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Like... Like a super special employee? An S.S.?
Someone really needs to shoot him.
“Elon can’t do and won’t do anything without our approval,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
Any bets on how long it will be until Elon does something so unpopular that there's blowback on Trump and it becomes "Elon acted on this alone and I had nothing to do with it."
I insist on only calling him President Musk because I know when he takes enough attention and credit from Trump, Trump will get mad and tell Elon to fuck off.
It's legal because I said so
So is there no conflict of interest with the companies he runs getting federal contracts? Don't politicians need to put their companies into some type of trust where they can't run it and make decisions that would be in their favour? I mean I know it doesn't work like that with stick trading (cough cough Pelosi).
I brought up the conflict of interest to a trump coworker and he deadass said, "I get the conflict of interest, but I just don't care." The mask is fully off.
Edit: not that I'm surprised, just depressed and somewhat bewildered
Trump did away with the trust thing. And they let him because it wasn't a law, it was just something that was understood to be done. No talk of him doing it this time either.
He's special, alright.
Does that mean his communications will be subject to FOIA?
Doubt it. I bet they'll try to classify any of his communications as presidential advice, which would make them privileged communications not subject to foia
Fat chance. I read he brought in his own server and connected it to the network at the OMB to spam emails to federal employees. That seems highly illegal.
Gosh, I remember a quaint time in the olden times when having your OWN EMAIL SERVER was something worthy of being lined up against a wall and shot for.
Guess that only applies to Democratic candidates for President named Hillary.
Also, and it bears repeating - I guess this would have been jUsTaSbAd under Kamala, because something something neoliberal argle bargle status quo genocide....
Legality is just words on a piece of paper if nobody is going to enforce it.
I tend to agree, but we should at least try. Pull every lever of governance we have for as long as we have it.
I don't disagree but it's not as if we're dealing with people who have any sort of integrity or honor, who'll accept when they've done something wrong.
But he's autistic guys! We're all misunderstanding, there is no Nazi coup going on.
He failed background check.
The richest man on the planet who once joked about ending world hunger is cutting federal spending of the richest and most powerful nation on the planet. Let that sink in for a moment.
And they were in an awful hurry to kill USAID.
That's probably just a trial run. They are floating the idea of killing the Department of Education now.
Not good enough.
Just because Trump declares him special doesn't mean he is, or that he should have special privileges, anymore than his moronic cabinet picks can start moving their shit into their offices before being confirmed by the Senate.
And being special doesn't excuse him from being a nazi.
He's only special in the short bus sense of special.
No, he's special in that he's an entitled narcissist bar any ethics or principles.
Let's be careful to not throw our differently abled friends under the bus by comparing them to Musk.
After all, most of them are kinder and have more sympathy than Musk.
*empathy
What if donvict says "I HEREBY declare fElon as special" on his own stupid social media platform? Is that super duper Constitutional enough for everyone?
As long as we the people continue to allow it, he is indeed whatever they say he is.
Oh no, this is one of those really fun powers we gave presidents a while back and forgot about. Presidents have a wide ranging authority to temporarily hire people and skip most of the ethics and oversight stuff that comes with normal federal hiring. The limitation is that it's only good for certain positions, which DOGE, (formerly USDS) is a part of.
They're proving that "act as if" really does work.
Oh he's special, alright.
He looks pretty special in the photo.
I have to admit, president musk was not on my bingo card.
It's been on my Bingo card since I realized that he basically bankrolled Trump's campaign by himself. He set up a PAC just to win the election.
I hope Musk is going to his office every day, because how could he possibly work remotely?
I know you are joking, but he's literally brought in sofa beds to his offices so he and his young minions can live there while they dismantle the government
So he’s working remote from Twitter and Tesla?
If he's living there, I wonder if he's still doing illegal drugs. Would be hilarious to have some DEA agents show up unannounced.
But not an actual employee??
Employees get paid. He's a special government intern. Violating internship guidelines to prevent abuse of power using unpaid interns in a 'special' way. Also these asshats were up in arms about 'Special Counsel' investigations being illegal like 2 weeks ago. We good with those again, or no?
And yet the security in federal offices listen to him as if he was their commander. Those guards should be investigated and charged. Its their literal duty to disobey unlawful orders.
Well, isn't that 'special'.
Aww, who's the specialist little boy in the government? Who is? Who is?
And here I thought that was Trump's title.
In fact he is the most special employee, and also a good boy. The best boy.
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