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”.

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    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.

    • @vladmech
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      411 day ago

      I can’t tell if this is satire or not

      • @MutilationWave
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        1419 hours ago

        I actually worked with a guy that really hated Stephen Colbert. He was disgusting in many ways, early alt-right. One day I realized that he wasn’t mad about Colbert mocking conservatives, he actually believed it was an honest conservative political show. He loved The Colbert Report. He took it at face value. So when Colbert “came out” as a liberal it broke his heart. He thought the guy turned his back on his ideology for money.

        I could not convince him that the Colbert Report was satire. These people really exist.

        • @vladmech
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          518 hours ago

          Oh wow, that’s wild. Funny but sad.

    • @[email protected]
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      151 day ago

      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.

      • @Serinus
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        -122 hours ago

        He’s absolutely moving right.

        • @Quadhammer
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          420 hours ago

          Hes not moving right hes always tried to work across the aisle something leftists could learn a thing about

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        -101 day ago

        Thanks for the information but leftists are increasingly making me more liberal anyways so I’m not too worried about it.

        • @[email protected]
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          210 hours ago

          Is your political stance based off of policy or the individuals that make up the constituents of politicians that claim to be left? I don’t understand how some rhetoric from “lefists” have changed your views on policy. Might want to step off of political discourse online if you’re being swayed by “personalities”, it’s exactly the kind of discourse bad-actors are trying to implement.

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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            19 hours ago

            Leftist are as flaky with their policies as they are with the people they choose to lead them.

            They’re not a unified front right now so there’s no reason to back them.

            At least the liberals get in power quite often.

        • @[email protected]
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          91 day ago

          Hey, fair. I know the overall political left has always been plagued with infighting and purity testing. I’d like to at least do my part in bridging the gap between leftists and liberals by not getting in your face about not panicking over this shit if you’ll still allow me the same space to entertain my concern without calling me hysterical. Deal?

          • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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            41 day ago

            I don’t call anyone hysterical I abhor the historical connotations of the word.

    • @randon31415
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      223 hours ago

      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.

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        I remember him fighting for the 9/11 firefighters more than anyone.