Summary
Trump evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her military housing with just three hours’ notice, despite an earlier 60-day waiver.
Fagan, the first woman to lead a military branch, was dismissed on Trump’s second day in office over concerns about DEI policies and border security.
Homeland Security officials cited her termination as justification, though sources called it a “petty” move.
Fagan was forced to leave most belongings behind, spending the night with friends while awaiting relocation of her personal items.
Getting fired because you’re a woman, with reasoning that seems to boil down to “we don’t think a woman can do this job,” sounds like a pretty good case for a wrongful, discriminatory firing suit.
4/9 of the supreme court are women. When are they going to go?
ITT, and every thread about Trump, : ‘Fight guys! I’ll sit here with my tendies and watch how it goes. “They’ve picked the wrong fight!” and all that, carry on!’
When you’re asking yourselves how the Germans let Nazis happen, remember: if you haven’t shot a fascist yet, you’re one of the Germans that let Nazis happen. Stop calling for other people to fight, you fucking cowards. Go fight for yourselves.
Edit: for what it’s worth, I’m American and will not be flying across the country to throw my life away.
Oh. Its not her house. She was living in a military house.
You must be a landlord
No, but I understand when you live in temporary housing issued by your employer, you dont own the house.
over concerns
No.
Is he literally saying “Girls can’t do that job, that’s a job for a man”?
No no no it’s clearly DEI
Yes
The left needs to learn how to “Speak softly and carry a big stick.”
Speaking softly alone gets you fucking nowhere. This is why the far right gains so much ground. They know the DNC and the apparatus of the left is toothless. All they do is browbeat.
Get.some.fucking.teeth.
If the DNC cannot bite back, it needs to die or else ethnic cleansing and genocide is inevitable in this country.
maybe whack them good with the stick before speaking softly.
The little person, too, needs to learn to just say no. Make them push it farther. Fight back and get pyrrhic victories.
I’m guessing this was on a military base, so the usual eviction shit doesn’t apply, but remember that in civilian life, until law enforcement shows up with a court order in hand, anyone removing you from your house is breaking criminal law.
almost there
They’re bullies. They get off on acting like this.
I guess her crime was to try to employ more people who weren’t cishet white men. Unforgivable to the fascists in charge. And anyway, they just get off on cruelty because it distracts them from the emptiness inside.
They are the grey shirts. Because they are so fucking empty.
They call themselves that, let’s adopt it
Given their recent demand that NASA remove information about “women in leadership”, it paints a pretty clear picture of why she was fired. Nothing to do with capability, competence, or any issues with her command.
Margaret fucking Hamilton, got us to the moon.
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For those not in the know:
Here, Margaret is shown standing beside listings of the software developed by her and the team she was in charge of, the LM [lunar module] and CM [command module] on-board flight software team.
For those confused and thinking that the Wicked Witch of the West was somehow aging backwards after faking her death and escaping from Oz:
Her crime was being a woman to begin with.
Have you seen the list of flagged words for federal grants? It includes “female” and “woman”, but not “man” or “male”.
They papered over all the female and black peoples at the NSA Museum too. A bunch of former NSA has to go complain for them to uncover it. They claim it was to “act fast” to keep from being defunded.
Elon would have been arrested in any other circumstance for this behavior. We’re fucked.
Class fucking act. Man I get the problems folks had with Obama but class, dignity, just fucking cool. I yearn for those times.
Ain’t nothing classy or dignified about drone bombing kids at a wedding.
Obama had great P.R.
That’s a fun ratio of votes. Do people not know about the wedding drone strike or is it just that he’s polite and people don’t want to say anything bad about him? He also ordered a strike that killed a sixteen year old citizen.
Was he better than trump? Yes. That doesn’t mean he’s beyond reproach.
That doesn’t mean he’s beyond reproach.
Or you know, good
Good is a stretch for politicians. We have to keep voting for better until we at least get back to “mediocre”.
Obama was another shitty corporate president with a cabinet picked by Goldman Sachs. Anything seems better, compared to Trump, but his inaction on the economy to help the working class is why Trump followed and not another Democrat.
Do higher ups like her get better movers than enlisted? Because I have heard horror stories about the state of objects after military moving companies get ahold of them.
Nah they will probably do it worse on purpose. It’s a real shit show
That first move was fucking rough. I was so relieved until I walked into my living room full of dented cardboard boxes. Never again. I opened up a dented box of dishes I had packed meticulously and wrapped in bubble wrap. Ate off of chipped plates for a couple weeks before I had time to replace them…I couldn’t fucking imagine using them when I had actually valuable shit.
I got a buncha other grunts to help me move the next time. The fucking butter bar that was watching us move my shit into the new place was all “Why didn’t you just use United? Command pays for them. Waste of money. You grunts never learn.” I politely asked him if he’d had them move him in. “Well uh no. We’re paid better than to need that.” Lol
Come to find out the crews that work the government jobs get the worst pay and are often stiffed on tips because command never tell the enlisted to fucking tip. So yeah, they’ll happily fuck up your shit to get the job over ASAP and move on to a better paying civvie job. And to be honest I can’t really blame em. Especially now with Elon saying the Government isn’t gonna pay contractors anymore.
You’re not supposed to tip military movers, it’s in the instructions you’re provided.
My wife and I just recently moved using military movers and all our stuff is fine. She’s a captain (the O3 kind).
Both teams of people were professionals and we didn’t lose anything to theft or damage. Maybe we just got lucky, idk. My experience as lower enlisted having government movers pack up my shit in Italy to move back to the states was similar back in 2014 though. Never had an issue.
My move was in the States. And yeah, the not tipping part is how most of us get fucked. Happy you had a good experience. I have nothing against movers for the record. It’s a tough fucking job.
I’m not a veteran, but I couldn’t possibly imagine not tipping movers.
What? Tipping movers is a thing‽ I’ve only ever moved myself, but I always assumed that you hire movers specifically to move you. Isn’t that the point? Why would you have to pay them more than they bill you? That feels like tipping your plumber for fixing your drain. Do people do that too?
Yeah, if it’s a difficult move. Multiple pieces of furniture, up several stairs, etc.
Yes, people definitely tip plumbers. Are you in the US?
People tip plumbers? The fuck do you mean? It’s a skilled trade, you’re already paying for that shit like twice over when they invoice you… Or do you use some bizarre corporate plumber who pays their workers minimum wage or some shit??
I am.
But the plumber already charges for the service call + hourly rate + parts + after-hours/holiday emergency surcharge… what is the tip for? Was I supposed to have been tipping my mechanic too all these years?
O3
To be fair I had multiple moves as an E4, both domestic and overseas, and those were fine too. They don’t hire special movers for officers, at least the non field grade officers.
I wouldn’t take a butter bar’s advice, neither. Not unless a sergeant had just them what to say.
Is a “butter bar” the Army equivalent of a “90 day wonder?” I never heard that term in the Navy.
Any O1 is a butter bar. It’s what the rank insignia looks like for all branches.
Gotcha. Thanks. I generally just called them Ensign, since my first O rank was O4
I wouldn’t call them a butter bar to their face. Lieutenant is the proper term for the most junior Army officers.
I was honestly too busy grading their work to come up with derogatory terms for my students. I guess we called them freshies, and newbies, when we didn’t just call them the ensigns
There are some other countries that would gladly put her up in exchange for information
