March 28, 2025
"The D.C. Circuit is notorious for having a very far left bias. And when you look at the people closest to some of these judges..."
"... where are they working? Are they working at these NGOs? They're the ones getting this money. Does that seem like a system that lacks corruption? Sounds like corruption to me."Said Elon Musk.Devastating if true, so there's a strong motivation to prove it's not true. And yet, it's hard to disprove this charge, lobbed in the direction of a group of perhaps 11 judges and the "people closest" to them.
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Stronger motivation for the Press to ignore it.
I've heard that Boasberg's daughter works for an NGO that does legal aid for illegal aliens. So Elon might be right.
Says a guy whose companies have reaped billions of the government and is taking a chainsaw to the agencies that regulate his companies, meanwhile his co-President just put additional tariffs on the competitors to his car company.
Pretty ripe having Musk lecture anyone about perceived corruption.
That's what recusal is for. But who actually has integrity? (Or who has the integrity to say that they still need to have integrity even when, in their minds, freedom and our democracy are being destroyed?)
The true mind virus is pride - a freely chosen enmity towards others. That is the worm that eats through everything.
and he protected hillary's emails from being released and all the jan 6 travesties, so the cards are on the table,
Things that are true should be hard to disprove. However, one well know way to learn is simply repetition and if the echo chamber repeats it long and often enough we will learn that it's
just not true.
That they're "Far Left" isn't disuputed. In fact, schumer has boasted about how he was able to stack the DC circuit with "Progressive" judges. And we all know Leftwing judges rule based on their politics - not on the merits or prior rulings.
As for corruption, its been proven that Boasberg has a wife getting huge sums from NGO's receiving Government funding. No doubt the others are in similar positions.
Does it matter? Of course not. The Democrat Senators will attack Thomas over "ethics" but they defend leftwing judges no matter what. And what about the Republican Senators? Well, they seem be AWOL as usual. Maybe Musk can bribe them to care. That's their M.O. - some big donor has to give them $$ before they'll do anything vaguely "conservative". That's why all the R Senators love Israel, big business, and Defense contractors.
Truth is hard to disprove, but Democrat Party members never stop trying.
That's bs. The problem is neither Trump nor Musk wants to do things properly. It's their bad luck that the DC Circuit bench is dominated by Democratic appointees, like it is our bad luck that Republican appointees have dominated the US Supreme Court since Johnson appointees failed to get through and one resigned.
Adjudicating kleptocracy. I'm asking who?
Readering at 1156--Just what is the "proper way" in your view?
I mean Executive Orders? Biden been there and done that. Obama had a phone and a pen.
Resisting national injunctions? Trump and Musk appeal them. Biden ignored them.
I will admit that Musk's assertion that the DC Circuit shows bias could be challenged. OTOH the judges there are living in the heart of the swamp; their family business is often politics and progressive politics at that. Musk is more likely right than not, but it's tough to get a slam dunk conclusion.
Musk and his Heroes of the Republic will be following the money and righting wrongs. These pieces of excrement progressives - hell-bent on profiting from their destruction of our nation - will be identified and dealt with.
I don't think it's actually true that the DC Circuit is "notorious" for its far left bias (unlike, say, the 9th circuit). Nor is it necessarily true that the people around the judges all work for left-wing NGOs. I think the social reality is a lot simpler than that. The judges all work in DC and live either in DC or the close-in suburbs. The people around them might not be overtly hostile to the average pre-Trump Republican. But Trump and the political forces he represents are an existential threat to the legitimacy of the unelected civil service and all the businesses and jobs that depend on the federal government's money hose and have made the DC suburbs some of the wealthiest in the country. The people around the judges are probably insanely anti-Trump. It's not ideological -- they need to protect their phoney-baloney jobs! Ideology is just the rationalisation. And I suspect that attitude bleeds over into the judges' thinking. The kind of people who get nominated to be federal judges are generally pretty clubbable, not the kind of anti-social misfits who would be indifferent to the spittle-flecked outrage of the people around them.
Readering said...
That's bs. The problem is neither Trump nor Musk wants to do things properly. It's their bad luck that the DC Circuit bench is dominated by Democratic appointees, like it is our bad luck that Republican appointees have dominated the US Supreme Court since Johnson appointees failed to get through and one resigned.
3/28/25, 11:56 AM
You really are obnoxious, aren't you? You clear pro-government-controlling-everything is clear.
Musk and Trump want to do right by the American people. They are pointing out and the response demonstrates that people like yourself, and the government, are against doing the right thing.
The left would suppress such statements, just as they did with those simply questioning COVID vaccines. The lefts religious government ordered orthodoxy is destructive and needs to be called out.
I hope NASA cancels all contracts with SpaceX. Do it tomorrow. All of them. No more NASA money spent on SpaceX. Do it to make Mark happy. Make sure everyone knows the contracts were cancelled because Democrats demanded it.
but in practice, they have stacked the deck, so clown nose off, clown nose on,
Not that anyone needs another data point establishing a certain judicial predilection to oppose the Trumpian agenda, but the current "Special Administrative Assistant" (whatever that means) to Chief Justice Roberts is Sheldon Snook, who is married to Mary McCord, who has called Trump a racist, a white supremacist, a fascist and was instrumental in the deep state persecution during the first Trump administration and continues to be an active member of the soi-disant "resistance." Ya think that Sheldon might just be a teenie-weenie bit biased against Trump and might be an influence on the man who selected him to be his "assistant"? It used to be the standard of Caesar's wife that applied to require recusal. Now it basically requires a photograph of the subject with his hand in the cookie jar and crumbs on his lips. At least if the subject is a leftist.
Why is this more devastating than a son-in-law taking billions from a foreign power?
