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).
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.
The world would instantly become a much better place if he killed himself right now
It’d become an even better place if we the people killed him.
Aww, he’s so modest, isn’t he?
I really hope this becomes a modern day Icarus story of a billionaire who flew too close the sun and then set off a radical turn events for the better.
He is as much a coward as he is a fool.
Elon Musk is saving the US money in the same way that not paying your mortgage saves money. The real question to ask is not “how much are we spending on X” but “Are the benefits we receive for paying for X worth it?” No surprise, that deeper analysis is NOT being done because fans of the right are just out for blood in the form of cancelled government programs. After all, why not? Trump has told them for years now that the government lies, that every single program is flush with waste and so on. They are basically getting what they asked for, except they never considered the deeper effects. This is why the right wants uneducated masses. If they aren’t using critical thinking skills, they’re perfect supporters.
I think the reason for the spending cuts is so they can justify a massive tax cut for the rich. They will be essentially paying nothing, but your pleb taxes will go up and your pleb services canceled in the name of plutocratic profit.
For sure. Like usual, he’s not motivated by just a pure hate for government programs. As always, it’s a grift. Look at the $TRUMP crypto project. He doesn’t feel bad fleecing his biggest fans. And why should he? They will never figure it out. They will just blame their lack of money on Biden or something.
Good, maybe he’ll stop. Sheer incompetence was our only saving grace with the first Trump admin. Let’s hope this time is more of the same in that regard, as well.
No mention of the judge’s decision that the firings were likely illegal? That’s some shit journalism.
Hahaha after walking around a stage in front of thousands of people at CPAC carrying a fucking chainsaw.
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.
Unfortunately at this point I don’t see lying under oath being much of a crime anymore
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.
The buck stops over there, with that other guy…
Those are words of true leadership. I’m exceedingly inspired!
Elon Musk’s boards and shareholders don’t want Musk having credit for Musk’s involvement with Disastrous DOGE Cuts.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
As if Trump is smart enough to plan ahead something like that … LOL
More like other way around, musk has trump wrapped around his finger at the moment
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.
Hanlon’s razor, to be precise !
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)
surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!
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 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
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.
Tough shit.
