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.
See? Bullying fascism works. It’s the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it’s the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
Bullying power in general as well. Progressives have been too soft on liberals too and always let them run the show. But the reality is it’s always harder to rally people when things seem to be going ok and the crisis is muffled rather than blatantly obvious. Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does. Anyway, hope something meaningful comes of this resistance because this fascist stage is still a stage of neoliberalism, like that’s where the root cause is.
I know it’s not your point, but you really should go to the dentist regularly, not just when something hurts. Take care of your teeth and they’ll take care of you!
It’s definitely my point! That’s exactly why I used that analogy :)
We should tend to our teeth, our environment and our political environment as well — and they will, as you say, take care of us. The “cavities” in American politics started waaaay before Trump. Trump is when they reached the nerve. (I hope I said that correctly, ESL here.)
Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does
Now I find that this all depends on the character of your dentist…
Regular visits to many dentists I have known in my life result in un-necessary procedures, additional pain and lower quality of life in general as compared to if you had just stayed the hell away and taken decent care of your own teeth at home. Yes, this is unethical, but in my life experience 9/10 dentists I have visited are unethical and do push any procedure they think they can sell you, particularly if the procedure is covered by your insurance.
If we could get a “real” dentist rating system going where you could judge them before experiencing the high-pressure sales pitch from authority while you are in the chair under the light, we might make some positive progress. Good dental practices are good for the patients. Un-necessary deep scale cleanings, recession reconstructions, drill and fill of not-really cavities and so many other things have given dentists in general a bad reputation IMO.
You’re right but I wasn’t going for a “dentist = political party” analogy. More like a “get your teeth taken care of = keep power in check through public pressure” analogy (to be clear, only voting doesn’t count as pressure) .
I keep hoping that this cycle will be the one that demonstrates that we need real transparency, real accountability, and real limits of power to screw around in the name of “national emergency.”
Of course, when half the people who vote vote for lunacy, lunacy is what you get.
I completely agree.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
I think the first step is to stop calling out disinformation when it’s against Drump and Co, let that shit ride
Indeed, we’re trying to win back our freedom, not medals for best behavior.
We did have a little part in this, but otoh he’s been playing that game for years on his platform, I don’t think it is what drove him out. Him blaming the Left is just - well, it’s what he would do isn’t it?
But now, even MAGA is against him. DOGE is such a blatant fuck-up on all levels, he probably doesn’t even want to do that anymore. It won’t bring his stock back up.
No, they aren’t. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he’s doing great work saving them money.
As I said, idiots.
Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don’t know truly know how much and he’d be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.
I agree with everything you said, except that it’s “bullying”. It’s not. He’s the bully. Musk is the richest man on the earth. He could go to the most expensive resort on the planet and the entire lives of him and his 20-something children would already be paid for. Instead, he gladly puts on a red hat, waltzes through our taxpayer-funded public services, firing hundreds of thousands and causing decades of damage. All with almost no real savings, even using DOGE’s own numbers. Again, no one voted for him, Congress didn’t approve of this. People pointing this out, and fighting back are not “bullying” him, it’s resistance. Oh, and he’s a Nazi.
FINALLY!!! Someone who GETS IT!!!
I said something similar in November, and had my comment removed, after being downvoted.
Peaceful protests don’t work. Raging infernos do.
Except he’s already acquired the data he needs and shipped it over to his Russian handlers.
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Keep bullying him.
Dude lost a hundred billion. Boohoo. He hasn’t lost enough yet.
Dude could be destitute in a barrel and IMO needs to lose far far more. He deserves every little shit thing that happens to him, and is one of the few people on the planet where if they have a serious roadside accident I might just suddenly remember I panic from seeing blood and hence could not stop to help them and and in my panic did not have enough clear thought to call an ambulance. And I’d do that for murderers. But not for Musk. He’s the scum that cannot die soon enough, and cannot die painfully enough.
I wanna see him counting change in dollar tree
So encouraging suicide is okay now??
Well, you know, it depends. The person you are encouraging is planning to kill thousands or even millions directly or indirectly with their politics?
Because there could be a difference between an anonymous person and a potential mass murderer.
Why not? Say what you will about Adolf Hitler, but at least he went out with a bang!
Tolerance extends only until the Intolerant.
Elon and the damage he is causing will kill millions if he isn’t stopped. When capitalists kill it looks clean but it’s mass murder nonetheless.
Elon Musk should face justice for being a foreign insurgent.
After that, he can do whatever.
Crybaby bitch wouldn’t last 5 mins in a cod lobby
Call of duty is a shitty series with shitty fans who you seem to be bragging about their *-phobic views. That’s nothing to brag about.
Im not bragging, personally I hate the cod community and its toxicity, just saying that if he can’t handle some trolling in his game chat then he wouldn’t last a minute playing cod before crying to cruella de vil
That’s fair. He definitely is more of a troll than he could stand dished back at him.
Bullying? Just stating facts will do. And torching Teslas. And what about SpaceX?
Since SpaceX has done good work with very little input from him, we can hope that the board sees he has become a liability and fires him. Don’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Resistance is not bullying.
Musk: shoots self in ass Musk: WHY R BULLETS SO MEAN
He’s broken the departments investigating him and it isn’t fun anymore, he doesn’t have to be there at this point to win.
Cry more, stupid manchild.
Hahah too fucking late. You can’t just “get out” of the public eye whenever you want loser
Fucking loser snowflake!!
Nobody should listen to this fucking pathetic clown. He’s extremely responsible (due to his sponsoring of the GOP) and aligns himself with vicious attacks on regular people from the right because of “”“DEI”“” and the “woke mob”. Elon is a pathetic scoundrel who lives and breathes hate through every orifice that he inhibits. His words mean nothing.
Responsible or irresponsible?
Get fucked. I hope he’s given flak the rest of his goddamn life. Nazi piece of shit billionaire.
We all know Musk is lying. He doesn’t plan on leaving. There’s too much power.
What’s kind of amazing is that so many articles don’t point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?
Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like “Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words”.
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.
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
Too late, shitbird.
Now leave the country as well.
And go back to Swakopmund or any other nazi-african shithole he’s coming from.
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?
But there’s so much more government inefficiency yet to find!
Does this mean he’s done rigging elections too?
He’ll carry on doing that in his spare time, as a labour of love.
Gold Star.
