Incoming Trump team is questioning civil servants at National Security Council about their loyalty

At least some of these nonpolitical employees have begun packing up their belongings since being asked about their loyalty to Trump

God damn it every fucking time. This is what they fucking want you do to so they can replace you with a fucking Yes Man Toadie!

Pretty much from here on out, the news is going to become literally unbearable, every story is going to be about what new low the United States government has sunk to, there will be no bright spots at all, no positives, no wins for decency and the rule of law, only fascist takeover, ineptitude, violence, destruction, desperation, and death. Donald Trump oversaw a purposefully sandbagged Federal Global Pandemic Response that saw the United States post higher per capita COVID infection, hospitalizations, and death for it's citizens that anywhere else in the world outside China, Russia, and North Korea. The rouges gallery are our contemporaries now once again, and I have no earthly idea when we should expect this to change, as the villains now control the means with which to change American electoral law. MAGA got the levers to the American institutions of Democracy. All of them. They're gonna use them, and they aren't going to give them back.

Incoming senior Trump administration officials have begun questioning career civil servants who work on the White House National Security Council about who they voted for in the 2024 election, their political contributions and whether they have made social media posts that could be considered incriminating by President-elect Donald Trump’s team, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

Trump’s pick for national security adviser, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, in recent days publicly signaled his intention to get rid of all nonpolitical appointees and career intelligence officials serving on the NSC by Inauguration Day to ensure the council is staffed with those who support Trump’s agenda.

So not only are they getting rid of "nonpolitical appointees," but also "career intelligence officials." So they are purging all institutional knowledge and standards of conduct. Then those they are inserting/retaining are intentionally "political" appointees, who explicitly are being asked to affirm their loyalty.

Anyone who is halfway intelligent would have voted against trump to avoid exactly this situation. It was entirely predictable.

So what Trump is going to do is start removing the halfway intelligent people from Government, making the system worse for everyone (except him).

Need some laws against this shit.

I wonder how far they're going to take this. I wonder if asking about political affiliation will become part of the security clearance process?