On the HHS Leadership call today: 1 employee from CMS (Center for Medicare/Medicaid Service) and 2 employees from SSA (Social Security Administration) have died by suicide after their firing.
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There is no link because it's not happening. If it were happening, it would be all over the place.
Government staff are pissed off and are fighting back.
and the media isn't covering much thoroughly, so we have to. The cuts listed below didn't happen. The New York Times sometimes gets it right, but often not in the headlines.
This is so true. I knew that there were a lot of awful people in the world, but never thought that this many people could be so hateful. This includes people I thought I knew well. There were things I overlooked about people I knew, but now my eyes are wide open.
My family in Tennessee think Agolf Twitler is Jesus Christ reborn, hell my full grown brother-in-law has a trump doll to cuddle with at night. Explain that one at the pearly gates, “damn I sent the anti-Christ and you exalted him.” “Well eggs and gas were expensive…and yeah that immigrant dude.” 🤷🏽♂️
I’m with you 💯 percent! I lost a lot of friends because of trump. I always knew that they were republicans but that didn’t bother me. This Trump thing does bother me a lot. The only thing that I have going for me is I’m older. So I’m at the point of saying fuck it!
I believe people are basically good but there are more sociopaths and narcissists walking around that have been empowered to act the way they always wanted to act. They only respond to negative consequences that keep them in check. Those checks have been strategically removed at every level
This is true. I'm not even a good person, just one that's not evil and while I'd obviously love it if people agree with me, I don't expect them to or want to enforce it (I can't believe we live in an era where I have to specify this, but, that doesn't apply to things like sexual predation and harm).
Um you tell yourself that you were told people are inherently good so that you would overlook the shifty behavior of other people. Fuck em. They told you who they were when they accepted mass deportation and erasing trans people. They can FUCKING CHOKE.
I still believe in the basic goodness of people. I also believe that we need strong safeguards to ensure people are reminded of their basic goodness. I think the problem we have is our safeguards were more like suggestions than anything I'd consider strong
Agree completely. We also need more safeguards in the private sector. One thing I've decided for sure is that no organization can police itself. There always needs to be independent oversight to keep people on track
I find this is true as a supervisor. Sometimes I really, really like someone on my team and have to fire them because they broke rules. They always beg for another chance. Then they mess up again. Sometimes I am shocked by what people think they can get away with because “I’m a nice person.”
100% who watches the watchers? This goes for every sector, private or public. Too many times we fall into the idea that a certain profession or type of person possess integrity and so can police themselves. Checks and balances are needed, but they should have teeth
Rot can easily be hidden- the Trusk voters were naive & fooled by the BS. Those 2 are just evil- "love veterans & America" my butt! Of course, we knew what Trusk would bring- just didn't realize Russia owned them. The mango piper will lead many off the cliff, but America is NOT for sale.
Don’t be so kind. They’re not naive. They’re hate filled bigots swayed very easily by the culture wars and us/them campaign strategies. They knowingly chose xenophobia and white supremacy.
“I think the thing that we have to take away from the last 10 years is that we really need to be really ruthless when it comes to the exercise of power.” - vance
it’s no mystery. They tell us exactly what they intend to do.
I'm an internal optimist and always believed it would get bad before people woke up from this spell. I see Crockett as a shining star in our party..along with Mayor Pete.
The Trumpwardian regime does not care about anyone. They don't care about the ramifications of their actions. They are creating more problems and not actually resolving problems. They are not saving US money. They are creating unnecessary costs to the US. The ultimate: cost of losing lives.
They only work for multimilioners who don't want to pay taxes and make us all to serve them and shut up. They forgeting that there's more of us then them and we are not going to take it lying down.
Good lord... why do i feel they didnt kill themselves and rather things are more in fact they knew a few things they shouldnt have known that killed them???
The horrible human price being paid by the actions of Trump and Musk. They won’t care now…. But there is an afterlife, there is an Almighty God, and these 2 MONSTERS WILL PAY TO ETERNITY.
First they came for the immigrants, but I was not an immigrant, then they came for Federal workers, but I was not a federal worker, but I care and resist! We are all under threat!
