Elon, GO HOME!

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist  

The disruption of government services intensified yesterday when the faux government agency, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) issued an ultimatum that appears to be designed to intimidate government workers as well as waste their time - time in which they could be making life better for the taxpayers who actually fund the government.

But it's not about taxpayers and making government more efficient, is it?  It's about the power trip that Elon Musk is on as he tries to fashion himself into a dominant political force in America, and the revenge trip that Donald Trump is on as he stumbles across one golf course after another trying to come up with ways to inflict maximum pain on anyone who has ever failed to bow their head or bend their knee in his magnificent presence.

Pettiness in, bullshit out.

Yesterday's disruptive load of bovine manure came in the form of an email from the Office of Management and the Budget (OMB) to federal workers with the subject line:  "What did you do last week?"  The email, which was an obvious product of the DOGE assault on government being carried out by Elon Musk, instructed employees to reply with five bullet points on what they had accomplished in the past week.  The list was not to include any classified work, and it was to be sent to an email address at OMB and to each employee's supervisor.

The email did not include a threat of forced resignation, but Musk followed up with a post on his social media platform, "X," saying that failure to respond would be taken as a resignation.  Federal employees have until Monday at midnight to respond to the email and the threat.

Meanwhile, Elon Musk, the "chainsaw" billionaire, a non-government employee who may or may not be the actual head of DOGE (depending on how Trump is feeling at the moment), is wearing sunglasses indoors and mugging for cameras as he wrecks careers and destroys lives with wild abandon.  It's a rush of power and self-gratification that can only come from having more money than God.

Elon, take care of your children, pay your taxes, and GO HOME!  South Africa is lovely this time of year!