Elon Musk publicized the names of U.S. government employees he wants to cut. It's terrifying federal workers

He wants to give the US the Twitter treatment. Deport his ass back to South Africa.

Trump has been proven to be above the law, what makes you think his oligarchs aren't?

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.

SCROTUS: Lol

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?

100% this. Not only that, but if you quit you can't apply for unemployment.

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.

Court costs and being out of work are both fun. But, as it turns out, personal justice is way less important than the food/clothing/shelter triumvirate the money can fund instead of legal fights.

And what's why musk will win.

The government is going to round them up soon enough.

Writing cartoonishly evil villains is one thing, but the Lich King doesn't hold a candle to Bobby Kotick

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.

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!

How's Rogan even allowed to own a gun?

That seems very low, tbh. I was kind of expecting more, this just feels like a weird power move.

Im hoping when the time comes to actually create the department someone will inform Trump that's not really something he can do, and Trump will just shrug and forget about it, while Musk starts crying in the corner.

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 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.

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.

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.

Personally I like to keep getting paychecks while I line up my next job opportunity

Don't quit. Government workers are entitled to more recourse than normal employees if they are going to be fired. Usually you can't just fire them for no reason.

Quitting would also prevent severance pay.

Sue for defamation. He called your work "fake jobs". Now his followers are threatening your life.

They're working class people and the job market is shit. "Just quit" is a much bigger statement when you don't have another job lined up and have bills to pay.

"If you don't like this country, move somewhere else" energy

If Govt services cease to function they fail.

Not sure if you haven't noticed somehow... that's exactly what the Republican party campaigns on and has been doing for the past 60+ years.

They literally campaign on the idea that Government does not work. They get into office, then don't do the job well, proving that it doesn't work well. All while reducing funding and cutting programs until they fail. People that actually know what they're doing leaving just helps them.

Trump wants to kill branches, then show why they were made by their absence.

They don't want any of those programs or services, because they don't give a shit about them. The wealthy don't care about public education, their kids go to private schools. An educated workforce is harder to control. Critical thinking is a threat to propaganda. They don't care about you wiling situation as long as they keep their quality of life at the top, which just requires money, which they make through indirect means off the back of everyday workers in destitution. They'd rather you be in jail for a bullshit offense where slave labor is literally still legal. Don't have to pay the inmates.

The programs they want still get plenty of funding and are in no danger. Things like the military and anything that can support the wealthy who don't need it.

So quit. You provide a valuable service. Don't do it anymore.

That's what Musk is trying to do. Intimidate folks into quitting. So you're just basically saying let Elon do the thing Elon wants to do.

If Govt services cease to function they fail

Yeah, that's not the outcome anyone should want. When a function fails, we can't just pop it back up when Trump isn't President again. I had to go over this with the Trump term one tariffs. The reason Biden didn't do away with them is because we violated the trade agreement to implement them. Once we violated the agreement, it doesn't matter anymore what anyone does. It's not fixable anymore. We have to go through decades worth of regaining political favor with the foreign country to repair it.

Same thing here. When the service fails, we can't just pop it back up once Trump is no longer in office. If people start to hurt because a function fails, those people are going to be hurting for decades while we try to repair the damage. It's one of those stack of cups kind of thing. It takes a significant amount of time to stack the cups compared to the half a second it takes to knock them all down.

then show why they were made by their absence

All that's saying is that the next two decades should be complete shit for everyone except the insanely wealthy. I would rather not have that lesson, I don't think it's required. I also don't think a lot of people would even learn the lesson even if they experienced it first hand.

That's exactly what they want and I guarantee they will make it difficult for most employees so they do quit. An employee that quits on his own is a lot less expensive to the company then a fired one.

A indefinite strike until musk is fired from his position in the goverment however...

If Govt services cease to function they fail

And thousands if not millions of people die, depending on how long it goes on for.