Fox Host Jesse Watters Whines About His Veteran Friend Getting Fired By DOGE

A friend of mine is retired US Army working for USAID as an IT specialist that got let go after a (mostly administrative) change in job title last fall.

Probably because you never really worked. I wouldn't say that Social Security that your parents and or Grandparents contributed to for many years is wasteful. It's well deserved and hard earned. Again, you wouldn't know that from your "Hybrid" 3 day a week remote job would you.

Grow the F^^k Up Slacker!!!

Ain't it hard when you discovered that
He really wasn't where it's at
After he took from you everything he could steal
How does it feel, how does it feel?

I’m sorry to hear that. Hope your friend saved his personal file. Including performance reviews

I thought the narrative from the weenie left was that Fox News towed the Trump line 100%
Waters showed that wasn’t true and Marxist America is complaining?

While you focus Fox News and “Marxist America”, Trump will focus on fcking you over.

Keep worrying about the wrong things Champ.

Great post, but the highlighted part is where the problem lies.

When have you ever seen Trump treat someone right if they have the slightest difference of opinion with him? He has even trashed his own former VP, and dozens of people HE picked for his cabinet, Milley, Esper, Barr, Bolton, etc. and they were actually loyal to him.

Do you really think he give a rats @ss about some low hanging govt employee who has a mortgage and kids in college?

How does he have any connection with the people he and Elon (an autistic clown who clearly lacks any empathy for anyone) fire?

They will dismantle the govt as they see fit, and THEY DONT CARE who is hurt.

They all thought only black trans cross dressers were getting fired !!! lol. If a white male has to get a government job you know they are as useless as can be!

yeah as i understand it, if you got promoted recently, you might be technically probationary.

elon is not actually assessing quality, or determining necessity, he looks like he is hunting for vulnerable people under a CBA or something, then throwing around the excuse if questioned. "well, but they were probationary, so they either sucked or were new."

except, in the government, it might actually mean you were effective and got promoted. or the others too.

crude man with crude tools just cutting head count. corporate layoffs only some companies do the leg work. a lot of them just clear out types or departments and move on to the next thing.

my thing is they have not yet made clear whether the jobs evaporate, the funds are refunded or used against debt, or whether this is opening space for the spoils system. that is, that they start filling this space with "reliable MAGA republicans."

in fact, one way to play the game is you start doing this illegal employee and policy chopping, and if a court says you can't veto your own allocated budget, you use it on your own hires and priorities. USAID funds become paying tesla for armored state department EVs.

This is a really dumb take. Like shockingly dumb.

The us is in financial trouble way worse than you realize. Deep cuts are the only way to attempt to avoid total collapse. Once you realize that you won't cry about 8% workforce cut, program cuts, etc.. it sux but it has to be done asap. Yeah ur gonna lose your job or your handout but that's just the beginning of what has to be done to save the dollar and the economy.

Really? It's that dire? Is that why Republicans are planning a $4.5 trillion tax cut for the rich, or maybe sending out $5,000 debt-financed checks to everyone in the country?

You’re a moron. People have been predicting a collapse since 1783 the National debt was $43 million.

Oh my. I mean, really. I’d go less with the “people have been predicting” point because that’s a line of reasoning that gets shaky very fast.

But “save the dollar” guy clearly has absolutely ZERO idea what “strengthening the dollar” at this point would do to the substantial majority of US businesses (and certainly to the balance sheets of that group of multinational US businesses that employ the most Americans). Oh, you like small business but not Big __? Yup, their bottom line has nothing to do with the wages of people employed by international corporations.

I’d say you could rail against Elon Musk’s personal and professional behavior, his role in this administration, and other aspects of his personality by referring to him as a “clown who clearly lacks any empathy.”

My guess is that in refraining from underscoring “autistic” you wouldn’t be really softening your point or ceding ground to untruth, and you wouldn’t risk a falsifying level of incompleteness.

But perhaps you and I have a different understanding about who is called to have empathy and how best to express it.

True patriots don’t hesitate to sacrifice their jobs, income, family, favorite sport teams, just to own the liberals. As long as they can PR or win some AG awards, they will be just fine.

you want me to get pointed? you just eliminated DEI. in which case the fact he is autistic is no longer cute or a diversity hiring reason -- neurodiversity or some such -- it's a FACT to be considered regarding his qualifications and competence to do the job.

personally i think despite the cliches regarding autism or aspberger's, he shows poor attention to detail, based on his failure to grasp the big picture risks of what he is doing, as well as the repeated inaccurate explanations for his decisions.

there is also a basic failure to get that the people on his little inner circle team are CS/IT types, not CPAs or poli sci majors. and while musk as a degreed economics major should get the risks of what he is doing, and admits the economy will go down, i think he's either lost or lying on precisely how far down and how ugly it will get.

the unemployment rate is about to skyrocket. because the government is doing massive layoffs. when they burn through any buyouts or savings, defaults and foreclosures will follow. when the defaults and foreclosures hit, we will have a market crash. when that happens, people with nothing to do with the feds will lose their jobs.

you will know exactly who to thank.

I think social security will do better when the dodge cleans up the criminal activity.

Looks like about 23 million people collecting social security over 100 years old.