Saturday, November 23, 2024

Elon Musk is the embodiment of Cheeto's hatred of "the little people"

From The Verge -

Elon Musk is directing harassment toward individual federal workers

Elon Musk is, in addition to many other things, now the co-lead of the currently nonexistent Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) advisory group. Now, before it even gets rolling, he has begun singling out individual government employees he says are emblematic of the government’s bloat and posting about them to his hundreds of millions of followers on X.

Earlier this week, as first reported by The Wall Street Journal, the X user “datahazard” shared a screenshot on X highlighting the role of Ashley Thomas, the Director of Climate Diversification at the US International Development Finance Corporation, saying, “I don’t think the US Taxpayer should pay for the employment” of that role. Musk reposted it, adding the comment “so many fake jobs” in a post with more than 33 million views.


Cheeto's picks for his Cabinet/coterie of advisors seem to exhibit two character traits (and neither speaks well of their characters) -

1. Personal, and great, loyalty to Cheeto himself; and 

2. Pettiness.

Musk may have failed with Twitter/X (to be fair, he's been successful with it in one area - he turned it into a hate-filled right-wing echo chamber.  People may be abandoning Twitter/X in droves, but Musk and Trump supporters rule the roost there.)


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