Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov...
by notahacker on Monday February 03, 2025 @04:51PM
(#42923730)
Yeah. Frankly driving a wedge between Trump and Elon would be the more effective political strategy, since it wouldn't exactly be uncharacteristic of them to spectacularly fall out, and Trump couldn't care less if DOGE exists or not as long as he's getting praise from the right quarters
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Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov...
by idiotsecant on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:14PM
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It's inevitable that the two will break up, but it'll be after trump has used him to do all the deeply unpopular hacking apart of social safety nets that he wants to do. He's a useful idiot. A very rich useful idiot.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov...
by hn_acc1 on Monday February 03, 2025 @07:50PM
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Once Elon has all the passwords, it won't matter what Trump says about him.. He's in forever.
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov...
by BolexNOLA on Monday February 03, 2025 @05:42PM
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What a convenient scapegoat to have when we eventually feel the ruinous effects of these decisions. "I trusted ELLEN and he couldn't get the job done, THATS why I FIRED him"
Re:The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Gov...
by ethbr1 on Monday February 03, 2025 @09:12PM
(#42926718)
Dollars to donuts this goes the other way. Trump isn't known for playing the long game, and Elon (for all his craziness) is incredibly Machiavellian.
E.g. 'Trump was coopted by the deep state, and that's why I couldn't get it done.'
Also convenient once Trump is (a) term limited and more importantly (b) too old to be politically useful anymore.