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Nanuke

(925 posts)
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 02:54 PM Feb 2025

This is what I just sent to Elon at hr@opm.gov

Last edited Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:53 PM - Edit history (1)

Here are the 5 things I accomplished last week:
1. I volunteered at my local food shelf.
2. I sent Bernie Sanders a check to help with his nationwide rally blitz.
3. I contacted my senator Amy Klobuchar to complain about you.
4. I contacted my senator Tina Smith to complain about you.
5. I congratulated my nephew on getting rid of his Tesla.

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This is what I just sent to Elon at hr@opm.gov (Original Post) Nanuke Feb 2025 OP
Good ideas XanaDUer2 Feb 2025 #1
Ravioli making is no joke mr715 Feb 2025 #7
Very good! mvd Feb 2025 #2
Love it! mzmolly Feb 2025 #3
excellent creon Feb 2025 #4
Bam SuzyandPuffpuff Feb 2025 #5
I sent mine too. mr715 Feb 2025 #6
Great job! 😁💗 nt Hope22 Feb 2025 #8
Kick! red dog 1 Feb 2025 #9
Yes! Chi67 Feb 2025 #10
Hmm... opm.org? calimary Feb 2025 #11
Not only good, yet a GREAT post ZDU Feb 2025 #12
This message was self-deleted by its author ZDU Feb 2025 #13
A job well done. n/t rambler_american Feb 2025 #14
Rofl Joinfortmill Feb 2025 #15
HR@OPM.gov rollin74 Feb 2025 #16
Thanks. I checked and I did sent it correctly. Will fix in my post. Nanuke Feb 2025 #18
Awesome! Thanks rollin74 Feb 2025 #19
Love it !!!! Karadeniz Feb 2025 #17
Well done Magoo48 Feb 2025 #20
That's just great. usonian Feb 2025 #21
Oh, that is hilarious! niyad Feb 2025 #27
You're fired. superpatriotman Feb 2025 #22
Not in the loop myself . . . Aussie105 Feb 2025 #23
dump starlink and x. AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #24
You neglected to say that you did not do any ketamine. JanMichael Feb 2025 #25
Here's mine. Bozvotros Feb 2025 #26
Good one! niyad Feb 2025 #28
Don't forget 10. Chellee Feb 2025 #33
That poor kid Bozvotros Mar 2025 #42
Honestly? I think 0% Chellee Mar 2025 #43
Here is my list: niyad Feb 2025 #29
Similar to the one I sent! oberle Feb 2025 #32
brilliant! well done! bluboid Feb 2025 #30
Good! I'm using Resistbot to email my reps Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2025 #31
Excellent. You've started something. Just saw two posts on FB suggesting emailing musk. Silent Type Feb 2025 #34
here is my 5 top accomplishments isitreal Feb 2025 #35
I use sendity.org for this RainCaster Feb 2025 #36
Mine av8rdave Feb 2025 #37
Mine if..fish..had..wings Feb 2025 #38
The money would be better spent donating to Democrats. Oopsie Daisy Feb 2025 #39
This message was self-deleted by its author Nanuke Feb 2025 #41
A proper Response KSL-Washington Feb 2025 #40

XanaDUer2

(15,772 posts)
1. Good ideas
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 03:00 PM
Feb 2025

I was sharing my constipation, cat feeding, oil change, made ravioli, belching, i should add my emails to my useless reps.

mr715

(3,564 posts)
7. Ravioli making is no joke
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 03:49 PM
Feb 2025

I've never quite mastered the fresh pasta skill. I tried gnocchi once and it took half a day and was unrewarding. I can only imagine the stuffed pastas must be even more challenging.

You deserve a raise at the Department of State, or whatever agencies oversees foreign foods.

Response to Nanuke (Original post)

rollin74

(2,300 posts)
16. HR@OPM.gov
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:48 PM
Feb 2025

.gov not .org

please make sure to send it to the correct email address

I’d also urge you to edit the title of your post to ensure that others are sending their emails to the right address

usonian

(25,324 posts)
21. That's just great.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:10 PM
Feb 2025

I took a more sarcastic tack and sent a very long list of "accomplishments" anonymously.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20063253


List is here if you want to copy and edit it to suit your week's feats.

https://pastebin.com/raw/Di0XEKQu

Text file, link verified for safety.

