DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Reuters

March 7, 2025 10:51 AM EST Updated 45hours ago


PARKERSBURG, West Virginia, March 7 (Reuters) - Jennifer Piggott proudly hung a red-and-blue Trump campaign flag outside her one-story home during the November election race. Now, after she was abruptly fired from her civil service job, her days of supporting the president are over.

Piggott is among more than 125 people dismissed in February from the Treasury Department's Bureau of Fiscal Service in Parkersburg, West Virginia, unsettling a community that voted overwhelmingly for Republican President Donald Trump. "Nobody that I've talked to understood the devastation that having this administration in office would do to our lives," Piggott, 47, told Reuters in an interview, saying she would not have supported Trump if she knew then what she knows now.

"As much as I think that President Trump is doing wonderful things for the country in some regards, I don't understand this at all," she said. Piggott worked at BFS for five years and had recently been promoted. That promotion made her a target as the Trump administration began firing thousands of probationary federal workers - a group that includes new hires but also existing workers moving from one internal position to another.

The renunciation of allegiance to Trump by Piggott, a church-going conservative and three-time Trump voter, comes as political analysts are parsing early signs of a possible backlash in Republican strongholds where the government-slashing efforts of the president and his cost-cutting czar Elon Musk are beginning to be felt.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doge-job-cuts-shake-trump-voting-west-virginia-town-2025-03-07/

[underpants]

1. Have the DOGEBAGS not figured out yet that these aren't new hires

In probationary status?

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Their "AI" bullshit probably searched through the files looking for the term "probation"

gathered the list, and fired those people, regardless of what that term "meant" for those employees.

It's just like their other bullshit "AI" searched for "gay" in any web and other electronic doc content and thus ended up snagging the famous WWII plane - the "Enola Gay" - for the purge list.

I remember back under the early years of Shrub with the push for web filters to filter words that could be considered "pornographic", so libraries and schools were ordered to add those words and they ended up filtering out info on "breast cancer" because "breast" was considered "pornographic".

Also remember this from a decade ago - Supreme Court Declines District’s Appeal in ‘Boobies’ Student-Speech Case

The 2 students were wearing/selling "I (heart) boobies" bracelets for Breast Cancer Awareness and OMG PORN!

[slightlv]

13. You said just what I said in a reply to another message earlier.

I've been wracking my brains, trying to remember the web filter s/w we used when I worked at the Main Library. The marbles kept moving enough I finally remembered it... it was called "Fortress". And it was a one-size fits all piece of s/w. Granted you could get pretty creative with what you were looking to filter, but it still was a huge hammer trying to hit tiny nails. So much got censored simply because of the word, itself, that it was looking for. AI does the same damn thing. I guess it's suppose to be intelligent enough to look around at the content and decide whether or not the censorship is justified... but I honestly don't think that can be done. A human... a real, thinking, aware human would have to the one to make the final decision. And neither Musk nor trump have time to look at content for everything they're stripping.

And why hasn't this been brought to the courts as a First Amendment case?! It's absolutely transgressing against freedom of speech. Do these rights and liberties really mean nothing in this country any longer?! We're so far down the rabbit hole, daylight is a year behind us!

[BumRushDaShow]

25. There were a couple laws passed in the late '90s and early '00s

dealing with "protecting" children online. We're sort of going through the same thing all over again with the social media apps.

In both cases, there was the push to throw up one of those "age verification" screens, which after all these years, are now being fought in court.

I know the First Amendment suits are already being invoked by the some of media attempting to push back (AP & CBS) and I expect private entities will eventually get to it if they don't have enough courage to haul off and tell 45 to f-off like Apple and Costco did.

[slightlv]

41. I only wish WE had a voice that could tell him to f-off and stop messing with us. (sigh) n/t

[underpants]

14. ❤️😄😄. Their AI sounds like a fancy Ctrl F

I of course still use Ctrl F and then read around my target for context.

The Enola Gay think is just stupid which isn’t surprising. I’ve read that there’s a scoreboard for the DOGEBAGS who find and cut the most. It’s an incentive for errors.

[underpants]

19. I'd seen some references today so I had to check in Enola Gay

Yep sure enough. “Gay”. I remember in elementary school a teacher mentioning it and of course someone snickered and then others snickered…..this is basically that, we are back in elementary school. 🙄

On the plus side, I was curious what plane dropped the second one (Fat Man) Bockscar or Bock’s car. Weird how we don’t know that like the Enola Gay.

[MLAA]

2. "Nobody that I've talked to understood". She should have spoken to a Democrat.

[Walleye]

3. Yeah, well I bet she votes straight Republican in the midterms

[Bengus81]

67. DING DING DING!!! n/t

[we can do it]

5. Boo fucking hoo idiots.

[Buddyzbuddy]

6. Well I guess she won't be voting for him again.

Oh, wait.

