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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: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Start with the Czars!


61 posted on 02/01/2017 2:27:31 PM PST by Garvin (The Fourth Estate is The Fifth Column.)
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To: MayflowerMadam

That’s disgusting and makes me sick.

CRUSH this nonsense now.

SOMETHING must be possible to change this nonsense.


62 posted on 02/01/2017 2:27:45 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: dp0622
getting fired from a federal workers union job is a lot tougher than it sounds.

Assuming of course that there IS a federal union. After all federal unions started with an EO from Kennedy and can therefore be unmade just as fast by an EO from Trump.

63 posted on 02/01/2017 2:27:46 PM PST by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Thank Heaven the rats are self-identifying so DJT can cut the evil Leviathan so very very accurately!

goodbye, rats!
you couldn’t even give our new president two weeks in office before attacking him????????????????? GTH!


64 posted on 02/01/2017 2:27:49 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Brings back memories and images of the Vegas “vacay” and hot tub GSA director. (So long ago and so much in between I forgot.)


65 posted on 02/01/2017 2:27:55 PM PST by Toespi
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To: sargon

The Diablo is strong in them...


66 posted on 02/01/2017 2:29:25 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spellcheck. It's too much work to undo the auto wrong word substitution on mobile devices.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Open an office in the hoods in Chicago and transfer them there. Have them work the 10:00 p.m. to 4:00 a.m. shift. Make them take public transportation to and from work.


67 posted on 02/01/2017 2:29:30 PM PST by JayElBee
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To: macglencoe

Trump will just do away with the offending agency/agencies, and create another with combined responsibilities. Who needs 17 intelligence agencies.


Exactly. Much easier to axe an entire agency than to fire individuals for cause.


68 posted on 02/01/2017 2:29:30 PM PST by samtheman (Trump won bigly. Trump governs bigly. His critics don't get bigly.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Wasn’t there something going around a few weeks ago that there was some obscure law that the President could reduce Fed employees’ salary to $1.00?


69 posted on 02/01/2017 2:31:12 PM PST by gubamyster
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1

I think they should open a new Federal office of Pushing Paper in Alaska, near ANWAR.

And let them see all the high-paying jobs out their windows after he opens up oil production in ANWAR.

And make them actually push paper with their noses if they can, outdoors where possible.

Transfer all the non-productive government employees there.


70 posted on 02/01/2017 2:31:29 PM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: dp0622
There really ARE ways to defeat these POS, without outright firing them; many already listed to this thread.

Sadly, no, there isn't any way to break the union to which they belong. Happily, there ARE ways around the union and the seditionists.

71 posted on 02/01/2017 2:32:36 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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

No, they do not. Only liberals think that.

The liberals are trying to perform a coup by claiming Trump is “illegitimate” and no federal employee backs him, so someone else, read: Obama, should be the “leader”.

Liberals think the US Constitution is “just a God d***ed piece of paper” and they think they should by popular vote be allowed to name anyone they want as the leader.


72 posted on 02/01/2017 2:33:43 PM PST by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement, I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Bye, losers


73 posted on 02/01/2017 2:35:09 PM PST by EnquiringMind
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To: dp0622

Break the union. It’s only there because of an EO, from what I have heard.

Before the act, though, begin a bully pulpit shot across the bow by telling the people of the US that the union is bargaining against them, taking their money and producing nothing. That the union has no legislative underpinnings. That the union ultimately is nothing more than a money laundering operation for the left. Keep pressuring relentlessly, until the population understands the evil that has turned the bureaucracy into an ever worse monster.

Then kill it.


74 posted on 02/01/2017 2:35:33 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Civil disobedience is all very well, but a key part of it is embracing and accepting the consequences. You don’t get away scot-free.


75 posted on 02/01/2017 2:36:01 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Eliminate their position.


76 posted on 02/01/2017 2:38:33 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is an attempted coup.

GITMO


77 posted on 02/01/2017 2:39:08 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
President Donald Trump surely realizes that most workers employed by the federal government diabolically oppose his views of America.

Blatant lie. There is no way they know how many federal workers oppose any of his policies. When Trump spoke about American itself I suspect most people agreed with him although some may not like his positions on some issues.

78 posted on 02/01/2017 2:40:22 PM PST by plain talk
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To: MayflowerMadam

Why bother with pink slips, just quit paying them. Find out if they are truly dedicated to their jobs.


79 posted on 02/01/2017 2:40:41 PM PST by HangThemHigh (Entropy's not what it used to be.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; All
"...least 180 of those employees "have signed up for a workshop..."

Good. Let's rumble. Since Trump's people have names, assign these mutinous jerks to cleaning toilets.

80 posted on 02/01/2017 2:41:20 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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