Great post.

Bozvotros

(961 posts)
26. Here's mine.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 05:49 PM
Feb 2025

1. Lost 25% of my stock value.
2. Made an ass of myself everywhere I went.
3. Ignored the pleas for help from woman I impregnated.
4. Helped Donald Trump violate multiple laws by wrongfully terminating people.
5. Lied about why I was terminating them
6. Lied about everything that was coming out of my mouth.
7. Endangered people with a chainsaw trying to look bad ass.
8. Still thought I looked cool wearing sunglasses and babbling incoherently while doing ketamine.
9. Becoming a joke and nearly universally hated around the world.

Oh wait! I'm sorry. I'm reading your list. GFY.

Chellee

(2,300 posts)
33. Don't forget 10.
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 11:50 PM
Feb 2025

10. Left the stage at CPAC and forgot to take my four year old with me.

Father of the Year right there.

Bozvotros

(961 posts)
42. That poor kid
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 05:35 PM
Mar 2025

What do you suppose his odds are of being locked in a Tesla truck with no obvious door handle at 100+° outside, while Dad is indoors getting a doubleshot soy mocha and responding to all the Nazis praising him for one of his stupid Nazi texts on X?

Chellee

(2,300 posts)
43. Honestly? I think 0%
Tue Mar 11, 2025, 08:38 PM
Mar 2025

First, that kid is a prop. Musk hands him off the second the press isn't watching, which is why he forgets that he's there. Second, he would never get a soy latte. The right is absolutely irrational about soy. They're convinced that it's some kind of leftist plot to emasculate them, rather than the truth, which is that soy milk is creamy deliciousness that makes your latte 100% better. Which is why it's so sad that practically no coffee shops carry it anymore, just oat (meh, fine, whatever) almond (it curdles in hot coffee, why would you want that?) and coconut (it tastes like coconut, blech).

Sorry, I veered off topic because I want a latte. Anyway.... Elon Musk is an ass, but I don't think his children are in danger because I think he has nannies to take them off his hands the second they become even slightly inconvenient to him.

niyad

(132,440 posts)
29. Here is my list:
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:19 PM
Feb 2025

1. Fed my cat twice daily.
2. Cleaned my cat's litter box daily.
3. Cleaned up where my cat threw up on a picture of you. Gave him extra treats for good aim.
4. Made a new poppet of you, since there is no more room for pins in the other one.
5. Joined in my coven's hex ritual for your immediate, painful, and very public demise.

oberle

(358 posts)
32. Similar to the one I sent!
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 10:30 PM
Feb 2025

Fed the cat every day
Cleaned out the litter box every day
Cleaned up hairballs every day
Held my cat every day
E-mailed my 2 senators and congressman about what a complete asshole you are.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(10,484 posts)
31. Good! I'm using Resistbot to email my reps
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:53 PM
Feb 2025

about various issues. Musk is straight up evil. It's appalling that he has free rein to vandalize our government and many Americans are defending him.

"Oh, what harm can he possibly do? He's saving us billions of dollars! And he's not stealing from us. Hes a billionaire & doesn't need our money."

There is simply not enough time to explain to these morons how clueless they are!

https://resist.bot/

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
34. Excellent. You've started something. Just saw two posts on FB suggesting emailing musk.
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 12:15 AM
Feb 2025
 

isitreal

(85 posts)
35. here is my 5 top accomplishments
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 02:33 AM
Feb 2025

Dear Sir,
Here are my top 5 accomplishments for last week
1) started to update my resume along with reaching out to my personal network for any input on job leads.
2) research where I should move my retirement fund. My investment in Tesla stock is losing value by the day so am looking for a safe harbor for my money to weather the coming financial storm.
3) watched some YouTube videos of musk at 'copac', was he on drugs? It seemed he could hardly compose a coherent sentence.. what was with the sunglasses indoors? Was his eyes showing how drugged up he was?
4) lent emotional support to colleagues that abruptly fired with out the required warning period.
5) watched the stock market collapse on Thursday and Friday..

av8rdave

(10,656 posts)
37. Mine
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 05:49 AM
Feb 2025

1. Read a book about the origins of the holocaust. Since you’re busy trying to wipe that from history, I suggest you read up on it. You will find it horrifying - let me rephrase: you will take pleasure in it and likely experience no small amount of arousal. You will also experience a sense of deja vu. Have somebody explain what that is to you.

