“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer..."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/23/us/politics/spacex-contracts-musk-doge-trump.html

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Musk fired thousands of federal workers and is awarded billions of dollars in new federal contracts.
Corruption, abuse of power, illegality. And now lawyers and courts are in fear of consequences.
A vicious, horrific circle.
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you post these links, and just assume we all have subscriptions to the Atlantic and NYT? thx
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😡😡😡
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Invest in NASA and forget the nut job flying to Mars.
The same way his cars are self driving (in theory)
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Elon is a danger to our republic & to the wellbeing of Americans. https://youtu.be/Mq-Fh5I1eQk
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I've never wished for turning on the news and reading about the assassination of person(s) more.
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Please…NO!
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I would like to make a request. If you are going to link an article that requires a subscription, please link it as a gift article so those of us without a subscription to a given news outlet can actually read the information you are promoting. Thanks in advance
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That's why he hangs out in DC.
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Rural america are their core voting areas, but MAGA are in denial, or they just don't want to believe these things even when it's right in front of them.
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I keep hearing how Tesla is going down and Elon is worried. I don't think he is. His stock holders are worried for sure. So what if he loses 1bn in Tesla sales(Not the right figures), He is making that up with all the Gov't contracts he is getting. God help us and especially the ignorant.
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Just what we DON'T need.
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We had the housing for fiber optic buried in front of our house 9 years ago no follow through. Last year housing & fiber optic running through it replaced the original tubing funded by Biden’s infrastructure bill. Now it appears that is null & void so trump can give everything to musk. We’re screwed
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The fact that not one single Republican has a spine and will stand up to the clear conflict of interest. Elon is lining his pockets with taxpayer and gov’t money.
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*screams with rage for 100th time today*
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Break Tesla break Elon, break Elon break Trump!
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Clear as glass..
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Elections have consequences.
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Crooks are in the White House ! My hope is that one day we can trust the leaders of America to do the right thing ! VOTE Please Help the working Class !
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Crooks in the White House ?
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Republicans always stealing ! Very Untruthful and need to Repent ! Do you agree ?
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Send Musk and FOTUS to Mars on Space X
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Those contracts were meant for all major internet provider’s to be split up. This was Biden admin. Now with Elon getting it he can listen in, steal info, and cut it off at anytime. T mobile uses starlink. Hell no!
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Fucking leech!
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Most of them voted for it. Sometimes you have to let idiots learn the hard way,
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It’s always about the money
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EloNazi MusKKK is the biggest welfare queen of them all!
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How hard is CONFLICT OF INTEREST. I know Anderson Cooper couldn't get it into trump's brain in a 2016 interview. The most corrupt GOP ever. The most corrupt government in the history of the world.
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Deport muskrat back to Nazi S. Africa, saving what’s left of America. He has to goooooo!
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Then he would try to bring back apartheid. El Salvador is too good for him but probably the best option.
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No, just no. NASA, please affiliate with someone else that is more competent and crush Elon off the earth. We don’t need them.
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And they Expect us to pay taxes?
😆🤣😆
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Naturally because SpaceX is the cheapest.

But ... Elon Musk should not be signing on both sides!
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It’s funny how President Musk and his sidekick, DJT, keep saying there is no conflict of interests there and then just keep showing us one after the other…Mmhhmm…
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But ONLY here. He's being dumped elsewhere.
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Oh and I forgot. They had a one manufacturer car show on the White House lawn and the Treasury sec has told everyone to buy his stock!!!
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He’ll! He spent a quarter of a billion to get Trump elected. Trump has to pay him back somehow!!!
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It's the same with oligarchs in Russia or the military rulers in Myanmar: they fleece the populace by granting themselves exclusive businesses or contracts that enrich them.
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Easy answer: once we are ready (soon) just abolish the class of billionaires and seize their assets. Done!
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A gross conflict of interest!
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He’s posturing for Starlink to step in as the internet provider, provided American taxpayers pay the bill!
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I'm guessing double billing... paid by taxpayers and again as a subscription.
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Oh no no no no.... The Fed will fund Starlink for those areas...
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I swear, if people don’t see how pro-billionaire, anti-regular people he is—they are just too stupid for their own good.

I’m shocked the orange slime hasn’t bought, with govt funding, all the off loaded stocks in Tesla…
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Pretty good return on investment for Musk. The grift that keeps on grifting.
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Be angry at the open act of war with Europe they are committing by forcing an uninvited visit on a country they threatened to invade!

If you want to have any allies left you might want to stand up to these people who act for Russia and hurt you.

We won't be here to help you with China if not!
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Waste of our money for his junk!
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🤬😡😡
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Also, cuts in Medicaid will severely damage small rural hospitals.
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The low Earth orbit satellites fall constantly from the sky and need frequent replacing. An evil money-making scheme once the suckers are locked in, not to mention perfect cover for launching *any* kind of satellites.
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It proves we are dealing with amateur hour.
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I worked in a library with public computers. Always full because the residents outside of the city had crappy internet service.
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Musk is a pirate and he’s looting and pillaging his way through our government.
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Musk will be soon emperor of the world. An evil man child villain.
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We are ok with worse internet in rural America if it hurts the Nazi regime!
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Cancel them all
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And rural America would vote for these assholes again TOMORROW.
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Keep’em Dumb.
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People need to get off twitter aks x.
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Shocked. Shocked I say. Look, at this point I don't care to hear about how Trump and Elon are scratching each other's backs at the expense of our freedoms. I've reached total saturation on what I can process. I only want to hear about what people are doing locally to unite the working class.
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#DonPottyCrimeFamilyScams #ElmoPresidentNotElectedScammer
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"Democracy Dies in Darkness"

