Kash Patel defies Elon Musk

iluvatar5150 · 2025-02-23T20:32:52-0600

Yttrium said:
Federal employees, in order to keep your job, you're going to need to:
- demonstrate that your position is essential
- prove that you haven't been tainted by DEI
- haha just kidding, you're fired anyway

I'd love to check out the news Tuesday morning and see "Trump fires the FBI". I'll probably be disappointed, but I'd expect Musk to at least try to put some bite into his threat.

haven't you heard?

Donald Trump names Dan Bongino to be FBI deputy director

President Donald Trump said Dan Bongino, the conservative radio talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI.

www.usatoday.com

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T20:37:56-0600

essentialsaltes said:
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.

Musk said it's a very low bar that will take about 5 minutes, just a few bullet points.
He really wants to see how many federal employees are not even checking their email

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T20:38:15-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
haven't you heard?

Donald Trump names Dan Bongino to be FBI deputy director

President Donald Trump said Dan Bongino, the conservative radio talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI.

www.usatoday.com

Great news!

Bradskii · 2025-02-23T20:51:03-0600

Yttrium said:
Federal employees, in order to keep your job, you're going to need to:
- demonstrate that your position is essential
- prove that you haven't been tainted by DEI
- haha just kidding, you're fired anyway

I'd love to check out the news Tuesday morning and see "Trump fires the FBI". I'll probably be disappointed, but I'd expect Musk to at least try to put some bite into his threat.

Email from: FBI agent Jones
To: Elon Musk
Subject: Bullet points

1. Contacted ████ about the situation in ████ ██████. Suggested that I ██ ███ with ███.
2. ████ met with ████ to see if it was possible to ████ .
3. ████ ████ ████ and ████.
4. Rang ████ and ████ to see if ████ could be ████.
5. Sent this email. Which was a ████ waste of my ████ time.

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T20:57:10-0600

Bradskii said:
Email from: FBI agent Jones
To: Elon Musk
Subject: Bullet points

1. Contacted ████ about the situation in ████ ██████. Suggested that I ██ ███ with ███.
2. ████ met with ████ to see if it was possible to ████ .
3. ████ ████ ████ and ████.
4. Rang ████ and ████ to see if ████ could be ████.
5. Sent this email. Which was a ████ waste of my ████ time.

That is sufficient. All he wants is a response

Yttrium · 2025-02-23T20:58:14-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
haven't you heard?

Donald Trump names Dan Bongino to be FBI deputy director

President Donald Trump said Dan Bongino, the conservative radio talk show host, will be deputy director of the FBI.

www.usatoday.com

I didn't see that before I posted. However, I didn't mean that Trump would get rid of the FBI, just the members. Bongino will be essential in hiring new FBI members to replace all the woke, unscrupulous, Trump-hating agents that need to be fired. And prosecuted for persecuting Trump.

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T21:02:30-0600

Yttrium said:
I didn't see that before I posted. However, I didn't mean that Trump would get rid of the FBI, just the members. Bongino will be essential in hiring new FBI members to replace all the woke, unscrupulous, Trump-hating agents that need to be fired. And prosecuted for persecuting Trump.

Sounds like a plan

Always in His Presence · 2025-02-23T21:16:17-0600

Laodicean60 said:
Kash Patel defies Elon Muskefies
These guys have had a thing for a little while now. I had to use a different source and I don't see Patel mentioned

How can he defy Elders n Musk if he isn’t even mentioned in the source?

Please explain

Bradskii · 2025-02-23T21:19:47-0600

BPPLEE said:
That is sufficient. All he wants is a response

If this is some moronic attempt to find out if there are non existent or even dead employees on the payroll by finding out who checks their email then you don't need to list anything at all. It's comically inept. A real clown show. And sacking people for not responding? The guy doesn't seem to live in the real world.

They really are making all this up as they go.

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T21:22:43-0600

Bradskii said:
If this is some moronic attempt to find out if there are non existent or even dead employees on the payroll by finding out who checks their email then you don't need to list anything at all. It's comically inept. A real clown show. And sacking people for not responding? The guy doesn't seem to live in the real world.

They really are making all this up as they go.

I’m sure they’re really concerned about what you think. Why don’t you write them a letter?

Oompa Loompa · 2025-02-23T21:27:58-0600

essentialsaltes said:
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.

I am not sure about this, not every federal employee works in front of a computer and checks their emails regularly. I am talking about the blue collar types like mechanics and such.

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T21:28:09-0600

rambot · 2025-02-23T21:31:52-0600

Bradskii said:
If this is some moronic attempt to find out if there are non existent or even dead employees on the payroll by finding out who checks their email then you don't need to list anything at all. It's comically inept. A real clown show. And sacking people for not responding? The guy doesn't seem to live in the real world.

They really are making all this up as they go.

To people who know how things should work this is all a disaster. The mistakes they're making are clone show.

For people who was Trump's decision to be unimpeded they are quite happy.

ozso · 2025-02-23T21:33:25-0600

NxNW said:
Bullets, or bullet points?

Yes.

ozso · 2025-02-23T21:37:27-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
Not if they've got the day off, a concept which seems to have escaped Musk:

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Were they supposed to respond the day the email was sent?

BPPLEE · 2025-02-23T21:37:30-0600

rambot said:
To people who know how things should work this is all a disaster. The mistakes they're making are clone show.

For people who was Trump's decision to be unimpeded they are quite happy.

You might want to edit that post, speaking of clown shows

rjs330 · 2025-02-23T21:44:47-0600

iluvatar5150 said:
You failed to understand my point. I said, “If he’s actually looking for… then he’s a bigger idiot…”

I don’t believe he’s actually looking for efficiencies. I think he’s trying to show off to everybody and, like Trump, is willing to bend the truth to fit his agenda.

IMO, the idiots are the people who look at his actions and think they’re a good way to accomplish the goals he’s claimed to be striving for.

A bigger idiot. You've already said he's an idiot and then a bigger idiot than you thought.

And now the idiots are also people who think his ways are good ones. So who's the bigger idiot? The one who's actually doing the thing or the one who thinks is a good thing?

You've made your thoughts clear. Don't backnaway from them.now. You can now add idiot to your vocabulary if what you think of us conservatives who support Trump.

ozso · 2025-02-23T21:45:01-0600

The daily much ado about nothing, making a mountain out of a molehill.

iluvatar5150 · 2025-02-23T21:54:26-0600

ozso said:
Were they supposed to respond the day the email was sent?

Almost. It was sent today (Sunday). They have until 11:59pm tomorrow (Monday).

rjs330 said:
You've made your thoughts clear. Don't backnaway from them.now.

I’m not backing away from anything. If you think I am, you’re failing to understand something about what I’m saying.

You can now add idiot to your vocabulary if what you think of us conservatives who support Trump.

My comments were directed at a much more narrow subset of people than merely those “who support Trump,” but for them, that ship sailed a long time ago.

Bradskii · 2025-02-23T22:07:06-0600

BPPLEE said:
I’m sure they’re really concerned about what you think.

Someone needs to be concerned. You don't appear to be. I guess that this is now the new normal for you.

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