Elon Musk’s DOGE email ultimatum to federal workers may have revealed internal tensions in Trump administration
Summary
Elon Musk's email illegally demanding federal employees report their weekly tasks or face “resignation" sparked immediate backlash.
FBI Director Kash Patel instructed staff to ignore it, citing internal review procedures. The State Department and DOJ also advised employees against responding, fearing ethical violations.
The email, reaching millions, including air traffic controllers, triggered widespread confusion and resistance.
Senator Tina Smith criticized Musk's "d*** boss move."
The incident highlights a potential power struggle within the Trump administration, questioning Musk's authority.
Say there are 1 million government workers. If Muskie could read one letter a minute for ten hours a day, five days a week, it would only take him a year to get through the pile.
Probably the most sobering part. This is exactly what they're doing, as Muskrat is too dumb to understand how they work (and don't.) Meanwhile, the 19 year old kids accessing old COBOL systems are trusting hallucinating AIs to access them, but since the kids don't actually have the knowledge and wisdom of how COBOL works, they'll blindly trust the hallucinations.
Don't even need AI. Find the average length of employees' responses - Fire everyone below the average mark. Doesn't make any sense, but seems like the kind of metric Musk would use to fire people.
He's not going to read them, it's to increase the workload of the workers. It's to slow down and frustrate the workers who didn't resign. He's met resistance, so now he has to apply pressure.
This is assuming they care about responses. This is a scare tactic to scare government workers into stepping down, sowing confusion and doubt into their daily work. They are actively dismantling the government to weaken resistance against themselves
But elon musk is a computer science genius. Surely he passed his calc i class in undergrad. I remember my professor mentioning how long it would take you to count to 1 million.
Their IT department should filter whatever domain is used for elon stuff. No outgoing or incoming mails from dumbasselon.wtf or whatever they use. Why is this not done already?
Hilarious. After the DOGErs set up the new government-wide all employee email system in late January OPM, where it is housed, sent out an advisory which states explicitly that no employee ever has to respond to any of the emails. See 4.2 and 4.3. www.opm.gov/media/kfpozk...