Should Elon Musk be the Head of US Efficiency?

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow A billionaire like Bill Gates is never irrelevant.

@BohemianBabe According to Forbes, Harris had 83 billionaire donors, more than Trump. The majority of Americans earning less than $50,000 a year voted Trump. The majority of Americans earning more than $100,000 a year voted Harris. Trump had significantly less campaign funds. He was the underdog who they made into a felon and told everyone not to vote for, yet they did. You can't blame media, as they hated Trump. Now they will have to learn to like Trump.

@emiliya So what? The first Trump administration set a new record for the most billionaires and CEOs in his cabinet. And it looks like he wants to beat that record.


You do realize that Trump had literally the richest man on earth behind his campaign and is putting him in charge of a new agency?



Trump is not some working class hero.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow Working class Americans find Trump more appealing than Harris and the Democrats. Trump speaks to them more than Harris and the Democrats, who have significant funding from liberal billionaires with Woke agendas.

Trump said he wants successful people working for him. What is the problem?

@Confined Trump doesn't want free speech - he wants people to freely express views that align with his worldview only and everyone else will be outcast.

@Confined You may wish to ponder why “free speech absolutist” Musk suppresses speech he does not like.

Please point me to the commitments you claim were made by Biden and Harris.

@Adeptlinguist Musk and Trump are identical - megalomaniacals who think 'free speech' only extends to the boundaries of their own world view(s). Anything beyond that is censored/supressed/hidden/vanquished.

@dale74 He mostly became wealthy from his book sales and until 2015 he was still worth less than 700K including all 3 houses.
The man is over 80 years old and had been paying on mortgages that were extremely cheap by today's standards then remortgaging to buy a second home and so on.
It's not Clinton or Trump style excess at all.
It's crazy to me that in 2012 ( the latest year that I could find quickly) the average net worth of a senator was 8 million.
Today after more than 1 million in book sales the man has less than 2 million and people want to cry shame on him.
It's hypocrisy and it's sick.

@REMsleep then how did he get to be a multi-millionaire working a public servant pay

@REMsleep last place I saw his book for sale at was Dollar tree he's not going to get wealthy selling a million copies of his book at Dollar tree

@swirlie shows you don't actually know what you're talking about and are pretty ignorant considering you probably have a cell phone which has a map on it whether it be an iPhone or a Android based platform

@dale74
Dale, that is twice I've asked you the same question and that is also twice that you've been unable to answer a very simple question. The reason you cannot answer my question about rural Kansas having cable TV service is because rural cable TV service doesn't exist in rural Kansas.

@REMsleep excuse me please how cash did he invest in trump’s campaign just before the election? Just the facts please!

@metaldog did you just make a death threat?

@Briggett okay the entire Trump campaign spent $345 million dollars the Kamala Harris campaign spent 1.37 billion dollars. So he didn't overly influence the campaign in a financial manner.

The media is crooked to. Thank goodness for Musk and Joe Rogan. @akindheart

@jackjjackson
My next prediction is that Musk will disappear from Trump's orbit before the end of 2025 and Joe Rogan will remain as Trump's mascot but will not be given any more air time than is absolutely necessary.

I’d go so far as to say one of the two is probably right. Although Musk’s project has a fixed end date of July 4, 2026. Vivek be doing the heavy lifting if there is any on DOGE AND musk is the figurehead. @swirlie

@akindheart not say how he showed china to make battery technology for electric vehicles.

@Briggett that is before he got into politics. business decision

@Fa8393 Actually, it's against the law for a government worker to be in a position where they might have a conflict of interest. So it's not a question of "slander," it's a question of adhering to the laws of the land.


P.S. you say He SURE missed the boat on that LAST TIME, didn't he?? In 2020, tRump set a RECORD by adding about $4 trillion to the debt in one year!!

@ElwoodBlues EB! Stop with the facts.
They can't handle the truth.

He can’t stop what he has not started. @JSul3

@zonavar68

@swirlie so obviously you're getting a check from the US government in some way whether it be snap a government job government grants obviously you're biased in your opinion

@dale74

Obviously, you're an ardent Musk supporter like I told you in the first place!

@swirlie no it is not involving medical stuff and yes most government employees in the United States should be laid off why because most don't care about the people they are lazy and they can't make it in a non government job because they are that bad of employees. Most are also over paid.

