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Agencies, refuse to comply with Musk's latest demandapnews.com/article/musk-federal-workers-trump-demand-firings-06553df358086db05917d3c50f3699d6
57 sats \ 17 comments \ @ch0k1 23 Feb news
Key U.S. agencies, including the FBI, State Department and the Pentagon, have instructed their employees not to comply with cost-cutting chief Elon Musk’s demand that federal workers explain what they accomplished last week — or risk losing their jobs.
That resistance has intensified a pervasive sense of chaos and confusion, while highlighting a potential power struggle among President Donald Trump’s allies, that is affecting federal employees across the country as a new workweek is about to begin.
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70 sats \ 11 replies \ @freetx 23 Feb
The fed employee roster needs to be trimmed by at least 50% - there is going to be no way to do that and make people happy. Its going to be messy....
Kash and Pentagon are going to have to fall in line with cuts to personnel.
The effect of not doing these cuts are far far worse for everyone. Trying to engage in these "please have compassion" pieces is not going to work....the public has had compassion for 20 years and it just keeps getting worse.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 24 Feb
I told my cousin I have zero compassion for these people and others. My compassion has been exhausted. Her response was I never had compassion for anyone. That means I have negative compassion now, which means I am a sadist.
Please have compassion for people who cut in line and don't pay their parking tickets.
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20 sats \ 9 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
I’m hoping that Trump can sell Xi and Putin on the verifiable, 50% cut in militaries!! In this case I think all three would use the trust but verify method of cutting down on destructive means in the world. It is about time, don’t you think?
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5 sats \ 8 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 23 Feb
I don't think Xi & Putin will buy that bluff
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0 sats \ 7 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
Why do you think it is a bluff?
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0 sats \ 6 replies \ @ch0k1 OP 23 Feb
Because of the historical facts and the way western world behaves - throwing nothing but worthless lies.
References:
  1. Minsk 1
  2. Minsk 2
  3. Marshall Plan
  4. Monro plan
  5. March note
and maaaannnyy moree
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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
Were any of these actions done by Trump? Or were they done by someone else, often in foreign countries? Misnsk1&2 were done by Europeans and Americans with Angela Merkl saying the whole thing was just a lie and a set up. What will you say if he pulls the reduction off?
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61 sats \ 2 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
I guess they did not get the message. They are courting the consequences of their actions. They will be fired, no mercy!
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23 Feb
I remember my dad telling me that pretty much the only way to get fired as a public sector worker is through insubordination. This is a very unwise course of action.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
My father would have been ecstatic to see what Trump and Musk are doing by taking a chainsaw to the employee roles. My father despised state workers, especially indoctrination proctors in the indoctrination industry because he was one of the people who, through his business, was a life-long taxpayer and never a tax-eater. Maybe all taxpayers ought to look upon the tax-eaters the same way, IMHO.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined 23 Feb
Talk about not reading the room.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 23 Feb
I would say they are totally illiterate, however, Patel at the FBI may be taking care of his own problems with Trump and Bondi’s explicit permission and orders. The others may just be asking for it and will get it.
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