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).
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.
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
No mention of the judge’s decision that the firings were likely illegal? That’s some shit journalism.
The billionaire bureaucrat has claimed this defense to his organization’s cost-cutting measures before, saying that DOGE simply makes recommendations for cuts to agency heads, and then it’s up to those heads to execute them.
“It’s not MY fault they did what I told them to do!”
Its not just that but they fired multiple agency heads for not obeying his orders. Its farcical when he’s choosing the agency heads
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.
wanting that much money requires it.
having that much money also inflicts it on you.
no more billionaires. for their sake, as much as ours.
I agree with the sentiment, except that it’s much more for ours.
okay, yes, their lives really don’t matter, it’s just good for them too, and if they were rationally self interested they would want it.
This guy is insane.
Pretty sure he’s got “a” personality disorder that makes him crave being in the spotlight, and the dude isn’t smart or socially aware enough to understand just how little the dude knows. Leading him to doing more and more stupid shit to stay in the spotlight and scrambling to unfuck himself after the fact. On some level, it would be funny how he’s been tripping over his dick and failing upward his whole life. Ya know, if he weren’t currently destroying the country and all that.
And don’t forget the army of enabling and validating mouthbreathers who buy that he’s a genius, when he’s really a fraud at every level. If it wasn’t for Daddy’s Money, he’d be a stereotypical stoner who works part time at some low wage job only to spend most of his time sucking at gaming.
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.
Would you start working in the government and have tons of responsibilities?
Your confusion is that you think Elon could possibly feel responsibility. He gets more free money and all the access he could ever want. He gets power to bend other countries to his will.
It’s a disease for these people
These people are the disease.
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.
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.
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
motherfucker threw the bat in the woodchipper
And it was an aluminum bat.
And the bat boy was still holding it.
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.
Hard to distance yourself from something so massive
Easy! Trump can start a 3-day “Special Military Operation” to distract people from Musked Doge.
Just pick a random military general in the Middle East to assassinate.
Or a civic leader in America
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.
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
This asshole is treating these jobs like he treated Twitter. Fire everyone, see what breaks, then hire those people back. Real efficient there! Let’s not actually review processes and jobs to see if there are overlaps anywhere. Just get rid of everyone and see what grinds to a halt or is really unpopular with people.
The government isn’t the place to run “scream tests.”
I’m pretty sure he did not “hire those [Twitter] people back”. I would be surprised if the moderation team were even close to the same size as before.
That wasn’t one of the things that broke, from his perspective. Twisting the narrative via activist mods was always the goal. He did hire a bunch of the engineers back when the site actually stopped working, because then it couldn’t distribute his bullshit propaganda.
And this is only seeing what immediately breaks, not following all the fractures.
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.
Because efficiancy never was the goal. “DOGE” is just a knock-off of Yarvin’s “RAGE” (Retire All Government Employees), likely done to both stroke Muskrat’s ego, and to obfuscate Yarvin from the “normies”.
These people with all the capital are fucking morons.
It’s because everything we think is true about wealth is untrue…
There is no meritocracy…. Wealthy people have no great talent or intelligence….
The number one factor by a large margin that determines whether or not you are weatlhy is whether your parents were wealthy….
That’s it… that’s literally all it takes to be wealthy, to have capital… be born into it.
Anyone who says otherwise is fucking with you or trying to write their own personal bootstraps anecdote
There’s more to it. To get that rich you need to make roulette level bets with money most of us will never have. For every Musk you have plenty of people born with similar amounts of money who either lived a normal life or made a bad bet. To a certain degree you have to be a bit daft to make these bets at all. If a reasonable investment strategy means you get a comfortable life and a bold one where you dedicste your life to it means you get to buy governments, then you have to be stupid and broken to take the latter.
It is fun to pretend we are all self made though I will be honest about that, but it’s an ego trip if you are unable to see the advantages you started with…. On an individual level it’s difficult to learn the skills of empathy and compassion, on a systemic scale it’s difficult to see and understand our “privilege”
That’s because you think of money and power as tools to live your life. They think of it as what percentage of the total they possess. They would gladly give life changing money to ensure they can decide how you live your life
Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them
Please no. I’m not sure the world’s ready for more of this ass “fixing” things.
