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.
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.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
He’s a vampire so he only if he leaves during the daytime.
Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.
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
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.Trump can do whatever he wants. The Supreme Court said so, Congress won’t complain, and he has already completed the first round of purges of the executive branch.
He could declare a horse his co-consul and the only downside would be some snarky mentions in some histories written by the senatorial classes.
Consequences? Me? But I’m rich and cool!
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.
Politics is a form of negotiation with other elements of leadership to make a nation’s major policy decisions.
Musk, you never DID get involved in politics. You hired a private army and got involved in criminal intimidation.
Keep up the bullying, it’s working.
Fuck this guy forever.
“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…”
OR…hear me out…Trump is sick of him and wants him gone (because two egos that large cannot coexist in the same space indefinitely) and this is the cover story.
OR…Elon has already accomplished 99.9% of what he wanted by gaining access to all the data he wanted and further embedding SpaceX, Starlink, etc., into government contracts.
OR…some mix of all of the above.
Damage done. It’s not even good news at this point.
what will they rename DOGE to
Fucking Elon’s Chainsawing of Everyone’s Shit.
CAT-E
Facts don’t care about your feelings.
We did it Lemmy
