Who is going to the protests on April 5th??

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Anonymous wrote:On the contrary, when private sector CEOs sends in McKinsey to ask stupid questions, employees are expected to answer, not complain and say they only report to their direct managers and HR. We get it, federal bureaucrats don’t respect the President’s authority. Fine, but there sre consequences to insubordination. The idea that taxpayer-funded work-from-home bureaucrats are “above” having to send one email a week to HQ is hilarious. Everyone is replaceable, especially this coddled group of Democratic bureaucrats. After 30 years without layoffs and 5 years of working from home, they should all be fired and replaced with younger people with better attitudes. Elected Democrats “resisting” layoffs and cost cuts has been an epic fail. Not only did they fall into Trump’s trap, they face-planted into it. Now for the cherry on top. *Protesting* the end of direct deposit of taxpayer funds into their bank accounts!

lol you wish. Laying of veterans and destabilizing social security is not exactly a Trump win.

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Anonymous wrote:As we slide comfortably into being out of power, we need to do more protesting. The American people aren’t ready for all of our policies: on climate, migrants, trans folks, Zelensky, DEI, education, reparations, etc. We need to just stay the course, accept that it may take the voters a decade or more to catch up with our progress on these issues, and protest, loudly, about what the party in power is doing. This may not win us elections in the near term, but it will help us educate the electorate so we can win elections again in the long term.

Okay mouth breather.

what positive things has Trump done for this country at any time??

You’re the Trump supporter, fake Dem, with your list of problematic talking points. Such a tell.

still waiting for your answer ⏳

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Anonymous wrote:You’re both wrong, and the coddled partisan civil servants are wrong too. Trump has every right to empower Elon Musk to ask any question of any employee in the executive branch. Whining about it reveals entitlement, and disloyalty. People displaying this attitude deserve to be fired. And their political party deserves the loss in public support that it’s experiencing. Sorry. Executive branch employees serve at the pleasure and discretion of the duly elected President.

You’ve mixed up all kinds of things you don’t understand.

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Anonymous wrote:On the contrary, when private sector CEOs sends in McKinsey to ask stupid questions, employees are expected to answer, not complain and say they only report to their direct managers and HR. We get it, federal bureaucrats don’t respect the President’s authority. Fine, but there sre consequences to insubordination. The idea that taxpayer-funded work-from-home bureaucrats are “above” having to send one email a week to HQ is hilarious. Everyone is replaceable, especially this coddled group of Democratic bureaucrats. After 30 years without layoffs and 5 years of working from home, they should all be fired and replaced with younger people with better attitudes. Elected Democrats “resisting” layoffs and cost cuts has been an epic fail. Not only did they fall into Trump’s trap, they face-planted into it. Now for the cherry on top. *Protesting* the end of direct deposit of taxpayer funds into their bank accounts!

You do get that the “coddled group of Democrats” includes a LOT of veterans and a lot of registered Republicans — including Trumpers? That’s the leopard eating faces cherry on top.

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Anonymous wrote:You’re both wrong, and the coddled partisan civil servants are wrong too. Trump has every right to empower Elon Musk to ask any question of any employee in the executive branch. Whining about it reveals entitlement, and disloyalty. People displaying this attitude deserve to be fired. And their political party deserves the loss in public support that it’s experiencing. Sorry. Executive branch employees serve at the pleasure and discretion of the duly elected President.

You’ve mixed up all kinds of things you don’t understand.

That’s because I’m stupid. If I was smart, I’d be a Democrat

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Anonymous wrote:On the contrary, when private sector CEOs sends in McKinsey to ask stupid questions, employees are expected to answer, not complain and say they only report to their direct managers and HR. We get it, federal bureaucrats don’t respect the President’s authority. Fine, but there sre consequences to insubordination. The idea that taxpayer-funded work-from-home bureaucrats are “above” having to send one email a week to HQ is hilarious. Everyone is replaceable, especially this coddled group of Democratic bureaucrats. After 30 years without layoffs and 5 years of working from home, they should all be fired and replaced with younger people with better attitudes. Elected Democrats “resisting” layoffs and cost cuts has been an epic fail. Not only did they fall into Trump’s trap, they face-planted into it. Now for the cherry on top. *Protesting* the end of direct deposit of taxpayer funds into their bank accounts!

lol. The “younger people with better attitudes” were the first people Musk fired. Trump and Musk are nepo-babies and they do not care about you. In fact, they have nothing but disdain for you.