[3Hotdogs]

9. "---- lib'tards... sumthin' about owning sumthn'."

[Dan]

12. Probably right, she will push the lever for J.D. Vance.

[Buddyzbuddy]

35. I'm sure you're right. But at least she learned her lesson about the Felon.

[kkmarie]

60. She'll still support the republican regime

Aside from her losing her job she said she thinks he's doing wonderful things. She hasn't learned shit.

[Bengus81]

68. Donny McCoke head is maybe running..she still has a chance to vote Trump

[hvn_nbr_2]

7. I proudly support leopards eating faces...

... as long as it's other people's faces.

[Dulcinea]

8. Thoughts & prayers.

Bless their hearts. They got exactly what they voted for.

[No Vested Interest]

10. Too late smart....

[sakabatou]

11. Om nom om

[Squaredeal]

15. Cry me a river.

Good luck!

[Aviation Pro]

16. "Saying she would not have supported Trump if she knew then what she knows now."

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccckkkkk you, it was all laid out for you, dumbass, during the campaign.

FAFO.

[Skittles]

18. what she means is

"....if she had known it would eventually affect HER"

I'm convinced a lot of these Trump humpers thought their votes for him were their cover.......FAFO, TRUMP HUMPERS

[Skittles]

17. a churchgoer who voted THREE TIMES for Trump's cruelty

then has a case of the sads only when it affects HER......GO FUCK YOURSELF MS. PIGOTT

[benfranklin1776]

26. Indeed

It makes you wonder what exactly she was “learning” in her church. The gospel of “screw unto others?” 😡

[Skittles]

29. her "faith" is as phony as Trump

these people absolutely DISGUST me

[Justice matters.]

52. Not to forget she disregarded his abhorrent predatory sexual aggressions...

And his compulsive lying about that fascist project 2025 he lied repeatedly about not knowing blah blah blah...

Sh*t-for-brains idiots get their faces eaten now...

[flashman13]

20. Just one more example of a Trumper that has no problem when Trump screws their neighbor.

But OMG you can't screw me. I voted for you and love all the other great things you are doing. What exactly are those great things?

FAFO!

[calimary]

21. We tried to warn you, girlfriend.

And we had facts and more facts to back up our warnings.

YOU didn’t listen. You chose not to, in favor of worshipping your cheap gold-plated “calf”.

So reap the whirlwind - that is, until your subsequent votes for DEMOCRATS prove that you’ve learned the error of your ways. Assuming you really do give more of a damn about your country than you did when you allowed yourself to fall for the lies of a sleazy slick-talking shit-salesman.

[ananda]

22. Well, honey, your idiocy is definitely showing.

Trump was always going to be bad for everybody,
not just you.

And it was obvious.

[birdographer]

23. I would like to ask her to list

“the wonderful things that trump is doing for the country in some regards.” Name one. Never mind, she’d name getting rid of non-white people. MAGAts are cruel and hate-filled.

No sympathy for this moron.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. I just read a sad article from AP that illustrates this bizarre disconnect

https://apnews.com/article/trump-musk-doge-federal-layoffs-c41ae32800a7f170484de79572543da2

They are like zombies who can only spout draconian talking points.

I know many DUers have family members like the ones described in that article.

[birdographer]

34. It's just more of the same

They simply cannot bear the thought that they were conned, they were duped, and they were WRONG. It’s too much for them, so they have to stick to the same script. They got into it because of a deep-seated need to belong, to find others like themselves. They will lose that if they look too hard at trump.

It seems that the only thing that can pull them out is when it happens to THEM. And it will.

[Hassler]

24. C'est la vie.

[cstanleytech]

27. I live in the Augusta GA area and the owner of a giant Trump sign that hsd been up for over 8 years ripped it out.

A lot of other houses that had Trump flags and small yard signs also are now suddenly free of them as well.

[Skittles]

30. I know it is anecdotal but, thanks

surely SOME of these cult fucks have to wake up

[edbermac]

28. Tough shit

[Aristus]

32. It's absolutely required of these hammerheads that they praise him anyway.

They know they did an idiotic thing, so they say whatever they can to shake off some of the idiocy.

"Ah still thank he's doin' sum good thangs fer th'cuntry!"



Fine, lady. Praise Trump to the skies, and see if it gets your job back.

Some people are completely incapable of learning...

[abbeyco]

33. FAFO. What's everyone having for dinner?

Wish I could summon some sympathy, it ain’t gonna be today, tomorrow or anytime in the near future.

[DENVERPOPS]

49. Right there with you Abbey

Falls directly in line with my favorite adage:........You Grew It You Chew It. munch, munch munch...

[slumcamper]

36. Seriously--this MAGA POS is a cultist and willing to drink cyanide. That's who they are. n/t

[Hartpi978]

37. Dumbdedumbdumb

FAFO'd. She and about 75% of WVA voters voted for Trump. That must be an interesting place to live these days.