This is terrible and likely repeating in so many other agencies. People are being hurt needlessly just so the rich can have even more money to pay off corrupt politicians. It’s a vicious cycle.
Wait until a bunch of seniors in nursing homes die because their Medicaid is cut off. Or are left to languish there because without Medicaid the nursing homes can’t operate. You thought Covid deaths were bad?
This is exactly what they want to happen. They look at those seniors in nursing homes as a drain on the system and taking money that could belong them. The goal is to rid the country of about 160 million people who are a drain on the system via Medicaid, Medicare, Snap, and Social Security.
Seniors won’t be dying in nursing homes. Those residents will be evicted and family will need to figure out how to care for them. That’s the reality people need to be looking at. Same for landlords/mortgage companies. You don’t pay, you have to leave and go elsewhere.
Yes they will be kicked out. And what if they don’t have family. Also nursing homes will close because they can’t stay open on private pay only. They won’t be able to pay their staff
You’re right, many don’t even have options that take Medicaid but they will have to have family members to take care of them. It’s not easy, very expensive and the cost of care is rising. Planning for retirement isn’t just for healthcare.
I fear there will be much more of this not just those being unjustly fired. If Republicans are able to pass their American Middle Class Death Budget and people have to live without their basic needs some may feel suicide is their only solution. Dems get out into Rep. Districts listen to the people!
Look, the insurrectionists built a gallows. So this ideation is ON THEM! They made violence okay, especially after the mass pardon of all insurrectionists. Krasnov made it okay. And so it's on Krasnov and his rabid Rottweiler Elon.
Neither will their voters. They don't care. They don't care about school shootings, COVID deaths, women dying waiting for care after Roe was overturned, suicide of Jan 6 police officers. Death is of no consequence to them, it's a cult.
Conservatives believe in a rigid social hierarchy & have a shocking capacity for cruelty against designated out-groups. They DO NOT believe in equality or care about harm reduction/empathy. They’re about control & imposing their beliefs & believe in in-group superiority. They’ve always been sadists
OMG this is so tragic,my deepest sympathy to their families and friends.Please please other workers that are going through these firings hold on!I do believe that this president will not be in office much longer!
I am past the point of feeling compassion toward uneducated cousin fuckers. Science FFS! There is a vaccine readily available that could have prevented this but people who soak up mis/disinformation to “own the libs” are willing to sacrifice their own children.
Well,sad as it is, the parents chose NOT to vaccinate their child.There are negative consequences and that poor child suffered one. As an RN,I talked myself blue in the face trying to get parents to vaccinate their children.There is the possibility of this horrible result when they don’t.
Devastated? Yes but why not have gotten your children protected? Imagine the guilt they now have to live with forever. Our children depend on us to protect them. This is the worst consequence. Unnecessary death of a child is the republican porn.
This is such sad news and I’m sure it won’t end here. I can’t imagine what they’re all trying to deal with, not to mention the emails telling them they don’t matter. The language they use for everything is just bullying.
A trans veteran, wrapped in the trans flag, hung himself outside the Syr. NY VA
I’m guessing horrible things like this are happening all over America 💔
The tragedy of this is equaled only by the clear psycopathy of the current regime. Remember: First-term P01135809 left in his wake over 400,000 *avoidable* deaths in the US (of the total 1.2 million total) due to his COVID‐19 chaos.
In civilised countries when there is a desire to reduce staff a voluntary severance scheme is used. People who want to leave apply and are given a payout to keep them going while they look for another job. This is not about that. It's slash and burn, there will be many casualties before it's over.
Musk/Trump want the populace to rise up in outrage so Trump can declare martial law and bring in the military to stomp those pesky citizens. This is what dictators do. If it were about efficiency, Musk would fire billionaires Trump, cabinet and show himself out. Billionaires don't need govt. jobs
I agree that is what he wants. But I don’t think he understands what a gamble that is. It could just as easily spiral down to him ending up like Mussolini.
