DOGE

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The event occurred in September. trump didn't become president until the following January. I don't believe that no assistance was provided by FEMA until trump and Kristi Gnome came along. But apparently you do. Hilarious

Last year's assistance was not truly assistance.
But this year's assistance? That is true assistance.

Absolutely goddamn right. And freedom is tyranny. And ignorance is strength. Idiot

[GoCubsGo]

The rank amateurs and literal children are firing the professionals.

Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush

“I’d understand a strategic reduction in force if needed,” said one USDA employee, who was fired over the weekend. “But this was a butchering of some of our best. Does the public know this?”

How could the public know?

The new deep state ain't talking and ain’t transparent.

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Note: GoCubsGo beat me to it with a citation of a WaPo article instead of this USA Today article. However, since I'd already quoted so much and interspersed commentary, consider it a friendly addition to GoCubsGo's work.

You really are a cultist.

The truth hurts and denial continues.

GOP midterm campaign slogan?

Nailed it.

'It's a lie': Federal workers incensed by performance language in termination letters

Federal employees reeling from a wave of firings that began last week have focused on language in their termination letters targeting their “performance” as particularly upsetting.

USA TODAY reviewed 10 termination letters. All but one mentioned performance concerns.

Fired probationary employees interviewed by USA TODAY all said they were never told of any performance problems. One hadn’t been in the job long enough to have a performance review. Another was fired just a month into her job after relocating from more than 1,700 miles away to take it. And a third employee said his supervisor explicitly told him he wasn’t being terminated for performance reasons.

The performance language in the letters added insult to injury, the fired employees said, arguing it unfairly impugns their work records. Some worried the language could impact their ability to file for unemployment benefits and find a new job.

“It’s a lie. It’s simply not true,” said fired U.S. Forest Service worker Gavan Harmon....

Lawyer Greg Rinckey speculated that the government may be citing performance issues in an attempt to avoid having the terminations considered a "reduction in force" that would trigger other legal requirements and take longer. He said the employees' interpretation is understandable.

Trumpettes, LYING at the expense of others is in their DNA.

... Asked about the performance language in the termination letters, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said “President Trump returned to Washington with a mandate from the American people to bring about unprecedented change in our federal government to uproot waste, fraud, and abuse.”

“This isn’t easy to do in a broken system entrenched in bureaucracy and bloat, but it’s a task long overdue,” Fields added in a statement that did not directly address the language in the letters....

MAGAts, cowardly deflection from the issue at hand is in their DNA.

Multiple workers allege that their firings were illegal.
Cultists, lawbreaking is in their DNA.

Multiple workers share the heartbreak of suddenly losing their jobs.
RepuQs, destroying lives is in their DNA.

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Stating performance issues where none can be proven really helps the employee case for "pretense" to substantiate a case of discrimination or violation of some other federal employee protection. Also, termination for performance does not disqualify them for unemployment comp. This just shows the Huns to be cruel just because they can. If, for example, they really believe they are legally entitled to fire all these people, and they think there's any chance they might have to defend it, then they're just stepping all over their own dicks. On the other hand, if they don't even expect to have to defend it and they're entitled to do it, why make life harder on the employees than necessary? Assholery, cruelty, inhumaneness. That's why.

[GoCubsGo]

Stating performance issues where none can be proven really helps the employee case for "pretense" to substantiate a case of discrimination or violation of some other federal employee protection. Also, termination for performance does not disqualify them for unemployment comp. This just shows the Huns to be cruel just because they can. If, for example, they really believe they are legally entitled to fire all these people, and they think there's any chance they might have to defend it, then they're just stepping all over their own dicks. On the other hand, if they don't even expect to have to defend it and they're entitled to do it, why make life harder on the employees than necessary? Assholery, cruelty, inhumaneness. That's why.

You forgot criminally stupid and arrogant.

