Add to the list of things sure to enrage a leftist, besides confusing their pronouns, asking if they are eligible to vote, or maybe if they’re in the country legally, is to email the bureaucratic drones among their number requesting a list of what they did last week on the job.
Oh, the indignity.
I recall as a child one of the teachers’ go-to requests early in a new school year was to get the students writing by having them outline what they did on their summer vacations. For someone who grew up in a household such as mine, a family for whom going for a Sunday drive, maybe visiting relatives, was quite the outing, I had limited source material.
Somehow, though, I answered the call and wrote something each year. I did well on those essays, even went on and got a job for three-plus decades writing for my keep.
It seems too many of our work-from-home, do-as-little-as-possible bureaucrats must have had it too easy on those summer essays, having raw material like going to the beach, to Disney World, to foreign lands.
Faced with a simple request to outline what they did last week, they freeze. Oh, you skeptics, who say they did nothing.
Baloney. I just read where hundreds of NSA employees (the spy folks) were on transgender chat sites talking about turning penises into vaginas surgically and celebrating it all.
I’m sure thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats were doing similar productive things on the taxpayers’ dimes, just last week.
We’ll excuse the USAid people, who saw their slush fund closed down. We know what they were doing, packing personal items in cardboard boxes and scribbling snarky messages on them. There is no group more shrewish than do-nothing slackers deprived of their spot on the gravy train and left to wonder if there is another organization as idiotic as the federal government that will pay them to spend other peoples’ money on their political causes.
Beyond the USAid types, we want more NSA-type tomfoolery. Don’t be shy, people. Details make the stories.
Judging by the ongoing string of reports regarding left-wing news hacks losing their jobs, this whole DOGE concept apparently is being co-opted by media organizations.
From Abilio “Jim” Acosta, to Joy (less) Reid, to Lester Holt, to Norah O’Donnell, or even MSNBC demanding her highness Rachel “Mad Cow” Maddow stop acting like a bureaucrat and start doing more than one show a week, it seems too many prominent leftists were asked to tell the bosses what they did in recent weeks, and it wasn’t nearly enough.
Or maybe it was too much, things such as calling half the country racists, Nazis, Russian agents and just, plain stupid for not kissing the hem of the radical left.
Although I never in my work life had to tell my bosses what I did the past week – presumably they saw enough of my bylines in the publications I worked for that they knew – I could have provided them a list.
Even now, despite being retired, if the wife emails me tomorrow asking what productive things I did last week, I can provide her an answer. It would be an eclectic list, including shoveling snow (multiple days), helping mind the grandkids, running the family investments, doing odds and ends about the house and writing entries for this blog.
There’s more, but I won’t bore you.
I bumped into a former co-worker over the weekend at the Pete Vizza memorial service. She was a Trump supporter before it was fashionable, and has been to numerous Trump rallies, along with the recent inauguration.
I asked her if she was tired of winning yet. She wasn’t and neither am I.
Reading the ongoing whining about Trump and his team taking on the deep state, cutting off its lifeblood of taxpayer funding, makes every day like another Christmas.
A recent poll indicates I’m not alone, with majorities in the 80- and 70-percent ranges approving of Trump closing the border and pruning government, among other things.
This email request to outline the past work week has been the gift that keeps on giving, providing daily amusement as Democrats find yet another losing cause to die for.
Have at it, you donkeys.
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