Why do you suppose Vought feels such visceral malice toward federal workers? For what is he seeking revenge? Seems like it is personal for him, not just business. Sure, there are old conservative stereotypes of federal workers as shiftless or meddling, but those don't seem to justify Vought's bared-tooth sadism. What's his beef?
Because he wants the Evangelical church to run everything and have power, if people have the government, they don't need God. Vought was an architect of Project 2025 whose goal is to have a Unitary Presidency and use their conservative, Christian Nationalist interpretation of the bible for how things will be run here. Think American Taliban.
I know, I don't understand either. They voted for the patriarchy, plain and simple. It's a hard habit to break. They will have their vengeance and enjoy watching others suffer. I hope it staves off their hunger and disease.
I think it's easier for him to make life so miserable for federal workers that they leave to preserve their sanity, leaving them able to fill those positions with people that align with Heritage Foundation ideology. He is a sadist and he hates women, LGBTQ+, and minorities just as much as he hates feds. I've always considered him the evil mastermind of this sh!tshow. Clearly he's damaged goods in too many ways to list.
My nephew resigned from the FBI last week. What they did to him is horrific. He was a Special Agent. He was doing critical work for a specific and suffering population of this country. He took what happened to him and what this administration did to him very hard. It makes me physically sick when I think about how they threw him away as a person with incredible and unique skills; his experience as a veteran; his education -- and his background...it all made him a unicorn of an agent. Thrown away...
I am so sad reading this. I, too, have a nephew working for the federal government but for a different agency. Every day he goes to work, we thank God he still has a job. He loves his work, but he has been fighting cancer for the past year and his health insurance has been crucial. He is only in his early 40s. It's hard to accept that I'm living in a country that's looking like 1930s Germany. This treatment sounds like what I think being watched by the Gestapo would be like. How are we allowing this? How do we stop it. The only peaceful way to begin to slow it down would be with Republicans in Congress. All can't be cowards. This must be what they want. I don't trust what elections will bring. I am so mad and so concerned.
I wonder why the agency authorised to confront enemies of the Constitution is being silent. Are they really obligated to stand by passively while the government is being dismantled? The people who are being pushed out of their jobs could consider talking with select persons in law enforcement and the military to see where their sympathies are. If they support the carnage of all they swore to protect, protests in the street may be crushed with heavy loss of life.
The level of abuse is off the charts by this “administration”. Each “secretary” is worse than the last. I 🙏 that someday the Republicans will have at least a few who can combine with Democrats to slow down the freight train of destruction, but it looks doubtful. That said, FL has two elections for Representatives with early voting starting today, on April 1. Two reps Democratic adding to the current numbers, will get us closer in the House. Gay Valimont and Josh Weill. Every little climb towards overtaking the Republicans, will help to slow this, or end it.
Wish I could subscribe but I am in a nursing home and don’t have any funds! I try to follow all what is going on outside the nursing home and then pass via messenger and BlueSky to my friends on the outside! Thank you for having information for me to see and pass on!
Retired social worker here. Wrote and was awarded a grant for outreach to ppl in the community living with mental illness. We bought and remodeled a van so ppl could meet with a therapist in the van. Just an idea. You could rent a fleet of vans/ cars and use as is until you get a permanent building. Safety of the therapist would need to be considered.
I have so much respect for you taking the initiative to reach people who are suffering silently. The government has many such employees who give better pay and conditions because they want to serve others. I wish that Americans would value their contributions more.
As a former state employee, I can't imagine having to work in such a hostile environment! My heart goes out to all these poor people. Any government job means having to deal with piles of work because they never hire enough people. The stress of that, the search for chairs that don't hurt your back, dealing with computers that really need replacement, it adds up. Staff often have to share housing to make ends meet on the low salaries. Benefits aren't as good nowadays. People get burned out from the workload. Now there's this psychological warfare on top of all that. Some people will 'go postal' from the mental health strain.
My brother is in an agency department that is expecting a lock-out any day now. I listened to him vent yesterday. Policies are not being targeted- the very capacity to produce rational policy is being destroyed. When there is no factual basis to work from then reason and mysticism are on an equal footing, and the argument is determined by political muscle. They aren’t just undoing America, they’re undoing the enlightenment.
So he is sending out his (non-sensitive) work products to everyone he can think of before it gets memory-holed.
There should be some site outside of US jurisdiction where US government data can be archived before it’s destroyed.
“Basically, if there wasn't a "deep state" before, they've certainly done their damnedest to create one.”. As I have said here, there and everywhere, “each accusation is a confession”. And so goes the slide into a true “police state” (such a quaint anachronism, whatever this is it defies branding) , only a lot worse than I imagined. And I have an excellent imagination.
Russell Vought is a domestic terrorist
They all need to go, now!
Why do you suppose Vought feels such visceral malice toward federal workers? For what is he seeking revenge? Seems like it is personal for him, not just business. Sure, there are old conservative stereotypes of federal workers as shiftless or meddling, but those don't seem to justify Vought's bared-tooth sadism. What's his beef?
