> You're a zealot or incapable of cognitively understanding what the words mean.
Straight to ad hominem. Excellent.
If you are an advocate for the destruction of my country through your willful ignorance, you’re the problem.
You don’t get to hide behind high minded ideals.
I'm not sure exactly what point you are arguing. The issue in this subthread is whether or not cruelty to federal employees is "the point" of the recent actions. I claim that it's not the objective, but a side effect. I claim that the Trump administration's main objective is to dissolve these agencies, not specifically to inflict harm on employees. All of the agency de-fundings and dissolutions can be much better explained as serving some other goal: either industry profit, or to make it easier for his party (or Trump himself!) to win in 2028, or to undo some perceived left-leaning agenda.
I am hardly advocating for destruction of the USA simply because I disagree with that pithy quotable, "The cruelty is the point."
Dissolving agencies is easy. Push the legislation through congress. The republicans hold control of the legislature, have the ability to blackmail their caucus through the oligarchs, and have a supreme court that has dropped all pretense of legitimacy.
The budget bill devastates things like Medicaid, but doesn't dissolve the department of education.