Officials in US health agencies fear ‘people will get sick’ as programmes are slashed and scientists are fired under the constant surveillance of DOGE
Zoom meetings are avoided out of fear they are being secretly recorded. Conversations about budgets and policies are held in soundproof offices, as if they were matters of national security. Many employees carry small notebooks with them, jotting down notes instead of logging them on a computer. The desks of several sacked colleagues are empty — save for the few who have left family photos and possessions behind in case a judge rules they can return.
“There is a constant sense that we’re being watched and monitored,” the source said. “DOGE leadership are located several floors above but they have this omnipotent presence … We’re counted when we swipe our badges into the building.”
It’s not irrelevant. Voting to confirm some obviously incompetent moron into a cabinet position makes you complicit.
True, but his main point stands. It’s not just this. Every single time the Trump admin does something shitty, one of the first three comments is about how it’s the Democrats fault.
Lemmy is being manipulated.
I’m hoping the truth can prevail over the very loud noise. But if five people come after me to argue against Democrats, what will most people in here end up believing?
I’m fine with criticizing Democrats when it’s specific and targeted. This one kind of gets there. But, you know, isn’t there a bigger issue?
The point is that the Democrats aren’t doing anywhere near enough to resist the fascist takeover and that had been true pretty much since day one. They are so hell bent on preserving the status quo that they’ll rather hand the country to the fascists than support any meaningful change.
The point is that you want to discourage/split the vote for next election.
You’re doing the same the Fox News and talk radio did to Hillary Clinton over 20 years.
Fuck Democrats! I don’t even want them to feature in the next election. They need to disband and retire the entire party. Not like we’re ever getting free and fair elections again anyways!
What we need is an entirely new party with only two plainly stated goals: “We are going to Eat the Rich, and fucking Slaughter Nazis!”
I’m sure you will achieve these goals any day now.
It’s as likely as the dems accomplishing anything.
They should be calling for impeachment every single day. Obviously it’ll never pass, but it’ll gum up the works and at least show that Trump’s shitshow it’s unacceptable.
I’m hoping they’ve quietly been working on individual Republicans. It’d make sense to do this very quietly.
I have no evidence of this. Of course we wouldn’t. But it also seems like it should have happened by now. Was shoving the military into LA not enough?
What Lemmy threads have you been in for the last two years? The constant refrain in every political thread was about how the Democratic Party, in control of the executive, should not march into genocide, fascism, and hand Trump a second term. Those people got heavy resistance in every thread likewise without fail. There were those who felt a stance on Gaza was hypocritical and that a genocide should not have any place in their politics.
This is the entirely preventable and predictable reality.
Republicans are certainly to blame for all their crimes, but the Democrats are accessories before, during and after the fact, when they should be the cops.
a surprising number of DEMS are actually Dinos, hence whyit so easy some of them capitiulate tot he gop, because they work with them behind the scenes. its all mostly backdoor deals anyways, gop does this, dems get this next election,etc.
They’re all owned by corporate lobbyists with very few exceptions.
I’ll agree with complicit, but the main responsibility lies with the gop and the public that put them in place. There are 77 million people responsible, and a few dems “complicit”.