Because he wants the Evangelical church to run everything and have power, if people have the government, they don't need God. Vought was an architect of Project 2025 whose goal is to have a Unitary Presidency and use their conservative, Christian Nationalist interpretation of the bible for how things will be run here. Think American Taliban.
I'll never understand the women who voted for this...destroying the future for themselves, their daughters, mothers, grandmothers...
As their health, finances, careers, and retirement are gutted...all they'll have is their red hats and their rage.
I know, I don't understand either. They voted for the patriarchy, plain and simple. It's a hard habit to break. They will have their vengeance and enjoy watching others suffer. I hope it staves off their hunger and disease.
yep get the fed employees out and hire like minded cronies
I think it's easier for him to make life so miserable for federal workers that they leave to preserve their sanity, leaving them able to fill those positions with people that align with Heritage Foundation ideology. He is a sadist and he hates women, LGBTQ+, and minorities just as much as he hates feds. I've always considered him the evil mastermind of this sh!tshow. Clearly he's damaged goods in too many ways to list.
My nephew resigned from the FBI last week. What they did to him is horrific. He was a Special Agent. He was doing critical work for a specific and suffering population of this country. He took what happened to him and what this administration did to him very hard. It makes me physically sick when I think about how they threw him away as a person with incredible and unique skills; his experience as a veteran; his education -- and his background...it all made him a unicorn of an agent. Thrown away...
I am so sad reading this. I, too, have a nephew working for the federal government but for a different agency. Every day he goes to work, we thank God he still has a job. He loves his work, but he has been fighting cancer for the past year and his health insurance has been crucial. He is only in his early 40s. It's hard to accept that I'm living in a country that's looking like 1930s Germany. This treatment sounds like what I think being watched by the Gestapo would be like. How are we allowing this? How do we stop it. The only peaceful way to begin to slow it down would be with Republicans in Congress. All can't be cowards. This must be what they want. I don't trust what elections will bring. I am so mad and so concerned.
I wonder why the agency authorised to confront enemies of the Constitution is being silent. Are they really obligated to stand by passively while the government is being dismantled? The people who are being pushed out of their jobs could consider talking with select persons in law enforcement and the military to see where their sympathies are. If they support the carnage of all they swore to protect, protests in the street may be crushed with heavy loss of life.
The level of abuse is off the charts by this “administration”. Each “secretary” is worse than the last. I 🙏 that someday the Republicans will have at least a few who can combine with Democrats to slow down the freight train of destruction, but it looks doubtful. That said, FL has two elections for Representatives with early voting starting today, on April 1. Two reps Democratic adding to the current numbers, will get us closer in the House. Gay Valimont and Josh Weill. Every little climb towards overtaking the Republicans, will help to slow this, or end it.
Really hoping we can pull this off here in FL. 💙
I couldn’t survive this level of abuse.
I want to see the US ver of the Nuremberg Trials for the people in the Trump administration.
Wish I could subscribe but I am in a nursing home and don’t have any funds! I try to follow all what is going on outside the nursing home and then pass via messenger and BlueSky to my friends on the outside! Thank you for having information for me to see and pass on!
Oh thank you! It’s all free!
Retired social worker here. Wrote and was awarded a grant for outreach to ppl in the community living with mental illness. We bought and remodeled a van so ppl could meet with a therapist in the van. Just an idea. You could rent a fleet of vans/ cars and use as is until you get a permanent building. Safety of the therapist would need to be considered.
I have so much respect for you taking the initiative to reach people who are suffering silently. The government has many such employees who give better pay and conditions because they want to serve others. I wish that Americans would value their contributions more.
As a former state employee, I can't imagine having to work in such a hostile environment! My heart goes out to all these poor people. Any government job means having to deal with piles of work because they never hire enough people. The stress of that, the search for chairs that don't hurt your back, dealing with computers that really need replacement, it adds up. Staff often have to share housing to make ends meet on the low salaries. Benefits aren't as good nowadays. People get burned out from the workload. Now there's this psychological warfare on top of all that. Some people will 'go postal' from the mental health strain.
My brother is in an agency department that is expecting a lock-out any day now. I listened to him vent yesterday. Policies are not being targeted- the very capacity to produce rational policy is being destroyed. When there is no factual basis to work from then reason and mysticism are on an equal footing, and the argument is determined by political muscle. They aren’t just undoing America, they’re undoing the enlightenment.
So he is sending out his (non-sensitive) work products to everyone he can think of before it gets memory-holed.
There should be some site outside of US jurisdiction where US government data can be archived before it’s destroyed.
“Basically, if there wasn't a "deep state" before, they've certainly done their damnedest to create one.”. As I have said here, there and everywhere, “each accusation is a confession”. And so goes the slide into a true “police state” (such a quaint anachronism, whatever this is it defies branding) , only a lot worse than I imagined. And I have an excellent imagination.
He’ll get his own trauma someday soon. Karma is a bitch.
Russ Vought is an enemy to the American way of life.
The abuse is horrible. Family at VA and Treasury.
This is happening across all other federal agencies as well, it’s horrific
Horrible