Summary
Elon Musk called for the firing of Wall Street Journal reporter Katherine Long after she exposed racist tweets from Marko Elez, a Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) employee who later resigned.
Long’s report revealed Elez had posted remarks promoting racism and eugenics.
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool,” Elez posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.
Musk, who claims to support free speech, labeled Long “disgusting and cruel” and demanded that she should be fired.
Critics noted the hypocrisy of Musk advocating for a journalist’s removal over accurate reporting on a public official’s misconduct.
Looks like he’s trying to grow an Adolf moustache.
Along with a cringy edge-lord neckbeard.
how are some people still hypnotized to believe this man is a genius? GOD i will forever resent the media for glazing this man for 15 yrs and convincing the public that he’s anything more than a trust fund baby who could by companies and play pretend.
“It’s easier to fool a man than to convince him he’d been fooled.” -Mark Twain
He bribed the IQ testers I swear
No can do, stinky Musky boy. First amendment explicitly protects criticism of government agencies and employees. Which is exactly what you’re claiming DOGE is.
The actual intention “free speech”, not what these idiots think it means.
The sooner someone Luigi’s him the better, if only for the fact we would never have to hear the fucker speak again.
The sooner someone Luigi’s him the better
I dunno. His kids are just going to inherit his wealth and feel entitled to have our kids serve them.
Think we need to take note of Luigi’s heritage if we’re truly going to go after these oligarchs; the Italian mob would also go after their families so there’s nobody left to seek revenge.
be careful reddit will ban you /s
So glad I left that censorship shithole.
I’m freeeeee now!
At least then his money will do something good in the hands of his family. That’s assuming he didn’t remove his children from his will.
What makes you think his children won’t be just as bad if not worse than him?
Let’s give them a chance, if they’re shit heads too they can get Luigi’d too.
I’m all for giving them a chance, but I won’t hold my breath.
Sounds like Katherine Long should sue the DOGE for infringing on her first amendment rights.
When it suits them, Musk is not a government employee. Also when it suits them, musk is a ‘special government employee’
She can try, but I expect the Trump admin is expecting to lean really hard on that thing where you need the permission of the federal government to sue the federal government.
Get fucked Elon, you absolute piece of shit
you going to have to do better than that
Anybody can “demand” something. I am demanding the firing of the disgusting and cruel dumbass who runs the Department of Government Enshitification.
He’s learned to whine just like Trump. What a skidmark.
Is there a Lemmy fednews? I’ve been lurking on reddit solely for this news, but noticed a distinct change in tone in the past few days, and I think they may be drowning in muskrats before too long.
Nazis gonna Nazi
Oh my, this is how you destroy and erode democracy ever faster. Dismantle the media and stop any criticism of the leaders, and reporting of true events.
I saw this in a country once who’s name is North Korea.
India also
Musk is officially part of the government now, so this literally is an attack on free speech
Not that any conservative cares.
they keep saying he’s part of the government, but congress never vetted and confirmed him… he doesn’t have security clearance….
They. Do not care. About the law.
Why does this keep needing to be said?
that’s not news to anyone
If it isn’t news to you, why are you saying he hasn’t been vetted or doesn’t have security clearance as if that’s relevant?
other people care about the law and are still in the government… you act as if it’s all over.
the laws they’re currently breaking are our best chances of restraining them.Which other people? What power do you think they have?
And who do you expect to restrain them?
And yes, America is over. It is a fascist dictatorship now. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you will stop expecting this to be fixed by any sort of government or legal opposition which will never come and hopefully actually start working on trying to do something about it yourself. Like taking to the streets when you can.
if it was a fascist dictatorship, we couldn’t take to the streets.
it’s not over, and i’m not placing all of my faith in the government to correct itself either….
taking to the streets is great, but so is stuff like petitioning and writing to political representatives….
when they start shooting protestors, then it will be a fascist dictatorship.
this is good: https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-introduce-elon-musk-act-ban-federal-government-contracts-special
there are a lot of people in government still fighting back… including federal employees….
the state department flew it’s flag at half mast….
it can feel like we’re defeated, but we’re not… yet….
Maybe it’s the way we keep saying it. Have we tried alternate punctuation such as: They. Do. Not. Care. About. The. Law.
