Good grief this guy is a moron. First he thinks we’re all as dumb as he and won’t catch his agent/employee bait/switch when we read the article. Then if we dismiss that little detail we have to believe every. single. government. employee. makes political contributions, and in the same amount so there’s a direct correlation to employees and their political affiliation.Peter Brown wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 12:41 pmBrooklyn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 10:24 amPeter Brown wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 3:20 pm Ask Brook what % of IRS agents are Democratic...it's somewhere north of 100%.
If someone asked me, I wouldn't be able to give an informed answer. In the years I worked there, yes, we had a number of Jewish liberals and others who voted Dem. But we had quite a few white suburbanites who loved Reagan despite his hatred for federal workers. It actually would be very interesting to know the political outlook/affiliation of feds nowadays but contrary to your usual mystical beliefs, it is nowhere near 100%.
Employees of the Department of Justice, which investigated Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of State, gave Clinton 97 percent of their donations. Trump received $8,756 from DOJ employees compared with $286,797 for Clinton. From IRS employees, Clinton received 94 percent of donations.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/3 ... n-campaign
Off by 6%.
As if he were right (LMFAO that I would ever type that) on either of those points he’d also have to hope we wouldn’t read the article, or we’d at least skip a whole bunch of details. Or maybe, as an example, he just thought (there’s another thing I’m surprised I typed - this troll with a thought) the excess percent of contributor donations given to Romney four years prior must mean there was a pretty large percentage of employees who switched parties between 2012 and 2016.
Here’s the part of the article discussing the Romney/Trump percentage discrepancy, along with some other ditties that blow this idiot’s hypotheses out of the water:
”The 2012 GOP presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, received 14 percent of donations from the same group of agencies surveyed for Trump. Trump received just 5 percent.”
“Trump might have had a chance to do better than Romney. He discarded much of Republican orthodoxy during his primary campaign, which could have led some federal employees to believe that he’d be more amenable to big government. He vowed, for example, to leave massive social welfare programs virtually untouched.”
“But Trump also constantly attacked federal institutions. During his primary campaign, he described the federal government as a corrupt, bloated body run by “very, very, stupid people.””
I love this last part. I’m sure if I was an employee and heard this I’d max out my contribution to make sure he became my boss :
”Trump vowed “tremendous cutting” of the government in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in January and singled out the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency as agencies he’d slash dramatically if not outright eliminate.”“
Mic drop.