Philly Trump Fan Shocked to Be Fired by 'Wrecking Ball' DOGE

[UpInArms]

A Trump-voting Internal Revenue Service worker said he was shocked to be fired in the latest mass cull of federal employees by Elon Musk’s “wrecking ball” DOGE squad.

On Thursday, between 250 and 300 probationary IRS workers in Philadelphia were let go. Night-shift workers were reportedly slated to receive their lay-off letters Thursday evening. Union leader Alex Jay Berman said around 400 workers in total would be given the chop, NBC Philadelphia reported.

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One of those who was given his marching orders was Donald Trump voter Robert McCabe. He told NBC10 he was brutally let go when waiting for instructions on how to deal with a log-in issue.

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“You know when he talks about government waste and all that, yes, I’m behind it,” he said. “I believe there is a lot of stuff in the government that needs fixing. And that’s part of the reason why I actually wanted to work for the government, actually. To help change. Help change the things that are wrong in the world, you know?”

“I thought that someone with his business acumen would have come in with a fine-tooth comb and actually found it instead of coming in with a wrecking ball and destroying people’s lives for no reason.”

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[Blues Heron]

1. hoist by his own petard aka leopards ate his face, and/or doge-weasels ripped his flesh

[DinahMoeHum]

25. Thanks for the Zappa phrase. . .

[Blues Heron]

26. Zappa would have some things to say about whats going on today for sure!

[Rebl2]

59. Yes he

would have. He would say told you so🫤

[Leghorn21]

2. "someone with his business acumen" hahahahahahahahahahahaha

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha, okay, Bob! Guess you have now *lived and learned*, eh?!

[radicalleft]

8. Right?!

How anyone in this day and age still believes he has any business sense is beyond me...

[birdographer]

19. That caught me short, too!

For them, reality TV is reality. He played a business man, so clearly he IS a business man. They are simply too staggeringly stupid to believe.

[LisaM]

42. Part of the problem is that there is still a large faction of people who think business people

should run government. I don't know how you shake loose that mentality, even though it's never been proven to work.

What kind of a businessman Trump is is almost a secondary issue. Obviously he's way worse than most, but people in the business world simply don't understand how government is supposed to work (or they do, and just want a larger share of the pie for a few people at the top).

[3Hotdogs]

27. They was supposed ta go only after waste. Well....

Trump voters are nothing but a waste of skin and bones.

[DENVERPOPS]

32. The Trumphumping voters

have yet to fully realize that they have all outgrown their usefulness, and will be kicked under the bus from here forwards.

Trump told them at rallies: "Vote for me, this one last time, and you will never have to vote again" and all 75+Million of them were SOOOOOO stupid they didn't realize what he was saying to them.......Bend over you idiots.....

[Rebl2]

31. Yeah

That made me wonder about this guy’s IQ saying trump has business acumen. 🙄

[Rebl2]

60. Likely

he has not. He voted for trump and still liked his idea of cutting government waste. Guess he became part of that govt. waste .

[GreenWave]

3. At least the knife in the back could get use in the kitchen.

With IQ 45-47= -2, you never will get rewarded only stabbed in the back.

[dutch777]

4. Only wish there were more Trump voters amongst the purgees. Of course looks like the farmers will get screwed too.

Hard to feel sorry for them except all of us might like to have the farmers still farming.

[DENVERPOPS]

38. The farmers never learn

He screwed them ROYAL in his first term.....................Bankrupting many small farms, so that large Corporate farms could acquire them for pennies on the dollar.........Of course rural people, esp rural farmers and ranchers, listen all day to RW Radio, Rush Limbaugh three times a day, (Before he croaked from his Oxy addiction), and go home and turn on Fox on their TV sets.......

The Psychiatrists in the nation have openly stated that if all you do is watch FoxNews, and listen to RW radio, for ten years, and no other real news programs, you will be effectively Brainwashed.......And here we are...............

It is no small wonder the Republicans have tried to destroy public education for over 45+ years, and will for certain destroy it this time around. He has already eliminated the Dept of Education, and the cabinet position, I am pretty sure................

BTW, I noticed that yesterday DeJoy, who as the Director of the USPS resigned. He has worked intently on destroying the USPS for 6-8 years. Immediately, Trump declared himself the new Director of the USPS and fired all the commissioners of the USPS, putting himself as the director to finish off the USPS. Incidentally one of the largest group of Union workers in the entire nation. Reagan must be cheering him from the grave......
This will trash ALL OF RURAL AMERICA, ESPECIALLY IN RED STATES, big time........

