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).
He is as much a coward as he is a fool.
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.
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.
Fuck what Nazi Skum wants. Fuck him till America is saved or at least the traitorous pissant is hanged for it.
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
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.
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.
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.
Unfortunately at this point I don’t see lying under oath being much of a crime anymore
Maybe he should jump up and down and wave his arms like the top part of an “x”.
No mention of the judge’s decision that the firings were likely illegal? That’s some shit journalism.
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.
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 feels like part of the plan. They make agencies do it and distribute blame for the crash. Elmo is already a scapegoat for Turp. Now they can roll that shit downhill.
I imagine he’ll throw one or more of the kids under the bus.
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
You won’t remove the movement that put him there though.
It’d become an even better place if we the people killed him.
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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.
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.
He must have committed some truly heinous crimes so now he has to amass power to protect himself.
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.
It’s a disease for these people
These people are the disease.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The government isn’t the place to run “scream tests.”
