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This was the only correct move. If they allowed an engineer to get sniped through character assassination, it allows the media to effectively end the project. I really want to see JD out there aggressively pushing back with something like "You say his tweets disqualify him from working for DOGE, what jobs do you think he should still be allowed to have? Can he still be an engineer? Is he allowed to paint walls? Do you know ahead of time what jobs he is still permitted to be in, or are you figuring it out as you go?" Maybe we'll see it yet. Maybe he reads my post. A guy can dream.
Ah, the old 'character assassination' technique of reading what someone wrote six months ago, it's like Stalin's purges this. It is not some 2021-level neurotic woke cancelling. This was a man being an unrepentant racist last summer. If you want to work for the government, don't self-identify as a racist on a public forum.
On one hand, I don't want racists working for federal government. On the other hand, the left had absolutely no problem with racists working for federal government - in fact, they encouraged it and send billions of dollars to racists that couldn't find employment with federal government, too - so giving them veto power over federal appointment, as if their opinion matters now, feels wrong to me too. Any accusation from their side is and always will be only tactical, nothing to do with opposing racism or supporting any value I'd like to support. So I don't see a positive side to jumping at their command.
You don't have to 'jump' at anyone's command. Just come to the conclusion about his suitability for the role in light of his behaviour yourself.
I don't have to do even that. Musk or Trump have to do that. So far they are doing a spectacular job as far as draining the swamp is concerned. That's precisely what I have voted for, and I want them to continue that for the following 4 years. If on the way they hire a couple of guys that said some stupid shit, maybe I won't be 100% happy with that, but provided that they deliver on the rest of the deal, I don't really care.
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Why should failure to worship a Democratic sacred cow disqualify you for employment under a Republican administration?
The sacred cow of not being avowedly racist? Pretty sure that's been a bipartisan sacred cow for quite a long time now.
Say thanks to the DIE crowd for slaughtering that cow. Being openly racist has been OK with them for a while now. I hated that. Your crowd didn't, they encouraged it. So, now it's a bit late to pretend it's alive again. If you want to establish a new one, you'd have to prove you are serious about it, and to be honest, I have no idea how the Left could do that, at least not until the current DIE-worshipping generation is out of the picture.
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which is why anti-white racism and bigotry is so viciously punished and for so long
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I knew someone who made the same point about the Muslim community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site (the one people were calling the 'Ground Zero Mosque'). "Exactly how far away would it need to be before you agree that it is unreasonable to object?"
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