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Musks Endgame
Musk will lie and only say that he has read privileges for federal data.. His Hitler Youth Hackers are altering code.
Musk will download everything he can and not tell the orange felon
Musk will alter code to F over his critics, competitors and citizens.
It will be random acts of revenge.
Musk will use government data to threaten, harass, receive favors/ kickbacks from
Countries, states, corporations, billionaires, elected officials, military commanders and everyone else.
Musk will divert public funds to his private accounts and pay bribes ,
Musk may sell or trade government data to our enemies. The data may or may not be accurate or true. Because Musk will manufacture facts by altering government data to justify all his actions.
Bottom Line-
Musk is the Emperor .
He will F Trump and the Republicans whenever he wants.
Musk aspires to be the Lord and Master of Planet Earth and the dumb GOP, Christo-fascists, racists, misogynists and republican voters are so filled with HATE that they have opened the door for him.
Yes, he will be successful.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)enrich himself.
But, nowadays, anything is possible.
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)Lost money.
Losing money on Tesla as we speak.
He is on drugs, mentally ill and erratic.
He could hurt the country and economy yes.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)but if I ever get way off grid, Id use his satellites.
If he crashes things, they tank too. If I turn out to be an Ostrich with my head in sand, Ill eat crow dung on my Catfood.
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)We just don't know what he will do.
And running a car company and satellite is different from running the largest economy
and government in the world.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Sure he might siphon off a billion or two unnoticed.
But when folks stop getting their rightful checks because Musk is diverting them, theyll scream, Wall Street will drop like a rock, and well all be screwed, as well as Musk, trump, Kochs and other oligarchs.
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)I was asking myself this question before I read your comment.
How could Musk steal US govt funds.
We need to get real here, because there are so many ways he could siphon off money from the US Treasury.
He has access to payroll and the money spigots.
There is 5 to 6 trillion dollars a year available to him. For Trump, Musk
and the other greedy politicians and billionaires this is very tempting.
He could do it legally.
Install himself as the paymaster, and charge everyone a small fee for each transaction.
Like credit card companies do. OR PayPal, he is one of the founders of PayPal.
So say he charges people 5 or 10 dollars for each SS or Medicare payment.
For each paycheck, every single federal payment transaction, that could add up to real money.
Maybe someone here could estimate how much he could take that way.
He could also set up payment accounts for himself, his mother, kids, friends for life.
Call them disability, or some sort of benefit. Make the numbers big. Use false names.
No one would ever know.
He could also just take money outright. No one will challenge him or do anything.
Trump will give him a pardon.
Then we have the punk ass computer hacker kids knee deep in trillions and trillions of dollars.
It doesn't occur to them to help themselves to a little bit of it? No one will notice or care.
Bread and Circuses
(1,994 posts)There are many ways to put a spigot into the national wealth
directly or indirectly.
The new sovereign wealth fund can peel off money and drain Medicare and social security by transferring funds. In that way , they can say these programs are bankrupt and slash them.
Thanks for your thoughts
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)Blame it on Biden, Hillary, JFK, FDR, etc etc.
NEOBuckeye
(2,922 posts)I believe he will, if unintentionally. That's when all hell will break loose.
He has made himself the scourge of this nation and the world. People will eventually rally to run him down.
Silent Type
(12,412 posts)Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)-Musk's history and past behavior.
-He is mentally ill and a drug addict.
-A narcissist and sociopath, along with all the drugs.
-He may be bipolar as well.
-He is very angry, paranoid, entitled.
I don't think Trump cares what Musk does.
The wilder and more damage he causes, the happier Trump will be.
Trump will get angry if Musk steals more money than he does.
And is more popular or has more power.
calimary
(89,887 posts)And who can count on more, the donald or Elon. And wholl out-cheat his opponent.
This is bound not to end well - for anybody.
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)They are both narcissists and sociopaths.
So they both believe they are special and entitled to all the money.
And they believe they are above the law.
They also get a lot of pleasure of putting one over on people.
They think they are so smart, and everyone else is a stupid loser.
So morally they both would take as much as they can.
It seems obvious that Musk has made it clear that he is going to give Trump
as much money as he wants. To steal the election, to achieve his dream of becoming
a trillionaire. For Musk to stay in power he has to keep giving Trump cash and a lot of it.
To ensure that Trump will give him a pardon is also a consideration.
Neither one has a shred of loyalty to anyone, they are not loyal to each other at all.
This is purely a transactional relationship.
But Musk is smarter and more intact than Donald. He can steal in a way that Trump
cannot detect. And he is obviously very good at manipulating Trump.
Bread and Circuses
(1,994 posts)IT,
But doubtful if Musk will be more popular.
But who knows
Irish_Dem
(81,098 posts)dgauss
(1,523 posts)There was a previous long, detailed earlier thread describing Musk and what he is doing.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219993329
One observation I think is not getting enough attention:
This messianic self-image becomes particularly dangerous when combined with the unprecedented power and access hes gained. Consider the implications: We have an individual who believes he alone can save humanity, who dismisses expert consensus across multiple fields, who shows contempt for democratic processes and institutionsand this same person now has direct access to core government functions and classified information.
Bread and Circuses
(1,994 posts)Insightful and accurate
valleyrogue
(2,698 posts)In times of yore, he would have been institutionalized.
Bread and Circuses
(1,994 posts)Botany
(77,228 posts)
. his interference in our voting systems aka the Central Tabulators.
Trump, Musk was very good with those vote counting computers.
Btw I might be wrong but Im convinced that Musk is on drugs most of the time too.
JPK
(969 posts)Trump has no idea what Musk is getting his hands on. He could even be getting Trump's files.
Bread and Circuses
(1,994 posts)Very good , yes I agree
SOLver2.0
(7 posts)Maybe he is just taking the greatest database in history to train his AI algorithm then sell everything to the fools who gave him cover to steal the gov,t databases in the first place.
KS Toronado
(23,727 posts)he doesn't pay for anything other than McDonalds, but China & Russia would buy. Welcome to DU!

RainCaster
(13,678 posts)He really needs to understand how the rest of us feel about him giving around with our PII.
Mr. Evil
(3,457 posts)Please watch this. Very entertaining with a blunt and funny presentation. *Warning* coarse language.
misanthrope
(9,479 posts)That simple.
no_hypocrisy
(54,858 posts)What Musk has done is what Trump did with the classified documents that he stole and retained. Only on steroids.
It's a crime, period.