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Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook

Google News headlines tell me: "Elon Musk Says ‘Destiny of Humanity’ Rests on Wisconsin Judicial Race".

The actual Musk quote was only slightly more equivocal:
Elon Musk said:
“What’s happening on Tuesday is a vote for which party controls the U.S. House of Representatives — that is why it is so significant,” Mr. Musk said, referring to the key role that the court could play in congressional redistricting. “And whichever party controls the House to a significant degree controls the country, which then steers the course of Western civilization. I feel like this is one of those things that may not seem that it’s going to affect the entire destiny of humanity, but I think it will.”
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Jarhyn said:
ZiprHead said:
Several Tesla vehicles on dealer lots have been torched in several places around the country. Pam Bondi wants such actions to be prosecuted as terrorism.
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Terrorism requires, first and foremost, the use of fear or violence for the sake of making someone feel a threat of future fear.

The people who have their cars burned are the victims of vandalism and property destruction. Once the vehicles are gone, the vehicles are gone, and there is no further threat of violence.

The fact is, it's not terrorism, it's property damage.
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Aren't Tesla dealers corporate owned?

But, yes, this isn't about fear and thus is not terrorism. It's protest activity that goes well over the line. (To the extent that a line is even a meaningful concept when directed at those who have seized power illegally.)
 
blastula said:
Social Security administrative expenses are 0.5% of the total program, so this does nothing to bring down spending.
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The harder you make it the more people fall through the cracks. Payments go down while maintaining the illusion they aren't denying people.

And look at what the current system has done: what happens to someone who can't go to an office, period? Someone who is out of it in a nursing home somewhere.
 
Poor baby Musk.

He has been so happy to fire tens of thousands of hard working people but now that the Orange Felon has imposed tariffs (who couldn't have seen this coming) Musk is all upset. Seems Musk's net worth fell $31 Billion in the last few days.

And he's taking it out on Navarro. They both deserve a good slapping.

Elon Musk took an apparent swing at senior White House aide Peter Navarro — one of the chief cheerleaders of President Donald Trump’s tariff plans — amid market turmoil that has hammered Musk’s holdings.

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The Tesla CEO lost billions in the wake of Trump’s Tuesday tariff announcement. His car company relies on imported parts from China, which Trump slammed with a 34 percent tariff.

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In the early hours of Saturday morning, Musk took to his social media platform X to launch an apparent attack at the president’s senior trade counselor, taking jabs at Navarro under a video in which he explained the Trump administration’s logic in levying tariffs during a CNN appearance.

“A PhD in Econ from Harvard is a bad thing, not a good thing. Results in the ego/brains>>1 problem,” Musk wrote in one post. (Navarro earned a PhD in economics from Harvard in the 1980s.)

The Department of Government Efficiency head replied to another user’s comment on the video lauding Navarro’s explanation, writing of the economist: “He ain’t built shit.”
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"He isn't built shit"??? Doesn't Musk know how to talk? Or is he trying to appeal to the weak-minded who voted for the Felon?

I'm glad to see two scumbags go it it. May they both lose.

Musk must have known that Trump has a hard on to play the tariff war. But he bankrolled Trump's campaign.

 
Speaking of Musk. He's the CEO of, what, three major companies. Maybe more. He doesn't seem to spend a lot of time at them.

What exactly makes CEOs worth so much money again?
 
But he's lost way more than $6 billion in flat out buying politicians, voters, and stock losses.

He destroyed his brands and name with the left. The right doesn't buy his products. Boomers on twitter? Conservatives don't buy EVs.
 
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data

The DOGE employees, who are effectively led by White House adviser and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk, appeared to have their sights set on accessing the NLRB's internal systems. They've said their unit's overall mission is to review agency data for compliance with the new administration's policies and to cut costs and maximize efficiency.

But according to an official whistleblower disclosure shared with Congress and other federal overseers that was obtained by NPR, subsequent interviews with the whistleblower and records of internal communications, technical staff members were alarmed about what DOGE engineers did when they were granted access, particularly when those staffers noticed a spike in data leaving the agency. It's possible that the data included sensitive information on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets — data that four labor law experts tell NPR should almost never leave the NLRB and that has nothing to do with making the government more efficient or cutting spending.

Meanwhile, according to the disclosure and records of internal communications, members of the DOGE team asked that their activities not be logged on the system and then appeared to try to cover their tracks behind them, turning off monitoring tools and manually deleting records of their access — evasive behavior that several cybersecurity experts interviewed by NPR compared to what criminal or state-sponsored hackers might do.

The employees grew concerned that the NLRB's confidential data could be exposed, particularly after they started detecting suspicious log-in attempts from an IP address in Russia, according to the disclosure. Eventually, the disclosure continued, the IT department launched a formal review of what it deemed a serious, ongoing security breach or potentially illegal removal of personally identifiable information. The whistleblower believes that the suspicious activity warrants further investigation by agencies with more resources, like the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency or the FBI.
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The new revelations about DOGE's activities at the labor agency come from a whistleblower in the IT department of the NLRB, who disclosed his concerns to Congress and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel in a detailed report that was then provided to NPR. Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.
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At least Elon's companies are honest. Ha, ha, ha.


Great way to increase range estimates you give out too. People like me who know the exact ranges of longer trips to relatives would pick up on miles fudging quickly.

It's been 163 miles from my door to my inlaws for the last 25 years. I don't see that changing much just because I drive something different. You can gain or lose a little by tire size changes if you get new tires. But nothing that significant.

I have an electronic calibration tool to dial in my vehicle speed and odometer after putting on larger tires.
 
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Just now I watched a Rachel Maddow episode which flabbergasted me. It seems to be an amazing story of DOGE overreach which I don't see mentioned here at IIDB nor on news headlines.

Briefly, DOGE personnel invaded the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, accompanied by police and private security forces; they seized the building, seized the Institute's bank account, and forcibly removed all of the Institute's employees.

Ho hum, that's normal for DOGE in our new fascist Amerika, right? So what?

BUT the U.S. Institute of Peace, despite the "U.S." in the title is NOT an agency of the Federal government. It is a private non-profit supported by private funds. (It does receive some money from Congress.) Yet Musk and DOGE felt entitled to take it over! (I suppose the "Peace" in the organization's name was a bad "liberal" word like "inclusion" or "female", so the organization had to go. ??)

Nicole Krakora executive at US Institute of Peace said:
They were very thorough in how they decimated us. They wiped our IT system, cancelled contracts, shredded documents, took down our website (including all our 40 years of research and work we had done ... and seized not only our building, but also all our funding, including our non-private endowment funds.
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Once I Googled, various versions appear in search results, e.g.
www.nbcnews.com

Judge strikes down DOGE takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace

A federal judge ruled that the actions of "illegitimately-installed leaders" — including the purported transfer of the institute's building — were "null and void."
www.nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com
www.thedailybeast.com

Musk’s DOGE Goons Trashed Office and Left Drugs Behind

President Trump’s top campaign donor and adviser left the U.S. Institute of Peace full of cockroaches and marijuana.
www.thedailybeast.com www.thedailybeast.com
The last link is subtitled "President Trump’s top campaign donor and adviser left the U.S. Institute of Peace full of cockroaches and marijuana."
 
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