Elon Musk, #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld, has more money than any person needs, but he is attempting to get paid one trillion dollars more from his car company. Many other billionaires act as if they do not care about the suffering in many nations that some of their money could end. Their religion is summed up by the line from the movie #WallStreet: #GreedIsGood.
They are foolishly shortsighted.
#values #greed #politics

"Elon Musk is quietly dialing down his plans to start a political party, as he seeks to maintain alliances with top Republicans."

The idea that a new political party could be successful if it was started by #ElonMusk, #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld, was always ridiculous:
https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/elon-musk-dials-down-plans-for-new-political-party-wsj-4201093 #politics

"If it wasn't for his shock-and-awe destruction of government agencies, Elon Musk's DOGE era might have been defined by his many MAGA feuds ... Elon Musk may come to wonder if DOGE was worth the fights":
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-01/donald-trump-adviser-elon-musk-departs-doge/105361292
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics
Elon Musk may come to wonder if DOGE was worth the fights

If it wasn't for his shock-and-awe destruction of government, Elon Musk's DOGE era might have been defined by his many MAGA feuds.

ABC News
"Elon Musk came to Washington with a chain saw and left with a black eye.
Shrinking government is hard, particularly when you do it callously and carelessly
— and apparently on hallucinogens":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opinion/elon-musk-doge-trump.html
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics
Opinion | Tech Bro Had to Go

Two emperors of chaos decide that two is one too many.

The New York Times
Rep. Mike Levin: "DOGE delivered suffering rather than savings. It laid off thousands of skilled federal workers, including veterans, and destroyed programs like PEPFAR, costing lives. It promised $2 trillion in cuts, claimed $175 billion, but likely saved far less, at great human cost."
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics
Daniel Drezner: "It’s great that Trump entrusted so much power in a mentally unstable drug addict, nothing could have possibly gone wrong."
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld
Rep. Jaime Raskin, about Musk: "This ketamine, ecstasy, and mushroom-using government contractor, the richest person in the world, sacked thousands of excellent government workers, caused the deaths of thousands of poor children in foreign lands, stole Americans’ data, and destroyed government services but he did pick up billions more in government contracts while he was in town!"
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics

"Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation, and Death":
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html
"Musk’s absurd scheme to save the government a trillion dollars by slashing waste, fraud, and abuse has been a failure."

Musk's "cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."
#USAID #ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

His decimation of U.S.A.I.D. has had fatal consequences.

The New York Times
"After four months of disruption, Elon Musk signals he’s leaving government."
His being rejected by most voters in Wisconsin resulted in #progress:
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/28/musk-doge-depart-government-00373963
Musk's "secretive team’s unorthodox slash-and-burn tactics have sowed chaos across Washington."
#politics #ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld
"Elon Musk Was Donald Trump’s Useful Idiot. It’s looking increasingly likely that the world’s richest man got played":
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/14/elon-musk-donald-trump-doge-russell-vought/
#ElonMusk #ArguablyTheMostHatedManInTheWorld #politics #HubrisMaximus
Elon Musk Was Donald Trump’s Useful Idiot

It’s looking increasingly likely that the world’s richest man got played.

Foreign Policy