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and again, thank you so much for your support. Elon

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Musk has apparently or I don't know if it was

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actually from him, or if it came from the Doge Dudes,

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the Musketeers or something. I don't know, but an email

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went out and it said everybody in the federal workforce

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has to write up sort of an explanation of what

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exactly would you say you do here? And as you

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might imagine, outreach has ensued now. To be fair, okay,

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if I were to get this kind of an email

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from my management that said, hey, we are you know,

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doing an audit or something or we need to know

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what exactly you're filling your day with. Tell us you

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know five things that you did over the last week

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work related things. What did you get accomplished.

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Speaker 1: What did you do?

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Speaker 2: I am certain there would be some some grousing and

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some grumbling and such, perhaps even a bit of disgruntlement,

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but I would do it. I would probably just send

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a link to all like fifteen episodes of the prior

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week's podcast.

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Speaker 1: Let's say, here you go. It's what I've been doing.

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Speaker 2: But I am fluent in sarcasm, and so that's you know,

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that might get me into some trouble if they asked

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me to do it. But here's the thing, I would

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do it. I would do it because that's the management

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request or requirement. They're asking, tell us what you got done.

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And see, here's the thing too, Like I obviously you

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can tell if I've been on the air, and you're

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my boss, you're gonna know if I'm not on the

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air because you either had to find somebody to fill

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in for me or there was three hours of dead air, right,

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so you're gonna know what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: I would still write, you know, I did.

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Speaker 2: This, I did that five bullet points, you know, cranked

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out all of these shows whatever. I would probably throw

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in more than five. You know why it looks better.

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You know, they're like, well, we asked for five, and

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he gave us like thirty. That's fantastic. He's an overachiever.

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We're going to keep him on staff. See, because there

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is a recognition that the job is not mine. I

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am just simply holding this job. The job is the company's.

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And that is a mindset that a lot of people

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in the private sector don't understand, but virtually one hundred

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percent of the people in the public sector don't understand.

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It's not your job. You're just doing it. The job

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is the government's.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: If you're a teacher, that's the school district's job and

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they have hired you to do it, it's not yours. Okay,

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you don't own it. You can't dictate its terms. The

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employer does that. But in the federal bureaucracy aka the

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deep state, simply asking somebody what they did over the

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last five days is tantamount to a federal lawsuit worthy event,

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and in fact, there have been federal lawsuits now filed

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over this. I mean imagine that simply sending an email saying,

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can you tell me five things that you accomplished last

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week as part of your job, and your response is

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to sue And by the way, you don't get to

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include that in the list of your last week's accomplishments. Okay,

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you cannot. I feel like that's a bit that would

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be like double dipping. So the associated press in this

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story appeared at whyy dot org, which is I would

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assume an NPR affiliate whyy or why dot org? See

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if it was the private news company, then it would

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be dot com. So dot org indicates to me it's

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an NPR affiliate, so public radio.

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Speaker 1: So here's how the AP reported it.

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Speaker 2: Confusion and chaos loom as hundreds of thousands of federal

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employees begin their workweek today facing a deadline from President

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Donald Trump's cost cutting chief Elon Musk to explain their

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recent accomplishments or risk losing their jobs. Musk's unusual demand.

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Isn't that part of the problem right there, that it's

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an unusual demand? Shouldn't you know, like things that you've

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accomplished over the last week? Right if you go into

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the office, and that doesn't count either simply showing up

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for work, although maybe for some people it actually should count.

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you haven't been doing a lot of working in the office.

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After they told you've got to return to the office.

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But showing up to work and doing your job, simply

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doing your job would theoretically give you the list of

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the things that you've accomplished, right, because that's what you

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are hired to do. You're hired to do things and

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to perform certain tasks and to accomplish them. Hence, you

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would have a list. You would say, I was hired

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to do X, Y Z, and I have done XYZ

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over the last week. I did two x's, a y

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and two z's. Look at me fulfilling my tasks?

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Speaker 1: That's it.

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Speaker 2: This is not like the reaction to this has really

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been illustrative, hasn't it that?

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, go believe you're asking me what I do?

