Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
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.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-b2736753.htmlOpen linkView original on lemmy.world
Please, continue <Willy Wonka leaning on his hand, smiling>
Encore! Encore!
More than 100 upvotes and 0 downvotes, removed by mod? Why are mods bootlicking Elonazi?
I checked the modlog, they used the r slur in their otherwise on-point rant.
Reminds of the rant about the boss in Christmas Vacation. Do you need a Tylenol?
♫ I wouldn't touch you with a - thirty-nine-and-a-half foot poooole! ♫
Okay, but how do you really feel?
He already gave himself backdoor access to everything. Don't believe he's really gone.
He's gonna come back like a ransomware hacker, threatening to delete whole systems unless he gets what he wants.
If there were still good people in charge we could make sure they unplug all the star link antennas around DC. But it might be too late for that.
Exactly he's already accomplished what he wanted to do
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.
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
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
That event didn't make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
Still hope your businesses all get destroyed.
Until Trump and friends give him inside trading advice, they will. (Allegedly)
They already did de facto insider trading advice when the Mango Mussolini posted "this is a great time to buy" on Truth Social hours before pausing his stupid tariffs.
That cesspit is TECHNICALLY publicly available, but apart from a few journalists with the shittiest assignment ever, the only people likely to be there at 9:37am are members of his cult and adjacent sickos.
Besides, even if it's not insider trading, it's one of the most blatant examples of deliberate market manipulation ever, which is also illegal.
Insider traders are picking the bones of the 401K folks. Best move you money into an IRA where you can go with the flow, as in buy in low the sell on the manipulated highs.
Plus there's the possible benefit of Northern Ireland getting to rejoin the EU 😉
We aren't letting up. Musk is hated, like every Nazi.
Lots of people would like to "leave politics", as they find themselves under "vicious and unethical attacks" by politicians. However, those people's political existence was forced upon them, they didn't want to be a "political" object, especially not in the current landscape.
Musk instead took up his political role consciously, and used it to further attack and harm many who would prefer to be left in peace. He had the luxury to activate himself, commit far worse violence upon the people than he has been subjected to by the people, and when he realises he doesn't really like it, even though the issues he's facing are probably comparatively trivial, he (believes he) has the luxury to return to a more secluded, safe position.
It's really quite disgusting. And I fear he'll get away with it. But I am at least satisfied that his story (a supposed tech guru with his marketing bullshit and his comically immature behaviour) has damaged much of the aura of the modern technocapitalist elite.
"The left is attacking me."
[Gives Nazi salute.]
"Why are people attacking me? They must hate efficiency."
Don't forgot he's been just incredibly big headed, disrespectful, and an insufferable jag off to pretty much every single person that doesn't worship the ground he walks on. How someone can be that mean and rude to just about everyone, then call foul when people don't like him and STILL have people confused why so many people act negatively towards him is so damn annoying.
Alternate title:
"Scumbag musk has got all the info he needs from all the government servers. Now he's going to distance himself from everything then use that info as blackmail, or sell to Russia etc etc."
Primary goal was to neuter and disarm any agency that was actively investigating him, or had the authority to investigate him in the future.
The stolen data was just a happy little side dish he came into, that I'm sure isnt totally already in Russias hands. Just like how government credentials and login information didnt immediately end up in Russia's hands after Musks sham of an agency got a hold of them (it totally did)
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.
Wait, when did he enter into politics? All I see is him buying power?
Basically he wants to see the manager about making a return.
In fairness, that's the only way he's entered anything.
What a pussy.
Call yourself Dark Maga. Cry and run when the heat gets hot.
Pussy.
dork maga
I'm almost certain that he has been ordered by his board of directors to get back to work, or be removed as CEO of Tesla.
There is almost certainly a shareholder class-action suit brewing over his reckless and irresponsible behavior over the last several months, which has directly caused severe, and possibly irreparable, damage to the company's brand image AND it's sales around the world, as well as tanking the stock price, an unforgiveable sin in the investing world. Now that the bubble has popped, it will never inflate again. As future earnings reports are released, and sales continue to slide, the stock will continue to decline, and the cycle will continue until bankruptcy. And it is all traceable to Skum's self-indulgent, egotistical behavior.
