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Elon Musk's bromance with Donald Trump appears to sour (www.newsweek.com)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"He's finished, done, gone. He polls terrible. People hate him," an anonymous source close to the Republican Party told Politico. "He'd go to Wisconsin thinking he can buy people's votes, wear the cheese hat, act like a 9-year-old. … It doesn't work. It's offensive to people."

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Or, he's trying to distance himself by using the media. Like how he usually will make false statements to gain attention to Doge Coin or the boring company and all the other companies he tries to get attention for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Anyone believing this is a fucking idiot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

He’s just now figuring out he’s disposable. “Brilliant business man” gets fucked over by sundowning Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Terrible

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Nah, it's all an act. Polls show that HitlerPig's numbers are slipping, so they are blaming his associations with Skum and Putin, so he is talking them down right now. It must be them, right? Everybody would love HitlerPig if those other guys were out of the picture.

Now that he's disavowed Skum and Putin, his numbers will certainly go up. That's what they're thinking.

It won't work. Everybody hates him.

[+] [email protected] -36 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I supported DOGE's mission to cut federal spending and honestly I think DOGE was the last chance to save our Republic. The fact is the USA is a late-stage Republic and with every multi-trillion dollar spending bill we are witnessing the end of the Republic. Trump's "big beautiful bill" is going to cost 3.8 trillion dollars. Remember the COVID inflation? It's about to get even worse than that. Every new spending bill is bigger than the last, and pushes us deeper into the death spiral of hyperinflation. We are following in the same footsteps of every failed Republic before us. The Romans debased their currency, the Weimar Republic tried to print their way out. We are next.

I see a lot of left-wingers comparing this administration to Palpatine in star wars. What if I told you DOGE was the last effort to avoid a Palpatine scenario?

There are too many cronies in Washington DC. Too many entitled people who think they deserve wealth and power, who stuff our spending bills full of pork. The spending will be cut, but we had a choice. We could choose to cut spending willingly and preserve the current system, or we could go full steam ahead into hyperinflation and destroy the system, resulting in the collapse of the dollar. DOGE wanted the fed to cut spending willingly. Musk wanted to preserve the system. Now we will realize the alternative.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

DOGE is nothing but a money funneling operation of your tax dollars directly to the wealthy while it weakens and destroys the institutios keeping this country afloat. It's the exact same in motivation as the "Big Beautiful Bill" that shit stain you voted for put out. Good job guzzling bullshit and pretending it's intellect juice.

[+] [email protected] -15 points 3 days ago (4 children)

It actually did find over 11 million social security recipients aged over 120 years old. Cutting this obvious fraud - which is systemic fraud at this scale - saved social security over 500 billion dollars a year.

DOGE has been a blessing from God and is long overdue. Unfortunately the corruption is too great. The loss of DOGE means there's only one way this will all end. The same way every other failed Republic ended.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You need to get your news from better sources. You're believing and repeating lies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Congratulations, they played you for a fucking idiot and landed you hook, line, and sinker.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

No, no they did not. Stop listening to Breitbart:

https://apnews.com/article/social-security-payments-deceased-false-claims-doge-ed2885f5769f368853ac3615b4852cf7

"Part of the confusion comes from Social Security’s software system based on the COBOL programming language, which has a lack of date type. This means that some entries with missing or incomplete birthdates will default to a reference point of more than 150 years ago. The news organization WIRED first reported on the use of COBOL programming language at the Social Security Administration.

Additionally, a series of reports from the Social Security Administration’s inspector general in March 2023 and July 2024 state that the agency has not established a new system to properly annotate death information in its database, which included roughly 18.9 million Social Security numbers of people born in 1920 or earlier but were not marked as deceased. This does not mean, however, that these individuals were receiving benefits.

The agency decided not to update the database because of the cost to do so, which would run upward of $9 million.