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Speaker 2: You should always be asked what you're doing. That's what

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managers should be asking of all of their subordinates is

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what are you doing? Are you fulfilling your tasks? His

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unusual demand has faced resistance from several key US agencies,

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led by the president's loyalists. By the way, loyalists is

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a term that is never applied to Democrats. Just in

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case you were wondering about that. Loyalists and even Republicans

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it's only Donald Trump that gets this term. Only Donald

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Trump hires loyalists. See Democrats when they make all of

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their appointments for ambassadors that gave them a bunch of

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money and people that love them, like, oh no, no,

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we are to believe that it's only Donald Trump that

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hires loyalists. It's never anybody else. They always put people

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in positions that opposed them on everything that makes sense.

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So some of these these agency heads have instructed their

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employees not to comply. Lawmakers in both parties said Musk's

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mandate may be illegal, while unions are threatening to sue

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all because he said, tell me what you've gotten done

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in the last week, and like that's getting pushed back.

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Musk's team sent an email to hundreds of thousands of

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federal employees, which, by the way, remember there was a

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there was an argument, a legal argument is to whether

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or not you could even email all the employees government workers,

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and the unions and the agencies were like, you cannot

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even send an email to your workforce. Again, imagine this.

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The president is in charge of the executive branch, and

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if the president or his delegated representative wants to send

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a message to all the workforce. They should be allowed

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to do so. I don't understand why this is so

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controversial now depending on what's in that message, Like you

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can't send a message in fundraise, right, but if you're

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sending a message to all federal workers to let them know,

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like hey, we're going to be doing cake in the

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office on Thursday whatever, Like if it's workplace related, then

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you know, Jean's Friday, you know, for everybody. Again, like,

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it may not be the best use of your time,

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but you should be able to send those messages. You're

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the boss, and people are like, we're gonna too if

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you send me an email, Like, guys, do you understand

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anything about what happens out here in private sector land aka.

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Speaker 1: The real world?

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Speaker 2: Do you even understand how this stuff goes? We get emails,

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I will tell you people in this building and not

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since I've arrived, but I have heard the stories of

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the rambling emails that would be sent out to employees

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that people didn't even understand what was being said. Like

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this is something that happens all the time in the

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private sector. Bosses send emails to their subordinates and they

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have the ability to do that, and they're actually able

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to ask them, what have you done over the last week?

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Speaker 1: You can ask that question as a boss.

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Speaker 2: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know

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Got some emails here, This from Tim Pete regarding the

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emails on you know, what did you do over the

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last week? In the real world, this would be called

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billable hours.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I don't know what's wrong with the bell there? Oh,

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it was stuck on a cord.

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Speaker 2: There we go better, whether it be maintenance, engineering, legal, medical,

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et cetera, et cetera. You get the idea of productive types. Now,

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maybe in the federal sector, some do fifteen minutes of

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work a week and watch porn the rest of the week.

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I got that thought from a high level IT guy.

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By the way, right, do you remember they had to

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put out some sort of a directive or something. Remember

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where they found like all of these federal employees that

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were watching porn on their company or government laptops. Remember

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that that was oh gosh, probably ten years ago or something.

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I've forget what the exact breakdown is, but I want

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to say, well, in the paralegal field, okay, and well,

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in the paralegal field, you have to mark all of

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your time and they do it by like six minute

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intervals or something like that. Did you know that they

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keep a clock so they can count, however, many units

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of the hour, because then they build a client for

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work that is done. So if you're gonna you're gonna,

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you know, work for an entire hour non stop on

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somebody's case, then you get like ten units of six

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minutes apiece or something like that, or maybe it's six

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units of ten minutes apiece. I forget the breakdown, but

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they literally keep clocks. You think punching a clock, you know,

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coming in and leaving for the day with an in

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Speaker 1: You think that's tough.

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Speaker 2: How about every six minutes or ten minutes you're having

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to keep track of your time. See like again, this

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is what and I recognize I probably don't have the

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softest shoulder to cry on. Every single job has its

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trade offs. They all have pros and cons. The question

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is do the pros outweigh the cons for you? And

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if you are miserable in your job and all the

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cons outweigh all the pros, then you.

