The decline in TSLA is a wicked weapon in the fight over him benefiting from such access as he's attained through DOGE, when no specific contracts are in evidence. I've not experienced any reticence of Trump supporters to speak out, either. Rather I am, as I am quite happy to see these bureaucracies gutted and see no reason to speculate about benefits to Musk when I could be quickly slapped back with concrete financial losses he's sustained.
When some such benefit is specifically alleged, I'll have a look at such allegations. I'm not a fan of TSLA, and have no personal financial injury to seek redress of because I don't own any, so haven't any cogent comment about that either. But neither am I claiming Musk is corrupt and his access to DOGE is profiting him, because the decline in TSLA enables his supporters to show he's a suffering altruistic saint, and I have no evidence to counter that claim.
As I said, I think he's a troubled man. Obviously he has fans and some want the government to be totally reformed, but he makes some wild claims about corruption etc. I don't think he would ever have to worry about money and so he will be driven by other things. You should beware of people who say they are the only ones who can fix things. Nobody is perfect.
I am not the Elon's biggest fan, truly. Neither do I seek to malign mere men that strive to achieve things I could never hope to.
It is difficult to fault his enthusiasm, when such egregious injury has been afflicted on America as has been shown lately. It is not the aversion to censorship the Elon affects that disturbs me at all, but that it is pretense and limited that does.
Fauci was funding the weaponization of the common cold as early as 2014, and the results of that have been wielded by the DOD criminally, insanely criminally, in my assessment. Treason against the USA is not even the worst charge that can be laid at the feet of them responsible, as I see that humanity, even life itself, has been what has been betrayed.
Say what ill you will of Musk, but publishing these proofs of horrific crimes against humanity buys him mercy from me. Fauci more than any man alive has claimed to be the fixer of things, all while actively preparing the murder of millions. I do not believe the timing of these expenditures mere happenstance, nor the appearance of treachery feigned or fallacious.
Tens of millions are dead, and they were all murdered. Here are the receipts.
Oh, and here we go.
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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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.
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.