politics

It's really no surprise to anyone who's followed the current state of things. The Department of Government Excrement. I only hope a heinous and abhorrently-wild remainder of life to those who have cheered for the dismantling of the institution previously. I say dismantling, because most people are influenced by any end game prospect or "promises" than the actual process. If you still believed the process could somehow work, with changes rather than taking a hammer, I still think the intentions were wildly misguided at worst. However, if you truly wanted near (if not full) fascist rule, and thought it would lead to the "greater good" with what we have now, I hope you realize it will only ever be for the good of the wealthy until millions - and that especially you yourself suffer. I get that is easy to be swept up in the rhetoric. Americans are (or at least we were 10+ years ago) taught from a young age that trust and commitment to the government will lead to helping the general public. It's especially a shame that the most self-sufficient US agency (the National Park Service) was touched at all. But I guess that government handouts for exploitative employers (business tax benefits/reliefs) sounds sexier. Even if they remove chunks of the most truly efficient government entity. The DoD? Keeping the ones they love safe - even at home far from most international conflict. Civil service? It's not sexy, but if you want to truly help - or improve what the federal government offers and also learn to to better - you will be fine.

By now, hopefully a majority of people agree the most wasteful and damaging agency is the current one believing it can cut without consequence.

Holy shit you guys are proper fucked. America went full retard

In their resignation letter, the former USDS staffers recounted how they were interviewed the day after Trump’s inauguration by figures wearing White House visitors’ badges who “demonstrated limited technical ability.”

“Several of these interviewers refused to identify themselves, asked questions about political loyalty, attempted to pit colleagues against each other,” the workers, all of whom previously worked at tech companies such as Google and Amazon, recounted. “This process created significant security risks.”

Forty USDS staffers were laid off following these interviews as part of Trump and Musk’s ongoing slashing of the federal government’s workforce. Around 65 remaining workers were then incorporated into DOGE, 21 of whom have now resigned from their positions.

Well thats 44 assholes

I would love to see posts like this end up on right leaning spaces like critical posts about left leaning issues end up on left leaning spaces.

Trumps base has such a sycophant army that they just swarm spaces and post this stuff every minute of every day. But the opposite doesn't happen. Having even 100 people posting stuff like this across their space would do more than a 10 000 person protest ever could but it amazes me that 10 000 would take time off work, go stand in the rain for a week instead of shit posting effectively.

Relevant bit from the article, because some of y'all apparently comment before reading:

The staffers who resigned were all originally employees of the United States Digital Service, a technology unit established during President Obama’s second term in 2014. The unit was renamed and reorganized in January via executive order by Trump into the Musk-headed DOGE.

I thought they were just like 6 white dudes. How did they ever hire over 20 people?

Those are the ones you want to stay. They have ethics.

And 21 loyalists (yes, america, you're heading to monarchy) will be hired to fill those spots and nobody is left to resist.

I am always confused why they don't just sabotage the efforts? Like it would be so easy and they definitely aren't paying attention...