[Hartpi978]

38. Dumbdedumbdumb

FAFO'd. She and about 75% of WVA voters voted for Trump. That must be an interesting place to live these days.

[andym]

39. The amount of brainwashing and in-group reinforcement is very high in MAGA areas: not easy to overcome

they basically start with the idea that only the GOP supports traditional American values like hard work or American brand of christianity and build on that allegiance with an large package of self-reinforcing propaganda.

It's not easy to overcome that all at once.

[Blues Heron]

40. Some people learn the hard way.

doh!

[kimbutgar]

42. Excellent I want those magas to suffer biggly !

And maybe just maybe they’ll wake up from their brainwashing and realize they were used to advance a known conman who don’t give a shit about them!

[efhmc]

43. Too little and way too late.

[lonely bird]

44. Good!

Fuck the MAGAts.

[LilyBelle]

45. hahahaha

Good!

[GaYellowDawg]

46. "I thought he would only hurt the RIGHT people!"

Not good, white, Christians like me!

[cstanleytech]

48. Well.... she should be happy as he did hurt a number of people on the right.

[cstanleytech]

47. I didnt hear any renunciation by her at all as she still supports him.

[oasis]

50. Oh well!

[Wingus Dingus]

51. Hope her car gets repo'd and her house goes into foreclosure.

She voted enthusiastically for other people's lives to be ruined--I hope hers is instead.

[mountain grammy]

53. it's got to get a lot worse

before she wouldn't vote for him. And it just might.

[mdbl]

54. She said "As much as I think that President Trump is doing wonderful things for the country in some regards,"

He has done NOTHING wonderful for "the country" if you're talking about the United States. I'll bet the list of shit she thinks will just be a list of his lies he likes to tout as accomplishments. Either he didn't do it, did the opposite, or is taking credit for what a past President has done. Enjoy unemployment stupid.

[camartinwv]

55. WV is not in the heartland.

[Norrrm]

56. 'I Don't Care About You. I Just Want Your Vote'

‘I Don’t Care About You. I Just Want Your Vote’

Trump claims it was a joke but it turns out to be true.

Link to tweet

https://www.bing.com/search?q=i+don%27t+care+about+you+i+just+want+your+votes&form=ANNTH1&refig=498ee8df1c554c85bb8ab817a38a18b0&pc=U531&pq=i+just+want+your+vote&pqlth=21&assgl=45&sgcn=i+don%27t+care+about+you+i+just+want+your+votes&qs=RI&smvpcn=0&swbcn=8&sctcn=0&sc=8-21&sp=4&ghc=0&cvid=498ee8df1c554c85bb8ab817a38a18b0&clckatsg=1&hsmssg=0

[JT45242]

57. I'll translate...he is doing good things going after brown people...bad things when it hits white people like me

No sympathy.

Her brand of hate spewing excuse for following someone who preached love and taking care of the poor, sick, foreigners , etc.

She worships at the church white supremacists.

Face meet leopard.

I hope she enjoys homelessness and is treated with the disdain she showed for others voting for a rapist three times.

Of course, I sometimes wonder how the government hires so many of these brainless pieces of crap

[ibegurpard]

58. These stories give me life

I never hated people until he came along.

[Betty Boom]

59. Screw that POS

It’s so classic that they only care when something directly impacts them. So excuse me if I don’t feel the tiniest bit sorry for them. I’m just mirroring their lack of care about people of color, LGBTQ people, undocumented immigrants, the national parks, people without health insurance, people on Medicaid, and on and on and on

Screw her.

[Atreus]

61. Yep, apologies to the Blue Dots....

….but there cannot be enough pain in the “Trump Hearland”. Keep lettin’ them have it!

[republianmushroom]

62. How is this working out for you MAGArats ?

Live and learn the hard way dudes.

[the_liberal_grandpa]

63. To all who voted for the leopard and are getting your face ripped off I will spell it out for you (again)

[Martin68]

64. I hope they suffer.

[eppur_se_muova]

65. "doing wonderful things for the country in some regards ..." Nope, she still needs further education.

May it be in the School of Hard Knocks.

[bernieb]

66. What?

Even my own sister said she didn't believe he'd do what he said. Why are people so stupid? Never mind. I know. FAFO

[Cha]

69. ".. A possible backlash in repub strongholds... " Dawg they're SLOW!

TY

[elliesmandt]

70. Sorry!

I'd like to feel some sympathy for those people who voted for Trump or who didn't vote because they couldn't vote for a woman of color and have since suffered for it, but I just can't. Reminds me of the bible verse, "As ye sow so shall ye reap." Galatians 6;7. I do, however, feel sorry for those who didn't vote for him and have suffered the consequences of his presidency.