Trump is now in a position where he looks weak if he does not rein Musk in, and also if he does not rein in the department heads who are defying Musk, and also if he just sits this one out and plays golf. Basically, he looks weak because he is weak. And I think Musk is blackmailing him.
Or, being the World's Most Powerful Man must be *such* a burden, why don't you just let me take care of this grunge work for you while you're off doing Important Presidential Things?
Maybe, but I think Trump has enough narcissistic awareness to realize the optics of, say, that press conference in the Oval Office when Musk did all the talking. He looked muzzled.
There's another one I saw where he interrupts every time Elon opens his mouth to answer a question, wish I could remember which happened when. Trump is so thin-skinned about looking like he's THE only one who can solve things.
Would be fun to send it to Musk.
Trump says he's doing nothing at DOGE.
One of them at least is lying to congress.
And that's a crime
Not that they care but there will come a day when one of them no longer has the support of the other, through will or natural causes (like death of grandpa Trump?).
I stumbled over that sentence too. I think he meant to say "These emails are allowed, if not directed, by the President." In other words, Trump at the very least allowed them, and may have ordered them.
Josh sees with prophetic eyes, gets carried away and posts. We overlook the occasional typo because his overall message is so illuminating and compelling.
A reckless power grab in real time…Musk inspired-Trump blessed, OPM Email demanding federal employees justify their positions, including FBI & State Dept, risks exposing national security secrets. Who controls this info?
Who benefits & how?
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Musk tweeted these email reports could be used to promote people—which seems like it could be a dirty trick to fire more people since anyone promoted would then be probationary.
I am genuinely struggling to think of a less efficient way to do performance reviews. I assume they aren't really going to read these emails, but imagine what kind of time and resources it would take to actually process an email from every Federal employee.
In the first place, you have to have someone who understand the job that is being reported on actually look at the email. So, one's manager, I guess. But those guys actually have other things to do. So, now you've swamped all your managers. Cool cool.
But also, there's no rubric. So, you have an email from every one of your reports, but no way to evaluate them. So, either you spend time developing a rubric, or you just...don't care.
I think this is just another attempt set up a a stupid gotcha. Anybody who didn't read their email that day gets fired. This is not efficient, but it is simple, I guess. It sure doesn't sort for good workers as opposed to people who need firing.
Condense what information into what? List five bullet points of what you did this week is kind of free form, and the job that one is doing should be super relevant to how one answers that question. Computers are absolutely the reason we say Garbage In, Garbage Out. This is a classic GIGO.
Could it simply be that a doge-bag sent the email to a distribution list of the entire government in error or used one their dangerously wackadoo AI thingies to do this? And now others are trying to do damage control?
I just picture musk as the cat in the hat, rushing around destroying things with a big smile on his face, purely for the stupid fun of it; that's who he is.
He has no magic machine to make it all right again, but that doesn't matter to people enjoying the show. Breaking things is fun!
Elon Musk is mangling the bureaucracy like it's a fan-fiction of how a dictator could take over the government... and he's cast himself as his own Peggy Sue.
FBI, Pentagon, and State Department too,
Refuse to comply with Musk’s weird ToDo.
Homeland Security joins the defiant crew.
Federal employees have no idea what to do.
Weekends are really bad for Democracy since January 2025. When Americans leave their government jobs on Friday at 5, the wrecking crew comes in. They spend the weekend guzzling energy drinks, eating take out pizza, and inserting themselves into “protected” software!
Trump: lied, signed some stuff I didn’t read, golf, golf, golf
Musk: great mine fuhrer, all is going according to my plan, just call me Dr Evil, and get me more ketamine
Aside from the harassment of federal workers, the real purpose of these emails is to have recipients identify their supervisors. Nobody is going to read approximately four million weekly activity reports, but the senders can easily parse the CC field to build a list of managers and supervisors.
They could then attempt to reclassify these managers under Schedule F, allowing them to replace existing leadership with individuals who demonstrate the desired political loyalty.
Regarding the Musk email—every federal employee should file a civil suit against director of OPM and all in DOGE, individually, for harassment as this latest email request is outside the scope of their employment and shouldn’t be shielded by sovereign immunity.
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Trump says he's doing nothing at DOGE.
One of them at least is lying to congress.
And that's a crime
Not that they care but there will come a day when one of them no longer has the support of the other, through will or natural causes (like death of grandpa Trump?).
Josh sees with prophetic eyes, gets carried away and posts. We overlook the occasional typo because his overall message is so illuminating and compelling.
Who benefits & how?
🌓✨
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Oh, yes it will.
Donal said he wanted more aggression
It flopped. Intentional?
I just picture musk as the cat in the hat, rushing around destroying things with a big smile on his face, purely for the stupid fun of it; that's who he is.
He has no magic machine to make it all right again, but that doesn't matter to people enjoying the show. Breaking things is fun!
Elon Musk is mangling the bureaucracy like it's a fan-fiction of how a dictator could take over the government... and he's cast himself as his own Peggy Sue.
FBI, Pentagon, and State Department too,
Refuse to comply with Musk’s weird ToDo.
Homeland Security joins the defiant crew.
Federal employees have no idea what to do.
It's not about efficiency. It's about destroying our government.
Musk: great mine fuhrer, all is going according to my plan, just call me Dr Evil, and get me more ketamine
#trump #musk #kakistocracy #muskrat #sedition #kakistocracy #project2025 #criminal #ketamine
#druggie #addict #dunningkruger
showing the top 5 things
each govt. employee did last week
and they used AI to find
larger patterns within that data
Do you think Putin would find that interesting?
"And yes, something can be fascinating while also being grave, dangerous and in its own way terrifying."