I’ve been reluctant to make this prediction so far because he seems to have Trump’s full blessing to do whatever the fuck he wants but I really think Elon may finally have overplayed his hand with this ridiculous email
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I'm hoping that this collapses the fiction that he's not running the government ( or trying to) hard enough for it to actually make a difference in the lawsuits.
I’ve got FBI and ATF republicans in my life spitting nails and blaming it entirely on musk. They didn’t vote for musk and he makes a convenient antagonist, where Trump isn’t.
He seems to think he is going to trick bureaucrats with masters degrees into sending him emails saying "I spent my summer vacation doing Woke DEI." So he can use Grok to fire them automatically.
i think part of it is that he had his month-long free-for-all while cabinet positions were still being confirmed, and now that they're mostly in place, a lot of them are telling musk to eat shit and stay off their turf...
I think this might be right but I truly don't know. As I said to myself the other day in an imaginary shower argument: "trump is more of a musk loyalist than musk is a trump loyalist". Or so it seems to me.
Trump is a trump loyalist and nothing else. He doesn't want the job so he's happy to let Elon and whoever else do the work for him. He's even more disconnected from what's going on in the WH than he was last time around.
Elon on the other hand is happy to suck up to Trump because he thinks he's playing him. As soon as any of this backfires in a public and messy way that looks bad for Trump, he'll get dumped
My working theory is that Elon has been bankrolling Trump since last spring, when a huge chunk of Trump’s liquid assets got tied up in bonds while he appealed the civil judgments against him from E. Jean Carroll and the state of New York. The timeline matches up.
Yeah that's what I thought too. Trump is a very wealthy asshole, but most of his money has been tied up legally. Elon musk has an endless ocean of cash at his disposal. That is, so long as he doesn't sieg heil tesla stocks down to nothing.
He is going to pretend it was his 4D chess/super smart/Xanatos winning plan all along to motivate the entire workforce. Now they are all less wasteful and he saved the government $13T this weekend.
That he wanted all those departments to undermine him. He has them now right where he wants them.
I thought it would just blow over, but then he decided to get BIG MAD about it and brought it back up, which means it's going to stay in the news a little longer, which means more and more people will hear about how ridiculous it is
None of these dudes can take an L, and it works to their detriment
he sent an email/text over the weekend and expected it to be answered on monday. he did a concrete shitty manager thing that everyone and their mother recognizes as such. he was doing stuff that only 10% of ppl recognize as shitty boss behavior before, now he's doing stuff 50-60% recognize as shitty
Here's the thing. Either he breaks (really pulling for this outcome) or... Shit gets REAL WEIRD real fast. and I'll be honest? I'd rather if shit is going to get bad it does so fast, so everyone can pull the fucking fire alarm before we've slipped into a stupor.
it was a stupid idea executed poorly but he could have backed down and taken the L except for the fact that he is incapable of doing so under any circumstances
so now he’s apparently going to make this the hill on which he dies
My guess is he'll triple down and do something even more insane because that's literally his management strategy when he receives any push back. Gaslight deflect and push boundaries even farther to assert his feeling of dominance over others. Ignoring the fact that more people daily see him.
“The hill” is going to be whatever issue results in them unambiguously ignoring a court order. What happens after that is going to be the tipping point
yep, he’s now reminding everyone following this story - even a lot of folks who are otherwise sympathetic to what he’s doing - of every awful boss they’ve ever had
Given the way both men operate, this kind of clash was inevitable. I'm just happier ir's happening sooner rather than later, since more discord between the White House and Elon lends itself to Republicans getting screwed even harder in any budget deal.
it's like when the right wing youtubers like ben shapiro posted their screeds against luigi mangione and were immediately hit with a sea of "shut up he's based" from their viewers. no clue what ppl outside the media class actually think.
“Agency heads may exclude personnel from this expectation at their discretion and should inform OPM of the categories of the employees excluded and reasons for exclusion.”
I think the logic is the ultimatum, not the content of the emails. Those who refuse get fired, and what he wants is a reduction in staff that leaves only the blindly obedient. The fact of replying identifies the obedient, and he gets to fire everyone else. He doesn’t care what’s in the emails.
All I'm saying is one of my bullet points would probably be that I added $1 trillion to our nation's GDP and there's a nonzero chance his shitty AI tool would believe it.
2) org chart of who expects legit orders to come from what email addresses and an excuse to 'you voluntarily resigned' fire anyone who refused to become a target in that social engineering nightmare
They've said they plan to feed it to an LLM like Grok and have it decide whose jobs are critical based on those 5 bullet points. The fact that this is on its face absurd is no impediment to them.
Be fun to see what errors they make that extend the costs of the litigation triggered by this stupid, pointless own goal.
Whoever said being wealthy was the cognitive equivalent of being kicked in the head by a horse was right, about Elon. The boy simply doesn’t understand the meaning of No.
He thought he could do the same thing he did at Twitter to the government but he didn't anticipate the heightened scrutiny that comes with trying to rip apart our government from the inside
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in reality this likely drags on and just gets swept under the rug, just like he was supposed to have a cage match with Zuck
Or should i say "what hasn't happened" 😭
New email ordering all federal workers to respond tonight.
Kind of like how he seems to believe Putin stole the 2016 election from him
That he wanted all those departments to undermine him. He has them now right where he wants them.
None of these dudes can take an L, and it works to their detriment
The legislature may not be capable of acting, but they needed the judiciary, and the 5th was the best judiciary ally they had.
Oh my god excuse me while I laugh myself sick
(I can’t get through the paywall to read the rest)
https://texaslawbook.net/texas-lawbook-exclusive-what-did-you-do-last-week-texas-judges-hit-with-doge-emails/
so now he’s apparently going to make this the hill on which he dies
So a MAGA vs. DOGE pissing contest is baked in?
2) org chart of who expects legit orders to come from what email addresses and an excuse to 'you voluntarily resigned' fire anyone who refused to become a target in that social engineering nightmare
Whoever said being wealthy was the cognitive equivalent of being kicked in the head by a horse was right, about Elon. The boy simply doesn’t understand the meaning of No.