Do We Want Elon Musk in Charge?

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This is from Emily in you phone & asks some really good questions.  I worry we're turning into an oligarchy with control by the rich.  Elon almost wants to be a def acto VP/POTUS and buy his way into this election.  This article lays out all his government contracts & legal disputes he'd try to influence if Trump won.
Not for nothing but Gates also donated $50M to dems...


emilyinyourphone.substack.com/p/do-we-want-elon-musk-in-charge



Musk's increased involvement in the presidential campaign, combined with his ownership of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter), has sparked debates about the influence of billionaires in politics and the spread of misinformation during election seasons.



This isn’t just your run-of-the-mill billionaire. This is a billionaire who controls information and influence for millions of people. And a billionaire who is trying to buy people’s votes with his tremendous wealth. (Is this how Hunger Games started?)



This is a billionaire dangling a million dollars a day to those whom he has no interest in supporting economically once his chosen regime is in office.

[Beeps (WOT?*)]

And IMO this is a billionaire who is a privileged white male born and raised with benefits of South Africa apartheid, who I'm sure would just looooove to see the return of those policies.

TBF, I'm not happy to see Bill Gates giving $50M to Democrats, because I don't think that kind of money should be involved in politics. But since it *is* needed (and is being used to balance the scales of Big Money in the Republican party, and I'm appreciative of Big Money going to the party that wants to help *more* than just the wealthiest, despite what people say about the Democratic neoliberal corporatist oligarch Clintons and Pelosis, et al.)

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Elon Musk — the world's richest man and a major contractor to the U.S. government — "has been in regular contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin since late 2022," The Wall Street Journal reports.

Why it matters: Musk's conversations could foreshadow U.S. reengagement with Putin if Donald Trump wins the White House, given "Trump's expressed desire to cut a deal over major fault lines such as the war in Ukraine," The Journal notes.


Per axios

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Can't he move to Mars already?

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I'm hoping that when Kamala wins they figure out a way to take his space companies and satellites away from him (didn't the taxpayers basically pay for them anyways?). This guy should not have the power that he does.

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Musk in charge honestly scares me more than Trump in charge.  This is terrifying.

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Oct 25, 2024 11:55:06 GMT -5 icedcoffee said:

Musk in charge honestly scares me more than Trump in charge.  This is terrifying.

Agreed, but if drump wins, who will be pulling the strings?

Elon has agreed to run the "Department of Government Efficiency" (doge, his meme coin & also to basically gut the federal agencies)