Summary
Trump evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her military housing with just three hours’ notice, despite an earlier 60-day waiver.
Fagan, the first woman to lead a military branch, was dismissed on Trump’s second day in office over concerns about DEI policies and border security.
Homeland Security officials cited her termination as justification, though sources called it a “petty” move.
Fagan was forced to leave most belongings behind, spending the night with friends while awaiting relocation of her personal items.
Getting fired because you’re a woman, with reasoning that seems to boil down to “we don’t think a woman can do this job,” sounds like a pretty good case for a wrongful, discriminatory firing suit.
4/9 of the supreme court are women. When are they going to go?
At least 1 black guy to my knowledge too
We don’t count that Uncle Tom mother fucker
The moment they have their “hol’ up” moment of clarity about how a ruling will affect them personally
They just put an asshole in charge of the EEOC who doesn’t believe this is discrimination. Who would enforce a judgement even if they won?
the sheer amount of my taxpayer dollars that will go into lawsuit settlements over the next 20 years is infuriating
Why do you think any lawsuits for any of these things would actually get anywhere at this point?
The repercussions of this administration will be going on for decades
Right but you seem to be inferring that the totalitarianism sweeping the nation at the moment will just go away or something, and lawsuits on things like this will actually be a thing in, say, 10 years.
yeah this is just the start. it’s gonna get progressively worse until inevitably the system blows up. that could take decades. i’m guessing it culminates in some sort of unwinnable war
Dude, he appointed three supreme court judges. They are young as hell and will cause hell for 35 to 40 years at least. This is what he did without a second term.
With a second term we might see repercussions and hell probably until the very late 21st. This is assuming it stops with him.
New tax on billion dollar entities or higher scaling exponentially for every additional zero , make them pay it. Government should spend money, on the people for the people and by the people
They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.
Is he literally saying “Girls can’t do that job, that’s a job for a man”?
Yes
No no no it’s clearly DEI
The left needs to learn how to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Speaking softly alone gets you fucking nowhere. This is why the far right gains so much ground. They know the DNC and the apparatus of the left is toothless. All they do is browbeat.
Get.some.fucking.teeth.
If the DNC cannot bite back, it needs to die or else ethnic cleansing and genocide is inevitable in this country.
maybe whack them good with the stick before speaking softly.
I want to start a new political party in alabama based solely on making the average workers life a little bit better.
Do higher ups like her get better movers than enlisted? Because I have heard horror stories about the state of objects after military moving companies get ahold of them.
Nah they will probably do it worse on purpose. It’s a real shit show
That first move was fucking rough. I was so relieved until I walked into my living room full of dented cardboard boxes. Never again. I opened up a dented box of dishes I had packed meticulously and wrapped in bubble wrap. Ate off of chipped plates for a couple weeks before I had time to replace them…I couldn’t fucking imagine using them when I had actually valuable shit.
I got a buncha other grunts to help me move the next time. The fucking butter bar that was watching us move my shit into the new place was all “Why didn’t you just use United? Command pays for them. Waste of money. You grunts never learn.” I politely asked him if he’d had them move him in. “Well uh no. We’re paid better than to need that.” Lol
Come to find out the crews that work the government jobs get the worst pay and are often stiffed on tips because command never tell the enlisted to fucking tip. So yeah, they’ll happily fuck up your shit to get the job over ASAP and move on to a better paying civvie job. And to be honest I can’t really blame em. Especially now with Elon saying the Government isn’t gonna pay contractors anymore.
You’re not supposed to tip military movers, it’s in the instructions you’re provided.
My wife and I just recently moved using military movers and all our stuff is fine. She’s a captain (the O3 kind).
Both teams of people were professionals and we didn’t lose anything to theft or damage. Maybe we just got lucky, idk. My experience as lower enlisted having government movers pack up my shit in Italy to move back to the states was similar back in 2014 though. Never had an issue.
My move was in the States. And yeah, the not tipping part is how most of us get fucked. Happy you had a good experience. I have nothing against movers for the record. It’s a tough fucking job.
I wouldn’t take a butter bar’s advice, neither. Not unless a sergeant had just them what to say.
Is a “butter bar” the Army equivalent of a “90 day wonder?” I never heard that term in the Navy.
Any O1 is a butter bar. It’s what the rank insignia looks like for all branches.
Gotcha. Thanks. I generally just called them Ensign, since my first O rank was O4
I wouldn’t call them a butter bar to their face. Lieutenant is the proper term for the most junior Army officers.
I was honestly too busy grading their work to come up with derogatory terms for my students. I guess we called them freshies, and newbies, when we didn’t just call them the ensigns
almost there
MAGA has a hardon for cruelty. It’s about hurting people.
ITT, and every thread about Trump, : ‘Fight guys! I’ll sit here with my tendies and watch how it goes. “They’ve picked the wrong fight!” and all that, carry on!’
When you’re asking yourselves how the Germans let Nazis happen, remember: if you haven’t shot a fascist yet, you’re one of the Germans that let Nazis happen. Stop calling for other people to fight, you fucking cowards. Go fight for yourselves.
Edit: for what it’s worth, I’m American and will not be flying across the country to throw my life away.
So you’re literally describing yourself?
I’m going to avoid calling you insults in this first response.
I’m very clearly stating that I’m unwilling to fight, and you won’t see a single comment suggesting otherwise on my profile. I dislike people who cry war from their comfy battlestations at home. If you can’t fight, for disability reasons or whatever you can help without calling for others to fight for you. Otherwise you’re just a coward who’s making things worse.
If you haven’t shot a fascist yet, you’re one of the Germans that let Nazis happen. Stop calling for other people to fight, you fucking cowards. Go fight for yourselves.
Also:
I’m American and will not be flying across the country to throw my life away.
I’m just pointing out what you literally said in your initial comment. You said everyone who doesn’t fight but is calling for violence is letting the Nazi’s happen. Then you proceeded to say you are also not going to fight them… Also you said you weren’t going to use insults and then proceeded to throw the word coward in there without knowing anything about me. You don’t get to be a hypocrite and then be upset when your hypocrisy is pointed out. I’m not saying you should go fight, you clearly have your reasons not to, but you yourself just said that you can’t call for violence while not fighting.
Ah yes, I guess I should have provided the caveat of ‘Go fight for yourselves if that’s something you want so badly.’ but I guess I didn’t do a good enough job of making my point.
We can protest. Armed even. But check out these subs, its actually kinda been refreshing https://reddit.com/r/optimistsunite and r/liberalgunowners
That’s great, if you feel the need to fight for yourself then do so. If I didn’t have people who rely on me, I’d probably be dropping everything to do so.
I can’t. I’ll help how I can, I’ll try to make the world a better place. I cannot simply drop everything and fight, my mom needs to eat.
Meh
There are some other countries that would gladly put her up in exchange for information
