Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the department, had earlier told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House terminated her on Friday, saying that she didn’t believe the administration had followed proper protocols, the sources said.
In an email to colleagues on Saturday, reviewed by Reuters, she said the independent council of the inspectors general on integrity and efficiency “has taken the position that these termination notices do not comply with the requirements set out in law and therefore are not effective at this time”.
After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit. I try my best to keep ahold of myself, not run away too much with assumptions or conspiratorial thinking. But you don’t have to wait for them to do 100% fascist shit to start calling them fascists.
The White House defended the firing of Fong and the other inspectors general, saying “these rogue, partisan bureaucrats … have been relieved of their duties in order to make room for qualified individuals who will uphold the rule of law and protect Democracy.”
This. This right here. They are screaming their intent at us and we don’t need to wait for them to do it to respectably call them fascists. Like to be clear I guess he can do this but the way he did it is potentially incorrect? Regardless, that’s not what I want to hear you say when you do it to a 22-year veteran of the department.
I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart, but even I found his piece this week on the Daily Show to be some real weak ass shit.
I’m glad you brought this up because I’ve noticed the tone change in all the media as well. I don’t blame them and understand. They spent months or years screaming and calling out Trump after spending years during his first term pointing out everything wrong.
Everyone’s burnt out, you can hear it in the jokes and the incredulous chuckles that come out from segments now. They all tried their best but it didn’t change the outcome, that has to make you take a step back. I honestly would probably do the same, you can’t keep bombarding people with multiple items a day and expect them not to tune it out eventually. They know it’s time to switch to a better long-term strategy than what they’ve been trying to do calling out all the bullshit with intensity.
After everything, I do still generally respect and like Jon Stewart
What’s this everything you refer to?
I think Jon Stewart has been a pretty stand up guy unlike his liberal/conservative flip flopping friend Stephen Colbert.
The tone he had on Monday’s Daily Show was, “let’s not start throwing around the word fascism yet”. He apparently still has faith in the courts? https://archive.org/details/COM_20250128_070000_The_Daily_Show
There have been growing criticisms of him coming from the left for a bit now on how some of his tendencies to diffuse situations learns more towards liberalism than leftism. This isn’t an outright attack on him or to say he’s moving rightward overall. I need to watch this video again but I think this is the one that touches on a bunch of the points, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCxHvogsTY
From a comment on the video, “Jon Stewart made me a liberal as a child, adulthood made me a leftist.”
If you like Jon Stewart I’m not trying to say you shouldn’t. But as someone who has continually been moving left, I do feel more distance from him than I used to is all.
Thanks for the information but leftists are increasingly making me more liberal anyways so I’m not too worried about it.
Only thing I can remember bad about Jon Stewart was that he didn’t say who owned the Wall Street building during the occupy Wall Street movement. But even that is minor since you generally keep family stuff private.
