Wanna convince your Trump-supporting friends that shit in America is profoundly fucked up?
Here's your chance—don't let it pass you by.
So, I usually don’t like posting twice daily, because it’s too much. I know this, and I won’t make a habit of it.
But.
This.
Is.
Fucking.
Crazy.
Less than an hour ago, the journalist Judd Legum posted a copy of the e-mail that Elon Musk and the United States Office of Personnel Management has sent 2 million federal employees.
This is it—beneath the subject line, “What did you do last week?” …
Literally, that’s the entirety of the e-mail. And it’s going to Republicans, to Democrats, to independents. To folks making six figures and five figures. Folks who have held government positions for decades and folks who have held government positions for months. It’s going to pregnant employees, disabled employees, veteran employees, Christians, Jews, Muslims, agnostics, atheists.
To everyone.
And if that’s not fucked-up enough for you, it gets even worse: Elon took to Twitter to inform the universe that any failure to respond would be viewed as a resignation. Weirdly, that important piece of information was excluded from the e-mail.
To me, this is one of those moments. Show your friends. Tell your friends. The ones who voted for Donald Trump because inflation sucked; because he’s a take-charge guy; because … whatever the reason.
Show them this, and ask—“Is this what you wanted?”
Fight on.
Having been in organizations that used this sort of heavy-handed "justify your position" tactic, the thing that's amusing to me is just what the fuck anyone is going to do with these email responses.
Estimating 2.4 million Federal employees (not counting military or USPS), and assuming 20% have been laid off (a number I pulled directly from my backside), that still leaves more than two million responses.
Obviously there will be some sort of automated assimilation of these data but given the broad range of the English language, not to mention jargon and colloquial distinctions, it's going to result in a kluge of crap.
And I bet the "cc your manager" is going to clog email servers alone.
This is absolutely absurd. The objective is clear: get as many people as possible out of Federal service, as quickly as possible. The data will feed some AI tool (a tool other than Leon) with a bunch of really dirty data.
If all this wasn't having real consequences for real people, it'd be laughable.
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