Summary

Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

  • @[email protected]
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    354 months ago

    It just occurred to me that Trump might be Ellen Pao-ing Musk. He knows the tariffs and mass layoffs and deportations are going to crash the economy. He needs a fall guy when it happens.

    Do all your unpopular, disastrous policies with an unpopular person standing in front of you, then blame everything on that person and send them packing.

    • ShadowRam
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      114 months ago

      As if Trump is smart enough to plan ahead something like that … LOL

    • Match!!
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      34 months ago

      i don’t think trump knows this is the plan, but it is the plan. it’s very convenient having a billionaire whose visa can be revoked

      • @[email protected]
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        24 months ago

        Supposedly he was naturalized in 2002. He’s not here on a visa.

        I mean, Trump now apparently can do whatever now, so I guess he could just deport him. But not legally or by revoking a visa.

    • @[email protected]
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      94 months ago

      Ellen Pao-ing

      Damn, it really says something about the demographic of Lemmy that nobody in your replies asked what this means.

      (I also was on reddit ~10(?) years ago during this one particular controversy)

    • @[email protected]
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      4 months ago

      Who doesn’t associate elon with donald though? They are like the more closely tied political duo in the world where every action is seen as one.

      For Ellen Pao to work one of them would have had to remain relatively unknown and forgettable.

      If anyone is going to benefit from the Ellen Pao it’s people like peter thiel who are in the background while the loud duo is drawing all the attention and credit to themselves.

        • @[email protected]
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          44 months ago

          Yeah he blew his opportunity to take advantage of the other two playing the role of Ellen Pao by removing all doubt that he is the same by ramping the vocal participation and drawing increased publicity.

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            Yeah he needed to play the moderate. Instead the dumbass yelled at Zelinsky and picked a fight with the pope over catholic theology.

    • @[email protected]
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      134 months ago

      surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!