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.”
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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.
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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.
“It’s Nature’s way of telling you
Something’s wrong”
FTA - On the 26th day of Trump’s term, Richard Midgette, 28, was fired from his IT job at Yellowstone National Park.
IOW, “On the 26th day of Trump’s term, MAGA gave to me, a soyboy gets fired from his cushy government job.”
OK, look, unemployment sucks. Bigtime. It is not a joke or an opportunity. People who have a job have structure to their lives, money for gas and groceries and a purpose.
Our society should have a place where people can go and apply for jobs other than Indeed and crap like that where no one responds and you stay unemployed forever. People want to work, but the process of finding a job is miserable.
If it was easier to find a job, this depression over losing a job wouldn’t be so intense.
We hear about all these available jobs going begging—where are they?
Their last horror - lying and protecting an idiot with dementia was the final tipping point. The mask was off - an administration that spent billions 'connecting rural America to the internet and had not connected ONE person. The administration that spent billions to build EV car 'charging stations' around the county and built LESS THAN 20 WAS FINISHED. Liberal press lies and open pity parties could not save the people who had been set up in jobs they weren't qualified for...
It's the Washington Post and other MSM liars who set these people up for a fall... who killed them and destroyed their lives.
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..........
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Psychiatric help is a joke as is “counseling.”
Same here. I had jobs that were driving me nuts. Eventually, I worked for myself. I would get angry at the boss…but what could I do? Ha Ha.
Correct, he got fired by Reagan AFTER going on strike/walking off the job.
There are quite a few ATC’s in the area because of the FAA center in Nashua. Several hundred work there.
So, there are a lot of retired ATC around here too.
The local community College just started a two year ATC program sponsored by the FAA.
I know another ATC who did it the old fashioned way. He enlisted in the USAF and spent a year in Baghdad. Another year after that in the states. Got out and was immediately hired by the FAA. After civilian training he was given a choice of three airports. He has been at Miami International since. His total cost of training was ZERO dollars. No student loans. Just two years of his life with one in the sand box.
In 2009 when I saw the Obama deficit over 1 trillion USD per annum and plans to make it even worse then I knew that I had to divest myself from Northern Virginia. At the time my paycheck and most valuable financial asset, a house in Fairfax County, were located there. By year-end I had sold the house and have been debt-free ever since (except a few small stints of using a home equity line to buy another house & now debt-free completely for over 7 years) and have bought several more homes. At some point in time the music was going to stop for this fun game of musical chairs in the National Capitol Region of America. The time its taken for this day of reckoning to happen has far exceeded what I thought it would take.
The US economy is the Deficits. And James Carville said, “Its the economy, stupid”. Right now the primary war for the breadcrumbs is between current/future SS/Medicare recipients and the Deep State. Both sides can’t win because the National Debt is way too big now. The only question is whether either side can still get anything at all.
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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Some people would rather work than sit around and collect a check.
During all of this there was the ‘protected’ class working for the federal government - cleaning up on overtime and being one of the few groups who still have pensions instead of 401Ks and the equivalent. Many of them voted their self-interest, which means consistently voting for Democrats. I don't want anyone to be hurt, but I have a hard time feeling sorry for people who had no problem with how their choices affected the rest of us.
“Some people would rather work than sit around and collect a check”
Fear of termination is a very effective motivator.....in the federal workforce that leverage is in large part missing.
I’ve been furloughed since April 1 for the second time in four years. I am living the dream.
I skimmed right over that. Ha ha.
I don’t know about anyplace other than here.
There are ‘Now Hiring’ and ‘Help Wanted’ signs all over town. Even sign-on bonuses being offered..............
Here are those people you think may have killed a president and successfully covered it up for over 60 years. I don’t think so.
“From money for nothing to no money, too bad.”
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The government is very process oriented and suffers from employees who have attitudes of entitlements. The private sector is more production oriented and relies on people with demonstrated expertise. Hence there’s little need for people with “government experience” in the private sector.
The government employees who do have real skills, a work ethic and actual accomplishments will do just fine, and maybe even better, outside of government. They have nothing to worry about.
So instead of institutions for the mentally ill, we give them government jobs.
Good grief. I’ve been laid off and it sucks.
But you deal with it, keep fighting and end up landing on your feet, often with something much better than you had before.
Marktwain, I think you hit the nail on the head. Some of these people don’t know Jesus and the government fills that void for them. And that’s just incredibly sad.
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