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Anonymous wrote:On the contrary, when private sector CEOs sends in McKinsey to ask stupid questions, employees are expected to answer, not complain and say they only report to their direct managers and HR. We get it, federal bureaucrats don’t respect the President’s authority. Fine, but there sre consequences to insubordination. The idea that taxpayer-funded work-from-home bureaucrats are “above” having to send one email a week to HQ is hilarious. Everyone is replaceable, especially this coddled group of Democratic bureaucrats. After 30 years without layoffs and 5 years of working from home, they should all be fired and replaced with younger people with better attitudes. Elected Democrats “resisting” layoffs and cost cuts has been an epic fail. Not only did they fall into Trump’s trap, they face-planted into it. Now for the cherry on top. *Protesting* the end of direct deposit of taxpayer funds into their bank accounts!

I would not compare what most private companies do to this completely burn it down to the ground approach from Trump and musk. They could care less about saving money. it’s all about sticking it to the people that didn’t vote for him.

You've clearly been coddled for most of your career. Walk in one day and have your CEO call a meeting and say that we're reducing 25% of headcount. HR is teed up right now, Today is Tuesday, your list is due Friday, conversations start with affected employees one week from today, with RIF effective immediately. No exceptions, every department is losing 25%. The crazy part is, we shed 25% of our workforce that fast, never missed a beat, and nothing changed. The only thing that changed was HR got out of the way, so we got rid of the deadwood and the troublemakers.

I’ve advised numerous entries on RifS. You’re right that the bandaid off fast approach is usually preferable. BUT management does it sensibly by figuring out what functions they need and who they need to keep to achieve that. This DOGE process has been totally the opposite of that rational approach. It’s cutting blind, basically, because the people making the decisions don’t have yhe slightest idea what anyone does. It sounds like much of the time the managers don’t even know who has been cut until after the fact. This is insane.

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Anonymous wrote:Apparently you are a sucker if you attend a lefty protest and are not being paid to do so. What’s the going rate for protesting on April 5? I could be persuaded.

Going rate??! Being at peace with your soul and standing up to defend our Constitution and our ideals…. Being able to look at yourself in the mirror and know that you’re not like the Germans who just turned a blind eye to let the Nazi’s take over and perpetuate all of their heinous crimes.

Weird though how it is the anti Trump people going around painting swastikas on cars.

Democrats are the Party of Death and Destruction.

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I hope a lot of Dem House and Senate members show up especially Corey Booker.

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Anonymous wrote:More marches? How surprising!

A bit of sunshine and solidarity isn’t so bad. I mean we could be on the couch all day watching Fox News and shaking fists.

Instead, you're on DCUM and Bluesky all day, shaking fists.

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Anonymous wrote:^This. Democrats need to lean into our natural branding as the real patriots, guardians of the Constitution, devotees of limited government, and lovers of statues of the founding fathers. Drumpf is undermining all these sacred principles of ours, and Tea Partiers will soon become Democrats.

No words...

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Anonymous wrote:The Tesla burnings have been deeply effective for Democrats. Has there ever been a car that’s more of a Stuff White People Like? More protests, please. When we march in solidarity with migrants, trans folks, and laid off bureaucrats, the world can see who we stand with and who we stand against.

Are you sure about that?

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Anonymous wrote:These people in power are fascists. They don’t respond to protests. They need to see action

What they really need to see is voters voting for Democrats. That would scare them straight. But so far they don’t seem worried about it. I heard ine Republican strategist say that protests turn off voters. Bad memories of Democrats supporting BLM riots, lootings, burnings.

This is absolutely correct, but Democrats continue to ignore good advice.

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After watching Senator Booker today, I am!

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Anonymous wrote:These people in power are fascists. They don’t respond to protests. They need to see action

What they really need to see is voters voting for Democrats. That would scare them straight. But so far they don’t seem worried about it. I heard ine Republican strategist say that protests turn off voters. Bad memories of Democrats supporting BLM riots, lootings, burnings.

This is absolutely correct, but Democrats continue to ignore good advice.

So sad for them.