Elon Musk has got the hell out of DOGE and it is epic – politicalbetting.com
Elon Musk is so pissed off at Trump/the GOP that I wouldn't be surprised to see him spending billions to fund every Democratic Party candidate in America between now and 2028. https://t.co/epmd71QxBB
I genuinely don't want to hate on Elon all the time, but he seems to have a knack for making himself unlikeable to Democrats and Republicans now.
Sure, he's still super rich and retains a good number of fanboys for now, but he clearly wants attention and adoration and not just wealth, and he's undermined that a lot.
Whereas Bezos seems to be happy to be regarded as your standard billionaire tyrant type.
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
There's a real chance Trump gets the FAA to screw with SpaceX's Starship launch permits. Just to get revenge.
I genuinely don't want to hate on Elon all the time, but he seems to have a knack for making himself unlikeable to Democrats and Republicans now.
Sure, he's still super rich and retains a good number of fanboys for now, but he clearly wants attention and adoration and not just wealth, and he's undermined that a lot.
Whereas Bezos seems to be happy to be regarded as your standard billionaire tyrant type.
It's been a long eight years since Musk was name-dropped in the Ultra-Woke offering that is Star Trek: Discovery.
To give her her due, she does talk a good game & it's worth a listen.
Like Starmer's Govt, they have 4 years to deliver, and that is how they will be judged.
One of the things Linden Kemkaran does is to swat Camilla Tominey's speculation about "hundreds of millions" of savings and cuts in Council Tax with a suggestion of "at least £75m". That is 3% of KCC spending and sounds to me like the type of number they will have to save just to meet Rachel Reeves' efficiency requirements. It sounds to me as if they will aim to simply withdraw from offering certain services, if they think it can be palmed off.
I think one thing that RefUK need to do if they are serious is benchmarking across their Councils, but they have punched all their staff on the nose with threats before even taking over.
OK, so who will be the next Reform big-wig to resign?
Anderson must have itchy feet by now
Where next? Is there anything "righter" than Reform?
Many who would like to be, but either are so tiny as to be invisible, defunct, or promised yet never delivered. I think the last splitter said he would set up something to their right.
As per previous thread, what if Yusuf has gone because he called Pochin’s question dumb, but Farage is planning to make it party policy.
It wouldn’t surprise me. It generates headlines, from the polling I’ve just checked it seems to generally attract public support, Farage needs to move onto the next thing to keep getting attention, it’s a very “Reform” distinctive policy. He’ll get a lot of people accusing him of dog whistle politics but does it damage his brand in any meaningful way? Will the people who it angers the most ever vote for him anyway?
But he's not wrong. The reason Trump won isn't because the USA is full of Trumpite loons, it's because the 80% in the middle leaned towards what they saw as the less unattractive of two extremes.
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
He also wants the US government to pay for his Mars dreams. Hence the administration's refocus from the Moon to Mars. And - disgustingly - the gutting of NASA's science work. SpaceX doesn't do space science.
(In the past, Musk was scathing about going back to the Moon. He was a Mars First guy. But when the government started offering billions to go to the Moon, he changed his mind...)
It would be hilarious if Trump set out a real Mars project, and miraculously SpaceX got none of the contracts...
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
It'd be nice to have a timeline of key tweets and quotes in this break up over the last few days. A lot of Trump's stuff is out on Truth Social and I'll not be going there.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
This IS TV drama! Every news channel will cover it
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
This IS TV drama! Every news channel will cover it
It's like Succession but if Logan and Roman had nukes.
This feels like general election night on PB. My head tells me it's time to go to bed. My heart tells me to refresh just a few more times so I can be there for the bombshell. The modern equivalent of the Portillo moment: Musk calling Trump a paedo?
It'll be interesting to see if the twitter 'grok' bot 'accidentally' and 'despite guidelines' mysteriously starts responding to questions with information about Epstein, golden showers, and other unrelated in any way to DJT matters.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
Please don't put your hopes in the hands of a cock and bull band, they'll throw it all away.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
This is all deranged, treacherous, mendacious right wing populist civil war, any remaining lefties are watching from a safe distance hopefully.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
There are times when Wodehouse is the prescription, but also serious times when all reality is a continously played tragic farce. Like now. A possible cure is to dive deep and long into Anthony Trollope. And look forward to 16th December -so we still have months for this - and prepare for the 250th birthday of Jane Austen.
