2mo ago

Elon Musk announces exit from US government role after breaking with Trump on tax bill

www.theguardian.com

The departure of a man who once appointed himself Trump’s “first buddy” was quick and unceremonious. Musk did not have a formal conversation with Trump before announcing he was leaving the administration, according to a source with knowledge of the matter, who added that his exit was decided “at a senior staff level.”

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he did what he needed to do, end all investigations against him, award all contracts to him that were blocked. fire all department employees as a distraction.
- Come on now, Elon's paid >$250 million dollars to trump's campaign (that we know of) he deserves to have his needs met, the US isn't called "land of the free" for nothing! /s https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/07/elon_election_spending/
This clown show plays the American public like a circus act
I won't believe the circus has left town until I see them take the monkeys off the stage
- Actually that's an Orangutan, which are great apes. Well this one isn't so great, but it's a different family than monkeys.
  
  That’s an insult to orang-utans, who are quite intelligent, unlike Agent Orange
Isn't this the 3rd or 4th time in the last month Musk has "left the government"?
Even if this is true the damage he managed to do in just a few months will continue for a long time. Go fuck yourself, Elon.
- Plus all the data he now has... That he stole.
- "I'm going!"
  "I'm leaving!!"
  "Watch me, I'm walking out the door for sure!"
- Apparently they have to make sure even the most dimwitted has recieved the notice that Elon Musk "definitely isn't part of this administration anymore, pinky swear and everything".
  
  "Now please buy my shiny dumpsters!"
- It did. I remember media saying he was out at least once or twice before. But he was still there so IDK. It's probably just smoke so people don't look too much into it.
  
  Exactly. They've realized Elon is deeply disliked by everyone. He's too rich to just cut out entirely, so they're just taking the cameras away from him.
I haven’t been paying attention, but weren’t we a couple weeks or days away from his active involvement with DOGE coming to an end per a previously agreed upon timeline?
I've done my job, like I always do. I made myself important and in the spotlights, I destroyed everything, I'm leaving behind ruins and a pile of shit. It costed the tax payers a lot of agony and money, but I had a lot of fun and I made a lot of money so it was worth it. Thank you!
All according to the script. Raise curtain for Act II.
Treasury department has more backdoors in it than an Asus router with the default password. His work is done.
- And every US agency is now linked back to Musrkat's lair via starlink, which should just be deorbited at this point.
Bullshit
Hopefully he departs earth next.
I really think this is just about him wanting to stop pissing off Tesla customers and get people to go back to buying his cars. I don’t believe at all that this break is legit.
- People will still not buy Teslas. Even if he stops gutting important government offices, he's still a fucking nazi.
I don't think so. You don't buy the us presidency for hundreds of millions just to give up after a few months. He'll just pretend to work at Tesla while actually continuing be the president
He broke with Trump over the Big Beautiful Billionare Enrichment Bill? Was his cut not big enough?
Just say it... You were fired. you were DOGED.
- okay, so i normally hate LLMs, but this is pretty funny.
  here's my joke: "you think he'll share his breakup spotify playlist? i bet it has lots of evanescence on it"
  here's what it suggested instead: "You think he'll drop his breakup playlist? Bet it’s just Grimes tracks and the sound of him refreshing Trump's DMs."
  edit - LMAO
  "Can’t wait for Elon’s breakup playlist. Probably just Grimes songs and audio clips of him begging Trump to like him again."
  
  You "normally" hate llms yet run to them to generate jokes for you after reading news headlines?
Dear Elon,
It's not in your head. It's real, nobody loves you. Nobody will ever love you.
Sorry not sorry, Everyone
May he take a long walk off a very short, but very tall, bridge.
Not that it matters much that he is "leaving" DOGE as I'm sure his cronies will continue his "work" for him.
- Maybe he can ride the next rocket his company tries to launch.
Good to see you go. Now time for you to leave the country Nazi.
No one cares bro! Go die if you want, you already did enough to destroy the world.
Good riddance, you won't be missed, make sure the door hits you on the way out.

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