Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:44     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
This EO functionally makes Elon the president.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/implementing-the-presidents-department-of-government-efficiency-workforce-optimization-initiative/

Every agency will have a DOGE commissar reporting to Elon. The DOGE commissar will have veto power over every decision of the nominal agency head.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:39     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Love that little boy. He’s precious!


Did you see him pick his nose?
Hilarious!


I did I was hoping he’d wipe it on Trump’s desk lol


DH was watching and said it was unclear, but our guess is yes because he’s a kid and it’s what any kid would do.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:38     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
Elon fires the IG who called out his lies.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/11/trump-fires-usaid-inspector-general/

So much for transparency and accountability.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:38     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Will you all stop posting about that kid! There was a press conference with information conveyed. Is the kid all you want to say?


Seriously. We had the richest man in the world, high as a kite, in the Oval Office talking about his takeover of the US Government, while the demented and feeble old president is sitting at his desk like a lapdog.


It was a SNL skit come to life!


SNL and the late night hosts are going to have a field day. Even the meek NYT has the headline “Musk Holds Court on Trump’s Stage”
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:36     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Love that little boy. He’s precious!


Did you see him pick his nose?
Hilarious!


I did I was hoping he’d wipe it on Trump’s desk lol
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:32     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Will you all stop posting about that kid! There was a press conference with information conveyed. Is the kid all you want to say?


Seriously. We had the richest man in the world, high as a kite, in the Oval Office talking about his takeover of the US Government, while the demented and feeble old president is sitting at his desk like a lapdog.


It was a SNL skit come to life!
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:29     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Who is president here?




PS. Where is that poor child's mother?! Does he even have one?

For how many years did you personally provide 24/7 parenting? Were you single parenting without a partner to share the responsibilities?


DP. Is this being your kid to work day? Can you imagine if a woman did that? Can you imagine if a president held a press conference in his office with a child — until now?!


I’m a fed. This means I can bring my kids to work too, right?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:27     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
How long until trump realizes he looked like a weak fool and starts rage tweeting?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:21     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is bad.

I never listen to him speak and did not realize how well the sound bites will play on Fox.

Also, the self-described autism is such bull. He knows his audience and how to play to it.


Would Fox News ever be against him? We need the courts to save us. If they can't, the whole separation of powers United States of America experiment is done.



They decided a long time ago to ignore the courts. The only solution is we need people to wake up and protest. And take to the streets. But we need a massive quantity of people like in South Korea but we have more space so the effect of a street protest is diluted.

The problem is that in the sound clips, he will come across as intelligent and charismatic even if he’s high as a kite. He’s lying, but he lies well. There’s a nugget of truth about the mines, but he expands it to paint a picture of a very slow bureaucrat carting down boxes of paperwork into the mine rather than retirement by computer.

Americans are also primed to hear English accents as being smart and make assumptions about intelligence based on accent. South African has the same effect as English.


What a bizarre take.


How so?


Your last paragraph about English accents was so odd. And what he said about the mine was absolutely true:

Fahrenthold’s article describes in painstaking detail the multi-step procedures for intake, processing, and approval of retirement paperwork, which repeatedly uses real paper that has to be internally moved by the employees taking long walks through mostly empty caverns hundreds of feet below ground, then typing data into computers and printing out documents again. This leaves the federal retirement system only able to “run at the speed of human fingers and feet,” making federal retirees wait months before they can receive their full benefits.

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/the-limestone-mine-that-elon-musk-said-manually-processes-federal-retirement-paperwork-is-actually-real/
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:17     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Listening to them talking is so annoying. They have no idea what they are doing. It's jibberish.


Oh yes, they have no idea what they are doing, unlike the super duper important people of the federal bureaucracy who have made such a mess of things over the past few decades but somehow never face any accountability. *Eyeroll*


+1
And who actually think they're entitled to conceal their wasteful expenditures from the American people.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:14     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is bad.

I never listen to him speak and did not realize how well the sound bites will play on Fox.

Also, the self-described autism is such bull. He knows his audience and how to play to it.


Would Fox News ever be against him? We need the courts to save us. If they can't, the whole separation of powers United States of America experiment is done.



They decided a long time ago to ignore the courts. The only solution is we need people to wake up and protest. And take to the streets. But we need a massive quantity of people like in South Korea but we have more space so the effect of a street protest is diluted.

The problem is that in the sound clips, he will come across as intelligent and charismatic even if he’s high as a kite. He’s lying, but he lies well. There’s a nugget of truth about the mines, but he expands it to paint a picture of a very slow bureaucrat carting down boxes of paperwork into the mine rather than retirement by computer.

Americans are also primed to hear English accents as being smart and make assumptions about intelligence based on accent. South African has the same effect as English.


What a bizarre take.


How so?
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:13     Subject: Re:President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Something caught my attention where he talks about retirement paperwork kept on actual paper and then shifted to a mine, an actual mine where it is kept, and there are a thousand workers to operate that mine. Is this true? or is he bluffing? how can he bluff with media fact checking? surely, someone should know something, and if true then why is this going on?


It could very well be true. Why is he talking about it? It could be entirely for national security reasons to have records offline in the event of an EMP attack, nuclear war, or a massive cyber attack that takes out our electrical grid or communication networks. He should not be talking about it.


The mine is indeed real. You can google it.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:10     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is bad.

I never listen to him speak and did not realize how well the sound bites will play on Fox.

Also, the self-described autism is such bull. He knows his audience and how to play to it.


Would Fox News ever be against him? We need the courts to save us. If they can't, the whole separation of powers United States of America experiment is done.



They decided a long time ago to ignore the courts. The only solution is we need people to wake up and protest. And take to the streets. But we need a massive quantity of people like in South Korea but we have more space so the effect of a street protest is diluted.

The problem is that in the sound clips, he will come across as intelligent and charismatic even if he’s high as a kite. He’s lying, but he lies well. There’s a nugget of truth about the mines, but he expands it to paint a picture of a very slow bureaucrat carting down boxes of paperwork into the mine rather than retirement by computer.

Americans are also primed to hear English accents as being smart and make assumptions about intelligence based on accent. South African has the same effect as English.


What a bizarre take.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 22:07     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is bad.

I never listen to him speak and did not realize how well the sound bites will play on Fox.

Also, the self-described autism is such bull. He knows his audience and how to play to it.


Would Fox News ever be against him? We need the courts to save us. If they can't, the whole separation of powers United States of America experiment is done.



They decided a long time ago to ignore the courts. The only solution is we need people to wake up and protest. And take to the streets. But we need a massive quantity of people like in South Korea but we have more space so the effect of a street protest is diluted.

The problem is that in the sound clips, he will come across as intelligent and charismatic even if he’s high as a kite. He’s lying, but he lies well. There’s a nugget of truth about the mines, but he expands it to paint a picture of a very slow bureaucrat carting down boxes of paperwork into the mine rather than retirement by computer.

Americans are also primed to hear English accents as being smart and make assumptions about intelligence based on accent. South African has the same effect as English.
Anonymous
Post 02/11/2025 21:58     Subject: President Musk taking questions in the Oval Office
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Anonymous wrote:Listening to them talking is so annoying. They have no idea what they are doing. It's jibberish.


Oh yes, they have no idea what they are doing, unlike the super duper important people of the federal bureaucracy who have made such a mess of things over the past few decades but somehow never face any accountability. *Eyeroll*


Yes. Go watch clips of the "protest" today in DC. I think I prefer Musk making government decisions over these bureaucrats.