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Elon Musk is piling onto all the hurricane disinformation, hampering relief efforts
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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2024
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It's completely insane that Bidens admin hasn't ordered all of his companies with federal contracts to completely seperate musk from the companies or the contracts would be voided.
And I know Harris won't do it either.
We'd need a much better president than we can get to do the right thing and stop the privatization of our government
It's ridiculous that he still has a security clearance. Anyone else acting out in the way he has been would have the DOD all up in their shit. It is obvious at this point that he is a threat to national security, his public drug use and unhinged behavior alone should have been enough. Now he is getting hurricane rescue workers threatened and terrifying disaster victims into not receiving government assistance, it's absolutely monstrous and fundamentally anti-American. That he is also trusted with secret information about US national security and receives billions of dollars from the US government is completely absurd.
Yep
Obama privatized space and let Musk have the contracts, trump never reigned him in when he got crazier, and Biden just pretends it's not happening
It's why I have zero expectations Harris will do the right thing and move away from privatizing government agencies.
None of this should ever have happened, but both parties are ok with it and we just do t have a 3rd option.
It's going to be painful whenever we do it, but we need a complete overhaul of our political system, no one is really getting any representation except the richest
I mean we could start by voting in primary elections. It's wild how many people simply ignore them. That's like the main reason I tend to blame the American people a teeny bit more for what's going on over the actual politicians and sheriffs we choose to elect
Tell that to people in New Hampshire....
They voted against the party favorite twice, so they didn't get a primary this year.
The DNC said unless the Republicans who control the state government change state law, NH isn't going to get a primary anymore, because they want the first states to be ones that will vote how the party wants so they can call it over after a week.
The 2028 primary will be just as competitive as the 2024 primary was. It's almost guaranteed to be trump and Harris again in the next general already
That's very interesting! I could totally see that happening
Do you have a source you can share? Only asking since I looked up "New Hampshire Democrat primary" and didn't immediately find anything other than primary results
Yeah ..
I didn't even get to that can of worms.
The DNC said it wouldn't count, Biden said he was pulling out since it didn't count and took his name off the ballot, then Biden and the DNC (victory fund means the money is basically the same) spent millions for a write in campaign after he took himself off the ballot so the narrative would be "Biden still won, he's that popular!" Even though the only other person running didn't have millions of dollars to spend on a fight that didn't matter. So only Biden ran ads despite taking himself off the ballot.
Here's a good article about it:
https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1225663027/joe-biden-wins-nh-primary-results
The whole thing was incredibly fucked and the type of shenanigans only Republicans would usually pull
Quick edit:
Oh yeah. And this part:
The primaries are ran by the state parties, the DNC has no authority to "choose" what states go first, it's just especially since the "victory find" nonsense, the state parties do t have a lot of power and the DNC has way more than it ever has.
But I just wanted to clarify despite how that's phrased, the DNC has no say in when state primaties are held, which is why it's so fucked they want to stack the deck with states who will vote for "moderates" and not NH who just kept voting for Bernie every four years...
I doubt it. Trump is definitely showing his age and I can’t imagine him being willing to do it all again in four years
"do it all again"?
You think running for president is stressful for trump?
He goes to rallys, rambles for a couple of hours, and everyone tells him he's great and cheers for him.
It's probably his favorite thing he gets to do, the adoration of a crowd is what he's always wanted, he'll never give it up.
The 'right thing' is letting entrepreneurs make money. Yes, it might cause long-term costs in terms of societal breakdown. But, also, it might cause short-term profit in terms of those extremely wealthy people giving money to a political campaign.
After all, what's most important is that politicians enrich people who then 'trickle down' a tiny portion of it back to those hardworking politicians who bravely made the world worse.
These sound like arrestable offenses
Here's the thing.
Until they can separate Elon from Tesla/etc they have to abide.
Edit: rapid cargo isn't a thing yet, okay, but neither was weekly satellite launches until it was. You guys glossed over driverless warzone ambulances and fixated on rockets as the thing to brigade over? That's the only thing one of his companies seems to be doing well, and all before that DoD pork gets in. Be consistent, kids.
Shipping troops via rocket? I'ma need to see the source on that
Putting 6 armed troops in a very expensive missile and dropping them in a very predictable trajectory with very poor accuracy sounds like a very expensive way to create gold star families.
Consider this. If you needed 6 very well armed troops in an area, why not just give a pile of money to the enemy's troops to flip a few?
You could pay them each 10 mil, and give them a green card, and you'd save 900k on the launch cost alone. Not to mention it would be less predictable, more covert, and it would induce paranoia in the ranks.
second bullet is something he came up with high on k. That rocket hasn’t made it to space yet