But U SAID!
Trump comes at you fast. USAID employees discuss their futures in a new Tale from The Asylum.
The USAID GS-15 employee and the GS-3 employee were not sitting at USAID headquarters, because they were not allowed in USAID headquarters. They sat in a DC cafe with dozens of other Federal employees who looked nervous and forlorn as they sipped their caffè lattes and spoke in hushed tones.
“You said there was nothing to worry about,” the GS-3 pleaded.
“Well, Trump comes at you fast,” the GS-15 almost chuckled when he said it.
“That’s not helpful. You said there was no way Trump would get elected.”
“I know. I thought he’d be dead now.”
“Well! He’s not! He’s very much alive, more alive than ever!”
The GS-15 spoke nonchalantly, with disinterest, as if his thoughts were focused on something else. “Just don’t worry about it. You’ll be okay. Did you delete your Twitter account?”
“Oh shit!” The GS-3 grabbed his phone and frantically touched and swiped the screen.
“Like I said, don’t worry about it. No doubt they’ve already got screenshots from your account anyway.”
“What am I gonna do? You said nothing would ever happen to me!”
“Technically, I said that during the Biden presidency, so that was correct.”
“I’m gonna tell ’em you said just to send out the money and ask no questions!1 Trump said you’re a bunch of radical lunatics. I’m not going down alone!”
The GS-15 didn’t flinch. He just sipped his coffee and then he said with the ever slightest of smiles, “We’re—” he emphasized, “a bunch of radical lunatics.” He paused. “I have a question for you. Who do you fear more, my people or their people?”
GS-3 didn’t respond. He looked down at the table.
“Look, be proud of what you did,” the GS-15 continued, “You’ll probably only spend four or five years in prison and maybe when we win in 2028 you’ll get pardoned, just like the J6ers. You worked to change the world, they can never take that from you.”
“You must be worried too?”
The GS-15 smiled condescendingly. “No son, I’m not worried. I won’t be going to prison.”
“But…”
“Sorry, I gotta go. I’m due at the airport in a couple of hours.”
“Where are you going?”
“Oh, I don’t know. Europe maybe? South America? Canada? Who knows?”
“But you said you’d have our backs! You said…”
“Hmmm. Did I? You shouldn’t have believed everything I said.”
“But you said…”
“I said a lot of things. Have a great day!”
Notes
Colton, Emma, "Musk rips 'fraudulent' Treasury handouts as reports mount DOGE has access to federal payment system", Fox News, February 2, 2025, Source
The subheading of the article: "Musk reported that Treasury officers were 'always' instructed to approve payments, 'even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups'"
And this: '"The @DOGE team discovered, among other things, that payment approval officers at Treasury were instructed always to approve payments, even to known fraudulent or terrorist groups. They literally never denied a payment in their entire career. Not even once," Musk, the chair of DOGE, posted early Saturday morning to X.'
It’s all so amazing that these employees could literally send billions of dollars everywhere in the world and not question Maui, East Palestine, Ohio, Florida or North Carolina. The failing infrastructure from their home towns and states.
it would be helpful if the public sector multidudes and gals would learn what the Productive Sector of the population does and get with it. :)
Thanks inmate for helping me maintain my amusement.
Could be in the chaos that skills with rake and shovel a critical talent