Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Now Trump is saying Musk isn't the head of DOGE:

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/18/musk-doge-authority-trump-white-house

Musk is not a DOGE employee and "has no actual or formal authority," WH says​

Elon Musk is not the administrator of DOGE nor is he an employee of the department that's overseeing massive cuts to the federal workforce and agencies, per a Monday night White House court filing.

Are we one step away from "Elon Musk, you say? Who is that?"

In completely unrelated news...

DOGE about to go after SEC.

Hmmm....

 

[Shadowy Man]

NASA workforce will be 10% smaller by end of today.

By the end of today, NASA’s workforce will be about 10 percent smaller

A dark and painful day at a space agency that brings so much light and joy to the world.

arstechnica.com

 

[Politesse]

Trump Administration Lays Off About 1,300 Employees at the CDC

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?

Carelessly.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Trump Administration Lays Off About 1,300 Employees at the CDC

How are they determining which employees to lay off in such a short amount of time?

Carelessly.

They are just starting with probationary employees, which are probably the most efficient and enthusiastic employees, because that is easier. These employees are receiving form letters stating that they are being let go for "performance" reasons, though those reasons are unsubstantiated. The Trump administration just knows that they legally have to say those words and are relying on the fact that a class action wrongful termination lawsuit will take so long to come to fruition that the damage they are doing now is permanent, even if it is ultimately proven to be illegal.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

The President has authority to fire particular low-level officials for just cause. However, high level officials need to be impeached and mass layoffs for budgetary reasons seem like a congressional thing since Congress decides the budget. The budget was already decided, signed into law, and so the positions are de facto protected by law. If El Presidente wants a new budget he can propose one and Congress can take it up.

 

[Elixir]

The President has authority to fire particular low-level officials for just cause. However, high level officials need to be impeached and mass layoffs for budgetary reasons seem like a congressional thing since Congress decides the budget. The budget was already decided, signed into law, and so the positions are de facto protected by law. If El Presidente wants a new budget he can propose one and Congress can take it up.

Yah sure, but meanwhile he simply SAYS they're fired, and that causes people's paychecks to stop, rents to default etc., probably billions in economic damage for "fraud" recoveries in the few millions.
But at the end of the day, he can blame the pain on excess dem spending that HAD to be cut.
Only dem traitors are going to question Him.

THE CRUELTY IS THE POINT

It is the apricot taunting "nyah nyah nyah MY Court says you can't catch me!!"

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Trump appears to channel Napoleon in vision for executive authority: ‘He who saves his Country does not violate any Law’​

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/politics/trump-executive-authority-napoleon-post/index.html

 

[blastula]

Musk, the self-procaimed free speech absolutist.

Elon Musk Says ’60 Minutes’ Staffers ‘Deserve a Long Prison Sentence’ — In Response to Show’s Interview With a GOP DOGE Critic

Musk accused the staff of CBS’s 60 Minutes of being the “biggest liars in the world” on Sunday and declared they “ deserve a long prison sentence.”

www.mediaite.com

More media threats: Elon Musk shares a chilling post about ‘60 Minutes’ - Poynter

The same man who preaches about the First Amendment and free speech wrote that ‘60 Minutes’ deserves ‘a long prison sentence’

www.poynter.org

So I guess he's agreeing with Hitler here, but he's totally not a Nazi.



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[ZiprHead]

Human liver spot Steve Bannon was the next one to do a Nazi salute at CPAC.

 

[unapologetic]

If the process did not truly generate value they would not continue to do this.

Right. The rape and pillage of gov agencies is of value to Rump, musk, and your leader Putin. But turns the US into a 3rd world country.

Or why not private weather forecasting (which I have read they are actually thinking about).

That could work. TV, radio, and other media, might pay for the service. FoxNews would report it was always sunny over red states, and always stormy over blue states. And claim anything else was 'fake weather'.

Trump is a different type of scum which more benign when it comes to foreign politics.

"More benign" to Russia and China. While fucking-over our alias Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Etc.

And we FOUGHT Nazis, we didn’t fucking ELECT them.

There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world).

OK. But who's gold is it? The Federal Reserve? Or on deposit by several other nations? I suspect seizing that place would be more like robbing safe deposit boxes, than a banks own cash vault. Even the famed depository at Fort Knox is divided, and used for transfers within the building.

 

[ZiprHead]

There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world).