A July 2023 Social Security OIG report states that “almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments.” And, as of September 2015, the agency automatically stops payments to people who are older than 115 years old."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

😂😅

Oh man, my guy, you gotta mail someone a picture of your face so you can be made the poster boy of the failed American state.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Mmmmm! That leaded flavor-aid is delicious!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

LOL - What if I told you that is not DOGE's mission and it never was?

The whole point of DOGE was to make federal employees AFRAID. That's it, and in that, and only that, they have been supremely effective:

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2025/06/federal-workers-manage-uncertainty

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5304255/federal-workers-fired-mental-health

https://theconversation.com/trumps-moves-to-strip-employment-protections-from-federal-workers-threaten-to-make-government-function-worse-not-better-248086

This has been the stated purpose from the beginning. If you believe otherwise, then you missed them telling you this:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” Vought said in a video revealed by ProPublica and the research group Documented in October. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down … We want to put them in trauma.”

As always, the cruelty is the point. It's NEVER been about efficiency.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Well TBF, I think they also existed to cover up the money that was being stolen to pour into these AI data centers, but disguise that missing money as "savings." Pretty sure they thought they would be able to make so much money so quickly, that they would just be able to replace it before anyone realized all of those "savings" numbers were just bullshit.

Not that they ever planned to actually bring any of the jobs back, but likely thought they could replace the money that was stolen and then just automate those jobs anyway bc AI is apparently magic

[+] [email protected] -18 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You didn't link anything that disproves DOGE's mission. The reason for the wasteful spending is because of corrupt government officials. In order to cut spending, you have to deal with the cronies who are behind that wasteful spending.

Like every failed Republic before, we're on train tracks. We know how this all ends. Whether you like it or not, DOGE was the last chance to save the system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You'll notice while they supposedly found all kinds of corruption, no one has been arrested or prosecuted... no one. All the supposed graft that was US AID, but no arrests. It wasn't full of corruption as we were told. The White House certainly is though.

The mission was to isolate and break America's ties with allies and to get anti-Trumpers out of the Federal government, and DOGE was pretty successful with it's part in that.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They found corruption but the government is so completely corrupt that it's protecting the criminals. It's not that DOGE is irrelevant, it's like David standing against an army of one million Goliaths with just three stones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Comparing a liar, rapist and morally bankrupt person - all of which you have evidence of, as did the juries - to David shows just how corrupt your mind is as well. "I never knew you"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Again, it's not about spending and never has been. It's about making people afraid. Pay attention when they tell you this, if you buy the lies then you are complicit:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/10/who-is-russell-vought-trump-office-of-management-and-budget

Cutting the funding is how they make people afraid. It's the tool, not the goal.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

why do i still see the scumrat sucking around the Whitehouse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

They want him to take a out of the limelight approach I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Wonder if elon still calls?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Appears

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I hope he gets sued to high hell and Trump refuses any pardons or support and Elon legitimately ends up in prison.

Or he gets cancer.

Or he overdoses.

IDGAF at this point, he needs to end and Tesla needs to collapse.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Trump, Musk, Putin, Netanyahu, etc are symptoms of a disease. We need to treat the cause or a new douchebag will simply fill the void.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I can think of like a dozen people who need to go away and never be heard from again. Elon is just another grifter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

So he was really "fired" or asked to leave DOGE.

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This looks like it was either made in the 2020s or early 2000s no in-between.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

This is what it felt like, living from the early 2000s to the 2020s.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dont believe in Eloj. Still a Nazi. Picture probably for all show. Avoid Tesla at all cost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Also SpaceX. Fuck SpaceX - that actually hurts me to type, but yeah fuck 'em. Their employees should all go work for a competitor.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Did he beat the cabbage?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (2 children)

he polls terribly? HE'S NOT AN ELECTED OFFICIAL. How the fuck does he poll?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

You can create a poll for anything?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

You can poll anything, you just need money to run a poll and people to answer.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

They're both shitcunts with massive egos, I knew it wouldn't be long before there was a rift

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