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’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.
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.
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
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.
He is as much a coward as he is a fool.
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…
Exactly. He’s fucked over countless veterans with military training and most likely a shitload of guns and ammo. Good fuckin luck bud .
Yeah, considering he paid for a role in a fascist administration that he pushed in a fascist direction and bought a propaganda outlet for he should be afraid for his life. He’s basically set himself up as a fall guy for a reconstruction government, especially if Trump keels over first.
Franco’s life was under threat until the great assassin of time finally came for him. At which point his government fell.
And I don’t feel sorry for him because I’m over here just living my life and he’s trying to get people to hurt me and people like me instead
He’s just paranoid. However the minorities that are at the receiving end of his racist hate speech, are justified to fear for their lives.
One a pampered and spoiled trustfund brat fallen into drug induced paranoid hysteria. The other are millions of people he is defaming and scapegoating for his and his friends destruction of the country…who are actually in danger because the hatespeech on x and elswhere is encouraging violence against them.
Stop being paranoid melon husk.
Does ketamine cause paranoia or it’s the cocaine usage
No, ketamine doesn’t cause any behavior like anything he does.
cocaine probably
Seen that Lemmy section “Is Elon Musk Still Alive”? Heh
This is why that fucking creep uses his son as a prop and headshot shield.
Remember he ditched his human shield on stage
Let us pray that the patron saint Luigi watches over him night and day.
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.
Tough shit.
Aww, he’s so modest, isn’t he?
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…
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.
And this is only seeing what immediately breaks, not following all the fractures.
The government isn’t the place to run “scream tests.”
Oh wow, that’s rich…
Time for stage two of the plan: shift the blame to the young nobody scapegoats.
Big Balls is going to get fucked!
Big Balls: 😱
Yeah microscopically big…
Electron microscope big
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.
Nobody “bats 1000”. The best bat .400 - elon is such a goddamned idiot that he doesn’t take the time to inform himself about how a thing he is talking about works - including something as simple as baseball. What a goddamned moron.
The exception that proves the rule
What a fucking PUSSY lmfao. Guess all that Ketamine didn’t “”“expand”“” his mind after all.
Ketamine in small doses is sometimes proscribed to autistic people against stress. Not to expand something. Probably Elon overdid it.
I think he also uses nose powder and is known to drink excessive alcohol too
Ah, yes, these stress treatments are more general
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.
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
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”
