Many of their rich donors rely on the exploitation of undocumented workers to make crap ton of money. So of course they don’t want to actually clamp down on ICE or provide a better pathways to citizenship…

Undocumented workers are extremely cheap labor and obedient out of fear. There have been plenty of reported cases of farmers and/or companies calling ICE on their workers to weasel out of paying them (wage theft). Even green card holders aren’t safe, since their visas is tied to their job. So if they complain they’ll likely be forced to leave the U.S. or get deported.

Steel shot contains a bunch of small metal balls which spread out upon shooting at the target. So it’s more forgiving to someone with poor aim.

And buy steel shot ammo so you don’t miss

They’d be calling for legalized pedophilia a week after the Epstein files were released.

Remember Remember, the Chuck of November

It honestly feels like public science is collapsing within America. I expected cuts to atmospheric and oceanic science given that the Heritage Foundation (creators of Project 2025) said they were going to break up NOAA due to our “climate change alarmism”. However, I didn’t expect that nearly every field of science would also get defunded this year, especially medical research. Anti-intellectualism is destroying the United States :/

This person is unfortunately correct. One of the most educated and skilled employees within my group at NOAA was rejected from a job. Apparently, the board in charge of that scientific organization rejected her because they didn’t want to hire an American :/

That’s a good idea! And if I get rejected, at least I’ll know which new skills to focus on. In the meantime, I’ll try to figure out what other career besides tech would fit my education and skill set.

I have a master’s of science in atmospheric and oceanic science, which unfortunately is a very niche field. I made a miscalculation that my field would grow due to the increase in severe weather and negative affects from climate change.

Thanks for your advice :)

Yes, I’m a contractor for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Atmospheric and Oceanic science has been heavily defunded this year. A quarter of my program at NOAA has been laid off this year.

If I lost my science job, I was planning on going into tech. Now where do I go??? It feels like the walls are closing in.

I should have gone to a trade school instead :/ STEM was a bad choice.

The establishment Democrats might have signed their own death sentence by attacking Zohran Mamdani

I’m sorry that you lost your father so long ago :/ However, you do make a solid point. Watching your parents slowly lose their minds might be ultimately more painful in the long run. My parents were always abusive white trash, but now I don’t even recognize them anymore. I guess decades of alcoholism and hatred will do that do to a person…

It’s a cult. My parents became super religious out of nowhere in 2016 began worshiping Trump like he’s a demigod. I regrettedly visited them with a few months ago and now they’re prepping for civil war with “people from the cities”. When mental illness reaches this point of criticality, there’s no point of return. They simply live in a different reality. Voting republican is an existential crisis to them within their Qanon-based media bubble.

It’s their catch all term for any policy that helps average Americans. After all, licking billionaire’s butts is just too irrestible for these class traitors.

I guess the National Guard and ICE will be sent to Cincinnati now out of spite…

Your satire is top notch ;)

My buddy works at NOAA’s GFDL, who develops the GFS model. A quarter of his team was illegally fired back in February during the DOGE bullshit, including folks who work on our hurricane models.

It’s all part of project 2025. Defund and gut NOAA, then use the degradation of our products and services as an excuse to privatize everything. We are just trying to keep things running, but the government shutdown has only made things worse :/

American here. Our mainstream news outlets barely covers these ICE raids. We’re in a full blown dictatorship. Now even Reddit perma banning anyone who suggests that the 2nd amendment was created for situations like this. It’s even worse than the suppression of pro Luigi Mangione content earlier this year.

It’s definitely infuriating. Anything is “true” in their land of make believe…

Well at least your dad hated everyone equally ;)