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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.
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.
That event didn’t make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Wouldn’t have changed at all.
That event didn’t change him at all, for fuck sake
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.
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