OK. But who's gold is it? The Federal Reserve? Or on deposit by several other nations? I suspect seizing that place would be more like robbing safe deposit boxes, than a banks own cash vault. Even the famed depository at Fort Knox is divided, and used for transfers within the building.

That was part of the plot of the 2nd Die Hard movie, robbing that depository.

In the movie the gold was kept in vaults separated by nation. I have no idea if that is actually how it's done there but seems plausable.

 

[unapologetic]

There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world).

OK. But who's gold is it? The Federal Reserve? Or on deposit by several other nations? I suspect seizing that place would be more like robbing safe deposit boxes, than a banks own cash vault. Even the famed depository at Fort Knox is divided, and used for transfers within the building.

That was part of the plot of the 2nd Die Hard movie, robbing that depository.

In the movie the gold was kept in vaults separated by nation. I have no idea if that is actually how it's done there but seems plausable.

I saw a doc on the Fort Knox vault. That is how FK does it too.
I remember the movie. I wasn't sure we're talking about the same place. I think the movie said it's a Federal Reserve.
Robbing it could fund NYC, But would it get revenge on Rump and Muskrat? Not being US gold.

 

[barbos]

"More benign" to Russia and China. While fucking-over our alias Canada, Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Etc.

Well, He has not tried to start a war with them yet. So, more benign.

 

[ZiprHead]

Anyone know how DOGE employees are paid and how much?

 

[Patooka]

There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world).

OK. But who's gold is it? The Federal Reserve? Or on deposit by several other nations? I suspect seizing that place would be more like robbing safe deposit boxes, than a banks own cash vault. Even the famed depository at Fort Knox is divided, and used for transfers within the building.

That was part of the plot of the 2nd Die Hard movie, robbing that depository.

In the movie the gold was kept in vaults separated by nation. I have no idea if that is actually how it's done there but seems plausable.

Third Die Hard movie. The 2nd one was the airport one with William Sadler being the naked baddie.

 

[ImGod]

Elon is easy to figure out. He autistic and he doesn't care much about earth. He wants to get to Mars. He'll do anything to get there. All his companies are research and funding for Mars. Space ships, EVs, solar, batteries, sat comms, tunneling.

He'd kill half this planet to get a colony on Mars.

He'd be a Dem and there would be a Dem president if they gave him Starlink for rural internet and unlimited SpaceX launches with no permitting. Biden screwed up there by leaving him out.

He's damaged now. Will never make his goal of Mars. His name was the brand. Libs won't want his EVs. Conservatives don't buy EVs. Any Dem administration in the future will cancel every SpaceX launch and/or nationalize it. Just based on his conflicts of interest firing NASA employees and being part of canceling the Green New Deal.

Who buys a Tesla next year after they open drilling, focus on bringing down gasoline costs and remove EV purchase incentives?

Rs are destroying his customer base while he destroys his brand. Bold strategy on getting to Mars Cotton.

 

[KCFlyer]

Anyone know how DOGE employees are paid and how much?

No, but I wonder if they are included in the weekly "tell me what you did last week or you're fired" email.

 

[KCFlyer]

Elon is easy to figure out. He autistic and he doesn't care much about earth. He wants to get to Mars.

He owns a fucking rocket company...simpely put him in the crew compartment and send him. The world would be a better place.

Dem administration in the future

I'm not sure there will even be elections in the future.

Rs are destroying his customer base while he destroys his brand.

I would love nothing more than to watch hijm become just anothr millionaire

 

[ZiprHead]

There are over 6000 metric tons of gold bullion at 33 Liberty Street in Downtown Manhattan (this is the largest collection of gold anywhere in the world).

OK. But who's gold is it? The Federal Reserve? Or on deposit by several other nations? I suspect seizing that place would be more like robbing safe deposit boxes, than a banks own cash vault. Even the famed depository at Fort Knox is divided, and used for transfers within the building.

That was part of the plot of the 2nd Die Hard movie, robbing that depository.

In the movie the gold was kept in vaults separated by nation. I have no idea if that is actually how it's done there but seems plausable.

Third Die Hard movie. The 2nd one was the airport one with William Sadler being the naked baddie.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Anyone know how DOGE employees are paid and how much?

No, but I wonder if they are included in the weekly "tell me what you did last week or you're fired" email.

Aren’t they these “special government employees”? I doubt they went through the USAJOBS process like real civil servants.