Summary
IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.
McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.
The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.
Unfortunately some people have less empathy than others. They learn mostly via experiences where they are hurt themselves.
I guess this is the only way to break the spell on these people, one at a time?
Have them lose their job and be miserable thanks to Republican policies?
Also: I have just no idea how you could be working for the government and voting Republican. The Republicans have been for saying, for years, that they want to destroy government.
Trouble is they will only realise when they are effected.
Equally, I am confused by Brits that work for the NHS and vote Conservative.
Same propaganda works everywhere.
The middle class is deteriorating, hey isn’t increasing in sync with inflation, less kids, less money in taxes.
The rich aren’t rich in a vacuum, pastor Rich get richer the rest get poorer. It’s pretty easy to target them to hate down one social level.
As far as NHS, well if you’re not overly sick you’re paying too much and most people aren’t overly sick. People who are struggling really get behind the “fuck you I got mine” train when instead they could be on the help me too train.
Rest of the trump voters: not my life, don’t care!
Does anyone know why a federal worker would vote to have their own job removed? If they thought they would be safe, where’s the logic there? Did trump say he was cool with IRS workers at some point?
I also dont quote understand someone who believes in minimizing the federal government, then working for the federal government.
FAFO.
I have zero sympathy for this chucklefuck. I voted to save democracy. I just hope they hurt more than I do for their shit choice.
As MAGA likes to say… Cry harder!
Reap what you sow- MAGA
Wait, so when it was destroying other people’s lives, that was fine, but now that it’s your life, you wanna be a bitch?
Let me help you here dear trump voter… Fuck you, you deserve it.
My face! The leopards! The goggles! They do nothing!
You were only supposed to destroy other people’s lives!
“I didn’t think the leopards were going to eat MY face” - says the person that voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party
Imagine working with the IRS, voting with the party that has said for years they want to defund the IRS, and then being surprised when that party attacks the IRS. I don’t fucking understand these people at all. They truly live a life devoid of reality. They are incapable of considering real world consequences.
Truly to be a conservative is to lack imagination.
Someone I know would often spar with his neighbor over politics. Neighbor has been working for the USPS for most of his life. Neighbor was full-on fucking MAGA. I’d like to get an update on that guy, but the person I know moved and lost contact w/ the qon neighbor.
But I wonder if his butt puckered up just a little bit when he learned this:
They believe they are special. My job is important so it wont get cut. My abortion was just because it could have caused health problems for me. I deserved unemployment/medicaid because i paid into it.
It is not imagination but empathy they lack until it effects their lives.
And any type of reason, critical thinking, compassion, empathy, or most other basic human emotions.
Just like anyone in a union that voted for Trump, or any woman. I don’t know what they expected.
In the union we were always taught to vote with your wallet. Every meeting during elections I heard it. Still, every other guy would be on about voting for Trump. Can’t fix stupid.
Well, when you saw how their leadership behaved…
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/02/scabby-rat-obrien-still-scabby-rat
And stupid people vote Republican, and Republicans destroy education to make more stupid people. It’s a cruel feedback loop.
Conservative/capitalist policies don’t even really benefit the rich.
Imagination, empathy, intelligence, a soul, basic communication skills, and any level of emotional maturity.
Don’t dehumanize people who disagree with you, this is the wrong path.
Criticizing and even insulting awful people is hardly dehumanizing. Notice how I just called them people?
But, I don’t know, maybe calling large swaths of people vermin, or saying they’re poisoning the blood of our country, or even just rounding them up and shipping them off to some place they do not know because they’re the wrong skin tone? Well that would be pretty shitty.
Hey, if I had all the power in the world I’d still share it with them in the form of healthcare, equal rights, and all that. That’s the thing, they fucking suck rocks and are the worst examples of a human being but I’ll still consider them human either way.
It’s not a binary, maybe you’ll learn that and maybe you won’t.
I accused you of dehumanizing people and you respond with…
It’s not a binary
What does that even mean in this context? Are you saying they’re like part people?
