Musk wants to leave politics because he’s tired of ‘attacks’ from the left: report
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28539608
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.dbzer0.com
See? Bullying fascism works. It's the only thing that works. Fascism is fought with violence (physical or otherwise) as it's the only language that it understands.
When an opponent doesn't care about rules, playing by those rules only puts you at disadvantage.
We did have a little part in this, but otoh he's been playing that game for years on his platform, I don't think it is what drove him out. Him blaming the Left is just - well, it's what he would do isn't it?
But now, even MAGA is against him. DOGE is such a blatant fuck-up on all levels, he probably doesn't even want to do that anymore. It won't bring his stock back up.
Yeah. We can assume he gave himself an insane amount of extra cash through his access (like the surprising-wink-wink gov contracts his companies have now), but we don't know truly know how much and he'd be stupid to let anybody know.
He has to get the fuck out now though because obviously him gaining a few more billions cost the american state + public hundreds of billions in long-term damage, if not trillions. It also made swaths of the american government dysfunctional, things like veteran aid etc.
No, they aren't. Just the other day I saw idiots on Facebook calling for DOGE to come investigate our (Democrat led) county. They think he's doing great work saving them money.
As I said, idiots.
I think the first step is to stop calling out disinformation when it's against Drump and Co, let that shit ride
Indeed, we're trying to win back our freedom, not medals for best behavior.
Bullying power in general as well. Progressives have been too soft on liberals too and always let them run the show. But the reality is it's always harder to rally people when things seem to be going ok and the crisis is muffled rather than blatantly obvious. Kinda how we never go to the dentist when nothing hurts even though we really shouldn't wait until it does. Anyway, hope something meaningful comes of this resistance because this fascist stage is still a stage of neoliberalism, like that's where the root cause is.
I know it's not your point, but you really should go to the dentist regularly, not just when something hurts. Take care of your teeth and they'll take care of you!
It's definitely my point! That's exactly why I used that analogy :)
We should tend to our teeth, our environment and our political environment as well — and they will, as you say, take care of us. The "cavities" in American politics started waaaay before Trump. Trump is when they reached the nerve. (I hope I said that correctly, ESL here.)
Now I find that this all depends on the character of your dentist...
Regular visits to many dentists I have known in my life result in un-necessary procedures, additional pain and lower quality of life in general as compared to if you had just stayed the hell away and taken decent care of your own teeth at home. Yes, this is unethical, but in my life experience 9/10 dentists I have visited are unethical and do push any procedure they think they can sell you, particularly if the procedure is covered by your insurance.
If we could get a "real" dentist rating system going where you could judge them before experiencing the high-pressure sales pitch from authority while you are in the chair under the light, we might make some positive progress. Good dental practices are good for the patients. Un-necessary deep scale cleanings, recession reconstructions, drill and fill of not-really cavities and so many other things have given dentists in general a bad reputation IMO.
You're right but I wasn't going for a "dentist = political party" analogy. More like a "get your teeth taken care of = keep power in check through public pressure" analogy (to be clear, only voting doesn't count as pressure) .
I keep hoping that this cycle will be the one that demonstrates that we need real transparency, real accountability, and real limits of power to screw around in the name of "national emergency."
Of course, when half the people who vote vote for lunacy, lunacy is what you get.
I completely agree.
Except he's already acquired the data he needs and shipped it over to his Russian handlers.
FINALLY!!! Someone who GETS IT!!!
I said something similar in November, and had my comment removed, after being downvoted.
Peaceful protests don't work. Raging infernos do.
I agree with everything you said, except that it's "bullying". It's not. He's the bully. Musk is the richest man on the earth. He could go to the most expensive resort on the planet and the entire lives of him and his 20-something children would already be paid for. Instead, he gladly puts on a red hat, waltzes through our taxpayer-funded public services, firing hundreds of thousands and causing decades of damage. All with almost no real savings, even using DOGE's own numbers. Again, no one voted for him, Congress didn't approve of this. People pointing this out, and fighting back are not "bullying" him, it's resistance. Oh, and he's a Nazi.
Keep bullying him.
Elon Musk should face justice for being a foreign insurgent.
After that, he can do whatever.
So encouraging suicide is okay now??
Why not? Say what you will about Adolf Hitler, but at least he went out with a bang!
Well, you know, it depends. The person you are encouraging is planning to kill thousands or even millions directly or indirectly with their politics?
Because there could be a difference between an anonymous person and a potential mass murderer.
Tolerance extends only until the Intolerant.
Elon and the damage he is causing will kill millions if he isn’t stopped. When capitalists kill it looks clean but it’s mass murder nonetheless.
