted the nation’s ability to handle hurricanes, floods and other extreme weather disasters.

Of the 182 FEMA employees who signed the letter to Congress, 36 attached their names, while the rest withheld their identities for fear of retaliation.

Those who used their names received emails on Tuesday night saying they had been placed on paid administrative leave “effective immediately, and continuing until further notice,” according to copies of the emails reviewed by The New York Times.

The emails did not provide a reason for the decision. Representatives for FEMA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/climate/fema-suspends-staff-who-criticized-trump-cuts.html

I very much hope what happened to these FEMA employees, and what happened to the three star general, Jeffrey Kruse, who wrote a report detailing the damage to Iranian nuclear facilities in contradiction of trump's hyperbolic characterization (it was a lie), does not have the desired effect.

I hope it does not intimidate employees of the government, or any person really, from speaking the truth. The truth being this government's mortal enemy. But I fear it will. I fear intimidation works. When I see law firms and universities acquiescing to threats from trump.......I know it does.

What I don't know is how many people will be silenced for fear of retribution? I don't know how much will we not learn about the inner workings of our government because people are afraid of our government?

Yeah, we had enough of your treasonous "resistence" in Trumps first term. We arent ******* around anymore.

You guys tried to imprison our president on bullshit charges. You tried to bankrupt him. You put multiple people from his staff in prison. You only get the stick now. You should be thankful that we arent executing people.

 

[Marener]

civil service protections depend on the civil servants being apolitical.

We are better off going back to the spoils system, as the civil service has been overtaken by progressive dems.

You don’t want them to be apolitical. You want them to obey anything and everything the administration tells them to do.

The spoils system lead to politicization of every level of government.

Which is what you actually want.

 

[berg80]

If they willingly violate their contract agreements they are subject to termination.

If their contract agreement calls for their silence on matters of threats to public safety and the regime being in violation of the PKEMRA then it isn't worth the paper it's written on.

 

[martybegan]

The exposure of incompetence is not sedition. Trying to steal an election is sedition.

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane, claiming an estimated 1,833 lives, leaving millions homeless, and causing approximately $161 billion in damage. Hurricane Katrina was not just a natural disaster, but a man-made one: the inexperience of senior leaders and the profound failure by the federal government to deliver timely, unified, and effective aid to those in need left survivors to fend for themselves for days, and highlighted how Black, Indigenous, and low-income communities are disproportionally affected by disasters. These failures prompted Congress to pass the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 (PKEMRA), which introduced safeguards to ensure such shortcomings of disaster preparation and response would not be repeated. However, two decades later, FEMA is enacting processes and leadership structures that echo the conditions PKEMRA was designed to prevent.

Since January 2025, FEMA has been under the leadership of individuals lacking legal qualifications, Senate approval, and the demonstrated background required of a FEMA Administrator. Decisions made by FEMA’s Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Administrator (SOPDA) David Richardson, Former SOPDA Cameron Hamilton, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem erode the capacity of FEMA and our State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial (SLTT) partners, hinder the swift execution of our mission, and dismiss experienced staff whose institutional knowledge and relationships are vital to ensure effective emergency management.

The agency’s current trajectory reflects a clear departure from the intent of PKEMRA. Our shared commitment to our country, our oaths of office, and our mission of helping people before, during, and after disasters compel us to warn Congress and the American people of the cascading effects of decisions made by the current administration. We the undersigned — current and former FEMA workers — have come together to sound the alarm to our administrators, the US Congress, and the American people so that we can continue to lawfully uphold our individual oaths of office and serve our country as our mission dictates.

Support the FEMA Katrina Declaration Now! — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

www.standupforscience.net

How much you wanna bet the people at "standupforscience.net" believe women can have penises and men can get pregnant?

 

[Marener]

You should be thankful that we arent executing people.

This is why people say MAGA is fascist.

 

[martybegan]

You don’t want them to be apolitical. You want them to obey anything and everything the administration tells them to do.

The spoils system lead to politicization of every level of government.

Which is what you actually want.

We get it already when Dems are in power because the civil service is mostly dems.

That was never the intent of the apolitical civil service, one side getting slavish cooperation and the other side getting crap like this.

 

[berg80]

Yeah, we had enough of your treasonous "resistence" in Trumps first term. We arent ******* around anymore.

That wasn't treason. It was fidelity to the country and the Constitution.

But I'd be glad to talk about treason if you'd like to discuss the plot to steal the 2020 election.

 

[Nuthin' Fancy]

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Ronald Reagan

Only if it's Reagan or Trump.

Both killed the middle class and decimated the poor people.

 

[berg80]

What happened is part of a pattern of silencing criticism by intimidation.

In July, the Environmental Protection Agency placed 144 staff members on administrative leave after the workers signed a letter accusing the administration of politicizing the agency. The E.P.A. also opened an investigation into whether the workers signed the letter while on the job using government equipment.

 

[Winston]

It was in the news. But you wouldn't know because you follow left loon news

In the ******* news, wow, I am so impressed.

Tropical Storm Helene | NC DPS

Information and resources for Tropical Storm Helene response and recovery.

www.ncdps.gov

https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20250822/additional-96-million-approved-support-helene-recovery

This should not be political. FEMA did good work under Biden and is still doing good work under Trump.

 

[Godboy]

But I'd be glad to talk about treason if you'd like to discuss the plot to steal the 2020 election.

The investigations on that have already begun. People WILL be indicted over it. People like Comey, Clapper, etc, are going down.

 

[berg80]

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'"
Ronald Reagan

That's what idiots say right up until their house gets destroyed by a natural disaster and they need the government's help.

 

[jknowgood]

FEMA should be quiet after the North Carolina fail. It really wasn't FEMA but more Biden incompetence but it was a fail

I know the entire program should be gone.

 

[SeaMajor7]

Defenders of all things trump apparently believe, as he does, that loyalty to him..........NOT THE COUNTRY........is paramount.

IT ISN'T.

Is that why FEMA skipped checking on homes with Trump lawn signs?
You're a ******* CLOWN.