A Code Red Tizzy
The federal workforce is in a Code Red tizzy this morning, after DOGE head Elon Musk ordered them to justify their paychecks by telling him what exactly it is they do there.
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The federal workforce is in a Code Red tizzy this morning, after DOGE head Elon Musk ordered them to justify their paychecks by telling him what exactly it is they do there.
The entire federal workforce (FBI exempted at Kash Patel’s order; he’s vetting them himself) received an email telling them to respond by listing what they accomplished last week. Failure to respond by 11:59 p.m. Monday will be considered a resignation. Musk added, "To be clear, the bar is very low here. An email with some bullet points that make any sense at all is acceptable! Should take less than 5 mins to write."
From the response from Congressional Democrats, you’d think they’d been asked to do some actual work. Making us nostalgic for the days when being a Congress member meant you communicated like a dignified adult, Illinois Rep. Sean Casten blustered, "This is a good opportunity for mass civil disobedience,” and urged federal workers to write back a “GFY letter” (“Go f--- yourself.”) Minnesota Sen. Tina Smith was equally juvenile, ranting on X, "This is the ultimate d–k boss move from Musk – except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a d—.")
(Side note: Democrats said that Twitter/X couldn’t run if Musk fired 80% of the staff. He did, and it’s running so well, they’re still using it to attack Musk. Even notorious Trump hater Stephen King came crawling back: https://www.westernjournal.com/notorious-trump-hater-scurries-back-saying-months-ago-leaving/)
If they thought this would fire up outrage among non-civil servants, it was another major fail. The online response is mostly unsympathetic. Virtually everyone outside government faces performance reviews and periodically has to justify his or her paycheck. If you’re actually accomplishing things, listing them shouldn’t be that hard. Here, we’ll give them an example…
Five things we accomplished last week:
Researched, vetted, wrote and edited the Huckabee newsletter for (1.) Monday, (2.) Tuesday, (3.) Wednesday, (4.) Thursday, and (5.) Friday/Saturday. See, we did so much work, we had to combine two of them.
Also, everyone outside of government has lost jobs, sometimes as part of major layoffs that affected thousands of workers, but no politicians demanded that they keep their jobs.
But it isn’t just Democrat politicians acting aghast that federal employees might face the same treatment as everyone else. Some of the workers seem to believe they have a God-given right to a permanent job they can never lose, even if they ignore and undermine their bosses’ orders and publicly slander them. For instance, they’re pulling an old trick pioneered by Obama, known as “Washington Monument Syndrome,” where any attempt to cut the budget is met by shutting down the most popular and necessary functions first. Like locking up national monuments to anger tourists, even if there’s zero reason for it.
https://redstate.com/jimthompson/2025/02/22/the-washington-monument-syndrome-n2185898
Or crying that someone got locked in the bathroom at Yosemite National Park because the eeeevil Trump fired the only locksmith – as if only one person was the Grand High Keymaster of the Bathroom, and he was standing by with it 24 hours a day to leap into action. Workers at that same park also hung an American flag upside down on the El Capitan rock formation (something Justice Samuel Alito was accused of endorsing insurrection for doing.) The park workers said it was to “draw attention to the fact that public lands in the United States are under attack,” and “Think of it as your public lands on strike.”
No, we think of it as public workers being jerks. As one online commenter put it, “Okay, you’ve sold me. Fire more of them.” Another asked if the distress flag was a signal that another person was locked in the bathroom. Authorities might also look into the strict laws regarding what you’re allowed to do to the surface of El Capitan, because we’re pretty sure this isn’t okay.
Imagine having such a monumental sense of entitlement and privilege that you believe you can reply to a performance review by telling your boss to “go f---” himself, then throwing a public temper tantrum where you deface company property, and assuming that you will still retain your job. We think we now understand why these people are so terrified of having to find new jobs in the private sector.
Hip, hip, hooray! About time dead weight falls on its butt!
I read an article about Trump running and. taking the President again in 2028 . Pretty fast the Democrats underwear got that brown juice wetness , over the news .