Musk shares meme deriding those who benefit from federal programs as 'parasite class'

[Wicked Blue]

NBC News Live Updates
Allan Smith

Elon Musk on tweeted a meme yesterday evening describing Americans who benefit from federal programs as "the parasite class."

"Watching Trump slash federal programs knowing it doesn't affect you because you're not a member of the Parasite Class," the meme read.

Musk commented: "Why 90% of America loves @DOGE," pointing to the Department of Government Efficiency that Trump has tasked him to run.

Musk, the world's richest man, is the beneficiary of billions from lucrative contracts his companies, such as SpaceX and Tesla, have with the federal government. In less than a month since Trump has taken office, Musk has run roughshod through federal agencies as part of Trump's effort to rapidly reshape the government in his image.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/live-blog/trump-linda-mcmahon-senate-hearing-live-updates-rcna191173#rcrd73035

[DBoon]

1. In the original German, it is "Lebensunwertes Leben"

"Life unworthy of life"

[AntiFascist]

27. The elderly and disabled are then considered parasites. He may as well advocate for gas chambers and death camps n/t

[DBoon]

32. Zyklon B was originally used to control parasitic insects

[AntiFascist]

33. Then there's Zinc phosphide... n/t

[jmowreader]

38. They still make it for that

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

40. He is!

[bluesbassman]

2. First of all, Screw you Eloon!

Second, 90%?? I call BS. Put up some proof that backs up that ridiculous claim!

[Diamond_Dog]

15. Didn't Mitt Romney say it was 47%?

[keep_left]

28. Yes.

He was caught on a hot mic complaining about the "47% takers".

https://democraticunderground.com/100217837280#post22
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/18/mitt-romney-47-unsuitable-president

[Diamond_Dog]

35. Yes, I well remember that. The old "hot mic" struck again.

[Wiz Imp]

22. Elon Musk's DOGE Less Popular Than Donald Trump: New Poll

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/elon-musk-s-doge-less-popular-than-donald-trump-new-poll/ar-AA1yVErg

Just 38 percent of Americans view Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency favorably, a new YouGov/Economist poll found Wednesday, showing the world’s richest man is trailing Donald Trump by a noteworthy amount. The president’s approval rating came in at 46 percent in the same poll. That is a slight dip from Trump’s first two weeks in office, but still eight points higher than Musk and his DOGE minions, who have committed to cutting billions in federal spending at the expense of thousands of federal jobs and longstanding programs. Musk’s approval rating is just 31 percent with voters who identify as independent, the poll found, and just 24 percent of respondents said they “strongly approve” of DOGE. Musk and his team have been particularly controversial in Washington, where some federal employees have reported being forced to justify their jobs to Musk’s inexperienced acolytes—some of which are as young as 19. YouGov said it spoke to 1,595 U.S. citizens for its poll, which has a margin of error of 3.5 percent.

[bluesbassman]

25. That's about what I figured it would be.

He's as pathological a liar as TSF!

[bdamomma]

3. Send

him back to South Africa where he came from, Apartheid POS he is.

[LearnedHand]

4. Says the chief parasite of the REAL parasite class

[Wicked Blue]

5. It takes one to know one

[LearnedHand]

7. Ding ding ding

[Drum]

6. People who don't pay taxes are parasites.

[2naSalit]

8. Yeah, well...

Fuck you in the face, fuckhead. I hope your next batch of ketamine is tainted and you don't survive it.

[Prairie Gates]

9. Und vot do vee do vith parasites, Herr Musk?

[mainer]

10. Including those who drive on highways?

Those of us who rely on the FAA to keep us safe in the skies? The Coast Guard and the Park service and the FDA and the national weather service? Federal programs all.

[FloridaBlues]

11. What a sick twisted mind no amount of money can help.

And yet he will take billons of dollars from America

[Skittles]

13. he really thinks 90% of people lack empathy

he truly is one sick fuck

[struggle4progress]

12. With his $433 billion, he could spend $1 million a day for 1200 years

Average annual US income is about $38K so $1 million about the average income of 26 workers; and Musk's $433 billion is about the annual income of 11 million average workers

He takes our money to build expensive self-crashing cars and self-disassembling rockets

So who is the parasite?

