The Worst Thing About Elon Musk Is That He Got Away With All of It

[Celerity]

His reign of terror didn’t end after he bought the 2024 election.

https://newrepublic.com/article/204558/elon-musk-monster-2025-doge

https://archive.ph/vyjko



The world’s richest man is nowhere near the world’s most generous, or sensible, or kind, or popular, or the most positive of anything. Elon Musk was already a polarizing figure before he decided to endorse Donald Trump for president in July 2024, but that decision cemented his villain status and earned him the ire of most Americans. As of this writing, more than half of the country views Musk unfavorably.

Musk’s wealth (and possibly his ketamine habit) has given him delusions of grandeur about his intelligence, believing he’s capable of coming up with an infinite amount of good ideas. When Musk’s plans inevitably fail, his money protects him from any consequences and allows him to avoid introspection. He’ll blame one of his favorite scapegoats, usually meddling government bureaucrats or the “woke mind virus,” and his power and control will remain intact.

Musk’s estimated net worth of half a trillion dollars largely comes from government contracts, which also makes him the richest welfare king. That’s probably why he chose to work in government: to make himself richer and eliminate any obstacles to his science fiction pipe dreams, among them implanting chips into people’s brains and colonizing Mars. His foray into government this year will have lasting damage so extensive that we are not yet even aware. Two events early in the year previewed how it would go.

“This is the chainsaw for bureaucracy! Chainsaw!” Musk, clad in black sunglasses, a black “Make American Great Again” hat, and a black coat, shouted from the stage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February, pretending he was a rock star as he waved around a chainsaw he received as a gift from Argentinian President Javier Milei just seconds before. (Months later, Musk would regret this stunt, claiming it lacked empathy, as if he has any, and Milei would require a multi-billion dollar bailout from the U.S. government.)

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[Walleye]

1. I can't imagine what it's like to be a loyal federal employee with a good performance review being fired

On the record, for cause, because that was the only way Elon could find to fire them. I’d be mad I’d be really mad. One thing we need to do pretty quickly it when we take over Congress again is haul this asshole in front of a committee and question him

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

2. Elon Musk is "the richest welfare king"

Repeat it

[popsdenver]

4. It should read:

"CORPORATE" Welfare King........

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[Fiendish Thingy]

3. He's gotten away with it...so far

Get Lina Kahn back at the FTC, and let a Dem congress investigate DOGE, then we will see if he really gets away with it.

[paleotn]

6. Exactly! My first thought on reading that...Oh, we ain't done yet! Not by long damn shot!

[ancianita]

7. As all U.S. military contractors do.

[IronLionZion]

8. The worst immigrant destroying our country

[fujiyamasan]

9. His wealth was largely subsidized by democrats

That’s the sad truth. I never understood why EV tax credits were considered progressive. It was basically corporate welfare.

The people that largely benefited from them are those in the top 10%. And guess what? It didn’t help one bit electorally.

SpaceX was due to government incompetence. The US had no choice because ULA was such a ripoff and there were no other alternatives (other than Russia which for any national security related contract was an obvious no go).