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They all loved him until....

posted 14 days ago by Destinata (3564)
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...he started sounding like John Fetterman, then went to work for Trump. Remember when he was the "IT" boy, the one who made the best electric car, and the coolest rockets? Then it was "in" to love Elon. Now it's "in" to hate him. One moronic Senator was calling him the "co-President."

He works for Trump finding waste and abuse in government. Period. If the guy who got elected doesn't want him working for him anymore, he'll get bounced. Just ask Vivek Ramaswamy. "Oh!" they say, swooning, "It's an Oligarchy!" Nope, it's a rich guy we don't have to pay who's trying to streamline our government like he's proven he's so good at with his companies. And I, for one, am sick and tired of my tax dollars going to pay for idiotic stuff like transgender rights projects in Peru.

This is what America overwhelmingly voted for. And as Democrats like to say, elections have consequences.

[–] Seperatrix (1349) 7 days ago

The message that Republicans have been putting forward is that they’re cutting waste, fraud and abuse. So they immediately go after USAID, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. So what does it say that while they’re nickel and diming these programs, when as far as the CFPB is concerned, the program costs $800 million a year but has a return of $21 billion dollars to consumers who’ve been ripped off by predatory banks. Then look at USAID at one half of 1% of the budget delivers essential programs like clean water, food for refugees, HIV prevention and helps us with soft power around the world. So you have these massive benefits for a fraction of the cost. Then you look at these tax cuts that would cost $4.5 trillion dollars and the vast majority of which go to the very wealthiest.

And the CFPB is the very thing Musk wants to eliminate so that his “X money” can and will touch every part of your financial life. The CFPB is there to make sure that Elon’s project can’t scam you or steal your sensitive personal data.

What could the richest man in the world with a defense contract and a car company and a medical device company and a social media company and ties to foreign governments and large crypto holdings possibly have to gain from having direct control over the federal government?

I wonder . . .

[–] Destinata (3564) 6 days ago

I think everyone with power should be watched like a hawk.

George W. Bush gave us warrantless surveillance in his President's Surveillance Program, and Obama took it to great heights as Edward Snowden told us all. The government already HAS all your info. So do the banks, PayPal, Facebook and dozens of other companies we hope are as secure as they tell us they are, and only have our best interests at heart. But let's get scared of Elon Musk because he used to be a good lib, but he jumped the reservation after voting for Obama, and now is on Trump's side. No one cared about him before. And no one cares about Zuckerberg, now. But they ought to.

I do hope, rather than just spreading paranoia over the guy who was one of the most beloved liberals of all time, so long as he was a liberal, that people cut off the 8 million dollars a day flowing into his pocket and start asking why he needs government money for his successful car company, and his Space-X program, and who knows what all else. It's corporate welfare, which also rose to great heights under Obama and Biden. But we need to stop it. Why is going to Mars an absolute good? It isn't.