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Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:06 AM Wednesday

A-Hole in a K-Hole: Musk Throws an Epic Self-Pity Party About Everyone Being Mean to Him

Musk Throws an Epic Self-Pity Party About Everyone Being Mean to Him

https://www.thedailybeast.com/musk-throws-an-epic-self-pity-party-about-everyone-being-mean-to-him/

After calling out President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” for undermining the work of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency—which Trump tasked with culling thousands of workers from the federal government—the Tesla billionaire is also claiming that his task force is being unfairly blamed for the failings of others.

“DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” Musk told The Washington Post. “So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”

“People were burning Teslas,” Musk told the Post. “Why would you do that? That’s really uncool.”

“The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized,” he said. “I thought there were problems, but it sure is an uphill battle trying to improve things in D.C., to say the least.”

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A-Hole in a K-Hole: Musk Throws an Epic Self-Pity Party About Everyone Being Mean to Him (Original Post) Miles Archer Wednesday OP
Lol EarlG Wednesday #1
100% spot-on Miles Archer Wednesday #7
Whiny Baby ProfessorGAC Wednesday #2
"People hate me because I'm rich and so much smarter than they are!" tanyev Wednesday #3
A key line from one of Trump's insiders, speaking "anonymously"... Miles Archer Wednesday #8
What's really uncool is firing tens of thousands of civil servants, with no idea what they really do. Swede Wednesday #4
A plain, cold, hard, simple fact...Musk does not understand how our government works. Miles Archer Wednesday #10
Keep up the pressure on this a-hole, the protests are working, Tesla sales are way down, let's keep it that way! Blues Heron Wednesday #5
If burning a Tesla is 'uncool;, what is disrupting tens of thousands of lives by firing useful, needed people and ... marble falls Wednesday #6
Yeah, and what happened to "Empathy is the fundamental weakness of Western Society" thing? Miles Archer Wednesday #11
You're right! He's begging for our empathy!!! marble falls Wednesday #12
He will Rebl2 Wednesday #21
Or launching rockets prone to RUD over the Gulf of Mexico Retrograde Wednesday #18
Whiny little quarter brained baby UpInArms Wednesday #9
The useful idiot got his 15 minutes of fame and relieved of some of his money and now he's sad. 😎 Deuxcents Wednesday #13
Maye Musk makes my skin crawl Miles Archer Wednesday #14
This message was self-deleted by its author Midnight Writer Wednesday #15
So Elon.... Quanto Magnus Wednesday #16
I despise people who dish it out but can't take it. Doc_Technical Wednesday #17
"Uncool" ?? Haggis 4 Breakfast Wednesday #19
Fetch me Rebl2 Wednesday #20
Looking forward to the "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of Musk's career. Paladin Wednesday #22

EarlG

(22,943 posts)
1. Lol
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:10 AM
Wednesday

So-called genius finally figures out why Trump hired him in the first place:

“DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,” Musk told The Washington Post. “So, like, something bad would happen anywhere, and we would get blamed for it even if we had nothing to do with it.”

Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
7. 100% spot-on
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:20 AM
Wednesday

Trump ALWAYS has a scapegoat as a backup plan, the "coffee boy," someone he never met or never knew, like all of those Project 2025 guys who were complete strangers to him and 5 minutes after he was elected, they mysteriously all got gigs in his cabinet.

ProfessorGAC

(72,847 posts)
2. Whiny Baby
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:10 AM
Wednesday

Would that he not gotten lucky on PayPal. If not for that, we probably would have never heard of them

tanyev

(46,521 posts)
3. "People hate me because I'm rich and so much smarter than they are!"
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:10 AM
Wednesday



I bet his mommy actually told him that many times.

Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
8. A key line from one of Trump's insiders, speaking "anonymously"...
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:23 AM
Wednesday

This came maybe within a week of Musk taking himself out of the spotlight, right around the time that he was in one of Trump's cabinet meetings and Trump said "Elon probably wants to get back to his cars"...

