This morning, we brought you two different stories about the layoffs at the State Department. Fired government workers were sobbing, clapping, and acting like the overgrown theater kids they are as they said goodbye to some of their colleagues.
Susan Rice called the layoffs 'superpower suicide,' in case you were hoping they'd crank the drama up to eleven.
While it's never fun to lose your job. I was laid off from my first-ever nursing gig when the facility closed (thanks in part to Medicare's abysmal reimbursement rates); it came at a time when I had just gotten out of a divorce. I had a house and three young boys -- they were 12, nine, and five years old at the time -- to provide for. And I wasn't alone.
There were no tearful parades for us essential workers when we were let go. No politicians were railing about how unfair and dangerous it was to fire nurses, respiratory therapists, and doctors. We were shown the door.
State Department employees (like other government employees) were used to being insulated from the realities of the job market, truly believed their jobs were 'secure' and that they were entitled to those jobs and the taxpayer-funded benefits that went with them.
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Everything they've done since being laid off tells me a) these layoffs were necessary and b) they layoffs probably didn't go far enough.
🚨 UPDATE: The employees kicked out of the State Department by Marco Rubio left signs that say “resist fascism.”
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 12, 2025
He made the right move. pic.twitter.com/c9xHXEfBLK
Of all of President Trump's appointments, Marco Rubio has been head-and-shoulders above the rest. He's exactly the person we need at the State Department, and he has every right to run it as he sees fit.
The State Department and its employees have to serve and support the foreign policy agenda of the current administration because it is the government agency tasked with implementing those policies.
Suppose those employees don't agree with the administration's agenda. In that case, they do not have the right to interfere with or undermine it, regardless of whether or not they believe they are 'fighting fascism.'
Shown here if you zoom in: newly posted signs in the windows of State Department HQ saying "Women's rights are human rights." (Rubio's reforms gutted the department's Office of Global Women's Issues.) pic.twitter.com/5URYNU4t2C
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) July 11, 2025
Every single employee who posted these signs in their offices should also be fired, because they've forgotten they serve at the pleasure of the current president. That includes President Donald Trump.
If they can't serve under a duly elected president, the honorable thing to do is to quit.
But there is no honor among thieves or government workers.
On top of this, I distinctly remember a time in the not-too-distant past when the Joe Biden administration tried to force non-government workers to get the COVID vaccine or find themselves on the unemployment line. Leftists in government cheered him on, calling it an issue of 'safety' and 'public health.'
No one from the State Department shed a tear then.
Nor did they put up signs about 'fighting fascism' when the government decided which businesses were and weren't 'essential' and shuttered a lot of them. Back in 2020, CNN estimated that 60% of those businesses -- most of them restaurants -- never reopened, putting countless workers on the unemployment line. They weren't concerned about the rights of women like Texas salon owner Shelley Luther, who was arrested during COVID for the 'crime' of trying to keep her business open so she and her fellow stylists could feed their children and pay their bills.
Where was the outrage? Where were the sympathetic news stories? Nowhere to be found.
So, forgive me if I just can't work up the sympathy to shed a tear for these State Department workers.
