"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign (Musk's touching the stove) - ThreadSky

esghound.com • 4 days ago

"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign

(Musk's touching the stove)

Reposted from Chris Geidner

Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants.

This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

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fluffygryphon.bsky.social•4 days ago

Reminder to not click WaPo news. They sanewashed Trump just so they could stoke the flames and get juicy headlines (like this) that would make them money.

mitakuye.bsky.social•4 days ago

Encouraging sign, but even more encouraging would be to see him in court.

The stove needs to be hot.

connorstedman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Just laying the bare hand right on the coils.

luful.bsky.social•4 days ago

🤬😡Musk

judeobsc17.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk thinks Big Balls will take the fall

jeremywalker.bsky.social•3 days ago

@williamcallison.bsky.social Hello from Australia, big fan of your work. Are you and your colleagues across the global #AtlasNetwork?

#project2025 authored by Heritage, SCOTUS stacked by FedSoc, just 2 of 550+ Atlas orgs globally.

https://web.archive.org/web/20210824142756/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory

buckleup36.bsky.social•4 days ago

The White House now claims Elon Musk is not technically in charge of the DOGE effort and has no decision-making power. Thus inadvertently (?) setting Musk up for criminal prosecution - hahahahaha

https://bsky.app/profile/kovarsky.bsky.social/post/3lightqzink2m

buckleup36.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

punkygal.bsky.social•4 days ago

but this is part of the plan to consolidate power

pumpkinpal.bsky.social•4 days ago

I would love to believe that he's touching the stove but I'm going to be skeptical that he'll face any consequences til I actually see him burning

haleyth.bsky.social•4 days ago

Agreed. Until actual, visible action is being taken against him I’m going to assume he’s gonna skate.

j-jordan-poet.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk: "I can put my hand on the stove, no problem, I've got this nifty new heat-protecting spray I've just used on my palm!"

Spoiler: the heat-protecting spray was developed at SpaceX

wendymadarling.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not helpful, but okay, I am weeping.

onedayinjune.bsky.social•4 days ago

You know, if it all blows up in their face, what are the odds that the MAGA rank-and-file will blame Elon for the failure and accuse him of being a leftist plant?

proudanselmo.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think trump is trying to blow it all up.

connorstedman.bsky.social•4 days ago

Quite high I think. This generation at least will not turn on Trump, he’s a messianic figure.

miasma667.bsky.social•4 days ago

but Musk has a similar following, and quite a bit of overlap between the two cults isn't really about the men, its about the raw fascist power they feel in their tailwind. we've unfortunately seen this happen in history, movements outlive their figurehead and mutate on their own

esghound.com•4 days ago

only 30% of the country voted for Trump and maybe 50-60% of that group are die hard cultists

miasma667.bsky.social•3 days ago

right, but remember that every fascist movement in the world that did massive amounts of damage before being overthrown had similar stats of the supporter <-> cultist spectrum. there's so much going on right now that facilitates that. "normal people" want off this ride, but its not that easy

miasma667.bsky.social•3 days ago

the danger is that the cultists are good at being manipulative and getting people onboard their right-wing grievance train. and the failures of our normal political establishment to connect with "normal people" give the cultists more appeal. its idiotic to us, but... :(

twitteraddict.bsky.social•4 days ago

I imagine that's part of his utility, he serves as a good scapegoat and fall guy. Not saying that's the main plan, but it's a fallback.

connorstedman.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think they both think they are using each other, and they are both right in some ways, but Trump ultimately holds more of the cards. Musk doesn’t have as big or materially powerful a fan base as he thinks he does.

twitteraddict.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes but I think, rightly or wrongly, Trump believes Musk played a big part in his victory. He'll want him if he plans on running again, which I wouldn't rule out.

zaraza.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nah. He has more billionaire sycophants than he even wants. If Bezos has too much free will for him, he'll pull Zuckerberg and call him "the pet k*ke" and Zuck will sit there combing his leg hair all day.

darkglade.bsky.social•4 days ago

100% there's a lot of "useful idiot" about him.

Probably a reason most of the spotlight is on him and DOGE #justsayin

mesopholese.bsky.social•4 days ago

1,000%

discerning1.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yes 45 will

alexqgb.bsky.social•4 days ago

Nice jacket though. Is it Hugo Boss?

desperatecoper.bsky.social•3 days ago

either musk is shadow president for life, or on January 19th 2029, he hops on a plane to saudi arabia to live the rest of his days in exile

tjhawk07.bsky.social•4 days ago

Can you imagine how hard it will be for Elon in prison? No cell phone, no internet, no ketamine.

morealias.bsky.social•2 days ago

Oh, there's special K in prison... he'll just have to suck a lot of dick to afford it.

dingokayfabe.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yeah you don’t get into one of those top career positions by refusing to work with the White House either

ryanakaflats.bsky.social•4 days ago

esghound.com•4 days ago

oh that's a nice stove

antonomase.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk’s DOGE goal
Download USA data infrastructure to Tesla xAI Memphis TN
Train Tesla xAI Large Language Models on USA data infrastructure
xAI Agents operational over all USA taxpayer IDs
Tesla xAI, Trump Executive Orders rule USA
Twitter & Tesla xAI USA payment system
Dogecoin = US currency

proudanselmo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Does no one see the irony of a crypto currency becoming an official government currency?

antonomase.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don't think it would be irony. More like the greatest scam in history
Crypto, to me, has a value only in that it can be traded for fiat money
I believe Musk is trying to make it possible to pay taxes at the IRS through through Twitter with Dogecoin. Which would effectively make Dogecoin currency

proudanselmo.bsky.social•4 days ago

Bitcoin was developed for the express purpose of being unrelated, and untraceable by any government.

proudanselmo.bsky.social•4 days ago

*unregulated.

darkglade.bsky.social•4 days ago

Not true on "untraceable" the fact that the ledger is open for all to see makes tracing payments trivial, there are ways to obfuscate of course but the same applies to fiat.