He also doesn't understand that the U.S. military are not mindless stormtroopers. It's composed of people from all across the American ideological divide. There will be a LOT of dissension in the ranks that will have to be addressed before any concerted action is taken by the military on civilians.
Trusk and comp seem to view the military as nothing more than "toys" they can play with and use as tools to oppress and silence anyone who speaks up against them.
They are basically trying to fasttrack the "Putinization" of America but are too dumb see how that really works and why it won't here.
Gonna be difficult for them to try to stop any military plans from leaking when there are a majority of military personnel who don't/won't go to war with their friends and relatives and/or their own best interests.
ha! They were paranoid for years that the liberals were coming to take their guns, and it’s really going to be the Nazis because, surprise! That’s what Nazis do!
Elections have been rigged for years by purging voters from blue counties and now they want to pass the Save act denying about 69M women the right to vote because they have a different surname from their birth certificate. Thank goodness I changed mine back years ago.
This is exactly what he wants and because we know this and fail to comply, he loses his power!!! They all have a greed for money and that will be our uprising. Can't call the military for refusing to spend money!!!!
It is mad to me that you can just have loads of money and run to be the US president without ever having been elected to anything in your life or had an interview for any job or university. Very least in the uk you have to be a mundane MP first
My view is that the clock is ticking. Not suggesting anything, but the odds of the military taking the citizen's side or acting as a neutral arbitrator in such an event goes down as Hegseth continues to put in his own generals.
Because those same republicans are coming off as toady fools in these town halls, unable to intelligently answer questions with honest answers. And these town halls are often televised. Not a good look for republicans.
If that were his plan, then he's doing a shit job but cutting deployed benefits, mass firing veterans and cutting their benefits as well. Plus it's not like people in the military can't see the harm being inflicted on people outside it, either.
We're about to have the spiciest job reports since 2008. Not a single authoritarian government has *gained* power by crashing the economy. They usually come in after someone else has already done that.
I was expecting that to start happening, particularly among disabled people. How the fuck do these assholes think people are going to live? It's not like they were given paid retraining or anything sensible.
It seemed irrational the blunt DOGE approach until I realized that chaos and destruction of our government is the GOAL. This is a NIHILIST totalitarian tech cabal to overthrow our governing structures, so they can rule as ELITES over the fractured remnants as networked city/states.
I always thought domestic abuse victims are the ones who should get training on guns and "stand your ground" laws to even the playing field. Maybe fired employees should be added.
"... ProPublica and Documented surfaced a speech from Russell Vought, now Trump's Director of the Office of Management and Budget, in which Vought said, "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected."
Literally induces nausea, and often, panic. The lunatics are running the asylum. The worst of humanity! The absolute worst people I could possibly imagine.
This is equal parts sad and enraging. I HATE suicide. And I loathe the heartless people who so callously made these people feel like this was the option to take.
Stealing $$ from Medicaid/Medicare to fund tax cuts for the wealthy is eugenics. Point blank. It's a 🔫 to the head of everyone who relies on the services to survive. They're pulling the trigger. It's not a bloodless fight. Many will pay with their lives, as have the women effected by abortion bans.
Trump is no stranger to being the reason for someone to take their own life after being financially ruined by him.
There were many tradespeople who contracted with him in his real estate developer days; many he refused to pay, causing them to go bankrupt, w/ some taking their own lives b/c of it.
I am convinced tRump and Musk are both sadistic sociopaths, if not worse. Deaths of others, even genocide, mean nothing to them. It makes them feel powerful.
Agree. It’s a sick, twisted, Hitleresque agenda (among other obvious agendas) as people with illness, disabilities, low income are on the chopping block regardless of skin color (+ obvious agendas to destroy lives of POC). Basically a mass purging for an America w/only the whitest/fittest citizens.
I hate that you’re right, but I feel like you’re right. No. Let me rephrase: I KNOW you’re right. Rubbing their tiny, sweaty hands together in glee. The fewer of us they have to deal with, the faster they can claw up all the money for themselves.
When you have more money than you could ever spend on yourself, you need to find new ways to excite and entertain yourself. If you don’t go humanitarian, cruelty is the entertainment of the day.
