President Elon Musk Suddenly Realizes He Might Not Know How to Govern

https://newrepublic.com/post/191402/president-elon-musk-not-know-cancer-research

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  1. Billionaire suddenly realizes he’s only being used for his money

  2. >A weekend interaction between Vanity Fair’s Molly Jong-Fast and Elon Musk unexpectedly showcased just how little the world’s richest man understands about the effects of his slashing spree at the top of the federal government.

    >“I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.

    >“I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

    >But despite Musk’s empty protestation, that is what’s happening. On Friday, the Trump administration—under the Department of Government Efficiency’s direction—announced it would cut billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, scheduled to take effect by Monday. The slashed spending was intended to affect $4 billion in “indirect funding” for research, a category that encompasses administrative overhead, facilities, and operations. But researchers that spoke with The Washington Post decried the move as a “surefire” way to “cripple lifesaving research and innovation,” and one that will contribute to “higher degrees of disease and death in the country.”

  3. “I don’t think the richest guy in the world should be cutting funding for cancer research,” Jong-Fast posted to X on Sunday.
    “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

    So he doesn’t even know what he is doing? Can the media stop trying to treat him like Tony Stark now?

  6. The eternal dichonomy of villains: Ignorance vs. Malice

  7. That’s just great.

    We got a bunch of yahoos off the leash enacting their own personal agendas.

  8. Lol, narcissists never acknowledge that they don’t know how to do anything

  9. It’s a miracle that man made anything more complex than a paper hat.

  10. None of these incel fascist fucks were ever interested in governing. They’re interested in ruling.

  11. As others have written on here – this isn’t about fixing anything. It’s about breaking it and then siphoning off money to themselves either directly or indirectly, punishing those they want to punish, etc. They have not released a single report on what they are doing, backed up anything with a shred of evidence or applied any oversight.

  13. “I’m not,” Musk responded. “Wtf are you talking about?”

    He knows he is lying… and does not care… why? because MAGA believes him anyways…

  15. This headline, and the premise of this article, is fucking stupid.

    I’m really tired of this game where a guy who is a proven liar for a decade or longer is just always given the benefit of the doubt with the words he says.

    Everything Elon says is a lie. If you are interacting with him, it’s in bad faith. That ridiculous human being literally never has a public conversation, with anyone, about anything, that is in legitimate good faith.

    When he says “wtf I’m not”, it’s not because he “doesn’t know.”

    It’s because he’s literally just lying. Baldly, nakedly, open-faced. He’s not putting a political spin on the lie, he’s not doing a lawyerly half-truth jedi mind trick.

    He’s just fucking lying.

    And what he’s figured out about the media, is no matter HOW nakedly, egregiously dishonest you are, they will literally never call a lie a lie, and they will sane-wash and try and decipher “what he actually meant”, and do EVERYTHING humanly possibly except just say, “this dude is fucking lying.”

    So, he didn’t “just realize he doesn’t know how to govern,” he didn’t have an epiphany. He’s just lying to your fuckning face and he doesn’t care how disprovable or transparently untrue the lie is.

    He’s lying about what he’s doing. He’s lying about why he’s doing it. He’s lying about what DOGE uncovers. He’s literally just fucking lying with every single statement. And you really need to start operating from the premise that if he’s saying something, it is A) probably not true, and B) 100% not in good faith.

  16. The one thing I look forward to seeing every day is Tesla’s stock price. Because it’s been dropping for a month straight.

    Can’t wait to see how far sales have dropped in the 1st quarter. The destruction of Tesla is what I’m actively hoping for, along with a giant shareholder lawsuit against CEO Elon Musk.

  17. The challenge of shifting from being an exploitive employer to being a political person is that you stop having to answer only to sycophants.

    Trump and Musk and any of these politicians aren’t our employers. They aren’t our bosses, and they can’t fire us. But we can fire them.

    At the end of the day a politician only has as much power as the people give them. Career politicians get that, Trump and Musk don’t. And that will be their undoing.

  18. I think you’re giving Leon too much credit for self-reflection and how much he really cares.

  19. As I expected, he is not suddenly realized anything and still thinks he is perfect.

  20. His stocks down 6.8% today and the fall appears to be accelerating.

  21. We have 100 elected people in the Senate and 435 elected voting members in the House whose job is to debate the details of legislation. We even have some non-voting members who are allowed to speak from U.S. territories.

    Trump and Elon have usurped the power of Congress and are guilty of treason and sedition of the highest order.

  22. A cool alt-r headline could b “President Musk Suddenly Realizes He Doesn’t Know How to Manufacture an Automovile”

  24. It was actually pretty apparent from Ramaswampy’s posts on Twitter/X that he didn’t really understand how to govern, but with Musk he never really says anything so there was nothing conclusive other than the shitty decisions he’s allowed (and pushed) with Tesla. But I think now it’s exceedingly obvious that while he passed his citizenship test he doesn’t actually understand (or respect) the US Democratic Republic.

    Can’t make something more efficient when you don’t understand how it works. And people who think they can… well that’s a position that comes from extreme hubris and having the privilege of failing upward. So that actually checks out.

  26. “Move fast and break things” was meant for startups who stole their code from open source stuff or a previous employer.

    Not an entire country.

  27. Government is not a business. Was never meant to function like a business. It’s government.

  28. Well, he can’t even run a company that is already well established

  29. No one should ever believe a word out of the Kleptomaniacal Ketamine Klansmans mouth.

  30. The thing is that it doesn’t matter that it’s Musk doing it and it doesn’t matter that it’s cancer research. The President doesn’t have the power to unilaterally dissolve agencies, reorganize the government, or impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even if the he does it himself and the funds are for gender fluid underwater basketweaving classes in Djibouti. This is the executive branch attempting to usurp the power of the purse from the legislative branch, while telling the judicial branch ‘you and what army?’ Take Musk out of it and we still have a constitutional crisis.

  31. This is why I never understood the “we need a business man” thing.

    Why? Running a government and running a business are two very different skill sets. It’s like the difference between being a dog breeder and running an animal shelter.

  32. So…he still has control of the Treasury? And no Congressperson has physically taken back the power of the purse? Wow, most of them really don’t care about their job.

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  34. ““it’s clear that the Tesla CEO doesn’t seem to realize that by having the government step back from commitments it’s made to world-leading researchers, his department is effectively slowing medical advances for millions of patients who desperately need critical care and is imperiling the economic position of America, a leader in biomedical innovation.”

    It’s not that he doesn’t know.  It’s that he doesn’t care.  It’s just lying to obfuscate the truth

  35. Why haven’t we heard Musk is cutting funding to Space x & Tesla?

  36. So Trump is a dumb person’s idea of a smart person and Elon is Trump’s idea of a smart person?

  37. What he’s doing is the equivalent of going to a transformer with a pair of insulated clippers, and saying, “If I can’t tell what the wire does, it’s doing nothing.”

  38. He never wanted to govern, he wants to rule. He wants to be unbound by any laws or regulations. The collateral damage is uninteresting to him. He’s a sociopath.

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