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On Sun, 17 Aug 2025 11:09:35 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 17/08/2025 07:59, rbowman wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:34:30 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> 
>>> Trump is firing everyone he doesn't like. He has the witchfinder
>>> general's nose for 'wokery' .
>> 
>> A new broom... In truth there are a lot of useless timeservers on top
>> of those that are following their own little agenda. Supposedly the
>> Pendleton Act ended the spoils system and replaced it with a
>> nonpolitical civil service based on merit but that worked as well as
>> most Acts of Congress.
>> 
>> 
> Yeah., After Rudi Dutschkes 'Long March through the Institutions' for
> the Commnuist Left, Trump is having a short exercise is simply defunding
> them
> 
> Its one of the things that is very damaging short term but will probably
> pay off long term, once the babies have bee separated from the bathwater
> and reiinstated

If you look at companies like Intel they seem to be firing a lot of 
people, some of whom appear to have been useful. Why should civil service 
drones be untouchable?