Won't Someone PLEASE Think Of The Feds? NBC News Shamefully Plays Emotional Blackmail With Layoffs

Posted • March 14, 2025: The legacy media doesn't really have any substantive arguments to make against DOGE. A large majority of Americans support cutting waste, fraud, and corruption out of the federal government. And not with a scalpel, with a chainsaw. But, being the committed leftist apparatchiks that they are, the media has to try something to stop the Bad Orange Man. Usually, that involves calling everything that President Trump and Elon Musk do (even breathing) racist. Or sexist. Or, reflecting the Democrats' inability to come up with anything original to say, calling both men Nazis and Hitler. When all of that fails though, as it has been, they still have one more ace up their sleeve: emotional blackmail. Last night, NBC News tried to tug at people's heartstrings to turn them against DOGE, trotting out sad stories of workers who have been laid off. (It's funny how they didn't do this when Bill Clinton fired nearly 400,000 federal workers in the 90s.)

NBC News @NBCNews: “In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers share stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more amid job cuts and a barrage of messages that federal workers have no value.” —— Oh, please. Are they suffering hair loss and bleeding gums, too? First of all, no one is telling Feds that they have no value. DOGE is just identifying that the WORK they do has no value. The clip from the popular sitcom The Big Bang Theory kind of sums it up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVjpB6zXueg&t —— LOL. Sorry, we couldn't resist. But the NBC story gets truly shameful in its attempt to manipulate people against the vitally necessary cuts that DOGE is making. It starts by comparing one worker's job loss -- and we wish we were kidding about this, but we are not -- to the suicide of his daughter and his battle with cancer.

This is disgraceful. And we are not saying that of the worker in question here. It's fine, even touching, for him to share his personal story. But for NBC to frame it this way? Comparing losing a job to suicide? Absolutely reprehensible. (By the way, there are a lot closer to three million federal employees, not two million. DOGE recommendations, to date, have resulted in cutting far less than even one percent of those jobs.) The story goes on to detail therapists, medications, bipolar disorders, and other mental illness ailments from 20 anonymous workers. And this is supposed to make Americans think that these people should be working in the federal government? (…)

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