There’s no plan to fix anything - it’s destroy and replace with the bare minimum number of stooges to ensure continued looting of the the govt (taxes, social security, VA, etc)
These plunderers of the world…after exhausting the land by their devastations ….stimulated by avarice…by ambition…unsatiated…who behold wealth and indigence with equal avidity. To ravage…to usurp under false title…where they make
a desert, they call it peace. Calgacus on Rome quoted in Tacitus
When I said ‘bent,’ I meant their willingness to align with dangerous, antisocial groups just to push their goals forward. It’s not just about policies—it’s about the choices they make and the harm those choices bring to the world.
I believe that is the entire point. Crush the agencies, fire everyone, parcel out/loot everything left behind
then
*privatize* it back to life with the fewest employees hired at bargain basement salaries with no benefits and no pesky visa processing... that's what I see at least-
How much do you think this purge of scientists and experts is being driven by the Muskovites' belief that AI will be able to replace them for essential research? Joke's on them - the mass-market LLMs are not "intelligent" in any sense - but I suspect they really believe they've created AGI.
It’s going to be really hard to convince people to take jobs and rebuild (if the Democrats can ever cobble
together a campaign). These aren’t stable jobs and civil servants won’t be protected so why would you want them?
True. Even if sanity is restored to government in 2028, why would anyone opt to go into the federal civil service knowing that the next election could bring more of this?
They're going to have to make at least some of these jobs protected by law for a certain period of time. Or create a union for them. We need better worker protections everywhere.
NHTSA, which investigates car crashes including Teslas, has lost 40% of its workforce, but NASA has lost no one. They were exempt from across the board probationary worker cuts because Musk needs his free workforce.
Most of the bosses at these agencies are going to be fired and replaced by inexperienced, under qualified staff purely because the replacements will be cheaper.
That's the purpose, right? To destroy public organizations so they can be replaced by private for-profit companies that benefit the very wealthy and few others.
Yep, AND THAT IS THEIR INTENTION. Go watch Oliver's latest piece. This is what Voat wants.
Keep that in mind as we proceed forward with the resistance, and frankly, our future plans of putting everything back together and fixing these trangressions.
Imagine spending your life working for an organization like this and deciding in your final days to abet dismantling it bc your afraid of not being the last to inevitably be fired.
Trump wants the US to have a strong manufacturing sector that will draw investment from abroad. Musk chokes off the R&D funding that would help build a strong manufacturing sector. Make it make sense.
Ther goal of federal agency cost cutting is to create enough room in the federal budget to pass a second massive round tax cuts for the rich so they get even richer. A side benefit includes getting rid of those pesky regulations that restrict their power to screw the public every chance they get.
Have you ever met an uber-wealthy citizen? And I use the term loosely. Because they genuinely have no idea what it means to be part of an effectively functioning collective. Their subculture is so toxic it stunts IQ and EQ. Less people than things. From birth. To fall from that sphere is death.
I wasn't a nanny. I did bookkeeping. They all run phony real estate businesses or S-corps on the side that operate at a loss. While they do shit like have their ancestral home imported from Scotland and have it rebuilt stone by stone. Not even joking a little.
They'll sprinkle in American coeds from time to time. To them we are like trained talking monkeys. They don't pay well and it is in bad taste to be generous. Embarrassing in that sphere. Which is why they don't like to pay taxes. It is considered lowbrow. Lords. Serfs. And never shall the two meet.
There is an endless cycle of help from various countries who are at once inferiors and the first and often only intimately nurturing parental figures in their lives. Do you get what a mind fuck that is?
I genuinely think this is why they hoard wealth and present like aliens in a human suit.
Seriously. Imagine you are raised by the help. Grandaddy can't have a fat wife in the same house as his son so "mother" gets shipped off to recover her figure and mommy is a Mexican wetnurse who disappears on her return. True fucking story.
you would have to be crazy to take any Federal Job that entails more effort then working from your home every day for a maximum of 40hrs a week. Even then should only be done in retirement years where you don't need the money.
Already advising my undergraduate econ students interested in climate change that they should not count on federal jobs. They need to be open to jobs overseas and with international organizations.
once the brain drain starts it's over for generations here. If Canada opened a citizenship program for STEM or critical industries I bet they would have a lot of takers.
Oh, they not only get it, but that is the main goal. These purges are designed to break government agencies forever. The purges are obviously not about efficiency or saving money. They are about destroying the federal civil service and the rule of law.
My experience is that the average American tries to understand things through talking to neighbors and such, so a lot of ideas take form through hearsay.
It can be frustrating indeed.
Americans, especially MAGA, are finally seeing how the federal government is intertwined in all our lives- not just food stamps & welfare. These cuts affect everybody regardless of whom you voted for. Did you want that?
A clear issue for long term culture is the apparent roll over of senior civil servants appearing to simply allow this to happen. There have been high profile resignations over DOGE access but not the mass employee firings. My first questions would be: did anyone fight for me? If so, how? When?
Good. Get fired. Some of the rest of us did in the private sector and we didn’t take an oath to the constitution. Your job means shit if your country falls to war or strife.
To think that these good, hard-working, community-minded, loyal Americans are having their lives thrown into upheaval just to satisfy the whims of a ketamine-addled foreigner and some weirdo named Big Balls.
If you want a nationally televised dramatic and symbolic moment to galvanize the opposition to Trump/Musk, promote this: the elected Dems seat themselves at the State of the Union (March 4), then rise and march out en masse when Trump begins speaking. Send this idea to your Dem rep. Plant the seed!
