Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
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.
the sheer amount of my taxpayer dollars that will go into lawsuit settlements over the next 20 years is infuriating
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
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.
Serving a violent, racist, patriarchical empire isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Is he literally saying "Girls can't do that job, that's a job for a man"?
No no no it's clearly DEI
Yes
over concerns
No.
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.
I want to start a new political party in alabama based solely on making the average workers life a little bit better.
The little person, too, needs to learn to just say no. Make them push it farther. Fight back and get pyrrhic victories.
I'm guessing this was on a military base, so the usual eviction shit doesn't apply, but remember that in civilian life, until law enforcement shows up with a court order in hand, anyone removing you from your house is breaking criminal law.
maybe whack them good with the stick before speaking softly.
almost there
I guess her crime was to try to employ more people who weren't cishet white men. Unforgivable to the fascists in charge. And anyway, they just get off on cruelty because it distracts them from the emptiness inside.
They are the grey shirts. Because they are so fucking empty.
They call themselves that, let’s adopt it
This guy deserves only ridicule for his idiotically simplistic understanding of the world and how to improve it. Yet the fascist techbro billionaires are fawning over him. They're a bunch of fools who never grew up.
Her crime was being a woman to begin with.
Have you seen the list of flagged words for federal grants? It includes "female" and "woman", but not "man" or "male".
They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.
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.
Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.
Ain’t nothing classy or dignified about drone bombing kids at a wedding.
Obama had great P.R.
That’s a fun ratio of votes. Do people not know about the wedding drone strike or is it just that he’s polite and people don’t want to say anything bad about him? He also ordered a strike that killed a sixteen year old citizen.
Was he better than trump? Yes. That doesn’t mean he’s beyond reproach.
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.
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