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Speaker 1: Should find something else to do. And then I rememberminded

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Speaker 2: Saying that I think it was Jordan Peterson maybe who said,

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the toughest thing you've ever been through is the toughest

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thing you've ever been through. And right, this is a

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problem when you have people that have never actually been

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through anything tough and then they melt when they get

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an email that says, hey, tell us what you did.

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Give us your your list of accomplishments over the last

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week or two, like what have you been working on,

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and they're trying to figure out whether you are actually

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doing any work whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: I got a.

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Speaker 2: I got a tweet here, it's a Pete tweet.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I forget.

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Speaker 2: Well it was I think it was a couple of

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here with when Pat McCrory became governor of North Carolina,

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and he told he came onto my show at the

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time and he was telling me how like he actually

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went out and visited some of the agencies and departments

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and he would walk through to see them. He said

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people there were there were people that went and hid

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under desks from him because they did not want him

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to know that they had been assigned into a particular

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department or agency. Right, this is a it's a patronage system, right,

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that's what they were trying to avoid detection of a

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patronage system where you put people on the state payroll

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that are not qualified to be there, but know somebody

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or something, and they get the job, and maybe they

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don't have to do very much, but it's employment. It

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keeps them employed, and they are grateful to whoever it

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was that gave them that job, and so they make

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political contributions. And this has been going on in our

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state for over one hundred.

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Speaker 1: And fifty years.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this was the patronage system that the Democrat machine

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built during reconstruction and after. And that's the point of

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this exercise. Let me get back to a couple more

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emails here. Dennisays, just imagine how freaked out these government

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snowflakes would be if Elon said they all had to

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show up at their respective job locations for a single OMG.

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And Dave says, letting the boss know what you have

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been doing is pretty normal. I don't know why this

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is such a big deal. I spent twenty two years

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in the Air Force, and we had EPRs and listed

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performance reports every year. I think a lot of civilian

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companies have yearly similar reports on employees too. Some of

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our lazier supervisors who did not keep track of subordinates

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would ask what they've done when a report was due.

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I always kept track of my duties, accomplishments, etc. When

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I knew my EPR was due, right Like, this is

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a common way to measure what the workforce is accomplishing.

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Ikifu on the Twitter machine says, if you're really working,

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the hard part would be putting it all down. At

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any one time, I am probably working on three to

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five things. And Melissa says, this is why I've always

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believed the year end review process should be eliminated. A

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good manager knows what and how their staff are doing,

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if not on a daily basis, then minimally a weekly basis.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, but here's the thing, right, We've all had bad

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managers and that happens, and they don't do this kind

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of stuff. And you know, I've been in situations where

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you know, the latest edict comes down from on high,

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and you know, you get people scrambling and scurrying to comply,

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and you know, after a while you realize, just you know,

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give it four five months, they will have forgotten about

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this too, just like they have all of the other things.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: But as but when you when you have a new

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administration coming in, when you have a new company that

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takes over or whatever, they're going to do a review

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of the entire operation to see what people are doing

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and what their jobs are, and they're going to look

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for efficiencies. And that's what DOJ doing. The E in

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DOGE stands for efficiency. This should not be a surprise.

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All right, So the Elon Musk doge team sent out

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an email two hundreds of thousands of federal employees on Saturday,

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so they probably didn't even see the email. The workers

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probably didn't even see the email till this morning, but

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they got forty eight hours to report five specific things

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they had accomplished last week. In a separate message on x,

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Musk said, any employee who failed to respond by the

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deadline set in the email as eleven fifty nine pm

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tonight would lose their job. Okay, so you have to respond. Now,

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if you were on vacation, I assume that you just

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say I was on vacation, right, mass confused.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the other thing, though, I got an email right.

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Speaker 2: From Jeff, who says, part of the point here also

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is to confirm that there is actually a living, breathing person,

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you know, doing the job drawing a paycheck, right lest

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it be laundered down some black hole that perhaps end

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up in an LLC owned by Hunter Biden.