The only question is will Skum be the only defendant, or will the lawsuit also name the individual members of the board, for not reigning him in, or firing him. They don't want to be sued alongside him, so they are forcing him to get back to work saving Tesla, thus letting them off the hook for legal liability.
Its doubtful Skum will be able to save Tesla at this point, its almost certainly too late. It is also probably too late to avoid a shareholder lawsuit. Investors have lost millions of dollars, not due to the vagaries of the market, but due to Skum's outrageous behavior, which, as CEO, he should have realized would damage his company and its investors significantly.
And arguing that he didn't recognize the danger in advance is no excuse at all for a CEO, who should have been able to predict the response to his self-indulgent ego bender.
Shareholders have lost many millions, and they won't just let that go with an "Oh well." He's likely going to get sued, and the board is just making sure they don't go down with him.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
I don't want to wait until he's in a box. I want him to leave politics now.
You hear that guys? It's working; keep it up.
Then he should have left politics at least 3 years ago
He did a Nazi salute at the presidential inauguration.
There’s no “being part of society” anymore. There’s no coming back for him at all. What a fucking moron
You're funny.
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.
He's not leaving politics, he's at most changing vector. From being visible, to working more in the shadows.
And all of X will follow his picture reel of shadowy activities.
Dark MAGA in the process...
The future looks dark for Murica
He has prepared the groundwork, this is just an excuse to pass over the baton to palantir so they can have their "Privatized AI powered governement software"
This.
He might discontinue his role formally but will still be involved.
Such a delicate little snowflake. I say fuck his feelings.
Well, he did say empathy was weak.
Shit, he could do us all a favor and leave life.
Look at Mcaffee, Epstein, and other narcissist rich assholes, they take care of themselves in the end
Idk, I think living to 75 and being so insanely rich means that those 75 years are so full of events that it equates to like 200 years living in a third world country. If that makes sense, anyway. Doesn't seem like living to be over 50 and insanely rich is anything other than a victory lap.
Epstein didn't kill himself
the "mythical left" that he and the right wingers keeps fantasizing about think it exists in the us.
If there was a formidable left wing in the United States he would have been dangling upside down a long time ago.
If they're participating in direct action that hurts the world's richest man, then I'd count them as leftist in that moment.
Does he need help packing his shit?
Somebody call the wambulamce.
Seize his assets and deport.
That's an act of war against South Africa.
They do use a LOT of words to cover their contradictory actions.
Good next leave the country.
My 3 day old bowl of custard has a thicker skin than Musk. Probably smells nicer too.
Plus, it's not a Nazi, which is a bonus. Unless you have Nazi custard.
How would someone check of thier custard is Nazi? Don't tell me Jello could be nazi too!
All cold desserts are at least somewhat right-leaning. Sorry :(
This is a sad day, in a terrible world
Facts don't care about your feelings.
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
Any chance he got all the data and access that he actually wanted, so now he's good?
Time to slink back into the shadows and re-emerge richer around the time of the next election.
As sad as it sounds, we'll also have to watch his 13 specifically IVF male children, which he calls "legion", to see what they do with pieces of his fortune as they grow older. He reads dystopian sci-fi media and wants to build that.
I'm keeping Vivian Wilson out of that nonsense because she has publicly disowned him and is awesome.
Likely, but also he might have gotten bored with his new toys.
Powerful people are like that.
Alternative title. One of the richest men in history can't find happiness and shifts blame away from his terrible decisions, stolen valor video game clout, fascism, and fucking over poor people. Decides to radically change the modern world because supposedly it wasn't working out for him, then cries that people don't like him.
BYEEEEEE!
I can't wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
It's up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We'll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it's up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn't change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
May he never have a moments peace in the remainder his life.
He realized that he pissed off the people that were buying his cars. Sorry my dude, this is your identity now. We will not forget.
Consequences? Me? But I'm rich and cool!
Yeah, everyone who disagrees with you is "The Left", even conservatives, independents, moderates, and libertarians.
