"Orange Daddy gonna be big mad."

[senseandsensibility]

Ron Filipkowski on bluesky just now. What's this all about you might ask?

Well....apparently Elon just tweeted that "The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country. Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future."

Personally, I think he's just trying to keep the heat off himself when/if this thing passes.

[CatWoman]

1. 'Utterly Insane': Elon Musk Creeps Back Into Politics With Brutal Attack on Trump-Backed Big Beautiful Bill

Elon Musk took aim at President Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill on Saturday as lawmakers were making their way through a new draft of the budget.

“The latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country!” Musk wrote on X just a few weeks after leaving his special government job with DOGE (Department of Government Efficiency). “Utterly insane and destructive. It gives handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”

Musk’s statement came in response to an X post from Jesse D. Jenkins noting that the latest draft of the bill, which senators received early on Saturday morning, “raises taxes on all wind and solar projects that haven’t begun construction today unless they are placed service by end of 2027.”

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/utterly-insane-elon-musk-creeps-back-into-politics-with-brutal-attack-on-trump-backed-big-beautiful-bill/

[usonian]

2. Techies were hoodwinked. Crying tears of regret.

Trump only wanted a hacked election and an entry into the corrupt as hell crypto market.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220378706

He has no need for tech bros any more. Just thugs.


Long time Silicon Valley investor sheds 💦💦 tears 💦💦 over bad decision. 💦💦

(Michael Moritz)
The writer is a longtime Silicon Valley investor, former board member of PayPal and an investor in SpaceX

The eruption between Elon Musk and Donald Trump has reverberated around the world. It must be mortifying for those in Silicon Valley who threw their support behind the president thinking he would shrink the federal government. With Musk’s departure, any hope of a disciplined approach to the US government and budget goes as well. Musk is right; the Trump budget is an abomination.

lavish praise of Musk (deleted)

By comparison, Trump has none of Musk’s business acumen or his attention span. Since the inauguration, he has run the government just like he operated his own business, raising mountains of debt and betraying employees, while escaping unscathed himself.

What is the result of this meeting of company builder and medieval monarch? It’s the opposite of what was promised: a US budget that has ballooned, debt levels that will only rise and crushing interest payments that make the country vulnerable to its largest creditors — Japan and China.

One word of advice for those in Silicon Valley who followed Musk’s lead and sided with Trump. Leave. Don’t delude yourself that you are working to make crypto a part of global finance, minimising artificial intelligence regulation, helping start-up companies or protecting the interests of Silicon Valley. You have no sway. You are just cannon fodder.

Smart asses been f---ed over royally. They need research and foreign visa labor.

💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦💦

[marble falls]

3. He's applying white wash to his past.

[mwmisses4289]

4. He's mad because this bill threatens his ability

to reap in ever more tax payer money.

[Gordcanuck]

12. All wrong, as

taxpayer money does not make him the next Trillionaire. It’s the monthly levy all his Tesla owners must pay him to keep getting the locked software updates his cars need to run . The result is that his stock is valued at 149 times earnings. Ford’s P/E ratio is by contrast 6:1. Not a market bet on the future company, that equation is how its done, folks.
BTW, if you break the lock you go to jail.

[quakerboy]

14. Nah

His money is far more due to government subsidies and contracts than it is to anything else.

[BoRaGard]

5. Elon taking a dump on the G.O.P. ripoff fest

[senseandsensibility]

8. R's are getting a lot of hate from a lot of directions

but still they persist, to quote Mitch Mcconell.

[newdeal2]

6. Love this for him / them

Hope the chaos continues and this bill burns to the ground.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Says the guy whose only function in government

was to destroy as many jobs as possible and cause immense strategic harm to the country.

[surfered]

9. Uh, Musk supported MAGA which favors fossil fuels over renewables.

Now the Senate bill terminates Electric Vehicle credits, which hurts Tesla. Maybe Elon is not as smart as people think.

[PJMcK]

13. Well, how's Tesla's stock doing?

Musk has severely damaged this brand.

He’s not as smart as he thinks he is.

[Trueblue Texan]

18. FINALLY! Someone said what I've been thinking!

Our reverence of Musk’s “intelligence” comes from our nation’s pathological relationship with wealth. If Musk were as poor as you or me, folks wouldn’t consider him brilliant; they’d consider him dangerous, which he is.

[CatWoman]

20. i think Musk is an even bigger greedy asshole than Trump

and neither of them possess even a modicum of intelligence.

I do, however, get a big kick out of them fighting.

[Cheezoholic]

10. He's got his finger in the air, checking the wind, like any good asshole golfer ;) n/t

[rubbersole]

11. Just buy yourself a veto, Elon.

Or, you could just STFU.

[BidenRocks]

15. How does this bill affect South Africa?

And what's this our country shit?
I do not recognize your citizenship!

[Cha]

17. Is he wrong? Anything

That makes the orange swamp thing 😡 mad is good for America and the world 🌎

[multigraincracker]

19. When the masses become hungry enough,

there will be more and more talk of eating the rich. That will silence them.
Please go on Etsy and order a few stickers. I have and get a lot of thumbs up from younger folks.