Keene: Bureaucratic meltdown floods news by design

Often the first thought someone has when they think of an iceberg is the frozen behemoth that sank the supposedly unsinkable Titanic We are seeing this scenario play out with the Trump administration s streamlining of the federal ruling body The iceberg is the federal bureaucracy comprising thousands of individuals hired into the executive branch to serve their fellow citizens Now they are feeling the heat For years these individuals have been crafting and implementing policies that most of Americans are insulated from all without the threat of unemployment should they not perform their duties to the best of their abilities Now the world is seeing what it looks like when icebergs cry The meltdown started last month and the kicking and screaming are only intensifying In the face of authorities efficiency and downsizing particular leaders have taken to encouraging civil disobedience in the face of DOGE commander Elon Musk s Office Space-esque letter asking employees What would you say you do here It was a simple question asking what each employee accomplished last week stressing that classified information should not go through that channel Musk s assumption was that a nonresponse was a resignation It s not the sobbing we are hearing from bureaucrats and left-leaning politicians defending and encouraging federal employees to not do their jobs but we are facing an all-out assault attempting to curry sympathy for the employees on the chopping block It s taking the form of over-the-top emotional pleas against the new administration s push for executive transparency and efficiency Last weekend in response to the Department of the Interior releasing thousands of employees disgruntled staffers hung an upside-down American flag symbolizing a ship in distress in a park The day before there were doom-speaking headlines with hyperbolic insists that Trump s cutting of the federal workforce could lead to an economic accident in several parts of the country Now we are at the national safeguard pitfall portion of the left s Outrage Cycle Last week CNN proclaimed Our CIA Assets are in Danger from an Internal Email amid staffing cuts and an audit of the intelligence agency complete with the He s Only Years Old coda that omits the fact that the legislative branch is staffed predominantly by people in their s I would know I was one Shame on me for taking a congressional communications job at Why should I have been given that level of responsibility at such a young and tender age Do not be fooled by the opalescent cries from disgruntled federal employees or their anointed guardians This is by design These are the final mews of a dying beast that knows the jig is up While we each may know someone within the federal workforce it is essential to remember that these jobs were never designed for people to make their permanent homes The American people know this which is why they voted for change in November Houston Keene previously worked in Congress and as a journalist covering politics InsideSources