[Whack9]

Pro-Trump ‘Shazam’ star to Musk: People who voted for Trump are losing their jobs

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5 ... -fox-news/

Actor Zachary Levi is appealing to Elon Musk to not “let everybody fall through the cracks” amid the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts to the federal workforce, with the “Shazam” actor saying there are “people that voted for Donald Trump who are losing their job.”

[GoCubsGo]

Hey Supremes!

Don't look behind that curtain!

White House says Elon Musk is not part of DOGE

The White House said Monday that Elon Musk is technically not part of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), even though the tech billionaire is said to be leading its sweeping cost-cutting efforts.

Musk is an employee of the “White House Office” and serves as senior adviser to the president, according to a court filing from Joshua Fisher, director of the White House Office of Administration.

[Whack9]

USDA accidentally fired officials handling the bird Flu, is trying to rehire them. Efficiency!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/u ... rcna192716

[neoplacebo]

Only the best. Be best

[Vrede too]

USDA accidentally fired officials handling the bird Flu, is trying to rehire them. Efficiency!

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/u ... rcna192716

Only the best. Be best

Speaking of the USDA:

A Post By A MAGA Supporter Who Said They Were Laid Off Because Of Trump's Cuts Is Going Mega-Viral

"over 3 million views" as of mid-afternoon.





MAGAt:


Not MAGAts:




I agree. I support the firing of this Trumpette and other ones. Karma, suckers.

[neoplacebo]

Hilarous

[GoCubsGo]

Government Efficiency!

[Whack9]

Federal loan for Rivian plant construction in GA now in jeopardy

https://electrek.co/2025/02/18/rivians- ... -jeopardy/

Rivian’s (RIVN) $6.6 billion federal loan to build its new EV manufacturing plant in Georgia faces uncertainty after President Trump froze federal loans. Georgia Gov Brian Kemp said he’s “not sure” about where the funds stand.

Rivian’s loan for its new EV plant faces uncertainty
After Rivian closed its loan agreement with the US Department of Energy to finance its new facility last month, just before Trump took office, the funding is already in jeopardy.

“They secured that loan at the tail end of the Biden administration and, you know, I think there’s no secret that the Trump administration is taking a look at all those things,” Kemp told Richard Elliot from Channel 2 news this week. He added, “So I don’t really know where that stands right now.”

The comments come after the Trump administration’s abrupt order to pause federal funding in January. Although the order was rescinded less than two days later, it’s already wreaking havoc.

Oops

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Federal loan for Rivian plant construction in GA now in jeopardy

https://electrek.co/2025/02/18/rivians- ... -jeopardy/


Oops!!!

Georgia 2024
Donald Trump 50.72%
Kamala Harris 48.52%
Affected counties:
Walton County
Donald Trump 72.6%
Kamala Harris 26.7%
Oops!!! Elections have consequences. There's also:
Newton County
Donald Trump 42.3%
Kamala Harris 57.3%
Bummer for them. Even without the federal loans freeze DonOLD doesn't like EVs, so . . .


Calling DOGE, calling DOGE, calling DOGE:

Donald Trump Has Already Spent $10.7 Million Of Taxpayer Money Playing Golf
Somehow, the expense has flown under the radar of the waste, fraud and abuse experts at DOGE.

... The golf-related expenses — which are likely to recur most weekends while Trump is in office — have somehow flown below the radar of Elon Musk and his “high-IQ” team, as Trump calls them, of programmers who are ransacking their way through the federal budget and labeling items they do not like or appear not to understand as “fraud.”

... There has been a golf trip each of the four weekends since Trump came back to the presidency on Jan. 20, and he has now played golf at his own properties on nine of his first 30 days in office.

“It’s clear that when the Trump administration considers the definition of corruption and wasteful spending, it doesn’t count spending that ends up in the president’s pockets,” said Jordan Libowitz of the watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “By visiting his for-profit businesses roughly a third of his days in office, Trump is directing government spending to follow him there, and profiting off the trip.”

