oh well. you voted for this

Is there no crops needing picked

A million billion broken pieces of shattered glass...it will never be able to be put back together again. #DOGE #MUSK #TRUMP. A hope people are thinking what Republic_v2.0 is going to look like.

It’s all intentional.

Just going to predict right now that over the next two years we are going to revive the expression “going postal” as laid off federal workers start committing mass shootings.

Things may change if people continuously demand better from Republican electeds in these states; Republicans own all this damage

For those shrugging and saying ‘it is KS and MO’ the most populous areas of the KC metro area went against Trump in the election.

People who voted for Kamala should have first pick of jobs.

Man he really cursed that whole City siding with the Chiefs.

fafo

If you wanted to destroy your own Country this is the playbook.

All so he can plug in his plan to look like the savior. Creating the crisis and then save people with private sector jobs that pay shit.

😬

very 😟

People getting DOGE'd who cannot fight legally should consider running for office or joining a campaign ASAP

😡

Recession coming, but there’ll be no one left at the BLS to document it.

Oof.

Perhaps that’s why they want to purge the BLS…just like in certain other countries, if you don’t like the stats, either make them up or make them disappear…

That’s exactly what Trump (generally) and DeSantis (very specifically, in Florida) did with COVID: it’s no longer a problem if no one is keeping track.

Abbott is doing it with Education in Texas, too.

We could do a pool to guess what day the market hard core crashes.

Not at all, it's educational. How else are the idiots who stayed home rather than vote for the boring black lady going to learn the consequences of their actions...

I don't mention MAGAs in that they are reprogrammable meat sacks who can be made to vote against their obvious self interest by screaming CRT, DEI or whatever the new N word is...

MASSIVE UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE FUTURE!

Bad for the people. Neutral to Musk and his cronies.

The collateral damage from these moves is crazy. Those are families that will have to leave, causing all those homes to be sold. That drives down home values for everyone else who owns property there. But no one will buy them because there are not enough jobs. Just crazy

And where will they go? This is happening all over.

VC’s will buy them. Hold till something increases demand again, and then jack up sale price or rent. This IS the game.

VCs don't really buy houses institutional investors do. They do it with your retirement money, too.

There were a lot of speculative purchases of homes in Vegas and parts of Florida after the 2008 crash. I do recall seeing that the Vc gang was participating. But your point is valid and additive. Thanks.

They got what they voted for.

Good let them actually produce something

Neither will any city and what about all the deaths as a result of their actions.

Kansas voters overwhelmingly voted red (57%) for FOTUS in 2024. FAFO Magots. 🖕

The lack of a plan or a strategy is baffling. Like yes the destruction of government but then what? They don’t have a buffer class, they’re destroying everything including allies and infrastructure they need. It’s just destruction for destruction’s sake and nobody wins. They’re all my mother

All of this shit is going to really sink in in about another month. We'll see the rotten fruits of the labor.

Victims of their own decisions. Super bad decisions.

Mutual Aid and Dual Power Systems

Yeah. It is. Add to the fact that they want to cut all social services provided by the federal government, I'd say by the end of the year things are gonna look extremely different.

Yes. Is it bad that I’m laughing? Can you die of schadenfreude?

Is it bad? I mean it depends are you laughing at people who won't be able to find work? I'm genuinely a little confused here.

Will this help flip Missouri? Doubt it, but it can't hurt.

If it mostly affects college+ prof’ls tho, and has little effect in rural and working class areas, Trump voters won’t care. Not saying effects *won’t* reach red districts, I don’t know. Just that if it doesn’t, then Trump doesn’t nd to worry.

FAFO red state

Huh? Imagine that…

Lay off everyone, and lay off some people twice I fucking guess

Forecast looks poor.

Narrator: "it was bad"

Cutting jobs at this scale will hurt GDP growth, not to mention wage growth (and could even reverse it). Tariffs will increase prices. So what we have is stagnation plus inflation. Stagflation. On purpose.

The role of state, county or local administrations is not to hire federal workers who have been fired by the incompetent DOGE employees. And it doesn't solve the problem of the weakening of federal institutions.

Uh, yeah. I'm being fired tomorrow.

I doubt any area does. Especially not good paying jobs that pay a mortgage, support families, etc.

