Dear Federal Workforce - STRIKE!

The only way to counter Muskrat & Trump is to shut the whole thing down

By Timothy P Holmberg

One of the three great Chinese curses goes like this:

“may you find what you are looking for”

Many mistake this for a blessing, but it is not intended that way. It references the reality in life, that the things we often long for, are seldom as satisfying as we imagined. Sometimes they can be the greatest curse of all. Many cultures have versions of this recognition. The greek myth of King Midas and his touch turning all things to gold is another example.

As Muskrat unleashes his little Brown Shirt tech teens to blow up everything they set eyes on, we have all felt helpless. We won’t know the full extent of the fallout from the Muskrat’s marauding, but we know instinctively, it is a disaster in the making. Several really.

Steve Bannon, Trump’s obese, disheveled alter ego lusted after the dismantling of the “administrative state”, a term he chose very precisely. He knew that he’d be dismissed as a lunatic anarchist if he had said he wanted to tear down the US government. So he came up with a term to portray his project that was vague enough that no one would really be invested in defending something so mundane. Just the word “administrative” sounded like frivolous boring nonsense that no one needed. So, why not get rid of it.

Only those things he wanted to get rid of are actually central to much of America’s modern progress as a nation. Education, environment, food safety, transportation, law enforcement, intelligence and furthering American values around the world are a fraction of the things upon which our quality of life is founded. Imperfect for sure. Sometimes in error, or even wasteful. But also one of the best governmental and bureaucrstic systems in the world.

Bannon also knew (after his first massive failure) that he was not the face to take his enterprise to the public. The now famous picture of Bannon at the White House with his dry erase board scrawled full of destructive fever dreams, casting a vaguely Jaba the Hut silhouette, was just creepy. Bannon needed some sizzle for his steak, and this time around, he’s found it in Elon Muskrat.

Each day is a series of orchestrated explosions let off precisely as spelled out in Project 2025. Remember Project 2025? The document that Trump definitely for sure knew nothing about or anyone who wrote it, who are they? Only half his administration so far.

Muskrat’s favorite tool in his terrorist attacks is the buyout offer to release virtually anyone in government, particularly those that have even a whiff of non-aryan origin, or sympathies for the black and brown among us.

Reading the news every morning is like having a sexual assault described to you over and over again. For those in the federal workforce, they are living it. My heart goes out to them.

So, what can be done?

Time to Strike!

The only group that can have an immediate impact on this are the very federal workers that Muskrat and his minions are assaulting. Sure, there are court cases and lawyers feverishly writing briefs and seeking injunctions, but those move FAR too slow for this moment. What is in fact needed is for our federal workforce to give Muskrat just what he asked for . . in spades. And watch the entire administration of bullies choke. Not a strike like during the Reagan administration. There, air traffic controllers saw their union broken by a failure of solidarity among federal workers. This time, Musk has stumbled his stupid self into a potential nightmare of his own making. The buyout gives everyone legal cover. And avenues to sue later.

Air traffic controllers

Food safety inspectors

FBI

Department of education workers

USAid workers

Department of Transportation workers

IRS agents

Port inspectors

Army Corps of Engineers

Analysts

Anyone and everyone who gets Muskrat’s letter, sign it and send it. Then turn your phone off.

Trump’s entire movement is built on the premise that the government doesn’t do anything but waste and bumble. The idea underpinning it is that we don’t need it. The only antidote to this mass psychosis is to show the public just how central our government is to so many aspects of our lives.

Only when every conservative legislator is being chased by hoards of upset constituents, will Congress finally stand up. And they are the only ones who can really check Trump and Muskrat.

Some will want to stay out of a sense of duty. Laudable as that may be, don’t. You see, Muskrat’s larger enterprise is to hit the poor and marginalized in this country. The “pain” he talked of was a full scale assault on non-aryan America. Jews and gays, trans and brown people, single or ambitious women, non-Christians . . any group that Musk’s eugenicist world view cannot see value in are ALL in the cross-hairs. If Muskrat succeeds, it will mark our final descent to fascism and oligarchy. Whatever failings we had, will pale compared to the dystopia Muskrat will usher in.

My plea to you, is to stop him here before it’s too late. It will be, as Muskrat says, painful. But that pain will purchase our nation’s enduring future.

(To that end, I think we should set up a fund to help cover some of workers pay and essential needs during the “strike”.)