cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28539608
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.
Don’t stop there, leave earth you psychotic parasite.
i hope he leaves politics because he dies
elon: slams dick in door
elon: oh man i’m tired of my dick being slammed in the door
Why did Hannibal slam my dick in the door?
Must be paid radical leftists!
My turn to slam your dick in the door, muskrat.
What a snowflake
The bully doesn’t like being bullied, poor baby Mukus 😢
deleted by creator
Sadly that would open them up to accusations of libel/slander. (I’m not a lawyer)
I guess we’ll just have to think for ourselves
When it comes to Elon and Trump, what I assume is:
Whenever they say they are going to do something bad, it is the truth.
Whenever they say they are going to do something good, it is a lie.
I appreciate his hope that capitulation will grant him mercy, but I’m not buying a Tesla unless he kills himself.
Make Tesla Volkswagen
What if he sold all his shares and quit and stuff?
Wouldn’t be nearly as satisfying, but I’d give it consideration I guess.
What about buying a Tesla with “Full Self-Driving”… and then projecting onto Musk an image of a wide open road and letting the Tesla do the rest?
He’s taking the fall because of the lack of popularity gained by Trump.
It’s great as we won’t see his smug face paraded around the oval office.
However he need to remain vigilant as the department he helped create will not stop sitting all over the bureaucratic hardware of America.
Which is by design as bureaucrats resist change and try to come to the status quo. (I’d never thought I would write about the merits of bureaucracy).
He must be held accountable for that!
My take: He’s been told to pack his shit and doesn’t wanna admit it. He knows full well “the Left” isn’t gonna forget what he’s done.
So there’s that, but also the position of “special counsel” or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can’t be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I’m sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He’s making it sound like he’s bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.
All the rules this administration has chosen to ignore, i refuse to believe this is the one they’re going to follow. He could always stay on as an outside contractor or whatever other bs they want to tell us. If he’s leaving, there must be a reason.
“The left” according to these fascists is anything from left to right in a sane person’s eyes.
Only the most racist, bigoted and morally bankrupt are considered right by people like elon and Trump.
Didn’t this happen in trump’s first term as well? Musk was right there but got the boot once people started joking about Elon being in charge
Snowflake.
what a fucking baby
You know what bud, you got the cash to completely disappear and know one will make fun of you anymore.
Well we still will cause you’re a Nazi fuck but hey at least you won’t get your feelings hurt by actually seeing and hearing about it.
Take your money and fuck off. How can someone be so rich and still be a complete and utter moron.
Unless he heads to mars fuck it
No, he just wants back into the background and do shady things in obscurity again. We all know the rich can’t and won’t stop meddling.
This is what people don’t get.
This is just double-win: He gets to once again shit on anybody even marginally less fascist that him (so, well, everybody) for the right-wing mass media, while simultaneously withdrawing from the public eye to have less people look at how he’s draining money from the US gov.
His ego won’t let him do that.
If he’s not the center of attention for more than a few days he does something stupid or outrageous to get the cameras pointing at him again.
This is just the latest example of that. Everyone’s been talking about Hegseth and the Pope so it’s the perfect time for him to play “victim” and talk about how the “evil left” is making him feel bad with their words.deleted by creator
Why stop with leaving politics? Heck you make rockets, why not just leave earth altogether?
