Comment on F.D.A.’s Food Safety Chief Resigns Over Trump Administration Layoffs

Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What it means is that he resigns with a pension, instead of getting fired shortly thereafter and losing it. In case you didn’t follow, one US attorney resigned rather than carry out a bogus prosecution this morning, so Trump proceeded to fire all the rest of them this evening..

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  • Empricorn@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I heard. I have bills to pay and I understand. But I’m not a bulwark against fascism and the death of American democracy, so no one would care. I’m also paid a lot less…

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    • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Doing what you suggest wouldn’t make much of a difference; the outcome is simply to be fired later in the day.

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