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Sheril Kirshenbaum

"Do you think it's inappropriate in any way that someone w/ no experience w/ grants for the federal government was making personal judgment calls about what grants to cancel?" an attorney asked.

"Um, no. I don't think it's inappropriate," Cavanaugh said, arguing that he did not need formal education or experience to make informed judgments. 🤔

https://abcnews.com/Politics/2-doge-staffers-regrets-people-losing-income-reduce/story?id=131050170 #science #uspol

2 DOGE staffers say 'no' regrets for people losing income, didn't reduce the deficit: Depositions

The DOGE employees defended the effort to cut "useless agencies."

ABC News

Fuzzy Leapfrog Mar 14

@Sheril Men don't need anything to doom us 🫠

Maria Langer | 📝🛥️💎Mar 14

@Sheril How old is this kid? 15?

Duckbilled Plattypus.Mar 14

12. Acts like he's 12. No conscience, no consequence.

"My ignorance is more important than your expertise."

The end of everything.

PapyrusBrigade has moved Mar 14

According to court filings, the men prompted ChatGPT by asking, "From the perspective of someone looking to identify DEI grants, does this involve DEI? Respond factually in less than 120 characters.· Begin with 'Yes.' o. 'No.' followed by a brief explanation.· Do not use 'this initiative' or 'this description' in your response."

@CAWguy has moved Mar 14

@PapyrusBrigade The two of them both come off sounding like sociopaths. Obviously not weird considering their boss.

thief_of_fire Mar 14

@PapyrusBrigade @Sheril lol, not even well considered in how they write prompts. LLMs are just responsibility diffusing machines to them

John Crowden Mar 14

@Sheril this guy got a bag load of us taxpayers money for doing fuck all

Randall Lee Mar 14

@JohnCrowden @Sheril they committed crimes for the Epstein class.

@Sheril These... 'people'... Are everything that's wrong in our world and 'civilized' societies

Hot Dog Water, will not comply Mar 14

Little peckerwoods are raised to one rule "white is right".
Everything he believes was never real.

@Sheril
Looking forward to meeting him
(but he will not look forward to meeting me)

@Sheril
Incel mentality in a nutshell.

Class Wario Mar 14

@Sheril in 1942 that’s a kid who’s excited to run the gas chamber by himself.

Tropical Chaos Mar 14

@Sheril he is part of the WUS program; white, unqualified and stupid!

gnomeoffender Mar 14

@tropicalchaos @Sheril revolutionaries. How do you revolutionize racism and repackage it?

Tropical Chaos Mar 14

@gnomeoffender there's no such thing as reverse racism, you cannot be oppressive towards the oppressor. Go whine about it to someone else, I'm part white and I wrote it.

Paul Schoe Mar 16

And would not see anything wrong with doing that.

Michael Porter Mar 14

@Sheril The “March” entry for the 2026 Dunning-Kruger calendar.

@MichaelPorter @Sheril Entitled brats. No life experience, put in a situation that was way over their heads.

@Sheril these are the people Elon Musk hires and considers skilled and intelligent. No wonder nothing Musk promises comes to fruition. Or it ends up being a chaotic substandard mess. #Musk #incompetence #Doge #USpol

Paul_IPv6 Mar 14

@nomdeb @Sheril

i am pretty sure that muskrat says "skilled and intelligent" but really means "obedient and sycophantic"...

@paul_ipv6 @Sheril Trump and Musk are so much alike. Both incompetent buffoons who have no idea what they are doing. Besides all the creepy and vile character issues too of course. But that also comes with stupidity.

Paul_IPv6 Mar 14

@nomdeb @Sheril

they are stunning examples of what happens when stupid people are raised with enough money to avoid any consequences and where everyone except their abusive parents caters to their every whim.

James Zimmerman Mar 14

@Sheril
It's good this is being detailed but I think the focus of the discussion should be about how a US president keeps making hiring decisions this bad and never pays any real price for it.

FurballsNHairballs Mar 14

@Sheril
I can put it like this
If DOGE had not signed him.up., he would have been on the Darwin Awards short list being that stupid.

@Sheril the fucking audacity

Deficits will never be reduced as long as more of the public purse is spent on Wealthfare than on Welfare ...

f*cking b*tch club Mar 14

@Sheril "Why is a documentary about Holocaust survivors DEI?" an attorney asked.
"It's a gender-based story that's inherently discriminatory to focus on this specific group," Fox said

😱😱😱

Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️Mar 14

@grammasaurus @Sheril

Only media about old white european men allowed.

JohnnieMac Mar 14

@Sheril he thought his orders were to “move around fast and break people”.

Grovewest Mar 14

@Sheril It sounds like his reasoning is if you remove any personal responsibility or consequences one can publicly crap in their pants like a toddler.

@Sheril Three possibilities come to mind:

1) He really is this stupid. Hard to believe, but not impossible.

2) He's a sociopath, and if he wasn't destroying people's lives and killing them indirectly, he'd be plotting how to do it personally and directly.

3) He's a pants-pissing coward who realizes he's in sight of the FO stage, and will say or do anything he thinks might save him, instead of man up and tell the fucking truth like any kind of decent and respectable person would.

@wesdym I'd expect DOGE to be full of the first two purely through self selection. You're dumb enough to think a 50-something edge lord is cool or you see joining DOGE as an opportunity to be an agent of chaos.

The Turtle Mar 16

@Sheril it is very likely I am wearing socks right now that are older than that kid.

The Turtle Mar 16

@Sheril not many people know the Federal government can and does flag people as "not eligible for rehire," and those kids better have that flag set on their SF-51, if they were ever actual federal employees, which I rather doubt.