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Lol. What even is this?
You know who can fuck off?
Every fucking shitlib who spent the previous 30 years making apologies for not passing laws by insisting that the "norms" would hold. There is no law preventing an appointee to the USDA from posting the above message. Do you know why?
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The Hatch act is why. And the only reason the above message is allowed to exist is because of the liberal expectation that the norms would hold.This thread is basically people who have never been subject to the Hatch act, have no idea of its contents or who it apply to, or why it is relevant or irrelevant in this context. I've had to sign the dotted line regarding the Hatch act no fewer than five times, and have had to repeatedly go through tedious training on the Hatch act, establishing what kinds of political speech I can or can't engage in, depending on the position or role.
The downvote brigading is quite literally hilarious, and I revel in their ignorance. It just further and further highlights my initial point. Shitlibs with shitlib takes don't know what they are talking about.