And this "just happened". Nothing he did or said. /s
They presumably all ARE left of him ideologically.
I think he means "tired of the pushback and profit loss from actively bribing the system into becoming the shadow POTUS running the world behind the scenes".
How else could he attempt to advance to Mars Colonization, his lifelong dream as someone with a God-Iron-Man-Savior complex, during his lifetime?
He knows with the current progress rate he could help pave the way to Mars for humanity, but not live the dream himself, or take full credit for that achievement. And we know just how "selfless" he is.
Is this his planned escape route after he's already gutted and skullfucked government programs that benefit lower income and working class people, environment, etc? Also after he's redirected government funding, tax money, to his businesses?
I'm not saying I have evidence there's truth to this, but I wouldn't be surprised. If he does go away, much of the public will forget really quickly. His shittiness and his obvious nazi salutes should never be forgotten.
Whether he stays or goes, he'll still be a cunt.
I don’t understand these tools that think they live on another planet. If they wreck this one with hedonistic malicious disregard, there’s no place to go. They’re kings of a shitpile. Money is meaningless at that point.
As he should be. All billionaires should be afraid.
This is just posturing to make people feel like we're not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
Get fucked musk for the rest of your days.
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.
What do You mean 'Leave politics'? You were never in politics. You bought yourself a made up job at the white house. That's not the same as being a politician.
And he'll annoyingly still be around spouting his bullshit anyways.
Bye! Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
WHAT? People are HURTING his FEELINGS? This is TERRORISM! Can we COMPLETELY ELIMINATE THE VA and the DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION so we can have Enough Resources to Help with Elon's FEEWINGS? I will HAPPILY pay MORE in Taxes if it makes him Feel Better!
-Fuck Your Feeling Republicans who get FURIOUS when you Mention Student Loans!
what will they rename DOGE to
Fucking Elon's Chainsawing of Everyone's Shit.
CAT-E
The one downside to his leaving is now all of the disruption of doge wont be announced to the world. He was the worst person to put in charge because he loved the spotlight and thus it made it easy to see all the fucked up shit that was going on. Now we'll have to pay attention a little harder.
his tenure has always had a built in expiry date after which much more throughout background checks and vetting are required. he will be gone before then. he's just setting the table so it is seen as "his idea".
He was a useful lightning rod for TRUMP to take in all the flak from media and criticism.
Let's be real, though, if he weren't pissing everyone off those checks would get brushed off and ignored by the administration. They don't care about requirements, regulations, or laws, which they've made abundantly clear, and if pressed will basically respond "make me"
He can leave, and he should. But the attacks against his character will NEVER stop.
Consider this the easy option.
It could stop if he were capable of empathy or self awareness, but he's just going to keep being a dickhead, which annoys and upsets people, so he'll keep blaming them because growing as a person is just too hard for him I guess? Blaming everyone else is so much easier!
To be fair, from where he’s sitting, everyone is to the left, and any sane opinion is an attack on his point of view.
Even the hat in that picture is looking to escape that douce.
Man, fuck this guy. I hope he gets burned badly just like everyone else in Trump’s wake.
He's got to be extra delusional if he think the 'left' will stop criticizing his Nazi ass.
When he dies, I hope they at least do me the courtesy of marking the ditch they dump his body in so I know where to piss.
"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.
What a bitch.
🖕Musk
Fuck this guy forever.
To co-opt the Right's terminology: what a fucking snowflake
Lol. U mad bro? If you can't take the heat...
He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.
I would care, except the muskmelons said that empathy is a sin
We did it, Reddit
We did it Lemmy
No one fucking invited you bro.
Important to point out: It's working. Keep it up.
Too late. We’re coming for you Elon
Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald.. I’m against him.
I don't think he will. I think he's trying to get people to sympathize with him.
Please don't take my last bit of hope with your realism
Good. It's working. Also you're not "in politics" you pathetic little bitch. You're just fucking around ruining peoples lifes so you can get some selfies in the Whitehouse and try to make your life even easier than it already is.
