After accruing immense governmental power over the past month, tech billionaire Elon Musk got his biggest boost yet this week when President Donald Trump signed an executive order giving him broad authorities over the hiring and firing of federal workers.
As I am not an American I have to ask - Is this what draining the swamp looks like? 🤔🤯
They will drain the coffers dry. Musk might be the fall guy.
Corruption. He paid 270 million to Trump and Trump rewarded him. Called a kickback. Supposed to be illegal.
This just proves Musk Rat stole the election for tRump Full stop. There is NO Way otherwise he would do that. Now just to prove it.
😡😡😡
This is the end result of Citizens United court case 🤦🤦🤦
This can't be legal right? Right!?!?
This is corruption in action!
Disgusting
And CNN is happy to simply report on an ongoing coup.
Why bother with the congressional hearings if he could have done like with Darth Musk for all of them? 🤔
What could possibly go wrong.
Just shows that Donald Trump can be bought. His 1st visitor was a war criminal & now he’s negotiating with Putin. Such a high moral standard in the USA
Now we have cutie JD trying to. Compete with Musk. He WANTS to be VP. The problem is he has two presidents. Elon being the main one.
Money talks
Hey CNN why aren't you reporting on the HACKED DOGE website? Newsweek PCMag Forture Yahoo and more are reporting it
So trump is president in title only? Like just to be photographed signing his name? Maybe to stay out of prison...?
I'd rather have Don Corleone running the country!
Never has there been a more blatant example of corruption than this nazi tycoon buying himself into the highest office.
The fact the presidency is so corrupt that everything is for sale.
This is just neoliberalism working as normal
What do you mean?
This has been the goal of neoliberalism. The destruction of the government programs so corporations can privatize key sectors of the economy. If you want an idea of what this looks like just look at the late 19th and early 20th century. Liberalism caused WW1, the great depression, and WW2.
Neoliberalism is a reintroduction of liberalism. This has been the political system of both parties for the past fifty years. Since Carter, every president has been a neoliberal. Congress has been dominated by neoliberals. It is the global mode of production.
This is what happens when you make government institutions so weak they collapse immediately when a literally locks the front door. Neoliberalism has brought things like private prisons, our current housing market, and the inevitable climate crisis. It has dismantled regulatory institutions.
Basically, every problem regarding the economy and society can be blamed on neoliberalism. And, since there is no serious communist party in the United States I doubt there will be any push back as we transfer to fascism. This is what both parties want.
This is why the Democrats haven't put up a fight at all. This is why the party leadership is frustrated with groups calling on them, begging them to do something, the bare minimum at least. But, they won't because the current economic system benefits them.
How many congress members have been caught doing insider trading? How many have faced any consequences? How many members of Congress obstruct bills that would benefit the working class? How many members of Congress end up on boards of corporations that have blocked these bills?
They do the bidding of the wealthy and get kickbacks for doing this. This has been going on for decades. Now it's just out in the open.
And without senate approval, Musk still isn't a real federal employee, let alone a "special" one.
This is not legal in his capacity as a minor SGE.
To be clear, doge is not an audit …. it’s a purge.
It takes effort and time to audit. This is just a search for things to misrepresent while they destroy government. People will be suffering, and many will die, as a direct result.
And we will be balls deep in shit before people revolt back apparently
President Musk is a dangerous weirdo…not sure who that guy with the bad comb over is though. #PresidentMusk #BadCombOverGuy
Insane😥
If a fed worker gets fired, this is the man (ELON) to sue. We need a laws that allow USA to sue billionaires personally when they obstruct the laws and regulations for personal gain. Otherwise, only the fed government (we the people) get sued, and we never get our stolen wealth back.
What about the “kids” who are given beds to sleep in Treasury and hack with servers? Are they threatened, families? What are they getting out of this?
This. We assume they are complicit. 🤔 Got to think of every angle TBH. It's important in finding ways to fight back.
He’s trumps fall guy. Couldn’t be more obvious.
What musk is doing is what has been going on for the last fifty years. This is nothing new, it's just out in the open now. CNN has been complicit in allowing these multimillionaires and billionaires to shape public policy by giving them a platform.
Leftists have been saying this for decades. But again, CNN has been complicit in silencing these voices or making leftists out to be boogiemen. Now, we are reaping what we sowed. This is what unfettered capitalism brings. This is just neoliberalism working as normal.
It's time we actually make a change away from capitalism to something more equal and equitable.
