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"Death Cult": RFK Jr. Sends CDC Spiraling, Leading to Wave of Resignations
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Never resign.
It's still hard as fuck to fire feds, and they want a smaller fed no matter what
Resigning is what they want. Stay out of spite if nothing else.
I get what you’re saying, but these are also real people with regular daily lives. I know I’ve had intolerable jobs that just drain the life out of me that I needed to leave for my sanity. Asking them to put up with this madness for four years or more depending on who gets elected next (or if elections still happen) is a pretty tall ask.
Also, probably don’t want to have their names associated with whatever is going to occur at the CDC.
It's federal civil service...
You might not know many Feds, some are shitbags, most actually give a fuck about the country.
Hell, the vast majority already did four years under trump. And I know I'll get flack for this, but recent Dem presidents haven't exactly been great for feds either. Even with all the shit he's pulling, he won't match the reduction in force that happened under Clinton when Trump was giving them money.
Clinton doubled the NIH budget and even got the DOD to fund breast cancer research. This played out in a pharma a biotech boom for the next 25 years.
As of 2025, there are no new pipelines for new drugs, no biotechs to startup, and nothing for pharma to develop from 2030 onwards.
Before Trump, support of CDC and NIH was bipartisan.
Clinton reduced the size of the federal workforce by ~377k... We literally just got up to the same number of federal civil service employees in like 2024. It took 30 years.
Now, I'll admit off the top of my head I dont know how many were CDC or NIH...
But I'm guessing there was some of them.
No, the NIH expanded, as did CDC because of threats like HIV and other viruses.
Guess we'll just have to take your word on since no source apparently exists...
It's a tall ask, but these are not normal times, and we need these people to stay in place as long as possible, and resist in any way possible. Their country needs their patriotic outrage on the inside.
'Elections'
No they should let them do it themselves. The fascists want the capable people to do the work they want them to do. The best way is to let them handle it themselves so the system can collapse asap and they are to blame. if you play ball with them you are just supporting the normalization.
If they stay, they will be criminally targeted or have to work under death threats. These people do not work for money, they work to save lives but at some point when the people they are saving just choose to attack them, I completely understand the 'go fuck yourselves' response.
Bullshit
Even if true, if you think that's a valid reason. You probably need to read about why reconstructionism failed after the civil war.
https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/ku-klux-klan-in-the-reconstruction-era/
If politicians/feds resign due to threats, then voters are the ones that get threatened next.
Giving up doesn't fix anything, it just lets them win the battle and move on to the next to win the war.
This ain't a fucking game and it ain't gonna be comfortable.
Giving up doesn't fucking work, and it never will.