Musk and Trump are engaged in a vicious witch hunt against women and people of color in the military and civil service: the former Coast Guard chief was just evicted from her home with 3 hours notice. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... - ThreadSky

faineg.bsky.social • 25 days ago

Musk and Trump are engaged in a vicious witch hunt against women and people of color in the military and civil service: the former Coast Guard chief was just evicted from her home with 3 hours notice.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-evicts-former-coast-guard-linda-fagan-3-hours-rcna190820

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minerva1.bsky.social•25 days ago

This shows that resigning quietly does not mean they’ll leave you alone.

westsidewitch.bsky.social•25 days ago

Wow! If you need to get any more pissed than you already are, read this bunch of bullshit. Jfc

senatorteddy.bsky.social•25 days ago

These dudes are really threatened by women, aren’t they? Weak little petty men 💅

peterbeberhardt.bsky.social•25 days ago

With tiny, tiny dicks.

esmependergast.bsky.social•22 days ago

The body shaming is particularly inappropriate here as it's plays into having a big dick being important to being a worthwhile person and a small dick, or no dick like a cis woman, makes you worthless.

peterbeberhardt.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s not about the actual size or any physical state of anyone’s genetalia. “Big dick/tiny dick energy” is about this preconceived notion of manliness, which is in itself a giant show-off contest. One need not have a penis at all to have BDE.
Conversely one could have a whopper & still have TDE.

esmependergast.bsky.social•22 days ago

You literally said their dicks were tiny. If not being sexist is a value that you have, here is a way to ascend to a new level: stop talking about dicks like they are a talisman of power.

peterbeberhardt.bsky.social•22 days ago

It’s precisely because no one cares about the size of their dicks that they are not a talisman of power. If someone is secure in who they are as a man, they don’t need a penis, a monster truck, a gun or a mansion to be a full man.

caitesq.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is horrible

nymamabear.bsky.social•25 days ago

JFC

compass1too.bsky.social•23 days ago

I'm sure Trump holds up a Bible for everyone to see while he does this.

stubbazubba.bsky.social•22 days ago

ADM Franchetti is the Navy service chief, the equivalent to ADM Fagan. She's about 1.5 years into a 4 year term. I can only imagine the looks she's getting in all the Pentagon meetings right now.

reclinercritic.bsky.social•25 days ago

and trans persons of multiple genders.

expelliarmus.bsky.social•25 days ago

And how many veterans voted for this disgraceful traitor and his criminally inept group of nazis?

saschavykos.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is what they're going to do to all unmarried women.

muffintopmomma.bsky.social•25 days ago

I feel this

donellgmab.bsky.social•25 days ago

donellgmab.bsky.social•25 days ago

annlongley.bsky.social•25 days ago

Serious blow and cautionary tale to women in this country!

numb3r5ev3n.bsky.social•22 days ago

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why Trump hates the military so much? And it's not because he's a "dove," like MAGA keeps claiming. I think he can't understand even the concept of service, even to the point of maybe sacrificing one's life for their country. I think the idea even offends him.

nateofsun.bsky.social•25 days ago

What a bunch of soulless ghouls

shaenon.bsky.social•25 days ago

I spent tonight writing to every member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services about this.

lindarn.bsky.social•25 days ago

Bastards

umberto2.bsky.social•25 days ago

She should stay in the house with a shotgun and blow them all away when they enter. Become a national hero.

peterbeberhardt.bsky.social•25 days ago

Stand her ground

migdaliaa.bsky.social•25 days ago

WTF

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•23 days ago

This #DEIPurge #DEI hysteria notes above ☝️ has same purpose as in the past.

Removal of people who don't look right or feel right from public & private workforce & life creating economically at risk communities

Only back then it had different name

orichalcumgolem.bsky.social•23 days ago

and by “Feel right”, it’s the feelings of the Christian nationalist Nazi chuds who feel their fragile sense of masculinity threatened by any show of competence by someone who doesn’t have a penis and testicles, a skin tone that matches milk, or both.

powerfromspace1.bsky.social•23 days ago

This ☝️

( Ed: Too bad BskyApp does not allow GIFs .... yet 😉 )

faineg.bsky.social•25 days ago

This is also not how the Trump/Musk regime would be behaving if they wanted the military to like them

marnanightingale.bsky.social•25 days ago

I’m a bit disturbed by how pleased I am to see them pissing them off.

nafnlaus.bsky.social•25 days ago

White, non-Hispanic men - the only group Trump seems to care about - only make up something like 2/5ths of the US military (women are ~15%, non-white non-hispanic people are about 50%)

The numbers get worse when you exclude LGBT, religions minorities, etc that Trump hates as well.

jackmohr.bsky.social•25 days ago

For people orchestrating a coup, they sure do seem to not understand the role a military can play in making or breaking a coup

raflw.bsky.social•25 days ago

The US military is about 31% non-white, and 17.5% women (some of course, are both). I think it is their dream to have predominantly white male army, but the only way that happens is with a much smaller force.
But Trump & his people are so crazed, who knows what they even think they're doing.

