The MAGA Cancel Culture

Didn't I use the term loose cannon?  Now unleashed and with an army of cannons [yes men] behind him.  

As a fed employee I was made to attend whistleblower classes every other year or so.  Hah.  Now I'd tell anybody 'don't do it.'  Save yourself.

I think it was the 'suicide' of Vince Foster, a truly good man [look it up]...  Sorry, lefties.

Words carelessly spoken will do it, 'free speech' and all that.

My husband, (yes he was prone to thinking everybody got his humor), lost a job when he made a cutting remark against a past POTUS.

He had applied for the position, I helped with his resume, called for interview, they were impressed, said you are hired, great salary and benefits.  By the time he got home phone was ringing, they said 'we won't need your services.'   Sick, beyond devastated, he went back asking to discuss it.  They just said 'we decided you won't fit in here' something like that.

I grilled him what happened?  He admitted that after they told him they liked him, he's hired and all that, he was elated, felt comfortable (among strangers, btw), stupidly joked to the head man about the (several admins past) POTUS.  

Hung by the tongue.

Candy

The Biden Administration didn't  block them. I, of course believe they all should be welcomed to speak.

Your response, though is exactly what I expected. The the MAGA, "they did it first!". Which fits perfectly with the, "it's not fair!" whine.

False equivalency of the week:

Speakers at Universities being cancelled = firing lifetime civil servants who arent election deniers and have the audacity to point out corruption.

Remember when Tom, David and Boilerman were all decrying we drain the swamp in Washington?   Yeah - they were all about that - almost as much as cutting government spending.

That's not a good example. Workplaces can and do restrict speech while employees are on the premises/on company time. When you sign an employment contract, you commit to certain tasks and certain behavior. Freedom of speech doesn't apply.

That said, your husband got a break by finding out very early in the game that his boss was an utter asshole. If the company truly thought that he was a good fit, one (yes, stupid) offhand remark by him shouldn't have changed that. If he hadn't done that, he probably would have been fired for having his shoelace untied, or maybe putting two sugars in his office coffee.

No, not the best example, but the boss or whomever didn't say specifically, and didn't have to, why he was un-hired.   And...I agree with what his future may have been like there.  In fact another unrelated person said about the head man at the place, "Xxxx is a crook."  Screw 'em.  Their loss. 

I wonder--and you don't have to tell me--what President your husband made a joke about. Given that Democrats have always been much, much, much more cognizant and supportive of workplace protections, I'd lay about 700-1 that his for-a-moment boss was a Republican. Possibly Ronny Raygun was the target of your husband's remark? Republican fealty to and worship of Ronny approached that which they currently have for Trump.

(And by my unscientific estimation, 36,523 Americans have been fired for making a non-worshipful comment about Trump.)

Nope, a Dem.

Husband had various reasons for liking or not liking a Pres.  Not pure party loyalty. 

The Pres was very popular in our state.  Still is, amazingly.  People may huff and puff and snicker, but really don't care about morality. 

Well, the twicefold election of a serial rapist and pathological liar certainly confirms your statement.