Donald Trump gave his co-President Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency carte blanche to go on a federal employee firing spree—and now Musk is lamely begging for workers to come back.

In a post on X on Thursday, Musk tried to unretire air traffic controllers via tweet, as if he and Trump didn’t gut the department as part of DOGE’s chaotic and unwieldy firings.

“There is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so,” Musk wrote.

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    the White House announced a $1 billion, five-pronged investment to deploy epidemiologists and develop a bird flu vaccine in the face of skyrocketing egg prices

    Meanwhile they gave $500 billion to Larry Ellison and Sam Altman to develop, what, better chatbots?

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      This was after Altman’s sister filed in court details of Sam molesting her pretty much her entire childhood. How he is still CEO during this is beyond me. They’re going to keep him as CEO until Sam is found liable, then be like… oops no way we could have known that lawsuit filed by his own sister was real, aren’t they?