@cnn.com Please take off the gloves. Ask the real questions, such as, "Who elected #PresidentMusk? Who is actually in charge? Did Musk just take over the government? Why are their criminals and traitors in our White House and who's going to stop them?"
We’ll see what the supreme courts think of that. It’s not legal. Musk was never voted. It’s a coupe Fight it with all your strength!!
Who gets sued when Americans' data is breached, sold overseas & all accounts are wiped out with no trace of where our $$$ went? W/trump/musk & W/out CFPB - Americans are victims of the firing squad, which has been on-call since day 1 - are Americans going to stand up or sit down & be assaulted?
Danger. Danger.
One of the paybacks Trump has to do for “winning the election”, thanks to Muskat. Why do y’all think Muskrats been running the government since day one?
Thank you for confirming that the Biden Administration commenced investigations into Musk - after he bought Twitter and shut off the US Gov't censorship operation.
he was being investigated before he bought his way into the government and then censored everyone who was investigating his corruption oh well how does that boot taste?
I don't recall ever seeing Leon's name on a ballot in November. 🤔
"The Apprentice" also was an imbecile TV show, IIRC. So yes, some people will soon 'Get-Fired'... but let's doubt everyone (else) would recognize any of the IL+logical reasons why. Next - 'Roller Ball' methods to scrap elitist concerns with social classes plunged into Hunger Game for freak rides.
I am beside my self trying to understand how the MAGA supporters are fine giving a billionaire full power to do what ever he wants with our Democracy. 😵
Sadly, some "everyday" Americans foresaw this, but with MAGA dominating the communication, there was no platform for spreading the alarm. I fear that we are weakened beyond repair.
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In other words, Trump signed an executive order memorializing the fact that Elon Musk is the actual President.
youtu.be/maJkLOf07-k?... what
Musk is a shill! Nothing more than a paid huckster!
So saying it again: this gross display of power and ignorance simply sends these now unemployed to the state unemployment line. Yep, send everything back to the states; then why do we need him? Or, to think positively, they are re-hired as a contractor, doing the exact same job FOR the government
Didn’t need an article to explain this: corruption. Fixed it.
“almighty”?? Jeez, careful or you might break an arm stroking that maggot’s ego
Does he know something about trump?
Hostile takeover. Call it as it is.
Pessoas nos EUA descobrindo o que acontece quando um presidente faz e executa as próprias leis Descobrindo também o porquê de não podermos deixar um presidente dizer o que é ou não ilegal, pois para ele nada será ilegal Em quanto tempo irão descobrir o nome disso?
You should report 5 USC 552 prohibits giving executive authority to an agency that doesn’t comply with the Government in the Sunshine Act. Also please report what savings DOGE has found?
Why? Oh, he has money so he must be qualified. Ridiculous. Our enemies must be laughing
Obviously Musk has the goods that would take Trump down. There is no other reason Trump would have a co president.
... imagine every single republican if George Soros was in charge of hiring or firing federal employees.
Insane
Happy Valen… oh, wait: Fuck every scumbag Republican. Despicable people, head to toe, from fuckwit Trump to its lowest scumbag voter.
That settles the "nobody elected him" and "he doesn't have the authority" arguments.
A little bit too late for that question. Because we worship WEALTH above everything else.
Real life. Real news. Wild. #traitor
You can take a person out of apartheid society, but for some you can’t take apartheid out of them.
So fucked. So absolutely fucked. Be interesting to see what remains of democracy in 4 years
Now, that can definitely be stopped by judges. Potus is not a supreme leader, nor are we Russia
Is Musk so eager to say it to so many people, or has Trump reached such an old age that he doesn't have the energy and wherewithal to utter his signature line "You're fired"?🤔
He used is father's money to buy intelligent people's ideas. Americans confuse that with intelligence. But he's an immature idiot who surrounds himself with young men who tell him how smart/funny he is. He is neither..
I’d have to find another job
I’m Canadian & it makes me so angry and disgusted that the likes of foreign born Musk overrides the American laws & societal values, and decides that USAID will be cut, to make sure that desperately poor kids won’t eat, and they will live in poverty. Musk is a pox on humanity, Trump is just as bad.
He bought Trump.
I am so sick of seeing this drug-addicted Nazi’s ugly misshapen face.
Must be illegal???
Did he steal it? Or did he buy it? 🤔😉
280mil that’s all it cost to run the government
Hahahaha
How does it feel?
Unelected and the death of Democracy... that's the headline.