For the record you said earlier that they lacked intelligence and a soul, which is pretty literally dehumanizing, that’s what I was responding to. Look, I’m not trying to shame you here, I get where you’re coming from. I’m trying to remind you that you’re being taken advantage of. That foreign and corporate powers are actively trying to influence public discourse and divisiveness is their most powerful tool, they’re pitting us against each other for their own gain.
So don’t fall for it! Don’t take the bait! As soon as you start treating the other side like they don’t even matter, like they’re some different species who aren’t smart enough to think for themselves, then you’re giving up the game, we lose.
And you’re right about one part for sure though, conservatives are lacking in communication skills, unfortunately, so are liberals; that’s just a human problem. (And on that note, maybe some day I’ll learn how to communicate all this in one sentence rather than having to write several paragraphs every time.)
A binary as in you can call someone a piece of absolute fucking trash and still not try to take their rights away. And I specifically said I will always treat them as human because I have principles. Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic bullshit instead of ever taking into consideration a human aspext(but boy are they also full of feelings and absolutely terrible at math).
Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.
Also lacking a soul is a more flowery, poetic way of saying that they seem unable to have kind of compassion or joy and they treat situations as mathematic
Ok, that word you’re looking for is “empathy”, but soul is definitely the wrong one. The words you use to describe people matter a lot, I’m not being pedantic.
Like, I’m glad you’re looking out but I think you’re missing the nuance here.
You think I’m missing the nuisance? Funny. Ironically, I think the language you’re using just lacks empathy.
No, the word I’m looking for is definitely “soul”. It’s called reading and writing above a grade-school level. It’s fine, if I ever get a buttload of power I’ll make sure even the soulless get access to free education and maybe we can raise some literacy levels.
Speaking ill about people that want you dead and are trying aggressively.to kill you, is that ok?
Absolutely! I mean you’re acknowledging that they’re people, and people have conflicts all the time, this is normal. Feel free to have all the opinions about that you want.
But saying that as a group, they all lack basic intelligence or a soul, that’s not helpful to discourse, and that’s really my only point.
McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”
Reading between the lines, ol’ Bob here seems to think that only MAGA are people. Destroying the libs’ lives is perfectly fine.
That’s what they all think. They’re violent, hateful, and disgusting people. I’m wondering how long before Nazi hat wearing motherfuckers start getting attacked in public as a matter of self defense.
A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend’s house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton’s 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
Crystal Minton, who inadvertently became the ideological core of the MAGA movement. She said the quiet part out loud.
I like what the left wants is universal healthcare, a social safety net, housing for everyone, just stuff where we’d love it if everybody had access to it. The only people who need to be “hurt” are the straight-up actual criminals who seem to otherwise dodge every consequence and those people are extremely rich assholes who have a lot of power and use it all for pure evil and none of them are regular people.
But then the right comes along and it’s always “how can we bring the most cruel, crude punishment to this margainalized group of poor people?” and it’s just, like…fucking really?
We were in Tennessee. During the motorcade, he spotted some ugly racial epithets scrawled on signs. Late that night in the hotel, when the local dignitaries had finished the last bottles of bourbon and branch water and departed, he started talking about those signs. “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it,” he said. “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.” -Bill Moyers quoting LBJ
I think a whole lot of it is racism, xenophobia, etc…even if government-as-a-weapon is an inexact thing, and those voting for qons know it, they still hope it will harm the out-group even more.
I’ve been wondering the same thing.
him also misunderstanding what the “wrecking ball” does?
Exactly. In what universe is a wrecking ball used to build something?
Same with chainsaws - some of the dipshits are still employing this myth that fElon and his Incel Clown Posse were going to be applying sound principles to improving efficiency in some kind of surgical fashion (instead of the smash-n-grab that it really is).
Meanwhile, fElon is literally swinging around a chainsaw for his slack-jawed yokel admirers. Even on metaphors, this is a huge failure. What kind of surgery is done with a FUCKING CHAINSAW?
Even the most dogmatic redcap adherents cannot make that make sense to each other.
SurprisedPikachuWithFaceRippedOff.png
No kidding you voted for the person that said he wanted to hurt people.
Yeah, but TBF, he thought it was going to be OTHER people that were getting hurt.
I didn’t think the Leopards would terminate my employment!
