New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations.
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
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On top of that, neither Lone Skum nor Mango Mussolini are CEOs, they are mid-level marketing managers of a used car sales chain.
In as much as you can say that any of Musk's companies are well run, it has little to do with him aside from obtaining financing.
I’m willing to bet lunch money at some point they’re going to screw with the Secret Service payroll and staff numbers.
That’ll wake up Trump and his bend of quislings
Opposition party and former presidents - and really anybody else? good luck
The second group are far more dangerous.
This is not about efficiency but destruction of govt agencies all together.
Capitalism as cancer.
The same lack of strategy Musk had with his takeover of twitter
https://bsky.app/profile/olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social/post/3licwdib6x22c
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2021/08/the-value-of-nothing-capital-versus-growth/
Leveraged buyouts should be illegal (or at least WAY more regulated)
As a narcissist and megalomaniac, he considers himself above the law.
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Destruction of the State is the goal
Others suffering is just the icing on the cake for them
And frustrating to read
Hurting people drives them !
It helps to #BoycottTesla and it diminishes Musk's power. We can also spread the word to help people make the connection.
💙🍌
In a nation where the majority reads at an 8th grade level or below, someone on “probation” sounds like someone already in trouble for bad performance.
That’s why the rightwing chose that framing.
Don’t mimic it. Counter it.
They are nothing but the embodiment of "bad examples"
Musk probably compromised our nuclear security knowingly. That might worry even Republicans in Congress and make them want more transparency.
DOGE is laying off thousands of IRS agents in the middle of tax season, a move that will cost much more money than it saves.
DOGE does not have some magical IRS plan up their sleeve. There is no plan.
He seems to believe that he can personally fly to Mars and build a fiefdom there without any infrastructure left at all here on Earth.
And I wish he would. Today.
The destruction is the point.
They're removing trillions from the US economy. They're deleting entire agencies. This isn't about efficiency. It's about ending the United States of America on Vladimir Putin's orders.
By the time it's done, they very well may flee.
It is one thing to lie to the public about what bureaucrats do—and Musk has been doing plenty of that—but there is something deeply amoral about lying directly to individual employees about their performance.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
After the crash at Reagan, FAA employees had some reason to believe that they would be exempt from the purge of probationary employees, but this is not the case.
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
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Need a landing? Say a prayer.
The experts vanished into air.
It’s nothing personal—just insane.
Hope you survive your next plane!
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-mismanagement-principles
Death, destruction, chaos?
means to his end.
Civil servants strive every day to make their city, state, and/or country a better, safer place for all. They don't deserve to have their careers destroyed and lives upended by sociopathic tech-billionaire vulture capitalists.
This will hurt the ability of the federal govt to recruit for a long time.