These are public service workers who are having their jobs taken from them. People are losing pentions. Some departments will have all employees laid off and remain in name only (because it takes an act of congress to disband some departments)
Think of who maintains your parks. Think of who provided nessisary demographics and statistics to businesses and universities. Think of who runs GPS and weather satilites. Think of who tests your water and air. Who tests your produce, meat and drugs. The IRS got this letter as well. Their "customer service" branch is probably getting the axe. Who will you call if your tax return is stolen?
The reality is life will worsen for the average American due to these layoffs. This is a rug pull on the public by the billionaire class.
The first day of his inaguration, Trump put forth an executive order that will attempt to make all federal employees Schedule F, basically, the same protections as a political appointee instead of a civil servant. This will make them basically at will employees.
DunkinCoder is correct they are also making it really awful to work for the federal government with RTO and freezing of funding. And the hiring freeze. But it's not the complete picture, its actually much worse.
There will be court cases with federal employees trying to keep their jobs. I suspect they will fail, due to how the courts are republican controlled right now. The firings haven't started yet. Expect them soon. There will be loyalty tests. There's an email floating around asking federal employees to rat on "DEI hires", whatever that is. Are minorities that are actually entirely qualified for their federal position a "DEI hire"? Do you get fired if you don't pretend that they are?
All federal employees have been reclassified to political employees instead of nonpartisan civil servants, meaning they are closer to at will employees.
This has never happened before.
All federal employees now serve at the will of the party in power. There will be loyalty tests. There will be entire departments defunded and dismantled.
They are reviewing social media posts as we speak to decide who to keep. That's right, that includes folks at the CDC, FDA, EPA..... every paperwork jockey, no matter how minor their position, is now subject to the whims at the party in power in a way they were not before.
All these firings will be contested. They'll go to the courts. Say... Who owns the courts right now?
You have no idea what is happening. The purges begin 90 days from now.
If I stole $62 million dollars (fta, Bilzerian owes this as his original amount), I'd be thrown in jail.
They've let this guy dick around for 31 years and haven't gotten the public's money back.
The USA has extradition with St Kitts and Nevis as far as I can tell. Running away to a tax shelter island (a British commonwealth, for fucks sake) shouldn't be enough for the USA to shrug it's sholders and give up.
The capitalist class plays by different rules. Don't let them get away with excuses like this.
Unrelated, why aren't there more women in Linux spaces? We'll never get to the bottom of it I fear. I haven't read the comments in this thread yet, I'm sure they're all completely uncontroversial.
...my stats professor is a programmer, though. Are you not talking about high level statistics courses? A lot has changed since R and Rstudio has been developed. (It's FOSS!). All of my assignments are either proofs in LaTeX or questions that involve programming.
( If you're in a stats course and using excel, you are learning stats for babies. Your class has business majors in it.)
Counterpoint: how would you ensure each go fund me actually goes to this guy's defense and not some random scammer? Apparently his family is wealthy. I'm assuming all those go fund me pages are "unofficial" and not associated with him.
yea honestly? it's funny as fuck, legendary prank. Oh no a dead bear in central park oh noooooo
Hear me out: what actually troubles me is his opinions about vaccines. Strange take, I know.