Assbackwards
That’s the way to do it: smash everything in sight and then pause to decide to take a more nuanced approach.
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.
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The president’s message represents the first significant move to narrow Musk’s mandate. According to Trump’s new guidance, DOGE and its staff should play an advisory role — but Cabinet secretaries should make final decisions on personnel, policy and the pacing of implementation.
Now he tells them. The government looks like Stepney at the height of the Blitz and now he tells them Musk doesn’t get to drop bombs.
Musk joined the conversation and indicated he was on board with Trump’s directive. According to one person familiar with the meeting, Musk acknowledged that DOGE had made some missteps — a message he shared earlier this week with members of Congress.
Yeah missteps, that’s what they were – missteps wearing boots the size of a container ship.
Trump stressed that he wants to keep good people in government and not to eject capable federal workers en masse.
Well that’s odd, seeing as how it’s what he’s been doing for the last several weeks.
Trump posted about the meeting on Truth Social after this story posted, promising to hold similar meetings every two weeks.
“As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to who will remain, and who will go,” he wrote. “We say the ‘scalpel’ rather than the ‘hatchet.’ The combination of them, Elon, DOGE, and other great people will be able to do things at a historic level.”
That fucking imbecile. He’s telling this as if we’re the ones who didn’t know it, when his little South African buddy used the hatchet and the axe and the nuclear weapon on the entire civil service for weeks on end.
The president later told reporters he wants Cabinet members to “keep all the people you want, everybody that you need.”
But he also said he wanted cuts, and that Musk would remain a power center: “If they can cut, it’s better. And if they don’t cut, then Elon will do the cutting.”
You can keep all the people you want, but you can’t keep all the people you want. You can keep your legs, but Elon will chop them off. You can keep your children, but Elon will slice them up. You can keep your house, but Elon will burn it down.
Musk has been remarkably consistent in his approach to things. Light something up – see if it explodes, and if it does say no harm / no foul.
I’d have disappeared Musk by now in his position; use deep fakes to keep his fans happy. He’s too much of a liability.
Regarding the dropping of bombs, Trump has, according to the Guardian, spoken as follows about the increased Russian attacks on Ukraine that has followed the cutting of intelligence systems and arms supplies:
‘Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Friday Trump said he finds it “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine and that Putin “wants to end the war”.
‘“I’m finding it more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine. And they don’t have the cards,” Trump said. “In terms of getting a final settlement, it may be easier dealing with Russia.”
‘Asked whether the Russian leader was taking advantage of the pause in US intelligence sharing and military aid to Ukraine, Trump replied: “I actually think he is doing what anybody else would do.”’
One side gains a massive advantage and takes advantage of it, nobody’s ever seen anything like it before, they were beautiful bombs, but maybe Mr Putin wants peace, and those bombs, well, they’re just like a message to Ukraine that we love you and want to live in peace and harmony, like no one knows how to make except me.
Just read that tRump is now planning on moving RUSA troops in Germany to Hungary to shore up Hungary’s defense against Europe that is determined to start another war. I mean, have you seen how much Europe’s spending on war? But they’re still not paying their bills, they have to pay their bills, because if you don’t pay your bills, something bad, something very bad will happen to you.
Rev, you sounded so much like Trump, it’s scary.
It is truly scary that the man is impossible to parody. And even scarier that the
Nazi partyGOP have fallen in behind in as one.