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Nevilledog

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Sat Mar 22, 2025, 12:42 PM Mar 22

Fred Wellman: Terrorizing our fellow Americans [View all]

https://fpwellman.substack.com/p/terrorizing-our-fellow-americans?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Don't Say You Weren't Warned

Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and Project 2025 promised to do a lot of really terrible things. True to their word, they are implementing them all while the media watches and tries to make it normal, while Republicans cower in fear, and while Democratic leadership is waiting for his popularity to drop so they can really do some stuff, according to Chuck Schumer.

Our government is being dismantled. We can all see that.

What you might not see is worse. It’s the inside terrorist campaign that is purposely and deliberately traumatizing the two million Americans that run our federal government—exactly as promised by the guy the Senate approved 53-47 as the Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

The terrorism campaign is playing out and you are hardly hearing anything about it because it all seems so benign. What is ‘traumatizing’ about having to work in an office instead of remote? What is the big deal about having to fill out a few forms on your employees performance? What kind of snowflakes can’t fill out a little email with five bullets about what they accomplished last week?

Take it all individually and it all sounds so mild and unimportant. Take it as a concerted campaign to force employees to be afraid of writing something that AI will flag as fireable, evaluate people you consider friends knowing that if you fill the form out wrong they will get fired, or spend your days answering new taskings instead of actually doing your job.

Repeat that daily. Over and over. It adds up to trauma, fear, and incapacitation of humans and our entire government

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