Oh well, too bad I hope they have the day they voted for ☺️

Kansas City (both Jackson County, Missouri and Wyandotte County, Kansas) voted for Harris.

And Kansas went 56% red. I’m out of fucks to give, used em up on home turf

As a liberal in a very red state, fuck off.

definitely sounds bad

Isn’t this what Kansas City voted for?

KC is blue. Ocean blue. Sky blue. Sapphire blue.

This is my backyard, pretty much. We’re in Leavenworth, so will be impacted by anything affecting military, federal penitentiaries, and farmers.

How is the stock market not reacting to these mass layoffs? I'm no expert, but isn't high unemployment and instability bad for the economy?

There's also the meltdown of the international political order that kept the world safe for 75 years. Imminent arms race. Nations giving up on the dollar as the international currency. We're just getting started with the eco hurt.

I have the same questions. I suspect it's just a matter of time.

It's hard to feel sorry for red states.. this is what they wanted. It's hard to understand that they didn't see unemployment was going to rise and become an issue.

It'll be Biden's unemployment rate like it was Biden's economy. Assuming he tweets about it at all.

Yes. But the Republicans that run our state (into the ground) hate the two big cities. So, they are more than willing to cut off their nose to spite their face.

On the bright side, it doesn't much matter what the price of eggs is when you have no income

No shit Sherlock. They couldn't be absorbed if they wanted to because a lot of federal jobs are specific to the government. This is going to happen everywhere.

I live in KC. Cutting federal employment will also affect all the businesses that depend on government and spending by federal employees. Just like when a factory closes.

Yep, the domino effect is going to be brutal. Service businesses, food establishments, always hurt when an employer cuts middle class jobs.

I wonder how high unemployment will be. I think he wants all these people and people on social security doing the jobs that the undocumented workers were doing.

I think it’s bad.

It’s the beginning of the ripple effects across the country.

This is his plan to fight inflation: mass unemployment.

Nice economy you have there. Let’s see if 2 drugged out Nazis can kill it.

2 that’s not fair? Did you not see the dude who was clearly strung out on something get on TV. The most hilarious part the party of law and order and become to part of drugs and diddling everyone for the dollar bills. Stop giving them your cash. It’s what they want.

Oh they have their cults and minions and key advisors too. It’s just two have been empowered to be the face of the culling.

Yes However Kansas as a state voted red so.. I only feel bad for Dems that voted blue.

How many of these laid-off Kansans voted for Trump?

Kansas City is in Missouri and these people definitely did not vote for Trump.

Who's surprised that the market will be inundated by laid off federal workers? I mean, it's HUGE news when a factory opens and they're going to employ 400 people or whatever.

No place has placement for the fed workers. Maryland has a huge government worker base-it could easily collapse with all the firings.

Can't wait to see the next unemployment numbers and how Felon34-In-Chief and his minions try to spin it into the fault of Biden and the Democrats.

They have fired the people who count the unemployed

You really think you’ll get accurate numbers out of anything they release?

Hard no on that.

How many voted for the current administration?

Stalin created man-made famines. Trump and Musk are creating entirely self-made recession.

Yes, it definitely is. 😟

The crowd who voted to burn it all down in a fit rage are about to learn they will get burnt too.

At least soon people won't have the excuse that they can't march in the streets because they have to work

Is this NOT what Kansas voted for 🤔

The framing pisses me off to no end. The Trump administration hasn’t made massive budget cuts. THEY HAVE ZERO AUTHORITY OVER THE BUDGET. These are ILLEGAL FIRINGS, not budget cuts, not attempts to eliminate wasteful spending. Any other framing is dishonest.

But they’ll get the 4.5 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy!

I guess but somebody will have to do the math and update in the system but everybody who knows how to do those things has been fired.

Preview of coming attractions for the kids on the short bus. youtu.be/J_swGiAHhbQ

*insert the Greater Depression*

Entering the ‘find out’ part of the equation. Or elections have consequences. Or ‘wtf did you expect by hiring a convicted felon to potus?’ ad nausium…

Ah yes-the good old Find Out Stage happening quicker than anyone realized. They are wrecking balls. 4 weeks in…. I thought 90 days to 6 months It begins. It all happening simultaneously. Really sad, gross, embarrassing, emotional. Then fuming angry. F-Elon can’t have it. We will stop him

Yep in the fields where those Mexicans were stealing your jobs

The federal workforce provides so much economic benefit to Alaska that Alaskans should get ready not for a recession, but a depression that will make the 1986 statewide economic collapse look like a church picnic.

well the NY Times brass will decide, in a month-and-a-half, after the next jobs report goes out, how they are going to headline this.

