Enemy of the people: Elon Musk

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how was this contract awarded?

A team from Elon Musk’s SpaceX is visiting the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday to help overhaul the system in the wake of last month’s deadly air disaster in Washington, DC, US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced.

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078...staff-shortage

[Yonivore]

how was this contract awarded?

https://www.theverge.com/news/614078...staff-shortage

Maybe it's pro bono.

I’m asking for help from any high-tech American developer or company that is willing to give back to our country.

and

Because I know the media (and Hillary Clinton) will claim Elon’s team is getting special access, let me make clear that the @FAANews regularly gives tours of the command center to both media and companies.
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My door at @USDOT is open to any and all patriotic developers or companies who want to help our country in this incredible, game-changing mission. I hope to hear from any company committed to ushering in America’s golden age of travel!

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I wonder how many people are "working to keep drinking water safe." I wonder how good he was at "working to keep drinking water safe." I wonder if he had anything to do with "working to keep drinking water safe" in Flint, Michigan.

Not enough information in his post to make a judgement on whether or not his employment was essential. Maybe he was making water quality worse.

And, the wealth of the person involved in his job being eliminated has nothing to do with his job being eliminated.

$50K here, $10 Billion there, pretty soon, we're saving money.

Do you really want to know about Flint or will it be inconvenient for you?

[Yonivore]

Do you really want to know about Flint or will it be inconvenient for you?

Actually, I specifically asked about the $50K/year fired federal employee's impact on water quality in Flint, Michigan. I didn't ask about Flint.

[GAustex]

Treasury cannot account for $4.7 TRILLION

[Blake]

Treasury cannot account for $4.7 TRILLION

Lol podcasts

[Blake]

Maybe it's pro bono.

and

Lol maybe it's pro bono.

[ChumpDumper]

Actually, I specifically asked about the $50K/year fired federal employee's impact on water quality in Flint, Michigan. I didn't ask about Flint.

What specifically do you want to know?

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Maybe it's pro bono.

and

He want's to crowdsource a national air control system?

ing morons

[Yonivore]

What specifically do you want to know?

Why, do you know him? If so, ask him the question I asked in the post - it was specific.

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Why, do you know him? If so, ask him the question I asked in the post - it was specific.

You're just proving you know all about Flint.

Specifically.

[Yonivore]

You're just proving you know all about Flint.

Specifically.

Wasn't talking about Flint. Start a thread if you want to talk about Flint.

[Blake]

Wasn't talking about Flint. Start a thread if you want to talk about Flint.

You're asking about the Flint water situation. Are you really trying to win the internets by picking nits?

Wtf is wrong with you

[Yonivore]

You're asking about the Flint water situation. Are you really trying to win the internets by picking nits?

Some fired federal worker on Reddit complains about having his $50K/year job whacked by DOGE and says something about helping to keep the drinking water safe. I'm actually curious about what he did to help keep the drinking water safe, was he any good at it, and how many other people were doing the same thing?

Wasn't really about Flint. I could have asked what he was doing about the forever chemicals in all our drinking water. Or, if he was involved in fluoridation of our water supply. I was just curious about what, specifically, made his case any more special that any of the other federal employees being shown the door.

Wtf is wrong with you

Nothing that can't be fixed by ending the waste, fraud, corruption, mismanagement in our federal government. Past Presidents have talked a good game about doing exactly what this administration has hit the ground running with. And now, all of a sudden, it's a problem.

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these ing morons can't do anything right

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Whoever falsely assumes or pretends to be an officer or employee acting under the authority of the United States or any department, agency or officer thereof, and acts as such, or in such pretended character demands or obtains any money, paper, do ent, or thing of value, shall be fined under this le or imprisoned not more than three years, or both.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 742; Pub. L. 103–322, le XXXIII, § 330016(1)(H), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)

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Calvinball

"I think that this is an intentional strategy to create confusion as to whether he actually has a formal le or whether he is just a part-time unpaid advisor to the president," said John Pelissero, the director of government ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. "If you are clear that if he is the administrator of DOGE, then he has to comply with various rules that are in place that apply to other executive branch employees."

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these ing morons can't do anything right

You probably knew this, but the ostensible context is NM's DOGE lawsuit

Judge Chutkan seems to have noticed that DOGE isn't a properly cons uted US department and that its ostensible leader hasn't been nominated or confirmed as anything.

Trumplandia goes back and forth, depending on whether legal responsibility threatens to attach whatever El0n is doing. Now that a curial interest has arisen, Trump cloaks him with his personal privilege.

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this is how El0n manages his personal conflicts of interest

Exclusive: FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink were included in DOGE employee firings, sources say

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fda...es-2025-02-17/

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government employees are people

what Trump/Musk are doing to them is dishonorable and illegal




https://s3.do entcloud.org/do en...8/terrydoe.pdf

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"we"

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the FDIC was already shorthanded, but maybe that's the point

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankin...ed-agency-cull

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