'We'll Never Be The Same': The Victims Of Elon Musk's Unreality
'A clownish South African reaper figuratively chainsaws me, a human being, to cheers from a rapturous crowd.'
“I’m a somewhat stoic person,” the federal worker told me not long after I had posted about my family member losing their stable, good-paying government job in Elon Musk’s coup.
The federal employee, one of several to message me after my Bluesky post, wanted people on the outside to know how devastating and disorienting Musk’s takeover of the U.S. government has been for those being purged by his DOGE boys, turning off life-saving funding streams with every click and sending hardworking Americans into the unemployment line for no particular reason beyond inflicting pain.
I got his message just after checking Facebook and seeing a longtime friend asking for folks to bring canned goods to USAID workers who had lost their jobs in Musk’s totalitarian takeover (if you think this is hyperbolic, consider some smart, sober political analysts are using this language on live TV). I haven't been that angry for a long time.
Things are dark, the federal worker told me. He hears longtime colleagues panicked and holding back tears as best they can as they plead for clarity from management. Management doesn’t know shit though; no one does. Musk’s indiscriminate rampaging through the civil service is causing real pain for real people – something that Musk, in all his blackpilling and astounding ignorance, either does not understand or does not care about.
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He wanted me to know he’s not an emotional man, hardly prone to public displays of emotion. The mass layoffs and attacks on civil servants – a sport of sorts for Musk and his buddies on the fascist-making factory known as X – had finally gotten to him though.
