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).
If you were the richest person in the entire world, by a huge margin!!! Would you start working in the government and have tons of responsibilities? Or would you retire and live the life you’ve dreamed of?
This guy is insane.
He must have committed some truly heinous crimes so now he has to amass power to protect himself.
It’s a disease for these people
These people are the disease.
He wants to be the first trillionaire. This is the way.
We recognize that if someone just wants to consume an infinite amount of alcohol then they have an addiction. We recognize addictions to food, and sex, and shopping.
But we worship money so much that we’ve completely failed to recognize that you can be addicted to money, too. You can be so obsessed with it that you hurt people around you, that you damage your community, and want to consume vastly more than you need. In the case of billionaires, their addiction has caused them to accumulate so much money that it’s destroying the global economy, and it’s still not enough.
We’re like an irresponsible bartender, serving them more and more regardless of the damage. It’s time to cut these people off. Once you’ve got a billion, you’ve had enough. Go home.
wanting that much money requires it.
having that much money also inflicts it on you.
no more billionaires. for their sake, as much as ours.
I agree with the sentiment, except that it’s much more for ours.
okay, yes, their lives really don’t matter, it’s just good for them too, and if they were rationally self interested they would want it.
Would you start working in the government and have tons of responsibilities?
Your confusion is that you think Elon could possibly feel responsibility. He gets more free money and all the access he could ever want. He gets power to bend other countries to his will.
This guy is insane.
Pretty sure he’s got “a” personality disorder that makes him crave being in the spotlight, and the dude isn’t smart or socially aware enough to understand just how little the dude knows. Leading him to doing more and more stupid shit to stay in the spotlight and scrambling to unfuck himself after the fact. On some level, it would be funny how he’s been tripping over his dick and failing upward his whole life. Ya know, if he weren’t currently destroying the country and all that.
And don’t forget the army of enabling and validating mouthbreathers who buy that he’s a genius, when he’s really a fraud at every level. If it wasn’t for Daddy’s Money, he’d be a stereotypical stoner who works part time at some low wage job only to spend most of his time sucking at gaming.
Tough shit.
The buck stops over there, with that other guy…
Yeah, that Vivek guy really did a number on us.
Oh there’s plenty of blame to go around. Give a huge dollop to both of them.
Those are words of true leadership. I’m exceedingly inspired!
I’d hire him. That’s C suite material
💯💯💯💯💯
He’s so doped up on ketamine that he can’t even get the order right
His bloodshot eyes is telling of his ketamine, cocaine and alcohol usage
We are currently at stage 4. Neat.
He already covered 5 a few days ago with his “ruse”.
I feel like he started at 6
He’s a complete cunt of a human. Utterly deplorable gobshite who thinks he’s god’s gift.
The fact that he started piggyback his kid after Luigi, shows best what kind of psychopath he is.
A normal father would be willing to sacrifice his life for his kids, the Twitter guy is using his kid as a shield.
You mean using his child as a body armor
We really need to stop with the threats. It’s not helping.
We need to start chopping off heads ASAP.
Death is loss of information, so executions are unacceptable. Except when you can’t convict and jail.
Chop chop!
You could make a religion out of this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!
As if Trump is smart enough to plan ahead something like that … LOL
He only wanted to kill investigations against himself and adjust some contracts.
Pepperidge Farm will ALWAYS remember naziboi.
Liar liar pants on fire.
It’s all him. He’s the president
Maybe he got wind of Luigi’s brother Mario, and now wants to back out of the spotlight.
This is because Trump slipped up at his address to Congress and called Musk the head of the agency when he’s legally not supposed to be. Now they’re just playing the game of zero integrity and trying to twist things around to pretend that he’s not the one making all the decisions because it’s illegal and lawmakers picked up on Trump’s slip up.
It’s not just lawmakers. There’s a bunch of lawsuits trying to use the federal courts to figure out:
- What is DOGE in the federal government?
- What is the nature of the “DOGE Temporary Organisation?”
- Who is in charge of DOGE? (Definitely not Musk, officially…)
- Why can DOGE make all these consequential personnel decisions up and down the federal government?
These are all things that have been shrouded in secrecy, obfuscation, and contradiction. Because the truth is that the real answers are not legally sound. The fact that these people are scared to say the real truth is a good sign, because it means they still have some fear of the courts and institutions. Those institutions still have some power to mess up the plan.
Or they might just be afraid that the people find out before it’s too late…
Please Americans give the democrats the congress, so they can force Elmo into multi-week hearings Hunter Biden style. Make him lie under oath so much he’ll never recover
Bold of you to assume the current administration will let you vote, except maybe as for where specifically the concentration camps for LGBTQ people will be built.
If you think the current batch of democrats will do this even if they have control of congress, be ready for disappointment. The dem establishment is too busy trying to preserve the status quo to actually stand up for the right of the people.
Unfortunately at this point I don’t see lying under oath being much of a crime anymore
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.
