cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28539608
Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
Too late, shitbird.
So we’re winning? I’d still love for him to meet his Luigi. Is that enough hate to get you to quit before you do any more damage? I can go more extreme if it isn’t.
!go more extreme
Elon is a weird duck with delusions of grandeur who can’t understand the left’s disgust. It was the nazi salute, Elon. It’ll always be the nazi salute. All your other dank shit runs secondary to that.
He’s broken the departments investigating him and it isn’t fun anymore, he doesn’t have to be there at this point to win.
My take: He’s been told to pack his shit and doesn’t wanna admit it. He knows full well “the Left” isn’t gonna forget what he’s done.
Didn’t this happen in trump’s first term as well? Musk was right there but got the boot once people started joking about Elon being in charge
So there’s that, but also the position of “special counsel” or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can’t be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I’m sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He’s making it sound like he’s bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.
All the rules this administration has chosen to ignore, i refuse to believe this is the one they’re going to follow. He could always stay on as an outside contractor or whatever other bs they want to tell us. If he’s leaving, there must be a reason.
Musk is the Mike Lindell of this second season of the (cursed) apprentice…
We can only wish. Was Lindell ever a billionaire? Let alone the richest person in the world?
It would certainly be very nice to see Musk in the same situation, but he still has a long way to go until that point.
But there’s so much more government inefficiency yet to find!
Don’t let the door hit you.
But do let everyone waiting outside to hit you, melon
Good!
He’s taking the fall because of the lack of popularity gained by Trump.
It’s great as we won’t see his smug face paraded around the oval office.
However he need to remain vigilant as the department he helped create will not stop sitting all over the bureaucratic hardware of America.
Which is by design as bureaucrats resist change and try to come to the status quo. (I’d never thought I would write about the merits of bureaucracy).
He must be held accountable for that!
Fuck this baby. Go overdose on ketamine. We will all mourn. Zzzzzzz 😢😣☹️😰
ODing on Ketamine is quite difficult. LD50 for mice i.V. is 77mg/kg. So for an 80kg mouse that would be more than 6 grams of Ketamine given i.V. typically the bioavailability by nasal or oral consumption is lower and Musk most likely has a high tolerance. So we are talking probably 50grams or more of Ketamine for a lethal dosage for Musk.
I am not sure if Musk could actually snort enough Ketamine for a lethal dosage without it just falling back out of his nostrils or if he could swallow one without his stomach turning before it is adsorbed.
Obviously all of these numbers are speculative and taking drugs is harmful, no matter the amount. Also people often die not by ODing on Ketamine, but by killing themselves in accidents as they loose control over their muscles.
Snowflake.
See? Bullying fascism works. It’s the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it’s the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
Bullying power in general as well. Progressives have been too soft on liberals too and always let them run the show. But the reality is it’s always harder to rally people when things seem to be going ok and the crisis is muffled rather than blatantly obvious. Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn’t wait until it does. Anyway, hope something meaningful comes of this resistance because this fascist stage is still a stage of neoliberalism, like that’s where the root cause is.
I know it’s not your point, but you really should go to the dentist regularly, not just when something hurts. Take care of your teeth and they’ll take care of you!
It’s definitely my point! That’s exactly why I used that analogy :)
We should tend to our teeth, our environment and our political environment as well — and they will, as you say, take care of us. The “cavities” in American politics started waaaay before Trump. Trump is when they reached the nerve. (I hope I said that correctly, ESL here.)
We did have a little part in this, but otoh he’s been playing that game for years on his platform, I don’t think it is what drove him out. Him blaming the Left is just - well, it’s what he would do isn’t it?
But now, even MAGA is against him. DOGE is such a blatant fuck-up on all levels, he probably doesn’t even want to do that anymore. It won’t bring his stock back up.
No, they aren’t. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he’s doing great work saving them money.
As I said, idiots.
Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don’t know truly know how much and he’d be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.
FINALLY!!! Someone who GETS IT!!!
I said something similar in November, and had my comment removed, after being downvoted.
Peaceful protests don’t work. Raging infernos do.
When an opponent doesn’t care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
I think the first step is to stop calling out disinformation when it’s against Drump and Co, let that shit ride
Indeed, we’re trying to win back our freedom, not medals for best behavior.
We all know Musk is lying. He doesn’t plan on leaving. There’s too much power.
What’s kind of amazing is that so many articles don’t point this out in the title or the first sentence. I really wonder why. When you know the person is a liar and they are in a situation like this, with a strong motive to lie, why in heck would you not make that the subject line?
Or, if you want to be polite about it, you could write a headline that says something like “Musk supposedly considering retiring, but actions speak louder than words”.
When it comes to Elon and Trump, what I assume is:
Whenever they say they are going to do something bad, it is the truth.
Whenever they say they are going to do something good, it is a lie.
Sadly that would open them up to accusations of libel/slander. (I’m not a lawyer)
I guess we’ll just have to think for ourselves
It’s far too late for that, Elon; we want your fucking head now.
Someone free Luigi. His work isn’t finished.
Kind of like the Doom Slayer.
nah, he has done enough. time for the rest to step up
