Well this is normal: Elon Musk names individual US employees he wants to fire, and now they are suddenly living in terror

By January, this nonsense will be the new normal.

Are these career people or schedule C political appointees?

Career people often see positions created and positions eliminated. Reorganizations maybe stressful but they are not uncommon.

The career people in those positions that are eliminated then bounce into another career position. They have protections.

The C folks have no job security, as is correct for a political employee, and are just let go.

It’s the positions they are after not the people currently in those positions.

And I would assume starting in the day after the election those strictly in climate jobs realized their number was coming up soon.

He truly is a vile creature.

[quote]Career people often see positions created and positions eliminated. Reorganizations maybe stressful but they are not uncommon.

Well, now those not uncommon moves come with the added bonus of doxing and death threats.

R2, well yes, they knew they were likely to lose their jobs, behind the scenes.

They did NOT expect their individual personal names to be hanging up on a sign in the "Elon Musk Town Square" known as Xitter.

The details are chilling.

What a heinous monster

Someone needs to lure this asshole into a hot tub when he's in one of his k-holes.

This is depressing, scary and so unsurprising

Horrifying, but not surprising. When society is built on competition, the most brutal warlords will always wind up in leadership.

Scary times folks. Fuck the American government electorate and fuck Joe Biden.

The US government created this monster.

Fuck him

Creepy

There will be more lists of names in various categories other than government workers. Don't say we were not warned or say, "Oh, really, stop fantasizing."

Nothing is beyond these creatures. Nothing.

Is a good, old-fashioned SMITING too much to ask?

What a disgusting, hateful cunt.

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This obnoxious immigrant should be deported. Who elected him to run the government? He won't even have a role requiring confirmation, so why is Trump allowing him to run the show? It definitely makes Trump look like the second banana and Elon the pretend President.

I feel for anyone who is being targeted this way. It's completely inappropriate and will discourage qualified people from entering public service. I guess that's what Trump voters want. A bunch of unqualified people running the show.

R16 try this one, may also be paywalled but it works for me

R16 again, this one works (Yahoo)

R17, with all the perseveration the democrats are doing, this constant spewing of bullshite from the right is really what won the election.

He's an evil individual and has hopes to be president one day.

He can’t be President because he was born in South Africa. He probably knows this is the closest he will ever come, by acting as Co-President with Trump’s approval.

Musk should be cut for massive conflict of interest. No one elected him but as a private government contractor he bankrolled a candidate, thus putting someone in place who will boost his business.

Corruption on steroids and if not already, should be illegal. Americans are stupid for letting this happen.

Can you imagine if your mayor was under the thumb of a contractor for your local government along as being a major donor to the mayoral campaign? Frankly, it happens too frequently because the populace isn't paying attention.

Can these PRIVATE citizens sue him for defamation or harassment?

Like Shay and Ruby sued the Ghoul?

They should. Drag him over the goals and hit him where it hurts - right in the bank account.

The doormats in Congress won’t do fuck all, so it looks like it up to US to drag these fuckers for filth.

[quote]They should. Drag him over the goals and hit him where it hurts - right in the bank account.

Musk has the money to keep a civil suit going in perpetuity ... or at least until the plaintiffs run out of money.

And Unfortunately Trump and Musk would probably find ways to appeal to the US Supreme Court, which has that blatantly Trumpy majority.

A SOUTH AFRICAN billionaire on top of that OP, unbelievable….

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are brilliant!

R29 Zakharia has always been a corporate indebted lackey.

Well? All I heard back in 2015 from my SF friends was how MF *amazing* he is, and I hated him even THEN, it was so obvious he was a POS.

Are you all realizing yet that he’s actually returning to his family Nazi roots? His father admitted that the grandparents were IN the Nazi Party, and they moved to South Africa FOR the Apartheid. This is only the beginning. He plans to use all of the Nazi Third Reich tactics forever now because they work. Crushing, intimidating, terrorizing women is what gets him off.

And also, not only does he have a trans kid, but his ex-wife got plowed by a trans too. So killing off the trans movement is *personal* for Adolf. And hating women is personal because most of the smart, sexy women have made fun of him. He was bullied and abused his whole life, now this is his vengeance on us all. His personal vendetta is to destroy America.

He should pay them unemployment out of his own pocket then.

He won’t r32. The whole point is to be as cruel as possible so that future opponents are too terrified of him to speak out. It’s working for him, why stop now? We loooooooved capitalism, and this is just capitalism at its highest iteration. He is THE personification of all that our culture worships. We got exactly the country that we deserve, and that includes terrorism.

I hate this fucking country now. We can wallow in this misery, I’m too broken to feel like it any more. Hope is lost. America is dead, God is dead, DL is dead, all of the social justice movements we’ve fought for are DEAD and buried. This sets the course for the globe for the next 100 years. Elon will likely blow us all up the way he loves to blow up his fucking rockets.

Sorry, not sorry. Big Kid talk, not going to sugar-coat it.

I feel the same R33. But let me add, the planet is also quickly dying.

I’ve ALWAYS said this prick was an epic asshole and got shouted down on social media because of it.

I was labeled a “hater”. Well, I was right, motherfuckers.

Leon is an epic PRICK. Rancid, infected and weeping with the pus of lies and greed.

