“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.” How else would any sane person describe the behavior of Elon Musk as he and his DOGE followers went from agency to agency, shutting them down and firing government workers? This is not the conduct of a normal person by any stretch of the imagination. Did he seek advice from the Senate or congressional Republicans before embarking upon his ill-advised course of action? Based upon what he was subsequently told by Republican senators, apparently, he didn’t.
Republican senators vented their concerns about tech billionaire Elon Musk’s aggressive approach to freezing federal spending and cutting government jobs during a private meeting with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles on Wednesday. Gathered in the historic Mansfield Room outside the Senate chamber, some GOP senators complained about what they view as a lack of transparency about what Musk and his team of engineers are doing at federal agencies. They flagged cuts at the Department of Veterans Affairs, which fired 1,400 employees Monday, and said Musk’s team hadn’t responded to their requests for information, according to sources familiar with the meeting. “Every day’s another surprise,” Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said of the daily bombshells from Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “It would be better to allow Cabinet secretaries to carefully review their departments and then make surgical, strategic decisions on what programs and people should be cut and then come back to Congress for approval,” she said. Collins argued a methodical approach to reforming government would be better than what she called Musk’s “sledgehammer approach.” THE HILL: GOP senators vent Musk frustrations at closed-door meeting, By Alexander Bolton, February 27, 2025.
When things begin to go very wrong, the perpetrators have no owner. They usually run for cover or deny any responsibility for the consequences of their mischievous, irresponsible, and nefarious conduct. This kind of conduct is demonstrative of one outstanding human weakness: cowardice.
Billionaire Elon Musk is telling Republican lawmakers that he is not to blame for the firings of thousands of federal workers, including veterans, as pushes to downsize the government. Instead, he said in private talks this week that those decisions are left to the various federal agencies. The message from one of President Donald Trump’s most influential advisers came as Republicans publicly support Musk’s work at the Department of Government Efficiency — which claims to be digging up waste, fraud and abuse — but are privately raising questions as personnel cuts ripple through communities across the nation. “Elon doesn’t fire people,” said Rep. Richard Hudson, R-N.C., after a dinner-time pizza meeting with Musk in the basement of the Capitol. “He doesn’t have hiring and firing authority,” added Hudson, who leads the House Republicans’ campaign arm. “The president’s empowered him to go uncover this information, that’s it.” It’s a remarkable shift of emphasis away from the chainsaw-wielding tech entrepreneur whose vast power has made him an admired, revered and deeply feared figure in the second Trump administration. The Republican president weighed in Thursday after a Cabinet meeting, saying he has instructed department secretaries to work with DOGE but to “be very precise” about which workers will stay or go — using a “‘scalpel’” he said in a social media post “rather than the ‘hatchet.” “I don’t want to see a big cut where a lot of good people are cut,“ Trump later told reporters in the Oval Office. ASSOCIATED PRESS: Elon Musk tells Republican lawmakers he’s not to blame for federal firings, By Lisa Mascaro and Chris Megerian, March 7, 2025.
It’s a pity it seems that Musk has decided to discard the good counsel of his own father.
“Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old. Buy the truth, and do not sell it, Also wisdom and instruction and understanding. The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice, And he who begets a wise child will delight in him. Let your father and your mother be glad, And let her who bore you rejoice.” Proverbs 23: 22-25 (NKJV).
Elon Musk’s father, Errol, offered a bleak prediction about his son’s future in politics after reports emerged that he’s rattled White House Cabinet members with his sweeping orders to their employees. The 79-year-old former South African politician said in an interview with Al Arabiya News’ Global News Today program that his son may have some challenges navigating Washington D.C. “Elon is not cut out for politics,” Errol Musk said Monday, according to the Independent. The elder Musk added that “politics is where you have to deal with everyone… if you can’t do that, don’t get into politics.” His comments come after it was reported that the Department of Government Efficiency head has begun to grate on Cabinet members after he demanded last week that federal government employees report their weekly duties-or potentially face termination. The directive led to “some annoyance” among top officials and Cabinet secretaries, who “are in charge of their own agencies and need to conduct their own reviews for where cuts may be needed,” a Trump administration official told CNN. YAHOO NEWS: Elon’s Dad Makes Harsh Prediction About His Political Future, Kenneal Patterson, February 26, 2025.
Mr. Musk’s relationship with his daughter, who has divorced him, incidentally. Reveals that among his other short comings, he is also a narrow minded, intolerant, insensitive, and immature bigot.
Elon Musk’s estranged transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson has launched yet another attack on the billionaire, claiming that she did not give a “f**k” about him and that the Tesla boss was a “pathetic man child”. The 20-year-old, who legally changed her name and gender at the age of 18 and disowned Mr Musk, has been on uneven terms with her father. “He’s a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him? Ohhh, he has so much power. Nah, nah, nah. I don’t give a f**k. Why should I be scared of this man? Because he’s rich? Oh no, I’m trembling. Ooh, shivering in my boots here,” she told Teen Vogue. “I don’t give a f**k how much money anyone has. I don’t. I really don’t. He owns Twitter. OK. Congratulations.” She went on, adding that the majority of people “thrive off of fear” but she is “not giving anyone that space in [her] mind”. Ms Wilson, in only her second-ever interview with a media outlet,also doubled down on the claim that Mr Musk definitely did a Nazi salute during President Donald Trump’s inauguration event in January. “The Nazi salute s**t was insane. Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That s**t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced.” NDTV WORLD: Elon Musk’s Trans Daughter Calls Him “Pathetic Man-Child”, Says She Doesn’t “Give A F**k” By Abhinav Singh, March 21, 2025.
“There are none so blind as those who will not see.” Instead of doing the neccessary and age old ‘mea culpa, mea culpa,’ (I have sinned, I have sinned), Elon Musk is vainly trying to cover his own ass by blaming others and thereby failing miserably to take responsibility for the consequences of his own foolish and reckless conduct.
- The Tesla CEO on Sunday claimed Democrats were paying people to protest his company in an effort to artificially spark outrage over his efforts to rein in government spending. Hoffman denied it as another smear from a delusional man searching for a scapegoat: “I never funded anyone for Tesla protests.”
The image shared on social media spoke volumes: nearly two dozen taxpayer-funded Chicago police officers standing shoulder to shoulder in a line of force guarding the target of protesters’ ire on Saturday: a local Tesla showroom. In just the latest example of a broader “Tesla Takedown” movement, the scenes this weekend highlight how the carmaker has morphed into a lightning rod crystallizing opposition against Elon Musk. Now the Tesla CEO revealed he not only believes they are manufactured protests staffed with paid actors, he believes he’s found the true culprits behind the demonstrations cropping up across the country: Democrat megadonors George Soros and Reid Hoffman. “An investigation has found 5 ActBlue-funded groups responsible for Tesla ‘protests,’” he wrote, before listing the former hedge fund manager and LinkedIn founder as two top funders. Not only did Musk not provide any evidence to back up his claims, he actually asked users on X to reply to his post with information “if you know anything about this.” Hoffman denied the claim on X, saying Musk had no one to blame but himself for Americans being angry at him. “Just one more of Elon’s false claims about me: I never funded anyone for Tesla protests,” he wrote, adding, “it’s easier to explain away their anger, than to accept that actions have consequences.” FORTUNE: Elon Musk claims anti-Tesla protests are being astroturfed by Democratic megadonors George Soros and Reid Hoffman, By Christiaan Hetzner March 10, 2025.
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