Musk's Illegal Control of the US Government

[romad1]

Musk manufactured "truck" spontaneously burst into flames at the tow yard. 

 

[Tigerbomb13]

13 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Musk manufactured "truck" spontaneously burst into flames at the tow yard. 

 

George Soros sabotaged it

[gehringer_2]

or you can buy a Mustang Mach E (standard range) and you get the much safer LFP battery system.

[romad1]

7 minutes ago, gehringer_2 said:

or you can buy a Mustang Mach E (standard range) and you get the much safer LFP battery system.

Also is manufactured by (nearly) publicly traded company with fiduciary responsibilities to those investors. 

 

Nearly because of the magic special stock the Ford family has that insulates them from too much democracy.

[gehringer_2]

5 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Also is manufactured by (nearly) publicly traded company with fiduciary responsibilities to those investors. 

 

Nearly because of the magic special stock the Ford family has that insulates them from too much democracy.

True - on the other hand, the stability of that control is what got them through the crash when the General ended belly up.

[romad1]

2 hours ago, gehringer_2 said:

True - on the other hand, the stability of that control is what got them through the crash when the General ended belly up.

This is true. 

[romad1]

I'm really curious about the outcome of this

[CMRivdogs]

 

[romad1]

Today on my very whirlwind tour of Livonia/South Lyon and Milford I ran into the Barnes and Noble on the corner of 5 and Haggerty (or is that 6 mile?) and I was perusing a book titled "Hubris Maximus" about Elon Musk and some sweet old lady comes up and says "that book has a great title, doesn't it?" and i look at it and I realize she's no fan of Ole' Elon and I respond "Yeah, he's a real piece of work, isn't he?" and she responds "you can say that again!"

Now, sample size is very small.   Not all the old people in that age cohort in the western suburbs are Trumpies. 

I didn't assume she was hitting on me. 

Edited May 1 by romad1

[Tiger337]

This is probably just another revenge move for Trump, but going after the Fed for wasting money would be the first good thing DOGE has done.  

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/elon-musk-says-doge-should-examine-federal-reserve-costs-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-05-01/

[pfife]

To hell with doge

[chasfh]

Yeah, I don’t trust anything Trump or DOGE say they want to do for whatever reason, even if it sounds good on the surface. Because you need only scratch the surface just a little to see the rotten real reason lurking just beneath it.

[Tiger337]

 

3 hours ago, pfife said:

To hell with doge

 

1 hour ago, chasfh said:

Yeah, I don’t trust anything Trump or DOGE say they want to do for whatever reason, even if it sounds good on the surface. Because you need only scratch the surface just a little to see the rotten real reason lurking just beneath it.

Correct, I don't trust the DOGE **** commission at all.  I am just saying that hypothetically if they were legitimately trying to cut waste and fraud, going after the federal reserve for their lavish reconstruction would be the type of thing they should target.   

[romad1]

 

Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party that Vice President Vance and Elon Musk schmooze with is officially classified as "a proven right-wing extremist organization". No, not by "leftist woke lunatics" but by Germany's domestic intelligence agency. https://www.politico.eu/article/afd-officially-right-wing-extremist-group-germanys-intel-agency-says/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=alert&utm_campaign=AfD is officially a right-wing extremist group%2C Germany’s intel agency says

 

Goddamn Musk 

 

[Tigerbomb13]

Blatant corruption 

[smr-nj]

Of course it’s blatant.  And , of course, there will be no repercussions.

[chasfh]

But … but … Hillary’s emails.

[CMRivdogs]

Good for Gates

Quote

Full quote: “The world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children,” Gates told me, exhibiting a rare burst of real anger about the cuts to U.S.A.I.D. “He put it in the wood chipper, because he didn’t go to a party that weekend.”

 

[romad1]

 

the people with axes to grind are dishing. 

The Katie Miller thing is really an indictment of her as much as cosmic punishment for Stephen Miller.

[mtutiger]

20 minutes ago, romad1 said:

 

the people with axes to grind are dishing. 

The Katie Miller thing is really an indictment of her as much as cosmic punishment for Stephen Miller.

I question how much Musk is stepping back, but to the extent that he's being forced out and that he's being pushed in front of the bus in the press, nobody should forget who brought him on to the do the damage that he did.

I'm going to go ahead and quote Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here!"

Which means the ultimate responsibility for allowing an unelected mentally deranged drug addict to run roughshod over government lies with Donald Trump. Musk deserves rage, of course, but let's not lose sight of this fact either.

[RatkoVarda]

how is it news that the guy who repeatedly admitted to massive drug abuse and gave televised interviews while smoking pot and appeared in public completely addled multiple times - was abusing drugs!

[romad1]

67 Sound: "Political reporters like to pretend they are of a higher order than sports reporters but they’re not. Every sports fan recognizes the “empty the notebook” hit piece on a guy leaving the team. They rarely have the guts to do it when it matters." — Bluesky

 

[romad1]

11 minutes ago, RatkoVarda said:

how is it news that the guy who repeatedly admitted to massive drug abuse and gave televised interviews while smoking pot and appeared in public completely addled multiple times - was abusing drugs!

moral courage is a resource in short supply because we seldom reward it. 

[romad1]

Or Stephen Miller

[romad1]

31 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

I question how much Musk is stepping back, but to the extent that he's being forced out and that he's being pushed in front of the bus in the press, nobody should forget who brought him on to the do the damage that he did.

I'm going to go ahead and quote Harry Truman's desk: "The buck stops here!"

Which means the ultimate responsibility for allowing an unelected mentally deranged drug addict to run roughshod over government lies with Donald Trump. Musk deserves rage, of course, but let's not lose sight of this fact either.

What if Trump is also a mentally deranged drug addict?