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Elon Musk Suffered Humiliating West Wing Tongue-Lashing: ‘F*** You! F*** You!’
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this post was submitted on 21 May 2025
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Theater.
Elon Musk is playing the part of "heel", and articles and reporting like this is engineered to "take you in" to the moment, where something can be simplified and reduced to a "good" versus "evil" paradigm. It creates an escape clause for those doing the truly villainous where the heel can be pointed to as "worse".
100%. Also a hatchet man. He's brought in, wrecks shit on purpose, gets "kicked out", profits immensely. Now admin can roll things back 5-10% to placate the plebes and blame Musk who everyone already hates for their life being worse. That said, a lot of people would nonperformatively tell him to go fuck himself. Just don't mistake it as anyone being on your side
He literally came in waving a chainsaw. Hatchet man the entire way, this was preordained.
It was classic "seagull manager" shit that the private sector looooooves to pull (usually combined with a consultant company and/or very short-term executive position), but on the federal government level.
Comes in, shits all over everything, typically skips off to do something else at another institution within a few short years, sometimes just a few months. Pays no consequences whatsoever for his stupid shit, is praised by the "right people" for being a financial/operational/executive genius or whatever; hated almost universally by everyone else.