Federal workers defend sharing information about Musk despite his threats...

What Trump and Musk are doing to the institutions of American democracy should have every truly patriotic American up in arms. Protesting in ever way possible the looming destruction of democracy and the rule of law in America. For that is the sick vision and agenda of Trump, his administration, and Project 2025.

Pay attention. Authoritarianism and rule of personality is the Trump/Musk and unless truly patriotic Americans resist their agenda we can kiss our democracy and liberties goodbye.

 

INDEPENDENT -  Federal workers stood by their decision to leak information about Elon Musk to the media following his threats to prosecute whistleblowers.

Their defiance follows Musk’s stark warning that Pentagon officials who leak would be prosecuted after reports that he was scheduled to receive a briefing Friday about the U.S. military’s top-secret war plans for China.

The DOGE mogul claimed that the information was “false” and derided the media for allegedly disseminating “propaganda” before issuing a thinly veiled threat to Pentagon officials.

For a guy who claims not to be Nazi perhaps he should stop acting lie one. 

His threats have not deterred everyone. Pushing back, federal workers told Politico that they are speaking out because of the billionaire’s “move fast and break things” approach via the Department of Government Efficiency.

“Leakers are patriots,” one Agriculture Department employee told the outlet and said that they were motivated by “a desire for greater transparency” – the same goal Musk claims through DOGE.

“We are public servants, not Elon’s servants,” a Food and Drug Administration staffer told Politico. “The public deserves to know how dysfunctional, destructive, and deceptive all of this has been and continues to be.”

Resistance to authoritarianism and unbridled executive power is both patriotic and neccessary to  maintaining a free democratic society. Something that is becoming more and more under attack by the authoritarian Trump administration.

“If the Biden administration or Obama had acted like this, no one would have tolerated it,” another staffer told the outlet. “The Trump administration doesn’t get a pass.”

However some federal staffers are nervous about the repercussions of talking to the press.

“We’re taking more conversations in-person, out of the office completely. Putting phones on airplane mode or going to the basement,” an employee at the National Institutes of Health told Politico. “I don’t take my phone when I’m talking to coworkers anymore. I assume there are cameras and listening devices everywhere.”

Musk’s threats followed a New York Times report Thursday that military officials would show him a slideshow of how the U.S. would engage in a conflict with China. The briefing reportedly consisted of 20 to 30 slides outlining the U.S.’s strategy if war broke out with the adversary in the Far East.

The Trump administration is employing the use of  fear to silence people in the pursuit of its unconstitutional activities, As is typically seen in fascist dictatorships or oppressive communist countries. But not until Trump's second ascendancy has anything like this been seen in America.

Sources said Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth was informed of the plans on Wednesday.

“The New York Times is pure propaganda. Also, I look forward to the prosecutions of those at the Pentagon who are leaking maliciously false information to NYT,” Musk posted on X Friday, sharing a Truth Social Post from President Donald Trump denying the claims.

“They will be found,” Musk added.

No, the NYT's  is a reputable and trusted source of news. Just because a narcissistic immigrant from South Africa who  just happens to be worth several hundred billion dollars has his wee whining whittle nose out of joint does not make his statements true. But he does have a lot to lose when everyone sees him as the inhumane oligarch that he truly is.