r/politics • u/Quirkie The Netherlands • Mar 06 '25

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Suddenly Doesn’t Want Credit for Disastrous DOGE Cuts - Musk is warning Republicans to stop blaming DOGE for the cuts.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192415/elon-musk-warns-republicans-doge-job-cuts
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u/CehJota California Mar 06 '25

The guy running around on stage with a chainsaw doesn't want to be known for cuts 😂

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u/arthurno1 Mar 06 '25 edited 29d ago

So Trump got Elon to pay for the elections, than make him do unpopular stuff, and now he will sack him, since he announced publicly in his speech to Congress, that Elon is running doge, so no one should have doubt about it.

From the man who managed to bankrupt a casino himself! The man is a cunny beast indeed. But I don't think he can play the world politics the same way, I think it will backfire the big way. I think he gave us an important lesson, about why democracy is important.

You can play out autocrats, and billionaires this way, but you can't play out democracies, since in a democracy important decisions are not made on a whim of a single person. This is why a democracy is more resilient than an autocracy.

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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat Washington Mar 06 '25

man who managed to bankrupt a casino himself

Three casinos. Three.

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u/arthurno1 Mar 06 '25

😀 I apologize for my ignorance! Thanks for the correction!

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u/Ghost_of_a_Black_Cat Washington Mar 06 '25

You're not ignorant. I'm just pointing out that Agent Orange is an even bigger loser than you could have ever imagined. :)

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u/arthurno1 Mar 06 '25

I don't think it was a loss. I think it was his plan all along. To ripp off the investors, and he seems to just have ripped off Musk too.

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u/arthurno1 Mar 06 '25

Yeah of course, it was a greatinvestmentfor him. NASA is good to have as a front-facing organization through which he can funel government contracts to his companies. So I don't they replace NASA. However, it seems like Trump is sacking him, so he might suddenly lose everything.

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u/LurksAroundHere Mar 07 '25

It's funny watching them try to scapegoat each other.

To America - "That was Elon, not the Republican Party, keep supporting us!"

To the rest of the world - "That was the Republican Party, not me, keep supporting me!"

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u/KingOriginal5013 Mar 07 '25

Isn't it spelled Swastikkkar?

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

Nah it's not that. Courts are starting to rule that he has no real authority to do what he's doing.

This is all just legal ass covering.

If responsibility is put on potus and agency heads, then he can continue doing what he is doing whole claiming it is those with legal authority who are "actually" doing it.

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u/krum 29d ago

I'm wondering what he thought would happen.

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u/Cyberhwk Illinois Mar 06 '25

"Prancing and dancing around like a dipshit."

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u/Outrageous-Ranger-61 Mar 06 '25

Oh yeah, forgot about that. Lol

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u/Nearby-Play-6551 28d ago

Better to look at the chainsaw than his mug. 

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u/Sea-Palpitation6969 24d ago

This made me laugh so incredibly hard. Thank you for this light in this complete fuckshit.

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u/Johnny-Silverhand007 Mar 06 '25

I think is more for legal reasons. There was a court case over the mass firings where a judge said the OPM overstepped their authority with the mass firings. Then they came back and said it was actually the agency heads that were responsible for the firings.

Trump administration revises directive to federal agencies on mass firings - CBS News

U.S. District Judge William Alsup found that "OPM did not have the authority to direct the firing of employees, probationary or otherwise, in any other federal agency."

The latest guidance from OPM revises a Jan. 20 memo from Ezell that required agencies to identify all employees still in their probationary periods and send a report to the agency listing all those workers. The memo instructed department heads to "promptly determine whether those employees should be retained at the agency."

But the revised memo includes a new paragraph that states that "by this memorandum, OPM is not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions regarding probationary employees. Agencies have ultimate decision-making authority over, and responsibility for, such personnel actions."
OPM said it "wanted to clarify in light of a recent court order and some public misinformation. It has always been up to agencies whether to take performance-based actions against probationary employees."

Everett Kelley, national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, or AFGE, said OPM's latest guidance "is a clear admission that it unlawfully directed federal agencies to carry out mass terminations of probational employees."

"Every agency should immediately rescind these unlawful terminations and reinstate everyone who was illegally fired," Kelley said in a statement regarding the memo.

It feels like this is a "cover their ass" move. They know that if it's DOGE being held responsible for the cuts a judge would have an easier time of ruling them illegal using the same logic as the earlier court case.

So, Musk is telling Republicans to frame it as the agency heads doing the cuts in the hopes the cuts will get through the courts.

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u/Genghis_Tr0n187 Mar 06 '25

The fucking dork still has a pinned tweet with a banner: "The DOGEfather" featuring him with his chainsaw.

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u/FoolOnDaHill365 Mar 07 '25

LOL great point!

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u/throwawayDan11 26d ago

This was gonna be my point exactly lol. "Chainsaw man days he makes no cuts"