On Thursday, 25-year-old Marko Elez resigned from his unearned place in Elon Musk’s DOGE within the wake of a Wall Avenue Journal report exposing his very racist historical past on social media.
However not for lengthy.
Elez, who was given entry to the Treasury Division’s extremely delicate central funds system, “can be introduced again,” Musk announced on X Friday.
This follows Musk’s unscientific poll Friday morning, by which he requested his doubtful cesspool of simps and bots if Elez ought to be introduced again to DOGE. As of the writing of this story, outcomes confirmed that slightly below 80% of these polled help the reinstatement of Elez’s employment.
In distinction, current scientific YouGov polling for The Economist discovered that the billionaire and his efforts to destroy the federal government are wildly unpopular.
In the meantime, Vance took to X to specific his help for Elez.
“Right here’s my view: I clearly disagree with a few of Elez’s posts, however I don’t suppose silly social media exercise ought to spoil a child’s life. We shouldn’t reward journalists who attempt to destroy folks. Ever. So I say convey him again. If he’s a foul dude or a horrible member of the group, hearth him for that,” he wrote.
In keeping with Vance, the answer to “ruining a child’s life” is outwardly letting them work jobs the place they’ve entry to hundreds of millions of residents’ private monetary information.
Whereas nobody disputed the details specified by the WSJ report, Musk and different extremist right-wingers launched a campaign to bully Katherine Lengthy, the journalist who wrote the story.
Misinformation machine Ian Miles Cheong referred to as the story a “hit piece” and posted Lengthy’s biography, highlighting her earlier work “managing USAID initiatives in Central Asia.”
Musk shortly retweeted the put up, writing, “What the hell? Actually improper, presumably legal.”
The irony, after all, is that there won’t be a single factor Musk himself does that isn’t “actually improper, presumably legal.”
In a short time, main right-wing X accounts joined in on the assaults in opposition to Lengthy, portray her as some “woke” vigilante. One account with a pair hundred thousand followers disseminated the conspiracy theory that Lengthy is a “deep-state operative.”
“She’s a disgusting and merciless particular person,” wrote Musk in reply to a put up that damned Lengthy for a 2021 article she wrote concerning the lack of variety in video video games.
When President Donald Trump was requested about Elez probably being rehired, he stated simply, “I’m with the vp.”
Shortly after Musk’s announcement that Elez can be rehired, Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, acquired right into a forwards and backwards with Vance.
“Are you going to inform him to apologize for saying ‘Normalize Indian hate’ earlier than this rehire?” Simply asking for the sake of each of our youngsters,” he wrote on X.
Each Khanna and Vance’s youngsters have a minimum of one dad or mum who’s of Indian descent.
“For the sake of each of our youngsters? Develop up,” Vance responded. “Racist trolls on the web, whereas offensive, do not threaten my children. You realize what does? A tradition that denies grace to individuals who make errors. A tradition that encourages congressmen to behave like whiny youngsters.”
Elez made the racist and offensive social media posts only a few months in the past, so whereas “racist trolls on the web” won’t be thought of a lot of a risk, maybe we should always maintain them to a better normal after they have full entry to our nation’s fee system.
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