Elon Musk Asks Public If He Should Bring Back DOGE Whiz Kid Who 'Resigned' Over Edgy Tweets

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Feb. 07, 2025

Elon Musk appears poised to rehire Marko Elez, the 25-year-old DOGE staffer who "resigned" after the Wall Street Journal doxed him and revealed he made a bunch of edgy tweets on an anonymous X account.

From The Wall Street Journal, "DOGE Staffer Resigns Over Racist Posts":

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old who is part of a cadre of Elon Musk lieutenants deployed by the Department of Government Efficiency to scrutinize federal spending, resigned after The Wall Street Journal asked the White House about his connection to the account.

"Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool," the account posted in July, according to the Journal’s review of archived posts.

"You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity," the account wrote on X in September. "Normalize Indian hate," the account wrote the same month, in reference to a post noting the prevalence of people from India in Silicon Valley.

After the Journal inquired about the account, White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt said that Elez had resigned from his role.

Most everyone suspected Elez was forced out and pointed out how Musk and Trump criticized "cancel culture" only to cancel one of their own for holding traditionalist political views.

Whether Republicans like it or not, such views are mainstream among a rapidly growing segment of young right-wingers. If everyone who holds such views is to be canceled, you're going to be canceling tens of millions of young people to appease leftists who literally hate you.

If we're to take opposition to gay "marriage" as a proxy, some 28% of Zoomers are opposed to it and their opposition keeps growing year after year. Removing 28% of Zoomers from society because they reject modern liberal values is just plain stupid and sure as hell not going to help "Make America Great Again."

Evidently, Musk saw the backlash he was receiving and the calls for Elez to be rehired and decided to put out a poll on his X account asking, "Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?"

Nearly 80% of those who voted in the poll said "Yes."

Bring back @DOGE staffer who made inappropriate statements via a now deleted pseudonym?
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 7, 2025

Here’s my view:

I obviously disagree with some of Elez’s posts, but I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life.

We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.

So I say bring him back.

If he’s a bad dude or a terrible member of… https://t.co/OgG6Z3hKPE
— JD Vance (@JDVance) February 7, 2025

JD Vance, almost certainly with Trump's approval, saw which way the wind was blowing and said on X that he thinks Elez should be rehired:

Here's my view:

I obviously disagree with some of Elez's posts, but I don't think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid's life.

We shouldn't reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever.

So I say bring him back.

If he's a bad dude or a terrible member of the team, fire him for that.

Rehiring him is a no-brainer.

It's time to cancel cancel culture, not contribute to it with the type of cowardice we've seen the GOP exhibit for decades.

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