Elon Musk publicized the names of U.S. government employees he wants to cut. It's terrifying federal workers
Elon Musk publicized the names of U.S. government employees he wants to cut. It's terrifying federal workers
When president-elect Donald Trump said Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would recommend major cuts to the federal government in his administration, many public employees knew that their jobs could be on the line.
Screw them and hold on to your job for as long and as hard as you can.
Sure one person fighting is nothing to a billionaire .... but a few thousand employees taking the government to court for this stupidity will definitely affect the billionaire.
Authoritarianism wins as soon as we all just give up and allow them to take control.
Over half of federal workers are unionized so if Elmo fucks around too much, he just may find out. Many government workers are getting below market rates in exchange for good benefits, security and some sense of helping the commonwealth. They did not sign up for dealing with this chucklefuck. Replacing a bunch of sysadmins, accountants, lawyers and scientists at government pay levels would be challenging.
a few thousand employees taking the government to court
Laws don't apply to God King Trump, why would they apply to anyone in his administration?
The government is going to round them up soon enough.
Didn't this guy ban the @elonjet account for doing a lesser version of this?
Yeah I think that's the frustrating part of this. Either allow elonjet back or get banned for doing this. But having it both ways shows how shit a person Elon Musk is.
If anyone asks, to me, it's THIS aspect of it that's the big problem. Musk is literally doing the thing that he hated about elonjet.
He's always been a hypocrite and entirely untrustworthy. If you believe he is doing ANYTHING in good faith, it's kind of on you at this point. If people stopped interacting with these fucking musk articles we wouldnt see them every 2 seconds.
The public learning that efficiency is billionaire's dog whistle for mass layoffs.
We destroyed public education half a century ago to cut the oligarchs taxes.
Half of our public still thinks giving the oligarchs the remaining crumbs they can no longer make corporate landlord rent with will somehow be urinated back on them as prosperity.
Our public can't learn.
The ideal laborers. You can exploit them until they're bruised and bleeding, then then just point at the powerless, starving, dying homeless person on the sidewalk and say they did it and you should hate them for it. Problem solved.
Wow more efficient! My job will get easier!
This is vile. These are non-elected positions and the people who hold them are doing a job the government asked them to do.
You can complain about the positions but you do not attack people personally over it. Especially if your followers are as stupid and dangerous as musk's.
This from the guy who smoked weed on the Joe Rogan p;dcast, talked about how he does ketamine at parties, and has been talking to Pootles for the last year, all while having a security clearance. Yeah
And yet Blizzard gets criticized for their writing of villains being too obvious and over the top.
Writing cartoonishly evil villains is one thing, but the Lich King doesn't hold a candle to Bobby Kotick
So misogynist Musk went after a bunch of women for online harassment?
I hope they sue him. I seriously do.
SCROTUS: Lol
Incel King's got priorities: start with all the women who said no.
It's sickening. I just read about the professor who had to leave her job and home after he sicced his deplorable fanbois on her all because she was critical of Tesla's driver-assist.
Cummings said she already knows of federal employees who “have dedicated their lives to civil service,” already quitting their jobs in anticipation of what’s to come.
“He intended for them, for people just like this, to be intimidated and just go ahead and quit so he didn’t have to fire them. So his plan, to some extent, is working,” she said.
CNN reached out to multiple experts and academics who specialize in cyber harassment, doxing and online abuse. But several declined to comment on the record for fear of themselves becoming Musk’s targets.
Professionals too afraid to speak about their area of expertise. Public servants quitting because they know what's coming for them. And Trump's not even started his second run yet.
Trump has been proven to be above the law, what makes you think his oligarchs aren't?
Wow elon is stupider than he looks. And he looks super stupid.
It's terrifying federal workers
Well yeah, that is clearly the point.
DOGE isn't an actual department with any power, as it wasn't created by an act of Congress. I guess Elon's power will just be telling Trump who to fire?
Directing angry mobs at people in these positions could be an effective way of vacating them whether it's an "official" department or not.