2. Spent time with grandkids. There is no greater joy, although there is a terrifying sense of foreboding when looking at my granddaughter, thinking about the world that awaits her.

3. Had sex with my wife with no intention whatsoever of procreating. We had a long discussion on her 70th birthday and made the difficult decision to have no more children. I will confess to having a vasectomy in 1990. I assume that procedure will be illegal in the not too distant future. Sure hope it’s not retroactive!

4. Explained to a conservative friend how our government is designed, particularly the separation of powers and the concept of checks and balances. Does any of that sound familiar to you?

5. Patiently waited for prices to come down. I’m well aware it was scheduled for 1/20. I’m reasonably certain the delay is due to the fraud and inefficiencies you are so diligently rooting out. I’m sure you’ll get to the bottom of it.

I hope this suffices. I certainly don’t want to tender my resignation from anything. Hopefully I didn’t waste your time. You have people to make miserable!

38. Mine
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 08:18 AM
Feb 2025

Dear Elon,

In the interest of DOGE and saving the United States from collapse, I will gladly fill you in on my activities and allow you the opportunity to judge whether or not I should be allowed to continue to do them.

I usually start the day by making coffee. Just the one pot, for me and the Mrs., is enough. I will often have a croissant or a bagel along with this morning coffee. I take my morning pills, move to my computer and begin playing solitaire. I often will play for an hour or so while the aforementioned coffee fully wakens me.

Some time later in the morning I will dress myself and prepare for the day. This regularly includes me eating lunch, perhaps taking a walk, though the weather is a little unfriendly for that kind of activity right now. I often will watch a little TV, I have become a fan of the series SILO and so will watch and rewatch episodes of that.

Next will come a nap just before I prepare dinner. After dinner my wife and I will watch some more TV, and then to bed.

As we are currently retired, this is about all our days consist of. I certainly hope that we will be able to continue in this, though should the United States be in danger from our activities we would surely considered altering them, possibly. But not probably.

Thank you for your time,

Citizens of the Earth

Oopsie Daisy

(6,670 posts)
39. The money would be better spent donating to Democrats.
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 08:23 AM
Feb 2025

Sadly, from what I can tell, the "rally blitz" is one that in part promotes the false narrative that Democrats are just as "corrupt" as Republicans. That doesn't help.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20064987

And the Both Sides insinuation they haven't been pushing for campaign finance reform since Citizens United.

I listened to Sanders' Omaha speech: "Oligarchy is about political power. ... But it's not just Republicans. Billionaires contribute to the Democratic Party as well" (audience boos at the Democratic Party).

How is the Democratic Party beholden to billionaires and oligarchs? What policies have changed to be like Republicans'? There must be many many examples of Democrats voting to repeal the ACA, lower taxes for corporations and the wealthy, raise Pharma prices, privatize everything, prevent anything being done about climate change, weaken unions and keep wages low, not relieve student debt, etc., to say the whole party is the same as the other. But there aren't.

How is saying the Democratic Party is corrupted by oligarchs and billionaires helpful? Can someone explain please?

The DUer whose post I've quoted above asks excellent questions! They make some important distinctions and obvious observations. But the questions you pose will never be answered directly... the standard MO is to just make negative insinuations about Democrats. The false narrative that "both parties are the same" is what suppresses voter turnout for Democrats. It's a dangerous lie and it leads to people voting third-party, or voting for "Uncommitted" or not bothering to vote at all. This, of course, always benefits the Republicans (as we've seen multiple times now.) It's a great fundraising gimmick though. I just wish those dollars were flowing toward Democrats.

Response to Oopsie Daisy (Reply #39)

KSL-Washington

(14 posts)
40. A proper Response
Mon Feb 24, 2025, 01:52 PM
Feb 2025
Having had a TS/SCI clearance for 40 years my response to Musk if I was still working (retirement suits me) would be:
1. I worked on a project vital to the security of the United States for which you do not have the requisite security clearance to request information on. Even if you had the clearance, you have no need to know so I couldn't tell you even if I wanted to. Go bother somebody else.
2. See number 1
3. See number 1
4. See number 1
5. See number 1

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