Watching the videos of federal employees shocked that they have to respect the president is amazing to watch. 

Anybody who has ever worked at a large (or most small) organization knows that occasionally reporting what you are doing is standard practice. Sometimes you fill out useless "TPS Reports" and sometimes, when there is a move to shake things up, ensuring accountability is deadly serious. 

In either case, whether you are doing something that is worthless or actually being held accountable, employees are expected to do what their bosses want. That is what it means to be an employee.

Federal workers don't see themselves as employees, so when somebody actually asks them to do the least little thing they don't want to, it is a crisis of epic proportions. 

It is the coming of an American Kim-Jong Un, in fact. 

"It felt like 'you will do what I say or else'" -- have these people never had a job with a boss before? https://t.co/LTjNEUN33y

— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) February 27, 2025

What I love about this particular video, which is one of many you can find on X, is that she casually says that it would be no problem for her to answer the email. It's just that she doesn't WANT to, and it offends her that somebody is asking her to do an easy task. 

Boo hoo. 

This is exactly why asking for the email was an important thing to do. As a matter of practicality, almost none of them will be read by anything other than an AI model looking for something weird. Elon Musk and his DOGE team have neither the time nor the inclination to plow through 2+ million emails and do performance reviews of everybody. 

It is about identifying fraud--employees on the books but not really breathing or doing anything--and, in fact, reminding the rest that they have a boss named Donald Trump. 

No doubt federal employees as a class hate that fact, but it is a fact. He was elected Chief Executive of the United States of America, has Article II powers to control the Executive Branch, and these people work for him. Most federal employees view their role in the government in the manner that these CNN idiots tell us they do:

I spend most of my time repeating back to liberals their own words and ideas, only to have them - seconds later - deny ever saying them. It’s truly astonishing. This convo on @cnn 👀 pic.twitter.com/xVNSPOFbBN

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) February 27, 2025

Yes, even the idea of civilian control of the military is shocking to them. Federal employees are the permanent government, and they view the president as a figurehead. 

So much so that one told me that Biden's dementia didn't matter because the federal government is a "well-oiled machine." I suppose you could call it that, if you think that arrogance, entitlement, and unaccountable power amount to a rank oily substance only a liberal could love. 

USAID secretly funded luxuries for Ukrainian models, such as flying them to Paris Fashion Week, a probe by @SenJoniErnst found.

USAID tried to block the senator from seeing the Ukraine "aid" by falsely claiming it was classified, when it was actually just embarrassing. Other $: pic.twitter.com/rk2Hga9rzE

— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) February 26, 2025

I've had a lot of jobs--from sales, to running a political nonprofit, to being a pizza delivery guy. The least accountability I ever had was being an instructor in academia, which is similar to (and funded by) government. Nobody ever checked on what I did, or seemed to care. I never stuck around for a tenure review--I left disgusted and never even finished my PhD--but that would have been the first time anybody checked my work, and that would not have included teaching, only publishing. 

Not to mention my skin color and sexual preferences, which likely matter more than anything. 

In my current job, Ed is a great boss. But he knows exactly how many pieces I write, the reader numbers, how many VIP articles I reluctantly write, that I do radio interviews regularly, and gives me feedback when a problem arises. I am an at-will employee, and occasionally hear from the big bosses (very nice stuff from them too). 

This is how things work in the civilian world. You all know that. 

Federal employees--both good and bad--haven't experienced this apparently. 

Why would Donald Trump, Elon Musk and DOGE want to know if federal workers are working?

🚨 SHOCKING: Internal sensitive data from inside the Department of Veterans Affairs Building Portfolio

- VA Central Office 810 Vermont Avenue is a 618,000 square foot building
- It has 2,483… pic.twitter.com/5m7vfQepnD

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) February 27, 2025

SHOCKING: Internal sensitive data from inside the Department of Veterans Affairs Building Portfolio

- VA Central Office 810 Vermont Avenue is a 618,000 square foot building- It has 2,483 seats, meaning that's how many staff they can fit

- The monthly rent is $27.2 million

- Their average logins is 387 people, that’s people logging in every month to work

- That building is sitting at 16% occupancy rate (So we're paying $27.2 million a month for that building with 16% occupancy rate)

6 More Leased Government Buildings Stats:

811 Vermont Avenue:

- 266,000 square feet

- 1294 seats

- $14 million dollars a month rent

- 124 average logins

- This is a 10% occupancy rate

18000 G Street

- 207,000 square feet

- 1243 seats

- $11.3 million dollars a month rent

- 146 average logins

- This is a 11% occupancy rate

1100 First Street

- 48,000 square feet

- 190 seats

- $2.4 million dollars a month rent

- 55 average logins

- This is a 20% occupancy rate

1574 I Street

- 37,000 square feet

- 156 seats

- $1.7 million dollars a month rent

- No login data, this building lease is being terminated

428 I Street

- 175,000 square feet

- 583 seats

- $12.7 million dollars a month rent

- 60 average logins

- This is a 10% occupancy rate

801 I Street

- 18,000 square feet

- 86 seats

- $1.1 million dollars a month rent

- 8 average logins

- This is a 9% occupancy rate

“That’s from the Department of Veterans Affairs Building portfolio

It seems like federal employees have no idea how things work, what efficiency looks like, or what a reorganization entails. 

Because of that, all this looks like North Korea to them. 

Is it any wonder that they are terrified of having to move into the private sector? If you have things this cushy and secure, wouldn't you be terrified of having things change? It would seem like a person who was wealthy all their life becoming poor. Everything changed for the worse. For them. 

If I were in their shoes I wouldn't enjoy this one bit. 

But welcome to the real world. I and others have paid for that utopia, and you hate us in return. 

Learn to code.