Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."
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How is he not in jail? He is an extra-governmental private individual with hacking teams in place at all major agencies of the administrative state. He has no right to do any of what he is doing.
Look no further than the GOP Fascists in Congress who let this all happen by not impeaching The Old Felon ... already.
Then again, who knows how horrible the VP would be. Ugh ... what's his name again? 🙄
If the Democrats don’t run on arresting and criminally punishing the robber barons in this administration - by any means necessary, and treating them as if they’re terrorists, they will have failed as a party.
Elon Musk needs to stop the slash and burn. Look at the data carefully then take action. He’s taking action, not looking at the data and when shit hits the fan, oops, my bad is not an acceptable response
This man is a menace to the world… leaders don’t make mistakes that stop Ebola prevention, nuclear weapons monitors etc… that’s incompetence! He would have fired someone at his company had they made a mistake like that. I can’t wait for his fall.
And as of last night, the statements he made telling everyone it has been fixed, were found to be completely false. The problem with slashing aid regarding Ebola has not been repaired despite Elon’s claims.
Hahahaha. Ooops we cancelled Ebola protection.
Oh we also fired the nuclear experts, another oops.
Oh and some planes crashed, or nearly crashed, another oopsie.
Look, if people are killed, uhmm well. We.. We’ll bring them back to life.
Yes, uhmm. You see.
We are going to, the thing , the thing is.
Yes. The, uhh This is a good, an incredible idea.
Yup.
We will bring people back to life. Yup.
It’s coming. When it’s not a couple of people, but a couple thousand people. Or a couple tens of thousands of people. Riots? Mass protests? Just shrugs from rich MAGAs who tamp down or suppress the voices for the murdered? It was just poor people. Or just black people. I don’t care, do you?
My thoughts exactly. Also I still remember that thoughtless print on Melania's jacket as well. It really says it all... how little they care for The People they're supposed to actually serve in the the best way possible.
“So we fucked up but then we corrected it. And then we fucked up again and are still trying to correct it. I’m sure we’ve fucked up more things and hopefully we will find them. But if not, you can’t expect us to be perfect. We did this in just 4 weeks time.”
Note how this mere "advisor" is lording over the room. Wtf. They're only kidding themselves because they aren't fooling The People.
This mthrfker owns them all.
#endthegop They're drunk with money, power and bone-deep spiritual gangrene
Most of us can’t touch Space-x directly, but t-mobile offers 5g wireless broadband for a fraction of the cost of Starlink and it’s a waaaaaaay better service.
There are areas where mistakes are not acceptable. In software business you can be agile, with people life you cannot be imperfect. You have to do your best to be perfect at the first attempt.
"Mistakes" that are unavoidable when u admit u don't know a fuckin thing about how gov works & aren't too arrogant to ask some fucking questions. He shld be deeply embarrassed & apologetic but he, like most insanely wealthy ppl, is incapable of basic decency.
One person is not qualified to assess the needs and effectiveness of every part of the federal government. No one person has that knowledge. It is a farce for him to infer that he is making educated cuts instead of just cutting essentials for the sake of making cuts. Disgusting arrogance.
If there was any doubt who the real president is, this should remove all doubts . He wasn’t elected, he has no security clearance, hell he wasn’t even born here ( I know the Constitution doesn’t count with the felon, the fascist, & the Repubs).The ultimate trifecta of a disaster
He’s saying this as if there is some urgent necessity to it all. No need to “make mistakes” if you go through all these departments carefully and methodically.
If you’re going to hack away with literal teen hackers & slash with a literal CHAINSAW, with NO OVERSIGHT, then yes, guaranteed mistakes.
At the very least, Trump and his craven suckups dress the part of government people. Why do they let Musk lecture them dressed like a middle aged pedo that wishes he were a teenager again?
Musk: “We will make mistakes (because we don’t care about you). So when we walk in and blow up a building, we WILL blow up some stuff that we didn’t MEAN to blow up. This doesn’t mean that I won’t still make billions off of every single thing I destroy.”
It was the chuckle that did it for me, nervous or otherwise, making a statement that you're playing with people's lives isn't even a mildly amusing oopsie anacdote.
