Would the tariffs have affected their biggest export ❄️?
Perhaps indirectly
When everyone, including US allies, side with China because of Trump
They already won me over with deepsink
reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ib3zai/opm_employee_here_we_are_not_the_bad_guys
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM.
I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it's looking pretty grim.
EDIT: Damn, post got deleted.
They’re really just freewheelin’ at this point.
Running wild with little in the way of barriers. Kind of crazy to watch tbh. Not even the facade of “checks and balances”.
Trump actually has motion, damn
https://twitter.com/DeItaone/status/1883596571830591955
Disappointed that I fell for the early pro-Trump spin on this story
This is from 2 years ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ib3zai/opm_employee_here_we_are_not_the_bad_guys/
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM.
I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it's looking pretty grim.
EDIT: Damn, post got deleted.
Yo this really got deleted
Disappointed that I fell for the early pro-Trump spin on this story
what's the other spin?
Yes also mentioned China and India
Them b****ass european leaders don't have enough balls still
what's the other spin?
The early spin was that Colombia were rejecting their own citizens, and that after Trump placed emergency sanctions, that their president folded
Colombia have historically accepted these deportation flights provided that the citizens are treated with dignity
The US wanted to ship them off like cattle in military planes, similar to what happened to Brazilians last week: reuters.com/world/americas/brazil-demand-explanations-degrading-treatment-deportees-2025-01-26
Brazilians were handcuffed, some were not allowed to drink water, some fainted, some were not allowed to use the bathroom, all against standard protocol
US say they've reached an agreement with Colombia that allows them to still use military planes, and Colombia say the agreement guarantees decent conditions
https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1ib3zai/opm_employee_here_we_are_not_the_bad_guys/
I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I'm posting this because people need to know what's going on at OPM.
I've been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I've never witnessed anything even remotely close to what's happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.
Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.
The current Acting Director, Charles (Chuck) Ezell is a low-level branch chief. He's the friendliest "yes man" you'll ever meet. He never says no. It's clear they pushed aside all the high-level non political civil servants who refused to do Donald Trump's bidding, until they found Chuck.
Under his name, they've sent numerous requests to all the agencies to collect information on gov't employees that they see as a threat to their agenda. Instructions say to send these lists to Amanda Scales. But Amanda is not actually an OPM employee, she works for Elon Musk. She wasn't even properly cleared by OPM Personnel Security.
Our CIO, Melvin Brown, (also a non political career public servant) was pushed aside just one week into his tenure because he refused to setup email lists to send out direct communications to all career civil servants. Such communications are normally left up to each agency.
Instead, an on-prem (on-site) email server was setup. Someone literally walked into our building and plugged in an email server to our network to make it appear that emails were coming from OPM. It's been the one sending those various "test" message you've all seen. We think they're building a massive email list of all federal employees to generate mass RIF notices down the road.
The non-political civil servants here at OPM are watching helplessly as our government is being systematically dismantled bit by bit. Even the IGs are being fired to prevent them from investigating the numerous whistleblower complaints we've filed.
Please share this and tell the world that OPM is not the bad guy. We're just as helpless to stop this as the rest of our fellow public servants. Hopefully someone out there can help us, but it's looking pretty grim.
EDIT: Damn, post got deleted.
If any of this is true, it's what America deserves. Learn. The. Hard. Way.
Dumbasses said 2025 was lib fearmongering lmao
I mean, the overt evangelical theme hasn’t reared its head (yet.).
If we start getting into contraception bans, widespread book, games and movie bans, strict censorship, rescinding gay marriage protections etc. then there’ll be no denying it.
I mean, the overt evangelical theme hasn’t reared its head (yet.).
If we start getting into contraception bans, widespread book, games and movie bans, strict censorship, rescinding gay marriage protections etc. then there’ll be no denying it.
There’s no denying it rn. Majority of his executive actions are from the playbook. He’s breaking down agencies by firing everyone. Fired 18 inspectors generals. Loyalty tests for government positions
I mean, the overt evangelical theme hasn’t reared its head (yet.).
If we start getting into contraception bans, widespread book, games and movie bans, strict censorship, rescinding gay marriage protections etc. then there’ll be no denying it.
oh it’s coming, they gotta do this in episodic fashion so it mirrors nazi germany