Summary
Elon Musk called for the impeachment of federal judges after courts blocked his DOGE from laying off probationary (new) federal workers.
Judges ordered agencies to reinstate tens of thousands of employees, ruling the firings unlawful. Musk claimed judicial resistance undermines democracy.
Musk has attacked judges on social media, calling them “corrupt” and “evil,” raising concerns among federal judges about their safety.
Well he’s just an unelected advisor so he can’t call for shit
I call for Trump and Musk to be jailed
Musk has no legal right to call for such. Just blowing hot air if it were any other legislature
That’s why he bought the president.
How hasn’t Musk been arrested for being a dick?
Tar/feather and quarter
Drawn and quartered, with Tesla vehicles.
Whatever happened to that Pence gallows they set up?
One of those is not like the others…
They don’t have the votes to convict unless Schumer caves on that too.
Why isn’t he in jail yet?
I guarantee you he has signed no papers. His name won’t be in anything. In a court of law you’ll have trouble proving he actually ordered anything at all. He is welding all this power completely outside of literally any accountability and Trump , Congress, and Trump’s supporters are all fine with that.
So he says, “fire these people” and they just do it? If that’s how it’s been going that’s even worse than the madness I thought it was.
“fire these people” “no” “you’re fired” “ok now you fire these people” “ok”
There’s a reason real cabinet members do things the way they do - those governance structures were designed to allow them to wield executive power but maintain checks and balances - secretaries have to be senate confirmed, and there are actual ways in which they issue orders. Musk is operating outside of all of that, and wielding Trump’s personal power. Most Americans just don’t care.
This, it’s actually why the courts haven’t come after him specifically, because on paper it’s been… some dementia ridden woman who’s name is being used to rubber stamp shit while she’s dying in a nursing home in Mexico.
I’m barely exaggerating
Seems like it would be real easy if Elon tells you you’re fired just to respond with, “No thanks”
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Probably can’t find anyone with the balls to enforce the judgement
Yeah this smells pretty hard of criminal contempt of court among other things
Because he’s a billionaire. Rules for thee but not for me.
How ironic that the guy who was never elected for anything is whining about democracy. And “corrupt”? Corrupt might as well be Elon’s middle name.
Fortunately, there seems to be a growing resentment about that with the GOP electorate for this very issue. We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
We’ll have to see if it’s enough to help tip the scales.
If Trump and Musk have their way, November 2024 was the last time they will be using scales.
It’s debatable whether scales were used even then. But I get what you’re saying.
Trump straight up admitted that they rigged the election like 2 days ago.
and 2 days before that, and 4 days before that, he’s been steadily skwaking about that. I don’t know if it’s a gloat or an intended button to press. I’d like to see someone challenge him to prove it, he couldn’t stop himself.
He’s far more certain that another coup won’t erase him than I am. (which is admittedly not 50% yet but still)
He always gloats. He loves to put out the message that he can do anything with impunity.
And that will be true until he is stopped.
Sauce?
https://youtu.be/LxP8V0-ngbw?si=6NpGxpwlYGObK_1i
3 minute mark.
I’ve no doubt, since that bloviating idiot can’t keep his mouth shut to save his life, but do you have a link?
https://youtu.be/LxP8V0-ngbw?si=J7yELRi21Hvg-RUJ
At about the 3 minute mark.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-quote-rigged-election-president/
So much out in the open. What is your breaking point? At what point do we take to the streets over this?
What about a big, upright scale, with a heavy blade at the top? Ask the French about it.
I’m down for that. Do you think the French will let us rent one from them? Or should we just build our own? I feel like we could use enough to justify the cost of building 😉
You don’t even need one, you can just use an axe, or a noose.
Yeah, but a guillotine is so much cooler. If we are revolting, do it in style 😉
My local magats are still behind him, they think it’s criminal that people are protesting at our local Tesla dealership. I think at least one of them—who’s extremely anti EV, is considering a fucking Tesla. And he’s a car guy who has had multiple luxury cars, and knows Tesla build quality is garbage.
Same, one of mine is claiming that “Protesting Elon Musk to fight corruption is like killing chickens to bring down egg prices!”
Then, he’s a moron and he deserves to be bilked out of his money. Fuck him.
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Reading comprehension scores pretty low, eh?
Ah yeah, I guess they didn’t, they deleted but an apology woulda been nice.
I missed it. What did they say that got deleted?
Basically “you shouldn’t support nazis and if you reply to this message I know you’re a nazi and I’ll keep calling you a nazi until you stop.” Lots of misdirected passion.
The irony is lost on him and anyone agreeing with him on this issue.
Respect the judiciary or leave the country.
I didn’t think I’d ever say this in earnest but I wish he would get deported back to where he came from.
We’ve been asking him to for a while but he won’t listen and he keeps giving money to the people who should be making him leave
Right? What is it that his ilk is always saying… if you don’t like it here, leave?
Except SCOTUS. Fuck those (5) corrupt bastards
Elon Musk is mad there’s a process in place to protect workers from being fired without reason? Color me shocked.
