What a horrible monster Musk is

[question everything]

Musk Unleashes Online Army on Federal Workers. ‘A Tough Way to Find Out She’s Losing Her Job.’ - WSJ

As co-director of President-elect Donald Trump’s nascent Department of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk has wasted no time posting to his 205 million followers on X about specific government departments he views as bloated. But this week, Musk has escalated from targeting government agencies to singling out individuals—sparking his online army of followers to launch blistering critiques of ordinary federal employees.

One recent post by the billionaire zeroed in on Ashley Thomas, a little-known director of climate diversification at the U.S. International Development Finance Corp., after another user on Musk’s social-media platform X questioned her role. Musk’s repost—“So many fake jobs”—garnered 32 million views, triggering an avalanche of memes and ridicule from his followers against the employee, such as, “Sorry Ashley Thomas Gravy Train is Over.”

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Musk’s targets this week included Alexis Pelosi, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s relative and a senior climate adviser at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. But that post also included the names of two obscure federal officials with climate-related jobs—including one who had actually left her job at the Energy Department in August.

“These tactics are aimed at sowing terror and fear at federal employees,” said Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, which represents more than 800,000 of the 2.3 million civilian federal employees. “It’s intended to make them fearful that they will become afraid to speak up.”

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How does a routine federal employee come to the attention of Musk, the world’s richest man? The controversy erupted when “datahazard,” an X user whose anti-Biden posts have drawn Musk’s attention, questioned Thomas’s job on Tuesday to nearly 170,000 followers. Musk’s repost sparked a barrage of taunts, with his followers making jeers such as, “A tough way for Ashley Thomas to find out she’s losing her job.”

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[peregrinus]

1. McMusky's red scare

Why is this allowed to happen? The “man” was not elected to any position and is not employed by any official oversight agency. He’s just sowing chaos.

[bdamomma]

19. Musk

is a South African who is promoting apartheid in America.

[angrychair]

2. That poor woman

She should sue Musk for defamation. This is absolutely disgusting. I think online harassment of federal employees was illegal?

[MLAA]

3. Fucking asshole waste of life.

I’d love to hear Mary Trump diagnose him, he is a seriously flawed being (notice I didn’t say human being).

[bdamomma]

20. Ketamine

addicted POS he is.

[2naSalit]

4. Great...

Now, I'm guessing, he's got both his xitter army of trolls but also the ruzzian army of trolls.

[GreenWave]

5. And he singled out women.

Freaking apartheid a-hole.

[bucolic_frolic]

6. sounds like Eloon will be the thug of Trump's policies.

[surfered]

7. Der Reich Marshal of government waste paid $44 billion for Twitter.

[Meowmee]

8. One sick ****

Who is a billionaire welfare recipient from the US Gov- why was that allowed?

[Dem4life1970]

9. So...

Musk’s repost—“So many fake jobs”—garnered 32 million views, triggering an avalanche of memes and ridicule from his followers against the employee,

So the guy who is running a fake department (DOGE-not authorized by Congress, the executive cannot create departments according to Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution) is saying that someone has a fake job. I can't wait for Elon to "Find Out" how loyalty to Trump works. Don't worry, it's coming.

He should ask Bannon, or Guiliani, or Cohen, or Ivanka...

[orleans]

18. i can't imagine trump would turn on the loon -- the loon is too rich to cut loose. but i guess we'll eventually

find out

[EndlessWire]

23. Oh, Trump is going to

work on how to take Musk's wealth from him.

[orleans]

24. that i agree with (lol) nt

[kerry-is-my-prez]

29. Putin made the oligarchs rich, then "owned them" or killed them.

He helped them become richer and richer, then called 21 of them to a meeting and told them he “owned them” and the ones who didn’t become his puppets ended up in Siberia or dead. Then he eventually began siphoning money from them. He became rich with their money.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2022/03/29/1088886554/how-putin-conquered-russias-oligarchy

[Wiz Imp]

10. I wonder if she could sue him?

[Docreed2003]

11. Amazing that the asshole that no one voted for has been handed so much power

If anyone questions why this country is so broken, look no further than this billionaire man-child who has accomplished little more than using daddy's money to make more money for himself and create an image of a modern day Howard Hughes when he is nothing more than a charlatan. And people cheer when the asshole does asshole things! We aren't a civil society, Covid proved that fact. We are little more than the crowds in the coliseums of old, cheering on the death and dismemberment of fellow humans.

[Starlight27]

16. Thank you

This is very much true and well stated.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. Elon sounds like another ahole we all know and despise.

[delisen]

12. Musk is a coward, a bully. abd possibly a Russian agent

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We need to make a list of the billionaires who are intent on destroying our society and our country and terrorizing our citizens

We created these monsters by giving them government contracts.subsidies.and by not taxing them appropriately and not enforcing our laws.

Those Tesla killer cars need to be off our roads and Musk:'s contacts with Killer Putin must be investigated

[AKwannabe]

13. Karma. Bitch.

That is all

[Nasruddin]

14. He is beyond the law

For reasons that should be obvious - hint: do the math

[Starlight27]

15. Loser

Without his money and the stupid power it buys him, he is nothing. All of this is just overcompensating for how empty he is inside. No wonder he is drawn to trump 😔

[NotHardly]

17. He and his ilk are the real Terrorists.

[dchill]

21. Who did Nazi this coming?

[La Coliniere]

22. Imagine if President elect Biden had

brought on board as part of his new administration a corrupt billionaire oligarch to head a department whose main purpose was to terminate the employment of civil servants who belong to the opposing party, destroy social programs, and advocate for the needs of the ruling class. There would be nonstop condemnation from all the press and media, both right wing and the so called “liberal media” and it would be at the top of every news cycle and Biden would be hounded and badgered constantly. It’s tragic that with Musk’s unofficial inclusion in the felon’s administration the press is like, oh well, not much anyone can do about this, expressing little concern and condemnation about how this is so terribly wrong and dangerous. The double standard is in full effect and on full display for all to see. And it stinks to high heaven.

[question everything]

25. I honestly think that many are afraid to condemn publicly any of his decisions knowing that

he will unleash the “richest man in the world” to go after them

[La Coliniere]

32. I agree

[Blue_Tires]

26. Historians of the future

Are going to make entire careers out of explaining how Melon Husk was about to weaponize Twitter and change the course of American history...

[Doodley]

27. He is knowingly ruining people's lives. Suicides are inevitable. I want to see Democratic leaders speak out.

[meadowlander]

28. Grist for the many, many wrongful termination and employment lawsuits which your tax dollars will now be paying out.

I guess we're in the end stage of democracy where the public service unions are now on the front line.

[Mike 03]

30. And his daughter, Vivian

I think about her sometimes and fear for her. It must be a living hell to have a father this absurd, ubiquitous, powerful and megalomaniacal who trolls his own child. I read that she is planning to leave the United States. I wish her the best.