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Report: At Least 180 Federal Workers Planning to Disobey Trump Administration
Townhall ^ | February 1, 2017 | Justin Holcomb

Posted on 02/01/2017 2:03:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

President Donald Trump surely realizes that most workers employed by the federal government diabolically oppose his views of America.

According to a new report, at least 180 of those employees "have signed up for a workshop featuring expert advice on workers’ rights and expressing civil disobedience."  Also, dozens more federal workers have attended a support groups for discussing opposition to the Trump administration.

As President Trump settles into the White House, he will have to start examining ways to expedite his transition from the top down.  His agenda is nothing more than words in the long term if the people working for him fail to carry out his promises.  

Not showing up to work, taking extended vacations, filing worker's rights lawsuits, and obstructing the process in any way possible are just a few of the legal ways federal workers can bring President Trump's agenda to a halt.

From the CIA to the State Department, at some point, a mass overhaul of former employees from the Clinton, Bush and Obama eras has to happen.  President Trump can sign as many executive orders as he wants, but it will mean nothing in the long run if the people who stood behind him during the campaign are not serving him as employees.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: disobedience; federalworkers; insubordination; mutiny
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To: MayflowerMadam

getting fired from a federal workers union job is a lot tougher than it sounds.


21 posted on 02/01/2017 2:12:20 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There is an old Ronald Reagan movie where he is working at a radio station and they try to fire him. He pulls out the “you can’t fire me, I’m under contract!” line.

So the radio station makes him do all of the crappiest jobs they can think of to try and make him quit....come in at midnight to sign-off the station, come back at 5 AM to sign it on, carry a bulky, heavy remote unit around the streets, etc.

There are plenty of ways to skin this cat.


22 posted on 02/01/2017 2:12:27 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

When Obama took control, he added what can be called ‘Political Officers’ throughout the government offices.

They should be easy enough to find. New Positions created after a certain date filled by new to the government employees. Obama was such a dumbass they probably have the same job title.


23 posted on 02/01/2017 2:12:53 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They diabolically oppose Trump’s actions? Probably, but I think the author meant “diametrically”

Diabolic: Related to or coming from the devil (diabolos).

Diametric: Relating to the furthest points on a circle. More precisely, relating to the end points of a line segment which passes through the center of a circle and which extends across the entirety of a circle. By metaphor, two opinions, viewpoints or beliefs which are as far apart as possible from each other.


24 posted on 02/01/2017 2:12:57 PM PST by dangus
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

FIRE THEM ALL and HIRE VETS.


25 posted on 02/01/2017 2:13:45 PM PST by InsidiousMongo
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Not actually doing your job is one of the few reasons you can get fired from The Federal Government, isn’t it?


26 posted on 02/01/2017 2:13:47 PM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Probably hoping to get fired & then file a wrongful termination lawsuit.


27 posted on 02/01/2017 2:14:12 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: MayflowerMadam

Abolish their positions...Then, the ones that are needed, reopen the position for interviews a week later...


28 posted on 02/01/2017 2:15:13 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Disobedient children get consequences.


29 posted on 02/01/2017 2:16:02 PM PST by LydiaLong
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To: dp0622

Yeah; any government job, actually. I worked H.R. for local government. One secretary had been shredding her filing for years (shredding is haaaard, you know!). When it was discovered, we couldn’t fire her. She was a year from retirement age, so she stayed home for a year, at FULL PAY, and then processed out via retirement.

SEIU was our nemesis and made it impossible to let poor employees go.


30 posted on 02/01/2017 2:16:05 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (If you think the party that freed the slaves are the racist ones, you probably are a liberal.)
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To: Mr. K
Not actually doing your job is one of the few reasons you can get fired from The Federal Government, isn’t it?

It's a union gig, so not necessarily.


31 posted on 02/01/2017 2:16:48 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Transfer them to Somalia, all 180 of them


32 posted on 02/01/2017 2:16:55 PM PST by McGavin999
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The entire state department from the janitor on up to all of the assistant SsoS should be fired, except, of course, T-Rex.

Joe McCarthy was right. It is best to clean out that department while the opportunity exists. Get rid of every last one of them.


33 posted on 02/01/2017 2:17:24 PM PST by spel_grammer_an_punct_polise (Note to all foreigners: Please.....GET OUT and STAY OUT!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Boy, this is a win-win for taxpayers since they all have bloated salaries.


34 posted on 02/01/2017 2:17:25 PM PST by hsmomx3 (Love my Steelers!!)
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To: sargon

Har. Good catch!

el diablo


35 posted on 02/01/2017 2:17:27 PM PST by thinden
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees. Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities. This obligation is paramount. Since their own services have to do with the functioning of the Government, a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to prevent or obstruct the operations of Government until their demands are satisfied. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of Government by those who have sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable. It is, therefore, with a feeling of gratification that I have noted in the constitution of the National Federation of Federal Employees the provision that “under no circumstances shall this Federation engage in or support strikes against the United States Government.”

—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT August 16, 1937


36 posted on 02/01/2017 2:17:44 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

They are the perpetrators of their own demise...and may it come soon.


37 posted on 02/01/2017 2:18:00 PM PST by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: dp0622

True, but they CAN be moved to Outterslobovia and given a lower pay grade for a nothing job.


38 posted on 02/01/2017 2:18:05 PM PST by nopardons
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To: gubamyster

- Assign employees living in Northern Virginia to remote offices in Frederick, Maryland (and vice-versa)

- Announce a new green initiative where all air conditioning will be turned-off in Federal offices

Like I said, lots of ways to skin the cat.


39 posted on 02/01/2017 2:18:39 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

After those 180 are identified, I’d ID 2 of their favorite co-workers. Once I had those 540 names, since it’s so hard to get rid of civil servants, I’d cut all the funding for those 540 positions. Let the original 180 explain why they’re all out of work.

And with 95 million out of work, There are thousands that are ready, willing and able to do their jobs.


40 posted on 02/01/2017 2:18:48 PM PST by qaz123
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