Please share! MAGA who FAFO

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Anonymous wrote:I am visiting family in a deep red southern state and went to the local hardware store today. As I was getting stuff out of the car, I heard two 60ish good old boys talking about how they didn't vote for Elon Musk and generally expressing consternation---one said, "I voted for Trump because I thought he'd make things better for people---but this isn't looking like it."

Maybe I have some tiny flicker of hope.

They'd still vote for trump

It's only been a month. Things are going to get bad. Like really, really, catastrophically bad. They will see the light soon enough.

This is precisely the kind of stupid and dangerous naivety that got us here. It's like some of you white liberal leaning people ( I know you're white) are so oblivious to the importance that these people put on their bigotry that you think you're dealing with rational and objective people.They weren't rational in 2016 and you think they'd be today ? You're fantasizing in your little out-of-touch corner that they'd come to you and say: 'You were right and I was wrong?'

You seem to forget that Trump LOST after his first terrible term. This time he is term limited but if you think folks don't change their mind about this jerk then you are not paying attention.

There will no exodus of MAGA to the democratic party. The most likely scenario is, they sit out the mid terms( if at all there will mid term elections) whilst the dems have an energized bloc show up and win resoundingly , that's it. I'm very much paying attention and that's why I think (and reiterate) that people are very dangerous. You sound an awful lot like the ones who were adamant that white women were going to overwhelmingly reject Trump. We know how that turned out .

It turned out a super old decrepit dude wouldn’t put his ego aside for the country and then a Bond villain bought social media and radicalized young men.
MAGA isn’t maga without a demagogue. I live in “real America” and plenty of my neighbors won’t be swayed, but they also won’t show up after Trump is gone.

There's no shortage of people vying to take the Maga mantle.

Yes, but CAN they? I will never understand Trump's appeal, but whatever it is, I don't think any of them have it.

If Trump did not hurt so many innocent people, I would think he was shamelessly funny. Now he is hurting the MAGA, I think he is funny again.

[Anonymous]

“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So who’s fault is it?

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So who’s fault is it?

“The government” of course.

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So who’s fault is it?

“The government” of course.

A lot of people thought the “deep state” and the swamp just meant congress and the CIA.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

So whose fault is it?

Obama, Biden, Clinton, Carter, heck LBJ.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I have worked 24 for private employers (law firms, not exactly known for being kind as employers), my DH ha been a Fed during the same time. What’s going on now in the government has no comparison to what goes on in the private sector. In my 24 yrs i have seen many great attorneys let go overnight because the economy had turned and their specialty was down, secretary who had dedicated years to the firm and had reached an age making difficult to find a new job but still too early to retire let go just because with advances in technology we needed less secretaries than before and so on. I have never been in a situation where you get emails asking you to report colleagues or face “adverse consequences”, getting emails during thr weekend from the rich friend with the chairman of the firm asking us to respond with five bullet points on what we had gotten done in the oast week and failure to respond would be considered a resignation, people fired abruptly and then the firm trying to rehire them a day later because they had realized they were crucial attorneys, or having group leaders or managers who are incompetent and whose purpose is to run the practice into the ground, lose clients and so on. Instill unreasonable fear in the firm’s attorneys and employees just for the fun of it. What’s going on now at my DH’s place of work is totally bonkers and has nothing to do with what goes on in the private sector.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I have worked 24 for private employers (law firms, not exactly known for being kind as employers), my DH ha been a Fed during the same time. What’s going on now in the government has no comparison to what goes on in the private sector. In my 24 yrs i have seen many great attorneys let go overnight because the economy had turned and their specialty was down, secretary who had dedicated years to the firm and had reached an age making difficult to find a new job but still too early to retire let go just because with advances in technology we needed less secretaries than before and so on. I have never been in a situation where you get emails asking you to report colleagues or face “adverse consequences”, getting emails during thr weekend from the rich friend with the chairman of the firm asking us to respond with five bullet points on what we had gotten done in the oast week and failure to respond would be considered a resignation, people fired abruptly and then the firm trying to rehire them a day later because they had realized they were crucial attorneys, or having group leaders or managers who are incompetent and whose purpose is to run the practice into the ground, lose clients and so on. Instill unreasonable fear in the firm’s attorneys and employees just for the fun of it. What’s going on now at my DH’s place of work is totally bonkers and has nothing to do with what goes on in the private sector.

+1 that weekend Elon email is not something any normal private sector firm would send. It’s the ketamine induced rantings of a billionaire with no official role. He sent the same email to Twitter staff before firing 80 pct of workers and driving its stock price into the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

I suspect what you really can’t grasp is public service and the concept that running a government is not at all like running a business.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

except for companies run by idiots like Musk, the vast majority of companies value their workers and know how much is lost when they have to train new employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

Does it, though? I have never heard of an employer in the private sector bringing in a random billionaire, with NO expertise or experience in that field to determine who keeps their job and who stays. And then that billionaire lazily decides that, instead of doing the work to see who the low-performers are, just decides everyone in their probationary period is fired. And then laughs about it. And then president of that company laughs about it and posts memes making fun of the people who now don’t know how they will pay the bills or feed their families.

I have never heard of a billionaire sending an email (on a Saturday) to every employee of a business he never even worked for asking them to send 5 bullet points to prove their productivity or they are out of a job.

So tell me. When exactly has this happened with any legit, respectable company?

I think this email was the boiling point because everyone can relate to how pissed off they would be if they received this email from their boss. You don’t have to be a fed to realize how demeaning, inappropriate, and demoralizing this is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“She had not planned to retire, but losing her job forced her to, she said, so she could maintain a semblance of her old life. “I wasn’t left any choice,” said Patterson, who now receives food stamps, is on Medicaid and was approved for Section 8 senior housing. “I understand probationary employees are quick and easy to fire. But it was done in such a duplicitous manner.”

She said she voted for Trump, the orchestrator of the chaos in her life, but is “not bitter. It is what it is. I’m not blaming Trump. My thing is how it happened. I had no time to process anything or get myself together. It’s cold the way it was done,” she said. “You’d expect the government to do better.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-federal-job-cuts-trump-musk-dei-middle-class-rcna191704

I wonder if, when they take away her food stamps. Medicaid coverage and the Section 8 voucher, she is going to finally wake up and turn against Trump and republicans. My bet is no, she will rant that there is no money for people like her because illegal immigrants are getting white glove free healthcare, luxury housing, or Zelenski stole trilions, or the Biden crime family and so on.

You do know this happens in the private sector all the time. I honestly don’t understand the sense of entitlement to a job

except for companies run by idiots like Musk, the vast majority of companies value their workers and know how much is lost when they have to train new employees

Yep. Aside from the cruelty of it all, it is incredibly wasteful as well. A lot of time, effort, and money goes into hiring new employees. So for these agencies, every bit of the time they spent hiring is wasted. Every job posting, interview, career fair, hiring process, training and onboarding. All a complete waste of taxpayers’ money.