Tech billionaire Elon Musk publicly backed President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), and pushed back against concerns over allegations of misconduct against him. Musk, in a statement early Tuesday on social platform X, noted that Gaetz has “an axe to grind,”...
Reminder there's a good chance Musk himself is a pedo. Even if you ignore the fact that he is at a minimum okay with rape including of children as he's a Trump supporter, one of the first big things that reached wide public consciousness showing what a shitbag he is was when he randomly started calling the one guy a pedo based on absolutely nothing in a way that felt like hyper projection during the whole "kids stuck in a cave" thing when the guy pointed out how shitty Musk's rescue idea was and why it wouldn't work
Before that day, he was just another rich guy to me, a bit quirky and eccentric, someone who had some good ideas for our space industry that needed a good kick in the ass and had the money to make it happen. Space Jesus.
That day was the day the image of him shattered for me. Then came the Dogecoin shit. Now I'm hoping someone, the government, or someone else, anyone, takes SpaceX from him so he can't get in the way of Starship development and fuck up another good thing. We are so close to 100% reusability, something the Space Shuttle was supposed to do for us.
He’s being handed the keys to a government position allowing him to make decisions that will impact American lives, potentially with impacts to others as well; for the first time ever caring about what he thinks is actually wise.