I remember being mocked for saying that was going to be bullshit and they’d go after everyone, and of course all the people who mocked me would now forget.
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Not with a bang but a whimper
But almost three years since his election, what I have not seen is organized resistance from within. To the contrary, two senior Foreign Service officers admonished me for risking my career when I signed an internal dissent cable against the ban on travelers from several majority-Muslim countries in January 2017. Among my colleagues at the State Department, I have met neither the unsung hero nor the cunning villain of Deep State lore. If the resistance does exist, it should be clear by this point that it has failed.
Instead, I am part of the Complacent State.
The Complacent State sighs when the president blocks travel by Muslim immigrants; shakes its head when he defends Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman; averts its gaze from images of children in detention camps. Then it complies with orders.
Every day, we refuse visas based on administration priorities. We recite administration talking points on border security, immigration and trade. We plan travel itineraries, book meetings and literally hold doors open for the appointees who push Trump’s toxic agenda around the world.
Spelled complicit wrong
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My first boss out of college worked in the State department until March. I haven’t spoken to her in years, but I was always tempted to call her out of the blue and ask her what the story is. She had risen pretty high (Director of the Office of Intellectual Property Enforcement), so she either left voluntarily or was fired. Both of which are not ideal, since she was truly a star, and someone you’d definitely WANT at State.
Maybe I will contact her now that she’s out of that cesspool. No guarantee she’s a democrat, but I’m almost 100% sure she’s at least a never-trumper.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1159611361254658048?s=19
https://www.google.com/amp/paydayreport.com/ice-raids-miss-plant-after-3-5-million-sexual-harassment-settlement/amp/
In 2018, following a nearly eight-year-long legal battle, Koch Foods Inc. settled a $3.75 million brought by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Koch Food Inc at the plant. The lawsuit alleged that Koch Foods Inc supervisors engaged in both racial and sexual harassment of Latina workers at its Morton, Mississippi plant.
The lawsuit brought by the EEOC against Koch Food Inc’s alleged “that supervisors touched and/or made sexually suggestive comments to female Hispanic employees, hit Hispanic employees and charged many of them money for normal everyday work activities.”
In June of 2018, ICE raided a unionized Fresh Mark meatpacking plant in Salem, Ohio; arresting 140 workers.
A week before the raid on a Fresh Mark’s Salem facility, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined Fresh Mark $211,194 for three separate incidents in which proper guards for dangerous machinery were not in place. OSHA found that the lack of safety guards resulted in the death of an undocumented worker.
Suspicious was also raised that workers complaining about working conditions in plants lead to raids when the Southeastern Provision in Morristown, Tennesse. The raid came after federal authorities were tipped off by a local bank that the owner of the plant may have been paying undocumented workers under the table.
So many heinous acts go unnoticed under the Trump regime, any one of which would have sunk any other president.
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So would Koch have had to pay the illegal immigrants who got detained? Can illegal immigrants sue and get paid in this situation?
or was this just some revenge shit? Sending a message?
My guess is that Koch was never going to pay the immigrants anyway. This is just petty revenge and a threat for others who may want to come forward in the future. One sexual predator protecting another.
Funny but seriously unproductive. We’re trying to get them to turn out now?
I thought it was comical and in today’s political climate humor is about the only thing that’s keeping me sane.
Triggering the fascists isn’t that bad either.
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Allowing the tail to wag the dog I suspect.
Of course. He gives away the game there as always, the NRA doesn’t want Congress to do jack shit and there’s no way to square that circle.
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Why isn’t the press asking why he overturned Obama’s rule about not giving guns to the mentally ill or deranged?
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