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How enchanting.
https://www.propublica.org/art...s-post-sexist-memes#
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity  |
The next administration needs to control government employment. We should start by shutting down ICE and the Border Patrol. Then rehire only people who have been more thoroughly vetted. | |||
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| (self-titled) semi-posting lurker Minor Deity  |
What P*D said. Ugh, how absolutely horrible. Are those folks just pure evil? Maybe the job has damaged them? After we clean up ICE and BP, can we maybe do TSA too? 
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I used to think that there was no point in shuttering ICE and the Border Patrol. You'd just have to restart them. And I still think there's no point while this idiot Administration is in power. But maybe it would enable the next Administration to start fresh without riffing restrictions or other protections for incompetent and malevolent employees. It'd be quite a disruption, both to the country and the decent staff, though. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
But it might be necessary in order to root out the truly despicable people who currently "work" there. The "good ones" could be rehired, after a very thorough background check and some really thorough ethics training. | |||
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana  |
Bullies with badges. As P*D says, this would give the opportunity for the good ICE agents to remain. And there are some. It's a fairly common procedure to have employees re-apply for their jobs following a significant organizational or skills change. No longer match the requirements? Either get trained or get a new job. | |||
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Well, since this is the same FB that is just filled with fake stuff, I think I'd take this with a grain of salt. If you were a BP agent, would you risk your career just to vent in a social media group?
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You must not have read the article. People do it all the time. eta: Of course it's possible that someone set them up and it's a hoax; I'll be watching to see if that's what happened.
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| Minor Deity |
Assuming it is true, in any group of people there are idiots. FB gives them all a voice. It does not follow that they are representative of Border Patrol agents. Some cops talk like that too.
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| Has Achieved Nirvana |
The CBP is taking it seriously.
https://thehill.com/latino/451...lled-with-derogatory eta: As far as cops doing it too, that was my point when I said people do it all the time.
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| Pinta & the Santa Maria Has Achieved Nirvana |
Possibly, but Propublica is a well-respected group. Of course they could have gotten it wrong, but I'm more inclined to believe them than any of a number of other so-called "investigative journalism" groups. | |||
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| "I've got morons on my team." Mitt Romney Minor Deity |
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The pictures coming out of this story are horrendous.
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We spent 50 years getting rid of the spoils system. It was probably the biggest political issue of the late 19th century. Surely we don’t want to bring it back.
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