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Miles Archer

(23,257 posts)
Sat May 31, 2025, 08:53 AM May 2025

MSNBC PROVES they HATE AMERICA with "Musk departs DOGE with a horrific legacy" headline! NO! POOR ELON!

Elon Musk departs DOGE with a horrific legacy
The malignancy that is his Department of Government Efficiency project lives on.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/elon-musk-leaves-doge-trump-legacy-rcna209823

Elon Musk’s government service has supposedly come to an end, with the billionaire decamping to his company town of Starbase, Texas. Except there he was in the Oval Office on Friday, in a press availability alongside President Donald Trump. Sporting a black eye — given to him by his 5-year-old, he said — Musk grumbled about his time in the nation’s capital. “We became essentially the DOGE bogeyman,” Musk said. “It just became a bit ridiculous.”

That complaint echoed similar comments in his media tour preceding that appearance, as Musk whined about his DOGE stint not turning out quite as triumphantly as he had hoped. “The federal bureaucracy situation is much worse than I realized,” he told The Washington Post. “DOGE is just becoming the whipping boy for everything.” Not only that, “People were burning Teslas. Why would you do that? That’s really uncool.”

In other words, his noble effort at reform was undone by the deep state, and all he got for it was a heap of criticism and slumping sales for his car company. Won’t somebody pity the billionaire?

Musk has teams of acolytes around him who will no doubt be eager to reassure him that if some people in Washington don’t adore him, that just means they didn’t deserve him in the first place. But in truth, Musk’s feelings are irrelevant; what matters is the chaos he brought to the federal government that serves all of us, and the deaths he is at least partly responsible for around the world. The malignancy that is his Department of Government Efficiency project lives on, not only in the cadre of incompetents he has left behind in Washington, but in the spirit of gleeful destruction ever more firmly incorporated into Republican ideology.
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MSNBC PROVES they HATE AMERICA with "Musk departs DOGE with a horrific legacy" headline! NO! POOR ELON! (Original Post) Miles Archer May 2025 OP
A violent thin skinned drugged up Nazi is whining? What a surprise. Blues Heron May 2025 #1
What's wrong with that headline? Seems about right to me. brush May 2025 #2
That's me being sarcastic Miles Archer May 2025 #4
I agree with you EdmondDantes_ May 2025 #5
Spoiled brat billionaires walk. C_U_L8R May 2025 #3
Great read underpants May 2025 #6
You might want to add a SocialDemocrat61 May 2025 #7
He wants to be able EndlessWire May 2025 #8

Miles Archer

(23,257 posts)
4. That's me being sarcastic
Sat May 31, 2025, 09:15 AM
May 2025

Paying homage to the great Republican knee-jerk reaction every time they face any kind of criticism, "Why do you hate America?" Because that's their answer for everything. They can't possibly be wrong, because they're Republicans.

EdmondDantes_

(1,794 posts)
5. I agree with you
Sat May 31, 2025, 09:16 AM
May 2025

I think people sometimes don't want news, they want their opinion reported back to them.

EndlessWire

(8,103 posts)
8. He wants to be able
Sat May 31, 2025, 01:12 PM
May 2025

to harm millions of citizens and reap the monetary rewards without being seen as a rat weasel. Well, we have eyes.

ETTD applies. How stupid do you have to be? Maybe the "prescribed" ketamine should be phased out so he can wake up and smell the stench of his involvement in the destruction of our way of life.

He just thinks that he is a "holy untouchable." Maybe that's what surprises him, that we are not grateful to see fellow citizens tossed out like the trash.

He didn't know that this would happen?? Go ahead and play the victim, but we are not going to forget. Selling Tesla cars, power walls? Gonna be hard now.

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