Musk spent over a quarter billion dollars to elect Trump, by hiring door-to-door election workers in swing states, among other methods. Seems like a lot of money but it is dwarfed by the 44 billion he spent to buy Twitter so that anybody can post lies and hatred there.
Now he is running a thing called DOGE, Department of Government Efficiency and firing people by the tens of thousands, destroying organizations like USAID that JFK started and that took decades to build.
Like, Trump, Musk came from a very privileged background. Clearly he feels deeply entitled to his wealth and now his control over so much of country.
Many of the Trump Tragedies listed in this site are tragedies that Musk has created, particularly the destruction of USAID, the funding cuts to medical and scientific research, the cuts to our National Parks, to the IRS so they can’t collect taxes properly. It goes on and on.
By the way, Musk says that his salute was not a Nazi salute, but it should be noted that it is ILLEGAL to show the Hitler salute in Germany, so it is shown with his arm blurred out.
Far-right neo-Nazi Americans were thrilled by the sight of a Nazi salute coming from the richest and possibly most powerful person in the United States.
WHAT WE CAN DO:
This is another case where people living in red states have so much power: if you folks raise holy heck with your Senators and Reps, they may become more afraid of you than of Trump and he might realize that Musk is out of control and possibly wrecking his administration.
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It’s been noted that eliminating the ENTIRE federal workforce would reduce total spending by only 5%.
There are currently about 2.2 million ferederal employees. However, the number of people paid by federal grants and contracts but not counted on the federal payroll is around 7 million, a number that reflects 4.8 million contractors and 2.3 million grantees.
(See University of Pennsylvania Professor John J. Dilulio, Jr., https://www.brookings.edu/articles/musk-and-ramaswamy-meet-the-real-deep-state)