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Howie Carr: Time to pound the pavement, snowflakes!

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There are presently 7.2 million unfilled jobs in the USA, in line with the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

All over the place you go, you see “Assist Wished” adverts. Enterprise house owners are at all times complaining that they’ll’t get good assist, or in lots of instances even unhealthy assist.

So why do I preserve studying all these tales in regime-controlled media about how the layoffs of a handful of federal hacks is resulting in melancholy… consternation… grief…sure, even ideas of suicide.

I don’t find out about you, however I’ve been fired extra instances than I care to recollect, and after I acquired hit, I by no means as soon as felt suicidal.

Homicidal, sure, generally.

Suicidal, by no means.

However then I’m not a snowflake like many of the laid-off federal employees.

Right here’s a narrative from The Washington Submit, a few 28-year-old man named Richard Midgette. He was let go from his IT job at Yellowstone Nationwide Park.

“On the best way dwelling, he blasted indie rock music to drown out the sound of his personal sobbing.”

Discover it’s “indie rock,” not traditional rock or nation. Richard listens to unhealthy, fashionable rock that no person likes, which is why all of the alt-rock stations went out of enterprise. No person cared, besides possibly federal layabouts who begin sobbing once they get laid off.

Like Jimmy Stewart on the finish of “It’s a Fantastic Life,” Midgette fled to the closest bridge.

“From the automotive,” the Submit breathlessly writes, “he listened to the speeding of the water and, for the primary time, contemplated whether or not to finish his life.”

Seems like one other job for Clarence, the guardian angel. He snapped out of it and drove to the fuel station on the bridge.

“He thought of calling his dad and mom (however) his dad had voted for Trump, and for weeks had been cheering the president’s guarantees to purge the federal government.”

Ultimately, he determined to not kill himself – “It’s precisely what they need. I’m not going to offer them that satisfaction.”

Earth to Richard Midgette – no person cares what you do, come what may, particularly Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

However this will clarify the rash of Tesla vandalism. Moderately than slash their very own wrists, they key the closest Tesla.

Trump is in fact a recurring theme in all these heart-warming tales, as a bogeyman amongst these separated from their phony-baloney jobs, and as a hero amongst their nearest and dearest.

Subsequent, we meet a biologist from the Forest Service. The Washington Submit makes use of all the standard phrases of the style of faux information: “panic assaults… remedy… meds.”

Then, the unnamed biologist has his final Richard Midgette second.

“He declined calls from his mom, he mentioned, as a result of he didn’t wish to hear her reward Trump for streamlining authorities – and say that if her son didn’t prefer it, he may discover one other job.”

Discover one other job? Ma, don’t you understand why your boy went to work for the federal authorities? He heard there was no work.

Right here’s a narrative from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, headlined “Princetonians Concern the Impacts of Federal Layoffs.”

Let’s begin with Cameron McKenzie ’19, described as a “neighborhood engagement specialist” on the Forest Service. One other Forest Service hit!

“McKenzie instantly considered his husband, Eric Flora ’19….”

His husband. From F. Scott Fitzgerald falling for Zelda to Cameron falling for Eric… that is the best way Princeton has modified during the last century.

Harmeet Dhillon is the Republican operative from California who took over the DOJ’s civil rights division. She instantly began cleansing out the woke warriors who’d been making an attempt to basically remodel America right into a Third World hellhole.

“There was open crying within the halls,” Dhillon advised Tucker Carlson, who didn’t ponder suicide after being fired from Fox Information two years in the past. “Crying sure… They started having sad hours, which they’d invite supervisors to, political supervisors, to make their level that had been sad.”

And now they’re unemployed – 70% of the civil rights division.

It doesn’t matter how despicable – or unconstitutional – the Democrat hacks’ actions had been, they’ll depend on a sob story on one of many get together organs similar to The New York Occasions.

Right here’s a Occasions headline for you:

“Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Examine On-line Misinformation.”

By misinformation, they imply cancelling and demonetizing something on social media to the proper of Sen. John Fetterman. These are the identical government-funded “researchers” who wished to place the Babylon Bee out of enterprise for “disinformation.”

Keep in mind COVID? Keep in mind Hunter-Biden’s-laptop-is-Russian-disinformation?

Regardless of the Democrats immediately name disinformation, or a conspiracy idea, shortly turns into tomorrow’s reality. No matter they declare is “debunked,” take into account bunked.

A 12 months in the past, these folks had been searching us. Now, the tables are turned. How candy it’s.

Have a look at the lawsuit Nationwide Panhandler Radio filed in opposition to Trump yesterday. For years, many years even, the trust-funded fops advised us they didn’t want the peons’ filthy small change, they had been so well-funded from their gross sales of branded umbrellas and tote luggage.

Now the pampered pukes declare they want that cash (which they used to say was someplace between 1% and 10%) or they’re out of enterprise. Do you know that NPR offers the “spine” for emergency-alert programs?

One thing tells me no NPR station would ever break into “The Transgender Hour” to report an incoming twister or blizzard. Or that any radio listener paying consideration would ever anticipate them to, not the weekly Judy Garland program.

Often, even in Democrat sheets, the reality breaks by to the floor, if just for a paragraph or two, deep inside the tearful narrative of Trump Derangement.

That occurred within the Submit story:

“Some interviewed by The Submit mentioned that they had joined the federal workforce for the soundness and safety of a authorities job.”

And, during the last 5 years, quite a lot of them didn’t even have to indicate up for work. These had been the great outdated days! However then, Trump.

“The day he was inaugurated,” the Submit recalled, with bitter tears, “Trump signed an order requiring federal employees to return to the workplace 5 days every week.”

Federal employees, unite! Simply say no, to work.

The excellent news, there’s 7.2 million jobs ready for all you laid-off layabouts.

The unhealthy information, for the primary time in your careers, you may be anticipated to really, you understand, work.

President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk talk with to reporters near Tesla vehicles on the South Lawn of the White House Tuesday, March 11, 2025, in Washington.
President Donald Trump and Tesla CEO Elon Musk have taken a knife to the federal workforce. (Pool through AP)

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