fired for bias against Trump.

If you told me someone was fired for fanning the flames of hatred toward a race or religion, I would understand that.
If you told me someone was fired for treating women like second class citizens or for refusing to serve people from the LGBT community, I would get that.
If you told me that someone was fired for condoning gun violence or proselytizing for their religion while at work, I would fully approve of that.

But how does one NOT have an opinion about TRUMP!

You either love him or hate him, and his average approval rating for the last year is about 40%.
That means that 60% of people are not loving him.
That could easily mean that 60% of government employees are not loving him.
That means that Our President can, by virtue of his desire to remove anyone that might be biased against him, ask for the resignation of 60% of our government employees.

Profiling is a frequently used tool in policing these days.  Profiling is the use of bias.  So does that mean we can ask for the resignation of every Law Enforcement Officer that uses profiling in his job?
(I'm seeing a ray of sunshine in this murky method of thinking.)

But really--if I say the president lies, and their are so many lies on video tape right now recording the lies coming out of his mouth it could have its own streaming TV channel--am I biased or merely being honest, stating the obvious, whatever.

Bias implies things; "to cause to feel or show inclination or prejudice for or against someone or something": but if the bias is actually being created by the behavior of the single individual that the bias is created against, is it bias or just good sense.

Because, Yes, when Trumps mouth is moving, I expect lies to be coming out.  For him to expect me to believe anything he says, I will need a brand new leaf turned over.  I'll need months of absolute truth and an end to all the amazing financial gains he has added to a job that traditionally made people a little better off but that is now providing income in the 10 figure range from foreign business and political powers staying in Trump-owned hotels and "pay to see the man" events are now part of the method of governing at the presidential level.

I have heard him described by a relative that frankly hates all things democrat and only watches FOX news because all the others are full of "fake news" as "an imperfect man"  which sounds biblically speaking like Adam or maybe King David.

I'm still trying to figure out how he created the "perfect storm" of demonized, cheating DNC giving us a woman to vote for that was much easier to hate than love (Hillary is not cuddly, and America mostly likes its women cuddly, especially the religious part of America.  If Hillary had been more biker chick or grace slick, she could have grabbed some of Trumps camo-wearers, but as it is, not cuddly, just straight to business.  Maybe a mullet would have helped) so that less than half the independents and democrats bothered to vote; an underground surge of white supremists ALL showing up to vote, frequently in their camo or biker leathers, and a bunch of church people that wouldn't normally talk to the grandson of a scamming con-man from Germany that was big in the KKK; bankrupt repeatedly, only married eastern bloc supermodels (except Miss Maple--a Georgia peach only worth 2 million at the end of the marriage.(?) 

While modern televangelism is full of hypocrisy, infidelity, scammish financial behaviors, and shocking (ho-hum) scandals, even Trump seemed too far from the flock for their vote. He can neither quote scripture without a teleprompter or pray in the appropriate tone of voice.  Apparently the white and godly just  missed the strong desire to return to the old--white--American ways.

So, the question is--can only people that like president Trump be the judges of his behavior?  Do you have to like him to work for the government?  

Is it going to become a land of mind control?... or speech control?...a land of one branch of government controlled by an all-powerful man-king?

Will we soon have a dictator that can tell us who can run against him, who gets to vote, how we have to vote. 

I wonder if we will have to kneel and call him god...or will he accept just the title "supreme leader" from a people that only speak when given permission.

Fired for bias against--right now everyone either hates him or believes he is going to "save us" despite his awfulness.

Merry Christmas.  May we all keep our jobs another year.

Who's crazy?

We have averaged a mass shooting a day this year.  Lets have a moment of silence and pray for the survivors.
Hillary had her emails on a personal servor.  LOCK HER UP!
Trump retweeted a video originally posted by a far right English hate group--in which the final part had already been debunked.  No big deal.
Trump bragged about being able to grab women by the pussy on a video.  Boys will be boys.
A female police officer shot an unarmed man over 10 foot away from her because she was scared for her life, and a jury called it a justified police shooting.  There were 2 other officers with her, both closer to him than she was.  The video showed a man moving so slowly that their was no way he could have effectively done anyone any harm.   Justified.
Russia meddled in the US election.  The winning team knew it.  Not a problem.
People are kneeling during our national anthem.  OMG, lock them up and throw away the key.
People are trying to take away our confederate hero statues.  NO, Say it's not so, our history is at stake!
People are trying to legalize marijuana.  Look what stinking Colorado started--perhaps that was the Rocky Mountain High from the song.
People are trying to take away our guns. You'll have to pry them from our dead, cold fingers.
Gay people are getting married.  That is an affront to all heterosexual Christian marriages.
Nonchristians are entering our country legally.  We are a Christian nation.
Mexicans are entering our country illegally and using up all our resources and committing crimes.
No Mexicans are showing up to work our farms and pick our fruit and vegetables and clean our houses and watch our kids.
People without money think they should get free healthcare.  (unspoken message-die, poor folks, die!)
People making billions don't think they should have to pay people enough to live on because it cuts into their profits.  (all the money should belong to the rich, then the peasants will know we own them body and soul)
I have a hard time understanding  the awful stuff we normalize and the simple stuff we demonize as unacceptable and evil.

1. Why should healthcare NOT be free to everyone equally.  We have a right to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness."  Try having any of that with an unset broken arm, a raging infection or an untreated case of type 2 diabetes mellitus.  All of Europe has universal health care.  So does Canada.  Rwanda, Russia, Botswana, Serbia, and Jamaica have FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.  But here, we think there are people that should die because they are not capable to getting a job that provides healthcare or that make too little to pay copays.

2.  Why should Education NOT be free from preschool thru Doctorate programs.  Also free should be Vocational programs and technical schools.  Instead of making people and their parents buy them entry into a future job, we allow individual strengths and desires for jobs as well as sensible numbers of programs for jobs (we don't need 200 millions medical assistants so why have 200 million medical assistant openings for training.)  Brilliant poor people should not be washing dishes and rich slow people should not be wasting space in MBA programs because the owner wants his kid to look qualified.

3.  Guns, why are they wide open.  Why can every crazy person have an arsenal.  Why are the records showing who owns what and who bought what, not only not national, but not computerized.  Apparently, we in the USA are more concerned that someone that wants to kill someone has difficulty doing that, than someone that needs an antibiotic has difficulty getting one.

4.  Why are people so concerned about the personal lives of people different than they are, the religion of immigrants, the sexual orientation of  same sex couples, the birth gender of soldiers, but totally forgiving of sexual predators, pedophiles, scammers, cheaters, and liars if they share the same religion or political party.

5.  Why does every person with a job that pays better than minimum wage think they are middle class.  $30,000/year, $300,000 a year, they all think they are middle class, and don't get that all the middle class people aren't living just like them.  The top think they are average.  The bottom think they are average.  And both think that their problem are those poor people under them--who, by the way, are poor, not because their parents were poor, not because they were discriminated against by the whole system, but because they are losers that just didn't work hard enough.

Our problem is systemic.  But our system is made up of individuals.  Individuals that prefers to feel good about themselves while blaming everyone else for the problems.  We have become a nation of deflectors, a nation of moneygrubbers, a nation of scammers and liars and blamers.  We have become a nation of haters.

And while I know plenty of people trying to hold on to their sense of right and wrong:  Trying to maintain an ethical compass pointing true north, most of us are getting tired.  We are starting to hate the craziness and the people that are keeping it going.  

Hating crazy people, is crazy.

So, what's the problem?

We are.

Pogo was right.