And now for a moment of clarity.

Okay, Michael, there's an attorney at a financial regulatory agency who told the Washington Post this.

Who makes a life-changing decision in 10 days with no certainty other than Elon Musk's word?

I mean, you just have to imagine what intensity there is for these folks.

And it's not an exaggeration.

This is a life-altering decision.

And some people are saying, I want to make sure I get some money.

I don't want to just get fired.

But it's not clear where the money's coming from.

Well, if you get fired, you it's not clear where the money's coming from. Well, if you get fired, you have, you have civil recourse because if you're a civil servant

in the civil servants, a community of the federal government, meaning you're not a political

appointee, but you are full-fledged civil servants.

You have protections through the federal

union, et cetera. So those, you're not left out there. What, what the, you wouldn't blame

people if they were worried about whether or not. No, that's where I was going. No, absolutely.

That's where I was going next. The point is to make you worried.

Yeah. The point is to scare you into committing to an action that is on its face illegal.

And there have been, you know, it's not me saying that. There have been, you know, lawyers who do these cases, handle these federal civil cases, civil employment cases, who've been very

clear about what this means and how this plays out. But that's the point. We confuse you and

scare you into taking an action against your self-interest and thinking also that you're somehow

going to receive a benefit. It is not clear, nowhere near clear, how any of this gets paid for.

These are dollars that are not in part that have been appropriated by the federal,

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