Summary
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Elon Musk engaged in a heated exchange during a closed-door Cabinet meeting, with Musk accusing Rubio of firing “nobody” from his department.
Rubio angrily responded by citing 1,500 State Department staff who took early retirement and sarcastically asked if Musk wanted to rehire them just to fire them again.
The argument, which also involved Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy over FAA management. Duffy complained DOGE’s youngsters were trying to fire air traffic controllers, which Musk responded was a “lie.”
Following the meeting, Trump announced on Truth Social that future DOGE cuts would use a “scalpel” rather than a "hatchet.
Video would be great to illustrate the complete incompetence of these people. They’re literally all trying to figure this out as it happens, have no idea wtf they are doing, and millions of people are already affected.
Oh it’s worse.
They’re not trying to figure it out as they go, they’ve drank the coolaid.
Musk and Trump were born into financial empires, everything they do fails but the people scrambling to pick up the pieces behind them got them huge wins and minimized loses
After a lifetime of this, their arrogance has grown to the point they’ve seen the people cleaning up after them as an obstacle. And now they’ve successfully found cultists willing to carry out their orders directly without question, there’s no longer layers of people saying “boss is demanding this, how can we make it not disasterous?”
More than anything, they just seem confused why people are getting so angry at them for doing what they’ve always done more effectively
wish I could upvote this more, this is important to understand
Wish they’d switch to Flavor Aid.
Cyanide exists too.
Lowest iq government in history
You will be happy to know that the word for “shit” in afrikaans is “kak”, so the term is particularly accurate.
Mmmm, irony layer cake.
Usually I would be happy to learn a new word, even this word, if only we weren’t experiencing this word.
Yeah I would definitely use it to describe Putin and Trump. Seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Sure sounds like Musk is ordering firings, despite the article I saw today saying it’s up to the cabinet and DOGE only makes recommendations.
How can you tell if Trump or Musk are lying?
They spoke.
It’s only as official as is legal. If not “it’s just a joke bro” they can issue a single email or statement that shows just enough that it’s a joke bro and can’t be prosecuted. “I changed my mind so I can’t be prosecuted for anything I’ve done…”
Take them to court? Well there’s that one statement that it’s not real… such that a years worth of ACTION doesn’t count.
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Clowns
No, clowns are supposed to be funny and enjoyable for everyone. There is nothing funny or enjoyable about any of this. The US is being run into the ground by absolute fucking psychopaths and more than half the country is applauding it whilst simultaneously burying their head in the sand.
Less than a quarter, actually.
Nah, clowns are horrifying, so I’d say the previous poster’s assessment is accurate.
Aweww are they having a lovers quarrel?
Evil always eats its own.
not fast enough
I’m just so glad that they’re learning Civic lessons at our expense.
The tussle ended with Trump intervening to tell Duffy to hire “geniuses” from MIT as air traffic controllers.
This is the most WTF line in this article.
They’ll be lining up to be air traffic controllers!! All the MIT genius. Get them.
He always gets so hung up on MIT because of his uncle
To be fair, having nuclear.
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you’re a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible.
Maybe I should run for presidemcy after all…
Huh?
A trump speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Elhyo-_fR0E
Appreciate you doing the footwork and sharing a link. It’s astounding how incoherent it all is.
Settle this the Hamilton/Burr way like MEN!
In an epic theatrical rap battle? Actually, I’d pay to see that…
Marco Rubio is the last man on earth that I want to hear singing or rapping.
The article is paywall, but is the jist that Rubio and musk were measuring their dicks in units of how many people they unemployed?
Following the meeting, Trump announced on Truth Social that future DOGE cuts would use a “scalpel” rather than a "hatchet.
Well, Trump probably figured out the more effective lie in using this language. That’s what people want to hear. I’m sure nothing will change.
Let me guess: this idiot and his supporters ignored all warnings and voted for Trump…?
Fuck all those politicians and their people.
Trans portation?
God I am making that too often