[Xolodno]

56. Farmers...and I have a lot of them in my family, most don't have a clue.

The USA actually produces more food than it needs. So the government often buys the excess and sends it to nations in need. Now they are not doing that, facing the reality. The irony, they wanted the government to reduce "waste", in actuality, that is exactly what is happening.

As the old saying goes, be careful of what you ask for.....

I have no sympathy however, its willful ignorance and I doubt any have read Steinback's "Grapes of Wrath". In managing people, sometimes I've learned, you have to let them fail in order to learn.

[dutch777]

57. I get the ignorance of individual famers but they have trade associations and such that aren't stupid

You have to believe that the trade groups are raising their hands and saying "Excuse me!". And there are a lot of middle men that grow nothing but skim money off the process by selling equipment, seed, transport, processing and so on. Total volume of goods decreases so does their profit. I pity the famers as it is a tough and honorable life and we need them.

[Xolodno]

58. With all due respect...

...they will nod yes with the trade groups, such as the Raisin Bargaining Association, go home and call them all a bunch of crooks. They will use all the water that is allotted to them, even if they don't need it, because in their view, if they don't use it all, they will get less next year and I can go on with numerous examples. Yes, its a hard life and those higher up are often screwing them over. But they comply. They think individually and often grow things that are not needed.

They are going to have to think harder about what they grow and how much. And maybe part of it is our own fault, mainly the GOP, they fight for these subsidies and keep rewarding bad behavior. I don't like it that its being done this way as there are better methods of approach, but putting cash in hand gets you re-elected despite the system needing a major overhaul and some regulation.

And maybe some of is our own fault for not addressing issues with ADM, John Deere, etc. They force thier operating costs to go up so the average farmer keeps chasing the quick buck to pay for it. Even if one farmer refused to use a new seed, he gets sued to hell by ADM and being accused of using his nieghbors excess seed of which is a violation of contract. It's a bad system that needs some serious regulation, but they voted to get rid of it.

[displacedvermoter]

5. Gotta believe someone this stupid would not have made it through the fine tooth comb process

Had there been such thorough vetting, sorry Robert.

[BoRaGard]

6. "Ha ha. Suckers and losers. Ha ha." - G.O.P. Felon-Rapist 47 and presidont Muck (R)

republicons sucker more Americans

as usual

[Aristus]

7. Sucks to be you, dickhead.

We told you not to vote for him.

[luvallpeeps]

9. Even if he believes his intentions were good,

anyone paying attention to the character of the president should have known better. They all saw the way he’d run government the last time. I won’t go on with the litany of transgressions. We all saw the clusterfu*ck of his first four yrs, culminating in an attempted coup. To be shocked by his bull in a china shop approach this time around, is deliberately wearing blinders and a little disingenuous. The belief he’d only hurt his perceived enemies is stupidity. Hard to have any mercy on these idiots. We’ll all be in hell, but they’ll deserve it.

[Jspur]

11. His base is a bunch of racist delusional voters

that believe somehow and someway he will bring back Jim Crow and therefore they won't be affected by what he does.

[Ilsa]

30. He couldn't see that trump and musk are sociopaths

and don't give a shit about taking a wrecking ball to other American's lives?

[DENVERPOPS]

39. I love the way

everyone has dumb downed "Psychopath" to Sociopath.......Sociopath is much less bad sounding...........

I guess we will all start describing someone as a "Socio" rather than "Psycho"

Not any different than calling the decision by the Supreme Court in 2010....."Citizens United".......LOL

[Upthevibe]

10. Kick. N/T

[Aviation Pro]

12. Yeah, well

Fuck you, you disgust me, MAGAt.

[lonely bird]

13. Someone with his business acumen?

The fucking guy’s companies went bankrupt. He committed fraud.

He bankrupted a casino ferchrissakes. Casinos print money.

I have zero sympathy.

[DENVERPOPS]

40. And his Casino

was bailed out by his father, who bought millions of dollars worth of the casino's gambling chips, and then he never cashed them in for money...........Back handed way to gift money. Same as Russian Oligarchs all buying extremely overpriced condos, in one of Trump's large condo buildings in Florida, and never moving in.........

