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Summary

Elon Musk clashed with Trump’s cabinet in a heated White House meeting over Doge’s aggressive cost-cutting.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy was enraged by Musk’s attempts to cut air traffic controllers despite a national shortage, accusing him of unjustified layoffs. Duffy presented a spreadsheet showing Musk was not telling the truth, prompting Trump to order MIT graduates be hired instead.

Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins criticized hospital cuts, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio also confronted Musk.

Trump backed his cabinet, emphasizing a "scalpel rather than hatchet" approach to staffing reductions.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Musk was approved by Krasnov Trump, he needs to grow a spine and take responsibility for musk. Instead Krasnov Trump is going to make Musk a scapegoat after getting what he want. Musk on the other hand is going to blame it on the leaders of organizations that fired workers

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

It obviously wouldn’t get us out of this nightmare that reality has become, but it would make me feel just a bit happy to watch Elon’s smug ass get his face eaten by the leopard

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have zero doubt that a large part of the reason that Trump appointed Musk in the first place was so that he could later throw him under the bus.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

While I agree the orangefuck is 100% capable of this, i doubt seriously his ability to apply this much forethought to anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Forethought? No, it's just his nature as a con man.

Hitler threw so many of his allies that helped him to power he invented a car company so he could profit off the roads the corpses made.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Hitler was way smarter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

"Honestly, though, is it my fault that they did what I told them to do, or theirs for doing it?"

It would seem fitting for a wannabe Nazi to trot out an inversion of the old "just following orders" Nuremberg defense, don't you think?

I wonder, does Elon not realize that mentally ill, cognitively deficient, dark haired South Africans (let alone ones with what can only be described as 'likely deeply compensatory for something' levels of wealth) wouldn't have been doing much in the way of fraternizing with anyone Aryan outside of their camp stays?