Speculation of Tesla CEO’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane
Elon Musk is reportedly set to leave his government role because he’s tired of the what he sees as a litany of vicious and unethical attacks from the left, according to a report from The Washington Post.
It remains unclear when Musk will depart as head of DOGE; his special government employee status will expire at the end of next month. A person familiar with his thinking told The Post that Musk thinks that his work at DOGE won’t be diminished because of his departure, noting that staffers have already established themselves across a slew of federal agencies.
But speculation of Musk’s possible departure comes as his influence in the administration appears to wane. The New York Times reported last week that the acting commissioner of the IRS was being replaced after Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained that Musk had his preferred candidate installed without Bessent’s support. Musk has also annoyed other cabinet members by failing to coordinate with them in cost-cutting moves.
Does he need help packing his shit?
BYEEEEEE!
I can’t wait to check TSLA stock tomorrow morning
It’s up, despite them completely shitting the bed on earnings. We’ll see if it stays that way. Having traded stocks as a hobby, the market can be stupidly irrational sometimes. I believe it’s up because he said he was going to distance himself from doge a bit, and do more for Tesla. Imo the damage is done, and he has done irreparable harm to the brand. Working less days for Doge doesn’t change the fact that he founded Doge and pissed a lot of potential customers off in the process.
We should totally all agree that we will leave Musk alone and start treating him nicely if he leaves politics wink wink nudge nudge
This is just posturing to make people feel like we’re not speed running towards fascism. I doubt that there will be any slow down behind the scenes
He is the richest man in the world. He has every resource available to him. He constantly punches down. He doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
Exactly, Muskrat expected to be able to shit on and ruin peoples lives and get ZERO push back.
You can’t buy a likable personality.
He tried, but he colflated a person on the leaderboard of a video game with a likeable personality
(No offense to likeable people on leaderboards)
I often wonder what the world would be like right now, if he’d simply taken it on the chin, congratulated that cave diver on rescuing those Thai kids, and went about his day, rather than jumping right into calling him a paedophile and sinking into ever further nutbaggery.
That event didn’t make him a fucknugget. It just showed the entire world that he was, in fact, a fucknugget.
Wouldn’t have changed at all.
That event didn’t change him at all, for fuck sake
I also wonder …… while it’s a safe bet that he didn’t change with that event, it was also one of the first times he strayed into something he knew nothing about to show his true nutbaggery. When he was talking about his companies, his products, that side of him didn’t really come out more did it really affect anyone outside his employees. That event made it clear the world was hanging on his every word and really shouldnt
No but I do feel like he nailed the ‘era’ where he started going off the deep end. From there on my graph it’s been a downhill slide from there. I thought it couldn’t go lower, but, as they say… lower than a snake’s belly in a wagon rut.
Money and power is a mirror, this is just who he is at his core.
Must be nice just dropping (what he claims is) important work on the ground when you need a nap.
He’s really demonstrating his famous work ethic. Maybe that sleeping on the factory floor legend was not about work ethic but about spontaneous napping when he feels a tantrum coming on.
I don’t think he will. I think he’s trying to get people to sympathize with him.
Please don’t take my last bit of hope with your realism
Not going to change my mind. He’s for Donald… I’m against him.
They like to flout the law in real time because they know there are no real consequences, but Musk still doesn’t want to leave an opening for a federal or state DA to sue him for financial disclosure and conflict of interest, if only to avoid the PR scandals from discovery.
He’s probably going to ‘officially’ bow out, but maintain a totally-not-suspicious amount of digital communications with the army of fuckup loyalists he installed.
You know, just like that time the fuckup in chief relinquished control of his extraordinary number of conflicts of interest.
I hope that Musk leaves politics in a wooden box.
I don’t want to wait until he’s in a box. I want him to leave politics now.
He’s a vampire so only if he leaves during the daytime.
He should just focus on making rockets fly and cars self-drive.
Bullying works.
And it has nothing to do with the expiry on the special appointment coming up where Trump will either have to make him a real federal employee with all the legal exposure that confers or let him go.
As others have pointed out, he’s already compromised systems, downloaded what data he could for Peter Thiel/Palantir, broken those organizations to the furthest extent he is able, and likely will have continued access to the data through illegal means in the future for himself/his handlers.
He’s not ‘leaving politics’ because those mean liberals, he’s leaving because as a useful idiot, he’s fulfilled his use and maybe realized he was being used as an idiot, but likely not.
Seems odd to imply he is concerned about the legal exposure of being a federal employee but willing to maintain illegal access to government data.
I don’t think he cares one lick about legal exposure. Others are just pushing back against what he wants to do, and he doesn’t like obstacles.
In all honesty, if he left politics and stayed out of it I wouldn’t my just leaving him to his harem and 40k.
America’s democracy is in dire enough straits that we don’t need to be stuck fighting the world’s richest man on top of the whole mechanism of government. If he’ll get and stay gone, I say leave him to it.
On the other hand, he’s rich enough that he can jump back in at any time and go back to fucking our democracy and he’s proven to be impulsive and mercurial, willing to throw his lot in with fascists because he got trolled on Twitter over how skin deep his progressive credentials are.
This better not be like the time he said he was gonna step down from running Twitter and then he didnt. He better follow through on his promise. And take his tech bros trying to shut everything down with him.
