Will Musk be the next Trump?

[Tero]

Musk and science
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... um=bluesky

[Tero]

Musk and his DOGGIE

Musk said in private talks with lawmakers who are experiencing blowback from constituents angry over the firings of thousands of federal workers, including military veterans, that such decisions are left to the various federal agencies, the Associated Press reported.

Despite copious evidence that Musk has acted as if he has the authority to fire federal workers, the representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, who leads the House Republicans’ campaign arm, said on Thursday: “Elon doesn’t fire people.”

“He doesn’t have hiring and firing authority,” Hudson said after a meeting with Musk over pizza in the basement of the US Capitol in Washington DC. “The president’s empowered him to go uncover this information, that’s it.”

That came as Trump told his cabinet that Musk’s authority lay in making recommendations to departments about staffing, not making unilateral decisions on that, Politico reported.

The new Trump administration created and then expanded the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge) and put the unelected Musk in charge of it, with a mandate to slash jobs and costs across the federal government despite critics’ outcry about a growing US oligarchy.

Trump reiterated earlier this week in a joint address to Congress that Musk was the head of Doge, which was quickly introduced as evidence in one lawsuit against the job cutting, and despite recent claims to the contrary from Musk and the administration.
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“If they can cut, it’s better. And if they don’t cut, then Elon will do the cutting,” Trump said.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... rs-firings

[Tero]

They say his penis is ruined from extension surgery.

[Tero]

Musk can almost declare victory. If Trump does not interfere, Musk is king:

The former Maryland governor predicted a meltdown could occur within 90 days, though other employees and experts were unsure of the timing even as they agreed the risk exists.

“Everything they’re doing is driving this agency to system collapse,” O’Malley said of Social Security’s new management. “It will lead to interruptions in service, and that will ultimately cascade into more frequent system interruptions for the processing of claims, ultimately leading to system collapse and eventually the interruption of benefits.”

...the overhaul lacks strategic planning, which could have serious ramifications for an agency that has never missed a benefits payment in its 90-year history, according to advocates and employees CNN interviewed. The focus is on swiftly shrinking Social Security’s staff with little thought given to making it function more efficiently or transferring the knowledge of those who depart, several said.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/08/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Jeff Brown, a professor of finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told us, “Elon’s 394 million is not the number of people receiving benefits. It is the number of people with Social Security numbers.”
https://www.threads.net/@whitaker_vicki ... P11KsGcdXw

[Tero]

[Sean Hayden]

It really makes you appreciate serious people, and just how much of our success is owed to the kind of individuals who ran the show till now. All the writing and agreements in the world can’t save us from idiots who don’t understand or fear their responsibilities.

[Svartalf]

You still have enough nukes to save you from comrades putin and xi together

[Sean Hayden]

I’m pretty sure we all lose that one.

[Tero]

Musk all done throwing out the 150-year olds. Now raiding the actual funds.
https://www.threads.net/@elaineroberts2 ... 9we07W0bFQ

[Tero]

And...now what?

[Tero]

Musk= White Kanye
https://bsky.app/profile/larrytenney.bs ... xu2pwxac2q

[NineBerry]

Besuchen Sie Europa, solange es noch steht

[Svartalf]

but will it stand long with its former principal ally and main trade partner being reduced to the status of fascistic dictatorship and soon 3rd world country?

There's little to make me more ill at east than a 3rd world dictatorship still owning the biggest arsenal in the world, including enough nukes to lose WW3 for all mankind.

[Tero]

Trump calls Tesla boycott 'illegal' and says he's buying one to support Elon Musk
Story by Alex Harring • 3h • 2 min read

MSN

I hope he uses TrumpCoin to pay for it.