All you need to do to understand the Federal government, is to examine which handful of counties across the nation are the wealthiest.
stlcdr said... @ 12:16
Readering isn't a big fan of the American people. He believes they,(the American people), a big bunch of stupid hicks. They should shut up and let better people like Readering make all the big decisions. For a small fee, of course.
One attribute of the liberal/left is never give a Goddamn inch, and always quibble and pushback against any fact they don't like.
Every knows something is true, but they'll go "Gosh, Idunno about that. Or "Gosh, where's the proof of that". Or "Gosh, I don't think that's true".
Or quibble over a word. "What is far-left? I dont think they're far-left. Blah blah".
Notice they never come back with Facts. They never say "oh, thats not true. the facts are X, Y, Z - they prove you wrong" Its rheotrical games. The DC circuit is made up of liberal/leftwing judges who rule for the leftwing/liberal position 90 percent of the time. The current anti-trump injuctions and blocks on Trump actions are now over 50. How many did they issue against Biden's actions? One? Ten ? In 4 years.
Leland, surely if the EU can continue to fund Putin's military by buying energy from Russia, the US can make itself dependent on Russian orbital services (again).
Readering said...
“The problem is neither Trump nor Musk wants to do things properly.”
The Federal government has been a cesspool of waste and fraud and abuse for decades, across both majority parties. Given that our election cycle is basically two years, what exactly is improper about what they’re doing? There’s only so much time to act, and the amount of stuff to eradicate or fix or build (computer systems) is ginormous. There is no standard to which to compare to to say what they are doing is “proper” or not. This has never been done before.
It seem quite obvious, especially in the last few years, that the biggest threat to "our democracy" are liberal, corrupt, activist judges. Pretending these judges are filled with unbiased virtue is ridiculous. It defies everything we as humans know about human nature. Self-preservation is the number one motivator. We saw this during COVID. Teachers, professors, administrators, doctors, dancing nurses etc... We're supposed to pretend judges are somehow different or immune? Such bullshit.
People need to wake up to reality. The Democrats in DC are far-left. They have zero desire to compromise. They don't control Congress or the Presidency, so they've fallen back on Far-left judges to stop Trump. And if Congress tries to impeach them or disclipine the Leftwing judges in anyway, every single Goddman Congressional Democrat will vote "NO".
That's because they don't care about anything except POWER. Gaining it, using it, or stopping the Republicans from using it. No ethnics, no morality, and no respect for the rules or tradition.
Personally, I think Trump should pull an Andrew jackson. That should smoke out Roberts and ACB and force them to come out and drop the mask.
Readering said...
"That's bs. The problem is neither [Jefferson] nor [The Colonials] wants to do things properly."
- MP Readering, from a pocket borough, speaking in Parliament in August 1776 upon receiving the Declaration of Independence from the American colonies, and also in response to a mention of Edmund Burke's Speech on American Taxation delivered in the same House of Commons a few years previously.
I think he is trying very hard to abide by these procrustean rules, if he defies the courts, which he might well have to, they would call him 'dictator', but they do that already
An absence of recusal in the presence of a conflict of interest is corruption.
What these judges rely on is that these conflicts of interest in the federal government are so pervasive that it'd be hard to find a justice who doesn't have a conflict to hear these political, arguably non-justiciable cases.
Ann, you no longer seem cruelly neutral to me. How is this devastating or corruption? And coming from the business man working for the President whose tariffs just boosted his net worth. Maybe I have kissed the post where you explain how Trump and Musk behavior is anything other than disgusting. And this is from someone who could actually support some of their goals, but their methods?
Re: Leland:
I hope NASA cancels all contracts with SpaceX. Do it tomorrow. All of them. No more NASA money spent on SpaceX. Do it to make Mark happy. Make sure everyone knows the contracts were cancelled because Democrats demanded it.
SpaceX is the kind of thing one wishes we could replicate across all government contractors. They managed to cut launch costs by like 90%? More? With better reliability than the traditional government contractors for launch systems (e.g. Boeing/Lockheed). If you think about the "fat" in government spending, that's where it is.
Cutting bureaucrats and miscellaneous grants is all very well, but the real problem is the government is constantly paying way more for goods and services than it would need to, if those suppliers were well run. Not "well run" the way management specialists and lawyers think about it (long lists of assessed risks, WCGWs, policies, procedures, key controls, compensating controls, checklists, reviews, approvals, certifications, and CYA) -- I suspect that Musk's companies are mostly run quite "badly" from that professional prospective, and the control environment "tone at the top" assessment is surely a challenge for the auditors every year given Musk's behaviour. But I mean actually well-run, which is something rather different.
Trump has now internalized the very liberating concept that "they're gonna call me [insert pejorative here] no matter what I do, or do not do. I'll just go ahead and do what I want, the way I want to do it, and let them sputter.
He no longer cares (if he ever did) if the Congress impeaches him for the 3rd time. JD is absolute insurance against conviction in the Senate no matter how many D senators are elected in 2026.
Accordingly, it's just a matter of time before he asks CJ Roberts how many divisions he has.
The basic issues are that Congress appropriated funds and that the US signed contracts. Respect Congress and respect contracts.
I am guessing that a basic problem for Musk is that he is in a huge hurry to get back to the companies he runs that pay him billions to do so. One reason why 2 heads were appointed, but one bailed. Yet now Republicans want him to work on anything that seems like in his wheelhouse, like the snafu with the signals meeting setup. Why is he being distracted with that?
I still can't believe Boasberg didn't recuse himself. Fundamental.
There is a judicial canon of ethics and judges aren't supposed to engage in conduct that even has the appearance of impropriety. Given the jobs his wife and daughter have, we was required to recuse himself. I'm filing a complaint.
