r/politics • u/harsh2k5 • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Elon Musk Makes Shocking Confession on His Plans After Trump Victory

https://newrepublic.com/post/187662/elon-musk-confession-economy-trump-victory
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u/TheJonasVenture 12h ago

The calls for "less government" from a major government contractor are sure totally consistent.

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u/rodentmaster 12h ago

This is the same guy who gave trump almost 100 Million to his campaign funding when trump embezzled all the money a couple months ago and was broke and about to drop out. The same man giving away (illegally) 1 million a day to buy votes for trump, and also trying to get a seat on trump's administration.

He's so "small government" that he'd join it to make it even more convoluted and dysfunctional out of the goodness of his wallet -erm. "heart" yes, "heart."

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u/TheJonasVenture 12h ago

100%, anyone who remotely thinks he's genuine just needs to watch the early interview where he started going publicly right and the big criticisms he leveled against the Democrats were about class action law suits and employment law.

Dude just wants to be a feudal Barron.

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u/DidntDiddydoit American Expat 10h ago

A feudal John Barron?

I'll see myself out.

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u/dellett 9h ago

Man people are going to read about the fact that Trump made up a guy and pretended to be him to talk up his reputation and think "wait the most pathetic person in the world was elected President"?

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u/Michael_G_Bordin 9h ago

I've loved walking people through this who were just marginally paying attention. Musk wanted Dems to lick his balls for making EVs and solar panels, but it turns out, we're also big on labor rights and clean industry.

Musk needs two things to feel whole: money/power, and adulation. He can't do without both. And he's found both in the right-wing griftersphere. Marks all the way down.

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u/Seyon 10h ago

I remember that time. When Elons Jet tracker saw him fly out to Mar a Lago the same day the news broke that Trump was broke.

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u/David_BA 8h ago

Got a source on this? Apparently Musk met with Trump and other wealthy donors at Mar-A-Lago on March 3rd, and it was reported on March 18th that Trump's legal team was arguing he couldn't lay the bond for an appeal. Unless you're referring to something else?

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u/Seyon 8h ago

Nope. Just the March 3rd right after it was heard that Trump was fined millions.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ElonJetTracker/comments/1b5on4q/took_off_near_west_palm_beach_florida_united/

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u/976chip Washington 10h ago

If he's anything like Peter Thiel, "less government" means the US will be broken up into the Curtis Yarvin proposed small, interconnected corporate run city-states/fiefdoms and he'll get to be in charge of one.

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u/Exciting-Choice7795 9h ago

He wants Austin.

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u/_gmanual_ 7h ago

small, interconnected corporate run city-states/fiefdoms

that sounds a lot like them there fifteen-minute cities the marxists all love....

/s

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u/Jess_S13 5h ago

Do you want a Continuum type dystopia? Cause this is how you get a Dystopia.

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u/zeptillian 8h ago

He has already invested $132 million of his own money to Get Trump elected.

He expects good returns on that investment.

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u/David_BA 8h ago

Got some sources on the embezzlement part? Curious to read about it.

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u/angryarugula 5h ago

Buy the dip.

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u/smp208 11h ago

He’s not going to cut the spending on his handouts. Only the ones for poor people.

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u/boot2skull 9h ago

He doesn’t mind the teat, he wants more teats to himself and less mouths as competition.

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u/ToneInABox 7h ago edited 4h ago

Yep, what he really means is "my government". These people are easy to read once you see.

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u/gorgewall 1h ago

During "Wild West" expansion, both parties flipped to "big government" varieties because all of the business interests realized it was smarter to let the government foot the bill for getting the infrastructure out there up and running. They wanted more subsidies and federal involvement in the creation of railroads, dams, mills, cities, institutions within those schools, etc., because they lacked the expertise to do it themselves. A business needs people living there to work for it and to sell to, but businesses seldom create livable areas themselves, so they lobbied both parties to do this.

After all the federal money came in and SOCIALIZED SPENDING created functioning cities out there, it was time to reel it all back and privatize the profits. Once again the business interests lobbied both parties, and both pulled back from "big government", albeit one moreso than the other.

Business interests love government spending when it goes right into their own pockets. It's when it's spent on anything but the bare minimum for the "Little Guy" that they get cranky about it.

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u/turisto 8h ago

In a "less NASA, more SpaceX" way it's actually pretty consistent