Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president

This is the mental dead end I reach every time. It’s not even just “elections have consequences” or “voters are frustrated.” It’s that huge numbers of Americans are passionate supporters of this specific monster. Many of them have bad reasons, or are ignorant, or have been deceived, but the support that matters is there.

Things like the electoral college, FPTP, and gerrymandering are serious problems we need to fix. But fixing those will not fix the hearts and minds of the people. There is so much more that has to change.

It has had me seriously wondering if whatever hellish stuff Trump’s handlers have planned to dismantle the government is going to be the FASTER way to get to the part where we rebuild something better.

Yeah, but that took an unprecedented situation (once in a century pandemic) and a million+ dead Americans. He absolutely would have won a second term if COVID didn't happen.

American voters are pretty goddamn stupid and there's really no way around that.

I did not. I did my damnedest in order to try and inform everybody who was around me. I try to help bring up all of the aspects and all of the problems. Our biggest failure is all those who didn't even vote. Not those who did but those who couldn't even be assed to get off of theirs and go out and fill out the form. But let me Tell you what this administration did Nazi coming.... My unadulterated ass now being even more bold and happy just telling them to fuck off. Might as well start feeding them the same bullshit they've been doing to us for the last eight years. I am now refusing to do absolutely anything involved with anything that they want done I am going to drag my dick on everything and anything I might construe as being helpful to their cause. I'm going to bitch and moan as loudly as possible . I'm going to be the most cantankerous pain in the ass that anybody has ever come across.

That orange fuck can get stuffed should have stayed in oompa loompa land maybe And I'm just saying maybe lighten up on the amount of tanning cream that he's using or at least tell his apprentices they need to slow up cuz we all know Mr tiny hands is incapable of squeezing the fucking bottle himself. Don't want to accidentally use too much energy might be construed as exercise and that might actually physically kill him God damn medical oddity. How can somebody eat that poorly and do literally nothing and still be walking around.

We haven't had any agency in this for a long time. The two parties run the show on behalf of our billionaire owners.

Yes we did.. as was said a long time ago, the only thing that can destroy America is America

Well that's not true. 49% of voters voted against him. Many of us did a lot more than vote. We failed to stop him, sure, but that's a different thing.

Wouldn't that even more of a reason to protest? It's almost a meme at this point, but the US is the only developed country without universal healhcare. But people keep voting for the party that countless times has threatened to cut even Medicare.

And if a random dude in Germany knows this, every voter in Bumfuck, Nebrahoma should, too, but here we are.

And our homes, meaning our family members also become homeless

organize, unionize, the second best time is now

Peaceful protest against tyrannical governments only work if they're seen as an opening offer backed by the potential for non-peaceful escalation.

Too bad one party decided that guns were bad and spent the last 50 years disarming itself.

thinking that voting is the only necessary political action is how you all boiled the frog

Yup.

As an American I can confirm that Americans are fucking stupid.

Hope you're comfortable with us having the most powerful military to ever exist. I'm certainly not.

49% of voters, about a 3rd of eligible voters

The nutjobs still think he's on their side, unfortunately.

By private companies. Federal employees have a lot more protections.

Literally, from the article:

It was also not immediately known how many of the fired prosecutors intended to challenge the terminations by arguing that the department had cast aside civil service protections afforded to federal employees

That tells me federal employees have different rules and they may have a path to make things uncomfortable for a while. Whether that's worth the effort is up to them.

I live in a at-will right to work state, so I understand that. But not every state is an at-will right to work state, and surely the way federal employees are treated is legislated differently and not on a state level. Do federal employees have zero protections?

I'm probably going to get downvoted into oblivion but it's the white middle class that won't do anything until they lose their conveniences. Asian, black, latino, Indian, and middle eastern know they aren't wanted here and their thoughts and opinions are often left ignored or hardly represented in government. They've had the bare minimum for decades and times of political and economic strife hit them first and hardest.

White America rather vote for a con-man that tells them what they want to hear than even fathom the idea of an "undesirable" sharing the same luxuries they enjoy. I got mine fuck you

Unfortunately it's always a conspiracy theory until it's put into action. But by then it's too late...

It's exactly like the Nazi problem. To most people they aren't officially Nazis until we're literally being shipped into death camps. Anything that happens before that is just "awkward waves" and "political disagreements."

:(

Yep, had republicans I know believe Trump when he said he knew nothing about P2025, now here they are following it to the letter.

Welcome to 1930s Germany.

A bunch of ignorant, uneducated people experiencing economic hardship that vote in a proto-authoritarian out of desperation because their minds were warped by propaganda and hatred.

Expect things to get much worse.

Government jobs are like the one place where that isn't true.

The Justice Department can be sued. You don't need them on your side in order to file a lawsuit. How far the Supreme Court will go to rubber stamp it is an open question. And by the time it gets resolved one way or another it'll be way past the firing.

Greenland is just cover for the other two.

They'll probably wait until two weeks after his arteries give out from all the McDonalds to file charges next time. Remember that it's about generating headlines for brownie points, not about actually following through with things.

These grunts had no power.

The system is designed to fail them.

Lets hope he manages to write page 500 before he gets fired. Quantity is irrelevant when it is used to delay justice instead of enforce it.

Jack Smith ran away and hid rather than fight. These employees kept quietly writing reports instead of moving forward with critical action. Hell, I'd even take a whistleblower. Are we seeing any of that? Ofc not. They're all cowards carefully hired by further cowards precisely to protect their status quo.

Source: i am a former federal employee whose rights were repeatedly violated and who was shitcanned when I made myself heard. Nobody is interested in pursuing my rights violations because nobody has jurisdiction over anyone else. Burn the whole system to the ground.