I would like to publicize the name of a piece of human shit: Elon Musk. I would also like to cut him from the government as well.
I wonder how many of them voted for Trump...
Honestly, I’m half expecting some disenfranchised kid to learn from the Ukrainian conflict, and take one of these muppets out with a drone. It’s pretty tricky to shoot even as large a target as trump with his security cordon, but this pillock wanders around in public, and it really would be pretty ironic for someone to live-stream the tech-daddy moron getting fpv’d into a fine paste
I was kind of thinking the same thing lately. Trump hides behind bulletproof glass now, but he's not completely surrounded and certainly doesn't have a top on it. People have made bombs out of common household chemicals in the past and performance drones with a fairly long signal range are commercially available to everyone. Would be pretty easy for someone with a bit of ingenuity or craftiness to possibly take him out . I'm actually surprised nobody has tried that yet which leads me to believe they have some kind of signal jamming technology to prevent that exact scenario.
As the IRA famously put out once, you have to get lucky every time we have to get lucky once. Its one of those things where if enough people keep trying and improving they will find a chink in the defenses. I suspect it will probably be seen first with either Musk or one of Trumps other toadies.
I watched a video by Botgrinder on YouTube called “you can’t mini whoop the president” or something similar, where he was messing about with an fpv drone at a Kamala rally. Turns out that the Secret Service won’t let you buzz her with a small drone for fun, and if you stand around in fpv goggles they’ll come and give you some grief. He wrote a very funny ai country song about it, worth a watch. However, he didn’t say much about jamming, it was being stood about in the goggles that got him I think. I’d assume that the Secret Service’s jamming is a fair bit better than the Russian’s, but the way the Ukrainian drones have been dealing with that shows that jamming only does so much - if the drone is falling toward the target on an essentially ballistic trajectory, jamming it won’t do jack
Imagine if we could cut Musk and spend his trillion $ on infrastructure
"One of the posts reads: “I don’t think the U.S. taxpayers should pay for the employment of a ’Director of Climate Diversification (she/her)’ at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation,”"
Let's then speak a bit about hyperloop you turd. Is that where you think tax money should be spent?
Obviously tax money that goes to his companies = good.
Tax money that goes to anything else = bad.
Friendly reminder that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by launching starlink and government satellites. Without government contracts, our tax dollars, SpaceX could not afford to exist.
Don’t like him and not sure how well this is gonna work out BUT there are too many useless people in government jobs in a lot of countries and with their work ethic they often couldn’t hold jobs in the more competitive free market so I agree with the core principle of what they want to do, but I am sure the approach will be total ass.
Yes, there is a shit ton of dead weight in the government contractor sector, just soaking up that delicious tax money for minimal effort. But I have a feeling these aren’t the employees being targeted right now.
That'd be cutting federal contracts. I read the headline as dealing with people employed directly by the federal government, not indirectly hired through private companies.
I am you that it'd be a much better way to cut fat from the budget.
The problems in government are structural and systematic, not individual. The bureaucracy was built into what it is through the accumulation of regulations, poorly implemented policies and agendas, as well as plain mismanagement. Likewise, when the cost of a failed project is a political shitstorm and a parliamentary enquiry, and beyond that you are expected to be entirely accountable and transparent, you need to be risk averse.
You can't just fix these issues by proclaiming to fire everyone. You need to fix structural and leadership problems.
We just those useless folks Congress. But, seriously we can't let a few lazies clogging up the works be the reason to allow Republicans to continue destroying our institutions.
And so naturally he's been placed under arrest for reckless engagement or something appropriate.
Honestly fuck federal workers as a whole. I spent 6 months working under the USCG through DHS and every single last civilian worker was either a nepotism hire, married to a service member and got handed the job, outright incompetent, or some combination of the 3. Trying to get in touch with ANYONE from HR was a 2 week wait minimum to answer the most basic questions, and it's a coin flip whether the answer you got was even relevant to what you originally asked. I have never worked with a lazier bunch of entitled shitbags as I have in federal employment.
They deserve every bad thing happening and more.
