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janice1999

Fear and stress is actually the desired outcome.

> "When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains"

Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, Russ Vought

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/27/trump-federal-eorkers-inspe...

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Treat people like villains, and they'll start to act like it.

This pithy, stupid comment is completely missing the forest for the trees. Most of these people have long histories of being the villain. Treating them as villains because of their history of being villains isn't what caused them to be villains.

Most workers at federal agencies don't have long histories of being the villain.

I've been far more screwed by the private sector than by people in government.

I'm not talking about those people. I'm talking about villains, like Trump and Musk, Kash Patel, Mitch McConnel, the people we treat as villains because they have shown us repeatedly that's what they are.

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