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Rebecca Weitzel's avatar

Honestly disgusting reality. Great essay though.

john king (MY HUMBLE OPINION)'s avatar

Great article. I think it would take a lengthy book to completely disclose the self-serving manipulative power Musk wields over the current regime. People were stunned by his quarter billion dollar financial support to elect Trump, but by doing so Musk gained the power to quash about $1.5 Billion in penalties, he faced from dozens of lawsuits. His $20 Million attempt to influence the Wisconsin Supreme Court election recently, in attempts to rid himself of another pesky lawsuit. Fortunately, his plan failed.

Musk has extensive business ties to China, as well as Russia, resulting in him withholding Starlink service to Ukraine and Taiwan, at crucial moments. Whistleblowers have claimed that DOGE used insecure systems to download citizens sensitive data, and quite possibly provided backdoor entry to Russia.

His acquisition of Twitter, under the guise of protecting free speech, has provided him with a racist bully platform, that regularly blocks dissent of himself and trump.

Musk is tied in with Palantir, the company receiving Billions in federal funding to streamline government services and security through AI. The white supremacist ideology driving this move is glaringly obvious. And the list goes on and on.

I agree that Musk needs to be thoroughly investigated, but I have little confidence in such an inquiry gaining traction. The old saying about closing the barn door after the horse has escaped comes to mind.

Timothy C. Tucker's avatar

Some people allege that Musk had committed white collar crimes himself and bought Twitter to deliver the presidency to Trump so he could stop the SEC investigations into his companies. Yes. There is much we don't know, but he bought the presidency and our democracy.

Kathy Hammes's avatar

Trump contagion as explained by Dr. Bandy Lee , MD an M.Div., is running rampant. We need to beware and resist.

Rebecca Weitzel's avatar

The DHS is considering an immigrant reality show, proposed by Rob Worsoff, an immigrant from Canada living in L. A. I could never watch, but I couldn't watch the Apprentice either. I dislike watching sadistic cruelty.

https://youtu.be/q-cGcbKxpj4?si=qQyGZS01MFpTpqy3

Timothy C. Tucker's avatar

That situation makes me sad. I will have more to say about the human side of this soon. Domestic abuse is on the rise--and immigrants are more vulnerable now than ever before in the past. Think of an employer who knows how precarious the position some farm workers are in. Labor violations, abuse and human rights violations are now increasingly hitting *already* the most vulnerable scapegoated out-group.

Rebecca Weitzel's avatar

Apparently Trump and his most loyal zombified cult members are shells of the humans they once were and cannot remember what it was like to be abused, now that they are the sadists.