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.
And to think nobody wrote sob stories about me the times I got laid off. There’s a Pulitzer waiting to be written!
Working for yourself can be working for the most unforgiving boss.
No, they had severe mental problems and should have been in a facility.
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Problem is, there’s no more ‘facilities’. A lot of mental hospitals were closed during the Reagan era. (Don’t get me wrong... I love and respect Ronaldus Magnus. It just happened under his watch.)
Perhaps President Trump can order the building of more mental hospitals.
Even worse...the dirty little secret in the government is that contractors do a lot of work that feds should be doing. There are legions of contractors in every agency doing all manner of work, and after awhile the feds find ways to shift work over to them. Contractors are supposed to perform discrete, specialized tasks for limited periods of time, but the reality is that many of them become extensions of the federal workforce — much to the delight of federal workers.
Same here in southern NH. There are help wanted signs everywhere.
The problem is that many of those jobs are real work. Meaning you have to wait tables or do something physical.
I do not mean roofing or landscaping either. Those jobs are so physically demanding that they are almost exclusively done by illegals.
I think I could make a living just doing odd jobs for things people need done around their house. I see them asking all the time on my local Facebook page.
IF you have a pickup truck you can make money just taking things to the dump for people.
I sell firewood on the side. It started mostly just to clean up my 12 acre property. Trees die, they break, fall over. Last fall I sold ten pick up truck loads. I could have sold twenty easily. It is hard physical labor though. I sell them for CASH. No credit cards, no VENMO, no Apple pay. No checks. CASH.
“Some of these people don’t know Jesus and the government fills that void for them.”
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For many, government IS their religion. They literally worship it because it benefits them in so many ways.
Even before Dei probably half the Federal workforce was incompetent and unproductive. Massive cuts were in order. The problem was that in any cuts the few good workers would be aced and the worthless time servers protected.
“I think I could make a living just doing odd jobs for things people need done around their house.”
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Very true. But one problem is that most people don’t want to pay you sufficiently for your services, especially when it comes to “small jobs” (which they think should all be quick and easy). Always charge enough to cover your time, materials, profit, and a possible call-back.
Unfortunately, “Now hiring” signs don’t actually mean they are hiring.
Like the streets, the office cubicle farm is the "mental health facility". Scott Adams of Dilbert fame made a fortune sharing stories about the goings-on in such "facilities".
Similar story here.
I grew up, got in gear sooner or later and carried on.
Throw God out of your country and guess who shows up?
Ghost jobs shouldn’t exist but they do.
Employers should be in jail for that.
Forgot to add ‘company went bankrupt’ to the list.............
Forgot to add ‘company went bankrupt’ to the list.............
Correct, which means you are in the $50-75/hour range to do small jobs.
There is a local guy I know who started a small engine repair service.
He is a retired engineer. He works on small tractors, snow blowers, lawn mowers, etc.
The first thing he needed was a pickup truck and a trailer.
Then he bought a winch to put on the trailer.
He charges $40 to pick up and return your machine. Then $75/hour to work on it.
He has more work than he can handle. He doe not advertise. It is just word of mouth.
FYI, he has my 1999 John Deere lawn tractor right now. He is doing a compression test on the engine. It is blowing smoke under pressure. I thought it was coming from a leak around the valve cover. It is burning oil. Might need new rings. Which means it is a PARTS tractor now.
A whole LOT more must be done for what THEY have done. Those types of individuals, knowing it is very difficult to terminate them after they pass probation, develop an intolerable entitlement attitude which develops into a very authoritative, despotic way of dealing with people. They KNOW they cannot survive employment in the private sector with that attitude as it is what they have become, so depression sets in when they begin to realize they will have to suffer the same humiliations we in the private sector have to endure on a day-to-day basis.
After treating the public so badly, the very thought of being treated the same way by someone without recourse leads to suicidal thoughts. Their very way of living destroys them, IF they get fired. If they keep working with all of the protections and benefits they have, most get worse and worse.
You could never charge them enough. The homeowners are reaching out on Facebook because there isn't a viable market in place.
You can go online and see contractor after contractor talking about how their business was previously 80% wealthy customers and 20% regular folks but is now 100% wealthy customers. The work is almost all new construction and installation instead of repair.
We've reached a stage where labor is prohibitively expensive while parts are inexpensive. It costs less to wire up a floor of a brand new house than it would cost to replace just one outlet in an existing house. The tooling and construction techniques for new work compared to renovation are a large part of the equation. Also, even just the cost of driving to the job site often far outweighs the cost of materials and labor for the actual work.
All that's before you get into the liability issue. Nick one water line or electrical line and it's game over. That $75 job the homeowner wanted just turned into thousands of dollars of damage.
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