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.
He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
You can’t buy a likable personality.
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he’d simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.
That event didn’t make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Wouldn’t have changed at all.
That event didn’t change him at all, for fuck sake
I also wonder …… while it’s a safe bet that he didn’t change with that event, it was also one of the first times he strayed into something he knew nothing about to show his true nutbaggery. When he was talking about his companies, his products, that side of him didn’t really come out more did it really affect anyone outside his employees. That event made it clear the world was hanging on his every word and really shouldnt
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
Does he need help packing his shit?
BYEEEEEE!
I can’t wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
It’s up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We’ll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it’s up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn’t change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
He’s a vampire so only if he leaves during the daytime.
I don’t want to wait until he’s in a box. I want him to leave politics now.
And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.
As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.
He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.
Seems odd to imply he is concerned about the legal exposure of being a federal employee but willing to maintain illegal access to government data.
I don’t think he cares one lick about legal exposure. Others are just pushing back against what he wants to do, and he doesn’t like obstacles.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn’t want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He’s probably going to ‘officially’ bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
This is just posturing to make people feel like we’re not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
Alternate title:
“Scumbag musk has got all the info he needs from all the government servers. Now he’s going to distance himself from everything then use that info as blackmail, or sell to Russia etc etc.”Primary goal was to neuter and disarm any agency that was actively investigating him, or had the authority to investigate him in the future.
The stolen data was just a happy little side dish he came into, that I’m sure isnt totally already in Russias hands. Just like how government credentials and login information didnt immediately end up in Russia’s hands after Musks sham of an agency got a hold of them (it totally did)
He already gave himself backdoor access to everything. Don’t believe he’s really gone.
He’s gonna come back like a ransomware hacker, threatening to delete whole systems unless he gets what he wants.
If there were still good people in charge we could make sure they unplug all the star link antennas around DC. But it might be too late for that.
Exactly he’s already accomplished what he wanted to do
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Please, continue <Willy Wonka leaning on his hand, smiling>
More than 100 upvotes and 0 downvotes, removed by mod? Why are mods bootlicking Elonazi?
I checked the modlog, they used the r slur in their otherwise on-point rant.
Encore! Encore!
Reminds of the rant about the boss in Christmas Vacation. Do you need a Tylenol?
♫ I wouldn’t touch you with a - thirty-nine-and-a-half foot poooole! ♫
Okay, but how do you really feel?
Too late buddy, you will never extricate yourself from what you’ve done here and it will haunt you for the rest of your miserable life.
Still hope your businesses all get destroyed.
Until Trump and friends give him inside trading advice, they will. (Allegedly)
They already did de facto insider trading advice when the Mango Mussolini posted “this is a great time to buy” on Truth Social hours before pausing his stupid tariffs.
That cesspit is TECHNICALLY publicly available, but apart from a few journalists with the shittiest assignment ever, the only people likely to be there at 9:37am are members of his cult and adjacent sickos.
Besides, even if it’s not insider trading, it’s one of the most blatant examples of deliberate market manipulation ever, which is also illegal.
Insider traders are picking the bones of the 401K folks. Best move you money into an IRA where you can go with the flow, as in buy in low the sell on the manipulated highs.
Plus there’s the possible benefit of Northern Ireland getting to rejoin the EU 😉
We aren’t letting up. Musk is hated, like every Nazi.
I wish.
He’s running because Trump is getting tired of him and he achieved his strategic goals of removing business regulation hurdles.
Blaming attacks from the left makes him look like a victim and play up the “evil leftists” angle so they can attack them more, while giving him a “safe” out.