FAFO Kansas.

Kansas City consistently votes blue by a large margin. The people who voted for this mess aren’t the people being punished here.

Yup

Yep. It's devastating for property values and commercial rents, as people lose their homes, for local businesses who lose business, and lay off their own workers, and for the local economy as it slides into recession and possibly worse.

And yet Kevin O’Leary said these citizens of KC shouldn’t have fat jobs off the government and cuts should be deeper and faster. U can find it on CNN.

When I lived in KC, the federal gov't was the largest employer in the area - by far.

It seems kinda bad

Who could have anticipated this?

I would say wait until the jobs reports come out, but they’re just gonna fake those.

releasing gorillas to eat the snakes...

They are already cooked

FAFO

KS is a very red & poor state. How are y'all going to pay your bills? Put food on the table? This is what you voted for.

Already planning ahead!

Get them in the fields to pick!

Who could have predicted this?

Those who voted against Trump and the GOP?

MAGA!

Oh really? Gee and didn’t you fuckers vote for King Shitler?

Just pick themselves up by those ol bootstraps

checking the electoral map..... formulating response.... Womp womp!

Don’t worry. I’ve been told this is “efficient”

Call Mitch McConnell, his decisions, your experience!

The lack of spending by those freshly fired workers means less spending at the businesses in that area. Private businesses will have to start laying off people as their business shrinks. Make Americans Poor Again.

And wait for the tariffs to take effect…

Welcome to the Great Trump Depression.

I hear Starbucks is hiring white guys

touché

The evil billionaire "you're fired" guy is about to artificially trigger a recession bc he doesn't understand macroeconomics so he's letting another billionaire create a mass unemployment crisis How the Dems *still* don't have clear messaging/content explaining this is mind-blowing

The recession centralized power. They saw what covid brought and want more. No cap.

Never thought of it like this before, but you're absolutely right. They see power in crisis

Yet are completely avoiding the fact that a lot of white collar jobs were maintained during the panny-d with far less burden on their wallets (no commute, less eating out, no student loan repayment). That's the only reason why their wealth grew. Middle/upper middle class people could keep spending.

The Dems are beholden to "good" billionaires who want Hakeem Jeffries throwing up his hands with a shrug while Chuck Schumer gets slowly aroused while holding an egg. If there were a party of the people they would have AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Bernie, etc doing daily media drops re: the daily crime.

The squad should just do this anyway and power would naturally shift over to them. They should just act as if and it will be

I agree! Where is the leadership calling for action? I would happily take an unelected firebrand at this point.

The super rich don’t care even if there is a worldwide depression. They would have the funds to sustain, low prices, and a low wage workforce to choose from. Neofeudalism

Maybe, I don’t know, the governor and mayor will try and talk some sense to that mad man or whoever is making these decisions in the White House?

It’s called a recession.

Yes, it is bad. KC both on the MO side and KS side supported Harris. People in Overland Park and its surroundings, Lawrence, Topeka, and Manhattan KS, supported Harris. Wichita and all the rural counties voted for the orange turd

They're about to find out!

This is why we’re headed for a recession; once again brought to you by a Republican administration.

When a bunch of mortgages start simultaneously defaulting that is bad

The Soup Kitchens are going to be lit!

Capitalists got mad labor had its moment, so now they're willing to do anything to get rid of a full-employment economy.

Somebody call Patty Mahomes and Her Butch wife/hubby to hire all these people and give them the jobs that Grampa Chump 8s taking from them.. so much for "Making America Great" 🤣🤣🚮🚮

Prepare for the Trumpcession or will it be a Trumpression?

Yep, in a lot of Southern and mid west states

But how can this be, I’ve seen Trump supporters smugly claim that everyone he’s fired can just get jobs in the private sector!

where in the private sector can an expert in nuclear weapons design or bird flu monitoring get a job?

KC voted for Harris. They don't care

makes me wish the WARN act applied to federal employees

If they own homes and were paying taxes and supporting business in KC it's beyond bad. They'll be putting their homes on an already terrible RE market and moving from KC - maybe to another state.

