Hostile Takeover of Federal Government Underway

An anonymous reader writes:

I'm a current employee at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This is a throwaway account for obvious reasons. I’m posting this because people need to know what’s going on at OPM.

I’ve been an OPM employee for nearly a decade and a Federal Employee for almost 20 years. I’ve never witnessed anything even remotely close to what’s happening right now. In short, there's a hostile takeover of the federal civil service.

Let me say this in no uncertain terms — OPM has been compromised and taken over. The very backbone of American Government, the HR of all HR in the U.S. Government has been taken over by outside politicals. In just five days, they managed to push aside dozens of non-political, career civil servants who were there specifically to prevent the civil service from becoming the President's henchmen.

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[theweatherelectric]

Yes, but the inspectors general have been fired: https://edition.cnn.com/2025/0... [cnn.com]

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[Iamthecheese]

It sounds like there are enough people involved for collaboration. I'm willing to keep an open mind and accept it's possible Trump is doing something illicit. In that case it's essential for those involved to get together and start writing up who is being fired and what's happening afterwards. Immediately get together with those who haven't been fired and get them to pass information about what's happening with the replacements. If there's anything unethical aside from "installing loyalists" document it and

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[Iamthecheese]

These people already took their orders from the Executive Office. Yes, they should be looking out for the good of the country, but having to do so as directed by the President isn't something new. You're assuming "loyal to the president" and "serving the nation" are mutually exclusive.

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[Iamthecheese]

>anyone who isn't loudly denouncing the president is evil, and also this thing he's doing is evil

You can see how your attitudes can lead people to depreciate your claims about how dangerous his actions are, right?