Not a serious guy

He’s not even from here. He doesn’t even go to this school.

U.S. DOGE Service leader Elon Musk on Monday called Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Arizona) — a decorated Navy pilot and former NASA astronaut — a traitor in a post on X after the senator visited Ukraine and expressed his support for the country in its war with Russia.

Who’re you calling a traitor you filthy thieving bullying self-enriching toad of a man??? A traitor to what? You? You are not the boss of us and never will be.

Kelly, who flew dozens of combat missions in the Middle East as a Navy pilot and took four NASA missions to space, also told reporters at the Capitol later Monday that Musk is “not a serious guy” and that he “should go back to building rockets.”

“He’s slashed and burned the federal government to make room for a giant tax cut for billionaires like himself,” Kelly said, referring to Musk’s work leading the U.S. DOGE Service. “I’ve sworn an oath to this country, flown in combat, I served in the Navy for 25 years. It appears to me the oath that Elon Musk stands by is the oath of billionaires, to make their lives easier, not the American people, not veterans.”

The oath of white billionaires, the oath of male white billionaires.

Kelly also accused Musk of showing little respect for veterans as Musk has worked to cut government programs and agencies with DOGE, which stands for Department of Government Efficiency, though it is not a Cabinet-level agency. DOGE has fired roughly 6,000 veterans from government jobs, and the Trump administration has announced plans to cut 80,000 jobs from the Department of Veterans Affairs, where military veterans make up about a quarter of the workforce.

I think by “little respect” they mean “brazen callous indifference.”

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