No Scrabman, Obviously You CAN'T Take the Heat

Day 532, 14:25 • Published in USA USA • by Ansen

All people have their strengths and their weaknesses. This is just a fact of life. What matters is how we address those weaknesses. It is our responsibility to try to overcome and conquer them, or at least to try and contain them.

Presidents aren't excluded from this problem, as has been obvious in recent eUS history. Perhaps it's because none of our recent leaders are actual real-life politicians (not that we'd want them to be), but past Presidents have been severely lacking in one key area of politics: public relations.

Justinious, for example, struggled with keeping the general populace up-to-date on what he was working on while in office. Uncle Sam made several blunders as well, for example, he once referred to a stolen $500 as basically being pocket change. Scrabman, however, has taken this lack of public relations ability to a whole new level.

Now to be fair, we must recognize that, as a whole, Scrabman has done quite a respectable job as President of the United States. Obviously most Americans agree, as he is currently running away with the elections. I was even planning on voting for Scrabman this election. Unfortunately, over the past week or two, a couple situations have come to light where Scrabman has shown an immense amount of disrespect to those who do not completely agree with his policies. A president is supposed to be a uniter, not a divider, and Scrabman has not lived up to that expectation.

Now, everyone gets upset sometimes, and rightfully so. But when you're in a leadership position, you are expected to "be the bigger man" and accept critisism with dignity (at least in public). And you certainly should not respond by firing people or threatening to exclude entire groups of the American people from the political process.

But that is exactly what Scrabman has done.

In a conversation on the Libertarian Party forums, Scrabman essentially told the party that if he did not receive their endorsement, he would exclude Libertarian members from serving in his administration this term. Don't believe me? Let's let Scrab speak for himself:

"So you can choose to be different just for the sake of throwing up an opposition candidate ... or you can go with me. If you go against me I will remember it when it comes time for appointments next term. I would much rather look at the Libs as an ally going into my second term as I have thought of you up till this point. It's clear that the CVP and the Federalists have chosen a different tack even though I've done a lot to help them this term. As I've told them I will remember that ... but you Libs can stand to benefit from their choice to oppose me." --Scrabman

When questioned, Scrabman said, "I don't believe I said I would shut anyone out." Now, you can try to get as creative as you want with your interpretation of that quote above, but I don't know how you could possibly come to the conclusion that he didn't say he would shut people out. To top it off, after basically saying "my fault" on page four of the thread, Scrabman gets into it again with Fingerguns after complaints about him firing people who don't agree with him.

Scrabman goes on to say that he can "take the heat just fine," which is downright laughable if you read the thread in its entirety. Furthermore, news has recently come out about how Scrabman fired Bill Brasky from the Department of Education when he expressed concern over Scrabman's policies on IRC. Scrabman wasn't even present when the comments were made. I won't go into detail on this incident, as you can read all about it in the linked article.

Scrabman's response to Bill Brasky's side of the story? "Don't worry Bill. I'll stick to my promise to you not to politicize your f*** up. It's not like I was going to do you Federalists many favors anyway with the treatment I've gotten from your Party President lately."

Here's the point. I feel it worth the risk to my own reputation with Scrabman (and probably other USWP leadership) to express my extreme disappointment in Scrabman's recent actions. Firing cabinet members for voicing disagreements is not "valuing loyalty." It's close-minded, partisan politics, and it is absolutely unacceptable.

I hope that Americans will let Scrabman know that this kind of behavior is not something that is acceptable for the leader of our country.