Go after the thieves and fraudsters and hang them “proper” as Readering would have it. Fucking treasonous corksoakers.
Good luck with that.
Meant for Begley but works with Iman.
he has never done so, to my recollection,
I was bit tongue-in-cheek Balfegor. The fact of the matter is if NASA cancelled ties with SpaceX tomorrow, then the NASA manned spaceflight program would end after Artemis II. The crew Dragon would have to return from ISS, ending NASA’s presence there. Russia would gain complete control of ISS, as they would have the only means to send crew and supplies. Artemis would have to find someone else to build a lander. And most of the people I know at JSC hate Elon Musk, because they hate Trump. Like Mark, they would cut off their nose to spite their face, because their hate consumes all their senses.
I just noticed after my previous post that DOGE has uncovered billions being wasted on “Solar for all”. That program would struggle further if they were excluded from using Tesla solar cells or power walls. The fact is, Musk’s companies have made the dreams of the left a possibility, but because supports Trump in making our government efficient, then screw our climate. Burn the cars!
It may be easier than you ever imagined Readering. Have a clean pair of panties on hand at all times, if you can.
The corrupt democrat left fortified their corruption with a corrupt media.
Just left the leftwing judges go nuts. Then ignore them.
The democrat party is a money laundering operation.
This is trash talk only. If Musk has any specific complaints about any particular judge, let him make them. Otherwise, we can assume he has nothing.
Isn't the "CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS" the fact that lowly District Courts, which were established by Congress, can enjoin the entire country based on thin evidence of Executive branch abuse?
Threats by the Speaker of the House to rein in these courts will probably have little effect on the activities of these courts, especially the DC District, given that they are doing what they think is "virtuous" work.
"Our Democracy" is nothing more than a talking point used by Democrats to appear patriotic, while they use any means necessary to sabotage the Trump train.
Readering said...
That's bs. The problem is neither Trump nor Musk wants to do things properly. It's their bad luck that the DC Circuit bench is dominated by Democratic appointees, like it is our bad luck that Republican appointees have dominated the US Supreme Court since Johnson appointees failed to get through and one resigned.
The problem is that DC is full of parasites who live off of taxpayers and demand that taxpayers keep funding programs we voted to end.
These courts are obviously corrupt and these judges who have family in these NGOs should obviously recuse themselves.
There are a lot of millionaires in DC who have far more wealth than their incomes would predict. Trump is moving too slowly and he is being too nice. Most of these scumbags belong in jail.
But I look forward to democrats defending this corruption and these lazy greedy assholes as they try to protect their rice bowls.
Douglas B. Levene said...
This is trash talk only. If Musk has any specific complaints about any particular judge, let him make them. Otherwise, we can assume he has nothing.
You mean like Boasberg's wife working for a USAID funded NGO?
That took 30 seconds to find. I know Boasberg's daughter also works for a government funded NGO that was advocating for illegals.
You people are just dishonest pieces of shit. Nobody is going to put up with this anymore. DC is corrupt and one way or another we are going to detach you ticks.
“DOGE: EPA Administrator Zeldin has revealed the agency is a massive crime scene - the largest heist in world history took place in plain sight. Biden funneled billions to Democrat NGOs in the name of climate change.”
https://x.com/amuse/status/1905545369162858628
The Usual Suspects claim Musk benefits by the imposition of tariffs on car imports, but Porsche, BMW, Volkswagen and Polestar (Swedish)---the closest to offering high-end EVs like Tesla---are all cutting back or getting out of that sector.
You're never going to get a dedicated democratic cult loyalist to admit the democrat party is corrupt.
Readering said...
I am guessing that a basic problem for Musk is that he is in a huge hurry to get back to the companies he runs that pay him billions to do so. One reason why 2 heads were appointed, but one bailed. Yet now Republicans want him to work on anything that seems like in his wheelhouse, like the snafu with the signals meeting setup. Why is he being distracted with that?
We notice that democrats like you think the Signal chat is a big deal.
But we also notice you don't care about 13 Marines killed in an actual scandal.
You also didn't care when Hillary stored classified material on computers at her home and wiped them in order to avoid subpoena.
You also didn't care when Hillary got all of the people at our Libyan embassy killed.
You didn't care about government officials lying to the FISA court.
The list of things you don't care about is sickening. You are just a terrible person. You don't really care about any of this. You only care about power.
Yes. Arrest all of the judges that disagree with this regime.
Are we already at the Argentinian helicopter ride portion of your fascist wet dream, Achilles?
Achilles: I hope your repetitive insults get you though the day.
"You people are just dishonest pieces of shit."
You're slandering dishonest pieces of shit by comparing them to Democrats. You know- the people who are screaming and stamping their feet because waste and fraud in government is being cut.
Achilles responded...
"You mean like Boasberg's wife working for a USAID funded NGO?"
to Douglas B. Levene claiming...
"This is trash talk only. If Musk has any specific complaints about any particular judge, let him make them. Otherwise, we can assume he has nothing."
We can assume Dougie is ignorant of the facts and is making foolish comments despite his ignorance. BTW, it is not just Boasberg wife, but his daughter as well. The Judge is unethical and should be disbarred.
Nothing hast be disproven.
A simple one sentence statement and it’s over…
“Musk makes baseless accusation”
See how easy that was? No report in or investigation required.
Why is this more devastating than a son-in-law taking billions from a foreign power?
The son-in-law has no power to sabotage the function of the government with injunctions and restraining orders.
Leland: "We can assume Dougie is ignorant of the facts and is making foolish comments despite his ignorance. BTW, it is not just Boasberg wife, but his daughter as well. The Judge is unethical and should be disbarred."
Its his sister as well. A bit more searching and we'll no doubt find additional family members with their noses far up the arse of the corrupted NGO-democratical money laundering scheme.