HuffPost’s $10.7 million tally is based on a 2019 report by the Government Accountability Office breaking down the costs of Trump’s first trips to Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach, Florida, country club, during his first term. The GAO calculated a total cost of $3,383,250 for each trip. About one-third of that was the flight cost of Air Force One for the round trip, with additional expenses for flying down vehicles, including two presidential limousines, for Trump’s motorcade and reimbursing the Coast Guard for stationing a gunship in the Atlantic Ocean just off the coast and heavily armed boats in the Intracoastal Waterway.

Those costs are based on 2017 dollars and are likely somewhat higher today....

In Trump’s first term, his golf expenses totaled $152 million over four years, for a total of 293 golf days at his own resorts....

“It would be one thing if he went to Camp David every few days to hit golf balls. It’s hard to see this as anything other than using the presidency to prop up his businesses,” Libowitz said.

Trump allies spent former President Joe Biden’s term criticizing him for spending most of his weekends at his Delaware homes in Wilmington and Rehoboth Beach and complaining about the taxpayer expenses.

Those travel costs, however, were a fraction of those that Trump was and is incurring. Most of the time, Biden traveled back and forth via Marine 1, with the helicopter trip costing about $150,000. When he used the smaller Air Force One, a modified Boeing 757, the trip expenses totaled about $500,000.

The dictionary IDs 'MAGA' as being a synonym for 'hypocrisy'.

[Whack9]

Trump voter, disabled military veteran, ‘valuable member’ at FEMA fired as part of DOGE cuts

https://wtop.com/virginia/2025/02/north ... a-firings/

A Northern Virginia couple is hashing out their next steps after the husband, a 13-year, disabled military veteran and nearly two-year information technology technician with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was fired Monday, as part of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to shrink the federal workforce.

...

The evaluations, obtained by WTOP, showed the man’s supervisor described him as a “leader,” and that he “demonstrated professionalism” in his core competencies and “performed very well and is a valuable member of the group.”

Under the Department of Homeland Security’s employee rankings, the man’s performance ratings were just below the rating of “Achieved Excellence,” the highest rating.

...

“I voted for Donald Trump. But this is not what I was expecting,” he said. “We didn’t think they were going to take a chainsaw to a silk rug.”

The man’s wife said they also believed his 13 years of military service in the Navy and Air Force Reserves, with an honorable discharge as an E-4, would have offered him more protection against DOGE cuts.

“I recognize there are a lot of cuts that need to be made, but this is not the one that you think will happen to your family,” she said. “I encouraged him to take the job there, because he loved working for the agency, and I think it has a good mission.”

"I thought this was just going to hurt other people, not me"
- This guy.

[GoCubsGo]

[Whack9]

Oopsies

Jesse Watters Begs Trump to Save Friend Who Got Cut by DOGE

https://newrepublic.com/post/191743/fox ... d-cut-doge

Jesse Watters begged Trump on The Five Wednesday to be “less callous” in his mass firings because his friend Chris, a military veteran for 20 years who “has killed a lot of bad guys” and “put his life on the line,” was among those set to be axed in cuts to the Department of Defense.

“He punched out after 20 years, and [is now] working for the Pentagon. And he’s only been there a few months, so he’s probationary, and he just found out he’s probably going to get laid off. He’s going to get DOGE’d,” Watters said, adding that he got a text message from the friend, who was upset.


“This guy is not a DEI consultant. This guy is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran. So when you’re talking about DOGE-ing people, veterans should get priority. Because if you’re going to go out there and kill enemies, and put your life on the line for this country, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI,” Watters added.

"Now that it's affected me personally, it's bad. But only this specific instance".

What is even is empathy?

What is nuance?

[Vrede too]

Oopsies

Jesse Watters Begs Trump to Save Friend Who Got Cut by DOGE

https://newrepublic.com/post/191743/fox ... d-cut-doge

Jesse Watters begged Trump on The Five Wednesday to be “less callous” in his mass firings because his friend Chris, a military veteran for 20 years who “has killed a lot of bad guys” and “put his life on the line,” was among those set to be axed in cuts to the Department of Defense.