The person who spoke with reporters said that when Musk would go into those meetings with his silly hats and props and do his Ketamine Kourt Jester routine, no one would respond, no one would laugh, and then Musk would sit there and pout.

He shares more than a few character flaws with Trump.

Swede

(36,297 posts)
4. What's really uncool is firing tens of thousands of civil servants, with no idea what they really do.
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:13 AM
Wednesday

Like a game of jenga, which block of employees will bring the whole thing down.

Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
10. A plain, cold, hard, simple fact...Musk does not understand how our government works.
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:29 AM
Wednesday

ON PAPER...MINUS Republicans, Musk, and his little boy hacker goons...let's say a President Obama or President Biden wanted to form a task force to "identify and eliminate wasteful government spending."

IF either of those two gentlemen VETTED qualified personnel (rather than a sketchy dude who calls himself "Big Balls&quot ...IF there was a CLEAR written agenda...IF it all went through Congress to make sure it was Kosher...sure, there could POTENTIALLY be value in that.

But getting blazed on Ketamine and swinging a chainsaw and just DISPOSING of employees without understanding why they were there in the first place, and demanding that ridiculous "three things you accomplished this week" email?

Musk assumed that his stupid antics at the Twitter offices on "Day 1" would scale to the Federal Government.

He was wrong.

Blues Heron

(7,032 posts)
5. Keep up the pressure on this a-hole, the protests are working, Tesla sales are way down, let's keep it that way!
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:14 AM
Wednesday

Tesla takedowns every Saturday at a showroom near you! Get out there and make some noise to remind people how evil this drugged out freak is!

marble falls

(65,646 posts)
6. If burning a Tesla is 'uncool;, what is disrupting tens of thousands of lives by firing useful, needed people and ...
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:15 AM
Wednesday

... then being forced to rehire many of them?

Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
11. Yeah, and what happened to "Empathy is the fundamental weakness of Western Society" thing?
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:31 AM
Wednesday

For a guy who touts indifference to his fellow man, he sure wants a cookie and a glass of milk.

Retrograde

(11,113 posts)
18. Or launching rockets prone to RUD over the Gulf of Mexico
Wed May 28, 2025, 02:28 PM
Wednesday

(RUD= Rapid Unplanned Disassembly) and disrupting air travel in the area. There's a reason NASA launches rockets from the east coast of Florida and out over the uninhabited part of the Atlantic - and the Europeans launch from French Guiana for the same reason.

UpInArms

(52,825 posts)
9. Whiny little quarter brained baby
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:24 AM
Wednesday

Please get deported and never allowed back into my country

Deuxcents

(22,368 posts)
13. The useful idiot got his 15 minutes of fame and relieved of some of his money and now he's sad. 😎
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:41 AM
Wednesday

This is all self inflicted so it’s a one man pity party unless he invites mom

Miles Archer

(19,411 posts)
14. Maye Musk makes my skin crawl
Wed May 28, 2025, 09:49 AM
Wednesday

And I have seen at least one "press opportunity" she took in which she demanded that the big bad meanies leave her precious little boo boo alone.

Even Melania Trump isn't that bad with her Damien the Omen son, Barron.

Response to Miles Archer (Original post)

Quanto Magnus

(1,126 posts)
16. So Elon....
Wed May 28, 2025, 12:18 PM
Wednesday

why would you cut kids cancer research? Why would you do that? That's really uncool....

Seems like people are treating you like you have been treating them.

Haggis 4 Breakfast

(1,459 posts)
19. "Uncool" ??
Wed May 28, 2025, 04:18 PM
Wednesday

elon wouldn't know what "cool" was if it was gift wrapped in gold and shoved up his . . .

Paladin

(30,530 posts)
22. Looking forward to the "rapid unscheduled disassembly" of Musk's career.
Wed May 28, 2025, 04:29 PM
Wednesday

Can't happen soon enough to suit me...

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