No.
They do not care.
It's all a fucking joke to them.
Where are our elected officials who DO care?
Where are our Presidents and VPs from prior administrations and why aren't they doing anything? American citizens are DYING.
Oh my gosh this is just horrible. The hopelessness and fear these people must have felt - and all bec this administration has no f*ing idea what it's doing. So so tragic. Pls - reach out to anyone you know to see if they need help.
It would be great if amplifying the stories, not the names, would make a difference but it won't. The ignorant electorate bought the BS. The same people who can't define socialism also believe a bureaucracy isn't how things get done but some evil deep state cabal. You can't teach the unteachable
Well, first of all, they (GOP & DOGE) want people to die… that’s a big part of why this shit is happening. Plane crashes, slashes to life saving mechanisms, cuts so that young families lose their jobs, lose their homes, can’t feed their families, etc, there’s much more in play here!
My kids, in their 20s, live in a constant state of despair seeing the future that awaits them. Both have expressed not wanting to go on… words that no mother or father should ever want to hear.
I’m in survival mode now, my kids happiness is evaporating before my eyes and I am emotionally shattered
He is the driving force behind this whole damned thing...I was listening to an article about it on Substack last night...Trump is just along to get revenge on the people who hurt his feelings and payback every thing he owes Daddy Vlad
Just out of curiosity, was this sort of result at least nominally foreseeable? If it was, and given Vought's explicit intention, can he be charged (depraved indifference or something)?
This needs to amplified more. I don’t like exploiting people’s tragedy, but others need to understand these are real people, and Musk and Trump are playing with their lives like they don’t matter. It’s disgusting.
They honestly do not care. These people are just 'grunts' to them. We all are. There's more grunts where they came from. People like them will never change their perspective and see it any other way. But how heart-wrenching is that? Those poor families.
Yeah. Unfirtunately the source is an anonymous account, albeit an openly anonymous account, not deceptive. It leaks insider information that appears to come from from government employees -- without naming sources.
Until this infirmation is corroborated, I'm not comfortable reposting it.
Unfortunately, I believe they don't think about anyone except themselves and how they can get more money. Everything else is inconsequential to them. 🙄
But the miscalculation is that most of the poor are located in red states and are Trump supporters. Judging from the town halls, they are not happy.
This is going to backfire rather quickly.
Well, these oligarchs are fucking stupid, because who buys all of your excessive crap from your businesses and pay for your video streaming services....?
Great business plan. Piss off and/or kill your consumers & workers.
Don't these lower income folks also staff your warehouses &companies?
This is exactly what the QAnon folks were complaining about for years. Saying that the world economic forum and Bill Gates were going to have us all eating bugs and living in five minute cities… Well guess what? It’s their Maga gods that are gonna do it to us in the end…🙄
✨WE✨ ARE THE “WASTE” IN “WASTE, FRAUD, ABUSE”. It’s us. Regular-ass people are viewed by these monsters as “waste” to be disposed of. We need to hurry the fuck up and dispose of THEM before it’s too late.
If you didn’t know, trump and his lawyers caused other suicides by fighting bills from contractors who did work for him.
Trump does things that push people to suicide, don’t let it happen to you.
I'm sure the suicide rate has gone up since orange Hitler won Nov 5th. Anyone who cares for other people saw how bad this is for the country/world. Most of us like to think that positive, progressive ideas eventually win. Hate has won, and that hurts deep.
Multiple people in my LinkedIn feed reported that their trans child took their life since the election. And I'm a corporate lawyer, not a therapist or other provider where this would be germane to my work or career.
Im sure it does. Just like I'll be happy to hear that they suffer as a result of their choices. The difference is the trans people didnt choose this. The kids dying from measles didn't choose this.
How many deaths directly related to this regime remains to be seen. The toll of defunding Medicaid will be huge. SNAP reductions will literally starve children. Many will just give up and self check out when they lose everything.
As you say, "should" be protected. But especially in Texas, the protection stops the minute the child is born. Only inside the womb everyone is worried. Once born, children are fair game, in Churches, Schools or like here, Vaccinations, nobody cares.