Or the best of all, was Russian Oligarchs making Humongous donations to the U.S. NRA "branch" in Russia, and then the Russian Branch sends it all to the Real NRA headquarters in the U.S. and the US Headquarters of the NRA disseminates the hundreds of millions dollars to Republican Candidates in the 2016 election, all the way down the ballot.......

Or the outrageously huge donations by U.S. Oligarchs and Corporations to Trump's "pseudo PAC", which gives the money directly to Trump.

[Whiskeytide]

50. He's made it even easier now. Anyone ...

… can just buy some of his BS crypto meme coin. It’s just giving money to him.

I honestly think he was broke when he ran in 2016. He was living off a TV image and name licensing. His office was decorated with worn looking Formica desks and Naugahyde chairs. He was just a loud bullshitter and a mobster wanna be. He was running from creditors, faking his way as a NY “somebody”. He only ran to try and give his name a pump - “for his ratings”.

Now, unfortunately, I think he’s grifted and whored out the office of the president so effectively that he actually is very wealthy.

[DENVERPOPS]

53. Great thinking Whiskey

How about this one:

Quietly, Trump has appointed his two worthless spawn males, having them head a the whole crypto thing..........They can covertly corner the market of the entire Crypto Scam, having those two collect a huge amount of crypto..... Trump and Republicans can then make crypto the new U.S. Currency, having the U.S. buy the massive amount of Trump Crypto with all the Gold in Fort Knox, then, let the phony crypto based economy collapse, and Trump walks away the absolute richest person in the world......

We all know how TRUMP loves gold..........

[Demobrat]

14. If he thinks Trump has business acumen

he’s too stupid to work for us.

[spudspud]

15. Scary that someone that daft worked for the IRS and thought Frumpy has "business acumen."

Are you freaking kidding me? Well, I guess DOGE found at least one piece of government waste.

[robbob]

16. Maybe HE should have used a fine tooth comb

while vetting his candidate for the most powerful office in the land, instead of just swallowing whole whatever bile and bullshit emanated from his favourite “news” sources.

[liberalla]

21. Excellent observation. Look inward robert mccabe... it's an error in judgement --- YOURS!

in other words, duh!

[DENVERPOPS]

41. You can be sure

that every appointment by Trump, is run through "Putin's" fine tooth comb before he allows Trump to do it.........

And during his first term, Trump must have had some Back Channel Method of communicating with Putin.
But now, Trump probably has a direct line to Putin to use 24/7/365 and isn't even trying to hide it anymore...

[Owens]

17. YOU voted for this Robert!

Own it!

[Submariner]

18. Casino Cooler Don's business acumen?

A malfunctioning AI machine must have written that 'business acumen' fantasy thought.

He is such a successful casino cooler, he drove all 4 of his casino's out of business and into bankruptcy.

[NNadir]

22. Really! How does one go bankrupt running a casino?

[DENVERPOPS]

43. He has bragged that

he has mastered the art of corruptly getting rich off of bankruptcies. And has proved it!!!!!!!

WHILE THE NATION SLEPT.....................Enter HWBush, Reagan, Cheney, Rumsfeld, WBush, and Trump......and their Entire CABAL

[RobinA]

36. Many, Many People

belief this. They think because he's rich he is a good business man.

[DENVERPOPS]

46. In reality, if known,

He was probably not actually even wealthy, he just acted it, and everyone believed it......That is, until he started grifting in 2016, and from then on. He now has found he is in a position to corruptly amass an untold fortune from his second occupation of the White House......

There is an old adage: "If you can't Dazzle them with Brilliance, Baffle them with Bullshit"......

[sueh]

20. Business Accumen???!!!

OMG. FAFO!

[ToxMarz]

23. I think they might have accidentally gotten rid of the right person with this one

I feel better not having him and his accumen involved with my taxes.

[Pepsidog]

24. One of the worst businessman in the country, incurring billions in loses yet they still think he has

“business acumen”. After years of the left trying to show the public who this man is, none of it has stuck with his people. Even this guy still seems to think Trump has a mind for business. Fox and rw radio has poisoned the minds of millions who have no ability to think critically.

[edbermac]

28. Know what this is, dude?

It’s the world’s smallest violin and it’s playing just for you.

