Others worry that if Trump distances himself from DOGE, their ties to it could become a professional liability, said sources.

Oh you sweet summer child. It was always going to be a professional liability

I hope they understand that they are in the blackest blacklist IT has ever seen. Fucking radioactive.

He's finally hurting the right people!

Oh for... It's been like a few months, just leave DOGE off your resumes and come up with something to explain the gap! If you were notorious enough to be recognized by name as a DOGE staffer then just go job hunting in the red states or set up somewhere where nobody cares. There's plenty of tech bro nonsense firms that will take them...The softest brush with anything resembling consequences has this lot screaming and while I understand folk love hearing it their entitled assholery is grating as hell.

Feeling worried isn't karma. That would require actually facing consequences.

"Some DOGE staffers [...] fear that [this shitstorm] could leave them vulnerable to political retribution and damage their future job prospects"

I wanted to make a sarcastic comment about how so many of them are super young, and so this must sting especially. However, I couldn't figure out a way to say this in a sufficiently mocking tone. Fuck 'em

"So, what is this 5 month gap in your CV"

"Well, I was working for DOGE"

"Right, I think we know enough and can end this job interview. Thank you for your time. Don't call us, we'll call you".

What are your bootstraps made of, overcooked spaghetti?! Pull ‘em harder, snowflakes!

Are we finding out or still fucking around?

Musk, for his part, downplayed the idea that DOGE needed him to survive as he left the Trump administration last week.

"DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism," he said. "You wouldn't ask the question, 'Who would lead Buddhism?'"

Grandiose much?

Time to pull those bootstraps!

i was told that other people would be targets, not me!

Doge employees

Marvelous. Couldn’t happen to a better group of assholes.

Yeah... No they aren't.

So they are moving from the "fuck around" to the "find out" stage.

"Zoomer face is a little bit lean, but hey, a leopard's gotta eat!"

Still won’t buy his cars. I haven’t forgotten how we got here in the first place.

I'm certain Elon will look after his young protégés, right? Surely the richest man in the world wouldn't leave them all out to dry?

News flash: it does

"If you fire me I will release..." looks at data for a bit, cherry picking some juicy morsels, decides on "...this!". So I think Elon's techno-thugs should be safe for a while longer.