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Unknown A
So it's the weekend and President Elon Musk is sending out yet more emails. This is the headlines guys. Federal workers start getting new email to justify job. This is the contents. If you guys got a similar email or different email, please let us know. But it says here Friday, February 28, 2025 at 9:20pm subject line. What did you do last week? Part 2. Please reply to this email with approximately 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and CC your manager going forward. Please complete the above task each week by Mondays at 11:59pm Eastern Time. Please do not send links, attachments or any classified slash sensitive information. If all of your activities are classified or sensitive, please write quote. All of my activities are sensitive. Yeah, this is another email from Elon. Things that stand out to me is one is like why are you writing a proxs instead of approximately?
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Unknown A
Maybe Elon thinks that's more efficient. Who knows? Will people be doing this every week? So it says here, going forward, please complete the task each week by Mondays. So that could be a thing. The email supposedly has been going out from different senders. So sometimes it's the opm, they'll be the Office of Personal Management, sometimes it's directly from your agency. So I don't know how they're determining, you know, where the sender comes from. I'm thinking though that no one wants to put their name on this thing because it's just so shady as it is. So again, if you've got a similar email or different one, please let us, let us know on that. They're also offering buyouts to some federal workers. So this is the Department of Education. It says quit by Monday and get 25k in cash. It's hard to know what to make any of this kind of stuff.
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Unknown A
And I don't know if federal departments have gotten this similarer kind of thing. So this, I mean this is just breaking now. So let's read the details of this one. The Education Department is offering a buyout of up to 20. Up to. Okay, so it may not necessarily be in 25k tirely a buyout of up to 25,000 to most of its employees according to the department wide email. That's got that political. Got that. Employees have until Monday at 11:59pm to make a decision and then says quote, this is a one time offer in advance of a very significant reduction in force for the US Department of Education. Interesting. So that's from the Chief Human Capital Officer, huh? Those who take the offer can stack it with retirement benefits. They will receive the equivalence of severance pay or 25,000, whichever is less. The offer would take effect March 31.
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Unknown A
Yeah, this is a definite Talk to your lawyer, talk to your union representative. The kind of thing. It's hard to know what any of this stuff is, to be honest. I mean, I can imagine this would be a massive amount of stress for employees. And I always want to make that really clear when we talk about this stuff. Like, you know, just imagine you got this email a second time now week in roll from this crazy Elon guy. And then, you know, now there's see some sort of email like do I take the offer? If I don't take the offer, they're just gonna fire me. I mean this is. That's what these people are facing. So I always want to get cleverer. Talk about real people here. Also says here most department employees are eligible. A few exceptions include those that are using disability retirement, received a student loan repayment in the last 36 months or awarded retention bonus in the last 12 months.
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Unknown A
Right. So everyone always has different particular circumstances. And again that honestly that, that's, that's. And this is. I'SAY that's a tough decision. And this shows how callous and you know, uncaring Elon is for regular people. The way Elon thinks or people like Elon is that, you know, everyone is all the same. They're all workers to me. And I just, you know, treat you as expendable. That's how Elon thinks of everyone. It says here some government employees are instructed again to not respond to five things. Email as must doubles down. See, people don't know what. People don't know what to do. And some departments are saying do it. Some, some aren't. Supposedly there's a change of heart over at the Department of Defense. That's the hag set guy. It's hard to know what to make of this stuff. So this is Elon. He says here this is just a few minutes or a few hours ago.
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Unknown A
The president has made it clear that this is mandatory for the executive branch. Okay, so I guess depends which department you're in. Anyone working on classified sense of mater matters is still required to respond if they receive the email but can simply apply that their work is sensitive. And then musk is retreateeting. One of the county interacts with the Mario dude and then they're saying that maybe Haiget is going to go along with this. I'll make announcement this week. But you know, who knows? That's not official. That's why it's confusing and before other, you know, some departments were long, some didn't like. For example, it says here the State Department has it again. So that would be Rubio. Marco Rubio was ahead of that one. So same has again instructed its employees do not respond to Elon Musk emails. And, and whenever we see Rubio in the meetings, we saw him with the cabinet meeting, Rubio looked unhappy and he looked unhappy too with the meeting with Zelensky.