I honestly think he doesn't grasp it. His brother said he's void of empathy. He seems also void of strategic/analytical/scientific thinking. Any one would have told him this is something serious. It vaguely reminds of Johnson's 'let the bodies pile high'. A narcissist? A sociopath.
He has to be. So many lives affected. US based Federal employees, staff providing critical support in countries in crisis, and the people, millions of people who were born in countries that rich countries like to play games with and argue over.
Apart from being a 💩 person, his brain 🧠 is steeped in video games He sees himself as the main character and a few others as supporting characters
Everyone else is seen as NPCs, non player characters
They also don't take this to mean that they should take at least 30 seconds to look into department or project or grant to see what it's for before canceling it and calling the employees lazy leeches. Just shrug it off with a laugh. Kill them all, we'll make more?
Musk really wants the American taxpayers’ money. MAGAts want to hand it to him. Utterly foolish and yet another self-inflicted wound delivered to MAGAts by MAGAts.
If they can't go bankrupt, if there is no competition, then it's not a business. ... And they have only this kind of people who could only work like this.
WHY TF IS THIS GUY RUNNING THE COUNTRY??? Grown-ass men sitting there listening to this drug-addled kook feeding his bottomless pit of an ego while at our expense... 😠🤬😤😡
Le pire c'est que ses idées nauséabondes se propagent. En France, nous croisons les doigts pour être épargnés, mais pendant combien de temps le serons-nous.
An unelected immigrant letting our President’s cabinet know exactly who is in charge. And I dgaf what that fool says there is NO WAY in hell they will do anything but balloon the deficit even worse.
Is this really happening, an unelected, conflict of interest fuelled, Nazi sympathiser, addressing a Cabinet Meeting in the USA making light of cancelling Ebola research?
Is it just me, or should people in that room be asking him very direct and specific questions?
I thought Elon had nothing to do with DOGE. Why is he speaking on their behalf then? I don't care what shell game they play to protect him from lawsuit liability, he needs to be held accountable for the damages his pernicious attitude inflicts on people and society.
There is no "position", no authority except being the current sidekick to a demented political tool. As witnessed by millions previously that can turn in an instant.
Right. HIV is, if anything, more dangerous than Ebola, because it can silently infect thousands before people start dying. Ebola is too …. messy… to go unnoticed.
I can imagine the world ending sometime in the next couple of months and, from a bunker somewhere beneath the debris, the few survivors will hear Elon Musk saying 'Oops-a-daisy!'
I don’t even think Elon cares about Teslas anymore. He’s about to hit it big with these American companies he’s tearing apart and finding “extra money”.
I want someone to ask him.... "Elon, how many innocent people do you suppose will die because of your mistakes? What is the acceptable number of dead kids, per dollar saved, to represent success?"
He’s a vindictive sociopath, and Musk is as well. They both had abusive fathers and need to prove to themselves that they aren’t worthless. These types get where they are by crawling up the backs of others and using and abusing people. No moral core.
For real, what are we gonna do with this ketamine-addled nutcase? Let’s bankrupt him, maybe that’ll slow him down.. Although.. he’s doctor Strangelove in real life, I swear.
So again, why is musk part of trump's team? He came late to the election. Does he have something on trump? Is he Putin's watchdog over trump? This can't just be about musk's money.
I think he has the prof that Trump is a Russian asset. Or that Musk helped him to steal the election and is holding that over him. I don’t think it’s about the money he spent. Trump has too big an ego. There has to be something Elon has on him.
Kinda interesting to me (unless I missed something) when musk bought Twitter there was story after story of him selling Tesla shares to fund it.
While 230 mil is a fraction of 44 bil, I have a hard time believing he had that much liquid to just throw in to the election, if anyone catches my drift.
It’s quite easy to NOT make those mistakes. Simply take a little time to read their job descriptions.
But like his cars and rockets, he prefers to just blow shit to start.
This really is the US-Administration? Council of secretaries of the world-leading country?
From a European point of view I'm sure I will experience the day when the US will get shame red over this as a devastating horrible past.
