The Elon Musk Thread

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President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet in person on Thursday to deliver a message: You’re in charge of your departments, not Elon Musk.

According to two administration officials, Trump told top members of his administration that Musk was empowered to make recommendations to the departments but not to issue unilateral decisions on staffing and policy. Musk was also in the room.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093

 

[Mr. Tea]

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093

If only someone could have foreseen that the man whose stated aim was to dismantle virtually the entire civil government would then set about dismantling virtually the entire civil government.

 

[william_kent]

it didn't "blow up", it was a "rapid unscheduled disassembly"

 

[wg-]

Imagine being off your barnet in a boat and seeing a spaceship blow up in the sky above you

Be good that

 

[Mr. Tea]

Imagine being off your barnet in a boat and seeing a spaceship blow up in the sky above you

Be good that

Probably preferable to watching the 9/11 attacks while tripping balls:

 

[wg-]

Gives a fuck

 

[luka]

 

[luka]

 

[Murphy]

Which Musk eye is looking at me?

One of the Baldwins in space too, what a nation

 

[Mr. Tea]

Gives a fuck

tough crowd

 

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Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation - Motor Illustrated

Tesla reported 8,600 sales in three days, triggering $43 million in government EV rebates. A single Toronto Tesla location claimed over 1,200 sales, raising concerns about possible rebate misuse. Transport Canada is investigating potential irregularities in Tesla’s sales amid the suspension of...

motorillustrated.com

 

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Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk

Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.

www.nytimes.com

https://archive.ph/leM5Q

 

[IdleRich]

Great use of resources

 

[Mr. Tea]

Somewhere in the netherworld, the unquiet spirit of Nikola Tesla is saying "wtf did I do to have my name associated with this obnoxious man-child?"

 

[mixed_biscuits]

Who taught you to distill your pain to pleasure?
Eh Eloi alloy of a liltloam eel
Lifts aloft, lilting off, lumens looping from its wetware launch by
Lauded looting Elon of the eLore
Eloin of my lounging machination

I was thinking something along these lines earlier.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

A friend of mine has been talking about how we haven't yet developed proper memetic hygiene, as a society, and that a lot of the recent culture war stuff (like the SJW cultural wave, and now this MAGA cultural wave) are essentially memetic plagues that we haven't developed proper resistance too yet. The term 'mind virus' could actually turn out to be quite apt, applying to both extremes of the culture war.

Plagues? People who refer to human behaviour as a disease that needs eliminating should focus their efforts at hygiene on themselves first of all.

 

[sus]

Cos loads of people are complaining to their mps

to their mps

mps

 

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Unusual Whales (@unusualwhales.bsky.social)

BREAKING: Trump says he will label violence against Tesla, $TSLA, dealerships as domestic terrorism.

bsky.app

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

"They have one for $35,000, which is pretty low" -- Trump during his Tesla promotional event with Elon Musk at the White House says he bought a cybertruck for his granddaughter Kai

bsky.app

 

[IdleRich]

Why is it do you think that you don't get many pics of Musk in profile?



Why don't you ask him what's going wrong?
Why don't you ask him the latest on his throne?
Don't say that you love me
Just tell me that you want me
Musk!

maybe @william_kent will appreciate that

 

[IdleRich]

Lines of k just out of picture




I guess that explains the beer belly at least.