Not to mention that they are killing American science, and thus our future economy. Destroying the NIH and NSF will some day be regarded as one of the biggest self owns in history.
How the hell can the government attract good people if it doesn't provide 1) job security, 2) pension after retirement, and 3) better pay than the private sector?
What makes you think the intent of the private sector is to attract good people with 1) job security 2) pension after retirement and 3) better pay than the public sector?
Who do you think would rather just have slaves in a wholly deregulated environment if not the private sector?
It's almost as if they worked in the private sector. This happens all the time there and it's counter productive. This policy has ruined capitalism in the US and now it could ruin our nation.
I can't help but think shutting down entire agencies means that some MAGAts are being fired along with patriots. I know they want to keep loyalists but all these government jobs being fired, they all can't be Dems? My point is I hope it backfires and gets some of the cult to turn on him.
Yeah when I heard him say that, I just wanted to punch him in the throat and ask him if he feels any trauma from that.
He thinks people are just going to curl into a fetal position. But he’s wrong. People are strong. People will remember. People will start to fight back.
Exactly right. People fall into desperation when they are alone, not when suffering alongside others. By harming so many people, they are fueling the engine of their own demise.
We can pretend it is complicated. As the Republicans became more extreme, the Democrats became less morally courageous. And our population did too. There is no movement if people are not moved. Will any leadership emerge that will inspire? Will people be pushed into activism?
That part. I worked as Republican partisan staff. They are effective messengers and terrible managers. They joke that they needed Democrats to be their conscience, which was why they thought the two party system was brilliant. It is no coincidence that we are now wholly ruled by sociopaths.
I'm not okay with that kind of rhetoric. But I do understand the urge toward it. Very frustrating to watch folks from at risk groups participate in their own marginalization and subjugation
Heartless people
Billionaire are the enemy
Just saying
King Louis XVI was beheaded by guillotine on January 21, 1793, after being found guilty of treason by the National Convention. His execution marked the end of the monarchy and symbolized the revolutionaries’ commitment to a republic.
so long as there is no return of being hanged, drawn and quartered-or also being burned-as punishment for crimes against the state as defined by the state.
Blame the people that hired you these people over inflated their budget and it’s their fault. You don’t hire people to overinflate your budget so you get more money and that’s exactly what they’re doing. There are jobs everywhere. Don’t blame them blame the people that hired you.
That and the mass firing of federal workers is a response by capital to the growing labor shortage. They are eating up the nation's seed corn to keep private sector workers from demanding higher wages.
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a desert, they call it peace. Calgacus on Rome quoted in Tacitus
An honorable person would have refused those orders.
Also we know where that person can stuff that worthless “apology”.
then
*privatize* it back to life with the fewest employees hired at bargain basement salaries with no benefits and no pesky visa processing... that's what I see at least-
together a campaign). These aren’t stable jobs and civil servants won’t be protected so why would you want them?
That sounds familiar.
Just wait and see.
Keep that in mind as we proceed forward with the resistance, and frankly, our future plans of putting everything back together and fixing these trangressions.
Imagine spending your life working for an organization like this and deciding in your final days to abet dismantling it bc your afraid of not being the last to inevitably be fired.
If they didn't have their budget cut, there's no reason to follow that order and fire people.
If they *did* have their budget cut, then say that, not "I was just following orders."
It worked out just fine for the British and French empires for example.
Where have I heard that before?
They think it's funny though.
I genuinely think this is why they hoard wealth and present like aliens in a human suit.
What kind of person do you think that makes?
During the George W Bush years.
This is the theme and it is damaging the country from within and with allies.
ordinary americans are groomed for one critical function and that is to be rpu’s revenue producing units
they have been cultivated to be acquisitive, not to think reflectively about the world around them
It can be frustrating indeed.
What a sad era for our society.
some of the the lackeys doing it probably believe the narrative and have no idea. But they never have a clue anyway
the cruel always enlist the dumb. From the playground to this
Who do you think would rather just have slaves in a wholly deregulated environment if not the private sector?
https://bsky.app/profile/iwashyna.bsky.social/post/3limwzuvn5k2g
The Republican donor class of people.
…oh, who am I kidding…
The admin is not only fascist but evil. They want people they see as disloyal to the cause to suffer and struggle.
They want at least half of America to be traumatised.
He thinks people are just going to curl into a fetal position. But he’s wrong. People are strong. People will remember. People will start to fight back.
They believe that a desperate, traumatised population will be easier to control.
But history shows that most revolutions begin with widespread desperation.
Republicans have adapted faster to a changing world.
be very busy restoring jobs that are
needed.
What a sad spectacle to watch.
(Art by @coldwarsteve.bsky.social)
NSF Director, Sethuraman Panchanathan, Trump appointee and proponent of inclusivity. How does he still have a job if he loves DEI so much?
https://www.nsf.gov/science-matters/leader-ai-breakthroughs-champion-innovation
(I personally would never say that, but sauce for the gander, sauce for the goose, right?)
Billionaire are the enemy
Just saying
King Louis XVI was beheaded by guillotine on January 21, 1793, after being found guilty of treason by the National Convention. His execution marked the end of the monarchy and symbolized the revolutionaries’ commitment to a republic.
The man who did the actual firing had to be a Trump Toady.
Nazi filth!
Always.