But hey, when you are a "muh principles" kind of attorney guy like Levene, who cares about that when Trump is on the loose!
"it is not just Boasberg wife, but his daughter as well. The Judge is unethical and should be disbarred. "
Not in dispute.
https://revolver.news/2025/03/the-judge-boasberg-ray-epps-connection-should-scare-every-american/ just one example
Is it corruption for a billionaire President to film a commercial TV spot for another billionaire, selling the other billionaire's electric cars in front of the White House, right when those electric cars are tanking in the market, and when that other billionaire has unlimited access to the Oval Office?
Dumb Lefty Mark: "Says a guy whose companies have reaped billions of the government...."
Dumb Lefty Mark misspelled: was awarded fee for service contracts in competitive bidding competitions and then delivered far and above Musk's competitors.
What Dumb Lefty Mark is really, really pissed about is Musk completely destroyed the ChiComs space launch for fee services. The New Soviet Democraticals get very upset when you disturb their ChiCom masters....and their islamic supremacist allies.
But it gets better (as you knew it would)....
Dumb Lefty Mark: "... and is taking a chainsaw to the agencies that regulate his companies,...."
Whatever that means....and don't ask Dumb Lefty Mark to explain it in explicit detail. If he did explain it, it would be the very first time on this blog he was ever able to explain any of his moronic postings.
But it continues, as you knew it must:
Dumb Lefty Mark: "... meanwhile his co-President just put additional tariffs on the competitors to his car company."
Musk has already spent billions building Giga Berlin to avoid the tariffs the EU had ALREADY HAD IN PLACE AGAINST US VEHICLES(!) attempting to be sold in Europe and the tariffs on Musk's so called competitors (many of whom had already dropped out of the EV race or scaled back their efforts because they can't compete with Tesla) just evens things out.
So you see what also pisses Dumb Lefty Mark off (and other Dumb Lefties as well):
1) Dumb Lefty Mark WANTS a continued massively tilted tariff advantage for the EU over the US...forever
2) Dumb Lefty Mark has spent years, along with LLR-democratical Rich, claiming all of Musk's companies are frauds, fakes and failures....and now we have reached a point where the success of Musk's companies are undeniable....and Dumb Lefty Mark has no idea what to do with his history of business assessment idiocy.
Good times, good times.
LOL! And right on cue, the dumbest of the Althouse LLR-democratical Brigade pops in to demonstrate precisely why he is just that...and you just know LLR-democratical Chuck, in abstentia, will not be pleased with this latest pathetic lonejustice stupidity:
LLR-democratical lonejustice: "Is it corruption for a billionaire President to film a commercial TV spot for another billionaire, selling the other billionaire's electric cars in front of the White House, right when those electric cars are tanking in the market, and when that other billionaire has unlimited access to the Oval Office?"
"tanking in the market"!
You moron. You have no clue the impact the wait for the new Model Y had on sales for about 6 months leading into this year, where the new Model Y is absolutely crushing it. Don't even try to play in this space little man. You don't belong there.
But there's more!
Here's Joltin' Joey "dementia" driving a jeep hybrid around the White House! On the very day the biden White House Auto-Pen announced an Executive Order to make 50% of all new vehicle sales zero emissions by 2030!
https://people.com/politics/joe-biden-takes-hybrid-jeep-for-a-joyride-at-white-house-not-a-bad-day-on-the-job/
There's Joltin' Joe, just praising the Jeep and rolling around the White House and making sure everyone knows what a great vehicle it is! Why, its almost like Joltin' Joe was acting like Chief Sales Officer for Jeep!
Do us a favor there LLR-democratical lonejustice, go ahead and post everything you wrote at that time about how terrible it was Joltin' Joe did that....
.....otherwise, I believe you might just be the minimum level of intelligence to understand precisely where you should place your criticism of Trump and Musk re: Teslas.
And then go sob in the arms of your LLR-democratical pals.
TeaBagHag said...
Yes. Arrest all of the judges that disagree with this regime.
Are we already at the Argentinian helicopter ride portion of your fascist wet dream, Achilles?
We are not looking to arrest people who disagree with us.
We are looking to arrest people who have stolen billions of taxpayer dollars.
We are looking to arrest people that have funded NGOs whose sole purpose is to tear our country apart and take away our freedoms.
You are currently burning Tesla cars/dealerships and these violent thugs are funded by US taxpayer dollars. You have been stealing our tax money to fund your censorship regimes. You have been stealing tax money to fly in illegals into our country to support your thuggery. You have been using and threatening violence for a decade. you tried to throw Trump in jail and tried to kill him.
Spare me your whining bullshit. We are going to start treating you like you have been treating us.
GFY you fascist thug.
See list of judges here:
https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/judges
District Judges (these seem younger)
5 appointed by Obama
4 appointed by Trump
5 appointed by Biden
Chief Judge Boasberg was originally appointed to associate judge of the DC superior court by GW Bush in 2002. Then he was appointed by Obama to DC District court in 2011. He became Chief judge of DC District court in 2023 under Biden.
Readering said...
Achilles: I hope your repetitive insults get you though the day.
They aren't meant as insults.
I am just describing you and your actions.
You are a terrible person who doesn't actually believe a single word you say.
For the almost gadfly-like "business intellect" of LLR-democratical lonejustice:
From March 25, Gary Black (not a super fan of Musk at all) : "China TSLA weekly insured registrations have had two strong back-to-back weeks (YTD highs), and TSLA China 1Q registrations are now just -0.6% behind last year’s 1Q; 4/ The gorgeous new Model Y is ramping production quickly, which should lead to UPWARD FY ‘25 delivery revisions as we start 2Q (now 1,903K +1.6% YoY; was 2,078K +10.6% YoY at Y.E.)."
