• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    Others worry that if Trump distances himself from DOGE, their ties to it could become a professional liability, said sources.

    Oh you sweet summer child. It was always going to be a professional liability

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      And rightly so. If we ever get back to some semblance of normalcy, anyone who bent the knee should be blackballed from government work.

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    “So, what is this 5 month gap in your CV”

    “Well, I was working for DOGE”

    “Right, I think we know enough and can end this job interview. Thank you for your time. Don’t call us, we’ll call you”.

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      “That’s when I was kicking the foundations out from under the country while working for a ketamine addict”

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      Don’t you worry about them, daddy’s got a nother job lined up for them already.

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        The guy who started bringing one of his young children around as a human shield after the United Healthcare CEO got murdered isn’t going to care about the fate of mere minions.

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          Yeah, their actual fathers are what I’m talking about?! Not Daddy Elon, that’s frickin gross.

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      Was looking for someone to point this out. DOGE cuts will be tied to the explanation of thousands of otherwise avoidable deaths

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    I hope they understand that they are in the blackest blacklist IT has ever seen. Fucking radioactive.

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      Why is this “If we ever find out you worked for DOGE, this is reason for immediate termination of your contract and will allow us to reclaw all payments we ever did to you.” in the contract?

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    “Some DOGE staffers […] fear that [this shitstorm] could leave them vulnerable to political retribution and damage their future job prospects”

    I wanted to make a sarcastic comment about how so many of them are super young, and so this must sting especially. However, I couldn’t figure out a way to say this in a sufficiently mocking tone. Fuck 'em

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    Musk, for his part, downplayed the idea that DOGE needed him to survive as he left the Trump administration last week.

    “DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” he said. “You wouldn’t ask the question, ‘Who would lead Buddhism?’”

    Grandiose much?

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    Oh for… It’s been like a few months, just leave DOGE off your resumes and come up with something to explain the gap! If you were notorious enough to be recognized by name as a DOGE staffer then just go job hunting in the red states or set up somewhere where nobody cares. There’s plenty of tech bro nonsense firms that will take them…The softest brush with anything resembling consequences has this lot screaming and while I understand folk love hearing it their entitled assholery is grating as hell.

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    “If you fire me I will release…” looks at data for a bit, cherry picking some juicy morsels, decides on “…this!”. So I think Elon’s techno-thugs should be safe for a while longer.

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    What are your bootstraps made of, overcooked spaghetti?! Pull ‘em harder, snowflakes!

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      Doge charges in places and gets hundreds of thousands of government employees fired. Retribution only makes sense.