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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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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Too fucking bad, shitstick. When the ship sinks I hope he's chained to the fucking mast.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I upvoted because this isn't reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

The government isn't the place to run "scream tests."

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Hahaha after walking around a stage in front of thousands of people at CPAC carrying a fucking chainsaw.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Aww, he's so modest, isn't he?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

motherfucker threw the bat in the woodchipper

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And it was an aluminum bat.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The Le epic meme agency totally isn’t mine guys. 🤣

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hard to distance yourself from something so massive

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Easy! Trump can start a 3-day "Special Military Operation" to distract people from Musked Doge.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just pick a random military general in the Middle East to assassinate.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

These people with all the capital are fucking morons.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

He should be ~~fired~~ drawn and quartered on live national television for crimes against humanity and the Republic.

Ftfy

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