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).
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
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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
The buck stops over there, with that other guy…
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
Yeah, that Vivek guy really did a number on us.
Too fucking bad, shitstick. When the ship sinks I hope he’s chained to the fucking mast.
I upvoted because this isn’t reddit.
Bro mistook a bunch of Russian bots praising him in his echo chamber as real people.
As he always does.
So unlikeable he even got divorced from reality.
Elon Musk’s boards and shareholders don’t want Musk having credit for Musk’s involvement with Disastrous DOGE Cuts. Elon wouldn’t have been on a stage with a chainsaw if Elon didn’t want credit.
No no, he wanted credit but now it makes him look bad so he’s pretending he never wanted it. But we all know the truth.
You’re probably right about the boards and shareholders though. Assuming they even think about us at all.
As someone who spent a lot of time supporting boards, they are only thinking of themselves and the damage to their brands and stock price and compensation. Which, means that efforts to boycott said brands is causing them to think about us in ways that they don’t like to think about us.
So what I’m hearing is, vandalizing Cybertrucks is effective.
lol…i meant the efforts of not buying certain brands. but, sometimes throwing some tea in the harbor gets people’s attention too.
He should blame on vice president Trump, since he’s allowing it to happen
Exactly. There is a way to do what they’re doing that isn’t so blatant and ham-fisted, but none of these fucking idiots have any tact or subtlety. Elon thought people would be cheering him on, instead we all want to see him, Trump, and all the other oligarchs hang all because he blew his load too early in the plan to destroy the government.
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…
Time for stage two of the plan: shift the blame to the young nobody scapegoats.
Big Balls: 😱
Yeah microscopically big…
Electron microscope big
Big Balls is going to get fucked!
Man, fuck this guy. 100000% all him. You don’t get to distance yourself from this when you’re the one holding the bloody knife. Fuck everything this guy does. Every single day this guy needs to be reminded of how much of a fuck up he is.
holding the bloody
knifechainsaw
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!
kids, this is called gaslighting.
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.
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I agree with the sentiment, except that it’s much more for ours.
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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.
He wants to be the first trillionaire. This is the way.
He must have committed some truly heinous crimes so now he has to amass power to protect himself.
Musk privately acknowledged that he’d made some massive missteps, and that he “can’t bat a thousand all the time,”
You got rid of all the gear for your team, you’re not batting at all wtf
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And it was an aluminum bat.
And the bat boy was still holding it.
Tough shit.
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
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.
Occam’s razor would suggest they are both just that stupid. He has even more scrutiny for doing the same kind of illegal things he was doing behind the scenes at Twitter. Now, he has to deal with unions and contracts.
100% this. They are both fucking power hungry morons.
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
I picture him getting a frantic call from the McDonald’s CEO with each new headline, explaining to him how this new stupid thing may affect his ability to get his favorite food. Trump is then forced to concede and reverse his latest stupid idea so he can continue getting his fix.
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
