Elon Musk says he ‘got carried away’ with DOGE and Trump after gutting the government
Elon Musk admits he “got carried away” working inside Donald Trump’s administration as the unelected director of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where he implemented mass firings and radically cut federal spending.
“I think I got a little too involved in politics. I got carried away, frankly,” he told The Economist in a wide-ranging interview published Thursday, but offered few specifics on what he regretted.
But the world’s wealthiest man — who pumped millions of dollars into Trump’s campaign before he was deputized to oversee the president’s brutal cost-cutting operation — defended the work of DOGE and his dismantling of the nation’s global aid agency that he once promised to put through a “wood chipper.”
“We need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack for this, obviously,” he said.
I wonder if he can just see the writing on the wall, or if he was actually using a cannon to kill a fly? Maybe its that SpaceX isn't doing so hot? Maybe its the investigation related to tRump going on about how Musk "really knows those voting machines" and how they'll "never have to vote again".
Either way, people are dead because of him. We won't forget, and there will be an accounting for this.
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He is responsible for deaths of millions of people. He is a repulsive disguisting psychopath. A murderer.
No forgiveness, no mercy.
I was a government contractor for four years. I made really good money, worked from home, and had really good benefits. A year ago, Elon and Trump decided to stop paying the contract I was on. Between outsourcing and AI, I couldn't find anyone to hire me. I had to work in a grocery store for six months with ten years of web development and project management experience. I start my job as a mailman on Monday. I'll never forgive them and forsake anyone associated with them. Until the seas dry and the land breaks, I wish suffering and damnation upon them.
I was a woman in the military.
I can't even look at myself in the mirror anymore, haven't left the house for a week.
I wish them a jail cell.
I hope your luck will be better than mine.
It won't be. My career is ruined. It's hopeless.
We can be pissed and destroyed together though. 🤝
I wish you weren't right.
Now kiss
go outside, touch grass, re-evaluate
Thank you.
Have you considered a lateral transfer?
Some countries, including Canada and Australia, will accept international applicants providing they meet certain criteria. Australia particularly offers pathways to citizenship too.
https://www.defence.gov.au/adf-members-families/military-life-cycle/lateral-recruits
Yeah sure, but I couldn't imagine them taking someone as mediocre and old as me.
I like Aussies and Canadians. I would do my best to be an ideal citizen.
You'd be surprised!
"The maximum age, as a general rule, is between 3 and 6 years away from the “Compulsory Retiring Age” for a specific role. It is encouraged that applicants conduct research pertaining to their role of interest."
So its role dependent for Australian Defence Forces, though is worth at least looking into.
A jail cell is too good for them.
They need to be dragged through the streets and end up like Mussolini. Or maybe Ceaușescu and his wife.
Just hope the dragging through the streets takes hours and they are conscious for all of it.
I wish them death and a eternity of pain and suffering in hell for their sins
I couldn't look at myself either if I was in the military, how disgusting.
I couldn't look at myself if I were a knee-jerk troll, so I guess we're even.
One post from four months ago, and then a handful from the last day 🧐 seems we got a piece of shit sandbag account looking to rile people up
Didn't Russia just get another infusion of cash from some sanction being lifted or something like that recently? Spinning back up sections of their social media farms now that there's funding again.
Sorry I don't support the
killerstroops.I wonder who's killed more innocent people Elon's funding cuts or the US Military.
Interesting how you're more upset this one person was in the military than you are about anything Elon Musk has done, to the point that you're now mollifying Musk's actions in order to troll this one person.
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If I was on a platform with Elon Musk, I would gladly tell him how disgusting he is.
It's interesting how an anarchist defends imperialist soldiers.
You easily could be, he's very available on Twitter if you were actually so inclined. But instead you're more inclined to misread the pointing out the shortsightedness of your trolling of an individual as a different statement entirely. Just as you're more inclined to treat Musk with softer gloves if it means you can attack some random person for something that that doesn't even apply anymore.
it's infuriating seeing the two assholes cutting everything and destroying the lifes of millions of people for literal pennies, then wasting trillions on a useless war that has only economic downsides, just because bibi asked it nicely
Don't forget the tax breaks for the Uber rich.
I'm so, so sorry you're in this position. It isn't right.
I've been in, or worked for the military for 26 years last month so I've seen some political things. While DOGE didn't kill my little 150 person org it wiped out a third of our experienced folks and eliminated all young folks we feed to the larger workforce.
The large over arching programs like USAID will be fairly easily put back together but the folks not in the DMV will be hard to luer back.
