Welcome to our world, snowflakes

Where were all the sob stories in regime-controlled media when 8,000 military personnel lost their jobs in 2021 because they refused to take an untested vaccine for a survivable virus?

What about all the cops, nurses, physicians, firefighters, prison guards etc. who likewise were fired for not bending their knee to the Deep State tyrants?

Did you ever hear a word of sympathy for any of the 11,000 skilled tradesmen and construction engineers who were laid off on Jan. 20, 2021, when Dementia Joe Biden’s handlers shut down the Keystone Pipeline?

How about all the scientists and researchers who tried to point out that the virus was released from a Red Chinese lab in Wuhan and were punished, canceled, fired or lost grants for telling the truth?

Where were the candlelight vigils for them?

State-run media cheered on all the Fauci firings, shutdowns, school closures and other assorted authoritarian diktats. After all, the only people being fired were MAGA types, and they had it coming.

They’d voted for Donald Trump, so they had to be punished. The Beautiful People just all “worked” from home. Still do, a lot of them.

Even now, what about all the ongoing layoffs in the Dreaded Private Sector (DPS), day after day, week after week, year after year? It’s crickets. Nobody cares – at least nobody in state-run media outlets.

Just yesterday, 1,750 jobs were axed at Southwest Airlines. Last week, 8,000 at Chevron. Locally, how about Mayfair or Tripadvisor? In social media, Meta or Twitter.

The DPS layoffs – the RIFS, redundancies, sackings, whatever you want to call them — get covered, but only perfunctorily. There are never any human-interest follow-up stories.

Yet now, suddenly we’re deluged with stories about the “tragedy” of the layoffs in the federal workforce. Cuts in DEI, sustainability, gender empowerment programs – how can we possibly survive?

Welcome to our world, snowflakes. I’ve been fired so many times I can’t even remember the exact number anymore. Guess what – this is why I have two jobs. Just in case.

Have you noticed the sudden proliferation of stories about the tragedies of hacks losing their jobs?

On fake-news “60 Minutes,” they found two USAID workers. Of course, it turns out they weren’t really USAID employees. The plain Jane CBS “News” put on in fact “worked through” contractors “to support the USAID administration.” That’s from her own LinkedIn profile.

So she isn’t, or wasn’t, a USAID employee. She just plays one on a fake-news TV program.

See BS also put on a RINO from Massachusetts – ex-Rep. Andrew Natsios, who slurped at the USAID trough for years when he wasn’t “working” in Massachusetts at the Pike and on the Big Dig.

I don’t know what Natsios’ federal kiss in the mail is. But the comptroller says he’s been pocketing $34,367 annually from Massachusetts since he turned 55 – 20 years ago.

Natsios assured the failed See BS anchor that USAID is totally on the level, and you can trust him because he used to drive for George H.W. Bush in New Hampshire in 1980. That was Natsios’ ticket to a life of leisure and opulence, unlike what most Americans live.

The media are full of sob stories about those who are being separated from their lifetime vacations. Here’s a “public affairs specialist for the Department of Education.” She told USA Today that she suffers from “a disability that makes it hard for her to sit at a desk full-time.”

I’ve noticed there’s been a lot of that going around in the federal workforce. That’s why most of the office buildings are deserted, have been since 2020.

In that same story, I read about a 28-year-old woman who “found her dream job riding horses into the backcountry to maintain hiking trails for the U.S. Forest Service in Montana.”

What will she do now? I have a one-word answer: rodeos.

Winston Churchill once said of civil servants that they were neither civil nor servants.

But now they’re weeping in the buckets. The same themes appear over and over:

“The sudden pink lip is taking a mental toll… scrambling to figure out how to file for unemployment… reviewing their budgets… bills to pay – a mortgage, preschool tuition, a car payment….”

I repeat, welcome to our world.

In The Atlantic, which used to be a magazine, a trust-funded bed wetter boo-hooed that government workers now face “moral dilemmas of a kind of no American government employee has faced in recent history?”

You mean, like having to go to work every day?

“Protest or collaborate? Speak up against lawbreaking or remain silent?”

This is rich indeed, in the immediate wake of the ouster of the most lawless (and despised) administration in American history, a four-year junta in which hardly a single paper-shuffler objected to the unprecedented attacks on the Democrats’ political opponents and free speech.

As they get fired, how about the buyouts – they’re getting paid for eight months more of vacation, on top of the five-year long weekend they’ve been luxuriating in since 2020?

That, says The Atlantic, “inflicts trauma” on the hackerama, because it tells them “you are expendable.”

Which in fact you are. Elon Musk cut 80% of the layabouts and Twitter and has anyone noticed? Same thing here. Making people actually work?

It’s “the same experience” the magazine groaned, “as people who find themselves living under foreign occupation.”

Nancy Pelosi told us that everyone in the DPS losing their jobs was “funemployment.” It was being freed from “job lock,” and now the funemployed have more time to dabble in “the arts,” including poetry. Now the Democrats wail that clearing out the government deadwood is practically… genocide.

People in the real world are amused. As the old country song goes, “Here’s a quarter. Call someone who cares.”

One of my listeners texted me: “My husband worked for so many biotech companies. We had to buy COBRA and pay 11% interest on our house.”

Another one said: “When I was 23 I worked for AT&T and I was summoned to a mandatory meeting and told there was a ‘surplus in the employee sector.’ I didn’t understand. My buddy tapped me on the shoulder and told me we’d been fired.”

They didn’t give a bleep when we got fired. But now we’re supposed to care about them?

It would take a heart of stone not to laugh.