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Qasim Rashid at Let's Address This:
On Saturday, Trump and Musk escalated their reckless interference in federal operations by emailing all federal employees with an arbitrary Monday midnight deadline. The demand? That every worker report five things they accomplished this week and copy their manager. [See image of email below]. My sources inside the federal government tell me that they are asked to email [email protected]. So, whatever you do, please do NOT email [email protected] with sarcastic nonsense to troll their incompetence. That would likely slow down this fascist regime and make them waste time sifting through fake emails. We cannot possibly risk making the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) less efficient. [sarcasm] But once you’re done not sending a fake email to [email protected], also remember, this is not just bureaucratic foolishness; it’s a coordinated power grab that devastates the rights and safety of the American people, and we cannot stand by and let it happen unchallenged. Let’s Address This. [...]
Republicans Prove Their Own Incompetence
There’s a saying: Republicans claim government doesn’t work, then they get elected and prove it. Consider the mess they’ve already created just through MUSK’s “DOGE” Team:
DOGE demanded Federal employees snitch on their co-workers who are “engaging in DEI,” or face consequences themselves if they don’t snitch.
DOGE hired a white supremacist who condemns ‘race mixing’ and wants segregation reinforced. He was outed and quit, and then Musk rehired him despite knowing he’s a white supremacist.
DOGE hired a wholly unqualified candidate who had been fired from a previous job for leaking confidential information, and then proceeded to give this person access to our confidential social security information.
DOGE fired nuclear experts, then scrambled to rehire them after realizing nuclear experts are a tad bit important to ensuring we don’t mishandle nuclear weapons.
DOGE fired IRS experts, panicked because they forgot it is tax season, and thus tried to rehire them—only to realize they had canceled their IRS addresses and had no way to contact them because they didn’t have their personal addresses.
DOGE gutted numerous federal agencies and pushed out career experts—a list much too long for one article—and ensured a brain drain that will further cripple government functions.
And now DOGE is forcing people to report their work to some anonymous entity, or else, creating major opposition from Trump’s own handpicked appointees.
All of this means the American people suffer the most. It is no accident that 9 of the top 10 states that rely most on Federal welfare, have the highest poverty rates, have the highest per capita gun deaths, have the highest rates of infant and maternal mortality, and have the lowest life expectancies, are all GOP run states. The Trump MAGA movement now seeks to impose those failed policies on the Federal level. But moreover and to be clear, it would be a mistake to assume this is incompetence alone. While incompetence certainly plays a big part, the broader goal is to manufacture dysfunction in the federal government, then use that dysfunction as an excuse to gut agencies and further dismantle public services. This is the same playbook they always use:
Create chaos by dividing people in and out of government
Blame “big government” for the very problems they engineered
Destroy the very agencies designed to protect the American people (e.g. the CFPB, the CDC, the NIH, the SEC, and more)
Install oligarchs to privatize industries that should not be privatized, then centralize profit, power, and control beyond the next election
This is the autocrat’s playbook, and Trump is following it verbatim.
Many departments refused to go along with Elon Musk’s insane 5 bullet points email memo.