@whowasthatmaskedman god help us all

@ian2watt Suddenly English weather and the NHS dont seem so bad..😷

@Convivial not politics? Then you didn't read the category. You're just against politics, of course - ecocide and genocides like the dark and so does suburban Nature destruction as a lifestyle. Most Americans for the wara hate politics and say war isn't political. We know.

@Roundandroundwego you've really stepped into rambling mode....

@Convivial that's so meaningful.

@ElwoodBlues I totally agree. It's just sad. Elon does have some expertise I would say in efficiencies running that many companies but for other reasons he's not the man for the job I don't think.

@MartinII He has concluded in advance that there is waste in federal government and pledged to cut $2tn of spending. Embarking on a task before defining the "problem" is not terribly smart.

In the UK the civil service has been subjected to 14 years of austerity. HMRC staff have been cut back to the point that it lacks the capability to collect democratically approved taxes . . on a conservative estimate £16bn of VAT is fraudulently witheld each year. Even the most ardent neo-liberal would be hard pressed to find any "fat to trim".

@SunshineGirl 14 years of austerity? You really must be joking! Look at the public expenditure figures. Look at the size of the public sector. Those 14 years have seen a considerable amount of incompetence and drift, but "austerity" is a figment of the imagination of politicians, of both parties.

My own view, based on a lifetime's experience of government and business, is that there are always savings to be made. It's not just that there are too many people for the work, though there is usually some of that. It's also that some things are done that don't need to be done, things that can be done differently etc. There's a natural drift in big organisations which has to be attacked from time to time.

Going back to the US, it is the President-elect who has concluded that the government sector needs to be reduced in size, and has tasked Musk and Vereswamy to deliver. Let's see how they get on.

@MartinII Increases in public spending during that period were exclusively confined to the NHS, welfare benefits (mainly in the form of pensions), education, and sorting out Brexit. Good luck finding savings there. All other government departments experienced severe real term cuts. Public sector salaries were frizen for 7 years.

I think anybody who is faintly in touch with the reality of growing social inequality in Britain will tell you that austerity is far from fictional.

@PicturesOfABetterTomorrow I think we can use his "twitter" model as an example. Fire most of the actual workers, find out it doesnt work at all without them, hire some back, using his ideas and end up with something worth a whole lot less than you paid for it.. But no one is left to tell you that you f**ked it up.. No wonder Trump admires him..😷

@pripyatamusementpark exactly....trickle down always works

@Convivial Yes....that golden urine shower provided by the uber rich as they relieve themselves on those below them in the economic chain...so refreshing.

@JSul3 and conversely trying to piss uphill just doesn't work

@zonavar68
Musk's days are numbered in Trump's orbit because Musk's personality conflicts with Trump's. This is because they both want center-stage at all times.

Guess who's going to win?

@swirlie Trump will muscle him out because he will not agree with Trump's worldview. Remember the Heritage Foundation doesn't want trump - it wants Vance.

@zonavar68
I don't know about you, but I've been getting vibes since Nov. 6th that the entire Republican over-powered Party will self-implode without the Dems being held responsible for causing any of it.

I believe this will occur as a direct result of Trump being unable to deliver the goods as promised prior to the election because there is really no clear path on making anything happen that he has otherwise advertised would happen under his leadership.

Under International Law for example, no country is allowed to round up illegal immigrants in their country and return them to their country of origin unless that country-of-origin AGREES to accept them back, in which case those illegals must remain in the care and custody of the country who is trying to evict them.

What this would entail for the USA would be the construction of massive detention centers located at the southern border just to house those illegals until their fate is learned, but which means that they must remain in the USA until that all happens. That is why it is SO important to prevent illegals from entering in the first place, because once they're inside the border, they've found a new home!

This means that it was up to the USA to secure their southern border to prevent this illegal migration from ever happening, which the USA has never done over the last 250 years!

Your thoughts?

@Justenjoyit maybe Germany is less tolerant of corruption but the USA is built on pure capitalism so to put the ultimate capitalist in charge of government which does not have a purely capital gains function hasn't worked well for us in the past. It mostly inspires greed and corruption.

@Shybutwilling2bfriends he showed BYD and the other car manufacturer the inside details on how to build a battery. He’s response you couldn’t even do it in a million years. They accepted his challenge and he bought some batteries from them and even to this very day.
You can always search web for the facts. I thought it was very interesting reading.

@Roundandroundwego Well, transportation is important.