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Speaker 1: Like, that's that is a concern.

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Speaker 2: No, Seriously, if you've got people that are not responding

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to any emails, you might not actually have a person

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in that position. And so this is kind of like

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an audit. Todd says, why would the federal government employees

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not want to use this chance to show all they

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do and show how they should be making even more money? Right?

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Speaker 1: Like, yeah, here's you want the hack for this?

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Speaker 2: By the way, Okay, if you're a federal employee and

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you are agonizing over how exactly to come up with

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a list of the bullet points of all your accomplishments,

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here's the hack. All right, here's the cheat code. Go

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pull up the solicitation for the job. Go pull up

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your job description and just copy and paste that because

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they put out the requirements like when hey, we're looking

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for somebody that's going to do this and this and

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this and this, and you just take that and put

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it into your response.

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Speaker 1: Back to the Associated Press story.

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Speaker 2: Mass confusion cats and dogs living together followed on the

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eve of the deadline, as some agencies resisted the orders,

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others encouraged their workers to comply, and still others offered

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conflicting guidance. One message on Sunday morning from the Department

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of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Junior,

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instructed its eighty thousand employees to comply. That was shortly

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after the Acting General Counsel Sean Keviny had instructed some

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not to, and by Sunday evening, agency leadership issued new

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instructions that employees should quote pause activities related to the

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request until well about half.

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Speaker 1: An hour ago.

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Speaker 2: Now I don't know why they're pausing it, but newly

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confirmed FBI Director Cash Patel, an outspoken Trump ally, instructed

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employees to ignore Musk's request at least for now.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 2: The FBI, through the Office of the Director, is in

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charge of all of our review processes. And will conduct

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reviews in accordance with FBI procedures. When and if further

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information is required, we will coordinate the responses for now.

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Please pause any responses now. The other thing here is like,

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how many employees are there in the federal government. There's

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hundreds of thousands of them, right, would you like, can

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you imagine what that inbox must look like when if

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you get like half of the employees to respond, you're

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going to there's no way you're going to be able

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to read all those emails. Department of State, Department of Defense,

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and Department of Homeland Security. They wrote in an email

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that essentially the department leadership would respond on behalf of

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the workers. Musk on Sunday called his latest request quote

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a very basic pulse check.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 2: The reason this matters is that a significant number of

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people who are supposed to be working for the government

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are doing so little work that they are not checking

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their email at all. In some cases, we believe non

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existent people or the identities of dead people are being

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used to collect paychecks. In other words, there is outright fraud.

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So once again, the pushback to this is instructive, right,

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And this is why I think you guys are not

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winning hearts and minds, not the doge people. Anybody who

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works in the private sector has had stuff like this

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happen to them at some point in their career. Virtually

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everybody right in a professional, white collar environment, this kind

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of stuff occurs, and you know, some of it is

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sort of the latest thing.

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Speaker 1: I'll never forget.

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Speaker 2: The first time I encountered like this phenomenon was the

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was the fishes over at the Mecklenburg County DSS Social

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Department of Social Services. And there was a guy that

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led the agency's name was Jake Jacobson, and he had

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apparently done some like management training course or something like that,

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and it was all built around throwing fishes. And so

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they had all these like stuffed animals, you know, like

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these dolls, like these fish dolls, and they would toss

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them around the office, right, So there are all sorts

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of these. It had. It came out of like the

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Seattle Fish Market thing where they're like, you know, it

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only works if there's a team and everyone like you

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gotta work together and throw the fish and whatever, you know,

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getting it's a team building things like they take you

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out to the rope's course and like, all right, everybody,

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now you're going to stand here and catch the boss

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as they fall backwards.

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Speaker 1: You know that kind of thing.

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Speaker 2: These again, some of them may be effective, some of

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them are not. But this kind of this kind of

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pulse check thing happens pretty frequently, and your reaction is

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over to your cause. You're not gaining sympathy by literally

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filing lawsuits when somebody asks you, what exactly do you

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its fast paced dismantling of the US Agency for International Development,

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or USAID, toward what appeared to be its final phases,

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telling all but a fraction of staffers worldwide that they

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were on leave as of today, and notifying at least

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sixteen hundred of the US based staffers they were being fired.

