So as they insist Elon’s DOGE is all powerful and must have access to everything and be able to fire everyone… they are declaring in federal court Elon isn’t even technically a part of it? 🤔 What a mess. www.politico.com/news/2025/02... - ThreadSky

thetnholler.bsky.social • 4 days ago

So as they insist Elon’s DOGE is all powerful and must have access to everything and be able to fire everyone… they are declaring in federal court Elon isn’t even technically a part of it? 🤔

What a mess.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/17/doge-administrator-elon-musk-00204639

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drosera154.bsky.social•4 days ago

as a senior adviser to the president, shouldn’t he have been vetted and confirmed by the Senate?

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•4 days ago

No, presidential advisers don't have to be confirmed by Congress. They're generally considered part of the White House staff, like the chief of staff, and do not need Senate confirmation.

annetm.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump rubberstamps Musk decisions.
Musk may "technically" not be in charge of DOGE,
BUT
Musk IS in charge; defined DOGE before Trump was elected, named DOGE after his cryptocurrency, fills staff positions w staff from his businesses, posts updates on his 'X', defends DOGE in the Oval, ...

michiganbecky.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wouldn’t the next question be - Who’s responsible for decisions about what is being targeted and what & who is examined? Maybe Musk is too busy impregnating randos?

leftwingnutjob.bsky.social•4 days ago

Maybe DOGE is real the deep state trumps been ranting about

thufir.bsky.social•4 days ago

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•4 days ago

What they're doing is setting up protection for Elon under the presidential immunity from the Supreme Court as well as from Congress as an advisor rather than The head of an agency that Congress might step in on.

paisliegiraffe.bsky.social•4 days ago

linda-glo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Our courts are not prepared for the nightmare that it is to come

hapibuddha1.bsky.social•3 days ago

So they lie? Why the hell is he even there? Collecting money $8M for Doge that’s a waste fraud and abuse. Sue them. Impeach Trump.

piratesandpoets.bsky.social•4 days ago

This racist monster needs to be hunted down like the terrorist that he is.

caridwyn.bsky.social•4 days ago

Those sneaky bastards

gagrip.bsky.social•4 days ago

I doubt any judge is going to believe that.

trentgein1746.bsky.social•4 days ago

Sounds like these agencies should ignore him then since he has no official capacity period.

carolleslis1950.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is to protect Musk should any charges result from his actions. He will put the blame on DOGE and then produce these papers saying he was never part of DOGE.

linda4us.bsky.social•4 days ago

My guess - Elon was never background checked or otherwise hired in accordance with law and Trump or Elon finally figured out the repercussions. If Elon was not in charge, but folks were acting on his orders … you’re right. Mess is the word. I was background checked for a federal job. It takes weeks

creedc3.bsky.social•4 days ago

Peter Thiel, a Gay German rich kid that lived in South Africa coordinated with Elon Musk- a South African rich kid once they became American Green Card holders, to make billions.

Now those South Africans are remaking the USA in their liming and image.

Does it make sense now?

cafetype.bsky.social•4 days ago

Man WTF

jcm444.bsky.social•4 days ago

They better fecking identify the person who is fully accountable, here. And that fecking person better know precisely what is going on.

vjm4democracy.bsky.social•4 days ago

“One way to think about the role of government is as a risk manager: providing social insurance against risks as diverse as earthquakes, diseases, and recessions”

Andrew Leigh “How Economics Explains the World”

#FEMA #CDC #NIH #SocialSecurity

everyonesings.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is just attempting to establish legal loophole granting Musk full immunity, right?

Trump even answers most questions about Musk with “you’d have to ask him”.

pinpress.bsky.social•4 days ago

Trump doesn't need to give Musk immunity because he has pardon power. However, a person would be a fool to count on that to protect them from performing illegal acts on behalf of Trump-- he's not reliable.

ordeadhead.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's right. They were made aware that what Musk was doing wasn't going to hold up in court, so they moved the goal posts.

lioness-cal.bsky.social•4 days ago

trumps lawyer are all about delays, lies and shifting blame.

maceovive.bsky.social•4 days ago

When will they be sanctioned and disbarred, we wonder.

austinred.bsky.social•4 days ago

An employee of the White House Office? Is he a paid employee? How much is he being paid?

beingtru.bsky.social•4 days ago

I’m guessing here but I don’t think judges like to be lied to.

katycronk.bsky.social•4 days ago

Are they going to throw all those kids under the bus when this goes down? Since it's unpopular? Elon goes free? Wouldn't be shocking

madmaymermaid.bsky.social•4 days ago

While I could see them trying to absolve Musk, those ‘kids’ need to be in prison too! They’ve committed crimes and they may be young but they aren’t kids. They’re adults violating the constitution and committing economic espionage among other things!

restofusparty.bsky.social•4 days ago

I am sure Elon would not appreciate it this was pointed out on Twitter over and over!

finddignity.bsky.social•3 days ago

It’s all about the pending cases. If he’s legally a subordinate to the Teflon Don, then he has a blank check to destroy our nation.

