lol honestly, I’m just amused that the whole leak-palooza of the first term is just ramping up even harder this time
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"Leave" from public view. That is all people on the right ask of Musk. They are okay with his interference and interventions. He just makes himself too much of a target by being publicly visible.
You can't be the shadow government when you're exposed to sunlight. Then again, the brain behind the entire operation never stepped out of the shadows and will remain there. Peter Thiel.
It should be common knowledge that Thiel wrote the actual manual for all of this shit as far back as 2009. The Education of a Libertarian, ironically enough. He really believes in his own bullshit, too.
Will you go with him? Please go with him.
Honestly, I hope Musk throws a temper tantrum and just starts leaking shit like crazy. He's unstable and unhinged enough that I wouldn't put it past him, especially since he basically paid for this election.
Yeah, I hope that plays out too, and it's never out of the question with how unhinged and drugged up Musk is, but unfortunately I think this is less Musk stepping back for real and more of a bullshit PR move to get some of the heat off of Trump and Elon both -
The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.
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One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump’s orbit is “fooling themselves.”
The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee,” a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.
Maybe we can convince Musk that we'd all find him really cool and based if he did that
Musk will not be able to handle losing the spotlight
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A "special Government employee" (or "SGE") is an officer or employee in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government who is appointed to perform important [...] for a period not to exceed 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days.
https://www.doi.gov/ethics/special-government-employees
May 30th is 130 days from Jan 20th.
They can just declare that the passage of time has stopped, like they did for the national security exemption allowed by for the tariffs.
Well, considering that pretty much everything he says is a lie, I'm going to assume that Elon will be around for a long time.
Elon thinking leaving now will change public opinion of him.
Nah bro, I wouldn't even piss on you if you were somehow on fire.
If he were on fire I'd love to fan the flames. What a story for my grandkids that would be.
Hm... Is his mouth open? I could be convinced to shart in his general direction.
President Musk won't go away voluntarily.
Emperor Musk
Leave soon ... to Mars hopefully?
Or the center of the sun.
It takes ~55 times more energy to go to the Sun than to Mars. Let's not expend resources carelessly.
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... and increasingly view the billionaire as a political liability, a dynamic that was thrown into stark relief Tuesday when a conservative judge Musk vocally supported lost his bid for a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat by 10 points.
Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?
Will the real suckers and losers, please stand up?
Or at least would the real suckers and losers please shut up? They're always the loudest and dumbest in any space, and it's as if they stopped talking for even a second, they might actually have a critical thought (and that terrifies them).
Because trump hates loser. Trump puts the wisconsin election blame solely on him and that's it.
Are they finally deporting that filthy African Nazi swine back to Africa? Please let it be that he’s being deported back. Fuck Musk 🖕
MFW Musk steps back, but Project 2025 continues as planned.
That's what I'm expecting. They aren't going to fix what Musk broke and they are going ahead with tarrifs, which wasn't Musk led.
I'm guessing that DOGE will also continue cutting funding left and right without Musk at the helm. Nothing changes with him stepping back.
God they're going to say everything people are angry about was Musks fault and try to shift the blame.
Probably but musk actually needs to go away, first.
Skum has got to be hearing from his board and shareholders. I would be shocked if there aren't lawyers currently arranging a class-action lawsuit against him, for recklessly tanking the stock price, and the board of directors for not reigning him on or firing him.
The decline of the stock and the company brand image is DIRECTLY attributable to his personal behavior. Any idiot could have predicted the harsh negative response to his gleeful pyschopathic antics, and as a supposed genius, he should have known this.
Its already too late for Tesla. It was one of those magical stocks that was far too expensive for its fundamentals, and now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. Tesla is now just another unprofitable experimental car company, and like all that have come before, it will go bankrupt in a few years.
Skum is directly responsible for that, and his net worth will suffer greatly for it. Even more unfortunately for him, the net worth of his shareholders will also suffer, and they will eventually want to take it out of his hide. Tesla will be the first to go, but eventually all of his companies will tank. Its just a matter of time.
All he has to do is step back. People have short memories. He has enough wealth to weather it until people forget and start buying Tesla again, especially if Trump keeps throwing him contracts to keep up the stock for a year. I wish there was better news, but unless sales flat out stop and the stock crashes, he wins. And the board will kick him and say “see, it’s fine now”, pushing aside the fact that his whole wealth is based on the stock, so even if he’s out, he benefits. That said, could he leave Tesla without the stock cratering? So maybe there’s a way he’s held accountable. But sadly, I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I can only get so erect
Not shocking, although it was quicker than I expected. I was thinking more towards the end of the year once he got everything he wanted, but I think he is taking too much heat even for his comfort.
The only enjoyable part is knowing that the people can make it bad enough that they will leave.
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He also said Musk wasn't in charge...
https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-doge-white-house-layoffs-0fcdbb692717c63203ef971cb9807b35
Now he can focus on driving his companies into the ground.
Porque no los dos?
The pressure is working keep it up
You mean Trump and Musk are getting divorced?
It's downright shocking that a man that rich doesn't know a fall guy when he sees one.
Like how bannon left?
Like how Epstine left?
I don’t think we’ll be so lucky.
Yeah, it TOTALLY doesn't have anything to do with him getting caught tripping balls on camera right next to his lady friend at the White House table who was so disassociated that the poor girl couldn't stop stimming.
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I kind of doubt this. I think he's taking a step back. Shrinking into the Shadows Maybe. But I doubt that much money is being abandoned by Trump. And even if musk does step back all of his cronies are still working. I'll bet dollars to Donuts that the Trump Administration is still going to do what musk wants them to do. It was a true break it wouldn't be planned. It'd be abrupt and messy.
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Flush twice, don't want that turd coming back
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