I appreciate you pointing this out. I suspect you have thought it meant this was some new thing that has arisen since the inauguration and DOGE's activities commenced, but that is not what this reveals. Rather the opposite. Where previous to Trump's accession to the Presidency the procurement was specific to Tesla, now it is not, and seems to be presently intended to procure a variety of makes, and not only Teslas.
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"The Biden administration had instructed the State Department to assess if private companies would be interested in producing armored vehicles, the spokesperson added. Only one company responded to the department's request for information, the spokesperson said."
Clearly that company that responded was Tesla, which explains the proposal title.
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Additionally, it restates old news as if it was a sudden advent, which is disingenuous.
"Musk's companies have received billions of dollars from government contracts and subsidies."
Spacex primary amongst them, and not Tesla, and not deriving from new contracts that have arisen from Trump's Presidency. Since Tesla has been now relegated to but a potential choice of providers for this acquisition, and that has been only changed since Trump was inaugurated, I submit this is proof not of advantage being taken through DOGE, but of that prior exclusivity being renounced and rejected since DOGE began it's operational phase.
I admire your persistence in correcting me :) I did actually see later that this was happening last year and that VW were also bidding for the contract. I also heard that Tesla's name was being removed from some official documents. Musk now has a lot of power as he goes into departments that had been investigating his businesses. Do you trust him to do the right thing? We have those two guys running things who both seem to think that they have all the answers. Well Trump seems to let Musk do what he likes, possibly in return for the big donation. As a business guy he may think that the guy deserves some rewards for that, but this is all just speculation.
I am not on Twtr and so won't see what Musk spews out, but I would not expect it to be balanced.
I absolutely do when the targets of his DOGE (interestingly, the title of Venetian merchant kings, back in the pre-City of London days) are the factions striving against the OG Dems that have conquered the relic Republican Party and contend with the NeoCons that the Democratic Party has become since Operation Wall Street was destroyed in 2012. However, Spacex has ~$22B in contracts with the DOD in effect today, and that's a lot of reasons to expect DOGE to be incapable of impartiality in an audit of the DOD that has been promised.
What we are observing is factional competition for power over the USG, wresting it from the NeoCons and not restoring it to Constitutional limitations as Trump's cult of personality proclaims. It is easy to see how they are bamboozled by the excision of absolutely intolerable fraud their saviour's enemies have inflicted on America and the world, yet it is not likely the reining in of these vectors for corruption won't simply switch the horses feasting at the trough. New boss, same as the old boss, wearing different livery, as usual.
You're not wrong that billionaires aren't impassioned champions of the sovereignty of Americans and the people of the world, but the NeoCons that have been mismanaging things for the last decade and a half aren't either. The one imposition of that sovereign power that Mao feared would present a rifle behind every blade of grass is hardly more palatable than suffering rank and obscene financial fraud, but the prospect of Stargate in the hands of genocidal maniacs is considerably worse.
I appreciate you pointing this out. I suspect you have thought it meant this was some new thing that has arisen since the inauguration and DOGE's activities commenced, but that is not what this reveals. Rather the opposite. Where previous to Trump's accession to the Presidency the procurement was specific to Tesla, now it is not, and seems to be presently intended to procure a variety of makes, and not only Teslas.
Edit:
Clearly that company that responded was Tesla, which explains the proposal title.
End edit.
Additionally, it restates old news as if it was a sudden advent, which is disingenuous.
Spacex primary amongst them, and not Tesla, and not deriving from new contracts that have arisen from Trump's Presidency. Since Tesla has been now relegated to but a potential choice of providers for this acquisition, and that has been only changed since Trump was inaugurated, I submit this is proof not of advantage being taken through DOGE, but of that prior exclusivity being renounced and rejected since DOGE began it's operational phase.
Or do you see something here I am missing?
I admire your persistence in correcting me :) I did actually see later that this was happening last year and that VW were also bidding for the contract. I also heard that Tesla's name was being removed from some official documents. Musk now has a lot of power as he goes into departments that had been investigating his businesses. Do you trust him to do the right thing? We have those two guys running things who both seem to think that they have all the answers. Well Trump seems to let Musk do what he likes, possibly in return for the big donation. As a business guy he may think that the guy deserves some rewards for that, but this is all just speculation.
I am not on Twtr and so won't see what Musk spews out, but I would not expect it to be balanced.
I absolutely do when the targets of his DOGE (interestingly, the title of Venetian merchant kings, back in the pre-City of London days) are the factions striving against the OG Dems that have conquered the relic Republican Party and contend with the NeoCons that the Democratic Party has become since Operation Wall Street was destroyed in 2012. However, Spacex has ~$22B in contracts with the DOD in effect today, and that's a lot of reasons to expect DOGE to be incapable of impartiality in an audit of the DOD that has been promised.
What we are observing is factional competition for power over the USG, wresting it from the NeoCons and not restoring it to Constitutional limitations as Trump's cult of personality proclaims. It is easy to see how they are bamboozled by the excision of absolutely intolerable fraud their saviour's enemies have inflicted on America and the world, yet it is not likely the reining in of these vectors for corruption won't simply switch the horses feasting at the trough. New boss, same as the old boss, wearing different livery, as usual.
You're not wrong that billionaires aren't impassioned champions of the sovereignty of Americans and the people of the world, but the NeoCons that have been mismanaging things for the last decade and a half aren't either. The one imposition of that sovereign power that Mao feared would present a rifle behind every blade of grass is hardly more palatable than suffering rank and obscene financial fraud, but the prospect of Stargate in the hands of genocidal maniacs is considerably worse.
I'd sure like some better options.