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
It'll be interesting to see if the twitter 'grok' bot 'accidentally' and 'despite guidelines' mysteriously starts responding to questions with information about Epstein, golden showers, and other unrelated in any way to DJT matters.
Grok has turned into a *very* useful tool on Twitter, fact-checking and calling out bullshit. Maybe @leon has a point about AI, especially when the humans who have been put in charge are so catastrophically stupid.
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
He also wants the US government to pay for his Mars dreams. Hence the administration's refocus from the Moon to Mars. And - disgustingly - the gutting of NASA's science work. SpaceX doesn't do space science.
(In the past, Musk was scathing about going back to the Moon. He was a Mars First guy. But when the government started offering billions to go to the Moon, he changed his mind...)
It would be hilarious if Trump set out a real Mars project, and miraculously SpaceX got none of the contracts...
No, it wouldn't. It would just be another act of self destruction.
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
He also wants the US government to pay for his Mars dreams. Hence the administration's refocus from the Moon to Mars. And - disgustingly - the gutting of NASA's science work. SpaceX doesn't do space science.
(In the past, Musk was scathing about going back to the Moon. He was a Mars First guy. But when the government started offering billions to go to the Moon, he changed his mind...)
It would be hilarious if Trump set out a real Mars project, and miraculously SpaceX got none of the contracts...
No, it wouldn't. It would just be another act of self destruction.
SpaceX's lunar lander isn't going too well at the moment. Blue Origin has a greater chance of getting to the Moon first. And that's saying something...
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
This IS TV drama! Every news channel will cover it
It's like Succession but if Logan and Roman had nukes.
It'll be interesting to see if the twitter 'grok' bot 'accidentally' and 'despite guidelines' mysteriously starts responding to questions with information about Epstein, golden showers, and other unrelated in any way to DJT matters.
Grok has turned into a *very* useful tool on Twitter, fact-checking and calling out bullshit. Maybe @leon has a point about AI, especially when the humans who have been put in charge are so catastrophically stupid.
I've currently got a SOTA 'AI' rewriting the transcripts of air-fryer youtube videos into artistic masterpieces. I'm all for it.
Andrew Neil @afneil · 37m I wrote from the start the Trump-Musk relationship would end in tears. The Trump cult excoriated me for it. But even I never foresaw a Grand Canyon rift like this. And it’s just begun. I’m told popcorn is already in short supply.
@elonmusk In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
“In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
But he's not wrong. The reason Trump won isn't because the USA is full of Trumpite loons, it's because the 80% in the middle leaned towards what they saw as the less unattractive of two extremes.
Is the golden age of TV drama over? Because I am honestly struggling to find anything watchable - for the first time in 20 years 😢🤒
Murderbot is 'ok' - if you enjoy a little light sort-of-sci-fi. New series of 'The Brokenwood Mysteries' also went up a week or two ago if you like cosy murder mysteries. I recently caught up with 'Mrs. Davis' - which I enjoyed a lot after my initial 'wtf is this?' moments.
@elonmusk In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
@elonmusk · 9m In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
The easiest way to save money in our Budget, Billions and Billions of Dollars, is to terminate Elon’s Governmental Subsidies and Contracts. I was always surprised that Biden didn’t do it!
Elon's comments are going down well and seem to have hit a nerve.
If Elon really wanted to save the US government money, he could stop taking their handouts for Tesla and SpaceX. The only reason Tesla made any profit last quarter was due to regulatory credits. Doge could save the US government billions a year just by stopping those).
And now Trump is more interested in Mars than the Moon, there's zero reason to pay SapceX for a lunar lander, and some of the money can go back into NASA's science!
I assumed the whole reason Musk went in so deep with Trump was to ensure the credits remained in place.
He also wants the US government to pay for his Mars dreams. Hence the administration's refocus from the Moon to Mars. And - disgustingly - the gutting of NASA's science work. SpaceX doesn't do space science.
(In the past, Musk was scathing about going back to the Moon. He was a Mars First guy. But when the government started offering billions to go to the Moon, he changed his mind...)
