Doing it by end of day without severance seems unnecessarily cruel. And the director is a coward if he didn't attend the meeting.
From what I've seen (I know multiple people at places directly affected by this), the justification is "poor performance", which is clearly nonsense as theres been no time for that kind of evaluation and the actual criteria is obvious (probationary or not).
The effects on unemployment here will be absolutely unprecedented, given how many very smart, otherwise successful people are being punted. It has also killed morale at any and all government agencies and companies that work with them (pretty clearly the point, imo). Everyone knows making the entire workforce depressed and fearful helps productivity!
In case it seems like these people at all know what they're doing: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doge-firings-us-nuclear-weapons...
But I genuinely cannot decide if it's likely that Trump's re-election and/or current behavior are the result of Chinese / Russian operations.
I guess the question is somewhat academic, given the scale of damage that Trump, Musk, et al are inflicting on national security.
Musk is on the bandwagon now, are there really that many organizations or individual decision makers who have the resources to make him more fabulously rich than he already is?
And are these in the same camp and are they aligned in any way?
If Ronald Reagan were alive today he would surely be condemning Trump as a flat-out communist, and not just a commie sympathizer as a softer reaction to his first term.
Plus, is there a counter-party who can make Trump a better offer if he were to refrain from applying his legendary bankruptcy-prone financial misdeeds to the country as a whole? After all this would realistically be his last chance for sure this time.
Remember when Trump goes bankrupt, he says how great he did because other people lost more :(
Russia.
Putin promised Elon he would be able to pursue the North American Technate without Russian interference. Elon bought Trump and promised that Trump would stay out of prison. If one gets caught now they both go down.
well, he's so rich that getting richer doesn't matter. But running the whole country is priceless
He wants more power. Money is old and boring to him already.
The Cruelty Is the Point:
* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive...
* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-...
> “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”
* https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/flo...