Elon Musk

OnWis97 · February 13

HughFreakingDillon said:

so essentially musk paid trump $10m for a job

That would be nice. But he paid him for a country.

Halifax2TheMax · February 13

josevolution said:

Gern Blansten said:

LOL

Raking in the $$$$ but let’s cut out food stamps for the poor! What a sick country we are

Poncier · February 13

OnWis97 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

so essentially musk paid trump $10m for a job

That would be nice. But he paid him for a country.

He paid him for the opportunity to F with regulations to benefit himself to the tune of billions.

Merkin Baller · February 14

Poncier said:

OnWis97 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

so essentially musk paid trump $10m for a job

That would be nice. But he paid him for a country.

He paid him for the opportunity to F with regulations to benefit himself to the tune of billions.

It's what America voted for: an elitist billionaire to raid the coffers. The only difference between now & trump's 1st term is it's an immigrant elitist billionaire, as opposed to a home grown one.

Libz = owned.

mickeyrat · February 14

https://www.propublica.org/article/elon-musk-spacex-doge-faa-ast-regulation-spaceflight-trump?utm_campaign=propublica-sprout&utm_content=1739513691&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwY2xjawIcTYlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHd8cKCanuZTgDTtcd4BKfOPjbCtdJ4m5ZbRcc2GNZeDLpqH_Zl6T5LtP9Q_aem_4yDZ8CffXWTY3eV9bhyukA

Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.

The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.

by Heather Vogell Feb. 11, 2025, 5 a.m. EST

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When SpaceX’s Starship exploded in January, raining debris over the Caribbean, the Federal Aviation Administration temporarily grounded the rocket program and ordered an investigation. The move was the latest in a series of actions taken by the agency against the world’s leading commercial space company.

“Safety drives everything we do at the FAA,” the agency’s chief counsel said in September, after proposing $633,000 in fines for alleged violations related to two previous launches. “Failure of a company to comply with the safety requirements will result in consequences.”

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s response was swift and caustic. He accused the agency of engaging in “lawfare” and threatened to sue it for “regulatory overreach.” “The fundamental problem is that humanity will forever be confined to Earth unless there is radical reform at the FAA!” Musk wrote on X.

Today, Musk is in a unique position to deliver that change. As one of President Donald Trump’s closest advisers and head of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, he’s presiding over the administration’s effort to cut costs and slash regulation.

While it’s unclear what changes his panel has in store for the FAA, current and former employees are bracing for Musk to focus on the little-known part of the agency that regulates his rocket company: the Office of Commercial Space Transportation, known as AST. “People are nervous,” said a former employee who did not want to be quoted by name talking about Musk.

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DE4173 · February 15

Ashley St. Clair 🤔

OnWis97 · February 15

Family values for thee; if it feels good do it for me.

mickeyrat · February 15

https://www.threads.net/@reneeleegreco/post/DGGhXa0Rkvs?xmt=AQGztaj5z1G2U8l0YgMqqo-0AiJj7c-y72Z-4S7NGZiyGQ

Halifax2TheMax · February 17

If you haven’t already, cancel your WaPo subscription. They’re drowning democracy in the bathtub. In the dark.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

Gern Blansten · February 17

Halifax2TheMax said:

If you haven’t already, cancel your WaPo subscription. They’re drowning democracy in the bathtub. In the dark.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

I've been getting "come back" emails from WaPo. Fuck them. I haven't ditched Amazon but I won't touch WaPo until Bezos is gone.

mrussel1 · February 17

Gern Blansten said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

If you haven’t already, cancel your WaPo subscription. They’re drowning democracy in the bathtub. In the dark.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

I've been getting "come back" emails from WaPo. Fuck them. I haven't ditched Amazon but I won't touch WaPo until Bezos is gone.

It’s cowardice. There’s nothing Trump could do to AWS or Amazon that would materially threaten his wealth. What billionaire is willing to stand up for the Republic? None so far.

Gern Blansten · February 17

mrussel1 said:

Gern Blansten said:

Halifax2TheMax said:

If you haven’t already, cancel your WaPo subscription. They’re drowning democracy in the bathtub. In the dark.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/17/media/washington-post-anti-musk-advertising/index.html

I've been getting "come back" emails from WaPo. Fuck them. I haven't ditched Amazon but I won't touch WaPo until Bezos is gone.

It’s cowardice. There’s nothing Trump could do to AWS or Amazon that would materially threaten his wealth. What billionaire is willing to stand up for the Republic? None so far.

I don't get it.

mickeyrat · February 18

https://www.threads.net/@cloudyinvasion/post/DGMa8_ZJB72?xmt=AQGzsuj0CwJbtivZIGFpgm5pNT97fR-mbLAQPFFtGgMNfQ

mickeyrat · February 19

mickeyrat · February 19

https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-false-prophet-of-government-efficiency/

"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies."
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-false-prophet-of-government-efficiency/

mickeyrat · February 20

ICYMI — “Elon Musk reposted an image from an account claiming to show ‘migrants storming a Birmingham hospital’, but people have pointed out it was actually just a scene from a Batman film.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/elon-musk-reposts-image-of-birmingham-hospital-but-its-actually-a-batman-scene-389930/

GlowGirl · February 20

mickeyrat said:

ICYMI — “Elon Musk reposted an image from an account claiming to show ‘migrants storming a Birmingham hospital’, but people have pointed out it was actually just a scene from a Batman film.”

