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President Donald Trump's mass purge of federal workers from the civil service accidentally swept up safety inspectors on the front lines of containing a bird flu outbreak — and his administration is struggling to rehire them.

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[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All this would be far more interesting and entertaining if any amount of "shredding" would result in any consequences.

But I've reached the point where both his base and the legal system have proven to me that nothing he does will be a bridge too far.

Laws, court orders, likely deaths of US citizens, likely deaths of non-US citizens, these are all things that hold no sway for the Trump admin because we the people, as a nation, have demonstrated that neither his popularity, his prosperity, nor his freedom will be impacted by anything he does, whatsoever.

So yay, he was shredded after doing a monumentally stupid thing that will probably kill some people. Again. And there will be no other ramifications.

Just another day ending in -y.

[–] ChaoticCookie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

I just wish they’d actually shred him at this point.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

This is not at all surprising when they're firing workers in charge of nuclear weapons and nuclear safety.

No thought or consideration given. They are, as Vivek Ramaswamy puts it, taking a chainsaw to the federal civil service, to the detriment of all of us.

[–] Absaroka@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

"Mistakenly"

[–] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When it it the third or fourth "mistaken firing" it isn't really a mistake.

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 1 year ago

"Move fast, break things."

[–] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Won't he think of the eggs?????¿‽

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure that's exactly what they were thinking.

"We need this bird flu thing to go away so the egg prices come down"

[–] inv3r5ion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not a mistake. The billionaires want the useless eaters removed off the planet. Bird flu will genocide us for them.