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Kinda depends.

If your job is heavily based on results or hitting quotas, quitting might not be the best choice in most cases, since if you weren't meeting the requirements set, you'd be fired anyways. (e.g. if their metric is "10 protesters jailed a week, you can't really be "gumming up the works" by only jailing 10 protesters instead of the 20 your coworker is doing. If they needed 10 more from you, they'd up the requirements or hire/transfer another person)

But if your job is more abstract, something specialized that's hard to find replacements for, etc, then it can be worth it. (e.g. you're the only person who knows how this legacy system with no documentation functions, if you quit and they need tech support, they're fucked. Or another example, if your job relies on your team making new guidelines for how to best identify protesters, but you effectively sabotage every regular meeting with long speeches, bringing up old issues and re-opening them for discussion, asking how effective new decisions really are to draw them out, etc)

In this case, federal prosecutors are:

• Harder to replace (you need a lot of experience and education)
• Damaging existing efforts when they leave (one of those resigning was working on major fraud cases someone else will now have to pick up)
• Slow to get replacements working for (since old cases being handed off to new people need to be entirely re-examined and learned about all over again)

So resigning was probably a good choice compared to just going "it's taking a while, sorry" and then them looking at the work and seeing it's just way slower than before on purpose in tangible ways, then having them come after you for "sabotage" or whatever they try to brand it as.

I'm not sure it really matters anymore. I lean towards thinking that at this point, I'm not sure there is anyway to make things gummier. Like they're just making shit up as they go. This is also why conservatives are trying to get legal cases that are being blocked at the state level moved to the federal level.

On the one hand, most people (hopefully) know/understand they want and need a civil war. They want everything to come crumbling down so a small shadowy group of wealthy conservatives can do what they have done globally in other countries time and time again since WWII.

Obviously it's in our best interest to delay/stall an actual war breaking out for as long as possible, but this is also an inflection point. It's like everybody's been warning America that they are Jekyll and Hyde, and America was like "you guys, I know I'm weird and hard to understand, but I'm really a good person."

Now it's like Jekyll is finally trying to kill Hyde so he can take over for good, and Hyde has fucking finally started to accept it. We can't just go back to pretending we don't know who he/we really is/are.

Sadly there are people who already have dissociated so hard, they think if they stick their head in the sand there's some chance things might go back to the way they were before. This is what they're hoping the majority of America will be willing to do. These people are the reason that they even bother with pretending to respect the rule of law, and why they've held off for as long as they did when it came to just straight up murdering people in broad day light.

They'll lie and make shit up, but they need to make this all look as legitimate as possible, so that the people who want so badly to keep believing the lie they've been telling themselves, will keep believing it. As long as they can keep that core mass believing the lie, they hope that eventually people will become worn down and join them again (this is what happened in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and really what has already happened more than a few times in the U.S. following the patriot act and gradual destruction of privacy and constitutional rights by our own government)

The shit that should have been the final straw, somehow always becomes the shit we learn to normalize and live with. The leash tightens a little more each time, we lose civil rights, civil liberties (nothing to hide nothing to fear bullshit) and we begin to accept the lie that this is all for our own good. We turn on and fight each other over distractions created by the people who hold the leash, and somehow while we're at each other's throats, standard of living becomes lower than ever before, social mobility becomes less possible, and future generations become more hopeless.

It doesn't have to be this way, but only if we can make people realize, we should know this playbook by now. We know how this goes over and over again, except this time they're definitely going all or nothing with this "we have to accept an authoritarian tech surveillance state for our own good," bullshit.

If we can hold out to midterms, and actually get the right people in the right positions, I think there's a good chance they won't have the legitimacy they need to keep up the lie. That doesn't mean they'll suddenly start following the rule of law, but the longer they have to wait for their civil war, the harder it will be for them to succeed.

The sooner they get their civil war, the easier the process will be for them. If everything goes to plan, and the last of the federal government crumbles, most likely the majority of the Trump administration will step down as a sign of good faith and new leaders will be installed following an "election."

The members of the Trump administration that get the most press, are also the ones that have their faces, fingerprints and names all over this for a reason. They are very unlikely to be part of the next administration once the government collapses. They picked the dumbest, most arrogant, and most annoying fucking people to be the final members of the old U.S. government because it makes whoever they install next more palatable by comparison.

People like Trump, Miller, and Noem are in this to make money, but they're not the brains or the heart of this whole thing. Whoever is installed in their place probably won't be either, but they will also be a bit more toned down on camera. I would guess whoever comes next will be more like JD Vance/Marco Rubio (who knows, maybe even a "moderate" Democrat if they really need to sell it). Less comically dumb, more calculated in his outward behavior, but definitely not much going on behind those vacant eyes.

There's no way we can know for sure what comes next, but we can look at history to know what the likely strategies are and try to be prepared when we see them. I think the most obvious strategy will be very similar to the fall of the U.S.S.R.:

•Several red states currently controlled by Trump loyalists will attempt to secede. Most likely they will use political pressure and violence against their own citizens to coerce them into supporting secession.

•Keep in mind there were several false flag attacks in Russia in the 90s and early 2000s that were blamed blamed on Chechen "terrorists," (in our case it will most likely be blamed on any of the broad categories of people who have some bullshit pinned on them thanks to NSPM-7). These false flag attacks were then used as a pretext to expand military police and far right Nationalist task forces in the name of national safety and security (hey, look at that, we're already one step ahead). Obviously that's a very terrifying possibility, but we also all just saw them murder a woman in cold blood, and try to convince us all we didn't really see what we all saw. So, I think we should all know by now not to put anything past them, and be prepared for them to sink to the lowest low.

The actual acts of terrorism and murder currently being committed by ICE and federal task forces in blue states and red cities will continue and most likely escalate in an attempt to pressure blue states to secede in the hopes of protecting themselves. If blue states and cities can resist and remain nonviolent, continue to pressure the media and politicians to cut the bullshit and call out the holes in the administration's stories, and hold out at least until the midterms, we have a much better chance there will be no remaining shreds of credibility left in the narrative this administration is attempting to create to justify what they're doing.

We are only one year in, they've already done a lot of damage, and they will most likely do more. I will say, that unlike Russia, the majority of the country seems to be very aware and see past the bullshit. If we can keep it up, and remember to remain skeptical of any distractions, comforting narratives, or easy explanations they may try to create if/when false flag attacks occur, we might actually be able to make it through this as the United States of America.

It depends on whether youre ok making your future career harder.