[AZmikey]

14. Hmmm..

How many billions in federal funding has his companies received?

[Intractable]

16. No one benefits more than Musk from federal programs. SpaceX, Starlink, and now $400 mil to Tesla.

[Liberal In Texas]

24. I guess he's saying he's in the parasite class.

Hundreds of times more than people on Social Security or Medicaid.

[SWBTATTReg]

17. I swear to GOD that if we're ever in control again, I won't hesitate in taking revenge against these thugs, who

hold us all hostage, threatening to lay off people etc. if we ever move to reclaim our proud heritage of this Country in helping those who need it the most.

Where is the so-called Christian heritage?

I swear, if they do away w/ Section 8 housing, just an example of many programs the federal government has offered (and food stamps), are there even enough churches to step in and help feed and house these people? I daresay NO, there are simply too many needy people for the numbers of churches to help these people (and supposedly tons of caring people (sarcasm here) at these churches).

And would these churches even help? If they're not already helping like so many do, to give them credit, that tells you immediately that the number of needy families, persons, etc. are already too great for any one entity in the public arena to help.

And we already see the hordes of people living on the sidewalks all over, every big city and town has them already, tons of people w/o homes, w/o a decent place to eat, get health care, and worse.

And what's so sickening about this whole process, is that the billionaires, already flush w/ unlimited amounts of resources and cash, are still whining about what they pay in taxes, ironically muskrat paid ZERO dollars in taxes. tRUMP probably paid ZERO dollar in taxes too. Pathetic, that these two persons can't even donate a portion of their already gross incomes to help the needy and others. Not one cent. It's a disease that has no cure.

I have one cure, tax the hell out of them NOW. They moaned and bitched about this for so long when they have had it all, and yet still, they moan. And if they cut their employment rolls to retaliate, then seize their businesses for back taxes, sell them off, and help these people.

[Wicked Blue]

19. There are two kinds of Christian churches

One kind preaches love

The other kind preaches hate

[malaise]

18. Exile this monster

Rec

[alarimer]

20. Did he show a picture of himself?

He just got $400 million for his shitty trucks.

Welfare for billionaires.

[Demovictory9]

21. Wow

[dalton99a]

23. Says the biggest corporate welfare queen in modern U.S. history

[GoCubsGo]

26. Yup. Time to cancel all of his government contracts.

And, make that motherfucker pay back every cent of what he has already received.

[jmbar2]

29. He's hitting the Stages of Genocide

Link to tweet

[City Lights]

30. So, him. He's part of the parasite class as defined by him.

He's such an asshole!

[kerouac2]

31. It shows how ignorant he is, on top of being evil

And apparently millions in the parasite class are just as ignorant because they voted for this, like the trump voting farmers who sold their crops to usaid...

[keep_left]

34. We all benefit from Federal programs, Eloon...

...even those we don't use personally. Many of them help people and create additional jobs in secondary and tertiary ways. Like how food stamps help out the American farmer, not to mention the local grocer. But unfortunately, our nation has chosen to go down the road of that old Thatcher aphorism "there is no such thing as society": the very distillation of neoliberalism. Richard Pryor called it "the logical conclusion of the logic", where absurdities are believed without question.

https://democraticunderground.com/100219543234#post7
https://democraticunderground.com/100219530804#post19

[C_U_L8R]

36. Quite a few magats are parasites

According to Trump & Musk.

[Meowmee]

37. Disgusting

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Felunatic is a parasite… depending on funds from the US government for his businesses, which he contributed nothing creative to, which WE pay for. It wasn’t enough though, no amount of money is enough for psychotics like this, ultimately it is about control and harming people. Os is also a parasite and both are grifters.

* These billionaire parasites will likely kill their host as well.

[orangecrush]

39. Lots of jobs

Making guillotines by the time this is all over.

[rasputin1952]

41. This parasite owes his entire fortune...

to being a parasite.

We eliminate parasites; looks to me like this maladministration and the GOP better get ready for elimination.