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Alex Wagner

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1892 total appearances

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The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

The war on woke.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

The war on woke.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

Well, the Doge purge is like purge by keyword. It's like, is there anything in the resume that has the words DEI in it? Regardless of whether you work on DEI. Like, for example, these guys who went to a training. It's so wanton and haphazard. And I think that's twofold. One, I think that the haziness of all of this...

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

Well, the Doge purge is like purge by keyword. It's like, is there anything in the resume that has the words DEI in it? Regardless of whether you work on DEI. Like, for example, these guys who went to a training. It's so wanton and haphazard. And I think that's twofold. One, I think that the haziness of all of this...

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

Well, the Doge purge is like purge by keyword. It's like, is there anything in the resume that has the words DEI in it? Regardless of whether you work on DEI. Like, for example, these guys who went to a training. It's so wanton and haphazard. And I think that's twofold. One, I think that the haziness of all of this...

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

the lack of standards for who's placed on leave and who isn't gives them ample opportunity to take out people of color or women or people who just are not going to be seen as friendly to a Trump administration agenda. And then for everybody who's not a woman or a person of color or whatever... it just instills fear and makes them all the more likely to say, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

the lack of standards for who's placed on leave and who isn't gives them ample opportunity to take out people of color or women or people who just are not going to be seen as friendly to a Trump administration agenda. And then for everybody who's not a woman or a person of color or whatever... it just instills fear and makes them all the more likely to say, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

the lack of standards for who's placed on leave and who isn't gives them ample opportunity to take out people of color or women or people who just are not going to be seen as friendly to a Trump administration agenda. And then for everybody who's not a woman or a person of color or whatever... it just instills fear and makes them all the more likely to say, you know what?

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I do not need to live like this. I'm taking the buyout. I'm out of here. And it also, I think, fulfills, it ticks the box that Russell Vogt outlined, which is they want to traumatize federal workers. They see them as the bleeding heart libs. The USAID stuff is so vengeful and so personal. They want to punish this group of people who believe in civil service.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I do not need to live like this. I'm taking the buyout. I'm out of here. And it also, I think, fulfills, it ticks the box that Russell Vogt outlined, which is they want to traumatize federal workers. They see them as the bleeding heart libs. The USAID stuff is so vengeful and so personal. They want to punish this group of people who believe in civil service.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I do not need to live like this. I'm taking the buyout. I'm out of here. And it also, I think, fulfills, it ticks the box that Russell Vogt outlined, which is they want to traumatize federal workers. They see them as the bleeding heart libs. The USAID stuff is so vengeful and so personal. They want to punish this group of people who believe in civil service.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

So the chaos and the confusion in all of this is a multi-pronged assault on specific communities, the body of the federal government on whole, and the institution of civic service. So it's very useful in that way. It's incredibly craven.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

So the chaos and the confusion in all of this is a multi-pronged assault on specific communities, the body of the federal government on whole, and the institution of civic service. So it's very useful in that way. It's incredibly craven.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

So the chaos and the confusion in all of this is a multi-pronged assault on specific communities, the body of the federal government on whole, and the institution of civic service. So it's very useful in that way. It's incredibly craven.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

It's turned into a spoon.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

It's turned into a spoon.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

It's turned into a spoon.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I mean, it's like, I think we, it's like the numbers are a little fuzzy, but that's like almost 4% and their target was 5 to 10%. So it's not nothing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I mean, it's like, I think we, it's like the numbers are a little fuzzy, but that's like almost 4% and their target was 5 to 10%. So it's not nothing.

The Bulwark Podcast
Alex Wagner: The Poster Child for Corruption and Grift

I mean, it's like, I think we, it's like the numbers are a little fuzzy, but that's like almost 4% and their target was 5 to 10%. So it's not nothing.