CBS: DOGE Is Going to Get You Eaten by Bears

Jorge Bonilla
February 26th, 2025 12:42 AM

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The Musk-Deranged and DOGE-Deranged media appear to have stumbled on a new genre of goverage: the horrendous fate that will befall Americans due to DOGE cuts across multiple federal agencies. Reaching a new height of absurdity, CBS’s Ian Lee leads viewers to infer that DOGE cuts will lead people to be eaten by bears.

Watch as Lee walks viewers to an empty ranger station at Shoshone National Forest in Wyoming:

IAN LEE: Let's say you just arrived in town and you want some information about the forest, maybe a good place to camp or a trip to hike on. Or maybe you are scared about bears. You come to a place like this. Your local ranger station. But because of the recent firings, this one won't be open anytime soon. 

In a prior entry, NBC fearmongered about DOGE ruining people’s Yosemite vacation. The lone person qualified to carry people out of an accident site won’t be there in the event something goes sideways. If someone locks themself in the bathroom, they might not be able to escape. 

Now, this may seem convenient due to the proximity of bears at Shoshone National in Wyoming. The CBS item echoes a familiar pattern with regard to DOGE cuts. There’s the policy announcement, and then there are the victims impacted. 

Of course, this story is the height of absurdity. And of course, the networks will continue to pump fear into the community, without evidence.

  Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the CBS Evening News on Tuesday, February 25th, 2025: 

JOHN DICKERSON: The White House won't say how many federal workers have been or will be fired.

MAURICE DUBOIS: But Ian Lee traced down three of them in Wyoming and they told Ian what their firing could mean for the rest of us.

IAN LEE: Even in the winter, the Shoshone National Forest buzzes with activity. With so many people snowmobiling, riding their bikes, hiking, and rock climbing. Maintaining the country's forests takes an army of forest service workers, including Dayln Grindell. What did you love the most about your job?

DAYLYN GRINDELL: I love going into work every day and working with my colleagues.

LEE: Grindell, along with Jack Corney and Tim Lee recently received a letter saying they were being fired for poor job performance. 

What was your reaction when you saw that the reason you were being fired was because of poor performance?

TIM LEE: I put my heart and soul into that job, and that's just not true.

LEE: Every summer, tens of millions of Americans visit the national forests. But this summer, they might look a little different.

GRINDELL: There’s a lot of unforeseen consequences that the general public aren't always aware of.

LEE: What do you fear then? What could happen?

JACK CORNEY: We're clearing the trails for people to access the wilderness, and that's just -- that's not going to happen this year.

LEE: Let's say you just arrived in town and you want some information about the forest, maybe a good place to camp or a trip to hike on. Or maybe you are scared about bears. You come to a place like this. Your local ranger station. But because of the recent firings, this one won't be open anytime soon. Terminations at the Forest Service also come as wildfires nationwide grow fiercer and more frequent. 

Show of hands, how many of you were qualified to fight fires? So you guys could have all been on the front lines this summer fighting fires if needed?

ALL: Yes.

LEE: I spoke with several senior Forest Service officials across the country, and they told me the future leadership of the agency has been wiped out, and it could take decades to recover. Another warned that some of these workers monitored bear populations and without them, there could be more encounters.

DUBOIS: Okay, many thanks, Ian Lander in Wyoming tonight.

 

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