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'I’ve become sort of afraid of my own government': Fired federal workers speak out
WBUR ^ | 2/18/25 | Asma Khalid, Ashley Locke

Posted on 02/18/2025 5:37:22 PM PST by cotton1706

After a long holiday weekend, Allison Hassett Wohl of Maryland said she woke up at 3 a.m. feeling anxiety about what's going on with federal workers.

“Quite frankly, I’ve become sort of afraid of my own government,” she said. “And boy, that is a scary position to be in as a citizen.”

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Hassett Wohl is one of the thousands of workers that the Trump administration has let go in recent days in its effort to purge and shrink the government. She says she received a termination letter from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Saturday.

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The irony.
1 posted on 02/18/2025 5:37:22 PM PST by cotton1706
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To: cotton1706

I’m glad he feels the same as the public.


2 posted on 02/18/2025 5:38:36 PM PST by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: cotton1706

Me too and I’m not a coddled fed.


3 posted on 02/18/2025 5:38:39 PM PST by JZelle
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To: cotton1706

The irony.

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Yes. Most people like her look at big government as a god.


4 posted on 02/18/2025 5:39:39 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: cotton1706

I had to triple check if this was The Babylon Bee.


5 posted on 02/18/2025 5:41:04 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: cotton1706
Just now?

Just at the moment I start feeling somewhat less afraid?

Interesting.

6 posted on 02/18/2025 5:41:13 PM PST by Salman (In Hell it is a punishable offense not to call it Heaven.)
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To: cotton1706

You created this beast.


7 posted on 02/18/2025 5:41:23 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: cotton1706

Welcome to the party, now you know how all the non government employed Americans have felt about you for the last 12 years.

Now instead of being a tyrannical liberal bureaucrat stealing our taxes go get a real job and shut up, count your blessings you are not being charged criminally.

The average citizen has had enough of your grift.


8 posted on 02/18/2025 5:42:03 PM PST by Skwor
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To: laplata

Or maybe a goddess, like a Pachamama momma’s-milk-for-all type?


9 posted on 02/18/2025 5:42:12 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: cotton1706

Southwest Airlines just had 15% haircut, toots. Cry me a river. It happens in the real world. There is always dead weight.


10 posted on 02/18/2025 5:42:30 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: cotton1706

Irony and complete ignorance. Living in a fantasy world. Wake up Neo. Here’s your red pill.


11 posted on 02/18/2025 5:42:55 PM PST by freedomjusticeruleoflaw (Strange that a man with his wealth would fhave to resort to prostitution.)
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To: cotton1706

The jokes just wrote themselves, especially when the headline is one.

Again, written from the perspective of “The Beltway is America”


12 posted on 02/18/2025 5:43:05 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: cotton1706
...she woke up at 3 a.m...

In her own bed....not in the DC gulag.

13 posted on 02/18/2025 5:43:43 PM PST by gundog (The ends justify the mean tweets. )
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"Southwest Airlines just had 15% haircut"


Only 15% got haircuts?
14 posted on 02/18/2025 5:46:26 PM PST by Bikkuri (I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
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To: cotton1706

Now they know how others felt.


15 posted on 02/18/2025 5:46:36 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Skwor
Welcome to the party, now you know how all the non government employed Americans have felt about you for the last 12 years.

Yup, first thing that came to mind for millions of us citizens. "Welcome to the party, pal!"

16 posted on 02/18/2025 5:48:21 PM PST by roadcat ( )
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To: cotton1706

Imagine how the J6 victims felt/feel.

I do not feel sorry for this person AT ALL.


17 posted on 02/18/2025 5:48:29 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: cotton1706

This poor soul! Now they need to get a real job… based on merit? And even have to work and go to an office? The horror! The horror! The horror!


18 posted on 02/18/2025 5:48:41 PM PST by Professional ( )
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To: blackdog

yes, very scary, looking at my W-2.


19 posted on 02/18/2025 5:49:53 PM PST by Kenny500c ( )
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To: cotton1706

There’s a 36 trillion dollar deficit. Sorry in order to make an omlet you must break some eggs


20 posted on 02/18/2025 5:50:51 PM PST by Lod881019
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