It would be hilarious if Trump set out a real Mars project, and miraculously SpaceX got none of the contracts...
No, it wouldn't. It would just be another act of self destruction.
SpaceX's lunar lander isn't going too well at the moment. Blue Origin has a greater chance of getting to the Moon first. And that's saying something...
They're about a lot more than the moon lander.
Getting into the space electronics business is smart. They're probably by some stretch their own largest customer for now, but specialist chip packaging for the space environment is going to be a huge business.
Is the golden age of TV drama over? Because I am honestly struggling to find anything watchable - for the first time in 20 years 😢🤒
Murderbot is 'ok' - if you enjoy a little light sort-of-sci-fi. New series of 'The Brokenwood Mysteries' also went up a week or two ago if you like cosy murder mysteries. I recently caught up with 'Mrs. Davis' - which I enjoyed a lot after my initial 'wtf is this?' moments.
I like some recent comedies. And The Stage - as I said - is quite brilliant
Trouble is they are eight episodes of 25 minutes. It’s not enough. It’s a starvation diet. I like ten or twelve hour long episodes of drama that I can binge!
Maybe Succession was the farewell of the Golden Age. The Medici tomb of the TV Renaissance
Is the golden age of TV drama over? Because I am honestly struggling to find anything watchable - for the first time in 20 years 😢🤒
Murderbot is 'ok' - if you enjoy a little light sort-of-sci-fi.
I read the first couple of books in that series, and they are very brief, I felt like the premise was squandered a bit by being so insubstantial, so a light approach sounds like the right approach for TV.
Is the golden age of TV drama over? Because I am honestly struggling to find anything watchable - for the first time in 20 years 😢🤒
Murderbot is 'ok' - if you enjoy a little light sort-of-sci-fi.
I read the first couple of books in that series, and they are very brief, I felt like the premise was squandered a bit by being so insubstantial, so a light approach sounds like the right approach for TV.
I think - having listened to the audio books - they've got the tone about right for the telly. Bit mind-candy, but with the odd 'whoah!' moment to keep you engaged.
Is the golden age of TV drama over? Because I am honestly struggling to find anything watchable - for the first time in 20 years 😢🤒
Murderbot is 'ok' - if you enjoy a little light sort-of-sci-fi. New series of 'The Brokenwood Mysteries' also went up a week or two ago if you like cosy murder mysteries. I recently caught up with 'Mrs. Davis' - which I enjoyed a lot after my initial 'wtf is this?' moments.
I like some recent comedies. And The Stage - as I said - is quite brilliant
Trouble is they are eight episodes of 25 minutes. It’s not enough. It’s a starvation diet. I like ten or twelve hour long episodes of drama that I can binge!
Maybe Succession was the farewell of the Golden Age. The Medici tomb of the TV Renaissance
If so, quite fitting
Rewatch 'Threads' before the remake comes out. Then some Edge of Darkness.
I don’t know which is worse, the complete breakdown of western politics into crazy self harming populists versus deranged and treacherous lefties, or the sudden lack of decent TV drama
This IS TV drama! Every news channel will cover it
It's like Succession but if Logan and Roman had nukes.
Who will Andreessen and Thiel and Vance back?
That was the other Epstein news today - apparently he was Thiel's early backer.
I think what we need is for Trump-Musk to get so acrimonious it actually turns reality inside-out so that they become friends again, and THEN they fall out again.
@elonmusk · 9m In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
If he’s not careful, he'll get SpaceX taken off him. It's too critical to the US for him to even say that...
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Sure, he's still super rich and retains a good number of fanboys for now, but he clearly wants attention and adoration and not just wealth, and he's undermined that a lot.
Whereas Bezos seems to be happy to be regarded as your standard billionaire tyrant type.
This was always coming.
Only people who thought Liz Truss would be/was a successful Prime Minister are shocked to see Trump and Musk have fallen out.
Just to get revenge.
Even I couldn't cope with that.
The ewwww factor more than outweighs the LOLs.
So who has the obligation to keep appropriate records?
