Will Musk be the next Trump?

[Tero]

How long can shadow president Musk hide?

brittainforsenate
4m4 minutes ago
Rep. Dan Goldman hurt Elon Musk's feelings, so he called him a "liar." It seems to me the one who is lying is the one actively trying to avoid appearing to testify in Congress under oath.
https://www.threads.net/@brittainforsen ... asZ82iHwkg

[Tero]

brittainforsenate
20h20 hours ago
Adrian Dittmann, the alter ego of Elon Musk, returned to hosting his voice chats last night and began instantly ranting, because DOGE isn't going well at all. He strongly implied that Trump made him a bunch of promises and failed to uphold his end of the deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maia_arso ... estigation

[Tero]

No drug tests for Musk and pals. Only..Musk himself has to show up to get them in.

Doge has not released any detailed account of who is working at the unofficial agency, and Musk, along with other staff, is technically a “special government employee”, which allows him and others to evade ethics and financial disclosures that would normally apply to government workers. The Doge team has taken steps to avoid public scrutiny, including limiting their online footprints.

As hundreds of employees were put on administrative leave at USAid, several sources told the Guardian that Musk was directing Doge’s day-to-day operations personally.

“This was just the Doge dudes just literally on the phone with Musk just getting directions from him,” one USAid employee said.

“They work, actually, out of the White House,” Trump said. “They’re smart people.”

A Doge spokesperson did not respond to a list of questions concerning its staff and operations.

Steve Davis: Davis has worked for Musk in different capacities for about 20 years and is president of the tunnel-digging Boring Company. He was present on Saturday night at USAid when Doge staffers and agency security officials clashed over Musk’s team’s demands for access to restricted areas, multiple sources told the Guardian.

Another former Musk employee, Amanda Scales, worked at the billionaire’s artificial intelligence startup xAI before becoming chief of staff at the office of personnel management, which functions as the government’s human resources agency. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, the acting head of OPM instructed heads of agencies to send Scales a list of employees on probationary periods or administrative leave as the new administration seeks to make drastic cuts to the federal workforce.

Tom Krause, the CEO of the multibillion-dollar tech company Cloud Software Group, and a Musk ally, is now working within the treasury department.

The billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, who donated $2.5m to a pro-Trump political action committee and celebrated his re-election, told the New York Times last month that he was “helping Doge”. Andreessen did not go into detail on what his help entailed and said he was not speaking for Musk, but he appeared to have advance knowledge of Doge’s goals and told the Times it had plans for “the money side”, head count and regulation.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... team-staff

[Tero]

Musk Accidentally Takes Trump off Payroll
https://karireport.blogspot.com/2025/02 ... p-off.html

[Tero]

One of Musk's liutenants is shacked up in an agency, with wife and child. He is there to fire 50% of the staff.
https://www.threads.net/@saadia___m/pos ... O4R5dc_XbA

[Tero]

Elsewehre: (not my post, dasmiller)

-Elon says of Judge Engelmayer
@elonmusk
A corrupt judge protecting corruption.
He needs to be impeached NOW!

-This supports my theory about what's happening. Trump & Co aren't doing a bunch of crazy stuff to distract and confuse the opposition. Instead, the crazy stuff is a way to identify those who aren't fully MAGA so that they can be purged and the system tweaked to avoid such problems in the future. Then do some more crazy stuff . . . and eventually the government will be fully compliant.

[JimC]

How protected are judges in the US? Can they be impeached or removed at the political whim of Trump and Musk? What happens if the White House cabal ignores a judicial ruling?

[Tero]

Judges are impeached on and off. Almost always for clear corruption.

[Svartalf]

Elsewehre: (not my post, dasmiller)

-Elon says of Judge Engelmayer

I don't remember that name for a Scotus judge, so I'll assume he's a circuit or federal appeals judge... am I correct?

[Brian Peacock]

How protected are judges in the US? Can they be impeached or removed at the political whim of Trump and Musk? What happens if the White House cabal ignores a judicial ruling?

Trump appointed the judge, so surely he can disappoint him too.

[Tero]

Elsewehre: (not my post, dasmiller)

-Elon says of Judge Engelmayer

I don't remember that name for a Scotus judge, so I'll assume he's a circuit or federal appeals judge... am I correct?

It is the one that last blocked Musk

[Svartalf]

Next question, can musk et al actually bypass or corrupt the legal procedures to get a justice out of their post on trumped up accusations?

[Tero]

Musk very proud to kill cancer research.
https://bsky.app/profile/mollyjongfast. ... r2r4dies2x
Those professors are enjoying...plumbing, hesting and...buildings at tax payer expense.

[Svartalf]

may he die soon from prostatic or testicular cancer

[Joe]

How protected are judges in the US? Can they be impeached or removed at the political whim of Trump and Musk? What happens if the White House cabal ignores a judicial ruling?

Trump appointed the judge, so surely he can disappoint him too.

Under the Constitution, Trump or Musk can't impeach and/or remove a judge. They would need help.

Impeachment can only be done in the House of Representatives by a simple majority vote, but that doesn't remove the judge. That happens after a trial in the Senate and requires a two thirds vote for conviction and removal. The standard for removing a judge is lower than for the President: "good behavior" versus "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors," so people have tried some pretty interesting things to get rid of judges in the past.

Also, the judge's pay can't be decreased while in office, which suggests they anticipated a petty cunt like Trump in that respect.

Of course, that's the legal method. Who knows what these nuts might try to get away with.