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).
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.
As if Trump is smart enough to plan ahead something like that … LOL
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)
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.
Vance is the 3 wheel in this weird throuple
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.
Yeah he needed to play the moderate. Instead the dumbass yelled at Zelinsky and picked a fight with the pope over catholic theology.
More like other way around, musk has trump wrapped around his finger at the moment
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
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.
surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!
We really need to stop with the threats. It’s not helping.
We need to start chopping off heads ASAP.
Chop chop!
You could make a religion out of this.
Death is loss of information, so executions are unacceptable. Except when you can’t convict and jail.
Ah, our Lord and saviour… The guillotine.
Sing! Swing! Savor the sting!
I couldn’t figure out what this meant and was going to ask, until I scrolled up past the picture I clearly just scrolled by without looking at.
Maybe he got wind of Luigi’s brother Mario, and now wants to back out of the spotlight.
It’s all him. He’s the president
No mention of the judge’s decision that the firings were likely illegal? That’s some shit journalism.
What a fucking PUSSY lmfao. Guess all that Ketamine didn’t “”“expand”“” his mind after all.
Ketamine in small doses is sometimes proscribed to autistic people against stress. Not to expand something. Probably Elon overdid it.
I think he also uses nose powder and is known to drink excessive alcohol too
Ah, yes, these stress treatments are more general
Good, maybe he’ll stop. Sheer incompetence was our only saving grace with the first Trump admin. Let’s hope this time is more of the same in that regard, as well.
Someone should tell Trump that he can just confiscate all of Musk’s assets at any time and instantly become the richest man in the world.
(The truth of this statement is not relevant to whether Trump should be told this.)
he has immunity from criminal prosecution, and it could be claimed that Elon (an illegal immigrant) has assets that can be used to help pay off the national debt.
The Cheeto could straight up shoot him dead in the oval office, then alter Elon’s last will and testament live on TV and nobody could do jack shit about it.
He should do it on 5th avenue. With TV crews present. Make it great television.
Fuck what Nazi Skum wants. Fuck him till America is saved or at least the traitorous pissant is hanged for it.
Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them
Please no. I’m not sure the world’s ready for more of this ass “fixing” things.
Maybe he should jump up and down and wave his arms like the top part of an “x”.
Liar liar pants on fire.
Nobody “bats 1000”. The best bat .400 - elon is such a goddamned idiot that he doesn’t take the time to inform himself about how a thing he is talking about works - including something as simple as baseball. What a goddamned moron.
The exception that proves the rule
Hard to distance yourself from something so massive
Easy! Trump can start a 3-day “Special Military Operation” to distract people from Musked Doge.
Just pick a random military general in the Middle East to assassinate.
Or a civic leader in America
He should be fired from DOGE for giving bad advice and drawing a high salary. Bloody incompetent, such a simple job and he can’t even do it.
FIRED FROM WHAT
For fuck sake I feel like I’ve lost my goddamn mind. They just let him do this shit.
He should be
fireddrawn and quartered on live national television for crimes against humanity and the Republic.Ftfy
