20k federal workers take "buyout" so far, official says

Post by adastra22 » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 5:12 AM UTC

casenmgreen wrote: post #254

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Aren't Twitter workers still trying to get their severances and they took the offer when Twitter actually had the money to pay. Considering that SpaceX is so far behind on its bills that dozens and dozens of companies in Texas have had to place liens against the company, my guess is that neither the Twitter people, nor the SpaceX people, nor the federal buyout people will ever see a dime. For some reason, links to st…

Is it possible Mr. Musk's companies are actually in deep trouble financially, and this political stuff is actually a means to an end?

Post by adastra22 » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 5:15 AM UTC

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That sounds illegal

Almost any reply to a political thread in the next four years is going to be "That sounds illegal" but it's only illegal if the law gets enforced. I encourage anyone responding with "That sounds illegal" or "They can't do that" to also include in their response, "...and it will be enforced by [xxxx]." and try to come up with a realistic xxxx. EDIT: I'm not making any judgment about whether this particular thing is le…

Post by yurlungur » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 5:17 AM UTC

chairmansteve wrote: post #200

The plan seems to be to fire almost all government emoloyees. The only historical parallel I can come up with is the De Baathification program in Iraq 2003.

Post by UltraSane » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 5:22 AM UTC

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I suspect that after all these cuts, they're going to realize that some of these things actually are required in order for the American people not to complain too much. I just remember in Trump's first term, and this is something that has stuck with me since, was how he promised, on day one, to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, only for a few weeks after taking office saying "Nobody knew health care could…

The only thing that saved the ACA was McCain who saved it as the last great act at the end of his life. All of the sensible, principled Republicans have died or retired. The modern Republican Party seem willing to go off the cliff with him. The tech sector is firmly in his pocket and all of the news media are owned by corporate giants who are literally bribing him to get what they want by “settling lawsuits”. I alway…

Post by nyokodo » Thu, Feb 06, 2025, 5:25 AM UTC

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> It seems to me DOGE is about crashing the US economy and/or world economy to attempt wild and radical Silicon Valley theories about alternate societies I see absolutely no evidence that the DOGE crowd wants to crash the economy and while they do have a utopian ideology so does the left. Additionally, the DOGE crowd would say they’re trying to dismantle an unaccountable deep state conspiracy that threatens the Ameri…

Man Elon himself said his plan is to crash the economy. When people tell you who they are, listen! https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-polit...