Man. That looks like a lot of crazy. I guess the government is behind the curve on reviewing social media of potential employees?
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It sounds like he was a political appointee, and as such would be subject only to “vetting” in the political sense rather than the typical hiring process befitting a modern professional civil service.
Having said that, unless the work is particularly sensitive (requiring a clearance) many government employers in countries with decent human rights and employment law will not check your social media because they are likely to learn things about you there that might bias the hiring process, such as your religion, your sexuality, and so forth.
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Good enough for what? Apologizing for doing something wrong doesn’t mean everybody else has to treat you like you didn’t do something wrong. Especially after you tried to lie about whether it was actually you. His 54-word boilerplate “apology” does not demonstrate that he understands why what he did was wrong or the harm that he caused. It does nothing to address or offset that harm. It doesn’t demonstrate remorse for the negative impacts of his actions, only remorse for those actions now having impacted him. It fails to offer a convincing plan that will ensure that his behaviour changes in the future.
So no, it’s not close to enough, actually. I don’t think he’s sorry for what he did. I think he’s sorry his attempted cover-up for what he did didn’t work. When he issues a real apology, one that demonstrates reflection, understanding, remorse, an act of reparation, and a clearly-planned intention to correct his behaviour, and when his behaviour has improved for long enough for the public he claims he wishes to serve to have real reason to believe it, then that’s enough. Until then, screw this guy.
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Yep. Unfortunately.
And the people who are not good and decent people that wind up climbing still find it very easy to get massive amounts of people to genuflect in their general direction. Anyone that’s ever worked for a living and been to an all-hands meeting lead by a scumbag knows this. All the morons in the crowd laughing and nodding their heads. Fuck, I hate head-nodders.
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I had a subgroup of Facebook “friends” that were getting a bit frenzied about the possibility that Obama was going to declare martial law and use his control of the military to simply not leave office.
So their response was to elect the president by far most likely to attempt just that?
(Also, the level of not-thought going on there was staggering. Like the military is just a button you push as opposed to comprising actual people.)
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Because they allowed their districts to be gerrymandered.
Because they held out for a “perfect candidate.”
Because they stayed home on election day.
Because.
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Someone has a hard time with sarcasm 
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Yeah, but it still summed up the situation nicely.
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The Office of Indian Energy:
Office in charge of murdering Native Americans and stealing their resources.
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I applaud him for his transparency.
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Hope his populist hate-speech catches up with him soon enough. Dying in a fire would also be an option. AND, you can quote me on that.
HOWEVER, I’m also terribly sorry I said it, so there, that should be good enough for everyone to leave me alone.
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Would it really be so bad if he died in a fire?
Just asking questions.
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Some people genuinely believe that being an arsehole is a hallmark of leadership, often because they’re aspiring arseholes themselves.
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There is the possibility that he would contaminate the fire, and then what?
Personally, I’m fairly certain that Donald will be all out of scumbags willing to work for him in his shit sandwich administration by the end of the year. The pool was small to begin with. And now that the generals, too, are realizing that serving Donald is not doing their duty but failing their true duty…
Donald’s in fact draining the swamp – the swamp of deplorable willing to be part of his administration.
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The critical difference, of course, is that Trump’s white, and Obama isn’t. That’s what it boils down to.
almost as if meritocracy is bullshit!
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What, no cries of, “it’s just satire, you guys!” or, “taken out of context!”. I am disappoint.
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“As a minority and member of the Jewish faith”
I love how he dropped his ethnicity and religion in there. As if being a minority ethnicity or religion can somehow make him less of a bigot or excuses his supreme assholery. I’m surprised he didn’t work in his membership in a Native American tribe.
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