Right?! You cannot run the united States government like some startup. "Let's throw a buncha shit at the walls and see if anything works" while millions suffer through all the oopsies. I'm about ready to throw some teslas into a harbor.
I can't stand to listen to him. He is just so conceited. They don't think or care about what they cancel. They won't stop and look or ask about something. Sesame St, in Iraq? Yes, it helps the kids learn about diseased and lots of other things.
No, that’s evil P💩S Boer ketamine addict did that on purpose because just like his grifting splotchy skinned VP DonOLD, they get off on the suffering of others.
#Schadenfreude
NYT: the use of the Nazi font tone-on-tone embroidery on the hat Musk has started wearing indoors hearkens back to the days when Europe was changing rapidly
Yes!🎯
He's not even trying to hide how badly he wants to be the next HITLER.
Everyone should be considering this a five alarm fire at this point!🚨 I don't know why more attention isn't being drawn to his Nazi intentions for world domination. That's the REAL reason Trump hired him🍊💩😡🤬
Spent the last 20 minutes reading comments under a YouTube video saying he lost 100 billion.90 percent of the comments:
- He can't loose worth because of his greatness.
- He is being punished for saving the US.
- Claiming he is a master strategist and that is all part of the plan.
You are Doomed!
Problem is that it seems to be dominant in the US. This was not Tweeter. It was YouTube. At least I feel that it is more of a representative sample of the population. Bluesky has really turned into an echo chamber. From an outsider perspective it looks like majority of Americans are delusional.
Did anyone push back on that is why there is a budget process where the experts are told to trim programs and provide input vs scattershot and ‘whoops’?
If the objective is to destroy the institutions of the US so the rich can thrive in the chaos of a new libertarian nation, maybe they aren’t that incompetent.
They want power with no restrictions on their “creativity”.
@karaswisher.bsky.social said it isn’t that they don’t care about other people. It’s worse. We are like ants they run over without a thought. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXLycFv5Gc
I doubt he has any authentic authority to cancel anything, especially if it's being done as a result of a law. If an agency is operating under the authority of a law, they're probably the only ones with the authority to make all of the decisions about programs. This is total bs.
Especially as his so-called agency doesn’t officially exist - congress must approve the creation of federal agencies, as well as confirm the appointment of their directors. None of that happened, he’s just carrying on without any jurisdiction.
Remember, he's a car manufacturer. That's an industry where careless mistakes can also get lots of people killed. If this is his attitude to mistakes, then anyone with a Tesla should be getting rid of it ASAP for their own safety.
Not even a car manufacturer. He's just a man that used to hire the right people, but probably isn't even involved in the hiring process anymore. Literally a figurehead of all his companies. Tesla, SpaceX literally prep busy work for him when he visits to make him feel like he's doing things.
I can't stand muskrat, but most manufacturers think that way. They only do recalls because they have to, with less regulations, we may see more Ford Pinto level of "mistakes" in every aspect of manufacturing.
Musk also talks about the deficit. Here is a chart of US surplus/deficit over the past 25 years. Interesting to see when the deficit was highest (hit: lowest point on chart)
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Then again, who knows how horrible the VP would be. Ugh ... what's his name again? 🙄
This shouldn’t be accepted in any capacity.
Where are the adults in the room?
NOT!!!
Morons. The only way Musk companies have made money is from billions in government handouts. Welfare queen.
Fkg idiots.
Oh we also fired the nuclear experts, another oops.
Oh and some planes crashed, or nearly crashed, another oopsie.
Yes, uhmm. You see.
We are going to, the thing , the thing is.
Yes. The, uhh This is a good, an incredible idea.
Yup.
We will bring people back to life. Yup.
The dead bodies, traumatized minds, and such....
There. I said it.
He is an *imported* terrorist~
Ebola support never cameback.
Dr. Craig Spencer on @maddow.msnbc.com
This mthrfker owns them all.
#endthegop They're drunk with money, power and bone-deep spiritual gangrene
Defund fElon in every possible way.