Dude could be destitute in a barrel and IMO needs to lose far far more. He deserves every little shit thing that happens to him, and is one of the few people on the planet where if they have a serious roadside accident I might just suddenly remember I panic from seeing blood and hence could not stop to help them and and in my panic did not have enough clear thought to call an ambulance. And I'd do that for murderers. But not for Musk. He's the scum that cannot die soon enough, and cannot die painfully enough.
I wanna see him counting change in dollar tree
Bullying? Just stating facts will do. And torching Teslas. And what about SpaceX?
Since SpaceX has done good work with very little input from him, we can hope that the board sees he has become a liability and fires him. Don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Crybaby bitch wouldn't last 5 mins in a cod lobby
Call of duty is a shitty series with shitty fans who you seem to be bragging about their *-phobic views. That's nothing to brag about.
Im not bragging, personally I hate the cod community and its toxicity, just saying that if he can't handle some trolling in his game chat then he wouldn't last a minute playing cod before crying to cruella de vil
That's fair. He definitely is more of a troll than he could stand dished back at him.
Resistance is not bullying.
My take: He's been told to pack his shit and doesn't wanna admit it. He knows full well "the Left" isn't gonna forget what he's done.
So there's that, but also the position of "special counsel" or whatever dumb title he holds is time limited. You can't be an unelected government official indefinitely (although I'm sure the current administration would change the rules if they cared enough to keep him). He's making it sound like he's bowing out, when it was the plan to step down in May from the beginning.
All the rules this administration has chosen to ignore, i refuse to believe this is the one they're going to follow. He could always stay on as an outside contractor or whatever other bs they want to tell us. If he's leaving, there must be a reason.
Didn’t this happen in trump’s first term as well? Musk was right there but got the boot once people started joking about Elon being in charge
It's far too late for that, Elon; we want your fucking head now.
Someone free Luigi. His work isn't finished.
nah, he has done enough. time for the rest to step up
Kind of like the Doom Slayer.
Entered the kitchen, complained about it being too hot
Entered the kitchen, set fire to the trash can, complained about heat
What does he mean he wants to leave politics? He is not in politics, he did not run for any office and was not voted for by anyone. He is free to leave whenever he wants.
Haha. Good point! He thought he bought the country the moron.
Snowflake.
Elon is a weird duck with delusions of grandeur who can't understand the left's disgust. It was the nazi salute, Elon. It'll always be the nazi salute. All your other dank shit runs secondary to that.
I wouldn't put it down solely to the Nazi salute, because most of us knew he was the kind of guy who would do a Nazi salute long before he actually did it.
He's been absolute human garbage for a very long time, and now it's catching up to him.
I don't know that most is accurate. He had the general public fooled into thinking he was a real life Tony Stark.
For a while, yeah. But the wheels have been falling off that characterization for at least six years at this point (ever since the "pedo guy" incident). And by the time he bought Twitter and went full mask off, anybody who was paying attention knew what he was.
That dank shit is the same thing.
His Nazi salute didn't decimate my 401k, tank the global economy, alienate our allies, and fire hundreds of thousands of people working for public services.
I was talking about Musk. It sounds like you are talking about Trump. It can be argued, I'd guess, that there is no difference.
One's the leader, one's the enforcer. They're both working toward the same goals... Does it really matter which is which?
It doesn't matter which is which (same shit, different pile) but there is a distinction to be made if you are referencing the loss of value of your 401k. The leader caused that, not the enforcer.
No, he just wants back into the background and do shady things in obscurity again. We all know the rich can't and won't stop meddling.
This is what people don't get.
This is just double-win: He gets to once again shit on anybody even marginally less fascist that him (so, well, everybody) for the right-wing mass media, while simultaneously withdrawing from the public eye to have less people look at how he's draining money from the US gov.
His ego won't let him do that.
If he's not the center of attention for more than a few days he does something stupid or outrageous to get the cameras pointing at him again.
This is just the latest example of that. Everyone's been talking about Hegseth and the Pope so it's the perfect time for him to play "victim" and talk about how the "evil left" is making him feel bad with their words.
"they must be paid protesters. There's no other explanation" ~nazi fuck
Says the guy who buys voters. And who lacks basic brain functionality to understand people hate him for being a nazi asshole who destroys people their lives by disrupting fragile systems made to protect lives and support the poor and ill. "they must be paid by terrorists"
Kholed dickhead spends way too much time in fellating echo chamber, steps outside and loses shit at reality
He's broken the departments investigating him and it isn't fun anymore, he doesn't have to be there at this point to win.
There's really nothing he can do about it at this point short of completely disappearing from the public eye. He's so thoroughly fucked his reputation that anything associated with him is fucked by extension.
Even if he completely leaves any interaction with politics at all, he still has SpaceX, Twitter, and Tesla that will all maintain his status as a public figure. He's not going to de-Nazify twitter. Telsas aren't going to suddenly become good cars without a reputation of being swastikcars.
