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      Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public, and they should certainly be telling the public loudly and clearly prior to a transition into lunacy.

      If you think things aren’t going to be okay, get on national TV and say that. Tell people what you think is going to go wrong so that they can prepare. Give them a heads up.

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        Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public,

        Dude, millions of federal workers voted for Trump despite the fact that they plan on eliminating all of them (I don’t have exact numbers, but I’m certain this is true). They voted to eliminate their own positions.

        Even many of the people doing the job itself are dumb enough to vote directly against their interests. And you expect, what, everyone else to understand or give a shit?

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        Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public

        you want to address people who can’t understand why to wear mask during pandemic and lot of the jobs are just beyond the intellectual horizon of most of these people. even if it were, it still doesn’t change the fact that orange cheeto will put some incompetent rapist in the director chair of every institution he saw on tv. so maybe the best defense is to stay off the tv, then the idiot is probably not going to know they exist 😂

        i am pretty sure that professionals below any cheeto appointee will offer as much resistance as humanly possible, and… unless they are willing to murder someone, that is all they can do 🤷‍♂️

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          you want to address people who can’t understand why to wear mask during pandemic

          No he doesn’t. Why do you assume he wants to address idiot MAGAs, as opposed to disillusioned non-voters? They’re two totally separate groups.

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        Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public, and they should certainly be telling the public loudly and clearly prior to a transition into lunacy.

        If you think things aren’t going to be okay, get on national TV and say that.

        That’s not how national tv works at the moment, but I’d like to see it do that.

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      Use the blanket immunity the SCOTUS handed to the president to stop it from happening for a fucking start. What an easy question to answer lmao

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        What an easy question to answer lmao

        the problem is, unless you are dealing with really easy problem, the “easy” solution is usually the wrong one.

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          No, the wrong one is to do nothing.

          But whatever I guess optics and decorum are more important than protecting citizens and the integrity of our democracy…

          Insert padme meme here

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        are you bitching about democrats four years in the future, or are you just avoiding the answer?

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          Neither. I’m asking a very specific clarifying question. I’m not avoiding anything. You’re the one taking umbrage at an earnest question, which I posed to avoid talking about something you didn’t ask.

          You said:

          What do you suggest they do?

          I said:

          For next time (if there is one) or before the transition?

          To which timeframe are you referring?

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                because you presented silly dichotomy in order to avoid answering my question.

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                  Bruh, are you seriously getting bent out of shape because I asked a clarifying question?

                  If you ask, “Which ice cream do you want?” and someone replies, “Which ice cream flavors are there?”, do you also get upset and accuse them of avoiding the question? Because that’s the same sort of scenario over which you’re casting aspersions.

                  If you say, “What do you propose they do?” it matters whether you are asking, “What do you propose they do in the current time up to Jan 20, 2025,” versus, “What do you propose they do in 2026/2028.”

                  But since you’re being so combative over an earnest question, I don’t think you really care and are just claiming I’m not answering, because you don’t actually understand what I’m asking, don’t like my critique of the Democrats, and don’t want to actually engage in a real conversation.

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                    you are seriously getting bent out of shape to avoid answering. this thread is full of answers that are not very smart, but their edgy teenage authors all understood the question. if you don’t understand the question even after getting multiple hints, you don’t really look as smug as you think.

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        yeah, while complaining about something and not having a suggestion for alternative course of action is soooo revolutionary and world changing 😂