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Aha! Trump uncovers corruption within DOGE itself!
You misspelled creates
Whoosh...
Also, the org was corrupt on the face of it from the start, so there's not much more to be added now.
Oh, that seems fine. Just removing a 15 year, 2+ Billion dollar contract Verizon just won in 2023, with a no-bid contract from the guy in the officially unofficial roll of gutting the US government.
Drain the swamp! /s
This is NOT at all Corruption and in fact the United States Of American has NO Corruption at all and is the CLEANEST country in the World.
This is handing the button that controls your life over to elon... He had them strategically turn off Ukraine's internet at a critical moment to benefit putin... What do you think he's going to do when Jasmine Crockett's plane in on final approach to land back in her district after having the "fuck off, elon" press conference?
Musk doesn't care anymore if he tanks Tesla, as long as he's getting government handouts.
He doesn't need the shares to be sky high if he can get the board to give him his giant payout.
Tesla’s law firm drafts Delaware bill that could salvage Musk pay package
The proposed legislation, drafted by Richards, Layton & Finger, or RLF, would amend Delaware General Corporation Law, and if adopted, could pave the way for the reinstatement of Musk’s 2018 CEO pay package at Tesla, worth tens of billions of dollars in options.
Aaaannddd there it is… Certainly no conflicts of interest /s
The attempt to sell Teslas to the military was definitely a conflict of interests as well.
The concept of a conflict of interest only matters if American voters care , and they don't.
Im in my 30s and often wonder, has the world always been this infuriating? Were we going apeshit watching representatives openly steal our future in 2005? 1995?
Were dudes in 1955 Paris tearing their hair our how the president's third cousin is getting a contract to rebuild the entire railway system on the merit of fuck all?
I'm old enough to say it was exactly like this back in 2005. That was a couple years after the Bush administration told blatant lies to start the Iraq War, ignoring the largest protests in the world up to the time. There was open corruption as they gave out massive no-bid contracts to Republican cronies like KBR. There was rank incompetence like the FEMA response to hurricane Katrina, led by a guy whose sole qualifications were running a horse breeding association (and raising a bunch of money for Republicans).
Bush threw no bid contracts for new work at Halliburton, and it was a sketchy scandal that congress wasn't willing to prosecute, because republicans. Musk is outright stealing a contract from another vendor, while slandering them in the media.
Musk is a walking ethics violation.
Some might think this is corruption, but I assure you, this was the best offer we could find, because all the others got lost somehow?
Sounds like a real lack of efficiency
It's super efficient to lose the papers of all but one applicant. Really speeds up those decision times.
Nonono, Musk has already helped us with that. We are saving hundreds of dollars on wages, and only very few planes have crashed.
I hope Verizon sues Musk, Starlink, and the DOGE into oblivion. Even if they don’t have a chance of winning, they should be able to make it more difficult to do anything. Airlines should sue too due to the preventable crashes that occurred recently. In fact, I hope every company affected by DOGE’s policies sues.
They might not be able to get a fair trial, but they could potentially bog the system down in red tape.
Give ‘em Hell!
Hoisted by their own petard, it seems. I'm with you. I hope they fight, but they also helped create this situation (like many corporations).
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/verizon-communications/summary?id=D000000079
I don’t doubt it at all, but as the passage goes, “The enemy of my enemy is my friend”. Or as I like to say: baby steps.
Nah, the enemy of my enemy is the enemy of my enemy, nothing more, nothing less.
But as a great man once said, "Let them fight."
Yeah, triangular politics. I'm on board. I regret that getting into this discussion any further will require reading from the works of Kissinger. Maybe this time we can fix the problem without bombing a fourth party like Cambodia. Who knows. All bets are of at this point.
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Yep. Never flying again.
Oh, THERE it is. This is why Elump has allowed so many air traffic control issues recently. To set the stage for this bullshit.
Sorry, I’m kinda slow sometimes.
"Allowed"? In what sense? Are you seriously suggesting Trump or Musk are responsible for a Delta crash in Canada, and helicopter collision and a Southwest go around?
In the sense that the issue isn’t being addressed as quickly or as seriously as it should be. Cancelling a contract and awarding it to a company with zero experience is not the answer.
We call this a conflict of interest. Fuck Musk. Guess whose planes will never show up in flight logs so he, Trump, and all of Putin's other stooges can fly around and make deals with no bother.
If the US does not accurately report flights, then the only solution is to cut it off from all international air travel. Any planes that would leave the US air space should be immediately forced to land or turn around by military aircraft in whichever airspace they enter.
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An overhaul from the man who sells “full self driving”. What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
I would sure love to see the proof that "FAA assessment is single digit months to catastrophic failure, putting air traveler safety at serious risk." from a wholly independent authority.
A note written on a paper napkin won't do.
Creating problems to justify enriching themselves with private contracts... America, to the highest bidder
Um, I'd like to choose whatever the fuck might be behind door number 3. Even if it's murder hornets. As long as they are the data transmission sort of murder hornets.
Time to start shorting US airline stocks
Totally no conflict of interest with Musk getting all these contracts while being in the current administration.
Of course 🙄
I think he's still salty over the ElonJet account that still posts the publicly available ADS-B flight plans for his plane on Bluesky and Mastodon.
"This is your captain speaking. I'm afraid we're going to be a little bit delayed here because we've lost connection to the Starlink satellites that provide our communication. We'll be pushing back from the gate just as soon as the weather clears a bit."
“We’ll be cleared to land just as soon as our check clears.”
Man for a bunch of rich assholes the GoP sure likes to shoot themselves in the foot.
I'd say it's a good thing we have antitrust laws, but we all know how much laws mean to the group of mobsters currently in control.
Hats off to the people that still care enough to document this corruption. Hopefully someday (while Musk is still alive) the general public will care enough as well, so that there will be consequences.
Oh, they definitely do... Both republican and Democrat representatives have basically stopped doing town hall meetings with their constituents because people just scream at them to stop Musk. There's frequent protests, fox news anchors are questioning what's going on with Musk - if there's anything almost everyone can agree on right now, it's "fuck Elon Musk"
I'm about to start demanding hazard pay from work when they need me to travel.
I'm sure that will end well.
Today thousands of planes lost critical communications while in the US airspace after a SpaceX test flight exploded in low earth orbit. The explosion destroyed a significant portion of the Starlink satellite constellation, and international space tracking organizations are monitoring the situation closely. They are reporting a Kessler Syndrome cascade has not been ruled out.
Oh right here we go
Sold all my Rocket Lab shares last week because of shit like this.
Hmm, convenient.
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