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).

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    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.)

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      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.

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        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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            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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        He should blame on vice president Trump, since he’s allowing it to happen

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      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.

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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.

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      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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    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.

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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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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      He must have committed some truly heinous crimes so now he has to amass power to protect himself.

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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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    He’s a complete cunt of a human. Utterly deplorable gobshite who thinks he’s god’s gift.

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      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.