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Unknown A
So I still think odds are that he's gonna be the first to resign. If we had, if we had the bet on that. Also see employees across federal government receive the second Musk email. Some employees rece received the email from the office personnel management while others received directly from the agency. That's why I mentioned before. So there's a lot of confusion going on with this stuff. On top of that you have this kind of stuff. It says here it's not clear how other agecies that handled sensitive materials will respond to latest email. Right. Other agencies like the Department of Justice and FBI which handle matters that can require security clearances also direct their employees to not respond to the first opium missive. Earlier this week a DOJ person did not meiately respond to request for comment. Of course not. This is, this stuff is absolutely insane how they're doing it.
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Unknown A
You know, the way that it appears to me is that just mus wants to, you know, take control as much as he possibly can. Wants to find any sort of excuse to push out people. And there's any number of reasons why people wouldn't respond to the email. And this is again goes back to when when Musk and all his fans like oh, why don't you respond? It's so simple. It's like that. There's just a lot of different reasons like maybe someone's on medical leave, maybe someone's out of the office, maybe someone's on vacation. Maybe you know, again some sensitive over classified material. Maybe people don't want to break the chain of command and only want to talk to their direct, you know, supervisor. That kind of stuff. There's a multiple reasons why you wouldn'tcessarily and also to like as a government employ you might bartered with tons and tons of emails.
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Unknown A
Maybe your work is. You're not in the office that much. Right. There's just. And, and then the other issue with this stuff with the whole Mustang is like before he was starting to fire people and giving like a really, really short timeline. There's just a bunch of issues with these things. Of course Federal workers told once again to justify their work with Doge. And you'll get this kind of stuff too. It which is a good reminder of how tough it is to keep track of this and sort of why we do this every day. This is why I did. Article says the Doge takeover is worse than you think. What's happening to the US Government right now is bad, but what comes next is worse. Basically they went through and list all the different departments that have layoffs and s There's so many problems I mentioned in particular, like, let's say just, you know, recently say with the bird flu or the measles outbreak, that kind of stuff.
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Unknown A
I think those are immediate concerns. Then you have like, you know, nuclear safety or then you have like, say the park ranger situation where, you know, you have a lot of chaos over there. You also have, you know, push, pushing out people to say the FBI or the CIA. You got issues with the faa. I mean, get like, it's just our whole government structure is under attack. And essentially when you lay off, you know, people or push people or people are confusion. Like, let's say you keep your job, but you're just confused all the time with all these emails and just chaos. Like you can't focus on your work. It's terribly inefficient, which is, you know, obviously ridiculous since mus tryies to tell everyone how efficient that he is. Musk has been going on the Drogan Show. I guess it was three hours if you want to watch.
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Unknown A
I just read a few of the highlights. But it's the same kind of nonsense that Musk repeats all the time. So for example, from mustk point of view, I'll show you guys one example. He says here, quote, the Associated Press. So Musk and Trump, like, they hate the media. They hate when people report on on their lies, basically. But he says the Associated Press, which I call Associated Propaganda, they ran international news story saying that those fired air travaffel controllers, but we didn't fire any, any air traffic controllers at all. In fact, we're trying to hire air traffic controllers, not fire them. The thing is though, when you dig through this stuff, like, and we'll go through, you know, a couple of things, stuff that must still say often be misleading or disputed by people on the inside. So, you know, there he's on my air traffic controllers before at the cabinet meeting, he was saying, oh, you know, we, we're going to make mistakes.