Intentional. Wait another 3-4 months. He wants high unemployment and a recession so the Fed lowers rates and then he'll come up with a tax break or some other temporary economic bailout to get employment back up.

Not if you voted for Trump, it’s all part of the plan 😏

I don’t think any place does. The snowball has started

How many Kansas Cities are there across the country?

With no BLS reporting we’ll get the numbers from Trump himself🤪🤪

They voted for him...cry harder

So, break the economy so that we can return to “traditional values?”

“Southern values”

A new slave state where the debt burden slowly buries your desire to escape.

My son is a recent college graduate. He's been looking for a job for a year. Now the job market is gutted with these firings and he's wondering if he'll ever find work.

Only if you are American. Or in a CURRENTLY democratic nation and woman to keep it that way.

Yes, I expect a recession by end of year.

They won't bite MY face right?? RIGHT???

Nahhhh why would it be?

Missouri thank your Republican representatives in the senate and Congress for taking your jobs 👍

Mortgage foreclosures will hurt a lot of people. Maybe not good for bank stocks too...

Look, he said he was going to rip the guts out of disease control and air safety while causing cascading unemployment and price hikes, it's why I voted for him, his unshakeable honesty.

Buckle up. Your immune system is getting a work out that you did not realize you were training for

You made me literally laugh out loud

Ditto

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/vot...

No sh1t. Public servants run stuff, pay taxes, put money into their local economy, and vote. Firing them will not just wreck services and lives, it will tank the economy and cost taxpayers more in private 'consultants'. The GOP should be terrified.

They probably are but still too weak and scared to go against him.

Maybe we should ask Grok, or chat gpt.

Well, with the mass-scale unemployment tied to gutting of social security which provides for unemployed people while they look for work on top of skyrocketing costs of living this looks like a storm of bad in an earthquake of bad during a plague of locusts bad in the middle of fiery hell bad.

The MAGA Mahomes family, Buttker, the Reid’s and the Clarks all voted for this.

Yes they did because they have lots of money. Let's see how this works out for them when there will be no fans in the stadiums because they have to choose between keeping a roof over their heads and stadium tickets!

And kelce, most probably.

Kelce family is blue all the way!

I used to think that. But a lot of these sports idols once they get the big bucks tend to change to voting for tax breaks. I like golf but they’re all going to end up working for MBS, while spouting, it’s for the good of the game.

That would be heartbreaking

This recession is going to be rooouuggghhhh

Maybe Silco was right.

We'll need harvest engineers and meat packing techs if we're short on migrant labor.

Yes

Simultaneous to an uptick in inflation. Trump wants the 1890s, he's giving us the 1980s. Stagflation anyone?

To the capitalist class, it's a feature, not a bug. They want high unemployment.

True. True. True. If unemployment is sky high, then Trump can force the FED to drop interest rates to damn near 1%. And the rich get filthy rich. The poor loses everything because they’re unemployed and their credit worthiness will tank. #Goals

But don't forget the tariffs! Bringing those into the equation keeps interest rates high, leading to stagflation. Fun times!

This is true. I think the tariffs are Trump Criminal Enterprise’s Jedi mind trick to provide an excuse (lie) for why they can’t do a damned thing to lower the cost of living & provide Trump voters (because they only care about them) a better quality of life. They never have. They never will.

Easier to justify to their ilk to send in troops when unrest erupts.

troops are federal employees too, and trump and musk are threatening their pensions

It doesn’t matter, they’ll have a paid special force.

Yup, they already have Blackwater doing security at a lot of federal buildings instead of US Marshalls

Also easier to suppress wages ("labor cost" in richboi speak) when the labor market is flooded.

Don’t they need some amount of consumer activity though?

Some, but the long term plan by the right is to turn the U.S. into primarily a low-wage, export-oriented producer.

So kind of feudal? A few rich guys with no laws to bind them and everybody else

Basically, yes. Curtis Yarvin, the "thinker" behind a lot of the tech guys that influenced the thinking of Proj 2025, is a neo-monarchist.

Jesus so many layers of weird

It really is. If you wanna know more, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a pretty good deep dive on Yarvin, one of the better ones I've personally found. It makes a lot of the last few weeks make a lot more sense.