Holy shit, I didn't think the bullying campaign would acturally work. This is a grand victory for all workers of the world and a sign of whats to come. When all the workers of the world unite we can overcome the iron hand and destroy any fascist.
NEVER BACK DOWN FOR THEY ARE WEAK AND WE THE WORKERS ARE STRONG
Bye, crybaby bitch.
Also Musk: "This is the woke mind virus in action. Now, it is time for the mind virus to die."
Must be nice just dropping (what he claims is) important work on the ground when you need a nap.
He's really demonstrating his famous work ethic. Maybe that sleeping on the factory floor legend was not about work ethic but about spontaneous napping when he feels a tantrum coming on.
This better not be like the time he said he was gonna step down from running Twitter and then he didnt. He better follow through on his promise. And take his tech bros trying to shut everything down with him.
As the great Philosopher and Entrepreneur Craig Jones would say "Bye Felicia."
Excellent, please do, Elon. Arguably he has never been in politics, he just bought off Trump to get a job.
Tesla earnings call, tomorrow. That's the only reason he's saying that right now.
We hate you.
Aww little pissbaby snowflake getting sad? Did the meanie weenie wittle lefties hurt your wittle baby feelers? Wittle baby bitch sad he lost millions over a state court election and tesla stocks? Do you need your wittle tesla robot to give you your bottle? Did daddy trump not give you ice cream to make you feel better? Maybe get out of our government you unelected fascist fuck, go take a ride on your spacex rocket and hope your overworked and underpaid engineers put all the bolts in the ship
No one gonna mention that his contract was for a set time and he has to leave?
Damage done. It's not even good news at this point.
Self-care. So important.
Hopefully his crimes against the people will eventually catch up to him. And by that point I hope people will remember his stance on empathy.
Maybe get back to Tesla, I hear it’s stock is tanking.
How long was that honeymoon period?
Aww, does the poor little baby want to go home and have a cry about it?
If he leaves that means the autocrats are ready to complete their coup. Then our only chance will be the military.
Everyone, it’s working! Don’t let up!
In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn't my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.
America's democracy is in dire enough straits that we don't need to be stuck fighting the world's richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he'll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.
On the other hand, he's rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he's proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.
As if .... this guy is like lice or bed bugs or cockroaches ... you can treat it and get rid of it for a time but you've already been infected and you can never get rid of it. You can reduce the infection but you're stuck with it forever.
No, no. Stay. It seems like it's working out so well for you. Hey, here's a shotgun with a nice short barrel and a trigger facing the wrong way. Please, take it with my compliments.
"Unethical," Lol... oh how the turn-tables.
Good riddance
by all means
Does fElon think it's only "the left" that doesn't like him?
🤣
I think the left should take musk at his word here actually. Take the W. Keep calling this stupid Nazi shitstain fraud exactly what he is.
Bullying works.
Sure, leave after the damage is done, hundreds of thousands of workers were fired (some rehired), they accessed confidential data on millions of Americans (some of which made it to Russia), and your own numbers prove you barely saved any money at all! No one voted for you, you've done lasting damage to this country, and you're a pathetic Nazi. I hope you are a pariah from society for the rest of your life...
Is this the same fatigue that Trump feels when fact checkers are present? He's always annoyed because the fact checkers frequently pipe up to correct him, but apparently it hasn't occurred to him they would be silent if he told the truth.
Please leave your billions too, or the attacks will continue
lol Dave Anthony so called this. He’s going to throw all the young guys he has working on doge under the bus and claim that it wasn’t his fault because he left when the entire country shits the absolute bed.
As long as the damage persists, Im not done bitching
I keep wanting to see some long-form documentary movie/series on him - one that tells the real story, not the hagiographies we've been fed for fucking years.
I'd settle for a really good book on him, too....
It'll come eventually. It has to. No one becomes this infamous without penetrating retrospectives and analyses surfacing. It is surprising there hasn't been a movie a la Zuck in The Social Network, but I guess it took a long time for a film about Howard Hughes, who looks like milquetoast compared to Musk. I suppose the plot is still thickening and anything made now or soon would be premature.