Not surprising unfortunately. Im trying to watch rumps cabinet meeting but feeling nauseous. He is saying federal employees who haven’t responded to the email asking what they did last week, many are dead or working somewhere else and getting govt paycheck. Really!
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Government staff are pissed off and are fighting back.
People need to stop posting lies. It makes them look like maggots. Blindly believing these posts also makes people look like maggots.
Without a reliable source, I don't believe it. No one should believe these posts.
I didn't spend 29yrs in research for nothing.
For example..
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kind creative folks with empathy striving to be more compassionate (with healthy boundaries) are my cuppa tea 🫖
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I am!
And have to stop myself with ONE dark question: would they actually kill me, if told to do so by trump?
it’s no mystery. They tell us exactly what they intend to do.
There is no hate like Christian "love"
trying to appear "good" by pretending Dems have not seen the all-to-clear pathology of psychopaths is not an own.
it is a confession of ineptitude & lies
@jack-e-smith.bsky.social
Please share with anyone who needs. Thank You.
I told my kiddo that her significant other better start making alt plans for his father who is in a permanent care home 100% on Medicaid.
OLIGARCH PROBLEM
https://youtu.be/S2L0WQu2fEI?feature=shared
Why are you opposed to the OP sharing their source? 🤔
-Republicans
Is this going to be another 1929 catastrophe?
My grandfather and grandmother lost everything they owned that year. Grandpa lost several friends who chose this way.
They picked themselves back up and restarted with 500 dollars and a milk cow to go on and own 4 ranches.
When he passed away.
Wow.
I’m guessing horrible things like this are happening all over America 💔
They.Do.Not.Care.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9115435/
The Veteran’s Crisis Lifeline 8388255
What a world where you have to due to the actions people's own government.
Trump's aim is to kill off as many Americans as possible so that only drone workers remain to service the oligarchs.
They are basically trying to fasttrack the "Putinization" of America but are too dumb see how that really works and why it won't here.
No. They must be fought by the courts, by real journalists, by elections and above all by the truth.
They should help kick him out of office and restore our democracy.
This is awful news. No one should die over losing a job.
Our country is in real distress.
https://chuffed.org/project/help-asem-and-his-family-survive-the-terrible-conditions-in-gaza
My heart goes out to their loved ones.
So sad.
So many people are ignore this. "Oh it won't happen" "Oh the courts will save us" "Oh the dems will win next time"
But how many of us won't make it until another election?
lives and relationships can't be repaired like tanks or computers
There were many tradespeople who contracted with him in his real estate developer days; many he refused to pay, causing them to go bankrupt, w/ some taking their own lives b/c of it.
MONEY.
Donald Trump's goal is to decapitate the democracy, Timothy Snyder says, and if he succeeds, many likely will die.
https://www.nj.com/politics/2024/11/is-trump-trying-to-kill-us-authoritarian-expert-says-yes.html
They are all traitors!
They want us to shut up.
They want us to stay home.
They want us sick.
They want us to die.
They do not care.
It's all a fucking joke to them.
Where are our elected officials who DO care?
Where are our Presidents and VPs from prior administrations and why aren't they doing anything? American citizens are DYING.
Trump and Musk can go fuck themselves.
I’m in survival mode now, my kids happiness is evaporating before my eyes and I am emotionally shattered
Those poor people 😭
Elon is a human sociopath. Maybe even level up to psychopath.
The cruelty really is the point, isn’t it? I’m heartbroken for their loved ones.
Until this infirmation is corroborated, I'm not comfortable reposting it.
Republicans believe lower income people are a waste and have no purpose on this planet.
This is going to backfire rather quickly.
Great business plan. Piss off and/or kill your consumers & workers.
Don't these lower income folks also staff your warehouses &companies?
Trump does things that push people to suicide, don’t let it happen to you.
There are a lot of permaQ'd whose only real sin is illness.
These policies are so cruel and have real world consequences.
Blood on their hands 🤬
https://988lifeline.org/get-help/
Maybe you could bring this light?
Mission accomplished.