Trump came out in opposition to a stopgap spending deal hours after his billionaire buddy Elon Musk heavily criticized it. Elon Musk ordered his puppet Trump and House Republicans to break the bipartisan agreement reached to keep government open. This country has become an oligarchy!
Rein him in — how? Who’s “we”?
As I see it, we ordinary Americans are powerless to stop him. I already call my members of Congress often. Please tell me what actions I can take that would actually make a difference.
That's what I came here to say. We regular people sure can't do anything about him, other than avoiding his crummy products. I don't believe anyone can stop him now.
Just think, a man who became a citizen 12 minutes ago, buys a media platform, buys a President, becomes the defacto president, all while not being a naturalized citizen. He is praised and held up as the only one we have to protect free speech. You can’t make this stuff up. 🤷♀️
We can get in our reps faces as much as possible and tell them the government must cancel “President Elon’s” government contracts. We can choose to buy other car companies’ EVs. We can quit Xitter. We can boycott Xitter advertisers. We rein him in by ruining him.
Tbh I think Trump just wanted to win to salve his ego for losing to Biden in 2020. I don't think he even wants or cares about the Presidency now. Hence why Musk is running the show.
I'd say the people who voted for him are in for a rude awakening but they'll just start to blame someone else.
He ran to stay out of federal prison and yes, he got exactly what he wanted and will be very happy to delegate all governing responsibilities to others.
Musk was too busy being a darling of the left then because of Tesla. Who'd have thought being transphobic and a Trump follower would turn the left against him?
Yeah, this is a key point. Many years ago I was active on the Tesla Motors Club forum. Lots of people talked politics. I only knew *one* person - literally one - on the forum who was conservative (a guy named "swampgator"). Everyone else was on the left.
He's always had flaws, zero question. Thin-skinned, gullible, etc. And of course many on the left hated him for being wealthy and anti-union. But also one of the most prominent voices on climate change, a huge advocate for social safety nets, and even a very pro-LGBT voice (hard to believe today!)
Just shows how rapid and steep his continued descent into illiberal megalomania has been since. Watching him go from a promising figure to the greatest threat to global freedom in a decade has been tough. It's been downhill since that weird obsession with calling that rescue diver a pedo manifested.
I don't really consider that the start of this right-wing stuff. Stanton asked Musk to help, Musk got really into it even though it was becoming clear he wasn't going to be of help, Unsworth (caver, not diver), who Musk had never met, said falsely on CNN that Musk got kicked off the site and told...
You are right, people who never looked deeper were wrong about him. This is wakeup call for anyone. He has grifted his way into power, and we should be working to cut him back out. He doesn’t belong there. He is only interested in wealth transfer, nothing else.
I really want to know who died and made him President?
I also want to know why I see no movement on any investigations that prove he cheated by eliminating Dem. votes or anything to stop this maniac & trump from destroying America?
The most infuriating thing to me is how cheaply he was able to buy access to the US government. Cost him $40 billion to buy Twitter. Only cost $100M to buy a position as the President's principal advisor.
Therefore, the oligarch Musk owns trump. HE paid for the election & used his failing social media platform to get TFG elected. They won't/CAN'T stop him until AFTER TFG takes the oath of office.
He has mental issues and nobody cares. It is scary to see a man like him having so much power. Corruption at highest levels and he says: “everybody makes mistakes” and laughs! I mean, he is narcissist. He takes ketamine weekly if not daily (he said). He pumped Dogecoin and nothing happened to him…..
Probably time for the tolerance for nefarious behavior to end. The political gloves should come off to pause, fix and move forward. Organized crime will run us over, if we don't challenge it now.
No need to rein president Musk in. Musk is behaving as though he bought the whole thing, but other investors are getting nervous and will demand that their interests be protected. Lieutenant president Trump will end the bromance before January 20, 2025.
Starship is a scam, it takes 10 Starships in the project's current iteration to provide one Starship enough fuel to get to the moon and back. Musk promised we'd be on the moon by now, yet Starship has yet to achieve orbit or carry a payload. DOGE should cut Starship funding, we'll save billions.
It is possible that Elon Musk works for the CCP Chinese party. He was quick to deploy tesla in China where he knew from day1 that Chineses will steal all the recipes for EV. That is more than strange.
Isn't it funny how the self described billionaire had to take 250 million from the muskrat for his campaign, and now Elmo can lead him around by his tie, just like a pet dog. Hey Dumbo Donnie, you made a deal with someone way richer, way smarter and much more powerful than you. Elmo is the real prez
One of the things that might make the Trump presidency a little more bearable is the amount of time he will waste fighting stupid battles with his courtiers & the one he will end up fighting with Musk will be one of the biggest.
Sorry, Guard (may I call you that?), but your headline simply makes no sense: as the soon-to-be President of the United States, how can Elon Musk possibly be a "one-man rogue state?"
Is this not where The US has been inexorably heading for all it's life. They've prided themselves on their open market, free economy where, if you work hard enough and are ruthless enough, you can have it all. Now the politicians are obsolete and the unelected businessmen are running the country!!
Musk’s wealth is largely funded by the U.S. Government. Take the Space X contracts away and legislate against X, and he’s left with Tesla. Who does he become then?
Elon Musk is using his wealthy to make more of it by running Government. Trump is a lazy bast*ard and sold his power to him because he only ran to stay out of jail. Musk had the money and Trump, is pushing off the hard work to someone else. Trump prefers to be the the titular king instead and golf.
Trump doesn’t care about governing. You were right, he just ran for President to stay out of jail, now that he’s back in office he’s going to focus on vengeance against perceived enemies
No government will reign him in. He's too powerful now, it would cost too much and risk too much negative publicity on X. The billionaire class should have been reigned in 15-20 years ago when we saw how much power and influence they were starting to have.
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As I see it, we ordinary Americans are powerless to stop him. I already call my members of Congress often. Please tell me what actions I can take that would actually make a difference.
I'd say the people who voted for him are in for a rude awakening but they'll just start to blame someone else.
Liberals, the time to act is *before* things get bad.
Elon was a top ACLU & Sierra Club donor.
(That article was from right before everything went downhill)
I also want to know why I see no movement on any investigations that prove he cheated by eliminating Dem. votes or anything to stop this maniac & trump from destroying America?
He's America's poison.
1) President Trump (permanent Supreme Court pardon)?
2) MAGA house (wants reelection in 2 years)?
3) Senate (only dare express themselves freely through secret ballots)?
4) Supreme Court (see item 1)?
5) Random people with common sense but no power?
The Mango Ape is bought and paid for.
He was on sale at a discounted price...in the discard bin
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/donald-trumps-so-rich-i-cant-be-bought-120743
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That's patently obvious.
It's why he, like the twice-impeached criminally seditious traitor, is desperately hiding his phone calls to Putin.
He, #traitortrump, AND Putin, ALL belong in PRISON for LIFE with ZERO POSSIBILITY of PAROLE.
For the good of humanity and the world 🌎.
Who is going to achieve this?
Get your kicks December 2024!!!
Easy to say it.
Who exactly is going to do it?
Just words, then. Just empty, meaningless words.
Maybe Reform actually had a fully costed budget in their manifesto which will save the UK economy?
Disrupt Starlink Data.
Block data uplinks from Teslas.
Block Xitter at Border Gateways.
PS: what if he is using cameras in Teslas to target his enemies for blackmail or assassination? Does he even have limits?