Fake News Reporting Thread

[rah]

If it keeps people from talking about the crimes Trump has likely committed then he's happy with it.

[spambot]

Doubt it. Certainly not if she advocated for Sharia.

You have Sharia-lite already.

What evidence do you have that Germany has "Sharia-lite"....?

[Kidlicious]

What evidence do you have that Germany has "Sharia-lite"....?

You can't criticize Sharia.

[Proteus_MST]

You can't criticize Sharia.

So, Trump is Sharia?

[Dinner]

At least our federal employees are allowed to discuss an impeachment of Angela Merkel if they want to ...
the only people who find their freedom of speech restricted usually are from the political right and/or who want to incite violence ... so no big loss.

I surely can do without right wing mobs who (with US free speech laws) are allowed to hold transparents saying that all jews should be gassed ... or all immigrants (or muslims) should be thrown into a fire

Actually, the government censorship power in Germany has been routinely used by the Merkel government to cover up embarrassing facts which could be politically damaging. It is not very wide spread but it definitely has happened and that should be a major concern to every German. That is it not shows a horrible sick essay in your culture. I truly mean that.

[Kidlicious]

So, Trump is Sharia?

No. He's Pres. Don't like your boss then find another job.

[Kidlicious]

You really can't talk bad about anyone at work here. Pretty sure it's the same in Germany.

[rah]

Now why would I think Kid knows this because people have talked bad about him at work and he went and cried to HR.

And anybody can talk trash about people at work if they want. They just have to be careful who they do it to.

[Aeson]

I definitely wouldn’t make fun of the person who sent out a memo that we weren’t supposed to make funof them.


As a side note, I expect all of you to treat me with dignity and respect at all times.

[Proteus_MST]

Now why would I think Kid knows this because people have talked bad about him at work and he went and cried to HR.

And anybody can talk trash about people at work if they want. They just have to be careful who they do it to.

Yep.
Such an official memo making talks about "impeachment" and "resist" "illegal" sounds like a perfect way to cripple agencies, by turning them into a smilar den of snitches like already is present in the WH, where püeople just, correctly or even falsely, denounce other people, in order to hurt them and further their own careers.

And actually, as we talk about federal jobs:
In germany it actually is even a little bit different than in the USA.

In the USA it seems like employees at federal agencies are just normal employees that can be fired at a whim (like happened in the EPA under Trump to most of the scientific staff, in order to cripple their scientific climate research and lower resistance to Pruitts lowering of environmental standards)

In germany most of the employees at federal agencies have the status of Beamter.
That means, they cannot easily be fired and also have some privileges, for example with regards to their pension insurance.

The reasoning behind this is, that government agencies should do their work without fear of getting oppressed by the government.
Example:
If scientists employed by our environmental protection agency find out that a certain cemical compound is extremly harmful, they should be able to tell so, without fear of getting fired, even if we have an environmental minister who is a slave to the industry. And similarly the other employees of the environmental protection agency should be able to do their work (according to the scientific standards) without fear of getting oppressed by such a hypothetical environmental minister (who is slave to the industry).

Similarly the Beamtenstatus is supposed to make the employees more resistant to criminal misconduct (for example taking bribes) because those are things that still can get them fired and they would have more to lose than normal employees.

So, no, firing a federal employee (at least if s/he has Beamtenstatus) just for saying bad things about our Bundeskanzler (or anything else in the government) is next to impossible (and I am sure that even those without Beamtenstatus cannopt be fired for just stating their opinion of individuals in teh government)

SImilarly, something like happened under Trump, that the diplomatic service of the USA gets crippled, by just firing the majority of career employees, also isn't possible. Unless you perform grossly/criminal misconduct you won't get fired (but you may transferred to another agency, if your performance is lacking)

[Lorizael]

No. He's Pres. Don't like your boss then find another job.

We hired him.

[Uncle Sparky]

Up until Trump, the POTUS served at the will of the people... I suspect that will officially be changed in the next couple of years.

[Kidlicious]

We hired him.

All the more reason to keep your soup cooler shut.

[Proteus_MST]

All the more reason to keep your soup cooler shut.

Actually a good reason to fire him
... for laziness at the job (having spent more than 25% of his time on the golf court instead of his office despite claiming that, in contrast to Obama he would spend no time golfing if he were PotUS ... also using lame excuses to skip representative duties connected with his job, in order to spend more time with tweeting and watching TV)
... for spending lots of company money for his own pleasure (lots of state money being spent for his golf trips)
... for nepotism (Ivanka, Jared)
... for abusing his position in order to enrich himself (tax breaks which profited his own company ... lots of occasions where the Trump company profited from accomodations/summits being held at Trumps own properties, like the Trump hotel or Mar-A-Lago)
... for being obviously overburdened with his job (still not come up with the promised Trumpcare that is supposed to be so much better than Obamacare) ... hell, Donnie is even overburdened with closing an umbrella
... being a PR desaster (freshest example: Trump being laughed at because he was too clueless to realize that there ws supposed to be a photo op after greeting the argentinian PM)

[Kidlicious]

If they put up another candidate that will #MAGA I'll consider voting for them in 2020.

[Lorizael]

Is America still not great again? Sheesh.