Notices tagged with elon

@GottaLaff #Trump and #Elon will be the most effective leadership duo since #Abbott & #Costello 🙄

We'll be lucky to have a country left.

Truth.

#USPolitics #Election2024 #trump #elon #musk

@GottaLaff Nationalize Space-X and Starlink. Prosecute the unregistered foreign agent spy Apartheid Nepo Baby #fara #espionageact #felon #elon

@dansup

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/jack-dorsey-says-elon-musk-is-the-singular-solution-i-trust/

(indeed: trusting this fallible imagination with unencumbered logic is foolish)

"Solving for the problem of it being a company, however, #Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.”

During this year's Republican primaries, Peltz gave $100,000 to a super pac supporting Tim Scott,
the South Carolina senator,
but Scott dropped out before a single G.O.P. vote was cast.

By the time of Peltz’s dinner, it was clear that Trump would secure the Republican nomination for an unprecedented third consecutive election.

Peltz, who was no longer on speaking terms with the ex-President, opened the discussion with a blunt assessment of the race.

🔥“I don’t like Donald Trump,” an attendee recalled Peltz saying.

“He’s a terrible human being, but our country’s in a bad place, and we can’t afford Joe Biden.”

So, Peltz concluded, however much they might dislike it, ❌“we’ve all got to throw our support behind him.”

Some of Peltz’s guests remained skeptical,
holding to the view, as the attendee put it, that
“Trump’s a terrible person
—I’m going to focus on the Senate.”

Most of the donors, however, adopted a more pragmatic approach to the ex-President.

Many of them had been granted significant access to the White House during his four years in office.

Some were expected to be considered for senior roles in a second term:

Trump has personally floated the name of the hedge-fund tycoon #John #Paulson, for instance, as a potential Secretary of the Treasury, touting him as
💥“a money machine.”

“They know how transactional he is,” the attendee told me.

“They’re hoping to have some influence over the course of appointments and therefore the direction of his Administration.”

A few of Peltz’s guests were all in.
#Steve #Wynn, the Las Vegas gambling titan, has known Trump for decades;

his wife, #Andrea #Hissom, is close to the former First Lady, Melania, and the two couples have spent time together in Palm Beach.

And then there was #Elon #Musk, the world’s richest man, who had reportedly got to know Peltz through Peltz’s son #Diesel, a tech entrepreneur.

At the time, Musk had said that he would NOT back a candidate in the Presidential race.

♦️By the fall, he would enthusiastically endorse Trump, spending $75 million to support him through a new super pac,
-- and spreading pro-Trump lies and conspiracy theories on his social-media platform, X.

Trump, the richest man ever to serve in the White House, is himself a billionaire,
though the extent of his wealth has long been in question.

(As of mid-October, with stock in Trump’s social-media venture, Truth Social, experiencing a pre-election bounce, Forbes estimated his net worth at about $5.5 billion.)

In 2016, Trump hardly bothered to court big donors.

He was shunned by much of the G.O.P. élite and largely self-funded his Republican primary campaign.

He lambasted Jeb Bush, the brother and son of Presidents, as a tool of the moneyed class.

👉“Super pacs are a disaster,” Trump said in a 2016 debate.
“They’re a scam. They cause dishonesty.
And you’d better get rid of them, because they are causing a lot of bad decisions to be made by some very good people.”

⚠️But in 2020, as an incumbent President, Trump embraced super pacs and their funders.

The two main super pacs supporting his campaign raised
💥$255 million on his behalf that year;

his total fund-raising came to more than
💥 $1 billion.

However, Biden, like Hillary Clinton four years earlier, raised even more than Trump,
bringing over-all spending in the 2020 Presidential race to a record🔥 $5.7 billion.

#Nelson #Peltz

#David #Shulkin, whom Trump had appointed to head the V.A.,
made multiple visits to Palm Beach to consult with the troika that officials came to call “the Mar-a-Lago crowd.”

“There probably weren’t too many times I met with the President when he didn’t say,
‘What’s happening with Ike?’ ”
Shulkin once said.

When Perlmutter visited Washington, Shulkin told me,
“I would get a call
—‘Could you come over to the White House?
Mr. Perlmutter’s here with the President.’ ”

Shulkin was fired by Trump, in March of 2018, amid a controversy over an expensive trip to Europe that Shulkin had taken at taxpayers’ expense.

Within hours, he went public with accusations that the story had been hyped by Trump political appointees who were intent on privatizing many of the V.A.’s services.

Shulkin told me that he never fully understood why Perlmutter,
who had not served in the U.S. military or even visited a V.A. hospital until Shulkin took him to one,
had been given such power over the agency.

He described Perlmutter as “a private-sector guy” whom Trump admired as a self-made man,
someone who “had started with very little and built empires.”

The problem, as Shulkin saw it, was that Perlmutter had little idea of what he was doing.

“Because he never worked in government, he didn’t understand government,” Shulkin told me.

“Part of my role was always trying to translate
—‘That isn’t the way we could do things in this organization.’ ”

Perlmutter, however, has remained close to Trump.