He was already pissed when they built the Tesla plant in Germany. Strong unions and worker rights and environmental protections. All the things he so heavily dislikes, the Muppet.
I thought he was a huge fan of the german way of doing things…
Not after 1945
That’s why he wants to make adolf great again…
Only the fall of Weimar Republic, and the 12 years or so after that. Everything else is woke nonsense to him, I am sure.
being a lesbian married to an indian immigrant in switzerland is not too woke aslong as you are the fuhrerin of afd…
Small note for the summary: “probationary” in terms of government employees does not necessarily mean new, it means new in that role.
So, someone who has been working for the government for 20 years and was just promoted to a senior position is a probationary employee.
Yeah this makes it just so much fucking dumber. That they would try to claim that it’s due to poor performance, when they are literally firing people who just got promoted.
I have a bunch of coworkers who were contractors in a position for about a decade, then transitioned over to GS employees doing the same job. They were classified as probationary due to being “new” to their positions and were put on notice.
Hag!
“Evil old woman, considered frightful or ugly”. It’s twelve down.
“Fascism”
Wonderful.
YOU’RE wonderful ♡
Musk = POS Nazi.
That’s not how that works.
It kinda is now.
However, impeachment of judges requires 2/3rd in the senate. That’s the more important thing to note
unless you force them to resign, somehow.
Fetterman just took over Manchin’s position as Senate DINO. Schumer left his entire party high and dry at the last minute and out of nowhere to vote with Trump. That 2/3 vote may be a lot closer than you think.
2/3 is 67 senators. Republicans have 53 in the senate. You need 14 Fettermans
Given that we’re seeing Democrats in both the House and Senate rolling over and playing dead, getting there may not be as difficult as one would expect. Last week, if you’d have said 10 democrats would join with Republicans to censure one of their own, or that Schumer would bail on his own party on a crucial vote at the last minute with no warning, people would have been skeptical. But here we are.
And remember, it’s 2/3 of all members present. If a couple of these cowards just stay home, they make the GOP’s efforts significantly easier. And I could easily see a few of these cowards sit it out.
House dems aren’t as much. The censure vote is stupid, sure, but censure is just paper with no teeth. House spending votes do matter and all House Dems minus 1 all voted against the bill Schumer wants to get through. They are fucking pissed at Schumer right now. They’re actively pressuring him (and publicly so) and starting primary efforts. State AGs are also pressuring Schumer not to go through with this
Complete meltdown. Complete and utter meltdown on all text chains," said the member, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to offer sensitive details of members’ internal conversations.
A senior House Democrat said “people are furious” and that some rank-and-file members have floated the idea of angrily marching onto the Senate floor in protest.
Others are talking openly about supporting primary challenges to senators who vote for the GOP spending bill
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“People are PISSED,” one House Democrat told Axios in a text message.
Several members — including moderates — have begun voicing support for a primary challenge to Schumer, floating Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) as possible candidates, three House Democrats said.
One lawmaker even vowed at the House Democratic retreat to “write a check tonight” supporting Ocasio-Cortez, said the senior House Democrat
Another Democrat told Axios the ideation has gone a step further: “There is definitely a primary recruitment effort happening right now … not just Schumer, but for everyone who votes no.”
[…]
Said one member: “Folks are still working the phones tonight with their senators. We have not given up.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/14/house-democrats-angry-chuck-schumer-shutdown
If they do actually try and start impeachment against a judge, do keep the pressure on the senate to vote no, but don’t preemptively doom about it. It just makes people defeatest and stop fighting
If they do actually try and start impeachment against a judge, do keep the pressure on the senate to vote no, but don’t preemptively doom about it. It just makes people defeatest and stop fighting
This would be a lot easier to do if Democrats hadn’t spent the past 2 months crumbling like a house of cards at every opportunity the minute they feel even a hint of pressure. We’ve collectively said numerous times that “THIS” is going to be where Democrats hold the line and take a stand, only to watch them step aside and not even attempt to resist every single time.
It’s like watching re-runs. You already know what the outcome is going to be, and if you see it enough times you can start reciting the script yourself.
The censure vote is stupid, sure, but censure is just paper with no teeth.
The fact that the supplication was performative just makes it all the more craven.
We also have to remember that they’re getting increasing pressure (death threats and bribes) to go along with the Republican destruction of democracy.
Edit: also, Trump has already shown he’ll withhold funding for people who don’t support him and his agenda.
You need 14 Fettermans
I think the plural is Fattermen.
And surely the Dems will all vote against such a thing, right? RIGHT? While y’know, they still are allowed in?
Sure it is, if they can get 2/3 of the Senate to vote to impeach. And if they manage that, I think it’s time to cut off some heads
Yeah, that’s not gonna happen. The Democrats may be weak as shit right now, but I’d be shocked if they get a 2/3 of vote at all, let alone enough times to impeach all of the judges who are at least trying to stop musk and Trump from their project 2025 ambitions.
