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).
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.
I really hope this becomes a modern day Icarus story of a billionaire who flew too close to the sun and then set off a radical turn events for the better.
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
Unfortunately at this point I don’t see lying under oath being much of a crime anymore
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.
It’s one of those funny nuances of the USA though. Their elections are handled by the states, so they can only rig so much.
Why, so they can show up in pink dresses and wave signs some more? The majority of them are just the other side of the oligarch coin at this point.
Murca needs electoral reform to a system of proportional representation.
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.
He is as much a coward as he is a fool.
Fuck what Nazi Skum wants. Fuck him till America is saved or at least the traitorous pissant is hanged for it.
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
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.
I was going to upvote it however it currently has 69 upvotes.
Someone should tell Trump that he can just confiscate all of Musk’s assets at any time and instantly become the richest man in the world.
(The truth of this statement is not relevant to whether Trump should be told this.)
he has immunity from criminal prosecution, and it could be claimed that Elon (an illegal immigrant) has assets that can be used to help pay off the national debt.
The Cheeto could straight up shoot him dead in the oval office, then alter Elon’s last will and testament live on TV and nobody could do jack shit about it.
He should do it on 5th avenue. With TV crews present. Make it great television.
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.
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.
You won’t remove the movement that put him there though.
holding the bloody
knifechainsaw
kids, this is called gaslighting.
