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On 12/14/2024 at 12:48 PM, NoName said:

The most Tesla thing ever

 

 

In a few weeks:

"For just $23,975 you can pay Tesla to put a Foundation Series badge on your Cybertruck.

'Free' CyberTent included!"

The cybercucks will be lining up.

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The law does not apply to Elon Musk

sadly, this is closer to the truth here.

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Meanwhile in securities law, I have wondered for quite a long time now about Musk’s acquisition of Twitter Inc. shares in 2022. Before he bought all of Twitter, Musk bought about 9% of the stock in the open market over the course of several weeks. When he acquired more than 5% of the shares, the law required him to disclose his ownership within 10 days. He waited 21 days, buying more in the meantime, and when he did disclose his ownership he did so misleadingly, on a form suggesting that he was a passive investor with no plans to influence the company. (In fact he had already begun discussions with Twitter about buying the whole company.) This is not that serious a securities violation — people do not go to jail for this — but it is a very obvious violation, and it seems to have saved Musk about $143 million: By not alerting Twitter shareholders that he was buying the company, he was able to pay less for their shares than he would have if he had followed the law.

You might have expected that the US Securities and Exchange Commission, seeing this absolutely open-and-shut violation of the law, would have sued Musk within a few weeks. Instead the SEC has spent the last two years making vague burblings about investigating Musk and repeatedly questioning him about what seems, from the outside, like an extremely simple legal violation.

Which, again, is weird, and not how other people get treated. (Here is a September SEC announcement of “settled charges against 23 entities and individuals” — including Goldman Sachs and Alphabet Inc. — “for failures to timely report information about their holdings and transactions in public company stock.”) But the point is that, if Musk has been 60% subject to securities law for the last two years, that number is going to drop precipitously in about a month. Anything that the SEC wants to do about this, it has to do pretty quick. And so:

 

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33 days of govt shut down? Lol IMG_8859.thumb.jpeg.4884d2431ef5ce9bcf17195e658ed1be.jpeg

The last time these guys made one happen, over 50 percent blamed the then president and the CBO estimated it cost 3 billion in permanent losses and the White House Council of Economic Advisors estimated that each week of the shutdown reduced GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points, the equivalent of 1.2 points per quarter

Bust sure. We will be fine lol

Also, this.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

Elon is a tool of America’s foreign adversaries. 

Or just a tool who is too dumb to realize that we just went through a pandemic, and also that we aren’t the ones who are going to be using bioweapons.  It’s going to be Russia or a third-world country like Syria, but we have to be prepared to be on the receiving end.

 

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25 minutes ago, Parliament said:

I think he’s just your regular moron.  Difference is he has a buncha morons cheering him on.

Begging people not to overthink this, Elon repeats everything that’s helpful to Russia and he has huge business interests in the PRC. He’s not that dumb. 

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Oligarchs in the house

https://www.chron.com/culture/article/spacex-tceq-lawsuit-19988870.php

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Since summer 2023, SpaceX has used a water deluge system for its massive Starship rocket as a cooling element. Each time the system is activated, up to 358,000 gallons of water are pushed up from ground tanks to rapidly cool the launch pad and rocket and can then flow a half mile across the landscape. SpaceX attained stormwater permit authorizations in 2023, but not permits to discharge industrial process wastewater as the federal Clean Water Act typically requires. 

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The Environmental Protection Agency told SpaceX in April that its discharges don't appear to be covered, but the rocket maker proceeded with multiple static fire tests and a launch until finally submitting an application to the TCEQ for a new permit in July, the lawsuit says. Then, an investigator with the commission concluded that SpaceX had been operating discharges without proper authorization. 

SpaceX and TCEQ then landed on an agreement that the spacecraft company would pay a $3,750 penalty. 

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Though SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has claimed the discharges are "potable drinking water," they contain potentially toxic chemicals once they come into contact with rocket exhaust. When other vehicles take off from sites such as NASA's Kennedy Space Center, trenches are used to contain water from the deluge system, NPR reports.

Now, the plaintiffs, which include activist group Save RGV, the South Texas Environmental Justice Network and the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, say TCEQ also granted temporary authorization to discharge pollutants from the deluge system. 

 

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On 12/8/2024 at 8:55 AM, Ted Lange said:

Probably something to do with not having 100% of action heroes being white males.   Nothing breaks people brains more than a non white dude hero.  It’s hysterical 

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7 minutes ago, NoName said:

Serious Brian Cox GIF by SuccessionHBO

 

Hell of a return on musks $200,000,000 contribution to trump's campaign. Now musk can renegotiate his loans and re-up for more tax free money out of his stock holdings

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11 hours ago, Captainant said:

Hell of a return on musks $200,000,000 contribution to trump's campaign. Now musk can renegotiate his loans and re-up for more tax free money out of his stock holdings

That’s just being an effective CEO who does whatever it takes to secure a good return for investors and shareholders.

