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Summary

Elon Musk is distancing himself from sweeping federal job cuts linked to DOGE, blaming agency heads—not DOGE—responsible for mass layoffs, including the announced 70,000 job cut at Veterans Affairs.

Despite claiming DOGE’s role as merely advisory, Musk admitted to mistakes in private meetings with GOP lawmakers and pledged to correct them.

Some cuts have already been reversed, with a Trump administration memo clarifying agencies are not required to fire probationary employees (new hires).

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[–] dank953@lemmy.world 40 points 2 days ago

Tough shit.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He's a complete cunt of a human. Utterly deplorable gobshite who thinks he's god's gift.

[–] takeda@lemm.ee 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact that he started piggyback his kid after Luigi, shows best what kind of psychopath he is.

A normal father would be willing to sacrifice his life for his kids, the Twitter guy is using his kid as a shield.

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 days ago (14 children)

It just occurred to me that Trump might be Ellen Pao-ing Musk. He knows the tariffs and mass layoffs and deportations are going to crash the economy. He needs a fall guy when it happens.

Do all your unpopular, disastrous policies with an unpopular person standing in front of you, then blame everything on that person and send them packing.

[–] gamer@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Ellen Pao-ing

Damn, it really says something about the demographic of Lemmy that nobody in your replies asked what this means.

(I also was on reddit ~10(?) years ago during this one particular controversy)

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

surely only his powdered koolaid snorting base would be bamboozled by this, right? right?!

[–] ShadowRam@fedia.io 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

As if Trump is smart enough to plan ahead something like that .. LOL

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[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I imagine he'll throw one or more of the kids under the bus.

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[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago

The Le epic meme agency totally isn’t mine guys. 🤣

[–] sepi@piefed.social 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Nobody "bats 1000". The best bat .400 - elon is such a goddamned idiot that he doesn't take the time to inform himself about how a thing he is talking about works - including something as simple as baseball. What a goddamned moron.

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[–] AynRandLibertarian@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] takeda@lemm.ee 12 points 2 days ago

He only wanted to kill investigations against himself and adjust some contracts.

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