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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/07/12/read-the-note-some-lai d-off-state-department-staffer-left-behind-n2660268

The Trump administration can go forward with its plans to drastically
reduce the number of government workers, as people are learning that
there is no such thing as a job for life. No, they�re not special, but
these people and the media are treating these planned layoffs as if
these people were the first Americans ever fired from a job.

Tens of millions have endured similar circumstances or worse, which is
why these sob stories about laid-off workers having mental breakdowns
are rightly ignored. No one cares�we�ve all been fired before. Get over
it. At the State Department, at least 1,000 people are getting a pink
slip (via NYT):

The Trump administration began firing more than 1,000 State Department employees on Friday, as it moves to downsize the federal government�s diplomatic arm in what critics say is a risky retreat from America�s
global engagement.

The layoffs are part of a reorganization plan devised by Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, who says his department is too costly, cumbersome and ideological. Continuing President Trump�s drive to slash a federal work
force he inherently distrusts, the job cuts will drain the department of expertise and batter the morale of those who remain, critics say.

But the plan also has global implications, veteran diplomats say. It
refocuses American diplomacy around Mr. Trump�s narrow and transactional
sense of the national interest while downgrading priorities such as
human rights, democracy and refugees. In doing so, critics argue, it
undermines a moral purpose that, however imperfectly and inconsistently applied, has been a source of pride for generations of Americans and has distinguished the United States from more coldblooded global competitors
such as Russia and China.

Democrats and diplomats also warned on Friday that Mr. Rubio�s plan to
cut the department�s U.S.-based work force by about 17 percent,
including through about 1,400 layoffs announced on Friday, would leave
the department short handed � especially after the recent elimination of
the U.S. Agency for International Development, whose relatively few
surviving programs will be transferred to the State Department.

Career bureaucrats will always make excuses to keep the federal payrolls bloated. To Trump�s credit, he doesn�t care. Trump won the election;
he�s going to do it his way. And this saga, leads to this note which led
to someone posted before they left. It reconfirms what we knew about
these government workers:

But some staffers are leaving notes behind for their colleagues, like
this one left in the bathroom.

PBS News
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A State Department employee shared with PBS News an image from inside
the department. The image includes a piece of paper taped to a mirror
with the words, "Colleagues, if you remain: RESIST FASCISM. Remember the
oath you vowed to uphold."


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November 5, 2024 - Congratulations President Donald Trump. We look
forward to America being great again.

We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.

Every day is an IQ test. Some pass, some, not so much.

Thank you for cleaning up the disasters of the 2008-2017, 2020-2024 Obama
/ Biden / Harris fiascos, President Trump.

Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.

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