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alarimer

(17,146 posts)

10. Fuck you, Bessent.

Reply to allegorical oracle (Original post)

Mon Apr 7, 2025, 08:34 PM

Apr 2025

These are doctors, scientists, nurses and park rangers. They have degrees and knowledge that are useful. THEY DESERVE BETTER THAN TO ROT IN SOME MENIAL JOB. In any case these factories don't exist and they won't have people working in them anyway. Fucking piece of shit.

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Bessent: Laid-off federal workers can now go work in our factories [View all] allegorical oracle Apr 2025 OP

These "people " are insane. Lochloosa Apr 2025 #1

Will Bessent pay these people's expenses Henry203 Apr 2025 #2

Not only that, but many of these laid-off workers have not only college degrees-- allegorical oracle Apr 2025 #7

Yep. We need to put those high falutin' knowledge workers in their place Iris Apr 2025 #12

Yes, a ridiculous idea Meowmee Apr 2025 #14

Those good -- though too often mythical jobs -- that both sides have been promising for decades. Silent Type Apr 2025 #3

Sounds like something Mao did newdeal2 Apr 2025 #4

This. It's really chilling. Iris Apr 2025 #13

I would imagine most laid off federal workers have education and experience karynnj Apr 2025 #5

That man is a real fucking bastard. Biophilic Apr 2025 #6

This guy is an annoying bullshit artist to say BootinUp Apr 2025 #8

That last little dig he made about how private business was already in a allegorical oracle Apr 2025 #9

Do you really believe private business was in a recession arthritisR_US Apr 2025 #19

Fuck you, Bessent. alarimer Apr 2025 #10

Right, a cancer researcher is now supposed to work in a factory job Meowmee Apr 2025 #15

I used to hire such folk. Mopar151 Apr 2025 #11

What new manufacturing I've hard about nothing except a non-existent Honda plant. sinkingfeeling Apr 2025 #16

How magnanimous of him! Fired and "laid-off" workers can have all those nonexistent manufacturing jobs. Solly Mack Apr 2025 #17

Of course all these new factories Retrograde Apr 2025 #18