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The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies

bloomberg.comWhite House Says Musk Will Police His Own Conflicts of InterestThe White House said Elon Musk, the billionaire leading President Donald Trump’s government cost-cutting efforts, will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal s...

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How do you even print this as news and not excoriate it with the most certain language on the planet is beyond me. "The white house commits obviously criminal act in allowing a drug addict not fit for classified clearance to police himself" was right fucking there.

Well, the news org does still need to stay in business or otherwise they can’t report the news. If they go too far in on Elon, they can get sued out of existence.

So, we're asked to trust the moral & ethical judgement of a White House team (who are led by the moral & ethical judgement of Donald J. Trump) to trust the moral & ethical judgement of Elon Musk? Do I have that right?

The Federal workers whom he smears daily and is trying to hound out of the government are required to take annual ethics training, file an annual financial disclosure form and banned from accepting a $25 meal from anyone. But right wing billionaires get away with EVERYTHING.

Oh yeah, because Elon Musk is such a paragon of virtue and ethical reasoning he should be left to police himself.l Seriously. Elon Musk was not elected President. I know he bought the presidency for Trump, but it is outrageous that he has been given all this power.

This is an Onion headline, surely. It amazes me how Republican voters can call themselves patriots when they are responsible for Musk by way of Trump. We are told the mocking radicalized them more, but they have to be told, repeatedly, just how stupid they have been. Sorry, not sorry.

GOP has always been something of a joke to me. But now it is moving beyond the limits of logic. A few years ago GOP was all over that tea party thing. Does anybody remember? When republicans were racing each other to be constitution fundamentalists. Now it seems they have flushed that thing.

There has to be a Dunning-Kruger like curve for people who think they're doing wrong, where at first you think everything you do is wrong, then start to believe you're doing right, then you stop caring and know everything you're doing is horrible.

"The White House said Elon Musk will determine if there are conflicts of interest between his work reviewing federal spending and his overlapping empire of six companies" The White House does not talk. The Preztard Trump said this?

That is the most ludicrous statement I've heard! Elon Musk cannot be trusted. Quite literally No One, personally involved in conflicts of interest - can be be trusted.

Is this real? This has to be satire. Because what? How does him overseeing if it’s a conflict of interest, not be a conflict of interest? Are they dumb, or do they think we are?

Idk anymore to be honest. Everything seems like a mad tv sketch. Not even good set production or high profile celebrities like SNL. It’s more low level idiocracy style things happening. Crazy times

I think they just take for granted that they will get away with this the way they want without you ever stopping them. Maybe that means they assume you are dumb. Please , don’t take this as an insult, but if they get it their way, they might be right to think you are dumb.

They legit do think we’re stupid that we’d allow him to oversee and say if it’s a conflict of interest or not. A 5 year old could see that that is a conflict of interest.

Fire all police and law enforcement officials because I have decided, unilaterally, that I'm not going to crime and neither is anyone else. We're good. I'll punish myself if I do though. Deal? Cool

God, y’all are so cowed. You can’t even muster typical media cynicism in a headline about fox demanding access to henhouse & promising to review whether that’s a conflict of interest. Pathetic. We’re going to lose our country because you’re such cowards.

I say SOMEONE in DC get some balls that aren’t already shriveled up, (probably a woman with guts) get the military forces to arrest Musk (HE COMMITTED A CRIME), keep him detained UNTIL…because his court date will be delayed, and threaten to deport him or send him to Guantanamo Bay.

It is all laughable but when shit hits the fan & doesn't have Trump to back him, all of those people in Trump word is going to leave him high and dry with those lawsuits he will be getting .