When Elon Musk’s DOGE first started out on its mission of going from department to department haphazardly cutting everything they didn’t understand and firing people at random, most Trumpists cheered.
They imagined themselves pointing and laughing as Federal employees who had been hired to do nothing but sit around being a Black transgender lesbian all day long while collecting millions of taxpayer dollars lost their jobs.
They imagined themselves becoming super rich from all of the money Elon was saving them.
They imagined Trump heroically ending the deficit and paying down our debt and this … affecting their day-to-day lives in some capacity?
They imagined getting to laugh in the faces of all of the smug liberals who just didn’t realize that government didn’t need money and workers to function properly,
or that all of our tax money was being sent to 250-year-old vampires.
So far, that hasn’t happened.
Some have been pretending that it’s been happening, but it hasn’t happened.
What has happened, to cite but a couple examples, is that they’ve accidentally fired people working on avian flu, as well as nuclear weapons specialists,
whom they now need to locate and rehire (despite not knowing how to reach them).
The point of the arbitrary firings was clearly meant to prove that federal workers are so pointless that you could just fire any of them without any regard to what they actually do and things would continue working just fine.
As it turns out, that’s not really true.
Another thing that has happened is that a lot of the people who have been fired have been Trump voters or relatives of Trump voters,
who — like so many Trump-voting relatives and spouses of undocumented immigrants
— thought they would get a pass.
As it turns out, this even includes a friend of Fox’s Jesse Watters
https://www.wonkette.com/p/when-republicans-said-they-wanted
Chuck Darwin /
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2025-02-21 04:28:07
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