Summary
JD Vance called for the rehiring of Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer who resigned after The Wall Street Journal exposed his racist and eugenicist tweets.
Elon Musk polled users on X about reinstating Elez, with 78% supporting his return.
Vance, while disagreeing with Elez’s posts, opposed “rewarding journalists who try to destroy people.”
Elez had access to the U.S. Treasury’s payment system before resigning.
I know why Musk does this - manufacturing the appearance of consent and perpetuating his “vox pupuli” delusion - but at this point, it’s so transparent that his followers are sycophantic blue-checks and bots that it’s insulting to even pretend this matters any more than a Russian election.
Unrelated other point: love it how Vance sees he’s fully reduced to an afterthought, so of course to try to increase his standing with Trump he tries to out-shameless the rest. At this point all of the GOP are like colorful birds putting on mating dances for Trump, competing who can be the most craven and subservient, hoping he picks them.
JD Vance:
Surveying the bots.