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    To everyone saying this is AI, I can assure you it’s not. It’s an editorial blog from a well known journalist. He does write in a more relaxed conversational style but I am sure, after following his site for over 20 years now, he’s not using AI.

    It was written less than an hour after his previous post so I’m sure there was a lot he was tracking before throwing this out there.

    As to the story itself, I have seen where a lot of organizations have pushed guidance not to respond until leadership tells everyone what to do. At least in the DoD. I don’t know how everyone is supposed to respond by Monday night anyway, some people have schedules where they don’t work on Monday.

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    I would really like to see all the federal employees single handedly not replying and shoving that email up Elon’s ass

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    This article reads like it is barely edited AI slop or a twelve year old has written it.

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        I mentioned to someone this evening that they’re treating a presidentially authorized email as some kind of insider threat. And this person says, we’re surprised that Trump is an insider threat? To which I said, yes, I’m surprised that his own appointees are doing so.

        Sounds like human word salad to me. *Word salad’s a bit harsh. I understand the message. Stream of consciousness?

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    We’ve been in this world of upside where a lone wolf is on a wilding spree through the federal government, clear not operating at anyone’s direction but his own. And yet the President is at least okaying it all after the fact. And thus our system can’t really makes sense of what’s happening. Yes, it’s almost all illegal even or in a sense especially if the President is authorizing it. And

    I feel like I’m having a stroke.

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    This guy is 100% feeding a million emails through Grok and not anyone actually justifying their jobs when they reply. And it will say “1/2 are redundant” without understanding anything and next week’s headline will read “1/2 federal employees go bye bye” and 1 week after that “uh oh please come back we need people to run the nukes and collect taxes”

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      5 hours ago

      Fed people who work for: your email make like dumb worded so to make bad the intelligence the artificial the algorithm thanks!

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    It’s interesting that Musk is sending this, probably personally and likely without getting specific approval from Trump before sending it, and the agencies are responding to ignore it in what is clearly a direct response to Musk.

    Musk acts. Many cabinet departments act in response. Meanwhile, Trump is a passive non-participant in his own administration.

    (To say nothing of Congress thus far.)

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      Trump’s beyond being able to be involved in day to day activities of governing, oportunists just do thing around him. Remember last time he was firing off dozens of incoherent tweets at all hours of the day and night? Unless I’m missing something that’s not happening in the same way this time, on musk’s or his sites.

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        None of these plans are Trump’s. Everything he’s signed is provided to him by other russians/fascists/oligarchs. He’s just the cult leader who goes golfing every other day.

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      7 hours ago

      What about McDonalds. I hear there is one in Feasterville-Trevose, PA with a ton of health violations that would hire these two.