Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
He already gave himself backdoor access to everything. Don’t believe he’s really gone.
He’s gonna come back like a ransomware hacker, threatening to delete whole systems unless he gets what he wants.
If there were still good people in charge we could make sure they unplug all the star link antennas around DC. But it might be too late for that.
Exactly he’s already accomplished what he wanted to do
He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
You can’t buy a likable personality.
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he’d simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.
Wouldn’t have changed at all.
That event didn’t change him at all, for fuck sake
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
I also wonder …… while it’s a safe bet that he didn’t change with that event, it was also one of the first times he strayed into something he knew nothing about to show his true nutbaggery. When he was talking about his companies, his products, that side of him didn’t really come out more did it really affect anyone outside his employees. That event made it clear the world was hanging on his every word and really shouldnt
That event didn’t make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
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Encore! Encore!
Please, continue <Willy Wonka leaning on his hand, smiling>
Okay, but how do you really feel?
More than 100 upvotes and 0 downvotes, removed by mod? Why are mods bootlicking Elonazi?
I checked the modlog, they used the r slur in their otherwise on-point rant.
♫ I wouldn’t touch you with a - thirty-nine-and-a-half foot poooole! ♫
Reminds of the rant about the boss in Christmas Vacation. Do you need a Tylenol?
Man, fuck this guy. I hope he gets burned badly just like everyone else in Trump’s wake.
He can leave, and he should. But the attacks against his character will NEVER stop.
Consider this the easy option.
It could stop if he were capable of empathy or self awareness, but he’s just going to keep being a dickhead, which annoys and upsets people, so he’ll keep blaming them because growing as a person is just too hard for him I guess? Blaming everyone else is so much easier!
Bye! Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
He’s not leaving politics, he’s at most changing vector. From being visible, to working more in the shadows.
And all of X will follow his picture reel of shadowy activities.
Dark MAGA in the process…
The future looks dark for Murica
Yeah, boo hoo, fuck off forever you egomaniacal nepo-baby.
Seize his assets and deport.
That’s an act of war against South Africa.
Such a delicate little snowflake. I say fuck his feelings.
Well, he did say empathy was weak.
He wants out now before the consequences catch up with him.
Then he should have left politics at least 3 years ago
He did a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration.
There’s no “being part of society” anymore. There’s no coming back for him at all. What a fucking moron
consequences
You’re funny.
I’m almost certain that he has been ordered by his board of directors to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.
There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and possibly irreparable, damage to the company’s brand image AND it’s sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum’s self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.
The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don’t want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.
Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum’s outrageous behavior, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.
And arguing that he didn’t recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.
Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won’t just let that go with an “Oh well.” He’s likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don’t go down with him.
Get fucked musk for the rest of your days.
his tenure has always had a built in expiry date after which much more throughout background checks and vetting are required. he will be gone before then. he’s just setting the table so it is seen as “his idea”.
He was a useful lightning rod for TRUMP to take in all the flak from media and criticism.
Let’s be real, though, if he weren’t pissing everyone off those checks would get brushed off and ignored by the administration. They don’t care about requirements, regulations, or laws, which they’ve made abundantly clear, and if pressed will basically respond “make me”
Consequences? Me? But I’m rich and cool!
