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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] 80 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro mistook a bunch of Russian bots praising him in his echo chamber as real people.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Hope he distances himself all the way to mars. He should try a ride in the next starship launch.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What a fucking PUSSY lmfao. Guess all that Ketamine didn't """expand""" his mind after all.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (11 children)

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...

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

Exactly. He's fucked over countless veterans with military training and most likely a shitload of guns and ammo. Good fuckin luck bud .

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago

Let us pray that the patron saint Luigi watches over him night and day.

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[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 week ago

kids, this is called gaslighting.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Time for stage two of the plan: shift the blame to the young nobody scapegoats.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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

The exception that proves the rule

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.)

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

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.

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

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

It's all him. He's the president

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

Maybe he got wind of Luigi's brother Mario, and now wants to back out of the spotlight.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Liar liar pants on fire.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

He only wanted to kill investigations against himself and adjust some contracts.

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

Pepperidge Farm will ALWAYS remember naziboi.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I couldn't figure out what this meant and was going to ask, until I scrolled up past the picture I clearly just scrolled by without looking at.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We really need to stop with the threats. It's not helping.

We need to start chopping off heads ASAP.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ah, our Lord and saviour... The guillotine.

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

Sing! Swing! Savor the sting!

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