Not that you'll understand a word of that. Maybe just head back to the sandbox.
Here's a bit of trivia I found interesting. Did you know that 1/3 of all DC District Judges (5 of 15) are foreign born? I'm sure it doesn't make a difference, I just thought it was interesting.
I remember what happens next.
"When, lo,as they reached the mountainside,
A wondrous portal opened wide,
As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed;
And the piper advanced and the children followed...."
William50: "Here's a bit of trivia I found interesting. Did you know that 1/3 of all DC District Judges (5 of 15) are foreign born? I'm sure it doesn't make a difference, I just thought it was interesting."
Careful now. That's the kind of observation that is likely to lead to Levene coughing up an Andy McCarthy-worthy Triple Harrumph! and at least one "Well, I never", and perhaps even a "That's just not cricket laddie" as the marxist lunatics run roughshod over the ashes of the American judicial system.
Not to worry though. McCarthy will be back along in about 3 to 4 years with a very "timely" book about how everything the New Soviet Democraticals are doing now have destroyed something that cannot be repaired....after he's spent those first 3 to 4 years giving cover to the democrats.
That's his modus operandi.
"Mark said...
Says a guy whose companies have reaped billions of the government and is taking a chainsaw to the agencies that regulate his companies, meanwhile his co-President just put additional tariffs on the competitors to his car company.
Pretty ripe having Musk lecture anyone about perceived corruption.
3/28/25, 11:42 AM"
You are so full of it, ridiculously, amazingly wrong. Elon got a loan from the government, paid it off early. Elon does WORK, actual WORK for the government which he gets paid for. In addition, he does that WORK for a fraction of the cost that Boeing/Lockheed, etc. do it. With NO GUARANTEE of payment or success.
If you watched that video and this is what you took away from it, you are part of the problem. Amazingly, wrong.
"Readering said...
That's bs. The problem is neither Trump nor Musk wants to do things properly. It's their bad luck that the DC Circuit bench is dominated by Democratic appointees, like it is our bad luck that Republican appointees have dominated the US Supreme Court since Johnson appointees failed to get through and one resigned.
3/28/25, 11:56 AM"
Please tell me the "right" way to do it that would actually work? I have been waiting for 50 years for it.
Another person just wanting it to stop, stop the removal of my political parties grift.
The sheer power of the D.C. circuit doesn't seem fair to me … but what do I know?
Democrazis are a first-order forcing of kleptocratic, catastrophic progress with redistributive change schemes under diversity and equitable inclusion in the district of corruption. Throw another baby on the barbie, the choice is clear under blue skies and Green blight.
"West TX Intermediate Crude said...
Trump has now internalized the very liberating concept that "they're gonna call me [insert pejorative here] no matter what I do, or do not do. I'll just go ahead and do what I want, the way I want to do it, and let them sputter.
He no longer cares (if he ever did) if the Congress impeaches him for the 3rd time. "
I think you are spot on. In the first term he was constantly warned that mcconnell would allow him to be impreached, constantly. That no longer applies. I am so proud to see this party step up and FINALLY, FINALLY do what needs to be done to this government. Elon's statements about the number of seniors getting victimized because of antiquated systems was stunning. And the idea that democrats just blew right past that is also stunning. And not in a good way. It makes you really wonder if they are not truly working against the country.
Dude, to Dumb Lefty Mark: "You are so full of it, ridiculously, amazingly wrong. Elon got a loan from the government, paid it off early."
Oh, there is so much more to that story than that. It all came out of the Bush admin Dept of Energy program that sought to spur on advanced tech/manufacturing (ATVM: Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing). Lots of car companies applied for the loans. Tesla received around $450M. Ford received almost $6 Billion! Nissan got around $1.5 Billion. Even that little faker company Fisker received more than Tesla at around $530 Million.
And what happened then? Tesla, alone, which was already succeeding with creating advanced technology for manufacturing (which continues to this very day), simply moved to final production and delivered on its commitment in the use of the loan.
Then, and once again, the ONLY loan recipient to do it, Tesla repaid the loan, with interest, 9 YEARS EARLY!!! Most of the companies NEVER repaid the loans.
Dumb Lefty Mark knows none of that. After reading this, he will STILL not "know it". After potentially looking it up online he will STILL not "know it".
Because to be a leftist or dem or New Soviet Democratical or "muh principles" "lifelong republican" or establishment shill, you have to work very hard to keep "not knowing" things in order to continue believing the things that are demonstrably false.
Dude: the right way is to honor the funding decisions of the Congress and the contracts signed by US. This GOP Congress can pass new funding decisions and the Administration can sign new contracts. The DOJ can also challenge laws it thinks are unconstitutional but it should wait for the laws to be rewritten or reinterpreted before acting lawlessly.
"effinayright said...
The Usual Suspects claim Musk benefits by the imposition of tariffs on car imports, but Porsche, BMW, Volkswagen and Polestar (Swedish)---the closest to offering high-end EVs like Tesla---are all cutting back or getting out of that sector.
3/28/25, 2:24 PM"
The biggest beneficiaries of this are GM, FORD, etc. They will get hit by the tariffs for the amount of foreign parts they use, but they have factories here. VW, Audi, KIA???? are going to be struggling. Musk gets a benefit because..... why??? Because his autos are almost 100% american made. THAT is a good thing and he should get some benefit from it. But he will also have to pay tariffs on parts.
Begonia you could count senior judges still judging but with reduced case loads. Appointed by earlier presidents. Chief judge is not an administrative appointment. Given to nect active judge by time subject to age restrictions and willingness to serve. Reduced caseload too.
And coming from the business man working for the President whose tariffs just boosted his net worth.
