African Musk: Not a Fragrance

[MrFanti]

What makes this so hilarious to me is that he was the darling of the Democrats from about 2011 to 2020 or.

[filghy2]

What makes this so hilarious to me is that he was the darling of the Democrats from about 2011 to 2020 or.

Sensible people change their minds when the facts change. What do you do?

Until he purchased Twitter and came out as a right-wing super-troll people knew him only as the head of Tesla. Maybe they had a generally positive view, but there wasn't any reason to give him much thought as he wasn't constantly in their faces, as he is now.

[Stavros]

Just when you think Trump is unhinged from reality, up pops the richest man in the world to prove he can match his master with this

"“The reason I’m here in person is because Pennsylvania is so important to the future of the world,” Musk said at an event in the Philadelphia area hosted by America PAC, the super political action committee he created earlier this year.
“I think this election is going to decide the fate of America. And along with the fate of America, the fate of western civilization,” he added."
Musk Warns of ‘Mad Max’ or ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ Fate Under Harris (yahoo.com)

It is touching to think that this South African with a US passport is concerned at the fate of Shakespeare and Shostakovich in the land of the free and the home of the brave, but, well, I mean to say - Pennsylvania? Isn't that where you find the place known as the 'city of brotherly' to everyone except the people who live there? As for Mad Max and Zombie Apocalypse -is this supposed to be the rational replacement for Hannibal Lecter?

It is just all so mad, and plain crazy. Will it stop after November 5 -or is it January 5th? (Maybe Trump knows something we don't).

[Stavros]

More preposterous garbage from the Visionary Commander of Comms, not just the verifiable fact that Dominion voting machines were not used in Pennsylvania, or the $100 bribe to registered voters who sign a petition supporting free speech and the 2nd Amendment (that's the one that gives Americans the means to kill other Americans) -but this

"“the last thing I would do is trust a computer program.”"
Elon Musk and Marjorie Taylor Greene risk Dominion’s wrath with revived conspiracy theories

Hmmm...all those advances in science and engineering that the people who work for him have achieved, was none of it reliant on computing?

Let's hope Dominion sue him, he merits it.

[Stavros]

More garbage from the Visionary Commander of Comms

"Musk reiterated a litany of falsehoods tied to Trump’s campaign. He argued that the “constitution is literally under attack”, spread false claims about voting machines and said that a Trump loss in November could ultimately end American democracy. “I fear if Trump does not win, we are going to have a single-party state that is going to be like California, but actually worse,” he said."

And the man tipped to have a prominent job in Govt if Trump is President also said

"“I hate politics,” he said. “I just like building stuff. And making products that people love.”3
But he has never made anything, he gets other people -clever people- to do it for him.

Maybe this is the state of America in a nutshell

"The spectacle was both surreal and potentially illegal. But no one here, not least Musk himself, seemed to care in the slightest."

Conspiracy theories and a $1m check: a night at Elon Musk’s surreal election giveaway | US elections 2024 | The Guardian

[Stavros]

And even more garbage from the Visionary Commander of Comms

Set aside the Chic-fil-a nonsense, consider this which is now being repeated in various places, eg Jimmy Vance with Jake Tapper

"“I made a joke that was sort of misconstrued, that it was like, ‘Nobody even bothers to try to kill Kamala.’ That’s pointless. Why? They’ll just get another puppet,” he said. “Nobody even bothers. Nobody’s even tried to kill Biden.”“They’ve tried to kill Trump, twice,” he added. “Trump is not beholden to anyone and that’s why the machine is trying to kill him.”".
Elon Musk suggests Chick-fil-A be put in charge of the southern border in rambling hours-long town hall

Who is this 'they'? The first shooter was alone, and a Republican; the guy off the Golf course was alone and voted Trump in 2016. And what 'machine' is he talking about? And who is the only person who has put murder and Harris and Biden in the same sentence?

The man being sued for running a 'lottery' in Pennsylvania.

What a wild weekend it was, with promises of more hysteria and lies to come.

[Stavros]

Illegal immigrants, rounded up and thrown out of the country....is the curtain about to fall on the spectacular career of this (illegal?) immigrant?

Elon Musk’s U.S. citizenship in jeopardy as billionaire's past faces scrutiny: report

[Stavros]

Guess who is laughing all the way to the bank? Companies in China? No problem, 'Daddy' will fix it for his boy. Amazing to think what suckers American consumers are: financing the very companies whose products they buy. That's like paying for it twice over. I guess this is the triumph of Capitalism, and sounds awfully like the process that Marx described in the second volume of Capital, but don't tell Daddy that, least of all his mega -or should that be Maga- Rich sonny boy.

'I made it all by myself, Ma' -something you won't hear from the latest American Robber Baron.

Opinion | How US Taxpayers Helped Elon Musk Become the Richest Man on Earth | Common Dreams

[Stavros]

Details are lacking, but an intriguing analysis by the BBC suggests there is a contradiction between Trump's campaign promises, and his appointment of Elon Musk to slash the size of the Federal budget.

What the BBC has done is break down Federal spending into mandatory and discretionary spending, but to point out that while it is not know if the $2 trillion of cuts Musk proposes take place in one year (his work is said to last only 6 months) or the whole of the Trump term, the room for cuts is narrow.

Crucially, this:

"It’s also important to note that Donald Trump campaigned on a platform of making Social Security more financially generous, not less, by removing the income tax payable, external on it. And, on defence, Trump said, external he would build an “iron dome missile defence shield” around America, implying greater spending in this area, not cuts."
Can Elon Musk cut $2 trillion from US government spending? - BBC News

So at the same time that Musk wants to fire thousands of Federal employees, Trump may be trying to employ them.

As for who goes, it appears that the majority of Americans who work for the Federal Govt and its agencies are classed as White -are they natural Democrat voters?- , yet one wonders if the majority of the citizens who lose their jobs, if they do, will be Black. Some stats are here-

Three charts on diversity in the federal government's workforce

[Stavros]

Oh dear, as if the Great Elon Musk was not enough, now we have his daddy (the biological version) sounding off about the UK, which according to him has gone back '400 years' to 'Tudor times', which, may I say, suggests the Daddy Don't Know Shit about England. Or maybe I have been living here so long I can't see what others do. At least in this Musk there is no importance. I don't even know why he was interviewed as I thought he and The Great Elon Musk were not talking to each other. As for those eyebrows....

Elon Musk’s father calls for Keir Starmer to step down as PM | News | Independent TV