Maybe this helps
Nothing helps. I’ve had someone argue with me vociferously that U.S. elections still count and then finally said they aren’t even in the U.S. so this doesn’t affect them so they aren’t worried about it.
Because it’s the root of the problem and is important to be repeated constantly.
Congress took an oath to defend the Constitution. Let’s see who cares.
Congress also has specific authority over making laws and allocating money. You’d think they’d have the self-interest to protect that authority from whatever baboon tried to take it, especially an unelected one
When has congress ever cared about that oath?
My guess is that a lot of people don’t realize or accept that the game is already over and the constitution is as good as shredded. A lot of people think that if only one person would put one in his brain case or vote him (Trump and Elon by extension) out, we could return to normal. The Republic is cooked, we’re right now, as a society, deciding what happens next.
Considering the person I’m talking to thinks that fascist dictatorships start when protesters start getting shot, I think that a lot of people don’t even understand that it’s a possibility, let alone that it’s happening.
he doesn’t have security clearance…
Yet, somehow, he seems to have unfettered access to the entirety of the government’s record keeping system.
yes, blatantly illegally…
Special government employee. Why he’s allowed to do that without senate approval and has access to so many departments is beyond me
he’s part of the government, but congress never vetted
So just like the rest of the Trump kakistocracy, then.
With the way the Dems, King, and even Bernie are rolling over and letting them do almost everything they want, they’re not gonna start bothering with vetting now.
sure
I mean, I think it’s specifically more targeted at freedom of the press, and the 1A really only prevents Congress from passing laws to limit free speech or the press. So while I agree with you 100% in principle, I don’t think what Musk is doing is illegal here, he’s just a fucking asshole.
Clearly 1A also limits the executive branch. For instance If an executive order infringes on freedom of speech this can be challenged with an appeal to 1A.
So uncovering the disgusting cruelty of others is in itself Disgusting and Cruel? That’s just what a tyrant would say.
He really has gone from a wannabe Tony Stark to a wannabe Homelander hasn’t he?
You don’t get it, he HATES his trans daughter!
Oh no I know, and he hates me because he believes in a version of his daughter who is a gay fashion-loving stereotype who is Musk’s token “Queen” friend, and instead of realizing this person never existed even prior to transition, he’s blaming people like me for taking her from him.
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
He is really, REALLY becoming fucking absolutely unhinged VERY fast. He is trying to suppress any form of overlook VERY fast and very aggressively. He hasn’t acted like this before. While it is expected, he needs to be told that he can go to hell.
What I fear is that he won’t be asking for people to be fired, he will be soon asking for arrests and I am very, VERY confident he will brazenly calling for hits on people very openly.
always has been, he is the son of a slaver in apartheid SA and iirc grandson of a nazi. of course he is racist too.
now that he is the literal dictator of the biggest empire in the world, i don’t think he needs to worry about softening it anymore. its logical that fascism will serve him judging from the… gestures hes been making. or the casual fascist shit hes been saying for years at this point.
i think your hunch is correct though. he didnt bother climbing onto that throne not to use it. the silver lining is that he already showed himself incompetent.
Not the grandson or the son, he is aamof a Nazi. US officials are obeying orders coming from a Nazi.
oh yeah he made it pretty obvious for a while now hes a nazi too. i just thought it was already pretty obvious for everyone not on his cult of personality.
He is really, REALLY becoming fucking absolutely unhinged VERY fast.
He has been for a while now.
It’s just becoming more obvious the more he is in the public eye.
he’s going full (kan)ye
I mean if there is no recourse for social murder of that scale, what do they expect? The original era of leftist terrorism (the propaganda of the deed) was in the 19th to early 20th century, but it was actually ditched for humanitarian reasons (all the while the first fascist regimes ramped UP their violence) and it was done more to bring about change.
What Luigi did (and he was not a leftist) is far more personal than political. While he did mention political reasons, the events in his own life really got him so pissed at the system that he shot that low-level CEO (He was a CEO. But the conglomerate that is United Health is so large that he was practically a middle-manager in terms of the internal predatory chain). It was mostly very personal, and I think this is what is even scarier to them than a revolutionary feeling. People killing for personal reasons will do so regardless of their overall political reasons.
What a punchable face.
Business idea: make boxing bags or dartboards with his faces printed on them.
Sell bottles of gasoline with a promotional t shirt that sports the print, ‘Not An Incindiary Device’.
🎯 face
