Summary
Elon Musk reportedly mocked federal employees he fired by privately reacting to their hardships with “laugh-crying emojis,” according to Rolling Stone.
Sources say Musk finds amusement in stories of lives disrupted by his mass dismissals.
Ben Vizzachero, a fired wildlife biologist, confronted Musk at Trump’s congressional address and asked, “Am I waste?” Musk responded with a line from the 1999 movie Office Space: “What would you say you do here?”
Even Trump officials express frustration, calling Musk “irritating” and difficult to work with.
I feel like in some weird twisted sick way, Elmo is accidentally our savior. All these guys are evil and incompetent, but Elmo is so overtly incompetent that he fucks up most of the evil plans they had. It would have been so much worse of Elmo wasn’t here because then they maybe could have succeeded.
So far it’s bad but just so incompetently bad that you know it won’t last very long. They’re playing with lives but it’s American lives, they’re getting what they wanted
Here’s a reminder that the Allied forces had multiple opportunities to assassinate Hitler, but chose not to do so… Because he was a laughably bad military tactician, who was surrounded by yes-men. He would repeatedly make bad military decisions, and everyone around him was too afraid to tell him it was a bad idea. The Allies were worried that if they assassinated Hitler, a competent military leader would take his place.
Sun Tsu’s Art of War has a line that goes something like “Never interrupt the enemy when they’re making a mistake” and it feels germane. I wouldn’t be surprised if historians are writing about how Europe had several opportunities to assassinate Musk/Trump but chose not to because they didn’t want anyone competent in charge.