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•25 days ago

I know the military has my permission to act on their oath, the "enemies foreign and domestic" part.

feralrobots.bsky.social•24 days ago

It's interesting & maybe telling they do this to the Coast Guard. Branches with strong traditions - a sense of self, if you will - will get worse treatment to the extent that the Trumpists think it might make them resistant to bending the knee. That probably fits the Coasties pretty well.

aegtx.bsky.social•24 days ago

The USCG is also part of DHS (delenda est) and I wonder if that's made the putschists misunderstand who they're dealing with

starklyjd.bsky.social•24 days ago

I know from a Coastie that they’re exempt from the federal worker buyout these people offered along with DHS so they’re keeping around folks they are actively pissing off.

aegtx.bsky.social•24 days ago

My money's on the Coasties, who win arguments with the sea on a daily basis

feralrobots.bsky.social•24 days ago

I dunno. The sea's brutal but it's also honest.

ginevra-m.bsky.social•25 days ago

If you have time, can you please explain what you think their thinking about military/FBI/CIA is?
Almost all strongmen/beneficiaries of coups I remember have cultivated good relations with the military, this is odd. I don't think they've got enough skilled people to build an alternative armed group

westsidewitch.bsky.social•25 days ago

They are stupid and arrogant.

maxoakland.bsky.social•24 days ago

I hope you’re right. The military always seems to fall in line

darkoverlordofdata.com•25 days ago

trump has contempt for the military

welcome2absurdia.bsky.social•25 days ago

They only care that the sexists and the racists like them, hence this kind of behavior.

mav.wtf•25 days ago

and yet, she was evicted from base housing, so the military is just fine with some part of it at least

kithrup.bsky.social•25 days ago

She was given a 60 day waiver, which was overridden after 2 weeks.

mav.wtf•25 days ago

I mean, ok, but it's still base housing and it's not like the sheriff's department is showing up to evict her

kithrup.bsky.social•25 days ago

No, but MPs may have.

mav.wtf•25 days ago

That is the point I'm directly making.

quite a few folks are just fine with following orders

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•25 days ago

I am becoming increasingly disturbed by how eager Trump/Musk are to piss off the military (federal employees, too, but the military have the weapons).
Are they really this foolish?

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not just the military, but the FBI and the CIA too! They're *really* counting on adherence to norms holding up even though they're dismantling the norms on their end.

robsmith.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not to mention, it's never a great idea to piss off the CIA establishment.

mav.wtf•25 days ago

There seems to be some strange belief that most of the military is not on Trump's side, but somehow, the cops are.

They're not that different. Some part of this equation is wrong, and I'm pretty sure it's not the cops part.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•24 days ago

On his side or not, it's just not a good idea to keep antagonizing the military.

mav.wtf•24 days ago

"antagonizing" is literally a thing you can really only do if they're not on your side, though. That's what I'm saying.

faineg.bsky.social•24 days ago

That is absolutely not how antagonizing works

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•25 days ago

There has to be some kind of endgoal. If it's to have some bizarre "all-white, all MACHO" military, it's going to be a LOT smaller. They're going to need more numbers, especially if he can't be deterred from trying to invade and steal other countries.
They must have some kind of alternative in mind

camusorbust.bsky.social•25 days ago

Complete breakdown of nation states replaced with feudalism. #DarkEnlighenment https://bsky.app/profile/camusorbust.bsky.social/post/3lhahoykmmc2r
👇

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•25 days ago

I've been terrified that he'd conscript prisoners, but
1. I don't know if that's actually possible
2. Trump doesn't really want prisoners, he wants ass-kissers who will follow orders and kill FOR him.

