Posted on 05/27/2025 7:12:52 AM PDT by Red Badger
They told us DEI was progress. They told us these government jobs were building a better, more inclusive America. What they didn’t tell us is that this entire system was creating a class of emotionally broken dependents who tied their entire identity, purpose, and mental stability to a taxpayer-funded title.
Now, the house of cards is collapsing, and it’s getting really ugly.
Meet former federal worker Caitlin.
Caitlin was so devastated after being fired from her DEI federal job, her husband found her on the fire escape, contemplating whether it was high enough to jump. He later had her committed. Sadly, Caitlin, who suffered her entire life with mental health issues, committed suicide, and somehow, the Washington Post article made it seem as if this was Trump’s fault.
Washington Post:
The president had called federal employees “crooked” and “dishonest,” and his deputies had vowed to purge them from government and make them suffer. And now, on the sixth day of Trump’s second term, a federal health researcher was missing.
Her husband searched every room of their Baltimore townhouse, calling her name. “Caitlin?”
Caitlin Cross-Barnet had struggled with depression, and now her husband, Mike, found her on their narrow, third-floor fire escape. As he tried to coax her back in, she replied: “It’s not high enough to jump.”
[…]
Over the years, in her darkest moments, Caitlin had often told him she felt she didn’t measure up. She never felt adequate as a daughter, as a wife and mother, or as a researcher.
“Of course you’re enough,” Mike said over the phone. “You do so much. … You’re more than enough.”
Caitlin kept crying.
“You’re enough for me,” he tried to tell her. But soon after, she hung up.
The next call Mike received, 98 minutes later, was from a hospital in Virginia. He later learned that the mental health facility had staff checking on Caitlin every 15 minutes, but she saw an opening between checkups and killed herself.
Meet former federal worker Dick Midgette.
Richard was laid off from his IT job. This guy sat in his car sobbing to indie rock music and spiraled into suicidal thoughts. But he couldn’t call his parents for comfort because his dad voted for Trump.
Washington Post:
On the 26th day of Trump’s term, Richard Midgette, 28, was fired from his IT job at Yellowstone National Park. He drove to the only bridge in his town, stopping just past its edge. From the car, he listened to the rushing of the water and, for the first time, contemplated whether to end his life.
[…]
He pulled into a gas station next to the bridge and considered calling his parents. His dad had voted for Trump, and for weeks had been cheering the president’s promises to purge the government.
The Washington Post goes on to claim that Richard is “mentally healthy.” We beg to differ.
He had never suffered from depression or other mental problems, he said. But as he sat, newly unemployed, in his idling car just past the bridge, he was overwhelmed by dark thoughts.
And finally, you sadly can’t meet former federal employee Monique Lockett.
She collapsed at her cubicle after the DOGE dared to ask for access to her federal databases. But don’t worry, the Washington Post actually published a photo of her in the casket. Yes, they really did that, folks.
Look:
Monique was obese and had hypertension and high blood sugar, but somehow it was Trump and DOGE’s fault that she died.
Washington Post:
On the morning of Feb. 18, Monique and others returned from the Presidents’ Day weekend to an office tense with news of King’s departure and rumors of more cuts.
Monique was at her cubicle on the third floor of headquarters when she collapsed, co-workers said. The medical examiner listed the cause of death as “hypertensive, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.” Monique’s family and many close co-workers blamed her heart attack on stress at work.
Monique had risk factors for heart disease, including obesity, high blood sugar and high cholesterol, according to her medical records. Two experts who reviewed her records at The Post’s request said in cases like hers, stress, uncertainty and tension at work can contribute to cardiac arrest.
Sadly, this isn’t satire. This is what happens when emotionally fragile people are gifted jobs they don’t deserve and fed a delusion that they are freedom fighters on some noble crusade against “evil Republicans.” These aren’t resilient workers; they’re political cultists who’ve mistaken a job title for a mission.
For decades, these swampy bureaucrats have lived cozy off the backs of hard-working Americans, producing nothing of value and pushing policies that hurt the people who paid their salaries. Now that they’re feeling a small fraction of the disruption they heaped on the middle class, we’re all expected to mourn like it’s a national tragedy.
That’s the vibe from the Post article.
Business isn’t personal. Restructuring isn’t war. Cutting bloated federal agencies isn’t cruelty. But to these people, losing their cushy government job is like losing a father figure. The truth is, they don’t want work; they want Big Government Daddy protection.
What we’re seeing isn’t the result of “mean Trump policies,” it’s the total collapse of a fantasy gone wild. This taxpayer-funded DEI agenda gave broken people false status instead of the real help that they needed.
This taxpayer-funded DEI agenda gave broken people false status instead of the real help that they needed.
These people need Jesus. For Leftists, government ideology is often a substitute for religion. Government becomes a substitute for God.
In any large population, you can find people near the edge.
Hmmmm. Guess they should have taken the 10(?) month buy-out offer while they learned to work productively.
I’ve been fired, laid off, lost jobs because of buyouts, and just plain quit bad jobs, but never went into depression! These people are in serious need of psychiatric help, if there is such a thing..........
Trump’s fault! Trump’s fault! No, they had severe mental problems and should have been in a facility. At no time should they have even been in a job or around other people whom at any minute could have taken out along with themselves.
Of course, a life in pursuit of virtue-signaling uselessness will do that.
Umm, these are evil people. DEI = institutionalized racism.
Why unhappy about this? Evil folk are getting just what any bully deserves.
Celebrate it.
“ But he couldn’t call his parents for comfort because his dad voted for Trump…”
What a pussy.
L
From money for nothing to no money, too bad.
I was laid off from my first real job by Reagan but all I did was get another job.
There are people who have real anxiety/depression disorders.
Many try to self medicate with alcohol.
Then they may try various pharma drugs in the the form of antidepressants.
Some respond to those and can live a productive life.
Others take the easy way out.
When you are looking into the abyss, sometimes the abyss looks back.
The psychiatric "profession" made them what they are molding the teachers that raised them on a steady diet of positive reinforcement for no accomplishments.
My former electrician buddy was an Air Traffic Controller.
He got fired by Reagan. Went back to school and became an electrician.
Said the very same thing - for different reasons.
True. They’d be out on the fire escape if someone just turned the A/C too low or misgendered a co-worker.
“Dick Midgette”
No
Clicked it thinking it was the Bee.
The federal employee system created these people.
Making it ridiculously difficult to get rid of the dead wood sends the message to federal workers that they can almost do anything without repercussions.
And now the reality of what they thought would never happen.....they had a couple of opportunities to take a buyout and opted to pass it up......kinda hard to have empathy for that.
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