Don't know that laws matter anymore but firing someone based on sexual orientation is illegal.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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Since when has that stopped to the Trump administration from doing anything?
True. Okay SCROTUS, time to lick boots again.
This is more of a first amendment violation
Why not both.
You don't need to be gay to fly a rainbow flag
Laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation also cover perceived orientation.
Sure, but the justification used for firing was the display of the flag (speech), not perceived orientation. That may have been their real reason, but even their cover story was illegal
It was also during Biden's presidency, when there weren't any prohibitions on that. So there could be an argument that the stated reason was not the real reason. Not sure how well it would hold, but it is a thing
Another lawsuit would be appropriate.
The letter cited President Donald Trump’s Article II powers under the Constitution to dismiss federal agency career personnel, a justification used in several recent firings at the Department of Justice and FBI.
Governing by presidential decree is as close as you can get to absolute monarchy - or, let's called it as it is, fascist tyranny - in this country. And they already started dismantling the last remaining obstacles. As he himself said "if you vote for me you'll never have to vote again".
The terminations are currently being challenged in several lawsuits.
Good.
This shit is horrible, but it gets worse. People are dying from this regime.
So when does Kash's skin tone become an inappropriate political display?
They were going to do it anyway, this is not the fault of the shit down
No shit, they got a letter in the mail dated 10/1.
It was ready and waiting.
Likely because he got an award in 2022 for something trump didn't like.
Snowflakes and piss babies all of them
Imagine being fired by a deer forever caught in headlights.
His physical appearance is not his fault or the thing that I disagree with. Its the evil decisions that irk me.
Like we had a department of defense that protected us from outside threats. But we renamed it department of war and pointed it at ourselves. WTF! How does that make any sense at all?
They didn’t even rename it, it’s still the Department of Defesne.. they couldn’t get the votes to actually change it. Department of War is a “cool nickname” Hegseth gave the department, it’s officially a “secondary name”. Sort of like their preferred pronoun. Don’t deadname them, I’m sure they’d hate to keep getting called Department of Defense.
LOL. That's wild!
Honestly, I don't disagree with that renaming. The Department of War is what it used to be called, and Department of Defence was just whitewashing. It's always been about war, not defence. The US hasn't fought a defensive war since the War of 1812 —or debatably The Civil War, but that was a civil war, not a defensive war. This is before the name was changed even, so it made even less sense when it was renamed.
Like we had a department of defense that protected us from outside threats
It's always been a department of war.
Kash Patel felt threatened because the FBI trainee was more qualified to run things.
Wrongful termination, much, Mr. Patel?
it’s political to acknowledge that ppl different than you exist to republicans
Fascists are the weakest form of snowflake.
if you are queer in the states and you think it is a good idea to work for the slave catchers, uh, it isn't
Soooo much winning everywhere!
Hey! Hey guys, hear me out. We should have a Catholic priest run something. Like maybe National air traffic control.
Every day a pilot, after the routine checks must then have do the cross signing thing before they start up the engine. Three hail Mary's before the plane moves.
Stuff like that just makes my day happier. Having to watch an adult do dumb things because it pleases an invisible flying man who we cannot communicate with, it just makes my day.
Let's have more goat sacrifices and describe the stars as souls so the space station stays up there.