I'm wondering if he'll do a huge J6-type stunt, where he calls on his followers to do for him.

flauclaw.bsky.social•25 days ago

No, prisoners would frag his ass in a heartbeat, that's not happening.

hipstersasquatch.bsky.social•25 days ago

"You're now honorary military police! Go, police your towns and cities! Spread my justice against the Untermenschen and deviants! I guarantee, no prison time for you, my beautiful, Patriot Army!"

parisien.gay•25 days ago

I mean have you seen the speech last year by general Mark Milley?

https://youtu.be/9to_1UYH5rE?si=k1dieXciG0SlEen_

eke.bsky.social•25 days ago

need some german word for where you become so consumed by vice it becomes impossible to imagine other people aren't as bad as you. normal people don't like having their colleagues lives fucked over for no reason, there's no faction in the military that wants this

ewigeliberal.bsky.social•25 days ago

self (selbst) gleichschaltung (coordination)

zerky.bsky.social•25 days ago

Projektivereigenverfall

Projection of one’s own decay

tomfodw.bsky.social•25 days ago

Caligulan. Not German, but still...he assumed everyone was as polluted as he was.

karlrolson.com•25 days ago

that's going in the vocabulary, as in "these caligulan, neofeudalist, technofascist failsons are imperiling the lives of billions."

tomfodw.bsky.social•25 days ago

Oooh! 😀

realmaryagnes.bsky.social•25 days ago

stealing this neologism...I had been using craven cowards and Do-Nothings,,,

eke.bsky.social•25 days ago

he probably wasn't a chill guy but last I recall, scholarly consensus is a lot more ambiguous/mixed on ol' Caligula than his popular reputation. i guess what i'm saying is it's maybe mean to Caligula to compare him lol

tomfodw.bsky.social•25 days ago

Not my area of expertise, so I'm limited to Robert Graves and John Hurt. ;-)

jimvanallen.bsky.social•25 days ago

I believe the word you're looking for is Nazi. I don't speak German and stand to be corrected.

cardiganvixen.bsky.social•25 days ago

I need the military to step the fuck up

delbertgseasons.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yeah I don’t usually root for juntas but

thinkingurl.bsky.social•25 days ago

She needs to bring them to court. @ejeancarroll.bsky.social courageously showed us how to challenge a monster.

maddyann.bsky.social•23 days ago

So many chuds don't seem to understand that there is a fucking process that the military uses, to relocate service members. That policy wasn't followed here, so, no, she shouldn't have just "expected she had to move out ASAP."

mar-sky.bsky.social•25 days ago

Fucking monsters

krogerfoot.bsky.social•25 days ago

Classic Trumpworld shittiness where the admin’s side of the story is just vindictive gloating. The source gets to keep their name out of the news but will use this vice signaling to campaign for a higher perch in the Pandemonium

kimoco.bsky.social•25 days ago

And her daughter is in the Coast Guard now too. I wonder if they both will end up retiring and we all lose amazing patriots all because these assholes do not think women can lead.

bluesiren4peace.bsky.social•25 days ago

It’s not that they think women can’t lead, it’s that the women make them look like the weak, nasty men that they are

kimoco.bsky.social•25 days ago

It is both, depending on the chud

kimoco.bsky.social•25 days ago

I have to go scream or punch a pillow, these fucking bastards.

kingoftheegayz.bsky.social•25 days ago

This administration is going to implode spectacularly and take legacy media down with it, I feel.

slippytoad14.bsky.social•23 days ago

Best possible outcome.

hrryan.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yes. This is going nowhere good, and fast.

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•25 days ago

It does seem like they've pissed off and/or frightened the entire federal bureaucracy, some corporations, Wall Street, the FBI, the CIA, the military, the parts of Silicon Valley competing with Musk, any institution and organization depending on federal funds...

jmonkeh.bsky.social•25 days ago

Protect women, amirite?

loosf.bsky.social•25 days ago

What the fuck

koolfooltattoo.bsky.social•25 days ago

🤬🤬🤬

dasistnumberwang.bsky.social•25 days ago

Sea level rise is a direct result of female coast guards. This isn't about your political beliefs, that's just a fact.

llykenoega.bsky.social•25 days ago

How Christian.

kithrup.bsky.social•25 days ago

Well that's just personal now.

leelynkids.bsky.social•25 days ago

F’ing SEE U NEXT TUESDAY ppl! Wth man

jctenton.bsky.social•25 days ago

these guys are real confident that no one in the military means the part of the oath about defending against domestic enemies

strkanerve.bsky.social•25 days ago

Sure seems like a whole lot of them in the upper ranks mumbled over that part.

sharmake.bsky.social•25 days ago

Admittedly, the problem is that if only part of the military believes in America, that's a straight shot to civil war.

