Axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing

[Buckeye_Democrat]

The amount of schadenfreude among Americans, even towards family members, is incredible! Sadistic, cold-hearted and sociopathic behavior!

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-federal-layoffs-c41ae32800a7f170484de79572543da2
(One example of many in the article...)
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing.
The country’s bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of cost-cutting measures directed by President Donald Trump and carried out by billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government’s waste.
“I’ve been treated as a public enemy by the government and now it’s bleeding into my own family,” says 24-year-old Luke Tobin, who was fired last month from his job as a technician with the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest.
Tobin’s job loss sent him scurrying to fill prescriptions before he lost his health insurance and filling out dozens of applications to find whatever work he can, even if it’s at a fast-food restaurant. But some relatives reacting to his firing as “what has to happen to make the government great again” has been one of the worst parts of the entire ordeal.
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[Irish_Dem]

1. MAGAs love pain and suffering when it happens to other people.

[dem4decades]

2. The fact that they will eventually feel the pain makes me happy.

[Rebl2]

7. But they

Scream bloody murder when it happens to them. It’s hard to feel sympathy for them.

[madaboutharry]

3. MAGA is a sadistic cult.

MAGA proves every day that monsters are real.

[malaise]

4. Ahem! Well - MAGAts (maggots)

maggot pronounced /ˈmaɡət/
noun
1. a soft-bodied legless larva of a fly or other insect, found in decaying matter.
"the maggots attack the roots of the developing cabbages"
2.ARCHAIC - a whimsical or strange idea.

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That is all😀

[William769]

5. I have a fucked up MAGA family

I don't think they are that cold. At least in the past they have been there when it counted. Yes lectures & all.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

6. I don't think my MAGA family members...

... would behave that way either, but my observations of them have been under more tranquil times. I'm not really sure how far they'd go to support their orange cult leader.

My so-called evangelical Christian sister is not behaving very Christ-like lately. It's becoming more obvious to me that social norms (as she perceives them) are more important than any gospels from the Bible. And she's way more concerned about WORLDLY agendas than a heavenly afterlife, much more now than ever in the past.
She's even a full-blown follower of the "prosperity gospel" now, with a greater likelihood of quoting Old Testament passages to argue that the most wealthy are the most Godly, and thus favored by God. Which obviously contradicts the gospels of Jesus Christ... the supposed basis of Christianity!