Fog ransomware channels Musk with demands for work recaps or a trillion bucks Ransomware scumbags - potentially those behind the Fog gang - are channeling their inner Elon Musk with their latest ransom note, spotted by researchers at Trend Micro. Victims not only have to cough up cash to feed the crime machine, but according to researchers, they're being trolled with the DOGE chief's infamous five- …
Musk is a 'special government employee', and that comes with a time limit of 130 days, then his employment will terminate.
"If it’s really the case that Musk is a mere adviser operating as a special government employee, then he can only stay in that job until May 30, and would have to vacate the White House after that. Most of his DOGE teams, also serving as SGEs, would have to leave too.
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The “special government employee” designation was intended for members of advisory commissions, who it was thought shouldn’t have to go through cumbersome ethics pledges and financial disclosures to serve on a board and offer advice. As a result, the law was shaped so permanent employees couldn’t serve as SGEs. The federal code is quite clear: An SGE’s term is “not to exceed one hundred and thirty days during any period of three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days.” Ethics rules state that this is based on a “good faith estimate” of how long the government service will take, and that estimate must be made in advance. Any work done on a day is counted as a workday."
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-02-19-elon-musk-only-has-100-days-left-in-government/
If this is the case, then the would account for the haste with which DOGE staff pursued their tasks. But it will be interesting to see what happens at the end of next month.
The political issue with a 'thin skin' for a politician is that as every criticism is treated as a personal and unfair attack, when someone does present a genuine problem that actually needs attention and should be dealt with properly, it is treated the same, as an intrusive personal attack not worthy of anything other than a rejection. Boris Johnson was like that when Mayor of London, MP and as PM. He simply did not comprehend that anyone could possibly have a valid criticism of his actions or policies.
Oh, and treating politics as a game, when people's lives literally depend on what you do is, wrong, very, very wrong.
the billionaire's growing frustration with political attacks from the left.
That's a strange way to write: Billionaires harassing and firing low-paid civil servants, aggressively cutting government services, and publicly displaying Nazi salutes, is bad PR that is causing a massive decline in sales for Tesla.
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