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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.
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Too fucking bad, shitstick. When the ship sinks I hope he's chained to the fucking mast.
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.
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Bro mistook a bunch of Russian bots praising him in his echo chamber as real people.
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.
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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.
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Time for stage two of the plan: shift the blame to the young nobody scapegoats.
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
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kids, this is called gaslighting.
We really need to stop with the threats. It's not helping.
We need to start chopping off heads ASAP.
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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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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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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.
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No mention of the judge's decision that the firings were likely illegal? That's some shit journalism.
He's said he's scared for his life. I think that's reasonable given the amount of people he's pissing off. It's only a matter of time...
Let us pray that the patron saint Luigi watches over him night and day.
This is why that fucking creep uses his son as a prop and headshot shield.
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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.
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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".
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
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.
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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.
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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.
He should be fired from DOGE for giving bad advice and drawing a high salary. Bloody incompetent, such a simple job and he can't even do it.
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Hahaha after walking around a stage in front of thousands of people at CPAC carrying a fucking chainsaw.
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