Summary
Trump adviser Alina Habba defended the administration’s firing of 6,000 veterans from federal jobs, falsely claiming without evidence that some were not actually working.
Critics, including fired veterans, dispute this, calling the terminations unfair and demoralizing. Some received termination emails citing poor performance despite positive reviews.
Affected employees, including disabled veterans, described the move as a betrayal.
House Democrats condemned the firings, and some invited fired workers as guests to Trump’s joint address to Congress.
Calling veterans who served the country honorably lazy and unworthy of employment is certainly a choice. Adding disabled veterans to that list is yet another choice.
I’m not a “thank you for your service loudly at a restaurant” guy, but respect is certainly owed for service. Getting fired and called out in a press conference for being unworthy of employment is definitely not respect.
This all went way to fast for them to have been carefully evaluating each person that was fired anyway. They couldn’t possibly make that statement with any accuracy. I’ve worked with a lot of veterans and lazy is not an attribute I’d use to describe the majority of them.
“As you know, we care about veterans tremendously. That’s something the president has always cared about,” she told reporters gathered outside the White House. “But at the same time, we have … a fiscal responsibility to use taxpayer dollars to pay people that actually work.”
“That doesn’t mean we forget about our veterans by any means,” she went on. “We are going to care for them in the right way. But perhaps they’re not fit to have a job at this moment, or not willing to come to work.”
“I love you, but you don’t do shit around here. I think about you all the time but I never see you do anything.”
That’s back and forth twice, talk about mixed messaging. They don’t actually appreciate our veterans but know they have to pay lip service.
Reverse the statement and see if it still holds, “You don’t do shit, but I love you. I never see you do anything but I’m always thinking about you.”
The tone changes a little, huh?
We are going to care for them in the right way.
While also crippling the VA.
“suckers and losers” kind of love.
She truly believes this.
Because she doesn’t actually work.
And they’re lazier than she is.
So they must not work.
of course, the premise that veterans are inherently lazy is utterly false and clearly refuted by, you know, seeing what the fuck they actually do. but Habba doesn’t work, and that includes fact checking her own bullshit.
the real question is if they are the white kind of veterans.
These people are just so bad at politics and somehow it doesn’t matter at all.
History tells us It’s a very bad idea to leave veterans unemployed. If you take away their plowshares, they’ll pick up swords again.
And there’s 20 years worth of veterans with actual recent combat experience out there.