My command is fairly senior but two years ago I at 49 years old was about average, now I'm in the younger cohort, that's not good for any workforce.
How many kids have you killed or helped kill in your 26 years? Or did you perhaps refuel vehicles that lead to killing kids, fed some child killers to give them the strength to get through a day of child killing, or defended somewhere at home so killers could be deployed overseas to kill kids?
Gonna be in the same place as soon as my daughter goes to public school. I really can't justify paying at a minimum $3000 for child care in my area AND not see my kid. My wife has a solid job in another industry that won't be touched by AI. Thankful for her.
Grats on the mailman job. Sincerely, I couldn't find a new job in software but it was also melting my mind being told I need to use AI all day long. I will happy to make less and do something else once the $36000 a year in childcare is not required. I have that privilege to wait after a decade in software thankfully.
That sucks, but long term that would have been an inevitable outcome anyway. Web development experience is becoming a useless skill on the job market, as you have learned from first hand experience finding a job
Really? I see a decent amount of six figure global remote frontend job postings
Let’s fucking kill him!!!!
Source
Fuck him.
781,343 deaths.
You don't just get to go "oops!" and walk away.
Nearly eight hundred thousand dead in the first year. Probably much more by now.
He's still 'a little too involved' in politics. He's flinging his shit around the UK and EU now, acting like he knows best.
Sounds to me like he's admitting culpability for his crimes though. Some prosecutor should get on that.
Oh he's biding time. He sees what Trump did. He is going to come back as a politician after taking capitalism to its logical conclusion of "evil."
And he wants to fund remaking the Odyssey with just white people.
The worst part is that he's the wealthiest person to ever exist. He has more than enough money to help. He could be telling everyone in his employment to begin to undo the mess he made, but he won't. He may donate a few million to a charity (that he owns) to build up some good will with the poors. The people he pays to be around him will tell him what a saint he is, caring for the poor. He'll feel good about himself again. While millions of children still die.
We had to cut $400M in global aid and kill 800k kids in order to fund a pointless $50B war (and counting) that doesn't exist but also we already won, where we killed tens of thousands more (and counting).
Apparently whats sensible isnt monitoring threats to food production, of disease outbreaks, its bombing Arabs...
I hate this timeline
I'd love to see a mob get carried away with him in return. That sure would be amusing to watch. I highly doubt justice will ever be dispensed his way otherwise.
I would like Musk's head to be mounted on a chainsaw, with his stupid cheese hat.
"Sorry everyone, just got swept up in the moment. No hard feelings, right?" -- A. Hitler
Elon Musk is a colossal fucking moron. A pure complete dipshit. Why people keep giving this stupid fuck money is beyond me. He is an egotistical, narcissistic, racist, elitist, bigoted asshole. Let's just all keep throwing $$$ at this piece of shit.
Reminder: The USA passed the False Claims Act in 1778 and later developed a full legal framework for combating fraud in 1863 with the Lincoln Law. Fraud at the federal level had a solution that worked time and time again for CENTURIES.
They got everything they wanted. The country is in a death spiral toward Somalia-style libertarianism, and it can't be stopped.
I can't find the one they printed 6 ft tall on the bus stop
The fact that there isn't a well funded group actively hunting this man with the intent to mutilate him to death is somewhat shocking to me.
For real. I’d help crowdfund it.
What good would killing him do? The wealth would just pass down to his children
The children would see an immediate close and personal reason to be better people?
may this fucker be reincarnated into every last person who was denied USAID and died as a result this past year
if there is some form of spiritual punishement in the after life his consiousness gets to witness every suffering. in excruciating detail.
I'd settle for him being sent to prison
Take all his money and assets, distribute them to every citizen in the US that isn’t a billionaire, and send him penniless into the streets. Prison is too good for him.
Edit: with zero access to social programs.
And make him work at McDonald’s as a minimum wage worker for the rest of his life
Man, they've already been denied aid, they don't deserve that shit.
Give Elon muskrat the death penalty
Ok, sure why not
Proposed headline: Elon Musk says, "PlEASe like me PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE every body I need you to like me I'll do literally anything l can be ultra whatever wing because I believe in nothing except that you should all like me plEASE LIKE ME"
I'll do anything except stop being a useless piece of shit who raped an entire nation
The arguments I used to have with Musk fanbois on reddit ....
Don't get me started on Reddit !
"Sorry everyone. Fascism just makes me feel so good, ya know?"
What about the Nazi Salute Elon?
Oh, you know. I just got carried away.