Must be the latest, leftist talking point. Seen it multiple times today.
Yawn.
"And coming from the business man working for the President whose tariffs just boosted his net worth.
Jim at: "Must be the latest, leftist talking point. Seen it multiple times today.
Yawn."
Jim at is quite correct. Elon's net worth declined by $5 Billion today (according to Forbes).
The lies the left tells are simply going to become more and more insane, even if you thought that wasn't possible.
The son-in-law has no power to sabotage the function of the government with injunctions and restraining orders.
You'd think it wouldn't be necessary to explain the difference, but alas ....
Let me see if I understand this correctly; the Lefties here are so concerned that the government is being restrained from overspending, graft and fraud? I suppose they never heard of the 80-20 rule. If Musk and DODGE can come within 5 miles of the fraud , graft and waste they would have done more for the taxpayers than anyone in US history. It's time for Congress to step up to the plate and curb the lower courts and curb the fraud. But it won't as the money is too good.
“No report in or investigation required.”
He said… without evidence. ( 😁 )
https://x.com/mypetjawa/status/1905725481661706737
Put on your hat
and light a match
and tighten down that hatch.
because there's revolution in the air.
And it's all about to burn.
It's not right or even fair
As yawl are about to learn
This time it's all gonna burn.
^ Working title of my poem is "Reform This You Bastards".
"Dude: the right way is to honor the funding decisions of the Congress and the contracts signed by US. This GOP Congress can pass new funding decisions and the Administration can sign new contracts."
The good ship U.S.S. U.S. is going down. We are tens of trillions of dollars in debt and headed for even more at a rapid pace. We HAVE to fix this, yet we won't. You know why I say "we won't"? Because politicians have been free for decades to do it "the right way" and they never have. They never will. Trump, Musk, and DOGE are the only game in town. And they're finding REAL fraud and real waste. Hundreds of billions of dollars of it. Waste and fraud that you defend and would perpetuate, if not explicitly then implicitly.
I am not persuaded that their actions are illegal. They may be cutting corners (I'm not even sure of that), but the patient is on life support. Drastic measures are in order if it is to be saved.
Call out the masturbators
Because there's something in the air
Now get your shit together sooner not later
Because the dissolution’s here
And you know it's right
And you know that it's right
We have got to whip them with leather
We have got to whip them with leather now
Lock up the helpless children
Because there's something in the air
They’ll take their knives to privates sooner or later
Because the dissolution’s here
And you know it's right
And you know that it's right
h/t Thunderclap Newman
the right way is to honor the funding decisions of the Congress and the contracts signed by US.
Can you point to where they are not honoring those decisions? Name the line item that was mandated by Congress to be paid that is not being paid? I see the term funding, but no entity is told by Congress that they must spend every dime of their budget. Do you think it is otherwise?
I work for a taxing entity. We create a budget every year. Every year that I’ve been on the board, we lowered our tax rate and ended up spending less than what we budgeted. That is not to say our budget hasn’t increased, but so has our tax base. We still provide every service, but we do it more efficiently. When something ends up costing more, we ask for answers.
"Can you point to where they are not honoring those decisions?"
I don't think you can argue that Congress has even made those "decisions". Haven't we been operating under Continuing Resolutions since forever? Our government has become completely dysfunctional.
Anyone arguing for the status quo just doesn't give a shit about the country. All they care about is their team.
the right way is to honor the funding decisions of the Congress and the contracts signed by US.
Congress doesn't make any but the most nebulous and general funding decisions. They declare that X billion dollars will be spent on "climate change mitigation" and Y billion on "rural broadband access" and so on. And for many decades, the bureaucrats in the various executive departments and agencies get to decide where these enormous pots of money are spent.
Since DOGE began looking into the details, it is becoming as plain as day that they are choosing to give enormous grants to a web of "non-profit" organizations with very close ties to the Democrat Party and its cronies, who pass it along in grants to other well-connected entities in the Democrat orbit, who do the same thing again and again and again.
After the funds have been commingled and diffused and laundered among dozens of different entities, they end up in the hands of the local ward heelers and union thugs who provide the foot soldiers for the rampant electoral fraud that characterizes every large city. They pay left-wing law firms to file suits against friendly left-wing bureaucracies and win massive class-action payouts for left-wing causes. They fund left-wing "disinformation control" agencies that impose illegal censorship on anyone the left sees as its enemy, through pressure on conniving left-wing social-media companies. They provide enormous salaries for some of the laziest and most worthless workers in the entire American economy, who again and again turn out to be related to a judge, or a Senator, or a bigfoot white-shoe lawyer, or a news media personality.
But those bureaucrats ladling out our money derive all their powers from President Donald Trump, under Article II of the Constitution. He can, if he so chooses, perform the job functions of every one of his underlings, from the Attorney General, to the faceless bureaucrats doling out cash to their ideological fellow travelers, to the janitors and secretaries and truck drivers on the lowest rungs of the civil service. There is not a single grant or contract, or in fact, not a single dollar of government revenue, that a single bureaucrat can legally issue in conflict with the will of the President. To say otherwise would be to admit that we live under a true tyranny of unelected satraps and functionaries.
When the American people see the extent of the thievery and corruption that has been going on, it will be the greatest crime and greatest political scandal in the history of the nation. It will not be enough for Trump to destroy the Democrat party and its cronies with RICO prosecutions. The public will demand mass beheadings on the Washington Mall.
"The public will demand mass beheadings on the Washington Mall."
Before PBS and NPR are defunded, hopefully. It would be a shame if those Americans who are unable to get their news any other way were deprived of the opportunity to be a part of it, don't you think?
William said...
The sheer power of the D.C. circuit doesn't seem fair to me … but what do I know?
