Apparently, as I have noted before, the Biden Administration doesn’t believe in firing anyone—well, anyone who doesn’t behave like this clown—which is itself a form of incompetence and avoidance of responsibility. A competent President who wasn’t more concerned with avoiding conflicts with the loosely-allied progressive tribes in his party than with upholding standards of conduct, ethics, and performance under his authority would fire everyone behind that screed above.
All right, he would do it immediately after giving Merrick Garland, Pete Buttigieg, Anthony Blinken, Lloyd Austin, Dr. Miguel Cardona, Alejandro Mayorkas, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, and Karine Jean-Pierre their well-earned pink slips.
No executive in any organization has to tolerate public dissent like this regarding his or her leadership. For a President, such open defiance is divisive, confusing to the public, disloyal and disrespectful. It also erodes trust. The proper way for any staff member in any pursuit at any level to express his or her disagreement with the organization’s policies and actions is to do so privately, through proper channels, or publicly after resigning. Those are the only ethical options, and the latter course has severe ethical limitations based on confidentiality and mutual trust.
Having a staff express disagreement with a President and his administration as the letter jaw-dropping above does is unprecedented, and it had better not become institutionalized, because no government—indeed, no organization—can function effectively and with the full confidence of its constituency and stake-holders that permits such rebellions.
Moreover, even if such grandstanding could be justified—there must be an exception out there somewhere—this surely wouldn’t be an acceptable precedent. The letter above absurdly supports an act of self-terrorism by a mentally-disturbed fool, thus aligning themselves with the radical agent of chaos who issued this tweet…
Brilliant. This New York-based writer and apologist for terrorism lumps protesting peacefully, dissent, marching and heckling politicians in the same category as suicide, rioting and law-breaking. Yet even he has a better grasp on reality than “the Staffers for Ceasefire.” In a related tweet, he suggests to these fools, “The best eulogy you can offer Bushnell is resigning en masse.”
Exactly. By all means, honor that pathetic would-be martyr.
Theirs isn’t even smart dissent, persuasive dissent, or patriotic dissent. The letter represents a group of people who are making policy recommendations above their pay-grade, literally, and displaying their biases and ignorance while doing so.
Biden should fire each and every one of them. That he doesn’t and won’t would be proof of his unfitness to lead and incompetence as a Chief Executive even if he could sing ” I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General General” backwards in 12 languages, including Urdu.
Ethics Alarms 
Didn’t this happen a lot under Trump?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-within-federal-workers-push-back-against-trump/2017/01/31/c65b110e-e7cb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html
The chickens do come home to roost.
Not openly and publicly like this. That was the Deep State at work, and Trump didn’t do nearly enough to stop it. And he paid the price.
My confusion in reading this is exactly why this behavior is problematic.
They were no mushy equivocations. That is a bad thing in this case. It said that two people killed themselves because of Israeli genocide. A competent intermediary, even an incompetent one like KJP (I can’t spell French right now), would muddy this up with qualifications and ambiguities.
I was confused at how one narrative was presented. (Yes, Israeli genocide is a narrative.)
Finally, I realized that this was not Biden’s position but a Staffer Position, complaining about Biden failing Gaza.
Yes, fire them all.
They may claim they are brave (and they may be) for standing for on principle. But, they are stupid and arrogant for overstepping their bounds on an issue. Bravery and stupidity are a bad mix.
There is a reason for the saying that discretion is the better part of valor. Sadly, stupid people don’t know what that means.
As much as I dislike Biden and his regime, I hope he is more successful at rooting out this element than the Supreme Court was.
-Jut
The staffers are the human equivalents to Biden’s dogs. They don’t sense an alpha they can look to for cues on acceptable behavior.
the staffers are probably all idiot generation Zers or young millennials who think that they know better than the rest of the world and the rest of the world better catch up to them quick. The president needs to sack them immediately.
There shouldn’t even be a question. This isn’t like James Comey or Douglas MacArthur way back when, being a distinguished public servant at odds with the man in charge. This is the equivalent of those interns who made up a petition regarding a dress code because they saw one person was accommodated and were subsequently fired for unprofessionalism.
Despite what sites like change.org would have everyone believe, the whole world doesn’t change just because a few people sign a petition or sign a letter or complain together. There is a time to speak up and a time to be quiet, not to sound like King Solomon in the book of Ecclesiastes, and while serving in an administration that is going one way when you think it should be going the other way is a time to keep quiet.
Never mind the fact that there is no genocide here. This is simply the state of Israel responding to an unprovoked attack on its citizens that resulted in the most dead Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. Israel couldn’t do nothing and in fact has chosen to go much farther than a lot of people would expect it to go. Apparently, Hamas is on its last legs. Of 24 combat battalions Hamas had, 18 are now out of commission leaving only six viable for combat and there is only one last real stronghold. If Israel can smash these last few combat battalions and take out this last stronghold, then Hamas is finished. Why should Israel stop now? They’re winning.
There’s a really good chance that Hamas could end up pressed flat at the end of this, and the world would be that much better of a place for it. I don’t say that lightly. However, the fact is that Hamas doesn’t want freedom or recognition or anything like that. What they want is Israel and a big pile of dead Jews. Israel needs to finish off this threat and they need to finish it off now. If there is any collateral damage, the blood is on the hands of Hamas for starting this fight, not on Israel for finishing it.
I read El-Kurd’s tweet as satirical. The interweaving of acceptable things like dissent and peaceful protest with terrorist acts like hijackings and molotov cocktails seems too thorough to be unintentional.
I looked into some of his writings and other tweets, and it appears that it’s not satire; he has truly gone full jihadi. He’s effectively a parody of himself.
I would send them an email reminding that voters, not staffers, dictate policy by electing the people they expect to carry out those policies, but these staffers have access to all sorts of ways of getting the federal government to make my life miserable in ways that I cannot fathom.
That’s their democracy. Only approved dissent may be expressed.