{"id":24111,"date":"2025-02-24T22:39:56","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/?p=24111"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:41:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T03:41:51","slug":"just-trying-to-get-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/just-trying-to-get-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Just trying to get ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only one real reason I&#8217;m running this story at all, and if you haven\u2019t figured it out by the second or third paragraph\u2026well, I just don\u2019t really know what to tell ya about that.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/02\/24\/us-news\/elon-musks-ultimatum-email-to-federal-workers-sets-up-dc-power-struggle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elon Musk\u2019s ultimatum email to federal workers sets up power struggle in DC, among top Trump officials<\/a><br \/>Elon Musk is finding himself locked in a power struggle with top Trump administration officials over an out-of-the-blue email blast to federal workers Saturday demanding that they list their professional accomplishments last week \u2014 or risk being fired.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple Trump-appointed agency and department heads \u2014 including the Department of Defense, State Department and FBI \u2014 have instructed their employees to ignore the email despite the billionaire\u2019s public warning that \u201cfailure to respond\u201d by 11:59 p.m. Monday \u201cwill be taken as a resignation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has already pushed for sweeping personnel cuts across the government, with the latest move raising concerns that the Tesla CEO intends to make more personnel decisions based on replies to the missive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Elon Musk truly wants to understand what federal workers accomplished over the past week, he should get to know each department and agency, and learn about the jobs he\u2019s trying to cut,\u201d moderate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) griped on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur public workforce deserves to be treated with dignity and respect for the unheralded jobs they perform. The absurd weekend email to justify their existence wasn\u2019t it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh huh. Poor put-upon souls, with all those difficult, demanding \u201cunheralded jobs\u201d they for some mysterious reason don\u2019t seem able to describe, delineate, or even speak about in any way, shape, or form. And now, the entirely obvious video embed.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/O5XT9CifIlY?si=8_u4VMPqh7a01cj3\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Heh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one real reason I&#8217;m running this story at all, and if you haven\u2019t figured it out by the second or third paragraph\u2026well, I just don\u2019t really know what to tell ya about that. Elon Musk\u2019s ultimatum email to federal workers sets up power struggle&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"easywp-readmore\"><a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/just-trying-to-get-ahead\/\">Would you like to know more?<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Just trying to get ahead<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,20,22,218,36,48,84,190,192,125],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-believe-it-or-else","category-brilliant","category-business-as-usual","category-bwaaaa-hahahahaha","category-damn-thats-funny","category-flotsam-andor-jetsam","category-passthepopcorn","category-the-more-they-remain-the-same","category-justice-done","category-or-losing","wpcat-16-id","wpcat-20-id","wpcat-22-id","wpcat-218-id","wpcat-36-id","wpcat-48-id","wpcat-84-id","wpcat-190-id","wpcat-192-id","wpcat-125-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24111"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24113,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24111\/revisions\/24113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}