Fpt - they are all in Basingstoke & Deane
FPT ! A good interview with the new Reform leader of Kent County Council, Linden Kemkaran. AFAICS several of them seem to be small business people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La9ZlDkxXT4
To give her her due, she does talk a good game & it's worth a listen.
Like Starmer's Govt, they have 4 years to deliver, and that is how they will be judged.
One of the things Linden Kemkaran does is to swat Camilla Tominey's speculation about "hundreds of millions" of savings and cuts in Council Tax with a suggestion of "at least £75m". That is 3% of KCC spending and sounds to me like the type of number they will have to save just to meet Rachel Reeves' efficiency requirements. It sounds to me as if they will aim to simply withdraw from offering certain services, if they think it can be palmed off.
I think one thing that RefUK need to do if they are serious is benchmarking across their Councils, but they have punched all their staff on the nose with threats before even taking over.
Is it time to create a new political party in America that actually represents the 80% in the middle?
It wouldn’t surprise me. It generates headlines, from the polling I’ve just checked it seems to generally attract public support, Farage needs to move onto the next thing to keep getting attention, it’s a very “Reform” distinctive policy. He’ll get a lot of people accusing him of dog whistle politics but does it damage his brand in any meaningful way? Will the people who it angers the most ever vote for him anyway?
@samstein
I'm genuinely entertained
I'm also deeply frightened that the president is engaged in this
https://x.com/samstein/status/1930704514572755234
“So, what, then the richest man on earth threatens to release videos of the US PRESIDENT being peed on by Russian hookers??”
*tumbleweed*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krist_Novoselic
The problem is the electoral system.
But he's not wrong. The reason Trump won isn't because the USA is full of Trumpite loons, it's because the 80% in the middle leaned towards what they saw as the less unattractive of two extremes.
(In the past, Musk was scathing about going back to the Moon. He was a Mars First guy. But when the government started offering billions to go to the Moon, he changed his mind...)
It would be hilarious if Trump set out a real Mars project, and miraculously SpaceX got none of the contracts...
https://youtu.be/AXHZaDiBKsU?si=7VwsQDdH-TRhsg6n&t=44
Is it really so fanciful after the lunacy of the past decade?
(Edit - just remembered, not natural born citizen… scratch that).
Thoughts and prayers for me.
So is Highclere castle.
Also not Basingstoke.
Appropriate isn't in his vocabulary.
What would he know about it ?
Because if this row goes on the SpaceX is *done* in the US
Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake;
For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take.
It would just be another act of self destruction.
The internet agrees: https://www.ratingraph.com/tv-shows/the-last-of-us-ratings-103573/
Andrew Neil
@afneil
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I wrote from the start the Trump-Musk relationship would end in tears. The Trump cult excoriated me for it. But even I never foresaw a Grand Canyon rift like this. And it’s just begun. I’m told popcorn is already in short supply.
@elonmusk
In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts,
@SpaceX
will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930718684819112251?s=46&t=bulOICNH15U6kB0MwE6Lfw
Are the shops still open? I need more popcorn.
My thought: Give her millions of dollars so she would have the freedom to do the right thing.
Will it also end with "In a panic they tried to pull the plug"
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1930719235770359903?s=46
@elonmusk
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9m
In light of the President’s statement about cancellation of my government contracts,
@SpaceX
will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately
Getting into the space electronics business is smart. They're probably by some stretch their own largest customer for now, but specialist chip packaging for the space environment is going to be a huge business.
SpaceX building $280M semiconductor research site in Bastrop
$17.3 million will come as a grant from the state’s Semiconductor Innovation Fund. The expansion is expected to create more than 400 jobs.
https://www.expressnews.com/business/article/spacex-starlink-bastrop-semiconductor-texas-20219596.php
Trouble is they are eight episodes of 25 minutes. It’s not enough. It’s a starvation diet. I like ten or twelve hour long episodes of drama that I can binge!
Maybe Succession was the farewell of the Golden Age. The Medici tomb of the TV Renaissance
If so, quite fitting
Question tho, why were you homies with him if you knew he was on the Epstein list? That would kinda rule out a friendship for me…
https://x.com/magsonthemoon/status/1930719758854332617
Right cheery stuff ;-)
Also Mountainhead from the guy who did Succession on tonight.