Hope he rots and falls off.

Somebody must have the goods on him! Use it!!!

You can never be too rich or too bitter.

This kind of harassment must be illegal. It amounts to terroristic threats. He is not an agent of government.

The US justice system must STOP him NOW.

He wants to prove that some people are actually ultra mega rich enough to be above the law.

That's the American dream baby

So where will all the money go, after he cuts hundreds of thousands of jobs?

I’m guessing he will insist that it all be redistributed to his companies, cars, spaceships & failed rockets, as payback for buying Trump his second presidency which will keep him out of jail indefinitely.

[quote]The US justice system must STOP him NOW.

Well, let's not be hasty.

At least Bezos and Zuckerberg have hot muscle bods now. NO ONE would want to fuck Elmo without cash up front (and lots of it).

glad I'm old

r44 nu uh. Hope you don't need medicare or counted on getting SS.

R39? The US Justice system died 11/5/24. The funeral is in January. America is dead now. The inmates are running the asylum and looting the coffers, and while they do that, they’re going to practice terrorism on our population to control them and quell opposition/resistance.

I’m still surprised how uninformed most are on what’s happening. They plan to put millions into camps, and then use them as slave labor to pick our strawberries. So some are going home, but many are not, they’ll just be our slaves. And who is going to stop it now? I’ll tell you know — no one. Because the Five Eyes secrets will now be shared with enemies, America is a threat, so we may be completely on our own, Europe and Canada I’m not sure are able to help as they’re battling it too.

And r39, he’s already proven he’s above the law throughout the election. No one stopped him. Some tried, but barely. Merrick just sits in his office looking at golf magazines and looking at pics of his grandkids while listening to classical music. Anything but prosecuting power, wealthy criminals.

In the doomer circles I run in, it's pretty much accepted that the all the oligarchs worldwide know we're totally farked because of the climate and other issues, and that's why nobody is doing anything about ANYTHING.

He needs a heart attack or an OD

How will government ever attract a principled, qualified workforce?! No smart, ethical person will ever want to work for a corrupt megalomaniac...or Donald Drumpf.

Here we go R16:

The four people targeted were all women, imagine my surprise.

[quote] the employee — who holds degrees in engineering, business, and water science from Oxford and MIT — serves a highly technical role focused on identifying innovative solutions to help protect American agriculture and infrastructure from the effects of natural disasters.

In other words, better educated and more intelligent than Musk.

Small Man Syndrome strikes again.

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WHAT did we DO to deserve THIS?

This is just evil. Publicly targeting people means they will e threatened and potentially harmed

Surprise, surprise— some of those he’s targeting caused federal issues with Tesla

I'm unsurprised he dozed and threatened women. I'm only surprised they weren't his exes or women who turned him down for relationships and or sex. That's about his speed.

Are the regulars on Twitter still making excuses for Garland? I am no longer on that platform. They were a pathetic bunch. He doesn't care about this guy threatening those women and more, in the future. If he did, things would be very different, wouldn't they?

On the bright side, the Supreme Court says Trump can order him killed as long as it’s for an “official purpose.” National security is such an open-ended concept.

*doxxed not dozed

Small man syndrome? What is that?

R46, strawberries???

Really?

I’m not sure if you’re trolling people or not, but let’s pretend you are:

90% of Strawberries are grown and picked in the state of California. I can pretty much promise you that in California? All agricultural businesses and operations will survive for the next 2 - 4 years.

GTFOH with your trolling bullshit. 😂😂

He’s high on ketamine a lot of the time. Dangerous man.

Elmo also has that cocaine swivel jaw. I don't know if ketamine does that, but I wouldn't be surprised if Elmo was a coke head too. After all, his new BFF is Junior.

R62, I agree.

He’s behaving how an addict in active addiction behaves. He cannot see it, because the self awareness he has, & believes is now heightened, cannot genuinely connect to other human beings.

He’s behaving like an addicted mad man, & he is in for a horrific come down that happens to all of us who have been afflicted with addiction.

He isn’t happy. Happy people do not do the shit he’s doing. Threatening federal employees on Twitter while revealing their names is not something a well adjusted, genuinely happy person does. It’s what an angry, fearful person does.

Looks like the Ketamine ain’t working.

He’s a human monster

Let us hope his crash is very epic and very very public.

So EVERYONE can see what some of us have known for years - he’s a pathetic, sniveling prick

why do scumbag people get ahead? Time and time again, I see this all the time...Evil people succeed and get ahead.

It's true what they say. good guys finish last.

R67 Evil succeeds when we have craven and corrupt elected officials that give a pass to their cronies and instead prosecute their adversaries. The norms and policies and even the laws have been in steady decline since the Reagan years. The Iran Contra fiasco violated so many constitutional laws and yet Reagan and Oliver North got away with it. You keep chipping away at established norms and justice at some point it becomes almost meaningless. Hillary Clinton was endlessly investigated because some of her emails were on an unsecured server , but it becomes accepted for Trump to steal hundred of top secret government files and refuse to give it back? I knew that if Trump was not prosecuted in a timely manner that there was a good likelihood he would get elected again and his crimes will not only go unpunished, but his second term will destroy our constitution.