Hate it when the immigrant billionaires come and makes everyone's life worse
Yeah I wish he got carried away… in a pine box.
PoS deserves a burlap sack.
Screw that, leave his bits for the rats
Rats don't deserve that.
They don't have to eat it. Maybe they can give it to their OWN parasites
If this guy ever chokes on a fish bone and dies, the grand, grand, grand majority of people who react in any way will be celebrating.
Imagine being that much of a piece of shit.
More like drown in a hot tub after too much ketamine.
He's a Pirate, and he deserves a Pirate's fate.
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He belongs in federal prison.
Get him the Epstein cell!
Cool. Now pay back reparations for all the damage that you've caused. You can afford it.
Can the American People file a class action suit?
Take his entire net worth.
That's roughly $3,000 per person for all 341 million people.
The rich are above the law :<
If there were any justice, he would be convicted and face the death penalty. He's a menace to humanity.
I mean, just regular Leavenworth will do.
He ruins thousands of lives with layoffs and says whoops? Hate that man,
He murdered millions.
Fucking asshole...
Only hundreds of thousands of children paid the price with their lives.
Millions...
Strange way of saying gross incompetence.
yeah, was that before or after the second hitler salute? just trying to gauge things
Hur Dee Hur. Forgot y’all’s was real people down in that k-hole of “the world is a simulation”
Really? That's why you got flack?
Well, I can't speak for everyone, but you got flack from me not for making sure money is being spent in sensible ways. I gave you some flack for being a self-dealing, child-killing, own-fart-smelling, public data-stealing, ketamine-addicted Nazi fascist sociopath who not only wielded your deluded political persecution complex as a weapon for punishing innocent people, you did so without even giving them the dignity of your actual attention unaided by AI.
Flack?
Giving flak means to give someone strong criticism, blame, or a hard time for a mistake or an unpopular choice.
From german "FLugAbwehrKanone" (anti-aircraft-gun).
Or were you obsessing over the little spelling error?
No need for your degoratory tone here. As a native German speaker, I am aware what FLAK means. Indeed, because of the consequent missspelling, not only here but also in the post above, I wondered if this was a different, new word with a new meaning, that I didn’t know about. Now go and be ashamed of your words.
Those are some insightful comments from the world's first Nazi trillionaire white supremacist.
This article tries to make him sound better than he was too. "where he implemented mass firings and radically cut federal spending."
He didn't radically cut federal spending. Federal spending isn't down, he just fired people and the money stayed the same really.
Let's say the CDC that is struggling to track this parasite presumed in lettuce(cyclosporiasis) which was tracked since 1997. Why, well Kennedy told them not to track it anymore in July 2025. July 2026, largest number of cases ever recorded.
The CDC fired ~3200 people, roughly 25% of their staff. Yet the budget request for the CDC in 2026 isn't really any different than 2025, 2024 etc. Maybe a fair comparison would be comparing the 2018, 2019 time period during Trump's first admin to now, the CDC budget is essentially the same when you adjust it for inflation over that time.
Full federal budget estimates look like
2024 budget: 6.8 trillion
2025 budget: 7 trillion
2026 we are at 5.52 trillion including June with 6 months left
So it surely doesn't look like he "radically cut federal spending"... He just radically cut federal employment, and they are still spending the money.
He radically cut spending alright. He radically cut spending on ensuring the wellbeing of the not-rich. The spending is now just all going to the Epstein class.
These people are eugenicists. They are trying to kill us. The ones they can't kill will have their wealth siphoned from them to fund this balooning, kleptocratic federal deficit. They are looting the near-dead body of the empire so they can transcend nations, and us, the blood, flesh and bones, will be left to rot. We have one, maybe two chances left to defeat these people peacefully.
Sorry Elon, we're still going to take all your ill gotten gains and prosecute the fuck out of you and your billionaire bitches if I can do anything about it
You should be thankful that's the moderate position.
oh that's okay, we have a prison cell for that.
He needs to be carried away.
I mean this honestly, "from your mouth to God's ear", but...
Nothing will happen. Give me one example in US history where any wealthy person or President was held to account.
These assholes should get carried away to jail.
I think dumbass is seeing the pendulum swinging back and the metaphorical blades being sharpened.
No consequences WOOOOOO rrrrngrrrrraaaAAAAHHHHHH
This dumbass just lost half a trillion and I hope the other 750 Billy left goes down the gutter. I'll never own a fucking tesla I'll never buy starshit or any other shit service/product this idiot tries to unload on the American people.
“Well, if it isn’t the consequences of my actions”
What consequences?