my reasonable centrist betters tell me that it is ridiculous to suggest that the trump administration is filled with segregationists but here again they are forcing out a high-ranking, high-preforming black woman for reasons https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/s/FOXPUQI0NR
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Trying to erase those they hate.
Why hasn't anyone informed them that not only are we not leaving, we're being reinforced?
Fools...fools...
Will always live among us.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/china-failed-to-answer-for-warships-live-fire-event-in-tasman-sea-marles-20250222-p5le95.html
Think of how wild it must drive them to live in a country so diverse as the US.
They are making our country dumber.
Pulling talent from ALL the US is just good math.
This government and the nation that voted for it are racist fucks.
They are forcing all women commanders out
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/remembering-president-wilsons-purge-of-black-federal-workers
Also Republicans, in the same breath: Let’s fire all the Black people, deport the Latine folks, and keep our women barefoot+pregnant.
Unqualified merit boys are about to put us in crisis
Look up to see planes crashing
Keep yourself safe
there is no need to sugarcoat it.
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they've shown us enough of who they are
I've been saying it in parallel.
I'm quite certain high ranking Black or Women officers were overqualified for the job, I have questions about the white men.
Yes, they don't need to. They didn't need to fire the generals in such an obvious way, they could have waited until they felt actual resistance to their aims. But they want to make it obvious.
Congress has to do the impeachment, not them directly, so that would be harder.
"Addressing the intersectionality of her identity as a woman and an African American in the military, Crosland said she doesn’t focus her achievements through that lens."
https://health.mil/News/Dvids-Articles/2024/03/14/news466087
A whole lot of folks seem to whistling past the graveyard these days.
When asked why he was kicking black people out of his restaurant at gunpoint, Lester Maddox famously told reporters:
"I am not a racist. I am a segregationist. I believe the races should not be mixed, and I choose not to serve anyone who does not share that political belief."
It's like how TERFs still manage to be transphobic while being otherwise progressive on every other issue.
These people hate Americans generally but, yes, persons of color and women first.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/28/pete-hegseth-black-general-fired/80855772007/