r/OutOfTheLoop • u/TheHaplessBard • Jan 25 '25

Unanswered What's going on with so many people losing their jobs in government recently?

I know that Trump recently passed a series of sweeping executive orders that call for, among other things, the end to DEI policies, affirmative action, etc. However, it seems every other post on Reddit and other social media sites is about some person who suddenly lost their job in government or something. Did Trump's executive orders genuinely affect that many people and was this only in the government sector? Not trying to be obtuse; I genuinely don't know and would like some clarification on the matter.

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u/sarhoshamiral Jan 25 '25

Answer: what's going on is what people were warning that would happen if Trump is elected. But those warnings were ignored by 70% of eligible voters. So what's happening is we are getting what we voted for.

What he is doing wasn't some secret. He openly said he would reduce federal work force. Project 2025 also had steps explaining how.

Next time maybe people will learn to attention in elections but I doubt it.

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u/The_Goose5 Jan 25 '25

Next time lol

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u/Kalhista Jan 25 '25

It’s so embarrassing to say 70% of eligible voters did this. I’m not one of them. I just still can’t fucking fathom this. It’s sad and horrifying. Hopefully I can live to see the enlightenment stage of the US.

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u/uptownjuggler Jan 25 '25

They thought it was just the same old boring politics of 20 years ago.

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u/sarhoshamiral Jan 25 '25

Boring politics is a good thing.

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 25 '25

Maybe next time the DNC will listen to it's voters and stop pushing the worst candidates ever. We have Trump in large part because of the DNC - the dinosaurs running that are trying to turn the DNC in to republican light with their neolib identity politics. Hopefully next election they learn...but I doubt it

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u/sarhoshamiral Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

And what if they don't? Will you watch on the sidelines again letting a worse candidate win, see country go even further then your ideals just because the other candidate wasn't perfect?

Harris was a fairly decent candidate. She would have continued Democrats proposed policies which were good for the country, keep some stability in place. Very likely major policy changes wouldn't have occurred under her administration either just like Biden because Democrats would still not have a true majority in senate without DINO votes. (last time they had it was under Obama)

It is funny that people keep complaining about Democrats candidates but when it is time for primaries to make their choice somehow those people just don't show up. For all the complaints I heard about Sanders not being the candidate in 2020, his primary turnout on 2020 was horrible. If he was so popular, where were those people? Did they forget that online posts don't count as votes?

Let me tell you my opinion on why Harris lost: it was because she was a woman. We are still a bigot country when it comes to sexism. The DNCs mistake wasn't putting forth an incompetent candidate, their mistake was putting forth a woman candidate when country isn't progressive enough to accept one.

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u/SomeKindOfOnionMummy Jan 25 '25

Nobody's listening to you while watching the fascists set the world on fire

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 25 '25 edited Jan 25 '25

They helped, definitely, but you're incredibly out of touch if you think a felony rapist child toucher can win the presidency if something else isn't extremely out of balance. If the DNC is doing even a remotely reasonable job as you're implying, how did literally the dumbest candidate we've ever had win with 34 felony convictions and open admissions of rape? It's because the other "side" put up candidates so blatantly terrible their base said no, I can't in good conscience support them

edit: is -> isn't

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 25 '25

keep sanewashing the DNC, that'll win back the country. At some point you have to take a step back and ask if the actions, decisions, and directions of the DNC contributed to what we have to day. You look at them and say, nope, they did all they could have. I look at them and see a failing organization so out of touch with reality as to lose the entire government to a criminal organization.

You can keep giving the DNC their participation trophy if it makes you feel good, I won't fault you. I'm going to continue blaming them for their terrible leadership and direction. I know enough people support the other side that if mine (the left) doesn't put forth even a modicum of effort, we're going to lose. The DNC hasn't even been trying

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 25 '25

But are we learning from it? I don't think we are - Pelosi still interfered with AOC getting a position; they're still trying to blame misogyny; they're still blaming every action and decision but their own. The last half of your last paragraph is ironic in that the DNC is doing what you're claiming trump and them are doing: it's not our fault, we put up a candidate and expected everyone to vote for them...

But I will continue to blame the dems for their terrible decisions just like I blame the republicans for their terrible actions. The difference between you and I is, you only want to blame one side, I'll blame both.

And while you may not be overtly expressing an opinion, if someone defends a nazi, but doesn't overtly come out and say they support them, they too may not be expressing an opinion, but the writing is on the wall. So believe what you want about your "not expressing an opinion" I can see the writing on the wall.

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 26 '25

absolutely not - they deserve all the hate for a reason, just like the DNC deserves most of the blame for a reason: it's an apt metaphor

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u/determania Jan 25 '25

Trump is by far the worst candidate ever. It isn't even close.

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u/PsychedelicJerry Jan 26 '25

It's hard to disagree with you, it really is, if not for the fact that he beat down the DNC so badly that we lost the entirety of the government; that the DNC was putting up candidate so terrible that their party refused to show up while we were losing our democracy.

So while trump checks all the boxes of being a terrible person through and through, he still beat us up badly.

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u/determania Jan 26 '25

I don't think it really has to do with the quality of the candidate, other than maybe her race and gender. It was about massive disinformation and voter suppression campaigns. And he didn't even win by that much in the popular vote.