Well, not exactly. Probably more along the lines of what in the 20th Century was known as "the third world." Brazil in the previous century is probably the closest approximation of what they want.

Deliberately downgrading your own country from world leader to what at least one guy would call a “shithole” nation is really something.

Well, remember, not everyone among the elites wants a larger economy. Some of them want a larger share of a smaller pie, because it means more power over other people.

This, exactly this. Brazil is a good example- honestly I think they want a western Dubai. Massive wealth playground, crazy disparities.

Kansas and Missouri. Not one tear shed

The counties that make up KC in both states didn't vote for him though. MO also has Columbia and StL. KS has a couple of college counties that were blue. The rest of the state did this to KC. Jeff City told our cities we couldn't even set our own minimum wages.

Darn sure looks bad. But 741,949 voted for Trump. Its as if they asked for this. 😒

Just waiting for the shooting to start!

There is some real PolPot adjacent bs going on if the proposal is for farm labour jobs to replace the federal ones

57.2% of you sorry ass Kansans voted for Trump! Forgive me if I do not weep for you.

previous administrations didn't have the luxury of being able to wave a magic wand and raise unemployment by 1-2%

How ironic… The KC Chiefs owner personally invited Trump to come to the Super Bowl to show support as a Chiefs fan. Because Patrick Mahomes’ Mom’s side of the family are major Trump donors. And now Kansas City is a ghost town. Malignant Narcissism strikes again.

Josh Hawley running away faster than on January 6th

He doesn’t spend much time in the state anyway lol

And this is how you have workers to replace the migrant farm workers.

Their plan all along.

This administration is so tragically stupid,

Aw

Throw people out of work, ensure inadequate access to employment, drive down wages because "so many need work." That's the playbook.

..and privatize everything.

Exactly! During the last recession, people were taking the shittiest jobs for the shittiest pay because it was next to impossible to find work. This is exactly what they are doing.

They want to drive down the value of labor, drive down wages, and then demand we show gratitude if we're able to work at all.

Precisely.

See @umairh.bsky.social

Virginia governor claims there are lots of available jobs here. He says this as he cuts/guts programs. He is out of touch with reality. There are not a lot of quality jobs here.

Please. Youngkin has long bent the knee and kissed the ring. Can’t wait till he’s gone.

Very bad. The ripple effect of these cuts is going to spell economic disaster on a much higher scale.

Perhaps these good people can just relocate somewhere that has jobs... much like the people in Gaza. Perhaps Jordan, Egypt or UAE?

KC is blue even if surrounded by red.

As ever, the vast red middle of Missouri fucks over the cities on either side (and itself, of course)....

At some point they may understand the relationship between gov spending, private business and the economy…nah.

NO city has enough jobs to absorb these illegal and ill advised firings. Not one.

Recessions follow Republicans like flies chasing death. Between the firing of federal employees, the demented tariff war and now Trump completely bowing for putin and mbs, I won't be surprised when the depression hits it will eclipse the misery and suffering of the Great Depression of 1929.

For you maybe. The people on the streets and the people being rounded up by ICE are already headed the prisons to be rented out to the corporations for work. Guess who’s next if you survive.

Yes it seems bad.

is America great again yet?

Everything is bad….

Great depression 2.0 incoming, but hey the rich will get their tax breaks! That's going to trickle down any day now!

Think they got confused where the swamp is...

I have a feeling that will be the case throughout every state.

get ready for housing values to crash as feds default on their mortgages

Trumpmusk will gladly deport them to Panama or Guantanamo

Elections have consequences....

Red state, boo hoo.

welcome to the Cool Zone

Everyone gets to relearn that 4% is full employment.

Wait, I thought all Federal workers lived in the evil pit of the universe, Washington DC!!!! You mean people in GOP states are getting faked as well? Gosh darn...

Stagflation incoming. Project 2025 is about control through government capture and impoverishment of the people. Trump's voters should have read it.

Naw, it’s not like widespread unemployment and inflation has contributed to any infamous historical monstrosities…this month

I’m sure there will be some farm labor jobs available.

Hopefully, they'll think about their motives for their political choices.

Great Depression levels of unemployment will radicalise A LOT of people.

When is the next jobs report? lol

There are plenty of farm jobs open.