-The Ketamine Addict
If you’re going to hack away with literal teen hackers & slash with a literal CHAINSAW, with NO OVERSIGHT, then yes, guaranteed mistakes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/health/ebola-elon-musk-doge.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U4.Zrrq.zXLLNLW9r5kp
He's a modern-day Frank Spencer, swapped the beret for the baseball cap.
Everyone else is seen as NPCs, non player characters
Or we’re ants at his picnic 🧺
Accident is a euphamism for "we got caught."
To get the screwworms out, the USDA to this day maintains an international screwworm barrier along the Panama-Colombia border.
Parmi toutes les mesures particulièrement inquiétantes prises par Donald #Trump depuis son investiture, la loi #anticorruption des fonctionnaires étrangers a été suspendue, facilitant l’impunité des élites corrompues et le blanchiment d’argent.
https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/donald-trump-donne-un-feu-vert-a-la-corruption-internationale-20250214_47HRYDS73JEW3ALMLOSEKSJXDY/
Is it just me, or should people in that room be asking him very direct and specific questions?
More people need to understand tv world isn't real
The world is real, what is not real are the conditions men impose upon others to benefit themselves.
But NYT: Elon is radically changing the government with little constraint.
They need to make it unconvoluted before he's actually allowed to do stuff.
Fuck the people.
Things get fucked up.
A lot...
Meanwhile, the House passes a budget with at $2.8 trillion deficit increase (largely due to a handout to people like Musk).
It's BS all the way up and down and the media needs to be calling it out in REAL TIME.
Fucking up on ebola is kind of a big deal no?
What's the big whoop?
We're moving fast and breaking things!
When "mistakes" kill people, who will be held responsible?
Thus is heartbreaking and I’m sure there will be many more.
This is devastating and all so, so, so unnecessary.
This is beyond criminal.
😞 😞 😞 😞 💔
"Take off your hat, you balding b*tch."
When someone else is in the limelight — ALWAYS check F47. He looks very insignificant.
JFC, someone wake our country up, and tell us this is all just a bad dream. Thanks.
Which he, in fact, HAS.
Imagine taking this… this ‘gig’ (esteemed role of POTUS)…
… but ONLY to stay out of jail, and appease your/our countries enemies. 🙄
I think he knows how trump 'won' the election and if Felon47 doesn't let him do whatever he wants he'll spill the beans to the world.
No way in hell trump won all the swing states without 'help'.
IMO of course.
https://www.planetcritical.com/p/cyber-security-experts-warn-election-hacked
While 230 mil is a fraction of 44 bil, I have a hard time believing he had that much liquid to just throw in to the election, if anyone catches my drift.
Measles, ebola... You name it.
The hospitals will be overwhelmed and inoperant
But like his cars and rockets, he prefers to just blow shit to start.
From a European point of view I'm sure I will experience the day when the US will get shame red over this as a devastating horrible past.
These are peoples lives, not some bad social media platform. Elmo and Trump value nothing, but themselves. Idiots.
#Schadenfreude
Maybe have some checks and balances to avoid mistakes.
You know, the "I'm an Asshole, Get used to it" principle.
That's okay, Elon. We know.
He is the King of Assholia.
Let me repeat that: they knowingly are killing people. Say it loud.
Then immediately fired!
Thank you for your government efficiency.
He's not even trying to hide how badly he wants to be the next HITLER.
Everyone should be considering this a five alarm fire at this point!🚨 I don't know why more attention isn't being drawn to his Nazi intentions for world domination. That's the REAL reason Trump hired him🍊💩😡🤬
- He can't loose worth because of his greatness.
- He is being punished for saving the US.
- Claiming he is a master strategist and that is all part of the plan.
You are Doomed!
https://bsky.app/profile/robinindfw.bsky.social/post/3liu2fd2wa226
This is extraordinarily gross incompetence.
https://prolib.substack.com/p/the-techbro-plan-to-splinter-the?utm_campaign=post&showWelcomeOnShare=true
@karaswisher.bsky.social said it isn’t that they don’t care about other people. It’s worse. We are like ants they run over without a thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXLycFv5Gc
https://apnews.com/article/tesla-china-lawsuits-musk-investigation-58b10ccace488784fcc63646ab78b410