It’s the sort of thing every private sector white collar employee takes as routine: ‘performance reviews’. Sometimes, it’s just make-work for HR to justify their continued existence, but in the end it boils down to a simple question: what are we paying you for? It’s a pain in the bum, but a cubicle monkey knows the routine. Most can fill them out in their sleep.
But asking a government employee what they’re actually doing at work is apparently the highest effrontery. Despite the fact that they’re they highest paid of their kind in the world, Australia’s public service class literally broke down in tears when then-PM Malcolm Turnbull asked them to do a bit of overtime in order to catch up on a legislative backlog.
They’re a bit special, government employees.
The Trump administration, pushed by the Department of Government Efficiency and deployed by the Office of Personnel Management, has sent another email to all federal employees with a normal request to present five tasks accomplished in the last week.
Cue mainstream media hysteria.
Oddly, absolute mania broke out among the pundit class. Government unions are preparing lawsuits. The panic and frenzy is palpable. As it turns out, no new president has ever done anything like this before, no Democrat who believes in good government and no Republican who supposedly distrusts bureaucracy.
This is literal fascism! the MSM and the left are screeching. Despite the fact that it’s the literal opposite of fascism. Fascism is a doctrine of the absolute state. Trump is radically shrinking the size and reach of government. Which is unforgivable to the Washington Swamp.
Even more unforgivable is that it’s the direct work of the Bad Spaceship Man.
Desperate to protect government employees who are paid upward of $100,000 a year to surf porn all day (or do something even more disgusting, like funnel money to USAID), Democrats are beside themselves about Elon Musk. His Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) clearly violates the very letter and spirit of government work.
Fourteen states and dozens of “civil servants” (useless government employees) have sued to stop this madman. Luckily for the media, there are stables of law professors ready to assure the public that the lawsuits are based on solid legal theories, just like the Russian collusion investigation, Alvin Bragg’s criminal prosecution of Donald Trump, Colorado’s attempt to keep Trump off the ballot and so on.
The gist of their argument is that Musk has been given enormous power and therefore requires Senate confirmation.
Which is odd, given how routinely Democrat presidents have handed out enormously powerful jobs to their cronies, without confirmation, for decades. Soviet spy Alger Hiss was Roosevelt’s unconfirmed top advisor, who sat by the ailing president’s side as he joshed around with Stalin at Yalta and cheerfully condemned half of Europe to live under communism. The unconfirmed communist infiltrator was also deeply involved in planning the United Nations.
Go figure.
The difference is that their advisers are unconfirmed because they’re progressive lunatics who couldn’t be confirmed in a million years. The other difference is the Democrats’ unconfirmed advisers proceed to do things the American people don’t want and didn’t ask for – as opposed to Musk, who is doing something the voters definitely do want and did ask for.
Another unconfirmed, unelected stooge handed enormous power was Hillary Clinton. Clinton had never been elected nor confirmed for anything when she was put in charge of wrecking, oops, ‘reforming’ America’s healthcare system. Her only qualification was being married to the serial rapist in the Oval Office. But screwing the president was nothing to the arse-reaming she handed to the American people, all without confirmation.
Hillary promptly hired the unconfirmed and unconfirmable Ira Magaziner, and together, they assembled a “task force” with more than 600 members, who not only weren’t confirmed, but whose names were hidden from the public. (Many, it later turned out, had a financial interest in the plan.)
So beloved by the public was Hillary’s task force that it helped usher in a Republican landslide in the next midterm election.
Not content with wrecking the American healthcare system, Hillary set her sights on the world, as Barack Obama’s secretary of state. Clinton heavily relied on Sidney Blumenthal, who was not only not confirmed, but had been expressly refused a job by Obama himself. Not only did Obama resent Blumenthal’s role in spreading unsubstantiated rumours about the Obamas during the 2008 Democrat primary, but several key White House staffers threatened to quit if he was hired.
Yet, there was Blumenthal, whispering in Clinton’s ear as she made possibly the most disastrous American foreign policy decision since WWII.
Fully one-third of her emails on Libya were from Blumenthal, as he guided her into the most disastrous foreign policy mistake in US history, with the possible exception of Yalta: the removal of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
This self-aggrandizing idiocy resulted in two world-changing fiascos, including the destruction of Europe.
Gaddafi was crazy, but after our invasion of Iraq, he became America’s bitch, terrified that we’d invade him next. Nine months after the war began, he voluntarily gave up his nuclear weapons program, invited in weapons inspectors, and finally admitted his role in the Lockerbie bombing, paying billions of dollars to the victims […]
But Hillary, egged on by Blumenthal, wanted a foreign policy win of her own in anticipation of her next presidential run. For no geopolitical reason whatsoever, she pushed a reluctant Obama into approving NATO bombing raids over Libya until Gaddhafi was driven from power.
The result? Far from being ‘liberated’, Libya became a jihadi warlord hellhole, complete with open slave markets. Worse, it led directly to the invasion of Europe by millions of fighting (and raping) age Muslims and sub-Saharan Africans.
A decade before his death, Gaddafi had warned European leaders that their continent would turn “black” and “Europe might no longer be European,” unless he blocked the millions of “starving and ignorant Africans” from moving there. European leaders happily paid him billions of dollars to stop the invasion. No Gaddafi, and now no Europe.
So, unconfirmed Elon Musk lifting the dead weight from the grotesquely overburdened American taxpayer? Or unconfirmed Hillary and her unconfirmed advisors wreaking disaster on three continents?
You be the judge.
