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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 Trumps Big Beautiful Bill for undermining the work of his so-called Department of Government Efficiencywhich Trump tasked with culling thousands of workers from the federal governmentthe 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? Thats 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.

EarlG
(22,943 posts)So-called genius finally figures out why Trump hired him in the first place:

Miles Archer
(19,411 posts)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)Would that he not gotten lucky on PayPal. If not for that, we probably would have never heard of them
tanyev
(46,521 posts)
I bet his mommy actually told him that many times.
Miles Archer
(19,411 posts)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)Like a game of jenga, which block of employees will bring the whole thing down.
Miles Archer
(19,411 posts)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" ...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)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)... then being forced to rehire many of them?
Miles Archer
(19,411 posts)For a guy who touts indifference to his fellow man, he sure wants a cookie and a glass of milk.
marble falls
(65,646 posts)Rebl2
(16,404 posts)get 0 from my family and me.
Retrograde
(11,113 posts)(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)Please get deported and never allowed back into my country
Deuxcents
(22,368 posts)This is all self inflicted so its a one man pity party unless he invites mom
Miles Archer
(19,411 posts)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.
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Quanto Magnus
(1,126 posts)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.
Doc_Technical
(3,674 posts)Haggis 4 Breakfast
(1,459 posts)elon wouldn't know what "cool" was if it was gift wrapped in gold and shoved up his . . .
Rebl2
(16,404 posts)my violin 🎻
Paladin
(30,530 posts)Can't happen soon enough to suit me...