The real reason MAGA hates fed workers

[nowisthetime]

Think of your average MAGA nut.

No, not the billionaires or even millionaires who have a vested interest in tax cuts.

I'm talking about your average every day MAGA nut.

Historically, federal workers have been known to receive the best benefits and job security, they know their rights.

MAGA nuts must have forgotten that a good portion (around 30% or so) federal jobs are composed of veterans who served their country.

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Now, once again, think of your average MAGA nut.

Many of them are unemployed mooching off government welfare.

Alot of them have shitty job security, micromanaging nagging bosses, and just a general shit quality of life. Just miserable unhealthy human beings. Have you ever seen a good looking and healthy MAGA nut?


Take that bleached blonde bimbo from Faux news who recently said that federal workers need to get a real job. As if reading from a teleprompter is a real job. She's just throwing red meat out to her no nothing audience.

All this hatred boils right down to jealousy.

Am3rica ...the only "developed" country in the world where the rich make $$$ convincing broke idiots that someone making $15 an hour is the bane of their existence.

 

[ll74]

The hatred of government workers is puzzling to me.

 

[Fuzzy1975]

The hatred of government workers is puzzling to me.

I think it comes from the front line workers. This scene from the Simpson's illustrates what I mean.

https://www.facebook.com/NJAssemblyGOP/videos/just-another-day-at-the-dmv/663627451215254/

 

[Chernosoth]

The current welfare programs are very top heavy. Firing nearly all of the staff and sending automatic checks or direct deposit to all of the nation's unemployed, no paperwork, no questions asked, would cost less than what we spend on welfare now. We may move in that direction for a while. With the savings, government welfare programs would still become unaffordable and will eventually be cut entirely from the budget.

Applying for government aid programs is deliberately complicated and time consuming to make work for huge numbers of federal employees, but that is also time spent by the recipients. Getting aid can be a full time job, with no time or endurance left for finding a more productive job.

 

[RoryN]

The false narrative during the election was that fed workers are mainly minorities hired via DEI and "woke" initiatives, who do no work while taking jobs and money from white people.

It was a re-packaging of the Southern Strategy used to court dumb racists and dumb evangelicals in the 1970s. Once again, it worked like a charm.

 

[Rotadom]

There's a higher percentage of MAGATs on welfare than normal people. They should know their role and shut their hole.

 

[Bn2f]

It was a re-packaging of the Southern Strategy used to court dumb racists and dumb evangelicals in the 1970s. Once again, it worked like a charm.

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

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Why didn’t you or The Nation for that matter post the whole interview? Could it be you know damn well that it’s not in context?

I can tell you that clip is not in context of the rest of the interview, which was wide ranging and did deep dives into Jimmy Carter’s strategy and how to juggle the black vote and country club republican vote. You do understand Atwater didn’t work on Reagan’s campaign…right? He was hired after the election.

Also Alex Lamis, who conducted the interview wrote a book…he also selectively quoted Atwater in that. Why not print the whole interview? Here’s the money shot that sinks your theory. I’ll let you read the rest of the interview to see the folly of your ways…

But Reagan did not have to do a southern strategy for two reasons. Number one, race was not a dominant issue. And number two, the mainstream issues in this campaign had been, quote, southern issues since way back in the sixties. So Reagan goes out and campaigns on the issues of economics and of national defense. The whole campaign was devoid of any kind of racism, any kind of reference. And I'll tell you another thing you all need to think about, that even surprised me, is the lack of interest, really, the lack of knowledge right now in the South among white voters about the Voting Rights Act.-Lee Atwater

I’ll also clue you in to one more tidbit…just so you can’t lie about this anymore. He’s taking about strategy that Harry Dent instituted in the 60’s. NOT what was used by Reagan. You’re conflating the two. The interviewer tries to railroad him several times on this but again, here’s your money shot:

As to the whole Southern strategy that Harry S. Dent, Sr. and others put together in 1968, opposition to the Voting Rights Act would have been a central part of keeping the South. Now you don't have to do that. All that you need to do to keep the South is for Reagan to run in place on the issues that he's campaigned on since 1964, and that's fiscal conservatism, balancing the budget, cut taxes, you know, the whole cluster.

 

[techiedude71]

I recall President Obama creating a ton of jobs for Americans within the Federal Government so perhaps that has something to do with it. I could be wrong but given how much the loony right hated him and did everything in their power to block anything he did even if it was for the better of the country, it could have something to do with it. I’m not googling for info though so it’s possible I’m wrong.

 

[Politruk]

The current welfare programs are very top heavy.

You have no good reason to believe that.

 

[Politruk]

Why didn’t you or The Nation for that matter post the whole interview? Could it be you know damn well that it’s not in context?

I can tell you that clip is not in context of the rest of the interview, which was wide ranging and did deep dives into Jimmy Carter’s strategy and how to juggle the black vote and country club republican vote. You do understand Atwater didn’t work on Reagan’s campaign…right? He was hired after the election.

Also Alex Lamis, who conducted the interview wrote a book…he also selectively quoted Atwater in that. Why not print the whole interview? Here’s the money shot that sinks your theory. I’ll let you read the rest of the interview to see the folly of your ways…



I’ll also clue you in to one more tidbit…just so you can’t lie about this anymore. He’s taking about strategy that Harry Dent instituted in the 60’s. NOT what was used by Reagan. You’re conflating the two. The interviewer tries to railroad him several times on this but again, here’s your money shot:

"The whole campaign was devoid of any kind of racism" is a lie. Reagan announced his candidacy with a "states' rights" speech in Neshoba County, Mississippi for a reason, and not for any good reason.

 

[Bn2f]

Why didn’t you or The Nation for that matter post the whole interview? Could it be you know damn well that it’s not in context?

I can tell you that clip is not in context of the rest of the interview, which was wide ranging and did deep dives into Jimmy Carter’s strategy and how to juggle the black vote and country club republican vote. You do understand Atwater didn’t work on Reagan’s campaign…right? He was hired after the election.

Also Alex Lamis, who conducted the interview wrote a book…he also selectively quoted Atwater in that. Why not print the whole interview? Here’s the money shot that sinks your theory. I’ll let you read the rest of the interview to see the folly of your ways…



I’ll also clue you in to one more tidbit…just so you can’t lie about this anymore. He’s taking about strategy that Harry Dent instituted in the 60’s. NOT what was used by Reagan. You’re conflating the two. The interviewer tries to railroad him several times on this but again, here’s your money shot:

STFU. I live in SC. I know exactly where Atwater is buried. IDGAF if he shared Betty Crocker recipes after saying Nigga, nigga, nigga the shitstain said nigga, nigga, nigga. And what’s worse is that his legacy still remains in my state and in GOP talking points across this nation.

 

[Bn2f]

 

[Bn2f]

"The whole campaign was devoid of any kind of racism" is a lie. Reagan announced his candidacy with a "states' rights" speech in Neshoba County, Mississippi for a reason, and not for any good reason.

Exactly! And you are not wrong.
You should include and educate, even without a search, the reason why Neshoba County is an odd but appropriate place for a race tinged campaign to start.

 

[Politruk]

Exactly! And you are not wrong.
You should include and educate, even without a search, the reason why Neshoba County is an odd but appropriate place for a race tinged campaign to start.

It was the location of the Klan's murders of civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

 

[Bn2f]

It was the location of the Klan's murders of civil rights activists Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner.

More famously brought to the big screen in Mississippi Burning. Reagan starting his campaign there was a dog whistle to racists then just as DEI, CRT, is coded language now.