‘‘Nobody Elected Elon Musk Act’’: Dems float legislation to make Musk liable for DOGE’s actions |
New Mexico Rep. Melanie Stansbury wants the world’s richest man to be “on the hook” for DOGE’s legal damages

https://www.salon.com/2025/02/08/nobody-elected-elon-musk-act-dems-float-legislation-to-make-musk-liable-for-doges-actions/

41 comments

  1. Democrats do realize that all the legislation, the lawsuits–none of it matters. Like, they get it, right? Separation of powers, checks and balances, the rule of law–it has all been tossed out the window. I ask because democrats are acting like they don’t understand that this is what has happened, but i like to think that they really aren’t that dumb. 

  2. The equivalent of a real Lex Luthor has been given the keys to the kingdom, it’s already too late

  3. Maybe I’ve grown too pessimistic, but I don’t see Musk being made accountable for anything he’s done to the US; we need his satellites way too much.

  4. It’s absurd that we need legislation to criminalize this bullshit.

  5. My wettest dream is home being in jail and his money given to something humanitarian.

  6. How about the literal deaths occurring because of his actions?

    Example: No plane crashes for 16 years.

    Suddenly Musk DOGEs the FAA and we have 3 in 3 weeks.

    That’s not all, of course, just a clear cause and effect.

    He should face at least manslaughter for each death.

    He’s not just a criminal, he’s a killer.

  7. You don’t need an act. You need law enforcement. He’s not authorized to do literally any of the things he’s doing. And yes, I’m 100% certain of that. The government makes you sign a form for every individual system. Fuck, even the unimportant crap I work with took two documents with mine and high authority signatures. Can you imagine the authorization required to access the treasury?

    The fact they even made it this far blows me away. Someone granted them access. Someone opened the doors. And let me tell you, Trump doesn’t know how to grant access beyond shouting into the ether and hoping someone complies.

  8. He can’t legally be running companies and doing this.

  9. Absolutely nothing will come of this. Even if it passed, musk will just toss a billion to an army of lawyers who will make it impossible to touch in or his money.

    If they really wanted to do something, remove Trump and Vance, along with any one in who would advance Project 2025, and freeze all their assets.

    Then send a team is Seals out to hunt musk down and drag his ass back to America for a trial.

    All of which, of course, will never happen

  10. We don’t need a new law for him to be liable! He’s not a real government employee, he’s not a real political appointee, he’s just some rich corrupt douchebag being given access to all these systems!
    I actually hate these maneuvers, b/c now he’ll have a legal defense, “they tried to make what I did illegal, so clearly it must have been legal.”
    We just need a barrage of lawsuits. 25 million job applicants in just the past year had ALL their personal data swiped by him. Who knows how many years back the records go? We could legit have hundreds of millions of people filing civil suits against him and making him the Poorest Man on Earth.

  11. F@ck yes! Sue him for all he’s got and put it toward our debt. Then make him try to live with the same shitty healthcare or lack thereof the rest of us have.

  12. Musk helped Trump steal the election, so Trump is paying Musk off by letting him raid everything

  13. Don’t forget the lackeys. They should be sued for any rewards they were promised and banned from being within 100 feet of computers for decades.

    You don’t get to destroy the country to prove how edgy you are and walk away scotfree.

  14. I’m all for finding and quashing all wasteful spending. I am however not okay watching a foreign billionaire hack all these organization’s systems. Here is the thing that I don’t think the magats understand. If all sorts of illegal shit is found by this fake organization, especially with criminal implications, how the data is found, collected and stored is extremely important for it to be admissible in court. If it’s found that the US Fed was funding various terror groups through USAID, they may have completely fucked up our chance to do anything about it. If the discovery, collection and preservation of the evidence is not performed properly, it’s not going to be conclusive or admissible in any way. The way this went down, that most likely didn’t occur therefore it’s a completely null argument that their doing it to save the country. It’s obvious that they are not cyber sec experts and have clearly violated numerous federal cyber security and information laws. Start with FISMA, GLBA, HIPAA to name a few.

  15. I mean, the Supreme Court just ruled that anything the President does as President constitutes an official act, and is free from wrongdoing or prosecution. Basically means Musk will be fine. And if Trump does anything weird, Musk will just pardon him.

  16. Dude literally gets subsidized from the federal government and drops spaceship trash on peoples houses and you want to pretend like you’re going to hold him accountable with legislation. What a bunch of wet noodles

  17. None of this means anything if the GOP aren’t tagging along, which so far they seem to be all on board and enabling Musk.

  18. Why the fuck are we passing bills when he should just be arrested, full stop?

  19. what’s to stop them from not requiring certain friends to pay their taxes at this point?

  22. When Dems get elected Musk will have to go to prison. He’s no Trump in terms of people’s support.

  23. It’s called personal responsibility.

    You know, what republicans used to stand for…

  24. It would be amazing if Leon ended up paying out more in lawsuits than he eliminated in spending. 

  26. If he directs any of his little band of hackers to install any unauthorized software, that would be espionage. Arrest him, seize his companies and sell them off.

  27. Where do i sign up for the class action lawsuit? He will be pardoned for all the federal illegal shit he is doing.

  28. This will never go anywhere…. pardons for all regardless

  30. The most infuriating thing is how the “greatest country to ever exist” allowed this to happen. I love my country, but this has gotten ridiculous. It’s an insult. This administration has no spine. The supreme court as well. And more troubling is how many Americans are relishing this outcome. It’s disturbing, but they refuse to see the bigger picture. That’s on them. Meanwhile, Trump has leverage and can ultimately shitcan this gimmicky DOGE bullshit, but he chooses not to. What a fucking mess. Trump – come to your senses please.

  31. Wait until Trump issues a blanket pardon for anyone that worked in his administration.

    Unless there are state laws involved, everything that is happening will go unpunished.

  32. Should have named it “Nobody Elected President Elon Act” or something similar to annoy Donnie

  34. Love how y’all MAGAts treated Vice President Kamala like she was illegitimate because ‘we didn’t vote for her in a primary’, but you’re cool with unelected Elon Musk being the de facto president and with him over-riding elected congress, something not even a president can do. Must be that ‘facts before feelings’ 👍

  35. If congress decides that they are unwilling to check the executive branch during a constitutional crisis because most of them are fine with those checks and balances being violated, then there are hundreds of government jobs we can just get rid of.

  37. Oh my fucking god. The rich DO NOT need special laws; they need to abide by the same fucking things we all do.

  38. Elon is going to fuck up. Some say he’s a genius, but he lacks self-control and does dumb stuff all the time. His Nazi salute was a perfect example of this. He’s going to dox some people with the information he’s taken from the Government. It will happen, because he can’t help himself. When that happens, the people who’ve been doxed should sue him for $400 billion, sure they won’t get that, but look what happened to Alex Jones.

  40. The Dems are watching a man literally destroying our government in front of their eyes the best they can offer is a resolution or a piece of paper

  41. But they can’t actually pass legislation and if they could they couldn’t make the DoJ enforce it, so it’s pure theater.

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