Dimon in the Rough

Yeah – if you’re looking for plain-spoken, old-time American business frankness, you don’t have to look any further than J.P. Morgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon.

I mean, he could blister a rock when he gets going. For example, the hurt he laid on his employees listening to his return-to-office rant.

HOLY CRAP

This was a thing of beauty if you missed it.

In leaked audio, Jamie Dimon destroys the idea of working from home.

The question is why wasn’t he this vocal during COVID where this idea was unpopular.

This, “walking on eggshells” BS has to stop.

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— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) February 14, 2025

Anyway, there haven’t been any leaks since. In fact, the CEO has been relatively quiet since right after the Trump inauguration when he said he was looking forward to seeing Elon’s DOGE teams get to work.

Jamie Dimon on DOGE: “You’ve got to look at @elonmusk … The guy is our Einstein … We deserve good government and I don’t think anyone thinks sending another trillion dollars to Washington D.C. will lead to good government.” pic.twitter.com/9PuTih5Pui

— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) January 22, 2025

Work which has resulted in uncovering billions upon billions of dollars of hinky grants, waste, fraud, abuse, and the releasing of many thousands of federal workers from their government bondage, aka GS jobs.

It’s that last item that’s been causing a considerable amount of virtue-signaling from the progressive world, which is bemusing us out here in the real world of lay-offs, firings, and company bankruptcies.

I know no one ever climbed Half Dome for Hubby when his last government contract got cut. I mean, we were livin’ lean for seven years until he got another job after knocking out his bachelor’s in the meantime.

It would have been a nice gesture.

I guess park rangers are #SpecialFlowers. It’s astonishing how there was only one person who knew how to unlock a bathroom in that whole huge park, but they could all scamper up and down the face of El Capitan like monkeys to disrespect our flag, protesting the lay-offs.

Petulance as CNN News. 🧙✊🦄https://t.co/gcz3R2MJ6s pic.twitter.com/Oj8Ge9oygL

— Theo Jordan (@Theo_TJ_Jordan) February 24, 2025

Networks can’t wait to interview the latest laid-off Department of Education worker or someone from the beloved Internal Revenue Service.

From the Dept. of Education to Health and Human Services to Veterans Affairs, thousands of workers were laid off across at least a dozen federal departments and agencies by order of the Trump administration. @MaryKBruce reports. https://t.co/RTQdt5GvNV pic.twitter.com/ufNaC7Zk1o

— World News Tonight (@ABCWorldNews) February 15, 2025

This is so weird because there were no news crews stalking people fired for refusing COVID mandates – most Democrats and all the progressives wanted them dead anyway, as I remember. Shoot, even the president himself wished – nah, promised – unvaccinated types a ‘winter of severe illness and death.’

No one interviews oil industry types when that goes south…and there was no one waiting to interview hubby on his last day leaving base years ago.

I noticed no one asked the nine fired staffers from The View how they felt about ABC management or their plans when they got canned, either.

I think we need get a judge to rule they have to unfire them. I mean, that’s how it’s supposed to work, right?

— Todd Starke (@Crusaderf8u) February 22, 2025

It seems there’s a (D)ifference in how such events are portrayed. The 400K or so federal workers Clinton and Gore fired were part of a brilliant stra-tee-gery – and nobody followed them home so they could cry on the evening news.

The workers being let go now are victims of the rapacious, egomaniacal billionaire and the Bad Orange Man – victims, I tell you – ergo must be celebrated as such even though there are far less of them, and it’s all truly same-same.

Into the pathetic ‘Why me?!’ mewling and squealing about the unelected billionaire cleaning house steps Jamie DImon in an interview today. As ever, he was characteristically rough in his assessment of DOGE’s efforts:

Jamie Dimon calls U.S. government ‘inefficient’ and says Elon Musk’s DOGE effort ‘needs to be done’

CALL A WAAHMBULANCE

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon on Monday said the U.S. government is inefficient and in need of work as the Trump administration terminates thousands of federal employees and works to dismantle agencies including the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Dimon was asked by CNBC’s Leslie Picker whether he supported efforts by Elon Musk’s advisory body, the Department of Government Efficiency. He declined to give what he called a “binary” response, but made comments that supported the overall effort.

“The government is inefficient, not very competent, and needs a lot of work,” Dimon told Picker. “It’s not just waste and fraud, it’s outcomes.”

…“Why are we spending the money on these things? Are we getting what we deserve? What should we change?” Dimon said. “It’s not just about the deficit, its about building the right policies and procedures and the government we deserve.”

Dimon said if DOGE overreaches with its cost-cutting efforts or engages in activity that’s not legal, “the courts will stop it.”

“I’m hoping it’s quite successful,” he said.

Aren’t we all ‘hoping it’s quite successful’ – it’s sure been illuminating in only a month’s time.

There are seventeen more months of the Elon’s DOGE mandate to run. I can’t imagine what they’ll find when they quiz more employees about what they are doing…