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I just thought I was mis clicking!

Yes!  Yes! Yes! 

Also happens all the time when I'm trying to say the ad isn't relevant it's ONLY the ones that are basically accounts that exist only for ads vs. Ads that come from actual accounts that tweet that you can block.

 

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20 hours ago, NoName said:

33 days of govt shut down? Lol IMG_8859.thumb.jpeg.4884d2431ef5ce9bcf17195e658ed1be.jpeg

The last time these guys made one happen, over 50 percent blamed the then president and the CBO estimated it cost 3 billion in permanent losses and the White House Council of Economic Advisors estimated that each week of the shutdown reduced GDP growth by 0.1 percentage points, the equivalent of 1.2 points per quarter

Bust sure. We will be fine lol

Also, this.

 

 

Lol

 

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5 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

The keys to this country have been handed over to an apartheid-era South African. Boy is the fun about to begin on Inauguration Day in January.

For now, if Trump gets wind of the “President Musk” stuff, Musk will be booted out.

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4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

For now, if Trump gets wind of the “President Musk” stuff, Musk will be booted out.

Yeah, I can't see that going over well with the Donald. That's probably something we should get people to rally behind so it could hasten Musks exit from Washington and his subsidies.

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16 minutes ago, tomahawk dunk said:

Yeah, I can't see that going over well with the Donald. That's probably something we should get people to rally behind so it could hasten Musks exit from Washington and his subsidies.

I could see Trump telling the SEC to go after Musk, as Trump would have no problem weaponizing his administration for a specific purpose to hurt a perceived enemy.  Plus, it would appeal to his ego - and he would see it as a power-play to warn all other potential rivals off

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Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions.
Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance.
We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed.
Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom.

Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions.
Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance.
We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed.
Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom.

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions.
Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance.
We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed.
Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom.

Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions.
Everything they the right supposedly worried about re (((Soros))) has come to pass, with their gleeful assistance.
We are a full-on oligarchy now, and there is no going back that doesn’t involve total collapse and massive bloodshed.
Remember…it only gets worse, and there is no bottom.

 

1 hour ago, TexasHooch said:

You can say that again.

But I think you're wrong.  Trump is not a strategic thinker.  His ego will simply not allow the appearance that Musk is the one making decisions.

 

This. What does Trump need Musk for? He can't run again, he's a lame duck already. I just don't see why Trump would want Elon around when he's only stealing his thunder.

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11 minutes ago, Captain Ron said:

I just don't see why Trump would want Elon around when he's only stealing his thunder.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

 

That's why he wants Musk around.  The grift never ends.

Oh.....and y'all think that Trump won't run again.  That's adorable.

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2 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

You can say that again.

But I think you're wrong.  Trump is not a strategic thinker.  His ego will simply not allow the appearance that Musk is the one making decisions.

 

Trying to get in Trump‘s head requires you to be an extreme narcissist who sees things as purely transactional favoring him deals….or as toddler-esque acting out need your revenge for perceived slights. 

That is difficult to do. It’s like playing the Joker in the movie and not coming out with significant personality changes. 

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Yeah…that’s not gonna happen. Musk is too powerful, and Trump knows it. Trump depends on Musk and his economic paper, as well as his near-total control of information (money is all that matters). Trump has a billion dollars. Musk has hundreds of billions.

5 hours ago, TexasHooch said:

But I think you're wrong.  Trump is not a strategic thinker.  His ego will simply not allow the appearance that Musk is the one making decisions.

Ehh, these kinds of people always believe they are the toughest/smartest in the room.

The fact is that with all of his begging/cajoling, Trump primarily stuck with this Truth.social platform even when Musk would clearly have bought it out and paid him off handsomely.  Trump was "harmed" by twitter once when they banned him and he's not going to allow that to happen again, so when he returned last year, it wasn't nearly like it was before he was banned, and it's still not like it was even today.

Trump is now about to be in office and doesn't have much use for Leon, and he gets real pissy when people talk about him being the puppets of others.

I will be surprised if Leon is still around a few months from now.

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2 hours ago, 'stache said:

Bullshit, donal will let elon do whatever the fuck he wants, because he's a complete fucking cuck and is owned by musk. 

How is he owned by Musk? He got away with crimes. He thinks he bulletproof. Like I said,I fail to see what Elon really provides. He’s about to be the president god sakes. 

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42 minutes ago, tomahawk dunk said:

I seriously think this shit is going to infuriate trump.

It's gaining steam on twitter like nobody's business.  If anybody is competing with Musk in terms of trying to draw attention, all they have to do is let Trump know this stuff is floating around twitter without Leon doing anything about it.

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