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Unknown A
We're not going to be perfect. We cut Ebola funding and then we turn it Right back on. And then the people who, you know, actually work with this stuff is like, no, not exactly. You know, you fire things abruptly, then we're not paying people. People you know, don't know what to do. You laid off a bunch of staff. There's no communication. So, you know, you just can't trust that stuff that says that. MUS says when you go, when you dig into the FAA issue, and this is, you know, I can go through every single issue every single day, but it's just too much. The main thing that to focus on is that stuff that must say is often untrue or misleading. And basically what they're trying to do is to control as many agencies as they can, kick out as many people as they can so they can run all their corrupt scams, try to take over the payment system and these kind of things, or remove any sort of conflict, remove any sort of regulations that affect his companies, which is a major conflict of interest.
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Unknown A
Right. So, for example, this was the headline that there's a couple stories the AP ran. Air traffic controllers were initially offered buyouts and told to consider leaving government. So they got like, mixed messages on that stuff. This one also says here the Trump begins firing of FAA staff just weeks after the fatal DC crash. And I'll read through it and you'll kind of see like, how chaotic this stuff is. It says, for example, an official with OPM which made the resignation offer, said air traffic controllers are exempt from hiring freeze that Trump announced on taking office on January 20, and they were not eligible for a buyout even though they were sent the offer. Right. So see, the way things are handled right there is like, okay, so these people actually did receive an offer, but then they said you're not eligible for it. So like, how do, how would you take that?
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Unknown A
Just imagine you got this email like, oh, I'm supposed to be leaving. I'm getting bought out. Oh, wait, you'm not eligible. Like, how does this make sense? The official spoke on conditionity to discuss internal government operations. It was unclear if controllers themselves have been notified by OPM whether they are exempt. After the initial offer went out, the National Error Travel Controls association recommended an email to its union members not to submit a request for resignation until more information was available. Right. And then we got, we have the copy of the email from the union. Right? And then the unions'like, NADCA has not received a briefing on how or whether the deferred resignation program will be implemented in the faa. Right. This stuff's not clear. So then when MUSK says, oh, you know, we're not firing one, we actually want to hire people. But when you go to detail stuff, it's not exactly the case with Mus.
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Unknown A
Cause you can see that maybe people did get their email but they weren't sure like what to do with it. And then union wasn't really sure. There's no communication there. The best way to describe it I was thinking about this today is when I think about Trump and Musk is, you know, they're trying to do all this sort of shady criminal type activity but they're both like bumbling and incompetent and corrupt. It's not a good combination, right? Bumbling andometent and corrupt. Now sometimes when you watch say the more right leaning media or you know, Fox News, et cetera or whatever, you knowiot, youtubers, they always try to make it seem like that Musk and Trump have some grand master plan and they're so smart and it's just like all you have to do is just sit down and look at what Musk or Trump say just a little bit and you'll figure out very quickly these guys are, they're morons.
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Unknown A
It's pretty obvious now whether or not there's some master plan and some of their staffers behind it, you know, are a little bit more in control. Who knows. The issue is that just the way that they're doing things, it's just as much chaos as possible. Lay offff as many people as possible and all the good people quit. They can't get any good people to work for them. So you know, it's a combination of things and it's like, it's amazing. I'll rephrase it. It's amazing that things are not worse than they are or maybe they're really good at covering it up. That's why I mentioned the Wired article that're saying things are worse than they think. That part is hard to say to prefer the frank because, because it's happened so fast. I think, you know, if we are hit with something really major like let's say the measles thing gets really, really big problem or you know, the birth flu gets really big or there's some sort of, you know, terrorist attack or any kind of thing, then it'll really expose how bad things are.
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Unknown A
Because like when you fire someone initially it's only been say a week or two. It's, it's that the cracks will start to show when federal workers are overworked or you know, federal workers can't concentrate anymore of these kind of things and because it's too hard, right? Like, like if you just imagine the job you're in now, let's say you lose half your staff, they think how much more difficult your job would be. The thing that, that really bothers me about this whole must stuff and I've seen it from, from your comments members, our community is just the idea that Musk, who's, you know, runs around, you know, essentially he's work from home all the time, right, and tweets nonstop and does whatever subst is. He's basically questioning, you know, your honor, he's questioning whether or not you are competent in job when it's like kind of clear he's the one who's, you know, not doing his job.
