Let's talk about Elon Musk

[steve dave]

is that you dax?

KK is on the record for saying Cheney is like the worst guy ever to live

I'm on the record with him. Hang him.

[Pete]

is that you dax?

KK is on the record for saying Cheney is like the worst guy ever to live

I'm on the record with him. Hang him.

Then I don’t get your angle

I’ve said like 1 million different ways so I think the guy is a piece of crap and every time everybody reacts the same way when I point out merely one rough ridin' thing the guy does well . Just cause I hate a rough ridin' guy doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge certain things He does well.

[Pete]

Also, this Siri talk to text sucks so apologies

[Pete]

Hitler is the only one where you can’t say “he did some good things.” everyone else is fair game.

[steve dave]

is that you dax?

KK is on the record for saying Cheney is like the worst guy ever to live

I'm on the record with him. Hang him.

Then I don’t get your angle

I’ve said like 1 million different ways so I think the guy is a piece of crap and every time everybody reacts the same way when I point out merely one rough ridin' thing the guy does well . Just cause I hate a rough ridin' guy doesn’t mean I can’t acknowledge certain things He does well.

I don't have an angle. Murderers should hang.

[steve dave]

Also, this Siri talk to text sucks so apologies

the best thing about this stuff (you being wrong) is we're buds and it doesn't matter

[Pete]

Also, this Siri talk to text sucks so apologies

the best thing about this stuff (you being wrong) is we're buds and it doesn't matter

Go cats

[star seed 7]

Stephen Miller definitely fits the criteria

[Pete]

Not sure how this got locked. I might have accidentally clicked something

[mocat]

Elon just got a $400 million contract for armored teslas. Siap but you can just click the first link and sort by largest contract value. It's the largest one.

https://www.state.gov/procurement-forecast

"Tesla" was removed from the name of the contract last night

https://time.com/7221880/state-department-2025-procurement-forecast-tesla-armored-electric-vehicles-musk/?utm_source=reddit.com

[Trim]

Not sure how this got locked. I might have accidentally clicked something

Mod log shows I accidentally clicked it. Maybe as I was going to sleep I subconsciously thought locking the thread would lock musk out of all our lives.

[mocat]

Stephen Miller definitely fits the criteria

absolutely. he seems like a true believer.

but courting racists is just as if not more evil, imo. the grandaddy of them all, Lee Atwater:

Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "n-word, n-word, n-word". By 1968, you can't say "n-word"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this", is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "n-word, n-word". So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner.

[sonofdaxjones]

#blueanongE fully supported a president who championed incarceration nation as a senator.

A president who openly talked about how he didn’t want his white kids growing up in a “racial jungle” . . . a dude who counted some of the biggest racists in the modern history of our Congress as his BFF’s.

Bill Clinton’s mentor was an ardent segregationist. Bill’s wife pushed “we will bring them to heel”/incarceration nation from the bully pulpit of FLOTUS.


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[mocat]

Best analogy is Gríma, also known as Wormtongue, who was the chief advisor to King Théoden King of Rohan. Gríma secretly worked for Saruman to weaken the king and Rohan. But, he may not have been autistic. And obviously Théoden was more like Obama when he woke up (no pun intended).

grima was not autistic, just suffered massive PTSD from his time spent in the cuckoo's nest

[Stupid Fitz]

Seems familiar

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/tesla-crash-brakes-musk-china-zhang-yazhou-b2697360.html

[sonofdaxjones]

Companies can't defend themselves . . . StupidFitz

[mocat]

Seems familiar

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/tesla-crash-brakes-musk-china-zhang-yazhou-b2697360.html

Dang, Chinese courts don't seem very communist

[catastrophe]

a fun thing about what's going on in the most powerful country on earth is that now a (rascist/austistic/silver spoon/psuedo-intellectual) is now in charge. all good things we want in a leader for sure.

Although when you think about it, it’s really not that outrageous to assume that there have been prior instances of racist autistic Silverspoon pseudo intellectuals advising the president in a very persuasive way. In fact, you might argue that’s the profile of most presidential advisors over the years.

That sounds like the description of everyone in a political think tank, besides the business development guys.

Unless your point is that this is a great opportunity to address a blatant case of corruption and potentially add better safeguards against the hidden ones, I don't really follow the whataboutism here.

[catastrophe]

Best analogy is Gríma, also known as Wormtongue, who was the chief advisor to King Théoden King of Rohan. Gríma secretly worked for Saruman to weaken the king and Rohan. But, he may not have been autistic. And obviously Théoden was more like Obama when he woke up (no pun intended).

grima was not autistic, just suffered massive PTSD from his time spent in the cuckoo's nest

I think you guys might be confusing autistic with psychopath?

[cfbandyman]

Seems familiar

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/tesla-crash-brakes-musk-china-zhang-yazhou-b2697360.html

This has been going on for a very, very long time. They've sued everyone from Top Gear (though that was mostly a jest thing) to all the autopilot crap.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Tesla,_Inc.

Some of those are pretty meh, but plenty, and especially IMO the lies around autopilot, and the phantom braking (which I experience regularly) are damning but they weasel their way out or just settle.

[LickNeckey]

Musk:  $1.4 billion dollars in loans from the Bank of China

Musk:  Launching our satellites

Immediate national security concern

[sonofdaxjones]

Thanks ChiCom Joe!! . . . Elon Musk

 In 2023, the Pentagon awarded SpaceX a contract worth about $23 million to use Starlink to support military operations in Ukraine through mid-2024.His companies were promised $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts with 17 federal agencies in 2023

[LickNeckey]

sorry dax this is just another one of those things you posted

Musk:  $1.4 billion dollars in loans from the Bank of China

Musk:  Launching our satellites

Immediate national security concern

[cfbandyman]

sorry dax this is just another one of those things you posted

Musk:  $1.4 billion dollars in loans from the Bank of China

Musk:  Launching our satellites

Immediate national security concern

 

[michigancat]

Oh man