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    Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public, and they should certainly be telling the public loudly and clearly prior to a transition into lunacy.

    If you think things aren’t going to be okay, get on national TV and say that. Tell people what you think is going to go wrong so that they can prepare. Give them a heads up.

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      Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public,

      Dude, millions of federal workers voted for Trump despite the fact that they plan on eliminating all of them (I don’t have exact numbers, but I’m certain this is true). They voted to eliminate their own positions.

      Even many of the people doing the job itself are dumb enough to vote directly against their interests. And you expect, what, everyone else to understand or give a shit?

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      Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public

      you want to address people who can’t understand why to wear mask during pandemic and lot of the jobs are just beyond the intellectual horizon of most of these people. even if it were, it still doesn’t change the fact that orange cheeto will put some incompetent rapist in the director chair of every institution he saw on tv. so maybe the best defense is to stay off the tv, then the idiot is probably not going to know they exist 😂

      i am pretty sure that professionals below any cheeto appointee will offer as much resistance as humanly possible, and… unless they are willing to murder someone, that is all they can do 🤷‍♂️

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        you want to address people who can’t understand why to wear mask during pandemic

        No he doesn’t. Why do you assume he wants to address idiot MAGAs, as opposed to disillusioned non-voters? They’re two totally separate groups.

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      Why does your job exist? Why is it important? What does it look like when your job is done well? These are basic things that government workers should be occasionally telling the public, and they should certainly be telling the public loudly and clearly prior to a transition into lunacy.

      If you think things aren’t going to be okay, get on national TV and say that.

      That’s not how national tv works at the moment, but I’d like to see it do that.