The problem is Marbury v. Madison.
The Supreme Court read the Constitution and determined that they were the ultimate arbiter of every action taken by the government.
It is long past time that we put the Judicial Branch back in it's place. It was never meant to be an unelected star chamber with the ultimate say in every action of the State.
Hanging judges ... maybe that term needs to be readdressed and redefined ... asking for friend ....
We are well past the days of learned, unbiased judges. Many judges, especially on the left, feel it is their duty and prerogative to make laws not interpret laws. Even against the democratic will of the people as expressed in elections.
A simple fix for judge shopping would be to allow the defendant to have the case be moved to a court district of their choosing. If the case is so clear, that it must be enjoined nationwide, then any random court would provide the injunction. If the case is only viable because of judge shopping, then the other courts would provide a more balanced review of the matter.
In addition, if the defendants can identify a close relative who has any financial interest or potential gain that may be impacted by or related to the case, judge should be automatically recused and the case moved to the defendant choice of jurisdiction as soon as the relative is identified. No ruling otherwise by the identified judge.
"In addition, if the defendants can identify a close relative who has any financial interest or potential gain that may be impacted by or related to the case, judge should be automatically recused..."
Change "automatically recused" to "automatically impeached and permanently removed from the bench" and I'm on board.
Readering said...
Well... whatever. Tell you what - this is what I found and I think it's pretty accurate regarding Musk. Might split it into two, depending on how long I can make things here..
Sustainability is a side effect. Everything Musk does is actually focused on colonizing Mars.
Not just SpaceX. Everything.
SpaceX gets you to Mars, but there's a lot of things you need once you get there.
First is the existing human tech stack. That requires raw tonnage lifted out of the gravity well. The point of SpaceX isn't just going to orbit and beyond. Existing rocket tech did that just fine
The point is mass cargo lift. What's unprecedented about SpaceX is Starship. Starship is a mass hauler on an unprecedented level. And reusable rocket boosters, returning to the pad and being caught by the tower are about cheap and frequent launches.
The idea is to create a massive pipeline to high orbit, stage the whole human toolchain there, then take it to Mars in as short a time as possible.
But that's not all you need. Mars requires new technologies, for sustaining civilization in a new environment. Musk's other companies are all focused on developing them.
Tesla is electric cars, and those are nice on Earth, but on Mars you need them.
Even if
@valaratomics
succeeds in harnessing radiothermal energy to make gasoline out of carbon dioxide and water, which isn't as crazy as it sounds, you still can't use do it on Mars to any major purpose. Because you don't have oxygen in the atmosphere to burn things with.
So you need electric vehicles. You also need electric infrastructure, and Tesla isn't just electric cars... it's power infrastructure, batteries, and solar panels.
Solar power, on Earth, is pretty stupid. You're at the bottom of a thick atmosphere soup, with weather. Its only useful purpose is grid independence. Otherwise, you're way better off with radiothermal steam generators.
In space, different story.
And, while Mars isn't as close to the sun as Earth, there's not a lot of atmosphere to get in the way. This doesn't make it great, but there's very few other options. No moving water. No wind. Can't burn chemicals.
Mars has active volcanoes, but geothermal is highly site-dependent, and unlikely to meet all your needs.
Fissionables could maybe be mined from asteroids, but that's an external dependency with a lot of unknowns. And we don't know that Mars necessarily has an accessible native stock. So, while radiothermal energy is the long-term answer for Mars as well as Earth, solar capability will be needed to bridge the gap.
That's Musk's real goal behind Tesla.
Starlink makes communication satellites. This is a hugely profitable business for SpaceX, and that fuels more rocket development, but it also serves a primary Martian purpose... communications on Mars, and between Mars and Earth, which will be critically important in the early years of a colony.
The Boring Company, if you consider it only from an Earth-based perspective, is Musk's only retarded idea.
Tunneling doesn't make sense on Earth unless you're dealing with specific terrain that makes it the only sensible option, such as across the English Channel. Otherwise, building up is cheaper than building down.
The Boring Company spent a lot of cash researching traffic tunnels that really didn't make any sense, and went nowhere, and they aren't even nearly profitable.
And the second half... found at https://x.com/Devon_Eriksen_/status/1903482298768544250
......
But... what if this was all R&D for Mars? What if the intent all along wasn't to make a profit on Earth, but to develop technologies for building under the Martian surface, subsidized by Musk's other, more profitable ventures?
Suddenly that idea doesn't seem so retarded anymore. Mars gets a daily dose of solar radiation that's guaranteed to cause existential problems for anyone who goes outside without one hell of an umbrella. But building under even a few meters of solid material makes that whole problem go away.
So instead of bringing, or building, lots of heavy shielding, you just dig.
xAI and robots are also pretty easy to explain. A Mars colony will need a lot of labor, and it helps if most of it can be done by workers who don't need to eat or breathe.
So, yes, Musk's technical ventures line up with Mars? But what about buying Twitter? What about getting involved in politics?
How does that help a Mars colony?
Simple. A Mars colony doesn't happen without a viable launch pad, both literally and metaphorically. This means that Musk's companies have to stay viable, he has to retain control of them, and they have to be protected from political interference.
This makes buying Twitter a no-brainer. It's where American political discourse happens. If he continued to allow the future left-wing administration in the tradition of Obama and Biden to censor free-market advocates out of the public discourse simply by picking up the phone to an ideologically-aligned company that doesn't care about free speech, then not only will the FAA continue to get in SpaceX's way and force him to do silly things like kidnap and molest seals, eventually radical leftist midwits like Alexandria Ocasio Cortez will spearhead calls to nationalize SpaceX itself.
That's if the democrats didn't crash the economy first.
Becoming involved in politics is a logical extension of this. By thwarting their efforts at social media control, Musk had blocked the left.
