This is not about government efficiency. This is about government emasculation. It's all one big lie. - ThreadSky

davidcorn.bsky.social • 1 day ago

This is not about government efficiency. This is about government emasculation. It's all one big lie.

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

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ethicsguy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Musk thinks he can identify waste by taking a cursory look at something and asking himself if it looks wasteful. He isn't actually looking in any depth at what it does.

jimhealdmusic.bsky.social•1 day ago

In their view, Domestic spending is already Feminine b/c requires caring. They just want to kill people and blow stuff up, but JD FancyPants looks a little light in the loafers to borrow a phrase from my youth and Trumpy can barely stand in his heels. Deeply conflicted mama's boyz.

bakersdozen2go.bsky.social•1 day ago

Matchmaker here…

rich-king.bsky.social•1 day ago

The end game here has eluded me, but now I have it. Lay off half the government, we spiral into depression, folks finally take to the streets en masse. Orange man declares martial law (crushing dissent with tanks) & says he must remain in power forever. *Wouldn’t corps prefer to nip this in the bud?

kmichie.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course this is the plan. I don’t understand why people keep talking here about ‘in 4 years’… do they not understand authoritarianism?

rich-king.bsky.social•1 day ago

They were doing pretty darn good 4.5 weeks ago: could gouge, make record profits. Seems like the way we're going is nothing if not uncertain, with lots of folks with not enough money to purchase their products. This is the part I don't get: seems like *THEY, the capitalists, would want to stop this.

zen1924.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's to destroy our country

dracula1959.bsky.social•1 day ago

If one were prone to conspiracy theories, one might think Trump’s actions to hurt the country are deliberate. Or am I overreacting?

sophiasuk.com•1 day ago

Da fuqq? Didn’t know The gubmint had a penis

ds12990.bsky.social•1 day ago

The weekly OPM “What did you do last week” email is costing the government 500,000 lost work hours each week! (2 million employees * 15 minutes/week).

ds12990.bsky.social•1 day ago

That’s about $24 million dollars per week for a email no one reads. ($100,000 average salary / 2080 hours per year * 500000 hours).

taritac.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's more than that. Agencies are having management and staff meetings about these emails because everyone is afraid and doesn't know whether to send in the email or what they should say in it that won't lose them their jobs.

nvidiagalaxy.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's about promoting the lie that dead people are collecting paychecks from the Federal Government, or at least deadbeats. It's about checking if there's a "pulse" according to Musk. The goals is to make the public distrust civil servants and government in general. (a step towards authoritarianism).

crispb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s about selling the government to Silicon Valley tech bros.

valleygurlog.bsky.social•1 day ago

Bless you all. I can stand to see this. 🙏

hrhraizen.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump should be sued for his bait & switch campaign, i.e. fraud.

He claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025, but his administration is implementing it.

Trump literally scammed his supporters. Find some way to make him pay for this vast fraud. No one would’ve voted to destroy their lives.

p0rtiab00.bsky.social•1 day ago

"...and drown it in a bathtub." Why is anyone talking as if this were not a decades old plan?

experimental22.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is the president of the United States attacking the United States.

ejn71.bsky.social•1 day ago

It seems blatantly obvious that Musk is setting everything up to be controlled by himself and his minions. Of course they would axe 18F. They don't want anyone in there to undo the programs that they have inserted through hacking government files. They do not want anyone to question what they did.

lessafetoday08.bsky.social•1 day ago

This is bullshit. Stand up people. Time to get rid of these assholes.

shanzke.bsky.social•1 day ago

All. Of. Them.

nvidiagalaxy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Government Extinction

allanschlosser.bsky.social•1 day ago

DOGE: Department of Government Evisceration.

wetwithrain.bsky.social•1 day ago

Of course it's not. Stunned how many folks believed it when he was running, and still believe it. It's reverse Robin Hood. Full fledged class war. Billionaires against the poor, and the working class. Let's just call it what it is. Yes. all one big lie since the second he ran in 2016

hike-bike.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well trump, vance, and musk are experts at being emasculated

ericmichaelmoberg.bsky.social•1 day ago

He faced voters once…

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/twitter-users-vote-elon-musk-quit-ceo-poll-rcna62332

frankcoon3.bsky.social•1 day ago

E is for Erasure

mark42r.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Start your own advisory company and get hired back by advising the government.

ivanandlucy.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.scribd.com/document/832844833/Evidence-Brief-for-Journalists-The-Neoreactionar-250206-110351

jlmicky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump has let a bunch of people with no government jurisdiction ransack the government data and security. How is this possible? Just insane.

jlmicky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump is destroying the country at for Putin his master..

jlmicky.bsky.social•1 day ago

Hadn't had coffee when I wrote, omit at.

jeantifa.bsky.social•1 day ago

”Emasculation“ is a terrible word choice. The Trump/Musk destruction and power grab is absolutely masculine; a well run government that serves and protects the people and meets their needs is not.

bitchiebootie.bsky.social•1 day ago

It’s all designed to put Trump on the throne so he can have the same powers that Putin has over his people, Xi has over his people, Jong-un has over his people, etc., etc., etc. You cannot have a fascist government with oversight.

rmat46.bsky.social•1 day ago

David, this is about musk controlling our entire government from inside out.

duhoc.bsky.social•1 day ago

Well they have been playing on twitter a video of Milton Friedman saying he would eliminate this and that branch of government. But he was wrong in everything because he believed that people are best motivated by greed. Many and most who serve the government do so out of a sense of duty.

catatinroof.bsky.social•1 day ago

100% limp-n-flaccid u-know-what-nuts.

pamoden.bsky.social•1 day ago

Elon wants their jobs

dsm1132.bsky.social•1 day ago

Trump said their dream is to privatize the entire government. It's Ayn Rand to the 30th power.

nuceguyfromgtown.bsky.social•1 day ago

No shit.

suffraga.bsky.social•1 day ago

So, President Musk is "burrowing" the so-called "big balls" into government by laying off effective and efficient workers?

stevelaskin.bsky.social•1 day ago

Tied to every firing is a traceable link to a Musk $$$ investment. Don't bother arguing over or being shocked by the elimination of a potential benefit to the American people from the firing.

minniebee.bsky.social•1 day ago

TOTALLY!

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