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Musk immediately calls for judges to be impeached after DOGE rulings

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Musk Immediately Calls for Judges to Be Impeached After DOGE Rulings

Summary

Elon Musk called for the impeachment of federal judges after courts blocked his DOGE from laying off probationary (new) federal workers.

Judges ordered agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of employees, ruling the firings unlawful. Musk claimed judicial resistance undermines democracy.

Musk has attacked judges on social media, calling them “corrupt” and “evil,” raising concerns among federal judges about their safety.

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How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And "corrupt"? Corrupt might as well be Elon's middle name.
- Fortunately, there seems to be a growing resentment about that with the GOP electorate for this very issue. We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
  
  We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
  If Trump and Musk have their way, November 2024 was the last time they will be using scales.
  
  My local magats are still behind him, they think it’s criminal that people are protesting at our local Tesla dealership. I think at least one of them—who’s extremely anti EV, is considering a fucking Tesla. And he’s a car guy who has had multiple luxury cars, and knows Tesla build quality is garbage.
- The irony is lost on him and anyone agreeing with him on this issue.
Respect the judiciary or leave the country.
- We’ve been asking him to for a while but he won’t listen and he keeps giving money to the people who should be making him leave
  
  Right? What is it that his ilk is always saying… if you don’t like it here, leave?
- I didn't think I'd ever say this in earnest but I wish he would get deported back to where he came from.
- Except SCOTUS. Fuck those (5) corrupt bastards
Elon Musk is mad there's a process in place to protect workers from being fired without reason? Color me shocked.
- He was already pissed when they built the Tesla plant in Germany. Strong unions and worker rights and environmental protections. All the things he so heavily dislikes, the Muppet.
  
  I thought he was a huge fan of the german way of doing things...
Small note for the summary: "probationary" in terms of government employees does not necessarily mean new, it means new in that role.
So, someone who has been working for the government for 20 years and was just promoted to a senior position is a probationary employee.
- Yeah this makes it just so much fucking dumber. That they would try to claim that it's due to poor performance, when they are literally firing people who just got promoted.
- I have a bunch of coworkers who were contractors in a position for about a decade, then transitioned over to GS employees doing the same job. They were classified as probationary due to being "new" to their positions and were put on notice.
Why isn’t he in jail yet?
- Because he's a billionaire. Rules for thee but not for me.
- I guarantee you he has signed no papers. His name won't be in anything. In a court of law you'll have trouble proving he actually ordered anything at all. He is welding all this power completely outside of literally any accountability and Trump , Congress, and Trump's supporters are all fine with that.
  
  So he says, "fire these people" and they just do it? If that's how it's been going that's even worse than the madness I thought it was.
  
  This, it's actually why the courts haven't come after him specifically, because on paper it's been... some dementia ridden woman who's name is being used to rubber stamp shit while she's dying in a nursing home in Mexico.
  I'm barely exaggerating
  
  Seems like it would be real easy if Elon tells you you're fired just to respond with, "No thanks"
- Probably can't find anyone with the balls to enforce the judgement
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- Yeah this smells pretty hard of criminal contempt of court among other things
That's not how that works.
- It kinda is now.
  
  However, impeachment of judges requires 2/3rd in the senate. That's the more important thing to note
- Sure it is, if they can get 2/3 of the Senate to vote to impeach. And if they manage that, I think it's time to cut off some heads
  
  Yeah, that’s not gonna happen. The Democrats may be weak as shit right now, but I’d be shocked if they get a 2/3 of vote at all, let alone enough times to impeach all of the judges who are at least trying to stop musk and Trump from their project 2025 ambitions.
I call for Trump and Musk to be jailed
- Hag!
  
  "Evil old woman, considered frightful or ugly". It's twelve down.
- "Fascism"
  
  Wonderful.
What happened to the musk hate from the right? They're suddenly taking his word as gospel and sending death threats to Judges.
- He kissed Trump’s ring to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. Then he came out explicitly endorsing Trump. Plus, he’s a neo-Nazi shit bag.
  That’s what happened
- Am i misunderstanding, or are you saying the right is trying to stop having death threats to them? Which if that is correct, I'm not sure I'm following what you are saying.
Musk = POS Nazi.
Tar/feather and quarter
- Whatever happened to that Pence gallows they set up?
- Drawn and quartered, with Tesla vehicles.
  
  Very much so
- One of those is not like the others...
Stop listening to an African Nazi who has no power over the country.
For the strongest country in the world, Americas fucking weak.
Send Musk back to Africa. Fuck sakes America.
Musk has no legal right to call for such. Just blowing hot air if it were any other legislature
- That’s why he bought the president.
I think it's about time this stuff is called out for being thinly veiled attempts at intimidation.
- Yep. Back to the Political Spoils system. We are in for a world of hurt if this doesn't get stopped soon.
The power of the purse is in the hands of the democratically elected congress.
So to get on the same page as Elon, a government agency, formed through an executive order, being run by an unelected official, thinks that they have the power to to eliminate programs, jobs and funding from congressionally approved organizations. Got it.
How hasn't Musk been arrested for being a dick?
If we cannot get rid of Musk how does Musk think he is gonna get rid of the judges?
Well he's just an unelected advisor so he can't call for shit
This loser needs to stop sucking up oxygen
I call for him to be deported! Trump too!

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