Summary
Elon Musk denied reports that he plans to step down from his role as a special government employee, calling them “fake news.”
The White House and Musk both rejected claims he would leave at the end of his 130-day term on May 30.
DOGE has faced backlash for rapidly dismantling federal agencies and cutting tens of thousands of jobs, prompting lawsuits and threats against Musk’s team.
Good. Stay the shitface for people getting fired and social security and medical payments being withheld. May Teslas stock drop to zero.
this is excellent news.
the public already hates him. and by wrapping his arms fully around the republicans the people will hate them both even more.
Well yea, he won’t step off. He will get pushed off by the other sycophants. He failed, lost favor with the King so the other courtiers will push him aside. US government now has the same political system as a Medieval Kingdom.
He didn’t fall, he did all the stuff Republicans really wanted to do but knew they’d be punished for electorally. If they push him out before the midterms and blame him for everything, they could limit the electoral damage by escaping responsibility. He’d be happy to take on the role of scape goat.
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All except this part
He’d be happy to take on the role of scape goat.
I think he underestimated how much everyone would hate him. He’s used to suck ups after all.
To cut those kings and peasants some slack, medieval kingdoms weren’t nearly as centralized and Kings didn’t have nearly as much power or leeway as the American President. You’re probably thinking of absolute monarchy in the modern age.
Yeah. I guess it’s closer to Louis XIVs court, just with less shitting in the hallways. Hopefully.
with less shitting in the hallways
I’d say that DEPENDS on a certain point of view…
haha this is the bold “I got shit on trump and willing to spill it if I’m told to leave” we were waiting for. Go on. … tell us what it is you’re ‘hiding’ so well.
Nah, it’s just a rumor started most likely by Musk himself. Pretty sure it was a ploy to halt the Tesla stock sell offs. It started around the same time another rumor that the Tesla board was going to ask him to step down.
It’s the same trick trump was doing his last term, lie to publishers and then accuse them of not being trustworthy for printing unsubstantiated rumors.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
This piece of shit fears for his life already and is still going.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until their graves become public urinals.
So as a thought experiment, if he does get pushed out by Trump then he’ll have been rejected by the right and the left. What in the world would the world’s richest man do at that point to redeem himself in his eyes? Any chance we can inception him to go to war against oil or something positive like that?
He could go buy a small country or something
Maybe go back to South Africa and buy the Apartheid back.
Considering USAID was instrumental in the ending of Apartheid, it would not surprise me if that’s part of his plan already.
Nah, the tariffs there are crazy
The only people who care about that shit are common folk. Tesla is still doing well because those who care about money still think he’s a tech genius that will invent the next great idea - robots, AGI, space colonies - and investing in/high evaluations of Tesla is investing in Elon.
Elon’s feelings might be hurt if commoners reject him, but he’s still going to have plenty of friends and opportunities. Once you’re wealthy, your social circle stops being about other personal values and become entirely about money and power. Which he still has plenty of.
He’ll still have plenty of friends, but he obviously feels the need to be in the public spotlight. He could easily retreat into a private life and have a great time for the rest of his life but I don’t think he’ll do that.
Fall guy convinced he won’t be used as fall guy.
Since the moment this fuck cozied up with the Soiled-Diaper-Tiny-Handed Rapist, everyone predicted it was just a matter of time before this ran its course.
Power is never relinquished willingly.
“Fake news” lol it’s what his buddy Trump is telling staffers, seems like maybe he should have a talk
well yeah. the fake news is from them. trump implying to try to have cake and eat it to again.
Lol, they were doing damage control, and Elon accidentally exposed yet another lie.
I, for one, support Musk and Trump using their respective cudgels of capital and government to beat one another bloody.
If we’re going to burn, and it looks like we absolutely will, why not have a little entertainment?
Concerning.
Even if he did, damage done.