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steps in what President Donald Trump and cost cutting ally

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Elon Musk say is their goal of gutting the six

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decade old Aid and Development Agency in a broader campaign

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to slash the size of the federal government. The move

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comes after a federal judge on Friday allowed the administration

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to move forward with its plan to pull thousands of

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USAID staffers off the job in the US and around

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the world world. The district Judge, Carl Nichols rejected please

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in a lawsuit from employees to keep temporarily blocking the

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government's plan. So that got lifted on Friday, which we

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had said when I went over this stuff last week,

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we talked about all of these different court cases or

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these stays, the request for stay right temporary restraining orders.

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They run to a judge that they think is sympathetic

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and they're like, you know, don't let them enforce this thing.

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The district judge says, Okay, well, you know I'm going

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to put in a temporary restraining order and then issue

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some sort of an injunction that covers the entire country.

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Even though it's just one group of plaintiffs in one

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venue and one judge. It's law fare and the Supreme Court.

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Members of the Supreme Court have taken a very di

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view of this kind of proliferation of this tactic. So

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here's the judge saying on Friday that, no, we're not

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going to keep blocking the government's plan. As of eleven

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fifty nine pm last night, so Sunday night into Monday

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morning today, all USAID direct higher personnel, with the exception

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of designated personnel responsible for mission critical functions, core leadership,

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and or specially designated programs, will be placed on administrative

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leave globally.

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Speaker 1: That's according to the.

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Speaker 2: Notice that was sent out to USAID workers and that

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the Associated Press saw. At the same time. The agency

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said in the notices to staffers that it was beginning

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a firing process called a reduction in force or a riff.

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I've been riffed twice in my life.

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Speaker 1: I can.

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Speaker 2: I can have sympathy for people that are going through this.

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There is no reason to be cruel to people that

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you know, applied for a job, took a job, was

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doing they were doing a good job, so they thought,

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and then they get let go. Right, These are people

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with families to support with mortgages and the like. So

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I'm not celebrating the hardship that people are now going

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to face when they get let go. I never do.

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But I also am not going to go tell them

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to go learn to code, as a lot of people

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in the media told all those guys that got laid

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off with the Keystone pipeline project, right when Biden came

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in and shut that down, right when manufacturing in blue

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collar jobs get shut down or lost or shipped overseas

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or whatever, and the response from the media and sort

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of the quote established has been to oh, you know,

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you could learn to code. And it became this this

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response that was you know, thrown at blue collar workers

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when their jobs were downsized out of existence, then when

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they were riffed, and then of course, you know, when

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reporters get laid off, then people were responding to the

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reporters with the same learned to code line, and then

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of course they got you know, censored on social media. Literally,

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the phrase learned to code was banned on certain platforms

514
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because it wasn't nice. See, So it's it's the same thing,

515
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by the way, that is going on with the immigration debate.

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If if these types of journalism jobs and political jobs,

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white collar jobs, if these jobs were being gutted and

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taken by illegal immigrants for much lower costs, and journalists

519
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were being thrown out of work, there would be a

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completely different perspective on the way these stories get covered.

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And that's why you got Trump. The administration gave no

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explanation for a discrepancy in the total headcount. I thought

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this was one last interesting point, that it was a

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firing process called the riff that would eliminate two thousand

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US based jobs. A version of the notice that was

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posted on the website, though, put the number of jobs

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to be eliminated at sixteen hundred. So we don't know

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why there is that, why there's a discrepancy of some

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four hundred jobs. Trump and Musk contend that USAID's work

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is wasteful and furthers a liberal agenda. So it's no,

531
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it's not a liberal agenda. It's a leftist, progressive, globalist,

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Marxist agenda.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're doing.

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Speaker 2: Oh and by the way, it's a jobs program for Democrats.

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That's another reason why. And the programs that you are

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funding with taxpayer dollars are not something that USAID should

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be funding in the first place, so it's not just

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you know, liberal agenda. All right, that'll do it for

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this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could

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thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything

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