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c/politics · by Red0ctober@lemmy.world · 1y

New federal employees must praise Trump EOs, submit to continuous vetting

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/new-federal-employees-must-praise-trump-eos-submit-to-continuous-vetting/

With the federal hiring freeze lifting in mid-July, the Trump administration has rolled out a controversial federal hiring plan that critics warn will politicize and likely slow down the process rather than increase government efficiency.

De-emphasizing degree requirements and banning DEI initiatives—as well as any census tracking of gender, race, ethnicity, or religion to assess the composition of government—the plan requires every new hire to submit essays explaining which executive orders or policy initiatives they will help advance.

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NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 1y (4 replies)

This will get struck down in court, and then Trump will do it anyway.

Dagwood222@lemm.ee · 48 pts · 1y (3 replies)

All the court cases are part of the strategy.

Force the Left to spend money to fight in court, while the taxpayers foot the bill for Donnie's lawyers.

It makes us weary, and drains out wallets.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Yeah, there's a name for it. But I forget what it is. The intention is to make the courts look illegitimate and biased when they rule against them. Only works on idiots, but, well, here we are.

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Yeah, there's a name for it. But I forget what it is.

"Schlock and aaaauuuuughhhhhhh"?

ilinamorato@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com · 62 pts · 1y (7 replies)

at some point he will require that they have his portrait hanging in their homes

dictators always do

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1y

Are you trying to say, you don't have the Führer's portrait on your wall? Sturmabteilung! Arrest this filthy traitor!

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Sort of already a thing, at least in DoD workplaces, sadly.

rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I had to pass through US customs on my way home (layover in JFK). Bastards have portraits of Trump and Noem on the fucking wall.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 1y (2 replies)

They always have photos of the current President up. That's every federal building. State buildings will have your governor.

rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That's horrible! You guys need to cut the personality cults out.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Yep... On the state level, it might actually depend on the governor as to whether or not they have to display them. Not sure.

Emergency3030@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Out of the North Korea play book

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 45 pts · 1y (3 replies)

So the only qualification is enthusiastic, unquestioning loyalty to the stupidest man in the USA and his fascist program. Education and thinking will count against you. That checks out when you look at the people already working for him.

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y

Ah, so cop qualifications

BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'

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And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated over again. Everything that you have undergone since you have been in our hands -- all that will continue, and worse. The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. It will be a world of terror as much as a world of triumph. The more the Party is powerful, the less it will be tolerant: the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism.

Anti_Iridium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

If I end up working for the federal government, I'll just have AI writing all my stupid shit for that. Don't have to compromise my values if I didn't write it, right?

redlemace@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y (2 replies)

we can write under ever post about trump: dumb narcissistic wannabe dictator

Xanthobilly@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

I’m pretty sure we’ve passed the wannabe phase and entered full blown.

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

fascism in progress

PugJesus@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y

Jesus fucking Christ.

Drusas@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1y

It also requires essays on applicants' commitment to upholding the Constitution, furthering government efficiency, and maintaining a strong work ethic.

As though it's remotely possible to support both Trump and the constitution.

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 1y (1 reply)

So praising Trump's Executive Orders is supposed to show merit somehow?

fluxion@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y

Yes, unlike having a college degree in the field you are applying to

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

What a demented rapist clown. He's absolutely off his goddamned rocker.

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y

I'd like to say I'm shocked, but I'm not. Latest thing in a long line of stupid shit

Talaraine@fedia.io · 9 pts · 1y

If I was in a position where I could work for the government at all, I'd take the job, swear whatever they wanted me to, then make sure I hurt them as badly as possible. After all, they swore to uphold the constitution, didn't they?

YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y

He’s turning America into North Korea.

quetzaldilla@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

Pathetic.

EisFrei@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

That must be the hiring based on qualification initiative that the DEI haters were ranting about.

bomberesque1@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

Doubleplus good

MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Totally normal presidential behavior.

doug@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 1y

Anytime I see him doing that fucking dance I just think of the end of Hereditary.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

When does the Pol Pot turn come and he starts executing people for wearing glasses?

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Say the allegiance!

Do I have to?

Yes!

I pledge allegiance to Trump of the United Corporations of the world and to the corporations for which they stand one world nation under Trump with trickle down economics for all.

NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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Randomgal@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

It will make it more efficient because there is no need to consult decisions when all your minions will say yes.

CircaV@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1y
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