FWIW the only mainstream cryptocurrency which actively tries to make tracing difficult is Monero.

proudanselmo.bsky.social•4 days ago

The idea was that you may be able to trace payments, but not link those payments to the people making them.

br1ckd.bsky.social•4 days ago

It will only matter if we can hold them accountable.

maplepony.bsky.social•4 days ago

I understand the move in a covering your ass kind of way but am I wrong that every single person who steps down because they disagree with the regieme just leaves a big hole for them to fill with a loyalist who'll do whatever they say?

Stepping down is aiding them, isn't it?

esghound.com•4 days ago

if it's "either do this or you are fired immediately" which one sends a bigger message? What about her pension? Hard to say

davidjorgonson.bsky.social•4 days ago

Making them fire civil servants adds friction and difficulty for them.
Understandable either way, but make them fire you is the higher choice.

jrodbad.bsky.social•4 days ago

As is tradition for Ketamine Clyde. It's only a matter of time before he rubs the orange one the wrong way and loses his gravy train.

ravenstromdans.bsky.social•4 days ago

I can't believe we haven't learned this from Trump's previous administration...resigning just means they'll find someone else in their shitsack who's less concerned about going to prison/more easily coerced/more invested in the Mumps regime that will do anything asked of them.

madphysiologist.bsky.social•4 days ago

I mean, the fact of the neverending shitsack isn't really in dispute or unlearned, I don't think.They're reaching in every twenty goddamn minutes.

mikusa.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is the 5th change of leadership for the SSA in 10 years. It is typically a 2 yr gig. The VA tends to pick for 4 years—the Chairman of the Fed is 10 years. Government is grinding as expected though you NEVER cared to notice.

bobslominski.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yikes

rdaries.bsky.social•4 days ago

I think some folks believe they are also immune or are ok with a pardon. They also believe their DOJ will be there to protect them. Guess they never heard of Watergate.

thedanklark.bsky.social•4 days ago

Oh boy, I can’t wait to be sent 50 dogecoins in lieu of my disability benefits next week.

shabbydude.bsky.social•4 days ago

Obligatory

sonofhil.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

snickersthecat.bsky.social•4 days ago

garysnyder.bsky.social•4 days ago

"Musk's touching the stove."

Where his hand will remain, until...

refrag.bsky.social•3 days ago

📌

kauffy.us•4 days ago

Why don't they all realize how incredibly dumb he is?

He's just an incredibly dumb idiot.

rjamxy.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is not dumb.... He is reckless....

zelmichael.bsky.social•4 days ago

He's both.

putonthatdress.bsky.social•4 days ago

He’s not smart.

oshichi.bsky.social•4 days ago

Many people are intelligent and also dumb. Elon's stupidity involves believing he can control MAGAhats. He lacks the vial charisma that Trump sprays around like an Oscelot

dlwatkin.bsky.social•4 days ago

He is really fucking dumb

esghound.com•4 days ago

many people are saying this

kauffy.us•3 days ago

Yeah, and not dumb like an insult. Like actually dumb. Like his brain does not work very good. He's an excellent manipulator, which comes from a lifetime of knowing you can't get caught, and if you did it wouldn't matter. That kind of luxury, however, does tend to make one incurious.

knitchic73.bsky.social•4 days ago

📌

monarchdiaries.bsky.social•4 days ago

Musk’s goal is for US Treasury to outsource payments to
X.

darktexture.bsky.social•4 days ago

One less person to push back on the heist is not comforting

scottjohnson.wtf•4 days ago

not a good sign if your life depends on an SSA check

esghound.com•4 days ago

guess they shoulda thought about that before paying in like chumps all those years huh

thedanklark.bsky.social•4 days ago

I really wish my dad was around to see this. He spent four decades with the SSA (state level) then did consulting work for them right up to his death, knowing him I bet he’d be forming a small army of pissed-off bureaucrats right now.

esghound.com•4 days ago

I wish your Dad was around still because he sounds cool 😎 and I think it's great you remember him like that

thedanklark.bsky.social•4 days ago

He was kind of an asshole and we always had an absurdly complicated relationship, but he instilled a lot of good values in me and taught me a lot of important lessons in life. He always had my back no matter how much I pissed him off, even when I didn’t deserve his help.

esghound.com•4 days ago

that you knew him intimately enough to know his whole self, good and bad, sounds like a blessing to me. RIP to your G-man dad

scottjohnson.wtf•4 days ago

just out here hoping my disability check arrives in a couple weeks

esghound.com•4 days ago

don't mean to make fun, I earnestly hope you get it as well but we got be ready to fight like hell, you deserve every damn cent

scottjohnson.wtf•4 days ago

Oh I know… I am a master of black humor. Shit maybe the entire Gov will collapse by the lol

thedanklark.bsky.social•4 days ago

As someone who’s only still alive because of SSDI and Medicaid who’s always used gallows humor to cope when shit hits the fan, I’m right there with you bud.

lacurandera.bsky.social•4 days ago

I don’t think they’ll touch ss checks…that’s crossing the rubicon

scottjohnson.wtf•4 days ago

yeah these people think they are indestructible tho

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