if we're gonna get through whatever the fuck we're in right now, at certain points you gotta just shut blatant lies like this down without any hemming and hawing. just like, 'oh that's cute the white house said that. they're wrong.' - ThreadSky

cwarzel.bsky.social • 5 days ago

if we're gonna get through whatever the fuck we're in right now, at certain points you gotta just shut blatant lies like this down without any hemming and hawing. just like, 'oh that's cute the white house said that. they're wrong.'

Reposted from Chris Hayes

Sorry but this is plainly a lie as anyone with eyes to see can tell.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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boomer-michael.bsky.social•4 days ago

cherylrofer.bsky.social•5 days ago

Thank you. We need more journalists recognizing this.

cdnhelp.bsky.social•4 days ago

Wait a minute here. You should never believe your own eyes and just obey what we say.

dixonij.bsky.social•5 days ago

I've also yet to see anyone push back with: "Okay, so if Musk ISN'T in charge there... Then who is? What unelected and/or unconfirmed individual is making these decisions affecting the lives of countless millions across the globe."

lindap46.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, but had anybody actually told Elon that... because he thinks he's president!!!!!

cwarzel.bsky.social•5 days ago

i will say this confuses my notion of what Trump/the WH wants out of Musk. I imagined they wanted him way out there with him (the interviews, the oval office presser) as the face of this stuff, in case it all goes seriously awry.

crunchyfishtaco.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think you’ve gotten it all wrong.

This is a one way deal. It’s what Musk wants out of Trump and this White House.

He wants unlimited power, zero accountability, and absolute control of an AI future that his companies create.

danahoule.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think it’s the opposite direction. It’s what Musk wants out of the WH

Trump never lets anyone upstate him. But he’s let Musk.

There’s something deeply weird & sinister goin on.

@mikecaulfield.bsky.social

drylandgardener.bsky.social•5 days ago

I figured Trump would make Elon take the fall, as he does with people generally, if things went awry…but now I don’t know, after the Oval press conference where Trump was an afterthought.

crumbsthecat.bsky.social•5 days ago

I just assume Trump wants the many millions of dollars Musk is funneling Trump’s way, and is giving Musk carte blanche in return.

mrreciprocity.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think they want him to be a slippery eel who is obviously giving orders but has no official responsibility. Makes the whole affair hard to pin down, and if it DOES go south Trump can say "oh, Elon? He was never official. Totally acting on his own. I barely know the guy."

nauticavan.bsky.social•4 days ago

They do. It’s just, you see, nothing matters

penguins18.bsky.social•5 days ago

Your mistake is in assuming there’s a master plan. That there’s a Palpatine or a Goldfinger pulling strings and planning some outcome. There’s not. There’s only impulse. Also some revenge. And fear. And probably some boredom.

bingo46.bsky.social•4 days ago

💯

kaufmak.bsky.social•5 days ago

As an odd non sequitur: do people greet you to the tune of Johnny Ryall? Every time I see your name, that’s what I sing.

stogachess.bsky.social•5 days ago

musk, trump and their gang of bolsheviks are lying again. must be a day that ends in y.

kdbyproxy.bsky.social•4 days ago

If Trump told the SecDef to fire 2,000 employees at DoD, the actual firing would also be carried out by agency personnel, but that doesn't mean Trump isn't a senior government official.

drylandgardener.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes! Instead of parsing it to death! Just shut it down.

8to24.bsky.social•4 days ago

Per Article II, Section 2, Clause 2
of the Constitution Musk requires Senate approval for a for a office that represents the Administration or law. That's why the WH tip toes around what 'authoritize(s)' Musk has. Because legally Musk cannot be given any. What Musk is doing violates law.

thund3rstruck.bsky.social•3 days ago

How long until Musk fires Joshua Fisher?

jamesdolson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Or the even more accurate ‘The White House lied about Elon Musk not being the head of DOGE’

sarahvb.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Far Be It From Me" will be on America's tombstone

convergence-zone.bsky.social•4 days ago

So it’s Elons merry band of incels? Just firing and pilfering of their own accord? Now that they’ve broken into SSA Elon doesn’t want his fingerprints on that? Convenient no one needs to be “in charge” to fire thousands of federal workers.

aquagyrl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Right?

givepeteachance.bsky.social•4 days ago

Has Musk become one of the little green men?

joesegal.bsky.social•4 days ago

why wont the WHPC do that?

gabyblanco.bsky.social•4 days ago

When has the gov’t or anyone in gov’t (in general) ever told the truth (except for maybe Jimmy Carter, he seemed awright)?

sdmarch1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Every Democratic member of Congress should be standing together at White House demanding the end of DOGE! Their actions r unconstitutional and must be stopped. We have an unelected Billionaire unilaterally deciding not to pay for what congress has already appropriated by law. With zero acountability

puppylove05.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reminder, it’s a coup

lanceboil.bsky.social•4 days ago

How the hell can they get away with this? DOGE is a personal vigilante militia directed by the FOTUS to ransack all government agencies. You mean that there are no laws or law enforcement agencies that can stop this?
All this, while the Vichy GOP Congress sits idly by. Johnson is a Quisling.

lanceboil.bsky.social•4 days ago

I hope those who are ignorant of history take the time to Google "Vichy" and "Quisling".

blueaps.bsky.social•4 days ago

If this is true then just shut dodge out and arrest them for illegally accessing government systems. They have no official role. If it is not true arrest then for contempt of court.

katologic.bsky.social•5 days ago

And then scream into my screaming jar

bdcava.bsky.social•4 days ago

Amazingly, if Vivek said he left out of principle, he would, for the first time, look like a serious person.

ravenna321.bsky.social•4 days ago

I know who's really in charge. Putin.

williammberg.bsky.social•4 days ago

The people who should be speaking out are the people who can potentially lead us out of "whatever the fuck we're in right now." But who/where are they? Even Dem governors are fearful. Early stage totalitarianism!

wendykd.bsky.social•4 days ago

Who’s in charge of the White House, Not Trump obviously.

shelley112.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/rgoodlaw.bsky.social/post/3ligede7vm22z

preferspuppies.bsky.social•4 days ago

If Elon is not the head of DOGE then why is he strutting around the Oval Office, lording over Donald telling us all about DOGE?

manojkalita.bsky.social•4 days ago

Elon Musk is in charge of Donald Trump. Rest does not matter.

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