He and his wife gave $21 million to a super pac supporting Trump’s bid in 2020,

and, in 2024, they bankrolled a new pro-Trump super pac,
"Right for America",
donating another $25 million.

By September, Right for America had raised some $70 million,
which it has spent on an advertising blitz this fall.

The venture drew support from other longtime members of Mar-a-Lago,
including the Newsmax founder #Christopher #Ruddy, who gave $100,000,
and #Anthony #Lomangino, a South Florida waste-management mogul,
who donated $7.85 million.

#Scott #Bessent, another hedge-fund executive often mentioned as a possible Trump Treasury Secretary,
also contributed $100,000.

🆘 Perlmutter’s highly unusual role in the first Trump Administration appears to have become something of a template for outside influence in a second term.

In March, when #Elon #Musk met with Trump at Peltz’s house for breakfast,
they discussed a broad advisory gig for the tech billionaire on such matters as immigration and the economy
—“in the mold of the role” that Perlmutter had played at the V.A.,
according to the Wall Street Journal.

By August, after publicly endorsing Trump,
Musk had fleshed out the idea.

During a lengthy live-streamed conversation with Trump,
Musk suggested that a commission was needed to investigate how to rein in government spending.

Such a panel, Musk posted on X, “would unlock tremendous prosperity for America.”

Weeks later,
during a speech at the Economic Club of New York,
Trump formally announced his support for a
“government-efficiency commission”
that would
“conduct a complete financial and performance audit of the entire federal government.”

He proposed that Musk,
despite having received billions of dollars in government contracts and subsidies for his ventures SpaceX and Tesla,
should chair the effort.

Soon, Trump was calling Musk his future
“Secretary of Cost Cutting.”

It sounded like a more ambitious version of a project that Trump had launched early in his Presidency,
when he named the billionaire investor #Carl #Icahn as a special adviser in charge of overhauling federal regulations.

Icahn left the role less than a year later,
when an article in this magazine raised questions about potential conflicts of interest.

#cult45 #elon #gopliesabouteverything

@br00t4c
But #CSAM is covered under the #Elonmusk personal #freedomofspeech warranty.

So #dodo cannot comply with these freedom children safety laws of Australia, especially as doing so would be costly.

Any regulation that costs money is a freedom issue for an old #libertarian #fascist like #Elon #Naziboy #musk

@benroyce And that's how you deal with a bully. #brazil #elon #twitter #lol

#elon #propaganda

Steven Fry rips into #SpaceKaren and #zuckerberg

Stephen Fry: Musk and Zuckerberg have 'polluted culture' https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq5q3jlnz3o

#news #tech #facebook #x #twitter #musk #elon #elonmusk

"Illegal Immigrant Makes Sexual Threat To Local Woman"

#ElonMusk #Elon #Musk #TaylorSwift #Creepy

This article left out the most egregious detail in this story, and that is that #Elon himself controls the account he was re-tweeting. So, he made this absurd AI image of himself as a Roman gladiator, posted it using this other account, then re-tweeted it using his real account. I don't think it's possible to be any more pathetic.

#ElonSucks #MuskIsADick #FuckElonMusk #ElonIsATwat #ElonMuskIsATroll #MuskIsAScab #boycottMusk #ElonSupportsApartheid #boycottTwitter #Xodus

https://www.indy100.com/viral/elon-musk-ai-image-gladiator

#Elon and House Republicans Go All In On Fake Claims of Migrants Eating Pets In Ohio

Looks like TwittyMcTwitFace is at it again. Tweeting out stupid ridiculous tweets with no truth whatsoever in them.

Musk recently stirred controversy by promoting claims that critics say helped to fuel race riots in the UK and has spread debunked conspiracy theories, like suggesting the Paul Pelosi hammer attack was the result of him picking up a male prostitute.

#deportmusk

https://www.mediaite.com/politics/protect-our-ducks-and-kittens-elon-musk-and-house-republicans-go-all-in-on-fake-claims-of-migrants-eating-pets-in-ohio/

#ELON'S PLAN FOR WORLD DOMINATION

1. Pretend to environmentalism, lobby for huge government incentives, act like a clown, get free advertising, & pump TSLA stock to stratospheric levels.

2. Acquire the US political speech town square AKA Twitter.

3. Fire everyone, run Twitter like a straight pipe Harley -- all noise & stink.

4. Reanimate winger zombies, AKA right-wing influencers backed by Russian operatives.

5. Make Twitter the vehicle of choice for hate crimes.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-repeatedly-interacted-x-213031701.html

#Musk is a genius.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/05/business/advertisers-x-withdrawal/index.html

Keep up the good work, #Elon!

Way to run it into the ground!

#twitter

Eis aí o x da questão...

😁😂😂😆

#twitter #x #AlexandredeMoraes #internet #elonmusk #elon #starlink #brasil #mastodon #math #mathematics #matemática #meme

#elon #memes #tesla #musk #spacex #twitter #photos #images

#Musk #ElonMusk #Elon Taxing this creep won't even slow him down.😖

Does X matter?

Read to the end for an important Joe Rogan observation

#twitter #elon #irrelevant #stagnant #thirsty #x

https://www.garbageday.email/p/x-matter