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Unknown A
Like he's just playing all the time. He's playing video games and lying about how good he is. It's, it's deeply frustrating. I really understand this and I just think it's a terrible attack on our fellow citizens. And I find it strange that anyone is like supporting this guy. But there, there are and I don't know who these people are, they bots are they paid by must to support him. But it's an attack on our regular citizens and our system. On top of that, I was showing you guys this. They, they want to impeach a bunch of our judges because as it appears right now the courts, which is part of our system, right to checks and balances, the courts are standing in the way of Musk. And that's why he hates, you know, judges so much. And he's like, oh, these, you know, stupid judges, Ettera, impeach them all.
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Unknown A
So not that many judges actually have been impeached in history. It doesn't happen that often. And when it does, it's not because they make a bad ruling. It's more just, you know, the judge has extracurricular activities that, you know, get them in trouble. So they either resign or quit, any number of things. But it's actually not that common. I'll read this here. It says here the outcry is threatening yet another assault on a constitutional guardrails that constrain the executive branch. Judicial impeachments are rare and notoriously time consuming. The mounting calls for removing federal judges who already face increasing stury threats have so far not gained much traction with congressional leaders. Like, not many people are inter moing judges. Any such move would be all but certain to fail in the Senate where 2/3 majority would be needed for a conviction. Right? So impeaching A judge wastes a bunch of time.
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Unknown A
It's hard if you don't have the 2/3. And you know, usually it's not because of of a judge ruling. Again, it's because for any number of things that they could be doing, but it's just not that common. It says here, for example, impeachment of federal judges, which historically result strictly from serious criminal behavior rather than content. The rulings are extremely unusual. They also consume copious amounts of time. Lawmakers must conduct a House investigation and Senate trial. This doesn't happen that often. And they do in the case of presidential impeachments. Like the same kind of thing. Those seeking to remove federal judges must meet a high threshold of 67 votes in the Senate. Just eight federal judges were impeached, convicted and removed in history of the country. And so again, it's more like just outside of being a judge. It's just not that, not that many on top of that.
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Unknown A
And just to understand put all the stuff together, they want to, you know, make cuts to Medicaid. And it's affecting a lot of regular people. So this says you'more than 70 million Americans are on Medicaid. It's all over the country. The darker areas of the map means there's a higher percentage of people on Medicaid. But it is over all over the country. You just want to make make that clear. This is shows you where various concentrations of it are. Also you're seeing deregulation in the finance industry. We've seen some stuff like this back in the 2008, the great financial crisis. And it's funny because when I read this article, this is from the Wall Street Journal. The first thing I thought it was the movie the Big Short. And even in the article mentions the Big Short. So if you saw that movie, if you remember the scene they go to the conference in Vegas and all these people are kind of like what word to say, like partying and talking about the deals that are can be made, et cetera.
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Unknown A
CA because what this ends up being is when you remove regulations and then you can create all these new securities packaging a bunch of debt and reselling debt. And it'll be any number of things, be it. You know, these days it'be like your cryptos and your data centers and your experimental green energy, this kind of stuff and any number of things. And they're saying that the attendance of this is a conference like this in Vegas is like really high again this year. And it hasn't been this high since the great financial crisis. And it's funny because when I talk about this stuff like, like G. On a, on a micro level saying, and these are the kind of people that go, I mean that's a whole list, right, of different financial, you know, people who deal in different financial products. You may not see what's happening on a micro level, right?
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Unknown A
You're just doing your job, your job send you there, et cetera. And hey, you get bonuses if you sell whatever, you know, securities is to whatever backed by, you know, whatever bad debt. But as an aggregate, as it starts to build up, you can get a massive, massive problem. We're not quite to the levels, at least according to this one chart. And there's different ways you can measure this, but we're not quite to the levels of the, the situation, the great financial crisis in terms of like all these new types of securities being sold or whatever. But I would say you could argue it's worse this time around with the whole crypto stuff. Bitcoin is crashing. You got Elon Musk, you know, in charge, trying to fire all these people. Like, like a lot of these numbers and things don't make a lot of sense of what's going on.
