Elon Musk Gets Quiet White House Reminders His Power Isn't Unchecked

Wednesday, February 05, 2025

Elon Musk gets quiet White House reminders his power isn't unchecked

Posted by retort at 06:49 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

President Trump has suggested publicly, and aides have signaled behind the scenes, that Elon Musk is still a staffer and needs to report to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) February 4, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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I'm pretty sure that short of assassination, fElon Muskie has nothing to fear. OK, nothing to fear at all. His little group of want to be Muskies have already inserted code into all the fed payment systems that will cause the entire US government to collapse if something happens to old stink boy Muskie. I hope you tRump supporters are happy with what you have wrought. It's the bloodless (so far - I hope to change that a little and --) revolution you thought you were promised. But, oh no! you were lied to again, and ate ---- like good little (-------. None of you (us...get a grip on that) are going to be spared.

#1 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-05 08:04 PM

"Republicans block Musk from congressional subpoena as DOGE continues to access government data"

As Elon Musk continues to dismantle government agencies, threaten workers with layoffs and gain access to government data, congressional Republicans on Wednesday blocked Democratic efforts to compel him to answer for his actions under oath.

At the same time, protests demanding accountability continued."

abcnews.go.com

Sounds like he's not reporting to anyone... maybe he's busy werking on that Nazi salute.

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 08:28 PM

I read about the rise of the 3rd Rich, I watched all the great documentaries about what lead up to Nazi Germany. I watched "The World at War", and "The Nuremberg Trials".
I read a lot of books because my dad insisted and he was right. He was an Air Force pilot late '40's early '50's.
History doesn't repeat, but it rimes.
Can you hear that echo?
I can...

#3 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-05 08:57 PM

That's very intuitive, as some America becoming the 4th Reich, which is said to be the last one... pretty damn quickly.

antichrist45.com

vid and transcript... not as easy to follow as the 15 Ways vid at the site, but has a Surprise ending for most people

#4 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 09:10 PM

some see America

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-05 09:11 PM

I'm sure Musk cares what a bunch of poor people tell him to do.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-02-05 09:40 PM

some see America

#5 | Posted by Corky

I know. I understand.

I don't have any clever or flippant response.

#7 | Posted by billy_boy at 2025-02-06 10:00 PM

@#2 ... Sounds like he's not reporting to anyone... ...

Well, he seems to be ~reporting~ to Pres Trump.

But since he seems to own Pres Trump, I am not sure of the actual flow of commands in this case.

Can anyone explain?

thx.

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-02-06 10:35 PM

Well, he seems to be ~reporting~ to Pres Trump.

In the sense that he reports to Lewzer what he has done, and reports what he is going to do next. Not reporting in the sense that he is subordinate in any way.

#9 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-02-06 10:41 PM

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