The only way he could stop being bullied by "the left" is if he sold off every company he owns and disappeared into obscurity. Even then, he'll still get roasted online all the time. But if he avoids social media he could probably ignore it.
But that would all go directly against his nature. So there's nothing he realistically would do that could get "the left" to stop being mean to him. It's the rest of his miserable life.
SEE?! Bullying bad people DOES work. I've been trying to tell people FOR YEARS.
Well, it does work for some, especially those that crave approval as much as this guy.
Bullying Works
specifically the sitting on a man technique
Sound like a sound democratric system, albeit a bit too paternalistic.
That’s if you take anything g this asshat says as truth. But he doesn’t tell the truth. He’s not going to leave on his own. He is just whining.
It's especially effective against the mentally ill.
When it comes to Elon and Trump, what I assume is:
Whenever they say they are going to do something bad, it is the truth.
Whenever they say they are going to do something good, it is a lie.
Sadly that would open them up to accusations of libel/slander. (I'm not a lawyer)
I guess we'll just have to think for ourselves
It would be a real shame... if leftists stopped attacking him after he leaves politics.
I haven’t heard of any attempts on his life yet, so folks still have more work to do.
He carries a small child around with him.
According to the World's Most Humane Military^tm^ that would mean that he MUST be targetted DOUBLE HARD because he is using a HUMAN SHIELD! Like those Khamas terrorizerites.
A massive /s just to make it completely clear.
Well since the bullying won't ever stop, and he's doomed to eternal "attacks", he can take it all way too personally and take the problem off our plates.
And saving this kid from having too many memories of him.
The younger he dies, the better for everyone.
So we're winning? I'd still love for him to meet his Luigi. Is that enough hate to get you to quit before you do any more damage? I can go more extreme if it isn't.
!go more extreme
elon: slams dick in door
elon: oh man i'm tired of my dick being slammed in the door
Why did Hannibal slam my dick in the door?
My turn to slam your dick in the door, muskrat.
Must be paid radical leftists!
Musk is the Mike Lindell of this second season of the (cursed) apprentice....
We can only wish. Was Lindell ever a billionaire? Let alone the richest person in the world?
It would certainly be very nice to see Musk in the same situation, but he still has a long way to go until that point.
Fuck this baby. Go overdose on ketamine. We will all mourn. Zzzzzzz 😢😣☹️😰
ODing on Ketamine is quite difficult. LD50 for mice i.V. is 77mg/kg. So for an 80kg mouse that would be more than 6 grams of Ketamine given i.V. typically the bioavailability by nasal or oral consumption is lower and Musk most likely has a high tolerance. So we are talking probably 50grams or more of Ketamine for a lethal dosage for Musk.
I am not sure if Musk could actually snort enough Ketamine for a lethal dosage without it just falling back out of his nostrils or if he could swallow one without his stomach turning before it is adsorbed.
Obviously all of these numbers are speculative and taking drugs is harmful, no matter the amount. Also people often die not by ODing on Ketamine, but by killing themselves in accidents as they loose control over their muscles.
Let me stop you right there....
Call the cops and say there's a suspicious man with a funny accent displaying signs of excited delirium, and they'll make sure the paramedics shoot him up with enough to get the job done.
The bully doesn't like being bullied, poor baby Mukus 😢
What a snowflake
Musk: shoots self in ass Musk: WHY R BULLETS SO MEAN
Get fucked. I hope he's given flak the rest of his goddamn life. Nazi piece of shit billionaire.
Who would've thought
Also, that's not how you wear a hat
Good catch, you're absolutely right 😄
EVERYONE in this Thread needs to be DEPORTED for TERRORISM for HURTING Elon's feewings!
Big if true
reddit will do it for them, if your in one.
You have committed a crime.
"I'm not fired, I quit!"
-Musk, probably.
He's going to the back of the motorcade and he doesn't like it. He got used to try to do the dirty work of break put government and I will call my electeds to make sure we fix the damage he did and also hold him and the other tech oligarchs responsible for the rest of my life. Fuck this asswipe.
Classic "I can dish it out, but I can't take it" energy.
Good! Get fucked Musk!
Awww, is the Nazi tired of being hated? Too fucking bad. Our grandfathers (great grandfathers for the young folks) killed people like him, so he ought to be happy he's upright and able to ruin millions (or more) of people's lives.
Snowflake Nazi bitch.
Now leave the country as well.
And go back to Swakopmund or any other nazi-african shithole he's coming from.
Ohh no, the consequences of his own actions.
i hope he leaves politics because he dies
Too late, shitbird.
Billionaire oligarchs should have been stopped by peaceful means like taxes if they didn't want to be stopped the other way.
He's taking the fall because of the lack of popularity gained by Trump.
