Originally published at: IRS Employees Told To Comply With DOGE ‘Accomplishments’ Demand - TPM – Talking Points Memo
IRS employees must comply with Elon Musk’s demand for five “accomplishments” by tonight, the Treasury Department told employees in a Monday email obtained by TPM. The leaders of several agencies dealing with law enforcement and national security issues, including the FBI, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense reportedly told workers to disregard or to…
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After several contradictory e-mails and two more clarifications, Department of the Interior employees are currently being encouraged but not required to respond to Musk. Also, “no one will be fired if they do not respond to the email.”
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I keep thinking about the poor sods who have to deal with this absurdity. What if you have one small project you’re working on, and don’t have five things? And what five things has Elon Musk done besides post on X and wave chainsaws around? (Excuse me – told someone else to do?)
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To Increase Government Efficiency, Every Federal Employee Must Write an Email No One Will Read
Posted before, but so appropriate.
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“The email was signed by John W. York…”
He is a good Little Eichmann!
(Like all Heritage rats.)
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The key words in this story, “sneering tone.” That’s what sums up the intent behind everything these fuckers are doing. They do not have even a crumb of respect for anyone working in government, or likely anywhere else.
Here’s the thing about this tone. Americans, used to living in a society in which one doesn’t ultimately have to put up with sneering tone, are stewing in this malevolence right now. They don’t like being treated like shit, they’re not used to it, and they absolutely don’t think they need to take it for long. Undoing the government for bad reasons would be bad enough done with some respect as the lies are delivered. But these turds are actually adding fuel that will be unleashed in the coming return blast. Because stupid evil can’t help itself, apparently.
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Anyone familiar with bureaucracy knows to make shit up. And presumably those in government might have a passing knowledge of this fact.
Really it is 1) the absurdity of it since it says nothing to nobody and 2) it is by dictate of Elmo, who is not really a government employee but cosplays as one because of Donald Trump.
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So, Elon Musk is the head of DOGE, then he is not, then he is. WTF?? This guy is being given unrestricted access to confidential records and authority to fire at will. WTF??
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Hey asshole ---- heres some highlights of what i did last week:
- I made plans to be in DC for the March for Science on March 7th.
- I called my congress people (all of them) and some that wernt mine because im angry as hell.
- I sold some stock because these idiots are going to crash the market.
- I signed up for a new measles vaccine because we hit 100 confirmed cases ---- and that was before some unvaxxed idiot brought it to San Marcos and San Antonio.
- I donated to ukrainian humanitarian orgs because Krasnov is a Russian asset and pawn.
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Well, may be not:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/big-doge-firings-found-unlawful-by-office-of-special-counsel
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If I were an IRS employee, I would take at least a day to come up with the list; on the company’s time of course.
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At some point, someone in Congress needs to ask of Elmo:
“We are requesting an email requesting to understand what DOGE got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
Dem members need to ask if this government is being run like a business, what business would allow you to claim savings and be off by a factor of 1,000?
Q: At what Fortune 500 company (other than Tesla) can you make a presentation to the Board of Directors and be that wrong?
A: None—you’d be escorted from the building and your belongs shipped to your home.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/politics/doge-canceled-contracts-8-billion-invs/index.html
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Since none of these letters will be read just use these words for the 5 items:
- F ELON
- F ELON
- F ELON
- F ELON
- F ELON
Oh I’ll even go with an extra for fun F ELON!!!
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So, Elon Musk is the head of DOGE, then he is not, then he is.
Physicists have arrived at an answer: Elon Musk is the Schroedinger’s Cat of government employees.
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Indeed. Heather Cox Richardson points out in her Feb 23 newsletter:
This [i.e., the “justify your existence” demand] sparked outrage among Americans who noted that Musk has spent 24 hours tweeting more than 220 times and engaged in public fights with two of the mothers of his children while allegedly running companies and overhauling the government, while Trump spent at least 12 nights at Mar-a-Lago in his first 29 days in office. S.V. Date of HuffPost noted on February 18 that Trump has played golf at one of his own properties on 9 of his first 30 days in office and that Trump’s golf outings had already cost the American taxpayer $10.7 million.
Why shouldn’t we fire the two of them? They don’t seem to be doing us any good, and they’re causing a great deal of harm. And give them just 3 hours to clear out, the way they did to Linda Fagan.
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Hmmm, and stay until midnight doing it to collect overtime. Or better, to have gone in to do it on Sunday and collect time-and-a-half.
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I think before it’s over with, everyone outside of the dimwit hardcore MAGA freaks will be aching to fire the pair of them.
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President Trump said on Monday that workers who did not reply would be “sort of semi-fired.”
Is that closer to being “just a bit pregnant” or to “having a touch of syphillis”?
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Or being a megalomaniac who is ”a little bit” addicted to ketamine.
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