hopechange.bsky.social•4 days ago

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!

mike859.bsky.social•4 days ago

Did I just hear the bus with Elon’s name revving its engine? Thoughts and prayers. Trump throws everyone under the bus at some point.

nursequixote.bsky.social•4 days ago

The Heritage Foundation will throw DT out when he's outlasted his usefulness... he's a fall guy. Elonazi may last longer if he buys more ppl. Vance, courtesy of Theil, is the guy they'll claim is smart, sensible, more centered. He's the one they want for 3 terms.

rosieogrady53.bsky.social•4 days ago

And yet...

worstdayever.bsky.social•4 days ago

WTH?!

kygranli.bsky.social•3 days ago

They didn't confirm anything, they just lied.

miss-spider.bsky.social•4 days ago

Conservatives will believe this bullshit?! Stoooooop it 😭

bodhi504.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wait, what?

stevec125.bsky.social•4 days ago

This sounds just like how the Mafia operates.

desertrat1933.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

davidmjackson.bsky.social•4 days ago

They are in a position to download and destroy all data and all backups. That will shut all of it down. We are hostages.

paisliegiraffe.bsky.social•4 days ago

They’re specifically saying he’s a White House employee. It’s an attempt to cover him in all that warm, snuggly presidential immunity.

mkatl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hmph, well isn’t that convenient?

spreuarts.bsky.social•4 days ago

Watch out Bug Balls. He’s going to leave you out to dry when the jig is up. Because he was never technically “an employee” of doge

doikeit.bsky.social•4 days ago

> Amanda Scales, who worked for Musk at xAI, has been named chief of staff at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), essentially the government's HR department.

doikeit.bsky.social•4 days ago

> Riccardo Biasini, who worked at Musk's Tesla and the Boring Company, is senior adviser to the director at OPM, and was listed as the point of contact for a new government-wide email system the Trump administration is using.

doikeit.bsky.social•4 days ago

> Former Tesla software engineer Thomas Shedd is now running the General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Services unit, which develops tech for the government.

doikeit.bsky.social•4 days ago

> Many DOGE-affiliated staffers are young male software engineers from the tech world. That includes Marko Elez, a 25-year-old Rutgers University graduate who worked at Musk's SpaceX and X.

doikeit.bsky.social•4 days ago

> Mimicking a similar offer Musk made to Twitter employees when he took over the social media company, OPM sent a mass email to more than two million federal employees... which offered a "deferred resignation" to employees with a promise of pay and benefits through the end of September.

jettdash.bsky.social•4 days ago

WH playing 3 card monte. Find the leader.

unitedwiistand.bsky.social•4 days ago

If only we had military to step in for a coup to stop this coup.

skybarney.bsky.social•4 days ago

That is where this all leads. The military will split, perhaps violently. The J6ers, Proud Boys, 3%ers, Oath Keepers, and a dozen other far right groups will start war in the streets.

Well it won't be a war, it will be a slaughter.

unitedwiistand.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yep

fodo-liath252.bsky.social•4 days ago

Perjury is the language of Trumpland.

adammaitland.bsky.social•4 days ago

melodykayyoung.bsky.social•4 days ago

Gaslighting on ketamine.

dodibes.bsky.social•4 days ago

So you don't have to let him in?

lovethiscountry.bsky.social•4 days ago

That’s an ugly can of worms to have to explain now.

carol2144.bsky.social•4 days ago

So arrest him for what then!

tardigradeone.bsky.social•4 days ago

Can’t wait to hear him defend himself in an investigation.

“….uh…uh…but…uh…”

sweetiesue1111.bsky.social•4 days ago

Really? Because it appears that Musk considers himself to be the President.

kriswil.bsky.social•4 days ago

So their just making up shit as they go along?
No one has any real answers to anything anymore.
What the hell is going on?
This is our country, and it's spinning out of control.
Strike that, it's spun.
JFC!

nerdaged.bsky.social•4 days ago

Great, then he's not allowed into any of the places they're going, he can't tell them where to go out what to do, and he has no access to anything that they access or download.

Yeah, and if you believe that...

kjf2025.bsky.social•4 days ago

Time Magazine thinks otherwise. #whitehouse

twochops.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk is worried about his criminal exposure. He knows Trump won’t protect him when things go south.

ursrbrot.bsky.social•4 days ago

That's deliberate chaos strategy. It's flood the zone with shit, again.

300ps.bsky.social•4 days ago

Then Big Balls is president? This is getting confusing.

tootall64.bsky.social•4 days ago

wilmachado.bsky.social•4 days ago

When DOGE comes calling tell them to fkoff

whatisabeau.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just more lies to cover their asses.✊🇨🇦✌️

askgma.bsky.social•4 days ago

Court rules. Get this asshat gone!

thenewnews.bsky.social•4 days ago

the100acrewood.bsky.social•4 days ago

electricmeat.bsky.social•3 days ago

So he technically can’t be held accountable by law.

taterlover.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤔

bryagh.bsky.social•4 days ago

Always playing these games to avoid accountability. It’s absolutely insane that they ever called themselves the party of law and order

irascibleoctopus.bsky.social•4 days ago

So who hired the kids and how did they, as government employees, not go thru the normal vetting procedures?

rottweilerhome.bsky.social•4 days ago

Took a look at the doge website. It is incredibly biased. It forces you to xhitter where the sickies posts seem AI generated.