even wapo doesn't believe in it anymore.
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I live in rural America, I would do without if Starlink is the only option. Fortunately, there are other options, not cheap, not fast, but they work.
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I live in a very rural, isolated area. No way in hell would I purchase a Starlink system! EVER.
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Nothing to see here. No conflicts of interest. Move along. #Terrorists
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Rachel ... I think you should continue to use "so we can make the world's richest man even richer" as your mantra. It's the predicate for so much that's happening now ...
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Space is a collective dream of a nation that celebrates diversity, Elon is out of his element.
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Trump is giving everything to Elon Musk!
They both want to be the richest people in the world!
Trump is trying to buy Greenland for its land and minerals!
Land for Trump's hotels!
Minerals- lithium for Elon Musk!
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💯
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I appreciate you.
Yet
I’m am totally confused at you capitulation along with you network.
Do you really think you’re hold the line?
The man is done. Period
Please stop acting like you can save it.
Gulf of Mexico is the Gulf of Mexico again period full fucking stop
Protests are everywhere
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I'm tired, Rachel. I won't stop fighting, but I'm tired. Why isn't Musk facing criminal prosecution? Why are they allowing this?
I'm tired. I'm scared for my and my husbands future, for the future my grandchildren are looking at. I'm tired.
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Ty
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After two rockets blowing up and parts going everywhere, the astronauts being left in space for an extended period of time which is dangerous. We all need a pause of SpaceX maybe the whole contracts needs to go to bid.
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Can’t this be stopped!
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Orange Fat Boy would know when it is rigged.
Right ??
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Space launches have huge carbon footprints. Space travel does NOTHING for human beings. Exploding space ships harm wildlife. #FuckMusk #FuckTrump #FuckTheGOP
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Yeah in 2023 they were disqualified.
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So much corruption going on!
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Again...
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I will use smoke signals before anything muskrat.
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THANK YOU
#RESISTANCE
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It’s Monday, so I’m sharing this again. I wrote it last fall when hope still existed… Will there ever be good news again ?
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Doesn’t Musk push Space X hard on Trump so they can increase the number of Star Link satellites giving Musk a way to monopolize and Trump a way to control more media broadcasting?
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This is why he doesn’t care about Tesla
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Corruption on full display. How many blown up rockets ??? How many satellites ???
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We don't want this piece of junk of our internet
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That is a true sickness to have more money than everyone else and take it away from the poor and the vulnerable in the Quest to possess even more.

I feel no FOMO.
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That may be true, but he's still going to lose in the end. And everyone knows wealthy people who abuse will eventually fail.
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I don't understand why billions of taxpayers r pyn 4 Musk companies like the Starlink satellite without the Americans being able 2 say we own it and if we do, who is the Official who controls Starlink? Democrats should put a Bill on the floor that taxpayer funds going 2 Musk, America OWNS IT, PERIOD
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The aim and the reason.

The wealthiest man on earth is not American born he is south African born. FYI
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Not only worse internet, but then Musk can shut down internet access to any area he wants for any reason.
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Net Neutrality codified into law is critical to ensure digital equity for all. Put it beyond Executive reach and out of the hands of corporations pursuing cash over compassion.
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Agreed! I live in a rural area and pay a fortune for decent internet access. Very few options even to get entertainment. Mountains don’t allow for easy connectivity. Working or school remotely is nearly impossible.
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It was Buttigieg that stranded rural America. Elon could have delivered by now for 1/4 the price.

“FCC Chair Carr Slams Buttigieg Over $42.5B Internet Rollout Failures.”

I love how you are consistently wrong
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Please explain how giving a billionaire additional taxpayer dollars for the internet equivalent of rockets and cars that explode helps the US economy or rural America. Thanks.
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What else would u have expected differently from allowing a convicted criminal and a scam artiste to run the show for USA as a whole? Just asking a friend
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Cancel all contracts with Musk at SpaceX and Starlink. He needs to be deported too.
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He does have 14 mouths to feed.
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Sickening
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Exactly, Biden/Harris/Dems expanded infrastructure and rural internet for the purpose of INCLUSION!! ISOLATE the rural communities who are most vulnerable to FAKE FOX NEWS and local newspapers have disappeared- local TV stations owned by corporations making billions are totally in Trumps pocket!
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We really need this to not happen
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This is BS!
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I see people on social media defending Musk saying he must be out to help us because "he's doing the DOGE work for free." I explain that he's NOT working for free, and is lining up billions more in gov't money for himself and his companies, not to mention killing agencies that were regulating him.
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Has anyone in the administration heard the phrase conflict of interest?
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EVERYTHING Elon and Trump do is for financial gain. Talk about conflict of interest!!
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I have been sayin!
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Realize a stopgap is only a temporary measure, but certainly we can begin now and release the citizens of this country from the egregious evil deposited upon its citizens from selfish and money hungry musk and trump???????
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Look into the Starlink Satellites battery failures now causing crashes around the world. Several near aviation misses as well.
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#dogeisaheist #itsaheist
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Of course this was the point all along.
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Can anyone say, CONFLICT OF INTEREST?
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While freezing funding for agencies that are actually helping people who are in need. 😪
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Awful!
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😳🤔👎🏻👎🏻🤬🤬🤬
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