DOGE
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I don’t think this is some minor point. This is Elon Musk doing political theater against rank and file American workers to pretend he’s going to be able to use this to magically find bunches of fake employees. It’s a dumb, untenable plan and a whole bunch of the people opposing it are Trump people. When there are 2 million federal workers, there’s a lot of touch points for people who closely know someone affected by all this, and I think the over-the-top demonization of folks like “Joe from the Park Service” might not be the route they want to continue on for the next year and a half. Instead of ****ing around with these frequently low and middle wage citizens for X engagement, maybe they should be focusing on the jobs available in the private sector and promoting their constituents as freshly available talent to drive new production in the private sector? The MAGA position seems to be that the private sector will magically provide better jobs for these people, but also that these same people are unfixable lazy assholes who would never survive in the private sector.
Tapate50
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yes but you see, if we don't do it through the foreign aid route, we can't choose who gets the payoff money
This is a great reminder to those complaining about the process.
AHEM.
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I’m not actually coming for Libs Of TikTok’s throat here, but what a very interestingly worded set of poll questions. I think in a vacuum one could very easily answer every one of those questions in a way that suggests they approve of DOGE, but not have actually approve of DOGE. Shocked by how badly this poll is written unless it was actively aiming to sidestep DOGE’s popularity.
Edited to add: I don’t mean to imply a conservative bias to this. It’s just squishy in a way that seems like it was meant to be intentionally broad.
I’m not actually coming for Libs Of TikTok’s throat here, but what a very interestingly worded set of poll questions. I think in a vacuum one could very easily answer every one of those questions in a way that suggests they approve of DOGE, but not have actually approve of DOGE. Shocked by how badly this poll is written unless it was actively aiming to sidestep DOGE’s popularity.
Edited to add: I don’t mean to imply a conservative bias to this. It’s just squishy in a way that seems like it was meant to be intentionally broad.
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Lemme know the next time the Walmart CEO asks everyone in the company to respond to an email with 5 things they individually got done instead of just asking their ****ing managers to do their jobs, man. Then imagine that CEO complaining loudly that all cashiers are entitled lazy ****s and maybe fake.
I think you’re overplaying your hand. Better hope those prices come down by next year.
Overplaying thrbhand of exposing fraud and waste? While Americans struggle to make ends meet watching government workers living in the richest counties of the country? Ok - you keep thinking that while Trump is garnering massive investments to build factories here and you run candidates that sfilll can’t say what a woman is.
Overplaying the casual cruelty toward a workforce of our fellow citizens. Make no mistake, the left will complain about any job being cut, but the federal government employs a whole lot of folks from a whole lot of different backgrounds and the job market isn’t actually all that swell for job seekers right now.
Here’s my main issue. It’s not about the task. Trust me, if anybody in the federal government truly could not think of five things they accomplished last week, I wholeheartedly agree their jobs are likely wasteful and we should reduce that headcount. But 2 million Americans are being taunted by the richest man in the world and the President for failing to do a task, that while indeed very easy to answer, is complete horse****.
Think of the sheer amount of unavoidable waste that would go into following up on this. Those emails need to be read and had their identity validated to cross-reference against employee records, ensured that the bullet points are valid by someone who knows the process. THEN they need to review anybody who didn’t send an email, validate that person isn’t on leave or vacation or unable to access their government email for any number of reasons, then partner with the various agencies to terminate those employees, while ensuring they didn’t violate any employment laws or leave some massive staffing gap in the process. Like how ****ing badly do you guys hate standard accountability for managers in the US government?
acesfull86
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Were the emails sent to members of Congress? Cause they should be.
Tapate50
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No think of the sheer waste !