It's great as we won't see his smug face paraded around the oval office.
However he need to remain vigilant as the department he helped create will not stop sitting all over the bureaucratic hardware of America.
Which is by design as bureaucrats resist change and try to come to the status quo. (I'd never thought I would write about the merits of bureaucracy).
He must be held accountable for that!
So, the russian agent side quest is nearly fool proofed and he’d really prefer the wealthy genius perception return?
Luckily that’s gone forever
Fucking loser snowflake!!
He won't
Fascists only leave power when they die
Cry more, stupid manchild.
Don't let the door hit you.
But do let everyone waiting outside to hit you, melon
A brief synopsis of Elon's career:
You mean his reputation. He's still the richest man in the world.
Almost all his money is in stocks, and he has no way to convert it to liquid assets at face-value. His reputation can and will easilly change his "richest man" status.
Change, yes. But everything except his ego will do just fine if he drops down to 1% of his current wealth.
Then let's keep working until he drops to 0% of his current wealth!
Huh, I wanted to post the same gif, but just as a response to keep bullying Elmo.
Awww, poor baby has had his fee fees hurt.
Caring face not found.
The bully doesn't like being bullied, poor baby Mukus 😢
He can't step out now. It's too late.
he means he wants to step down, and do it behind the scenes.
eat shit bitch, it will never stop.
#nazi free or find a tree
I missed being on a platform where implying the only good nazi is a dead nazi wasn't a ban worthy offense. I like lemmy.
That type of talk got me three Reddit bans. One for using 'burn it down' in a clearly rhetorical sense. They can get bent.
Nobody should listen to this fucking pathetic clown. He's extremely responsible (due to his sponsoring of the GOP) and aligns himself with vicious attacks on regular people from the right because of """DEI""" and the "woke mob". Elon is a pathetic scoundrel who lives and breathes hate through every orifice that he inhibits. His words mean nothing.
Responsible or irresponsible?
🎻
Does this mean he's done rigging elections too?
He'll carry on doing that in his spare time, as a labour of love.
Gold Star.
Don't you think he looks tired?
Note: Musk died on the way back to his home planet.
You know what bud, you got the cash to completely disappear and know one will make fun of you anymore.
Well we still will cause you're a Nazi fuck but hey at least you won't get your feelings hurt by actually seeing and hearing about it.
Take your money and fuck off. How can someone be so rich and still be a complete and utter moron.
But there's so much more government inefficiency yet to find!
Ooh. Let me try. “Fuck your feelings snowflake”.
QQ more. Don't think that people will forget who you really are.
I appreciate his hope that capitulation will grant him mercy, but I'm not buying a Tesla unless he kills himself.
What if he sold all his shares and quit and stuff?
Wouldn't be nearly as satisfying, but I'd give it consideration I guess.
What about buying a Tesla with "Full Self-Driving"... and then projecting onto Musk an image of a wide open road and letting the Tesla do the rest?
Make Tesla Volkswagen
All logical assessments aside, he's probably got plenty in ill-gotten gains squirrelled away in Crypto holdings.
Watch him run for office, against Trump.
We've seen who you are. There is no way back for you.
Hahah too fucking late. You can't just "get out" of the public eye whenever you want loser
Hope he goes to Mars and never comes back
You know this costs the taxpayer billions right? If he gets shot or ODs it's much cheaper.
Whatever it takes and the sooner the better.
Booooohooooohooooo, those big meanies hurt my widdle feefees by resisting my fascist takeover! How can anybody be so heartless?
Might be easier if he just stopped being an asshole all the time.
One down
Don't stop there, leave earth you psychotic parasite.
Good. Do it.
Its working guys!
Thanks for the nightmares, I guess 🤷😬
Watch this video of Elon Musk being booed for 7 minutes straight at a Dave Chappelle show https://mastodon.social/@LupoLaLupo/114242322785596710
Elon would be very depressed if you saw it https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/08/elon-musk-almost-needed-sfpd-wellness-check-after-breakdown-getting-booed-at-dave-chappelle-show/
Do your part!
Unless he heads to mars fuck it
The "attacks" aren't going to stop because you walk away, fuckhead
Right wing nutjob can't help but be a right wing nutjob even on his way out.
And how many will miss him?
hopefully they miss him like that one protester missed richard spencer
Inshallah it shall be done
Call me when this space nazi leaves the planet.
"X was right about everything" clothing is definitely not something a narcissistic egomaniac fascist dictator would sell or make his govt members wear.
Pussy.
We had a good thing going.
He should leave more than politics.
How about Earth? He can jump on a rocket to Mars and we will never have to see or hear from him again.
Ahem.... musk a lousy bitch
Okay, buh-bye.
Good!
Why stop with leaving politics? Heck you make rockets, why not just leave earth altogether?