Irony

Irony can effectively illustrate numerous contradictory observations. Often it’s a profound, sad, ridiculous and therefore hilarious illustration. Take the indiscriminate widespread firing of thousands and thousands of federal employees currently underway. Many of those fired were very competent in performing their jobs. Some were high level experts and specialists in their fields.

So, where’s the irony? The firings were conducted by a ship of fools (hopefully a non-military ship). You have incompetent people filling major roles in the current administration under a severely compromised president and others with secret agendas like Elon Musk. You see, you don’t have to be any good at what you do; the number one qualification is blind loyalty to the president.

Self-compromised classified military chats, the mindless firing of the experts in charge of the nukes immediately spring to mind as examples of this administration’s incompetence.   

So, you think you’re saving big taxpayer dollars, but at what price? For example, who is going to stop unfettered businesses from using deadly substances like asbestos? I agree, you have to control spending. However, these nonsensical firings will come back to haunt us all to be sure.

The incompetent firing the competent, now that is irony.