Elon Musk Tells Friends He's Sleeping at the DOGE Offices in DC
Source: Wired
Elon Musk has told multiple people that he has been sleeping at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) headquarters in Washington, DC, WIRED has learned, as he works to exercise control over the federal government. DOGE is based out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, just steps from the White House.
At an exclusive black-tie dinner hosted by the Alfalfa Club last week, Musk told associates that hed even been invited to spend the night in the White House itself in the Lincoln Bedroom.
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Earlier this week, the US Office of Personnel Management, which is already stacked with Musk lackeys, sent an email to federal workers titled a fork in the road.
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The memo closely echoed a note Musk sent to Twitter staff shortly after buying the company. In that note, sent November 16, 2022, Musk told staffers theyd need to commit to working long, intense hours to realize his new vision for the companyotherwise they should resign. Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore, he wrote. This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.
Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-sleeping-doge-office/
Walleye
(37,196 posts)LeftInTX
(31,904 posts)brush
(58,593 posts)When will the insufferable pest stand the fuck down? We don't need to hear about him every two hours.
Walleye
(37,196 posts)brush
(58,593 posts)Wait. It's both.
Walleye
(37,196 posts)Bengus81
(7,715 posts)thirty years ago when Clinton was President or is letting the richest asshat on Earth sleep in there now OK??
milestogo
(18,874 posts)dobleremolque
(940 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(52,062 posts)Mister Ed
(6,430 posts)Color me skeptical.
maxsolomon
(35,587 posts)2. The richest man in the world is too cheap to pay for a hotel room.
jgmiller
(472 posts)When Tesla was having production problems he said he slept at the factory, when SpaceX was having issues he slept at the factory, when Twitter was he slept in the office.
I actually believe him when he says he does this because from everything I've heard he is the worlds worst micro manager. So the only way to get rid of him is to make sure things are working fine then he loses interest and moves on to some other thing. The trouble is I think he might be the living embodiement of the Peter Principle. He thinks each time he does this it works and he's able to use it for bigger companies, but at some point he rises to the level of his own incompetence.
Pachamama
(17,119 posts)Seriously - this is already child abuse. Is the child there too.?
Little X
orangecrush
(22,664 posts)Gore1FL
(22,083 posts)Karasu
(439 posts)shrink it down to nothingness. Small enough to drown in a bathtub, as Norquist famously said.
rpannier
(24,622 posts)Trump's Chief of Staff nixed it
She doesn't like Eloon -- because of this, I doubt that he was invited to sleep in the Lincoln bedroom.
Though she might let him sit in Lincoln's seat at Ford's Theater
Marthe48
(19,830 posts)Show me the way to go home:
LeftInTX
(31,904 posts)Elon Musk Is Inching Closer to Record-Breaking $500 Billion Net Worthbut His Home Is Worth a Tiny Fraction of That
Despite multiple reports suggesting that the billionaire father of 11 is buying up megamansions and compounds from Florida to Texas, the only property he is confirmed to have owned and lived in over the past few years is an incredibly modest three-bedroom, ranch-style house that sits just a block from his SpaceX Starbase facility in the Brownsville, TX, neighborhood of Boca Chica.
The businessman revealed that he had moved into the property in 2021, stating in a post on Xwhich he now ownsthat he was renting the $50,000 home from SpaceX.
My primary home is literally a ~$50K house in Boca Chica/Starbase that I rent from SpaceX. Its kinda awesome though, he said. The only other house he owned at the time was an events house in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Boca Chica home Musk was referring to is located on a grassy street that runs down to the perimeter of Starbase and has several similar properties dotting it.
It serves as his primary residence, a status that was reconfirmed in November when Musk visited a nearby polling station to cast his vote in the 2024 presidential election, having spent months campaigning on behalf of Republican candidate Donald Trump. https://www.realtor.com/news/celebrity-real-estate/elon-musk-record-net-worth-billion-home/
He sold all his homes. This is his main residence. It's on a ugly sandbar. The home is completely remodeled too. I think he owns a tiny house or two near Bastrop. He's plain old weird. I think he's a bed bug. Or maybe he just wants to be near his BFF. He was living at Mar A Lago during the transition.
TexasTowelie
(118,360 posts)How embarrassing that a billionaire is too cheap that he can't get a hotel room.
Seinan Sensei
(794 posts)Thats the building itself
Ten million square feet
So maybe a cot in an office there?
tonekat
(2,100 posts)This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.
Uh, the government isn't doing piecework, bozo.
Historic NY
(38,306 posts)Deminpenn
(16,436 posts)Sleep in other people's homes, eat their food, use their washer/dryer/shower and gas/electric/water. IOW, maximize mooching! No point in spending your own money if you don't have to.
Figarosmom
(3,967 posts)I read today he was refused a Capital Building and White House office, but they'll let him stay in the Lincoln bedroom?
Right....
C0RI0LANUS
(2,583 posts)Figarosmom
(3,967 posts)People believe he was a nice guy. I don't know he was a Quaker so maybe he was a nice guy and became a crook.
Thanks for the fun fact
C0RI0LANUS
(2,583 posts)C0RI0LANUS
(2,583 posts)His security detail codenamed him 'Voyager" and they treat him more like a viceroy than a CEO.
The bodyguards must sleep in hotels in the vicinity, but is Musk alone when he sleeps in the DOGE building? Do these private goons get "All Access" badges like Musk?
Source:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-armed-bodyguards-security
Godot51
(321 posts).. hope he remembered to bring his diamond pacifiers.
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Bluetus
(480 posts)And get the hell out of the buildings we Americans pay for.
Let's work out a deal with South Africa to deport him.