There are claims of fraud that really seem like Musk and Musk-rats don't understand accounting.

murgatroidbonbon.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/murgatroidbonbon.bsky.social/post/3ligecz7fdc2h

internist.bsky.social•4 days ago

WHO IS STUPID ENOUGH TO BUY A TESLA??????????
BOYCOTT Tesla Swasticars
DOGE is illegal
Arrest Musk & minions
Coup d’etat
DUMP TESLA (stock & vehicles)
#musk #tesla #DOGE #trump #criminal #socialsecurity
#HHS #CMS #boycott #sedition #hackers #illegal #Medicare #starlink #treason #swasticar #nazi

cjmmusic1.bsky.social•4 days ago

chris-1970.bsky.social•4 days ago

President big balls !!

tempestuoushag.bsky.social•4 days ago

Then why did he get access to so many sensitive systems?? This is slop, just like everything else they do. Sloppy and overreaching

steveperkins14.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk has no authority to access government information because he has no top secret clearance

skybarney.bsky.social•4 days ago

It's called the, wait for it....

DODE Dodge.

pinpress.bsky.social•4 days ago

No doubt some kind of legal sleight-of-hand to protect Musk from annoying judicial impediments. Perhaps Chutkan will be the one to insist that they decide one way or the other so she can figure out HOW they are acting illegally.

mircel.bsky.social•4 days ago

The one hand is trying to hide what the other hand is doing by creating yet another confusing situation around musk

endbillionaires.bsky.social•4 days ago

soccerdawgz.bsky.social•4 days ago

Who is analyzing DOGE process that selected the government employees fired? Why were they selected? What benefit to the coup for each removed? Did Heritage Foundation/Project 2025 select them? What criteria did they have in common? What % race, gender, etc. Was this political retribution or other?

wsvguy.bsky.social•4 days ago

Let me get this straight.

Elon Musk is/isn’t the head of DOGE.

DOGE is a completely made up group full of a bunch of randos with no security clearances or authority.

Why are these people rummaging through and looting OPM, IRS, Treasury?

ARREST THEM ALL. This is felony data breach for starters.

madmaymermaid.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also economic espionage.

scoho.bsky.social•4 days ago

“The U.S. DOGE Service Temporary Organization is within the U.S. DOGE Service.”

The thing is within the thing, got it.

F’Elon and the felon he rode in on

We need to reign this shit in quick

oneovoice.bsky.social•4 days ago

Elon’s lawyers must be getting nervous.

Are tweets and presidential announcements admissible as evidence?

dhenslee.bsky.social•4 days ago

I find it concerning that in the initial announcement about DOGE, of all references they could have used, that they compared it to The Manhattan Project.

nursequixote.bsky.social•4 days ago

MERCH ??? 👀 The multitude of ethical dilemmas abound.

pinpress.bsky.social•4 days ago

I'm pretty sure they are.

wildlifemom.bsky.social•4 days ago

Absolutely, yes, unless trump can prove that someone else released that statement in his name.

katie-did.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes they're admissible! They just used Karoline Leavitt's tweets with the first memo fiasco about frozen funds to show the order wasn't fully rescinded.

izzyg.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk is a Moby dick

verified-my2cents.bsky.social•4 days ago

A nation with 2 wannabe unaccountable kings...

hoogrection.bsky.social•4 days ago

Every frickin’ day it gets worse.
STOP DOGE FUCK MUSK

kennywhatgives.bsky.social•4 days ago

If DOGE can’t identify who is in charge, there’s no reason a politician should comply with orders denying them entry into gov’t buildings.

charsoldest123.bsky.social•4 days ago

F Musk and tRump!!!

charsoldest123.bsky.social•4 days ago

Read every word of this because it is the law. It is proper procedure. Send this to your senators and representatives and do it NOW!!!

drosera154.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

nursequixote.bsky.social•4 days ago

Threaten to withhold your vote, to campaign for/ donate to their opponent, they must act for the constituency or they must leave office!

nursequixote.bsky.social•4 days ago

https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm

flnative.bsky.social•4 days ago

Our lesson learned - DO NOT CAPITULATE

iamcanadian3672.bsky.social•4 days ago

So kick his butt to the curb.

erinnm.bsky.social•4 days ago

sastenio.bsky.social•4 days ago

It was reported previously that he’s a”special government employee” who “helms DOGE”. It seems he hasn’t even complied with requirements for that role.
⬇️

authorgccade.bsky.social•4 days ago

Which makes trump signing the fed gov't over to him even worse.

sneeky-pete.bsky.social•4 days ago

So who’s authorized to do the firing anybody wanna answer? @housedemocrats.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social @repjasmine.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @senatorheinrich.bsky.social

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