A career fed guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer in shorts and an unbuttoned suit is peak representation of democracy.
“My colleagues are getting 15-minute one-on-one check-ins with 19, 20, 21-year-old college graduates asking to justify their existence,” one speaker at a recent town hall in northern Virginia said without identifying himself or his agency due to fear of retaliation.
What? It was a first-hand complaint from someone at a town hall, and it seems to corroborate with the intention of Musk’s campaign to ‘cut waste’ and other statements about how this is playing out from a federal employee’s perspective.
‘That report’ is based on a reporter hearing this statement at the town-hall, not innuendos and rumors. Your very statement that it was based on innuendo and rumors is poisoning the well.
Even if this problem you identify really does exist, and isn't just a boogeyman in your imagination, this is not fixing the problem. DOGE is literally creating more graft, and eroding processes put in place to ensure transparency. It will make the problem worse, not fix it.
I promise that I hate the US gov more than you, hoss.
I just don't really want to be in the house when they burn it down, and I am not under any illusion that all those civil liberties and other elements (that were weak before) are going to somehow get better when a bunch of nihilistic brats start yelling YOLO while burning down a bunch of Chesterton's fences.
Funny how people are taking massive doses of copium and not wanting to see how 2 big conmen are now in charge of the country, and they (as in, the people like grandparent commenter) are not willing to see that it's all in service of the grift.
Well, maybe not funny, but understandable, "con" is short for "confidence" anyway, and just like the Nigerian scam victims refusing to believe all evidence to show them they're being scammed, so are many Trump voters digging in...
Musk literally owns Twitter! The constitution gives Congress and ONLY Congress the right to control spending. Musk is intentionally breaking this law and you are cheering him on. Watching rubes such as you cheer on Musk while he destroys things makes me understand how Hitler could have gotten so much power.
The issue is the 10th amendment limits the scope of the federal government and Congress. Spending on many of the institutions that unconstitutionally regulate stuff like intrastate trade was illegal to begin with so defunding makes it more rather than less constitutional.
DOGE isn't providing accountability or transparency. It provides destruction of government agencies and services. And given the enormous amount of grift and corruption done by Trump and the people he associates with, I would expect more corruption after this not less.
And some of the cracked eggs you mentioned are real human lives.
I'm extremely puzzled why you're bringing transgender people into this. You could've said "an opera in Columbia" and have had an equally valid argument about fiscal responsibilty and America's meddling in other countries. You, however, felt that it was morally necessary to mention that this was to benefit transgender people trying to live their lives as if that's a unique negative to be avoided.
I brought it up because if you took a poll of the Americans, the vast majority would be against spending money on it. And comparing it to just “an opera in Columbia”, I’d wager even less would support a transgender opera.
20 year old are dumb as shit, you couldn't explain anything to me when I was 20 because I already knew everything.
A subject matter expert in some obscure government office might not be able to dumb it down well enough in 15 minutes especially if they have no idea who their audience is ahead of time.
I have some empathy, mostly because it may be challenging for them to retrain and they have been institutionalized.
I hope they are given some runway or options to prepare for the private sector. But viscerally it is deeply, exquisitely satisfying to observe feds have shit canned their parasitic positions predicated on collection by armed tax collectors.
> guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer
So, like every private sector job nowadays?
Everyone is acting like this is the first time in history someone's been called into a meeting with a ponytailed 25 year old to have the "What is it ya do here?" discussion.
Memorialized in a movie so old now that most zoomers haven't even heard of it, let alone seen it. Only the Bobs have now been replaced with 'Skylar'.