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Unknown A
I just try to go through guys every single day and kind of the best way to think about this stuff is just think about like how did each regular person, you know, deal with these issues at hand. If you get this crazy email from Musk, you take the buy out or not, right? And, and you know that like you talk to your supervisor and there's like, well, don't answer. And then you see on social media, if you love Musk and Musk is like, oh, you should totally answer, it's your duty. And you, it's like, well, who do I listen to? Like this is where this chain of command is, you know, unusual. What is must position at all. Like what are the. Because you know, they send a representative to the court, to the judge and then just like, you know, like, I don't know, you know, that kind of stuff.
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Unknown A
Like seriously, like, like it's so, so ludicrous how this whole thing is working and then it just feels like. And that just feels like it is. We have a lot of people at the top that are frankly incomp competent. So the Haget guy, he's sending a bunch of troops down to the border. You could any number of incidents with this. If the troops aren't properly trained to deal with border issues, I'll just say that you can have all sorts of problems, right? And let's hope there's no problems with that. This because if they're not properly trained, I'll just put it that way. They're not properly trained. Any number of things can happen. And then what is Musk want from this stuff? He claims efficiency. But like this is an interesting article here. It says Elon Mus s costly inefficient battle over x Twitter staffs severance.
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Unknown A
So basically I think he's been, he's been sued a whole bunch of times there'like it was like 2,000 former employees are, you know, have a class action against him. The employees have beaten Musk like it was like 20 for 20 so far in court and ends up costing Mus double. And so it's like for Musk, a lot of it is about pride. I want to fire you cause you know, I'm the master and I feel like it. But he'll los in court and like a lot of stuff they're doing with the government employees where they have to hire a whole bun of lawyers to defend themselves. Or when you, you confuse employees so much, they spend all this time you worrying about their job security, which is completely understandable right from their point of view. Or you lay off staffuff like everything becomes super inefficient.
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Unknown A
And then when we have like a massive problem comingles to say, I just keep mentioning meals or burley I think are serious concerns like right now or any number of'say security threats or whatever. What Musk has done in the past is he's fired a bunch of people, realized he made a mistake, and then try to hire them back, which is also very costly. Frankly guys, Musk is incompetent. There's no way to put it. I don't. It's crazy that it's gotten this point but you know, to Musk credit, he's great at conning people. His, you know, net net worth skyrocket during COVID where everyone's like, hey, Bitcoin and Tesla stock. Aha. You know, that, that was sort of part of the, the, you know, I you call it theth mythology of the must situation. But you know, where we are now, it's just putting us in a real bad shape to perly frank.
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Unknown A
And then on top of that, Trump keeps down all these crazy executive orders. So this one, he wants to create a new centralized payment system putting the Musk people in charge. So this would be in charge of our, you know, nation's money basically. Contracts, grants, loans. Right. And it's hard to know, you know, what they're doing because they're not transparent. We don't even know the, the chain of command of the Doge stuff. So I try my best to try to, you know, let you guys know what's being said reported in all this time. And it's honestly hard to keep track. So that's why I enjoy hanging out with you in community, to hopefully make of this stuff together. And again, I just want to really stress that there's a lot of federal workers out there that are doing their job, doing the best they can.
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Unknown A
They're your federal Americans, fellow citizens, and we should support them. That's my opinion. You know, someone like A Musk and Trump, they just hate workers and they want to fire everyone. They expect you to work overtime, triple time, you know, take less money for the good of Musk and Trump and for the glory of them. It's just, you know, when you have leaders at the top that are selfish like that, it's not great for the rest of us. So people should fight back. So that's my opinion on this stuff. And I'll catch you on the next video.