And the left has no principles, only hatred, envy, and an insatiable greed for ever more money and power. Once he thwarted the least of their whims, he became their enemy whether he wanted to be or not, and they would harm him any way they could.
So they had to be removed from power.
In fact, they had to be removed from power even if they weren't hostile, because they were bankrupting America. Fraud, waste, corruption, and frivolous spending have driven the federal budget into previously unexplored territories of unsustainable debt.
Pretty soon leftist regimes would have had no choice but to hyperinflate that debt out of existence, because the entire GDP would eventually be insufficient to pay it.
This, of course, is Zimbabwification. And I don't see anyone launching rockets from Zimbabwe, do you?
Remember that Musk was originally South African. He saw what happens when governments care more about performative expressions of alleged social justice than they do about maintaining a high-trust, law and order society with a functioning economy and technological stack.
South Africa isn't launching any rockets, either. They're confiscating land from white farmers at gunpoint. Next stop, famine.
Economic collapse, Zimbabwification, and famine do not coexist with functional space programs, public or private.
Musk is a busy man, and probably didn't want to become involved in politics... but he had no choice when politics became involved in him. Stumping for the election of Donald, and implementing DOGE, are necessities. Musk needs America to survive so he has someplace to build and launch rockets from, and something to put on them.
And part 3... Don't know about you, but I think our best future lies with Musk and Trump, as opposed to AOC, Crockett, Walz, Harris or any of the other midwits of the DNC party.
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The man has one mission in life. He chose it the moment he became rich enough to stop asking himself questions like "how do I take care of myself and my family?" and start asking questions like "what do I want to build for the future of the world?"
I like the plan. I'm pro-tech, pro-humanity, and pro-not-staying-on-one-tiny-speck-and-waiting-for-the-sun-to-kill-us.
I wouldn't really call Mars "sustainable abundance", though... except in the sense that it helps you mine asteroids, climb the Kardashev ladder, and achieve a superhuman technological singularity.
Which, now that I think about it, I suppose you could call...
"Sustainable abundance for all"
"Musk is a busy man, and probably didn't want to become involved in politics... but he had no choice when politics became involved in him."
If the country goes down, EVERYBODY goes down with it. Even the DOGE billionaires. Musk cited this explicitly during the Bret Baer interview, and he's right. It's a calling; the country must be saved because it's where we all live.
Extreme narcissism. Let him contribute by paying taxes.
Readering: "Extreme narcissism. Let him contribute by paying taxes."
You blithering idiot.
Musk voluntarily liquidated sufficient equity (which he did not have to do) to pay $11 Billion, yes, $11 Billion in taxes that he was not in any way obligated to pay.
SpaceX's incredibly efficient and effective mass to orbit launch service has been conservatively estimated to have saved NASA and the DOD/NSA etc approximately $40 Billion in launch costs.....with the added benefit of not having to depend on readering's ChiCom pals who were in the catbird seat for mass to orbit prior to SpaceX really cranking up.
So that's $51 Billion right there.
readering meanwhile, was cheering on the corrupt Delaware Chancery Court and even more corrupt Chancery Court "Judge" McCormick as she worked to steal $55 Billion, yes $55 Billion, that was properly and fairly owed to Musk while she also worked to hand $Billions of stolen dollars to her equally corrupt New Soviet Democratical lawyer pals.
I think we've heard enough from you about who owes what to whom.
"Let him contribute by paying taxes."
Boy, you really don't put any effort into thinking about this, do you? The government could confiscate all of Musk's assets and it wouldn't even pay for the deficit for ONE YEAR.
What we need is systemic change. Like eliminating waste and fraud for starters (even more is required, but it's a start). Why are you opposed to that?
Really.
Why. Are. You. Opposed. To. That?
You don't have to answer me, but ask yourself that question. WTF?
The cult left are dog whistle people/Readering is a prime example.
"Hate Musk!"
Cult left- "OK! Will do!"
Musk is trying to save our nation. and you cult leftists simply follow orders from your corrupt leftist democrat masters.
Your brains are mush.
Jerry at 10:50pm and two more comments after that. I’m aware Althouse doesn’t want mindless hat tips etc. and personally I frequently skip long posts but that was original and exceptional. Had to look up Kardashev.
"Let him contribute by paying taxes."
Musk paid 70.7 million on an income of 2 billion.
Anything else?
"Boy, you really don't put any effort into thinking about this, do you?"
Musk volunteering his time to cut waste and fraud- bad. Musk paying taxes- good.
All you need to do is look at what leftards support.
So it is Readerings contention that there is no bias or corruption in the courts.
You're big on contracts, aren't you Readering. There is a big one. There is the contract between the judiciary, congress and the executive and the American people. In that contract the above are sworn to be good stewards of the rights of the American people. In fact it is written in that contract that it is the Supreme Law of the Land.
Serpentine paths no longer protect grifters. When the 1500-page CR was basically knocked down the first day, I drew a deep breath. It wasn't just that the AI was able to read what the document said in seconds, it was that it could follow the tortuous paths the words led to. Where the original doc said send X$ to the organization as described in CFRxxxx and read pretty dry, the AI, Grok I'm betting could go find CFTxxxx in the next seconds and if if was a nesting doll too, it could find the link in the next second. Most of the time involved was probably printing out the results. So, Data republican (little r) has done yeoman's work drilling through mountains of online public records to identify all the NGO connections to politicians and, I'm betting, judges.
I'm guessing the whole DC circuit is equally compromised. The DOJ will have to go to other districts for a chance at justice - just like they did in the South when all the judges were corrupt Democrats.
Wow! Elon sees it all with clarity. The gaslighting Fake Nes Media has met their match:
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