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Elon Musk Faces Massive Lawsuit After Menacing Email Ultimatum (newrepublic.com)

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Elon Musk is already being sued over the ultimatum he issued to federal workers over the weekend.

The Associated Press reports that the State Democracy Defenders Fund filed a newly amended lawsuit in a federal court in California on behalf of unions, businesses, veterans, and conservation organizations saying that Musk’s instructions for federal workers to list and explain five accomplishments from the previous week, or risk losing their jobs, violated the law.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Kim Jong Musk needs a treadmill

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this a regional dialect? I'm not familiar with that spelling of "guillotine".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Well, I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "treadmill"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's hard to get exercise when you're hiding in the oval office, using your kids as a bullet proof blanket.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The kids aren't bullet proof. He's using them as human shields, yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Tell that to Ketamine Karen.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's a body double. The real Elon is fit as a fiddle, ready to step in to the ring.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Haha😄 remember when his mommy wouldn’t let him fight Zuckerberg 2 years ago?

Elon’s a scared fat puss

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Hey if we seized his and other US oligarchs wealth in the same way folks did Russian oligarchs (yachts, etc), how much of our government debt could we pay off? Anyone do the math?

I ask after hearing about $5b going to Ukraine from seized wealth.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

We could build a whole new government with that kind of money

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

US debt is important, it's our world currency. We'd be able to pay off a presumably significant enough portion of it to ensure our world currency is revalued.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

AFAIK that was Canada. So: You'd need to have elected a leader with a moral compass in order to do what a country with 10x less people than the USA can do.

🤷‍♂️ Sorry.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wasn't saying the US did it, just that it was in the news. EU has been doing similar, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's fair, but in this day and age, amid the confusion, in the void of knowing right from wrong due to the privileged selfishly seeking to redefine the lines, I'm gonna keep pointing out who's standing with whom. Think of it as a caboose, without which the train of thought is incomplete.

Context matters.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

Lawsuit? The dude literally asked for five bullets.