[Icanthinkformyself]

29. Reality is foriegn to MAGAs

“I thought that someone with his business acumen ....." enough said. They will never get it.

[SpankMe]

33. "There's waste everywhere in government - except where I work."

Welcome to the FO stage, sir.

I've read (but haven't confirmed) that the number of federal employees, excluding uniformed military, is about the same today as it was during the Eisenhower administration. It went way up afterward, but has come back down as more government functions have been farmed out to contractors over the decades.

I have first hand insight in to federal employment at DoD, FAA and USPS. If anything, the federal government is understaffed. Fraud, waste and abuse is not at the federal employee level, but is at the acquisitions/contract level. The focus should be on Medicare/Medicaid fraud and on inflated, cost-plus style DoD contracts. We're almost a $1T for a yearly defense budget. You can't tell me there ain't more low hanging fruit for cutting there than there is in the federal workforce.

Cutting probationary employees is a way to save a small amount up front, but will have dire consequences in the future because you're cutting out future experienced workers from the pipeline. This can't be interpreted as anything other than an agenda to destroy the federal government. I mean that literally. I don't know to what end. But we're in for a bad time for us, our children, grandchildren and future generations if smart opposition forces don't line up and get on the stick now and begin some serious pushback.

I know that Democrats are powerless to impeach, pass legislation or do anything immediately to stop the runaway train of destruction. But, they could start suing and moving this up the line toward the supreme court. They could be lots more active on TV and putting out statements. They could be out there coalition-building with like-minded organizations and flexing soft power. They need to be making noise. They must get the long game rolling. Republicans have been patiently working on this since Reagan, and look where they are today.

[Mr. Evil]

34. OMFG!

"... help change the things that are wrong in the world."

That was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris you incredibly dumbass motherfucker!!! Business acumen!? Are you fucking kidding me!? Government waste!? He's the very epitome of government waste. He and his fanboys just want to loot the treasury for billions of dollars and justify it by claiming there's so much fraud and waste.

Hey Robert, why don't you do everyone a great big fucking favor. Put in some earbuds with some really loud music you like and take a nice relaxing walk... on a fucking train track you stupid flaming asshole!

*Sorry for being so caustic. People like these are the very reason there are so many problems in this country right now. They suck the life out of everyone and everything.*

[tavernier]

35. I'm not happy when anyone loses their job because it's a devastating thing.

And, of course, the irony must be adding salt to the wound when he thinks about the fact that he wouldn’t have lost it if Harris had been elected. The greatest irony, though, is his delusion regarding trump’s business acumen. Had he been doing some personal research instead of numbly staring at Fox News, he would have known what a rotten and corrupt businessman Trump actually was, and is.

[Arazi]

37. If anyone is on Reddit I highly recommend the "Leopards Ate My Face" subreddit

I check in daily for some schadenfreude

[Quiet Em]

44. "I thought someone with his business acumen"

Idiot. Trump is a con artist. Always has been. I have no pity for this guy.

[synni]

45. Business acumen? Trump?

He's called Count Bankruptula for a reason.

[Initech]

47. They voted for this!

[CaptainTruth]

48. "his business acumen"? Dude, you have NOT been paying attention.

[BumRushDaShow]

49. They were reporting on the news here in Philly

that upwards of 400 of the 6700 layoffs were going to be at the 30th St. (Station) IRS office (which I believe is one of the regional offices).

We do have a bunch of dumbfucks here who live in South Philly and Northeast Philly where the 45 voters are.



(left map is the vote and the right map is the change/shift from 2020 to 2024)

[liberal N proud]

51. This is how ignorant the MAGA are

They find it hilarious when others are losing their jobs. They are certain that it will never happen to them.
Then it does!
I have no compassion for anyone who supports Putin’s puppets.

[Still Waters]

52. Sadly, someone this brainwashed would probably vote for Nero J. Trump

and his enabling junta the next time as well.

I hope if he is able to get unemployment that there will be a small flicker of realization that the only reason he can get that is because a Democratic politician somewhere fought with all their might to get it passed to benefit everyone, not just voters of one party or the other.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

54. So, narcissism and stupidity in equal measure.

He shouldn't worry: He'll probably be rehired as Director of the IRS. If Russia doesn't have anyone particular in mind.

[Hassler]

55. Tots and pears, Bobby. Tots and pears