“He punched out after 20 years, and [is now] working for the Pentagon. And he’s only been there a few months, so he’s probationary, and he just found out he’s probably going to get laid off. He’s going to get DOGE’d,” Watters said, adding that he got a text message from the friend, who was upset.


“This guy is not a DEI consultant. This guy is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran. So when you’re talking about DOGE-ing people, veterans should get priority. Because if you’re going to go out there and kill enemies, and put your life on the line for this country, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI,” Watters added.

"Now that it's affected me personally, it's bad. But only this specific instance".

What is even is empathy?

What is nuance?

Ummm, veterans' preferences ARE DEI. Jesse Watters is a crybaby and a moron and it's Jesse Watters who got his friend DOGE'd, not DEI. MAGAts ALWAYS shun personal responsibility.

[Whack9]

Oopsies

Jesse Watters Begs Trump to Save Friend Who Got Cut by DOGE

https://newrepublic.com/post/191743/fox ... d-cut-doge

Jesse Watters begged Trump on The Five Wednesday to be “less callous” in his mass firings because his friend Chris, a military veteran for 20 years who “has killed a lot of bad guys” and “put his life on the line,” was among those set to be axed in cuts to the Department of Defense.

“He punched out after 20 years, and [is now] working for the Pentagon. And he’s only been there a few months, so he’s probationary, and he just found out he’s probably going to get laid off. He’s going to get DOGE’d,” Watters said, adding that he got a text message from the friend, who was upset.


“This guy is not a DEI consultant. This guy is not a climate consultant. This guy is a veteran. So when you’re talking about DOGE-ing people, veterans should get priority. Because if you’re going to go out there and kill enemies, and put your life on the line for this country, you should not be in the same category as people that are doing DEI,” Watters added.

"Now that it's affected me personally, it's bad. But only this specific instance".

What is even is empathy?

What is nuance?

Ummm, veterans' preferences ARE DEI. Jesse Watters is a crybaby and a moron and it's Jesse Watters who got his friend DOGE'd, not DEI. MAGAts ALWAYS shun personal responsibility.

Yeah the federal government hires a lot of veterans. A lot of disabled veterans at that. I think that's overall probably a good thing. Looks like a lot of them are gonna be out on the streets.

"Thank you for your service. Now fuck off and kick rocks"
- DJT and Musk. Two billionaires who've never had a single day of sacrifice nor hardship in their lives.

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Yeah the federal government hires a lot of veterans. A lot of disabled veterans at that. I think that's overall probably a good thing. Looks like a lot of them are gonna be out on the streets.

"Thank you for your service. Now fuck off and kick rocks"
- DJT and Musk. Two billionaires who've never had a single day of sacrifice nor hardship in their lives.

Yep, both born wealthy, too, and both shunned military service, with DonOLD being a criminal draft dodger. I'm okay with the rumored large Pentagon cuts, but it's ironic that POTUS Musk and PINO will be the ones making them.

Jasmine Crockett Torches MAGA And Elon Musk With The Most Backhanded Apology Ever

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Sunday sarcastically admitted she was wrong about a key part of President Donald Trump’s MAGA platform.

Trump has frequently claimed that immigrants were taking jobs from Americans, at times insisting that more than 100% of new jobs were going to them.

“There’s an immigrant taking people’s jobs,” Crockett admitted in a post on social media. “His name is Elon Musk.”...

“He’s snatching farms, government jobs (even those in which they manage our national security), and definitely those whose jobs are to root out fraud (inspector generals), & those that are keeping us safe (FAA), meals on wheels workers, head start, and the list goes on, so I’ll be the bigger person and admit to MAGA that I was wrong when I said immigrants wouldn’t take our jobs. You were 1000 percent correct.”