I really feel for our Federal workers. They have been vilified for just doing their jobs. Now there are 20 year old programmers just slashing away people's livelihoods? There will soon be an outcry when the public will be on hold for 10 hours trying to get services on the phone.
Go get em Elon kick the excess baggage to the curb
Who Will Be The Ripple In The Stream?
Like can he just EO all his presidential powers to Musk?
🦋 Any recognition in the article of the part CNN played in getting the demented orange buffoon elected by constantly platforming his lies? 🦋
As long as Musk keeps lining trumps pockets, trump will be happy to be his bitch
How is this legal? Or is this just something in the long list of things that isn't legal and they are going to try it anyway?
He’s a felon with absolute immunity. Nothing he’s doing is legal.
This is just neoliberalism working as normal
The Supreme Court ruled - with no Constitutional basis and no precedent - that the president can be immune from any crime he commits while in office. And now here we are.
It's a shame and a tragedy that @donaldjtrump-maga.bsky.social Trump is becoming Putin's useful idiot. There's probably nothing more unpatriotic than that these days. I'll never vote for the Republicans again, I'm ashamed.
The ‘Drain the Swamp’ people are curiously quiet.
A chilling read on the reality of Trump's actions and the huge risk we are now facing with Russia & China The Weak Strongman by Timothy Snyder Trump is responsible for dismantling the federal government, weaking the CIA, FBI & appointing unqualified leaders for those departments #StopProject2025
American political disaster complete. A fascist State has been created.
Call it a coup because that is what it is. America needs to defend itself against enemies foreign and domestic
Tax billionaires back to silence.
Musk bought himself the American presidency and he’s aiming to do the same in other nations.
When will there be multiple class actions for insider trading against Musk?
Looks like Elon just leveled up from launching rockets to building bureaucracy! Who knew the next frontier for him would be in hiring practices? Wonder if he’ll start including "must love memes" in federal job descriptions.
This clown circus is getting crazier day by day 🤡
Republican mantra Defund Police Defund Firefighters Defund Courts Defund Medical Research Defund University Research Defund National Parks Defund Watchdogs Defund Education For the rich
God help us.less then 4 years we wont have a country.
And yet, CNN clutches its pearls when a Democratic Member of Congress rightly calls President Elon a “dick”. Call us when you finally understand this is an existential AND constitutional crisis for the USA and decide to defend the constitution.
They are news…they report the news, plain and simple. News shouldn’t take sides, such organizations should report happenings and we should be forming our own opinions based upon them. Leave activism for the activists.
What you say was fine in the before times when the Constitution and rule of law actually mattered, but those days are dead. I never called on CNN to do “activism”, whatever that means, but to call a spade a fucking shovel. If you can’t understand the difference, then maybe get out of the way?
Because, in the end, that is still opinion based on what you see. News is “Person did X”. News is not “Person did X because they’re evil dicks who want to rule your lives.” That’s the difference. I don’t know why or how people forgot this—perhaps it’s the sad state of education.
That was a nice thing back in the good old days—seriously! I miss those days. But what you fail to understand is we stand on a cliff: Democracy or death? Legacy media has failed utterly and completely—they need to grow up or we die. It’s not hard: Report the fucking truth, not propaganda.
I’m calling a spade a spade—news is events…look to yourself and other sources for context, because context is riddled with subjectivity. Facts are facts, no matter who is in charge. If you want such content, try activist publications.
News, then, is what promotes the interests of corporations and their shareholders, and NOT the general public.
Now you’re getting the picture. Sensationalism sells. You must aggregate multiple sources funded by people of a plethora of different perspectives. That is how the world is—I am only speaking to how it should be, that news should just be news and not activism in any form…look to activists for that.
“Should be” was a nice idea back in the old days. For the record, I have *always* looked at multiple sources from MANY different perspectives. But I also know that’s a conceit we can no longer afford. It’s not “sensationalism”, it’s shouting “the house is on fire”, because it is.
If we don't speak to how things should be, things will never change...you're right, I should just sit back, shut up, and let the world burn because of its own myopic tendencies. You spoke an opinion, I just happen to disagree. And that's not a bad thing. Woe is the world who is lock-step.
I don’t disagree with much of that—I used to be an activist way back when. BUT I also know legacy media is owned by corporations whose interest is NOT facts, but what promotes the interests of the corporations that own them. “Facts” are what promotes corporate interests, NOT truth.
See? You got it. I'm proud of you 🙂