We need the military mostly united for the constitution, and I don't think we have this, unfortunately.

jctenton.bsky.social•25 days ago

not saying it's a scenario i want or anything. just that if you're trying to set yourself up as dictator taking a huge shit on the military, who have already sworn an oath that includes the possibility of them getting rid of you, doesn't seem like great strategy

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•25 days ago

At the rate things are going I'm almost fully convinced that a military/CIA countercoup against Trump and Musk would just elicit a national response of "Huh, that's crazy" and a shrug.

ghostrydr1172.bsky.social•23 days ago

As equally dangerous as that possibility might be, I think some folks might welcome it, if only so that we can be rid of these chuds.

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•22 days ago

Even Republicans are turning on Musk according to at least one poll, so that gives me a little hope that they're also calling their representatives with anger.

rsgreacen.bsky.social•25 days ago

reluctantlychad.bsky.social•25 days ago

YES.

arkangl67.bsky.social•25 days ago

Russia executes the soldiers who won't follow Putins orders to war. You think 45 will handle it differently?

sharmake.bsky.social•25 days ago

He will fire them, IMO, though they might obey orders first.

nategvo.bsky.social•25 days ago

Civil service members take that oath, too, and they appear to be holding the line.

zillathetrill.bsky.social•25 days ago

Shame on them. It's because of their micropenis club. They are scared already. Running away from the wrath of Americans. Because they know, in the end, they will get it.

danieljarthur.bsky.social•25 days ago

Sick

ardwynna.bsky.social•25 days ago

The most fragile of white masculinities at work. Punish anyone outside that group who dares prove that competence is not for white boys alone.

accountabilabuddy.bsky.social•25 days ago

Coast Guard should start impounding any ships with the oligarchs' shit on it. Seize those assets to compensate the people.

msmithkansas.bsky.social•24 days ago

Ooh I like this idea

truthbee.bsky.social•25 days ago

This horrible and this are kind words. Turd is such garbage. Why did people vote for such trash. Why???

wanderingdutchman.bsky.social•25 days ago

Because THEY are trash?

kristinfo.bsky.social•25 days ago

Horrifying. They are bullies. I am angry for this woman.

dcee60.bsky.social•25 days ago

Disgusting behaviour. The majority of women I’ve worked alongside work harder but get less appreciation. If she got to a leadership position like that you can be certain she is top notch. Sad times.

bjgt.bsky.social•25 days ago

Homeland Security officials told the acting commandant, Kevin Lunday, that he had to kick her out because "the president wants her out of quarters,"

sheppolly.bsky.social•25 days ago

Kevin is a spineless loser

drjmf.bsky.social•25 days ago

Despicable

deveryty.bsky.social•25 days ago

It's just despicable. ADMIRAL Fagan is still a 4 star admiral who has served her country for decades & deserves the courtesy, honor, and respect that the rank entails.

deveryty.bsky.social•25 days ago

Trump, who was deferred from military draft by having bone spurs, that instantly healed after he received a deferment, is less of a commander & chief, more a petty, demented, weak, old man.

sailnman.bsky.social•21 days ago

Conman

ebharrington.bsky.social•25 days ago

📌

hlbrookswrites.bsky.social•25 days ago

Awful. I hope she sues.

lgtrellis.bsky.social•24 days ago

I guess that's the "warrior" mentality Pete Hegseth will bring to the military: being a petty little bully b****

herculinds.bsky.social•24 days ago

Going after the military with that level of hostility is....certainly a choice

hauntedpumpkin.bsky.social•23 days ago

Wish I had some hope it would backfire but Trump's been crapping on our military his whole political career and they just take it and do whatever he says. I don't want to believe it, and I wish they'd prove me wrong, but maybe he's right about that suckers and losers thing.

alexanderhay.bsky.social•25 days ago

The problem for Tramp is that he's building an ever-growing army of disgruntled, highly qualified people who all hate him. Since he's not locking them up (yet), and they're not going away, he's creating his own potential doom.

gunnar.gunnargissel.com•25 days ago

The coast guard is one of the best, most professional orgs out there, and their people deserve better

printisdead.bsky.social•25 days ago

Man, pissing off the military and the intelligence community is a weird move for a wannabe dictator…

hatemagamorons.bsky.social•25 days ago

FUCK ELON AND TRUMP! And T-Mobile get your shit together and dump Elon and Snoop or you'll end up on the boycott list along with Amazon, Walmart, META, and every product made, produced, packaged in a Red State. I for one refuse to participate in the United Red States of America!😡