Matt Calkins, CEO of software company Appian… said Musk’s approach to running his tech companies didn’t translate well in Washington.
It doesn’t even work well in his tech companies.
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Elon Musk Suffered Humiliating West Wing Tongue-Lashing: ‘F*** You! F*** You!’
(www.thedailybeast.com)
Unrelated tangent on the Appian software: It is exactly your solution if you have a five person job, but need to employ 30
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That's because he bought successful, well managed companies.
When he had full creative control... we got the Cybertruck.
I concur, fuck you Elon Musk.
But also fuck Scott Bessent. And pretty much everyone else within earshot of that conversation.
Leave off on the permanent staff. They have to scrape Big Macs off the walls.
I'd rather deny him those bodily pleasures. Hit him with a bat instead.
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Y'all are being way too nice on this actual Nazi
Damn, a tongue lashing? But was he SLAMMED?
It was a STUNNING tongue lashing.
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He hurt a lot of people and the debt is higher than ever.
Mission accomplished, for them
Lmao. He's so fucking unlikeable. That is absolutely hilarious.
That's what his riches are all about, it's all just trying to make people like him. He's the unlikable rich kid who tries to buy friends.
But it's not gonna work, all the money in the world won't make people genuinely like you. Only humility and therapy would do that and those aren't going to happen.
If he wanted people to like him, he would have solved global hunger. The UN told him that they needed only 6 billion dollars to do that. The idiot asked for an itemized list and when he was provided with one, he quit the conversation.
Fuck all of them, I say
This is unrelated but why the fuck does every hat Musk wears look like it's like 2 sizes too small? Like I've got a big head and a proper hat settles like right on my brow, meanwhile with Musk it's like 2/3rds up his fucking forehead.
They must look right to him in the mirror. Gotta make sure the text is nice and square and forward.
Or maybe he has a sensory thing and this is how he deals with it though positioning.
The problem is that the hats technically sit correctly, so I think he just has a weird head. Though it could also be a sensory thing since he has had a lot of work done including hair plugs so maybe it's something to do with that?
IDK maybe I should stop over analyzing a fascist I wish to scalp.
I saw it as his way of showing us that he has a big brain. And that he is very smart because of it.
This is just stupid enough to be believable, mind you I think he is less intelligent than labatomized cockroach but point still stands.
The trump hats are made specifically to be outrageous imo
Sure but it sits way too high on his head, this is something specific to this particular dipshit. Fuck even when Trump himself wears the dipshit hat it fits better.
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Probably avoiding friction on his hair plugs.
Off with their heads!
I don't know that we should be advocating for violence here. If we do that, we may find our opponents responding by doing the same, resulting in a positive feedback loop of escalation. I mean it's not like they [checks notes] carefully planned and organized a rally based on an extremely inflammatory lie, riled up the attendees, told them to fight, sent them to the Capitol Building resulting in an angry mob that stormed the Capitol while actively calling for the deaths of the VP and several members of Congress, killing some people and vandalizing the offices of Congress...oh, no. Well, at least they weren't pardoned for their flagrant, violent insurrection...oh, no. You know what? Just disregard my earlier comments. Carry on.
Green. Mario.
Love it. Marios that are green should be free.
We don't need violence to deal with Musk, I agree.
We can do far worse. We can strip him of his US government contracts, seize all of his US assets, and ban him from ever setting foot on US soil again.
He's always been rich since birth, but what he really craves is attention and adulation. He literally believes he's Homo Superior, and deserves worship.
He'll still be rich, but the blow to his fragile pubescent ego would be devastating.
Oh shut the fuck up. They're already committing violence.
Maybe try reading again, a little more carefully this time. Start from the end, if it helps.
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I'm sure he'll be consoled by his billions and having a corrupted government that coddles him even further.
The best part is no he won't. He desperately craves being liked and can't understand why he isn't.
If gulf was a word to describe a type of person, he could be the gulf of America
After the tongue lashing he had a ketamine chaser.
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