Kash Patel defies Elon Musk

[Gregory Thompson]

I remember reading that there was a petition going around to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship. So I was wondering why a Canadian was given so much authority in America?

 

[Akita Suggagaki]

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, in a statement to The Washington Post, doubled down: “Everyone is working together as one unified team at the direction of President Trump. Any notion to the contrary is completely false.”

 

[BPPLEE]

Trump and his team have had 4 years and more to figure out solutions, and what they have is some billionaire throwing freshly-made and untested spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.

Firing and unfiring.
Ordering and unordering.
Freezing and unfreezing.

There's no reason you can't make deep cuts with a scalpel rather than a chainsaw.
And you're much less likely to lose a finger even if you don't have the faintest idea what you're doing.

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Time will tell

 

[Chesterton]

I remember reading that there was a petition going around to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship. So I was wondering why a Canadian was given so much authority in America?

He's also a U.S. citizen.

 

[Belk]

And that's the best way to run things?

Well, if you don't want the rocket you are riding in to explode, yes.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

He's also a U.S. citizen.

I guess if the trade war goes in a bad direction, dual citizenship with be a thing of the past.

 

[BPPLEE]

Well, if you don't want the rocket you are riding in to explode, yes.

How many people were riding in Space X rockets that exploded?

 

[Chesterton]

I guess if the trade war goes in a bad direction, dual citizenship with be a thing of the past.

I believe he has triple citizenship, along with South Africa.

 

[Gregory Thompson]

I believe he has triple citizenship, along with South Africa.

Wow, billionaires can do it all.

 

[Belk]

How many people were riding in Space X rockets that exploded?

Who cares? Do you agree that being careful in rockets so they don't explode when you are riding in them is likely the best path forward?

 

[Gregory Thompson]

 

[BPPLEE]

Who cares? Do you agree that being careful in rockets so they don't explode when you are riding in them is likely the best path forward?

I don't think anyone has been killed in a Space X rocket.
Having a lot of practice so that rockets don't explode with people in them is a good practice as well, and seems to be working

 

[JustaPewFiller]

Evidently it has been decided that federal agencies can ignore the email and it has been revealed there was never any plan to do anything with the information gathered.

Federal agencies can ignore "What did you do last week?" email, Trump administration says

The office that asked federal workers to document five things they accomplished over the past week told officials that agencies can decide how to respond.

www.cbsnews.com

The office that asked federal workers to document five things they accomplished over the past week told executive branch officials on Monday that individual agencies can decide how to respond, despite a threat from Elon Musk that employees who refused could lose their jobs.

During the call Monday with agencies, OPM was asked what would be done with any information already provided from employees who responded to the email, according to a source familiar with the matter. OPM said there were no plans to do anything with the information, the source said.

Well how about that?

 

[Belk]

I don't think anyone has been killed in a Space X rocket.
Having a lot of practice so that rockets don't explode with people in them is a good practice as well, and seems to be working

Things always seem to be working right up to the point that they don't.

 

[BPPLEE]

Things always seem to be working right up to the point that they don't.

Like Apollo 13?

 

[Job 33:6]

Government agencies have no idea what to do about Musk’s email​

An email sent to 2.3 million workers asking them to outline their work last week is leading to confusion and differing instructions across the government.

The email ... titled “What did you do last week?” ... commanded federal employees to “reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager,” according to a copy obtained by The Washington Post. It gave employees a deadline of 11:59 p.m. Eastern time Monday.

Experts said the email may be asking some recipients to violate federal laws, noting that employees at some agencies cannot disclose information about their work to third parties without explicit authorization. The request proved especially concerning for those who work in intelligence roles.

An email Saturday from FBI Director Kash Patel, for instance, said, “the FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in charge of all of our review processes and will conduct reviews in accordance with FBI procedures,” according to a message obtained by The Post.

The National Security Agency told workers that “NSA and CYBERCOM are awaiting further guidance” from the Defense Department. The agency advised employees not to respond until receiving further information.

Further adding to the chaos, Musk doubled down on the directive. Writing later on Saturday night in a post on X, the social media platform he owns, he baselessly stated that the email is necessary to ferret out government employees who are “doing so little work that they are not checking their email.” He claimed there were “non-existent people or the identities of dead people” pretending to be government workers.

Article gives other examples of agencies saying "comply", "don't comply", "write the email but don't send until you hear back from us", etc.

This email sounds like borderline harassment. Military veterans who put the lives on the line for our country. They go to the VA and get a job helping other veterans with PTSD, and here comes musk talking about firing them if they don't prove that they're "real people".

"And then if you don't answer, like, you're sort of semi-fired or you're fired, because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist,"

 

[BPPLEE]

This email sounds like borderline harassment. Military veterans who put the lives on the line for our country. They go to the VA and get a job helping other veterans with PTSD, and here comes musk talking about firing them if they don't prove that they're "real people".

"And then if you don't answer, like, you're sort of semi-fired or you're fired, because a lot of people are not answering because they don't even exist,"

How many people have been fired for not responding to the email?

 

[JSRG]

How many people have been fired for not responding to the email?

Given that the deadline (midnight) hasn't yet been reached, even if they planned to fire every single person who didn't respond, there wouldn't be any firings yet.

 

[BPPLEE]

Given that the deadline (midnight) hasn't yet been reached, even if they planned to fire every single person who didn't respond, there wouldn't be any firings yet.

There aren't going to be any firings

 

[Job 33:6]

There aren't going to be any firings

Are you saying that Donald Trump is lying?