Well he's just an unelected advisor so he can't call for shit
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2025
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I call for Trump and Musk to be jailed
Musk has no legal right to call for such. Just blowing hot air if it were any other legislature
That’s why he bought the president.
How hasn't Musk been arrested for being a dick?
Tar/feather and quarter
Drawn and quartered, with Tesla vehicles.
Whatever happened to that Pence gallows they set up?
One of those is not like the others...
They don't have the votes to convict unless Schumer caves on that too.
Why isn’t he in jail yet?
I guarantee you he has signed no papers. His name won't be in anything. In a court of law you'll have trouble proving he actually ordered anything at all. He is welding all this power completely outside of literally any accountability and Trump , Congress, and Trump's supporters are all fine with that.
So he says, "fire these people" and they just do it? If that's how it's been going that's even worse than the madness I thought it was.
"fire these people" "no" "you're fired" "ok now you fire these people" "ok"
There's a reason real cabinet members do things the way they do - those governance structures were designed to allow them to wield executive power but maintain checks and balances - secretaries have to be senate confirmed, and there are actual ways in which they issue orders. Musk is operating outside of all of that, and wielding Trump's personal power. Most Americans just don't care.
This, it's actually why the courts haven't come after him specifically, because on paper it's been... some dementia ridden woman who's name is being used to rubber stamp shit while she's dying in a nursing home in Mexico.
I'm barely exaggerating
Seems like it would be real easy if Elon tells you you're fired just to respond with, "No thanks"
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Probably can't find anyone with the balls to enforce the judgement
Yeah this smells pretty hard of criminal contempt of court among other things
Because he's a billionaire. Rules for thee but not for me.
How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And "corrupt"? Corrupt might as well be Elon's middle name.
Fortunately, there seems to be a growing resentment about that with the GOP electorate for this very issue. We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
If Trump and Musk have their way, November 2024 was the last time they will be using scales.
It’s debatable whether scales were used even then. But I get what you’re saying.
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Elon Musk is mad there's a process in place to protect workers from being fired without reason? Color me shocked.
He was already pissed when they built the Tesla plant in Germany. Strong unions and worker rights and environmental protections. All the things he so heavily dislikes, the Muppet.
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Small note for the summary: "probationary" in terms of government employees does not necessarily mean new, it means new in that role.
So, someone who has been working for the government for 20 years and was just promoted to a senior position is a probationary employee.
Yeah this makes it just so much fucking dumber. That they would try to claim that it's due to poor performance, when they are literally firing people who just got promoted.
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Musk = POS Nazi.
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