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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      No no, he wanted credit but now it makes him look bad so he’s pretending he never wanted it. But we all know the truth.

      You’re probably right about the boards and shareholders though. Assuming they even think about us at all.

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      Exactly. There is a way to do what they’re doing that isn’t so blatant and ham-fisted, but none of these fucking idiots have any tact or subtlety. Elon thought people would be cheering him on, instead we all want to see him, Trump, and all the other oligarchs hang all because he blew his load too early in the plan to destroy the government.

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    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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    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

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

      We need to start chopping off heads ASAP.

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    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…

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      He’s just paranoid. However the minorities that are at the receiving end of his racist hate speech, are justified to fear for their lives.

      One a pampered and spoiled trustfund brat fallen into drug induced paranoid hysteria. The other are millions of people he is defaming and scapegoating for his and his friends destruction of the country…who are actually in danger because the hatespeech on x and elswhere is encouraging violence against them.

      Stop being paranoid melon husk.

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      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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      Yeah, considering he paid for a role in a fascist administration that he pushed in a fascist direction and bought a propaganda outlet for he should be afraid for his life. He’s basically set himself up as a fall guy for a reconstruction government, especially if Trump keels over first.

      Franco’s life was under threat until the great assassin of time finally came for him. At which point his government fell.

      And I don’t feel sorry for him because I’m over here just living my life and he’s trying to get people to hurt me and people like me instead

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    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”.

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        That’s because you think of money and power as tools to live your life. They think of it as what percentage of the total they possess. They would gladly give life changing money to ensure they can decide how you live your life

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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      FIRED FROM WHAT

      For fuck sake I feel like I’ve lost my goddamn mind. They just let him do this shit.