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DEI must die: All federal employees need to explain their work immediately — or be fired!

Government employees will have to share what they’ve been working on in the last week or face dismissal, Elon Musk said Saturday.

The President signed an executive order last Tuesday for agencies to work with DOGE to make “preparations to initiate large-scale reductions in force.”

More firings are on the way: The Pentagon announced Friday its plans to fire 5,400 employees, and other agencies have also indicated they’re continuing to look for cuts.

A scorched-earth policy is a military strategy of destroying everything that allows an enemy military force to be able to fight a war, including the deprivation and destruction of water, food, humans, animals, plants and any kind of tools and infrastructure. The woke must go.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 says

Doge does not work like the federal government you are used to. Musk runs SpaceX. He has companies hiring thousands of rocket engineers dealing with operations more exacting and demanding than handling air traffic at airports.

They why is DOGE so inaccurate and sloppy??? Why doesn't Musk wait until he has all the facts instead of publishing tons of errors?? DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It actually cut $8 million.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/19/doge-said-it-cut-8-billion-contract-8-million/79176949007/

The numerous mistakes, according to people familiar with the complex world of government contracting, suggest that Mr. Musk’s team of outsiders, charged by the president with cutting spending, don’t fully understand it.

David Reid, an environmental scientist in Michigan, was surprised to learn his contract studying invasive species in the St. Lawrence Seaway was included on the list. “That contract wasn’t canceled by DOGE or anyone else,” he said. The contract expired on Dec. 31 and he decided to retire and not renew it, he said. “If they took credit for canceling the contract, they’re lying.”

A report by CBS News this week found another type of error involving this kind of contract: The group had triple-counted the $655 million maximum value of one contract for U.S.A.I.D. with numerous sub-contracts.

In another case, DOGE claimed $232 million in savings on a contract providing information technology support to the Social Security Administration. But The Intercept reported that only a sliver of the contract was canceled — a program to let users mark their gender as “X” — bringing the actual savings closer to $560,000.

The “wall of receipts” also lists hundreds of cases in which — even by the website’s own accounting — the changes saved taxpayers nothing. In one contract, the Securities and Exchange Commission had agreed to spend $10 million for a five-year subscription to the legal-research site Westlaw. But the savings are listed as $0. The S.E.C.’s contract expired in March 2024.

The group also claims unrealistic estimates from several special kinds of umbrella contracts. When the government expects many different offices may want ongoing orders of the same general product or service — say, I.T. — it creates an overall contracting mechanism with a set ceiling under which several pre-vetted vendors can compete for individual orders. Each of those individual orders represents money the government has committed to spend. But the ceiling on the whole umbrella doesn’t.

“It’s not real money,” said Kelly Saldana, who spent nearly two decades working at U.S.A.I.D., including as the director of its office of health systems. If one of these larger contracts has a ceiling of $100 million and there’s only one $10 million order under it, the remaining $90 million isn’t savings or money that could be spent elsewhere.

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sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

- $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes

- $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon

- $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq

- Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week

- $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders

- $15 million for 'contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

$45 million scholarship program for students in Burma.

$25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece”

– $10M for “Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision”

– $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills”

– $2.3M for “strengthening independent voices in Cambodia”

– $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre

– $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub”

– $14M for “improving public procurement” in Serbia

– $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for
“inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India

– $29M to “strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh”

– $20M for “fiscal federalism” in Nepal

– $19M for “biodiversity conversation” in Nepal

– $1.5M for “voter confidence” in Liberia

– $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali

– $2.5M for “inclusive democracies in Southern Africa”

– $47M for “improving learning outcomes in Asia”

– $2M to develop “sustainable recycling models” to “increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized
communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt”

ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 Look at the facts.

DOGE's error rate makes it a completely unreliable source. Here's just a handful of examples.

Musk's DOGE touted slashing an $8 billion contract. It actually cut $8 million.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@ElwoodBlues

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland

$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia

$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru

$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

ElwoodBlues · M

卐LON now demands a weekly "accomplishment" email from every government employee. tRump's newly appointed FBI director Kash Patel has already told his people to "pause any responses" and not to send in any such email. The infighting has begun.

Reports quote Patel as follows:

FBI personnel may have received an email from OPM requesting information. 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. When and if further information is required, we will coordinate the responses. For now, please pause any responses

Convivial · 26-30, F

How do you define efficiency?

Are millions of dollars doesn't on research with no outcome consider inefficient or merely furthering knowledge.

The space race in the 50s and 60s was considered inefficient by many at the time but led to gains later

calicuz · 56-60, M

@Convivial

Apparently, inefficient to them, is if it doesn't benefit them.

MistyCee

That sounds like it would be a war crime. Which, obviously, is the least of the problems with these attacks on the country by its own President, but still.

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ElwoodBlues · M

@sree251 says

I would pick Musk over you anytime.

False dichotomy. I presented data from several news organizations. You are denying three different groups of firings that the US gov't is trying to unwind. A very inefficient process. And you didn't follow the links.

