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BSdetect

(8,994 posts)
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 10:57 AM Jan 2019

Time for every Govt. agency to ignore any drumph orders.

All those below his stooge appointments that is.

If every anti-drumph employee simply ignored his orders his power would vanish.

Just go ultra slow or totally ignore him whenever possible.

There are enough of us to make it work.

What could they do? Fire so many?

Who would be available to do that?



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Time for every Govt. agency to ignore any drumph orders. (Original Post) BSdetect Jan 2019 OP
Our civil servants do not pick and choose orders to follow Recursion Jan 2019 #1
I'm afraid I agree with completely Recursion. Hortensis Jan 2019 #2
our bureaucracy is the front line Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2019 #4
Yes! Legitimately, by following the rules and ethics, and Hortensis Jan 2019 #5
Republicans want to PURGE the government. ROB-ROX Jan 2019 #3

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
1. Our civil servants do not pick and choose orders to follow
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:01 AM
Jan 2019

And they do not let their personal feelings and views interfere with their legally obligated duties. This is a horrible idea. The Civil and other Services cannot become a political cudgel.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
2. I'm afraid I agree with completely Recursion.
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 11:24 AM
Jan 2019

America needs these agencies or we wouldn't have them. You saw what started to happen when Trump was able to stop work in a fraction of the government.

Plus, you vastly overestimate the numbers who would do this. It's easy to get carried away here, but the fact is that many, many millions of Americans voted for Trump and fully support him as president. Then there are even more who didn't but who hope to safely bring our nation through this, not bring it down. Like me.

Fwiw, there is resistance within agencies by some doing their best to protect -- not shut down -- their institutions in the face of directors appointed to dismantle them and throw wrenches into their works. If they can't do anything else, they can leak word of what's happening to people like the attorneys from Obama's WH who are fighting actions identified as illegal in the courts.

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,236 posts)
4. our bureaucracy is the front line
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 06:21 PM
Jan 2019

We would see more damage to this country by now if not for the bureaucracy. It acts as a giant flywheel to smooth transitions even when it, as a whole, attempts to be neutral. Under the current regime, I'm fairly certain there have been people acting to limit, slow, or even obstruct damages.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
5. Yes! Legitimately, by following the rules and ethics, and
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 06:29 PM
Jan 2019

laws, that Republicans have not yet been able to do away with.

Corruption isn't the crumbling around individuals we once imagined, but instillation of corruption into the functioning of our systems. Russia's been exporting lessons for decades to take down nations, and today's Republicans have been good pupils.

ROB-ROX

(767 posts)
3. Republicans want to PURGE the government.
Wed Jan 30, 2019, 06:16 PM
Jan 2019

Not following orders or slowing down will result in the GOP winning. They will blame the lose of workers for an emergency. They may require people signing documents in the future giving up their constitutional rights. I had a super secret clearance and to a degree I gave up some of my rights to question what I did did or others did on the job. The GOP plays the game and the game is RIGGED for them to screw the USA for anything mother Russia wants them to do......

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