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Musk has become what he wants to destroy

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Hi Democrats, it’s me again. I have another juicy tidbit for you to use if you ever decide to stop feeling sorry for yourselves because you lost the election and start actually doing your fucking jobs.

Elon Musk has been promoted. Again. First he was just “Trump Bestie,” then he was promoted to “Special Government Employee.” Now Trump has promoted him to “Overlord of Hiring and Firing.”

Now that the court has lifted that ridiculous ban on offering buyouts to government employees to entice them to quit without actually having to fire them … or pay them the promised salary and benefits cuz this is Trump and he loves to stiff contractors, Musk can get down to business and fire everyone who didn’t accept the buyouts.

Musk didn’t waste any time. On the first day after the expiration date of the buyouts, he fired 200,000 probationary federal employees including more than 1,000 from the department of Veterans Affairs.

I bet Trump enjoyed that. He thinks that veterans are losers for serving in the military, especially if they were injured and became disabled. Or died.

Probationary employees are the proverbial low-hanging fruit. They have worked at their jobs less than two years and aren’t…