Summary

IRS worker Robert McCabe, a Trump voter, expressed shock after being among 7,000 laid off by DOGE, an initiative under the Trump administration led by Elon Musk.

McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

The layoffs, targeting probationary employees with less than a year of service, affect hundreds at the IRS and are part of a broader effort to shrink the federal workforce.

The cuts raise concerns about impacts on tax collection during a critical season.

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    12 hours ago

    “I didn’t think the leopards were going to eat MY face” - says the person that voted for the Leopards Eating Faces party

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    18 hours ago

    The IRS, particularly, was spoken about as a clear target well before Election Day. The GOP make it clear they want to kill the revenue generating service because they’re actually terrible business people.

    This guy is an idiot if he didn’t think he could be impacted, too.

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    Wait, so when it was destroying other people’s lives, that was fine, but now that it’s your life, you wanna be a bitch?

    Let me help you here dear trump voter… Fuck you, you deserve it.

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    McCabe stated DOGE is acting like a “wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

    Reading between the lines, ol’ Bob here seems to think that only MAGA are people. Destroying the libs’ lives is perfectly fine.

    • toomanypancakes@lemmy.world
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      That’s what they all think. They’re violent, hateful, and disgusting people. I’m wondering how long before Nazi hat wearing motherfuckers start getting attacked in public as a matter of self defense.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

        A few miles away, another prison employee, Crystal Minton, accompanied her fiancé to a friend’s house to help clear the remnants of a metal roof mangled by the hurricane. Ms. Minton, a 38-year-old secretary, said she had obtained permission from the warden to put off her Mississippi duty until early February because she is a single mother caring for disabled parents. Her fiancé plans to take vacation days to look after Ms. Minton’s 7-year-old twins once she has to go to work.The shutdown on top of the hurricane has caused Ms. Minton to rethink a lot of things.“I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.

        Crystal Minton, who inadvertently became the ideological core of the MAGA movement. She said the quiet part out loud.

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          I like what the left wants is universal healthcare, a social safety net, housing for everyone, just stuff where we’d love it if everybody had access to it. The only people who need to be “hurt” are the straight-up actual criminals who seem to otherwise dodge every consequence and those people are extremely rich assholes who have a lot of power and use it all for pure evil and none of them are regular people.

          But then the right comes along and it’s always “how can we bring the most cruel, crude punishment to this margainalized group of poor people?” and it’s just, like…fucking really?

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    So anyways, I think we need to come together on a Leopard’s Obesity Awareness program. Nobody seems to be talking about just how fat those poor poor leopards are getting!!

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    No kidding you voted for the person that said he wanted to hurt people.