Please share! MAGA who FAFO

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Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

They really have.

600 federal workers are set to be fired at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. A state which elected Trump by a very wide margin, think that Musky wasn't going to come for them too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/possible-tinker-air-force-layoffs-203353341.html

Musky thinks everyone who works for the federal government, receive Medicare, Medicaid or Social Security is a "parasite."

Yep. Aside from oil (which employs white collar) and construction (which employs migrants who are no longer welcome), Tinker AFB, the FAA and the National Weather Center — all federal government — are major employers in Oklahoma.

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Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

Well, i'm one of those who's celebrating.And no! not all of us have lost our sense of perspective and humanity.In fact, it was precisely our sense of humanity that drove us some of us to do whatever we could to avoid this disaster. However, we were met with scorn,hostility and , dare i say, anticipatory excitement from those who were eager to inflict their cruelty on others...or so they thought.
To the federal workers and contractors who didn't vote for this gargantuan orange piece of mediocrity, i say i'm truly sorry.But, to the MAGA federal workers, i wish nothing but the same hardship (or more) and cruelty they were excitedly looking forward to see inflicted on their imaginary enemies.

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Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

Well, i'm one of those who's celebrating.And no! not all of us have lost our sense of perspective and humanity.In fact, it was precisely our sense of humanity that drove us some of us to do whatever we could to avoid this disaster. However, we were met with scorn,hostility and , dare i say, anticipatory excitement from those who were eager to inflict their cruelty on others...or so they thought.
To the federal workers and contractors who didn't vote for this gargantuan orange piece of mediocrity, i say i'm truly sorry.But, to the MAGA federal workers, i wish nothing but the same hardship (or more) and cruelty they were excitedly looking forward to see inflicted on their imaginary enemies.

No, this is cruel and disrespectful. You folks who think this is humane are sick.

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You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

44,000 federal government workers live in Illinois. That's 2.4% of the total fedgov workforce. As of 2017 anyhow.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/reports-publications/federal-civilian-employment/

Sure, a lot of workers live in the DC area. In 2017,it was 15% of the total fedgov workforce. But that means that 85% of government workers do NOT live in the DC metro area. The vast majority, in other words, don't live around here.

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Anonymous wrote:Canadians not going to Florida for a winter break.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7464896

"Clavet, who is a Trump supporter in the state hosting his Mar-a-Lago resort, is perplexed that anyone would cancel their booking over some bluster from the 47th president. "

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Anonymous wrote:Canadians not going to Florida for a winter break.

https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7464896

"Clavet, who is a Trump supporter in the state hosting his Mar-a-Lago resort, is perplexed that anyone would cancel their booking over some bluster from the 47th president. "

FAFO

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Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

Well, i'm one of those who's celebrating.And no! not all of us have lost our sense of perspective and humanity.In fact, it was precisely our sense of humanity that drove us some of us to do whatever we could to avoid this disaster. However, we were met with scorn,hostility and , dare i say, anticipatory excitement from those who were eager to inflict their cruelty on others...or so they thought.
To the federal workers and contractors who didn't vote for this gargantuan orange piece of mediocrity, i say i'm truly sorry.But, to the MAGA federal workers, i wish nothing but the same hardship (or more) and cruelty they were excitedly looking forward to see inflicted on their imaginary enemies.

No, this is cruel and disrespectful. You folks who think this is humane are sick.

Cry more. Empathy isn't a one way street. When you tell people: 'f*ck your feelings'. Be prepared to receive the same in return.

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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

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.

Bingo.

To the pp, please keep reading this until it makes sense to you. You really do not know what you're talking about.

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Apparently there are already some casualties from the Canadian tariffs which resulted in boycotts of products from red states.
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1C3pERsX9Z/

A Kentucky wine and spirits company announced it will close a cooperage and lay off hundreds of employees amid a decline in bourbon sales.

"I want to express my sincere gratitude to our employees, particularly those impacted by these changes."

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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.

I hate Donald Trump but he is charismatic and interesting, even in a nauseating way. The leeches on his ship are just that - faceless and unlikeable goons

Maybe to people with daddy issues. He seems to attract those people who want a daddy.

But I see him and think he smells poop and bronzer. He's sweaty and overweight and has horse teeth.

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Anonymous wrote:Farmers suing over removal of climate data from government websites as they need and use it for business planning.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/climate/agriculture-farmer-website-data-lawsuit.html

Suck it farmers. The data indicates that the climate is changing and that goes against what this administration would like you to believe so you can kiss that data to goodbye.

If that means you have to kiss some of your cops goodbye then too bad. That is the price of suppressing any truth that the data might reveal.

Awesome! Hope everyone is ready to lose some weight!

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Anonymous wrote:As a 35 year tech exec, mostly in PE backed companies, I’ve been around too many RIFs to count. I’ve seen the good, bad and ugly in how they were executed. But I have NEVER seen one executed so cruelly, and where the cruelty was celebrated by so many, as this one. People have lost all perspective and sense of humanity.

Well, i'm one of those who's celebrating.And no! not all of us have lost our sense of perspective and humanity.In fact, it was precisely our sense of humanity that drove us some of us to do whatever we could to avoid this disaster. However, we were met with scorn,hostility and , dare i say, anticipatory excitement from those who were eager to inflict their cruelty on others...or so they thought.
To the federal workers and contractors who didn't vote for this gargantuan orange piece of mediocrity, i say i'm truly sorry.But, to the MAGA federal workers, i wish nothing but the same hardship (or more) and cruelty they were excitedly looking forward to see inflicted on their imaginary enemies.

No, this is cruel and disrespectful. You folks who think this is humane are sick.

Cry more. Empathy isn't a one way street. When you tell people: 'f*ck your feelings'. Be prepared to receive the same in return.

This. I'm so sick of MAGA calling us crying snowflakes while being massive POS. Shoes on the other foot now, cry harder, facts don't care about your feelings etc etc.

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You seem to be suggesting that people in America should vote for what's best for the people in the DC metro area? Why would someone in Illinois vote so that DC area workers are employed by the government?

44,000 federal government workers live in Illinois. That's 2.4% of the total fedgov workforce. As of 2017 anyhow.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/data-analysis-documentation/federal-employment-reports/reports-publications/federal-civilian-employment/

Sure, a lot of workers live in the DC area. In 2017,it was 15% of the total fedgov workforce. But that means that 85% of government workers do NOT live in the DC metro area. The vast majority, in other words, don't live around here.

I read most Federal workers live in Texas and Florida.

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In the last two days, I heard of a pregnant, fired federal employee who now has no health insurance (to pay for her prenatal care or delivery).

And another, on maternity leave, who got the Musk email asking for five things she did last week (or she would be fired).

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