BTW,
Tesla has the highest fatal accident rate of all car brands

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

BTW Woody some say you’re in the lowest possible category of SW mooncalves. @ElwoodBlues

jackjjackson · 61-69, M

There are a lot of PO pros and cons. For you and me mailing a relatively small package is way cheaper using the PO. That’s why Poshmark uses it. Of course that’s because it’s government subsidized and so is all that junk mail. Is subsidized junk mail really the best place for our tax dollars? As time passes I am getting more inclined to favor a consumption tax so a least for many things WE get to decide how much tax we pay. The Uber rich that uber buy will pay more than they do now. What are your thoughts on that? Maybe necessities like food and gas and power and water should be exempted to a threshold so that again the uber users pay for being uber users. @MistyCee

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Could someone get the crayons out an explain what that has to do with DEI.

deadgerbil · 26-30

@CountScrofula your desire for an explanation is woke

calicuz · 56-60, M

At least the unemployment checks won't be apart of this government waste, and the unemployment rate skyrockets at the same time. 🙄

eli1601 · 70-79, M

@calicuz There are plenty of jobs available picking avacados in California now. 😆

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@jshm2

It should be the opposite.

Elon and copresident Trump explaining what they have been working on since elected, and how it has reduced the price of eggs... or made the USA any better.

Trump does it everyday availing himself to questions at his press conferences.

But we all know the first step of any successful con is the confidence trick; like Elon and Trump are doing.

You are skeptical, doubtful, and suspicious. It is understandable. Nothing wrong with being careful.

Kenworth4954 · 56-60, M

I think comparing it to a scorched earth tactic is an extreme stretch but hey you do you boo🙄🤣🤣🤣

ViciDraco · 41-45, M

Interesting how you think the target of these scorched earth tactics is the woke and not the country itself.

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@ViciDraco

that's not the goal here. The goal is to create dysfunction in the government, claim it doesn't work, and dismantle large sections of it. The goal is to give more power and wealth to billionaires.

You want to see it that way.

If you don't see this DEI stuff is just a smoke screen and scapegoat, then you are a sheep. If you are cheering this on in the hopes of destroying woke culture, whatever you think that may be, then you are the weakness in our society that is destroying it.

All I see is men in women clothing protected by the Constitution and shoved in my face. If Trump can get rid of this, I am willing to bleat like a sheep for the rest of my life.

United we stand, divided we fall. Why so eager to divide?

United with what? Are you nuts? Get away from me!

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Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

Those consultants that the Trump administration hired are really doing their jobs!!!

PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

Just another ideological purge.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow

Just another ideological purge.

Not just another ideology. It is the viral belief that harms human society.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

You truly are bonkers.

I would like to see Musk explain (truthfully) just what he and his work experience kids have been doing for the reportedly $8m a day he is extracting from the taxpayer.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@SunshineGirl

USD 1.5 million to advance DEI in Serbia's workplaces, USD 70,000 for the production of a DEI musical in Ireland,
USD 47,000 for a transgender opera in Colombia, USD 32,000 for a transgender comic book in Peru."

$1.5 million to “advance diversity equity and inclusion in Serbia’s workplaces and business communities”

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland

$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam

$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia

$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru

$2 million for sex changes and “LGBT activism” in Guatemala

$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt

- $2 million for Moroccan pottery classes

- $2 million promoting tourism to Lebanon

- $20 million for a Sesame Street show in Iraq

- Sending Ukranians to Paris Fashion Week

- $1 million to help disabled people in Tajikistan become climate leaders

- $15 million for 'contraceptives and condoms’ in Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan

$45 million scholarship program for students in Burma.

$25,000 award entitled “Empowering LGBTQIA+ Refugees in Greece”

– $10M for “Mozambique voluntary medical male circumcision”

– $9.7M for UC Berkeley to develop “a cohort of Cambodian youth with enterprise driven skills”

– $2.3M for “strengthening independent voices in Cambodia”

– $32M to the Prague Civil Society Centre

– $40M for “gender equality and women empowerment hub”

– $14M for “improving public procurement” in Serbia

– $486M to the “Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening,” including $22M for
“inclusive and participatory political process” in Moldova and $21M for voter turnout in India

– $29M to “strenghening political landscape in Bangladesh”

– $20M for “fiscal federalism” in Nepal

– $19M for “biodiversity conversation” in Nepal

– $1.5M for “voter confidence” in Liberia

– $14M for “social cohesion” in Mali

– $2.5M for “inclusive democracies in Southern Africa”

– $47M for “improving learning outcomes in Asia”

- $265k for a “food and nutrition service 3 day leadership retreat in Atlanta”

- $30K for “Malaysia study tour facilitation services”

-$324,671 grant for “Increasing DEIA Programming for Integrated Pest Management”

– $2M to develop “sustainable recycling models” to “increase socio-economic cohesion among marginalized
communities of Kosovo Roma, Ashkali, and Egypt”

The @USGSA sold the old Webster School building in DC for $4,138,000. The building was acquired via condemnation
in 2003, remained empty and boarded up ever since, and accrued $24M of deferred maintenance and liabilities.

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

@sunsporter1649 I can read social media too. You are just repeating Musk's unverified claims. Given his very loose association with the truth up until the present, I think that is unwise.

sunsporter1649 · 70-79, M

@SunshineGirl

Patriot96 · 56-60, C

Most probably cant write a cogent sentence

DonaldTrumpet · 70-79, M

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