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Elon Musk is arguably the most powerful person in business, the most powerful man in media and, at least at this moment, the most powerful man in politics. This much power, across this many pillars of society, is without precedent.

axios.comBehind the Curtain: Musk's AmericaMusk yesterday single-handedly, his voice amplified by his daylong bombardment of scores of tweets on his X platform, sank a bipartisan House spending bill aimed at preventing a government shutdown.

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The American people DID NOT ELECT Elon Musk to anything! Just because you're rich doesn't mean you know anything about the Federal budget. It's a total disgrace and disaster, Congress!

If you think about it all he did was inform us. He will someday get the Noble Piece Prize for the courage to promote free speech. Or courage to not suppress it.

I take issue with this statement. Former Twitter may now be a powerful voice in Republican politics but that's not the world. Republicans will rue the day they allowed such a damaged individual so much authority within their ranks.

He’s a naturalized citizen. There are things h can do that could cause his citizenship to be revoked. I doubt we will have the spine to do it when the time comes though.

No, this is NOT the voice of the people and NOT the voice of God as Musk arrogantly proclaims. (As if he had a single crumb of credibility speaking about the voice of God.) It is VOX PECUNIAE (the voice of money). "Pride cometh before the fall"

This is maddening, because he has no direct government authority. He does have the power that people give to him because of his money and what he can do with his money. This is the clearest example ever of why we are in fact an oligarchy. We need to limit the influence of money in politics.

Sociopaths and psychopaths like have difficulty distinguishing between people mourning and celebrating and grieving and jubilating and bewailing and rejoicing, in order to make those distinctions accurately, they would have to have the willingness and capacity to give at least the slightest fuck.

No democrats, call THEIR bluff. He wants: - an extension on debt ceiling so he can RAISE deficit with his tax cuts - aid for farmers & natural disasters (I mean isn’t this anti-republican per their priorities?) People voted for the pain, let them feel it. Let’s not save them from their vote

Elon Musk is a traitor who committed espionage in making direct contact with Vladimir Putin and then committed treason by shutting off access to Starlink to help the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That he is not in prison right now says our entire national security apparatus is already corrupted.

We have got to be the dumbest country on planet Earth. A large majority of the country living paycheck to paycheck grovelling to billionaires and giving them the keys to government will fix their economic problems. LoL

Vox populi, Vox dei??!! "The voice of the people is the voice of God" ??!! OMG!! This is what our Founding Leaders did not want for our new country! They knew a democracy would need separation of church and state, as they had known what state-church had done to Europe for centuries!

The most remarkable thing is that, if you judge him based on his tweets alone, (which, I grant, might not be a very good way in which to judge someone), he is also the most childish man in the world.

Looking forward to elon’s inevitable and epic downfall. He WAS NOT elected. Most Americans do not yet understand his background and the power he holds. He is an extreme, right-wing, power hungry narcissist.

Indeed, Elon is now demonstrating that he's not a third wheel between Trump and Vance but the puppet master of both. Except, given all the time he’s spending on eX-Twitter and Capitol Hill, Elon is also unwittingly demonstrating that he plays no meaningful role in the operation of Tesla or Space X.

So let's fuck with him. King musk and his jester trump. We know trump has no power, he's just the musk puppet, bought and paid for. Let it be known, who really holds the power and who is just the lackey.

Has there even been any oligarch in Russia as powerful and as close to Putin as the guy from the Apartheid country of South Africa is in the US? bsky.app/profile/axio...

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Elon Musk is arguably the most powerful person in business, the most powerful man in media and, at least at this moment, the most powerful man in politics. This much power, across this many pillars of society, is without precedent.

Remember all the scrutiny about Obama and where he was born? We all know Elons origin. Every single citizen should have an aversion against Elons influence over them personally. Where does Elons true loyalty reside? Any alterior motives or hidden agendas? Drain the swamp and bring in Elon… 🤦🏼

The voice of avarice has a front man in Trump and Musk as his first lady. Folks need to see his sound bytes as a toxic meal that is designed to reduce the consumer into gibbering train wrecks. The quartet played on the deck of the titanic as it sank. It is also set up on deck of the US democracy

A man with that much power cannot exist within society peacefully for long, as people will always chafe under the whims of such petty rules. He’s too big to NOT fail, and it’s our moral responsibility to ensure that fail comes sooner rather than later, for the good of the species and planet.