I promise I am NOT going to do what’s done in right wing media or all those troll-like posts on FB and other social media. I am not auto leaping from accusation to accepting accusation as absolute fact. A tactic MAGA LOVES with a passion. They hunger for it so much maybe THEY’RE the ones eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio?
    YES, a JOKE at THIER expense, but I’d believe that more than most of their claims.
    Sheria Smith WAS an attorney working at The Department of Education. “Was” until the recent firings of a good portion of the employees there.
    Of course these mass firings aren’t just at DOE. Intent on rising unemployment Doge has been happily getting rid of what they call waste in government. All of the fav targets of what I call the Reich Wing, and right wing social media posters merrily follow them like those who cheer on bullies on a playground cheering them on and taunting the sometimes clueless victims who were minding their own business. Victims who probably were doing a damn good job. Maybe TOO good, like one fire-ee who had an excellent, outstanding review and then was fired for not doing well despite that?
    Sheria Smith made a comment on a news program I think Democrats need to investigate, and any HONEST Republicans, if that species isn’t extinct. O still refuse to come out of their caves so they won’t have to do town halls?
    A clue as to what they’re doing was given by Linda McMahon, Trump’s Department of Education Secretary, and former professional wrestling promoter. How apt is that considering the combative nature of the new administration? She said they were being… “mindful of keeping the good people.”
    Just how are they defining the “good people” was defined by Sheria Smith…
    She noted they were keeping the white, male employees and also went to conservative schools, pro-Trump.
    We need a 9/11, 1/6, investigation as to who ARE they firing? If possible (Yeah, I know, “Hah, ha, ha.) One WITH TEETH. (More “ha’s” follow.)
    This isn’t just a DOE question but all across the mass firing spectrum. One good sign will be if they legally attack Ms. Smith for daring to even make the comments she made. Good because the last thing roaches want is sunlight, or light on them of any kind.
    Is it just in departments they intend on dismantling?
    Another question, what about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, will any employees left be told to target any politically incorrect recipients? If your social media presence reads as not Trump obedient, not MAGA loving, do you lose benefits you PAID into the system for?
    Another clue can be found in the arrest for… what? Disagreeing with the administration’s actions and policies? Peaceful protest? …arrest of Mahmoud Khalil, a legal immigrant with a green card. Apparently we’ve just begun authoritarian elimination of opposition, including making examples of those offending the king.
    A recent confrontation with a right wing FB troll shows how far they will go. “She” (if it is a “she.”) claimed because he and a group that agrees with him occupied Trump Tower, held people hostage,, it was legal I pointed out that was not him, it was the group protesting his arrest AFTER he was arrested.
    Think that will strike home? Yeah, I don’t either. Another lie will be offered, name calling probably follow.
    Such a short time. As they keep jacking all this up will ovens be in our future? Being dropped out of helicopters? Being disappeared? Buried in some field somewhere like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner?
    The actions of the new administration certainly point in that direction.
    My last edition suggested we need an investigation into the recent election and election rigging. Now I add “just who are they firing?”
    Imagine if Joe Biden had had his hand picked, non-elected, hitman go in and fire all the white, male, far religious right public servants? I don’t think they’d go quietly.
    WHO they are firing is as important as the mass firings and the dismantling of departments.

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