This is good, but on the other hand, Musk's power with DOGE is not tied to his position (which is nominally that of an advisor). DOGE is a dark network that centers around him and he can continue to shape even after he leaves his official position. - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 69 days ago

This is good, but on the other hand, Musk's power with DOGE is not tied to his position (which is nominally that of an advisor). DOGE is a dark network that centers around him and he can continue to shape even after he leaves his official position.

Reposted from Ari Cohn

TL; DR Musk underestimated how much all of this would ultimately be blamed on him (as it should be), how much everyone would hate him, and how tired shareholders would get of his shit.

So now he's trying to declare victory while slinking away

www.yahoo.com/news/elon-mu...

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valeryonfire.bsky.social•68 days ago

Even with all his $ M🤬sk has no idea what it means to be, or the value in being, human. In order to be fully human, one has to be humane. America, even with its flaws, held the value & invested in being humane. M🤬sk seeks to destroy America because it has what he lacks - the ability to be humane.

robinbudd.bsky.social•68 days ago

for sure.

rohandas.bsky.social•69 days ago

Exactly. Anyone reading this news as him cutting his losses and running is dreaming. He will stay just as up in our shit as before.

lessbarb.bsky.social•68 days ago

DOGE IS the deep state.

colonizedeez.bsky.social•68 days ago

So you're saying it's a sort of state with depth

captanne.bsky.social•68 days ago

Please let the departure be true. Until then, fuck him and the apartheid-driven swastika he rode in on.

porgus.bsky.social•69 days ago

(this is partly what all the StarLink terminals were for)

nursegenius1019.bsky.social•69 days ago

Everyone hates Elon. Well deserved

timharbert.bsky.social•69 days ago

was he born steepling his hands? or when he's talking, is he imagining he's joking out everyone he's talking to.

sherribells.bsky.social•69 days ago

He will have gotten everything he wanted by then

excannbiz.bsky.social•68 days ago

Too bad the shit stain he’s now wearing won’t wash off

hpsauter.bsky.social•69 days ago

Or maybe he’s tapped into all the government systems he and the broligarchs need to keep government and citizens cowed.

lorak.bsky.social•68 days ago

it’s the money

bwg57.bsky.social•69 days ago

MAGA Youth

11kelleyk.bsky.social•68 days ago

I have a feeling this will be a step down in words only. They’re trying to cover his losses. Bring him back into favor with the public. No thank you. For this immigrant (I use that word to highlight his status here) to call a decorated US veteran & senator “traitor” - what a sob, F Musk!

robertmcmillan.bsky.social•68 days ago

DOGE is the MAGA Deep State.

danahoule.bsky.social•69 days ago

And we don’t even know what data they’ve taken or what triggers they’ve placed.

maggiethecatz.bsky.social•69 days ago

Might be useful to look at how thr Georgian oligarch, Ivanishvili, has worked. While initially the PM for 1 year, for the past decade+ has pulled the strings, culminating in the current rapid authoritarian spiral

polittlecat.bsky.social•69 days ago

he's got all his lackeys in place.

comraderobot.bsky.social•69 days ago

i wish I could see some good in this, but it seems like yet another instance of a billionaire getting to have it both ways

metareferential.bsky.social•69 days ago

Yeah.

lauralupardus.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is the same guy that promised to step away from Twitter if the results of his poll said he should so I’m not sure why we’d believe him on this regardless

schlock13.bsky.social•69 days ago

Well he's got all the information on his servers by then.

kierkestruck.bsky.social•69 days ago

Needs to be made civilly liable for the damage he did to the federal government.

It’d be one way to strip him of any national security related assets.

cathy3of6.bsky.social•68 days ago

Too long… Elon needs to go now

imdumfounded.bsky.social•68 days ago

Every government system will now have back doors written into them. He will never be gone, he will just be less obvious. Trump is a puppet. First for Putin, now for Musk. The scariest horrors are always hidden from sight.

badkittee.bsky.social•68 days ago

He can skulk away to wherever

He bought it, he broke it, he owns it.

lpeterp.bsky.social•69 days ago

Only for public consumption. Doesn’t mean a thing.

300ps.bsky.social•69 days ago

So he does work for DOGE (lawyers taking notes)

b-korb.bsky.social•69 days ago

Also note the amount of damage done in two months and May is still two months away.

oceansofinsight.bsky.social•68 days ago

Stepping away from DOGE is not going to solve his problems. He has revealed too much of himself for that. Instead he must step away and divest from Tesla, as that is the only way to save the brand.

scottyi.bsky.social•68 days ago

Guess what? We will always hate you.

motown.bsky.social•69 days ago

He will get back every dollar he gave Trump plus massive bonus.

I mean, it's obvious what this deal is.

kmeiri.bsky.social•69 days ago

He thinks he’ll be able to rescue Tesla

begentle.bsky.social•68 days ago

Hmmmmmmmm

cklinetobe.bsky.social•68 days ago

I hope his life gets continuously worse

undeadben.bsky.social•69 days ago

he's stepping down from what position exactly? legal people would probably love to hear him say it.

beowulf1967.bsky.social•68 days ago

He has ongoing access to the data he wanted

He doesn't need the figurehead title and its hurting him in other ways. Like Trump he thinks he's the hero of the story.

So non news event calculated to defuse the retaliation against him

morris.cloud•69 days ago

Also may not be true

phaseblowly.bsky.social•69 days ago

He has to step down by law, but yeah… you make a good point.

sensualkazoo.bsky.social•69 days ago

He's probably stepping down in name only.

koboldstyle.bsky.social•68 days ago

Yeah, how do you enforce this? How do you define what level of disengagement "stepping down" means? What are the legal parameters for not being involved?

gschiveley.bsky.social•69 days ago

I legit believe his plan was just to stay on the first 100 days and much of the DOGE urgency was associated with this

codycoyote1959.bsky.social•69 days ago

He probably got all the data or will have by May that he wants.

sherribells.bsky.social•69 days ago

Exactly

loufromboston.bsky.social•68 days ago

This is like torching and burning down the government, then walking away. Damage done. Besides, Musk is power hungry and will be around to do more damage. His words are worth shit.

xtinaluna.bsky.social•69 days ago

Not soon enough

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