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/elon-musk-reposts-image-of-birmingham-hospital-but-its-actually-a-batman-scene-389930/

What an idiot.

mickeyrat · February 20

Whether done by DOGE or Zuckerberg, this is a massive betrayal of trust, The treasonous lawlessness and theft demands an immediate answer.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-156773811

"8 IP addresses on Amazon’s GovCloud now point to Inventry.ai’s REST API, indicating a massive firehose of data being sent to the AI company’s servers. The IP addresses are: 18.253.166.131, 182.30.117.29, 18.253.153.187, 182.30.154.252, 18.254.229.158, 18.253.160.247, 18.254.175.18, 18.254.191.201. 1/2

noquarter

BH76306 · February 20

The director of data science and engineering for what is now known as the US DOGE Service has resigned. "If DOGE truly was concerned with efficiency, they wouldn’t have fired experts in procurement," she writes, "who prevent waste up front."

https://www.wired.com/story/doge-engineering-director-resign/

tbergs · February 20

Musk now tasked with fixing air traffic control. What the actual fuck? This just keeps getting more ridiculous. Flying getting less safe the next 4 years.

HughFreakingDillon · February 20

It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/airplane-crashes-statistics/index.html

brianlux · February 20

HughFreakingDillon said:

It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/airplane-crashes-statistics/index.html

Wait, you mean the media might be making us think something is happening that isn't? That never happens!

Social media has eliminated the ability of the average person to be skeptical. We're conditioned- or as we used to call it, "brainwashed"- into believing stuff that isn't true. I doubt anyone is 100% unaffected that way- we all get sucked in to some degree. But way too many people believe WAY too much bullshit. And now media and social media is bringing onboard the most clever deceiver of all-time: You Know Who.

Eh? Aye!

HughFreakingDillon · February 20

But doesn’t it actually FEEL like this was true? That there have been more crashes than usual in this soan of time? Plane crashes are almost always big news, no matter where they occur. And it’s not just american media reporting on them.

DE4173 · February 20

I think whatever job cuts, whether they are part of the cause or not, brings the topic to the forefront.

Poncier · February 20

HughFreakingDillon said:

But doesn’t it actually FEEL like this was true? That there have been more crashes than usual in this soan of time? Plane crashes are almost always big news, no matter where they occur. And it’s not just american media reporting on them.

Well, you have had 2 crashes involving major commercial airlines the past few weeks. Including one with 67 fatalities. That is out of the norm. There are frequent small/private plane crashes/incidents during normal times. Crashes like DC and Toronto are not part of the norm. It had been 15 years prior to DC since a commercial plane crash happened that had fatalities.

tbergs · February 20

Poncier said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

But doesn’t it actually FEEL like this was true? That there have been more crashes than usual in this soan of time? Plane crashes are almost always big news, no matter where they occur. And it’s not just american media reporting on them.

Well, you have had 2 crashes involving major commercial airlines the past few weeks. Including one with 67 fatalities. That is out of the norm. There are frequent small/private plane crashes/incidents during normal times. Crashes like DC and Toronto are not part of the norm. It had been 15 years prior to DC since a commercial plane crash happened that had fatalities.

Similar to the conversation I had with my 12 year old this morning. There was another report of a small private plane crash on the radio and he was like, what's going on. I explained that the smaller private plane crashes are more common and often not reported on nationally, but the crashes with Delta and out in DC were pretty serious and uncommon. It's just that we're now also hearing about smaller non-commercial crashes too so it seems out of control.

I wouldn't directly blame the crashes on the current administration, but their response and gutting of staffing at the federal level make the connections hard to ignore and unfortunately karmically induced. Remember the bogus outrage at the Biden admin after the train crash in East Palestine, but then Congress stalled on passing any meaningful legislation because the railroad tycoons don't want to pay up for enhanced safety.

mickeyrat · February 20

In building a 68-mile tunnel under Las Vegas, Elon Musk’s Boring Company has skirted building, environmental and labor regulations, according to records obtained by ProPublica and City Cast Las Vegas.
https://propub.li/3X7zXdH

mickeyrat · February 20

video

https://www.threads.net/@factpostnews/post/DGT7r7mNMhD?xmt=AQGzCuixWDvLTUiX2GJP-M8IYLAsCSxY6Pve4UMylO3RzQ

Elon Musk brings out a chainsaw and laughs after helping lay off thousands of American civil servants, including health care workers and national security officials

Halifax2TheMax · February 20

mickeyrat said:

video

https://www.threads.net/@factpostnews/post/DGT7r7mNMhD?xmt=AQGzCuixWDvLTUiX2GJP-M8IYLAsCSxY6Pve4UMylO3RzQ

Elon Musk brings out a chainsaw and laughs after helping lay off thousands of American civil servants, including health care workers and national security officials

Fucking disgusting. Those billionaires really do care about you. They really do.

mickeyrat · February 21

man I hope this is true....

Elon Musk

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Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.

The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and other incidents.

It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth

It feels like there are suddenly way more plane crashes and incidents. Here’s the truth