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My Suggested Replies To Musk’s “Justify Your Job” Email

Federal employees were asked what they did last week and I think that deserves a snappy comeback…

Fay Wylde
Bouncin’ and Behavin’ Blogs
5 min readFeb 24, 2025

WikiCommons, winners of a prize for their “beneficial suggestions” to the government, circa 1950s

So, there was a juvenile trolling post from Elon on X.

Oh, excuse me, I’ve mischaracterized that. Let me rephrase.

There was an intelligent, brilliant, and amazingly inventive measure described by Mr. Musk, indicating a government initiative that will help reduce the budget deficit, improve government efficiency, and operate our government in a sensible and responsible way. Hurrah!

Oh, excuse me, that just broke the “bullshit” meter sitting on my desk. Give me just a second to reset it. (When the bullshit meter goes off, it is endless cackling laughter, quite annoying.)

Okay, got the meter reset. Of course, sometimes if I just type the name “Elon Musk,” it triggers the BS meter again. Oh damn! Okay, hold on a sec…

So, here is the post from the DOGE Excellent Innovator (DEI MAGA style) guy:

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Nice little touch at the end there with that mafia-like threat.

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Fay Wylde

Written by Fay Wylde

I write on politics, women’s rights, racial equality, LGBTQ, religion, witchy stuff, and whatever else my autistic brain chases.

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5 bullets of what you accomplished last week

People are throwing out helpful advice on this. Here's my favorite shared on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/momzillanc.bsky.social/post/3liwymybsek2s

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On a Friday night, federal employees received this message and were told to answer by Monday evening:

Some received this on Saturday night at 8pm!

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email from RFK Jr. demanding that every government employee reply

How many whales did you chainsaw this week? Or how may animals did you throw in your trunk this week?

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